Lew
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Chopper of water, carrier of wood, reader of the fucking article
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It would be great if the top two stories about the executive branch were not a huge multinational child rape coverup and the establishment of a gulag of concentration camps
February 10, 2026 at 4:54 AM
It would be great if the top two stories about the executive branch were not a huge multinational child rape coverup and the establishment of a gulag of concentration camps
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"These actions are in violation of the UN charter" should be the most terrifying phrase in any human language and several alien ones
February 10, 2026 at 6:11 AM
"These actions are in violation of the UN charter" should be the most terrifying phrase in any human language and several alien ones
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When you’ve lost Chris Rufo
February 10, 2026 at 3:46 AM
When you’ve lost Chris Rufo
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We all just assumed that he was the subject in "Nutlick", but a more abhorrent possibility emerges
“.. years after Mr. Lutnick has said he severed ties with Mr. Epstein.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
February 10, 2026 at 3:20 AM
We all just assumed that he was the subject in "Nutlick", but a more abhorrent possibility emerges
I didn't mention it at all to them, but yesterday at my dinner table in provincial New Zealand, all three of my teenagers had well considered reckons about it
They were talking about Bad Bunny at my Italian cooking class in Portugal
Nothing delights me more about the NFL halftime show than watching global corporations quietly undercut the MAGA fantasy. The NFL wants international eyeballs. MAGA wants “America First.” In the end, money always beats nationalist bullshit.
February 10, 2026 at 3:09 AM
I didn't mention it at all to them, but yesterday at my dinner table in provincial New Zealand, all three of my teenagers had well considered reckons about it
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February 10, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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Post a banger that's not in English
Yorushika, Sunny.
(You may be familiar with this song if you have decent taste in recent anime; the live version is even better)
Yorushika, Sunny.
(You may be familiar with this song if you have decent taste in recent anime; the live version is even better)
February 10, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Post a banger that's not in English
Yorushika, Sunny.
(You may be familiar with this song if you have decent taste in recent anime; the live version is even better)
Yorushika, Sunny.
(You may be familiar with this song if you have decent taste in recent anime; the live version is even better)
February 10, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Also the choice of @pault.bsky.social and his legal team to seek only a declaration that the HRC appointments had not followed the law rather than the removal of the two commissioners from office means the Crown's back wasn't against the wall. Sensible litigation strategy all round imo.
February 9, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Also the choice of @pault.bsky.social and his legal team to seek only a declaration that the HRC appointments had not followed the law rather than the removal of the two commissioners from office means the Crown's back wasn't against the wall. Sensible litigation strategy all round imo.
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Sensible decision from the Crown, I think.
Had a decent chance of winning on appeal (the judge in the High Court clearly signaled things had only just got over the line), but an unhelpful precedent for government is MUCH more of an issue when it comes from the Court of Appeal than the High Court.
Had a decent chance of winning on appeal (the judge in the High Court clearly signaled things had only just got over the line), but an unhelpful precedent for government is MUCH more of an issue when it comes from the Court of Appeal than the High Court.
Paul Goldsmith tells me today he has decided not to appeal this decision.
"I didn't see the point of dragging it out for more months and more expense."
"I didn't see the point of dragging it out for more months and more expense."
NEW: The High Court has ruled that Paul Goldsmith's appointment of Dr. Stephen Rainbow as Human Rights Commissioner was unlawful
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
February 9, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Sensible decision from the Crown, I think.
Had a decent chance of winning on appeal (the judge in the High Court clearly signaled things had only just got over the line), but an unhelpful precedent for government is MUCH more of an issue when it comes from the Court of Appeal than the High Court.
Had a decent chance of winning on appeal (the judge in the High Court clearly signaled things had only just got over the line), but an unhelpful precedent for government is MUCH more of an issue when it comes from the Court of Appeal than the High Court.
The opposite of this
NZ's low productivity (gap between value of inputs and outputs) is the primary reason why our self-ideation as a prosperous country able to provide a good life for everyone fails to match reality
Workers are largely victims of it, and we should demand better productivity
NZ's low productivity (gap between value of inputs and outputs) is the primary reason why our self-ideation as a prosperous country able to provide a good life for everyone fails to match reality
Workers are largely victims of it, and we should demand better productivity
Our obsession with productivity is psychotic.
Because there's never enough productivity.
If you work hard, they want you to work even harder.
Making a line go up for the sake of making a line go up is just flawed.
Because there's never enough productivity.
If you work hard, they want you to work even harder.
Making a line go up for the sake of making a line go up is just flawed.
February 9, 2026 at 10:19 PM
The opposite of this
NZ's low productivity (gap between value of inputs and outputs) is the primary reason why our self-ideation as a prosperous country able to provide a good life for everyone fails to match reality
Workers are largely victims of it, and we should demand better productivity
NZ's low productivity (gap between value of inputs and outputs) is the primary reason why our self-ideation as a prosperous country able to provide a good life for everyone fails to match reality
Workers are largely victims of it, and we should demand better productivity
This is good but not for either of those reasons
It is good because as currently configured, if you drop out of the bsky app to go and copy a link or a quote or something, very often you lose whatever you've already composed and your reference position, because the whole timeline refreshes
It is good because as currently configured, if you drop out of the bsky app to go and copy a link or a quote or something, very often you lose whatever you've already composed and your reference position, because the whole timeline refreshes
February 9, 2026 at 8:31 PM
This is good but not for either of those reasons
It is good because as currently configured, if you drop out of the bsky app to go and copy a link or a quote or something, very often you lose whatever you've already composed and your reference position, because the whole timeline refreshes
It is good because as currently configured, if you drop out of the bsky app to go and copy a link or a quote or something, very often you lose whatever you've already composed and your reference position, because the whole timeline refreshes
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very strange to read a piece whose premise seems to be “i think you are too stupid to go look at the magazine i run and the writers i employ and see if i am telling the truth”
February 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
very strange to read a piece whose premise seems to be “i think you are too stupid to go look at the magazine i run and the writers i employ and see if i am telling the truth”
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CATO gets credit for being more pro immigrant than Bernie Sanders but Libertarians broadly have very little ‘told you so’ space
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
February 9, 2026 at 8:22 PM
CATO gets credit for being more pro immigrant than Bernie Sanders but Libertarians broadly have very little ‘told you so’ space
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I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
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this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
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“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
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If you don't agree with this observation, it's probably because you don't know enough about the history of radium as a do-everything product.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 6:33 AM
If you don't agree with this observation, it's probably because you don't know enough about the history of radium as a do-everything product.
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I beg you. Stop. Calling. Them. "Conservatives."
That was a real wedding during Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. His reps confirmed the happy couple are irl in love. And yet, conservatives still said the show was an affront to American values.
That Was a Real Wedding During Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show
That was a real wedding during Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. His reps confirmed the happy couple are irl in love. And yet, conservatives still said the show was an affront to American values.
www.vulture.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:46 AM
I beg you. Stop. Calling. Them. "Conservatives."
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I know it's a joke portfolio, but it still feels like saying the quiet part out loud that the Minister for the South Island is not a member of Cabinet.
Cabinet Ministers by region -
Auckland 10
Northland 3
Waikato 2
BoP 1
Wellington 3
Canterbury 1
It's an upper North Island govt.
Auckland 10
Northland 3
Waikato 2
BoP 1
Wellington 3
Canterbury 1
It's an upper North Island govt.
February 9, 2026 at 5:15 AM
I know it's a joke portfolio, but it still feels like saying the quiet part out loud that the Minister for the South Island is not a member of Cabinet.
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The culture wars are ripping families apart!
February 9, 2026 at 4:34 AM
The culture wars are ripping families apart!
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The NYT fired everyone who knew that sugar cane is kinda important to Puerto Rico.
They're dumber than dogshit over there. This is so fucking embarrassing.
They're dumber than dogshit over there. This is so fucking embarrassing.
At the start of his Super Bowl performance, Bad Bunny appeared in a field of green grass wearing a jersey featuring the number “64.” Fans immediately started tossing out theories about what the number meant.
What Was the ‘Ocasio 64’ Reference on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Look?
And where did his suit come from? The answers may surprise.
nyti.ms
February 9, 2026 at 4:36 AM
The NYT fired everyone who knew that sugar cane is kinda important to Puerto Rico.
They're dumber than dogshit over there. This is so fucking embarrassing.
They're dumber than dogshit over there. This is so fucking embarrassing.
Practically all public polling for the past year also predicts hung parliaments
A few outliers and a lot of "x bloc could form govt" heavily caveated for electorate assumptions, but the broad picture for ages has been essentially "it's a toss-up"
And yeah, that ain't a bad election year start
A few outliers and a lot of "x bloc could form govt" heavily caveated for electorate assumptions, but the broad picture for ages has been essentially "it's a toss-up"
And yeah, that ain't a bad election year start
February 9, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Practically all public polling for the past year also predicts hung parliaments
A few outliers and a lot of "x bloc could form govt" heavily caveated for electorate assumptions, but the broad picture for ages has been essentially "it's a toss-up"
And yeah, that ain't a bad election year start
A few outliers and a lot of "x bloc could form govt" heavily caveated for electorate assumptions, but the broad picture for ages has been essentially "it's a toss-up"
And yeah, that ain't a bad election year start