David Cormack

Sometimes I think about the edgelords who'd ask me some dumb fuck question in response to something I said, then end by saying "I'll wait".

Are you all still waiting, losers?

They might be docking

Chris Luxon greeting Australian PM, Anthony Albanese, with an unconventional method. A hug.

Challenging wank

The Post arguing that had an All Black committed some foul that a British Lion did in a game of rugby, that they would have received a much harsher penalty.

This reminds me of a certain conservative natstan making up guys to get angry at on twitter.

How utterly absurd.

It's the sky tower. But very yellow.

Nice of Auckland to greet me with Hurricanes colours

beveridge curving my way to 1970s chicago success

other than a covid spike in sept 20, where unemployment was the same it is today, it hasn't been this bad since ... december 2016.

in fact from 2011- election 2017, unemployment was only as *low* as today in 6 quarters. Out of 26.

under labour, unemployment hit this high in one quarter.

i dunno if ncea is good or not. i was not at school when it started, and grets is obvs too young for it now. so what's the vibe on today's announcement? should i like it? should i hate it? should i be ambivalent?

Famous National Stan, Eeryk McRae, tweeting unsupportively of Luxo/National.

Fuck me. When you've lost Eeryk.

This, aside from being a ball ache and a proof point of the enshittification of the world, is just really really bad comms. Absolute radio silence from one of the largest electronic brands in the world right now? Diabolical.

Sooooo anyone else having fuckery with a Samsung TV? People on fora complaining but haven't seen anything from Samsung about it.

FBI makes arrests over alleged secret Chinese 'police stations' in New York China has previously denied running secret police stations overseas, calling them "service centres".

Plus ça change

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New Air NZ ceo, Nikhil Ravishankar, looking suave af

so fucking disappointing, but not surprising, to hear folks were racist about the new air nz ceo, Nikhil Ravishankar.

my man is daddy.

so i know rents are down in wellington which is maybe the only good thing that happened cos of this govt, but that only happened cos they fucked so many jobs.

is there actually a good thing that anyone can say they have personally benefited from by this govt?

“what is the crime?!” I scream as the police drag me away from the polling booth “…enjoying a succulent free Māori hangi?!”

but we changed the passports!

Where does House of Leaves sit on this continuum?

Fuck. More lasers.

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i wrote this when labour was still in government, about how govts are choosing shitty outcomes for people, while pretending their hands are tied.

it still stands. today. and forever.

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Just read that right then. What a legend.

ah fuck. tom lehrer died. every few months I'll stumble on Who's Next or Werner von Braun, look him up and marvel he was still alive.

I heard so much of that man in family road trips from cassettes my dad had. Fucking stink.

changing passports to have english before te reo māori, making it slightly harder to enrol to vote, making life even more difficult for the trans community... i thought these clowns were 'laser focused' on the cost of living.

how the fuck do these help anyone with the cost of living?

Nowhere in this dumb fuck "action plan" does this dumb fuck government announce they're going to do dumb fuck racist shit to our passports that benefits absolutely nobody.

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Beautiful bouquet of flowers

Look at these fucking gorgeous flowers a friend got me for my birthday. I love them.

Worst. Dox. Ever.

It was yesterday

Transgender inclusion guidelines wiped from government sports site Sport New Zealand has removed its guidelines for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport. The guidance was first published in 2022 and was based on the principle that everyone should be able to participate in sports. It said that grass roots sports participants should be able to play sport based on the gender they identify as. Stuff understands the guidelines were removed because of a Government directive to review policies about transgender sports people. Stuff approached Sports Minister Mark Mitchell and Sport NZ to ask about the guidelines on Wednesday, but neither responded to the request for comment. The guidance became a political issue because NZ First campaigned on limiting funding to sports that were “compromised by rules relating to gender”. The National Party agreed to that policy, and it was included in their 2023 coalition agreement. Last year, former sports minister Chris Bishop directed Sports NZ to “review and update” its principles for gender inclusivity. “I have come to the view that the Guiding Principles do not reflect legitimate community expectations that sport at a community level should not just be focused on diversity, inclusion and equity – but also prioritise fairness and safety,” Bishop said, at the time. NZ First leader Winston Peters said he wanted Sport NZ to advocate against “biological males” taking part in “women’s sports”. “This woke ideology by Sport NZ may sound ‘inclusive’ but lacks any common sense and is not based in any reality,” he said, when the guidelines were released. These were guidelines, and not regulations or policies that sports clubs had to comply with.

The only reason to do this is to signal to a certain group of people they should vote for you next year. But that doesn't mean this isn't harmful. It's part of a sustained attack on the trans community that fosters transphobia. It's disgusting.
#nzpol

Amy Winehouse died on my birthday in 2011, and Ozzy today. Proposal to skip July 23 in perpetuity.

20 isn't unreasonable imho. I'd be fine with that.

Treasury economic update "alert" saying growth is slowing and inflation is going up

slow growth AND inflation? Someone call the 1970s cos this stag is flating

Brother of.