Jarrod Baker

Deloitte report suggests Wellington City Council has 330 more staff than it should PSA says analysis from Deloitte, which cost $435k, lacks a basic understanding of what the Council's role is.

what % of Deloitte’s work could be handled by one person using search and replace to update their standard presentation with the name of their current client www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw.

( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

Who reviews electorate boundaries? The Representation Commission is the independent body that reviews the boundaries and names of electorates.

Not the Electoral Commission! Boundary reviews are carried out by the Representation Commission (although the Chief Electoral Officer is a member of the latter). elections.nz/democracy-in...

LEGO Ideas page screenshot showing a yellow LEGO recreation of a cuneiform tablet on a clear stand. Described as "Complaint Tablet to Ea-Nasir". Box states: "Milestone missed" and below: "315 supporters."

Still can't believe y'all missed out on such a visionary #Lego Idea (not mine though)! 😲😉

A blue cap embroidered with the words “FATIGUED BY MODERN ENERGY”

anyway if that was you then let me know I guess. I was the guy wearing this cap

of course given she sounded pleased to see me it’s entirely likely to have been a case of mistaken identity

last night at Beastwars a woman moving through the crowd stopped, turned to me and said “hello!” like she both recognised me and was pleased to see me. unfortunately as she was in silhouette due to the light I have absolutely zero clue who it was

We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.

It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.

Elliot got to start her reimmunisation schedule this week - a little over 9 years since she started treatment for her brain tumour. Apart from flu and COVID vaccines she hasn’t had any since 5 months old. Bit of a milestone around here

Autism and Vaccines QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS PAGE 2 OF 9 | ALL PAGES J For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.

HHS Research on Plausible Biologic Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more. * The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

on balance, given the preponderance of evidence, one can only conclude that many people actually *like* total pieces of shit

well I can’t speak for everyone but at 19 I was *definitely* a shithead

yes! first you need a sterile IV line and a compounding pharmacy

you know the old saying: you lie down with shitheads, you’re probably also a shithead

sure hope no one around me is bothered by the fact that a horrible fartstain (other than me) might be listening in to everything we’re saying and doing!

maybe if you’re eating it dry? I’d struggle to eat more than that I reckon

don’t know about you fellas but I’m constantly accidentally answering calls from total shitheads and leaving them on the line to listen to me go about my day

Your motivational post for the day

INTERVIEWER: yeah but like you're not *literally* buying crates of rats from Pets Mart and using them to hone your necromancy skills, the "Deathmancer of Malibu" stuff is just memes right haha

SYDNEY SWEENEY: [tight smile] no comment

last weekend I bought a 20kg bag of flour, or according to the nutrition info on the packaging 200 servings of 100 grams each

Very much not trying to shit on NZ authors here btw - I just think there was a lot of bad or amateur graphic design during the period that did the accompanying writing no favours

In the distant past I (possibly unfairly) believed I could spot NZ books because of how crappy/retro the cover designs were. They got much, much better! At least until the advent of AI-generated cover art

if the AI book covers are anything to go by the rest of the cosmetics industry shouldn’t be terribly worried

Olivia Nuzzi got horny at the part of ET where he’s lying sick in the water

My phone calling my car an accessory when I plug it in is a power move

on balance, given the preponderance of evidence, one can only conclude that many people actually *like* total pieces of shit

the start of this was me making reference to it (“you know, like ‘Nighthawks’”) and getting a blank look in response, so of course I had to look it up. and the dream universe chose that moment to gaslight me

does it qualify as a nightmare if I dreamed I was searching for an image of Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’ but no search engine would return an image of it or even acknowledge it existed & the dream seemed to go on for ever?