Eric Rowe

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

‘Three cheeses on, we could still taste it’: Swiss Gruyère crowned the best in the world | CNN Aged Swiss Gruyère triumphs at the World Cheese Awards, beating over 5,000 rivals as judges endure a pungent, palate-stretching marathon of global dairy.

The winner was Bergkäserei Vorderfultigen, a cheese made from cow’s milk at a small dairy in the Alpine lowlands of western Switzerland.

#cheese #news 🧀 #food #travel #worldcheeseawards #gruyere #switzerland

Screenshot from the Herald that says “Police apologise to woman in McSkimmjng case but continue to prosecute her anyway for emails”

Someone needs to have a word because this is not acceptable.

'Most deteriorated' - NZ plummets in global tobacco control ranking An anti-vaping group calls the ranking an "international disgrace".

Just call it what it is: corruption. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Level of move

Police bosses ignored sex complaints against top cop, charged woman for 'revenge' emails instead Suppressions fall away to reveal the full story of the downfall of a deputy police boss.

This is utterly sickening, particularly the charges under HDCA. Many, many things from the 2021-2023 period of my life in terms of police (in)action related to threats made to me now must be viewed thru this unholy prism.

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...

If you'd told me that a speaker at the Free Speech Union conference would call for banning non-Christian public expressions of faith to an applauding crowd, I would have said yes, obviously that is going to happen newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/t...

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

Pop was giddy sending me this.

I don't get it nor the meep meep reference. 🤷🏻‍♀️

American: “I’m paying more at the grocery store.”

Trump: “No you’re not.”

American: “I mean…I am. I have the receipt right here.”

Trump: “Prices are WAY down.”

American: “They’re just…not.”

Trump: “Are too!”

American: “…”

Trump: “…”

American: “…”

Trump: “I’ve ended 22 wars!”

Political cartoon: A queue of sad people queue in a long line beneath a sign that says “queue here for food parcels” while Christopher Luxon in a tidy blue suit pushes through, arms wide saying “Exciting news folks! Make way for another saviour of the economy” followed by a fancy waiter carrying a dish labelled “Michelin guide to nz”

Political cartoon: Donald Trump kneels beside somebody clearly experiencing poverty lying on the ground. They have n overflowing shopping trolley weighing them down, labelled “cost of living”. Trump points to a blueprint on the ground in front of the other individual, saying “Here’s the $300million ballroom I’m building”

Anybody notice a similarity?

Luxon is pretty bad at optics honestly. Trump is literally going to court to argue he doesn’t need to fund SNAP benefits during the US shutdown and Luxon has chosen this moment to put a food related class war item on the media agenda lol

#nzpol #luxon #maga #trump

CONCLUSION For the above reasons, this Court concludes that Plaintiffs have demonstrated that Defendants violated 10 U.S.C. § 12406 and the Tenth Amendment and satisfy the requirements for a permanent injunction. Therefore, this Court PERMANENTLY ENJOINS Defendants24 Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Department of Defense, Kristi Noem, and the U.S. Department of 24 As this Court may lack jurisdiction to enjoin President Trump in the performance of his official duties, see Franklin v. Massachusetts, 505 U.S. 788, 802–03 (1992) (plurality opinion); Mississippi v. Johnson, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 475, 501 (1866), this injunction applies only against the other Defendants. PAGE 105 – FINDINGS OF FACT & CONCLUSIONS OF LAW Homeland Security from implementing the following memoranda federalizing and deploying members of the National Guard in Oregon: 1. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s September 28, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Oregon National Guard, Ex. 1051;

Homeland Security from implementing the following memoranda federalizing and deploying members of the National Guard in Oregon: 1. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s September 28, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Oregon National Guard, Ex. 1051; 2. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s October 5, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Texas National Guard, to the extent that it deploys members of the Texas National Guard in Oregon, Ex. 6; 3. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s October 16, 2025 Memorandum to the extent that it authorizes the deployment of federalized members of the California and Texas National Guards to Oregon, Ex. 2; and 4. any memoranda deploying members of any other State’s National Guard to Oregon based on the same predicate conditions that were relied upon to authorize the above orders. This Court retains jurisdiction pursuant to the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651, to enforce the terms of this permanent injunction against any party.

BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland.

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Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

New Zealanders do too
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Jeanine Pirro bragging in August that she just arrested Sandwich Guy and was going to teach him a lesson in court.

In today’s NZ Herald

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT Did Women Ruin the Workplace?

ffs, @nytimes.com

Man woman camera tv

Gutting of Zero Carbon Act crashes bipartisan climate consensus It took more than a year of painstaking cross-partisan negotiation to land the Zero Carbon Act. Now, the Govt is gutting it unilaterally, Marc Daalder reports

Asked whether he’s sure technology will allow the Government to meet its climate goals, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts replies: ‘Can we be sure about anything in life?’
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...

The brilliant performative politics of NZ First’s fake members’ bills NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time.

I wonder if the cookers and transphobes have figured out he's only playing them for media attention yet.

The brilliant performative politics of NZ First’s fake members’ bills
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

If I was a GOP strategist, I’d be pretty worried about diluting my safe +15 districts into a bunch of +5 gerrymandered districts after tonight.

Dick Cheney, Gone But Not Forgotten - emptywheel The precedents Dick Cheney established as Vice President have empowered the madness and authoritarianism of Donald Trump.

"we never recovered from things Dick Cheney did to United States. and now the precedents he established have empowered a madman" @emptywheel.bsky.social

www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/04/d...

One thing we need to figure out in the AfterTimes is how to prevent industrial scale lying from people protected by CI or S&D.

I say this with no due respect, go fuck yourself you heartless faux Christian pro fear & loathing smug entitled mother fucker Chris Luxon.

We do not sweep away our most vulnerable, we do not hide them. They are us.

Okay now nz labour stop looking at uk labour and look at Mamdani instead of

PTSD - Post Thrown Sandwich Disorder

House

Registrar of Pecuniary Interests finds that National MP Carl Bates' enormous secret undeclared property portfolio of 25 houses was "within the rules" and did not need to be declared. Also suggests implicitly that those rules should change. bills.parliament.nz/v/4/7a8bd0f8...

a large road sign with the text fuck ICE located on a corner of an intersection in chicago

shout out chicago.