Richard Easther

We went to "Kofi Annan's favourite place" in New York once and got a similarly unexpected fish dish, but it tasted like it had been caught in the East River.

🍔 🍔 for dinner. It's a lovely night for bbq.

I also think one of the key things driving the schadenfreude we clearly feel about Luxon’s predicament is not even political. It’s that he reminds us all of a colleague or boss who was elevated way beyond their ability who we always wanted to see fail but didn’t get the opportunity. Now we do.

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

'No one can afford them': Kiwi couple spend $60k fleeing Dubai amid Middle East conflict Flights out of Dubai were cancelled, forcing an eight-hour drive to Oman.

Man who never thought the Leopards Who Fire Missiles at Middle East Theocracies would fire missiles at his Middle East theocracy.

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dubai-war...

Well, it highlights that it is a song about unrequited yearning I guess.

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

They should just make "Brmm, brmm, brmm" noises like little kids playing with Matchbox cars. What could be more fun?

Kind of funny/sad that Lamborghini drivers like the farty noise made as it accelerates. You could solve that with external speakers - like the SLR shutter noise my iPhone makes when I take a photo.

Lamborghini shelves Lanzador EV, doubles down on PHEVs Lamborghini has abandoned plans for its first full-electric production model, confirming the Lanzador 2+2 EV-SUV will not reach showrooms.

Looks like I am cancelling my Lambo order.

Pretty sure Signal works in India.

Ukraine: we studied the blade...

(Ok, but they will help, I know)

That would be "large robot girlfriends", surely?

Apparently no Aucklanders rent.

Auckland City Councillor yelling the quiet part out loud...

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/chaos-and...

Technically that's what keeps it going round. The question is what made it start going round in the first place.

Pusillanimous is a five dollar word, but it's a goodie.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...

(Given the number of people who can't tell Khomeini from Khamenei, this is not going to help at all)

We also have four seasons. Morning, afternoon, evening and night time.

Global Economy Is Facing the Prospect of Another Profound Shock

Not now, another profound shock.

Sounds more like tax fraud.

Stretches. Cracks knuckles. Sets a reminder to go outside this evening...

Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal There is no end in sight to the pollution caused by a ‘broken’ system. Experts say it could even be getting worse

Anyone know if any NZ channels are planning to screen "Dirty Business", the docudrama about Britain's broken water system and all the death and disease it's caused?

Feels extremely topical and timely - and from what I've glimpsed, it's a powerfully told story: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

$22,000,000,000 on just one road? - Greater Auckland Last year, I posted about the challenges I faced, trying to daylight public-interest information about the government’s Roads of National Significance programme. As I wrote then, The paper also sugges...

Try and find some time to read @connorsharp.bsky.social's excellent work here on the ways the government is trying to make its $22,000,000,000 Northern Expressway fantasy real – including refusing to release its own cost estimates. It's just reckless. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/03/03/2...

Thanks for the tip-off!

Everyone has a plan until they punch themself in the face

Rare ‘blood moon’ total lunar eclipse to loom over North America, Australia and New Zealand Eclipse will feature a deep, coppery-red full moon on 3 March, with scientists predicting the best times to see it

@rjme.bsky.social mentioned!

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

(Actually, thinking about, the not-really-ex-Nazi thing is a bit harsh on Teller; whatever faults the man had that, being a Nazi was certainly not one of them)

"Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!" Edward Teller crossed with Werner von Braun.

Possibly the best movie ever.