StarFiche
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Like the sea critter, but harder to read.
So, they've announced the bill to make English the official language it already is, and after commenting on something for giggles last night, I became slightly (just a little) obsessed with an old variety of English.
So here it is, a reading (with all it's faults) from the song of Genesis:
So here it is, a reading (with all it's faults) from the song of Genesis:
February 18, 2026 at 3:14 AM
So, they've announced the bill to make English the official language it already is, and after commenting on something for giggles last night, I became slightly (just a little) obsessed with an old variety of English.
So here it is, a reading (with all it's faults) from the song of Genesis:
So here it is, a reading (with all it's faults) from the song of Genesis:
Just realised that Kid Rock is older than The Rock.
I haven't been so disturbed since I found out that Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan.
I haven't been so disturbed since I found out that Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan.
February 18, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Just realised that Kid Rock is older than The Rock.
I haven't been so disturbed since I found out that Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan.
I haven't been so disturbed since I found out that Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan.
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They’re announcing that they plan to strip women and girls (the main beneficiaries of the Equality Act) of their rights and protections next.
We told you so.
It was always transphobia.
Hate all the way down:
We told you so.
It was always transphobia.
Hate all the way down:
Braverman is now lambasting equalities policies, saying Reform would scrap the equalities brief and repeal the Equality Act. Giving her this role - any role, in fact - does feel like quite a risk for Reform.
February 17, 2026 at 2:42 PM
They’re announcing that they plan to strip women and girls (the main beneficiaries of the Equality Act) of their rights and protections next.
We told you so.
It was always transphobia.
Hate all the way down:
We told you so.
It was always transphobia.
Hate all the way down:
What! I trowe that this is a yvel idea. I can thynke of litel more that wolde be a gretter waste of the tyme of the folk and here leddres.
Yif thou wolt make English an offycel tongue, thou must first define what kynd of English thou meanest.
Yif thou wolt make English an offycel tongue, thou must first define what kynd of English thou meanest.
Opposition plz keep proposing amendments to make official language various dialects of English. There are about 800 of them.
If the government gets sloppy we could be blessed with the right to conduct all offical business in Middle English.
If the government gets sloppy we could be blessed with the right to conduct all offical business in Middle English.
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 AM
What! I trowe that this is a yvel idea. I can thynke of litel more that wolde be a gretter waste of the tyme of the folk and here leddres.
Yif thou wolt make English an offycel tongue, thou must first define what kynd of English thou meanest.
Yif thou wolt make English an offycel tongue, thou must first define what kynd of English thou meanest.
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Straight up we have a coordinated, intentional pattern that explicitly intends to push overwhelmingly wahine Māori from public and political life - not just from members of the public, but hugely from our media outlets. Do you know how fast this racist disinformation turns into outright fascism?
As per usual, a loud and feral minority hijacking the conversation with misinformation.
Also seeing a disturbing & very familiar pattern of hostility toward Tamatha Paul. Our community must stand behind her. We can’t allow another Māori leader to be worn down and pushed out. #nzpol
Also seeing a disturbing & very familiar pattern of hostility toward Tamatha Paul. Our community must stand behind her. We can’t allow another Māori leader to be worn down and pushed out. #nzpol
“Rooted in racism” Hostility and disinformation overshadow Moa Point public meeting
More than 300 people packed into a public meeting on Monday night to demand answers over the ongoing Moa Point wastewater disaster.
www.teaonews.co.nz
February 17, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Straight up we have a coordinated, intentional pattern that explicitly intends to push overwhelmingly wahine Māori from public and political life - not just from members of the public, but hugely from our media outlets. Do you know how fast this racist disinformation turns into outright fascism?
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There's been this hit job on the Green Party by ACT's NZCPR, claiming money was "stolen" from water infrastructure for cycleways.
In fact, their Council invested significantly, more than others over decades.
They put $2.7 billion to 3W in 2021 and 1.8% of that on cycleways #nzpol
In fact, their Council invested significantly, more than others over decades.
They put $2.7 billion to 3W in 2021 and 1.8% of that on cycleways #nzpol
February 14, 2026 at 5:36 AM
There's been this hit job on the Green Party by ACT's NZCPR, claiming money was "stolen" from water infrastructure for cycleways.
In fact, their Council invested significantly, more than others over decades.
They put $2.7 billion to 3W in 2021 and 1.8% of that on cycleways #nzpol
In fact, their Council invested significantly, more than others over decades.
They put $2.7 billion to 3W in 2021 and 1.8% of that on cycleways #nzpol
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This administration in America will not be happy until they have returned us to the middle ages, get excited for your dose of black death*!
*Yeah that is the plague
*Yeah that is the plague
February 13, 2026 at 4:39 AM
This administration in America will not be happy until they have returned us to the middle ages, get excited for your dose of black death*!
*Yeah that is the plague
*Yeah that is the plague
I remember people speculating on who it was that loved the torture video - well, speculate no more, because Pam Bondi just told us all it was Sulayem.
A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
February 12, 2026 at 1:03 AM
I remember people speculating on who it was that loved the torture video - well, speculate no more, because Pam Bondi just told us all it was Sulayem.
So, Winnie is now going to campaign against Māori seats.
That's right... not just wards at a local level, but against the Māori roll itself and the MPs it produces.
You can find his full and regressive slimy arguments if you want to - I'm not giving him more oxygen than he's due: I refuse.
That's right... not just wards at a local level, but against the Māori roll itself and the MPs it produces.
You can find his full and regressive slimy arguments if you want to - I'm not giving him more oxygen than he's due: I refuse.
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 AM
So, Winnie is now going to campaign against Māori seats.
That's right... not just wards at a local level, but against the Māori roll itself and the MPs it produces.
You can find his full and regressive slimy arguments if you want to - I'm not giving him more oxygen than he's due: I refuse.
That's right... not just wards at a local level, but against the Māori roll itself and the MPs it produces.
You can find his full and regressive slimy arguments if you want to - I'm not giving him more oxygen than he's due: I refuse.
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Anti-trans hate is an industry. Not a movement, not a moral concern, not an organic uprising of worried parents — an industry, deliberately constructed, lavishly funded, & strategically deployed to protect the interests of the powerful men who finance it
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
The Projection Machine: Epstein's Intellectual Network and the War on Trans People
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
culture-centered.blogspot.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Anti-trans hate is an industry. Not a movement, not a moral concern, not an organic uprising of worried parents — an industry, deliberately constructed, lavishly funded, & strategically deployed to protect the interests of the powerful men who finance it
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
When they tell you that you have to debate them...
Or that you'd go on their show if you really wanted your side to be heared...
Or that a persective must be challenged in 'the marketplace of ideas' (again and again... for the challenge never ~leaves~ the marketplace), ...
Or that you'd go on their show if you really wanted your side to be heared...
Or that a persective must be challenged in 'the marketplace of ideas' (again and again... for the challenge never ~leaves~ the marketplace), ...
February 11, 2026 at 5:04 AM
When they tell you that you have to debate them...
Or that you'd go on their show if you really wanted your side to be heared...
Or that a persective must be challenged in 'the marketplace of ideas' (again and again... for the challenge never ~leaves~ the marketplace), ...
Or that you'd go on their show if you really wanted your side to be heared...
Or that a persective must be challenged in 'the marketplace of ideas' (again and again... for the challenge never ~leaves~ the marketplace), ...
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So struggling kiwis are going to subsidize for years nz's largest gas user multinational Methanex & fonterra. The only profit Methanex make is on-selling (price gouging) their gas quotas to electricity retailers during shortages.. All very corporate socialism from Luxon.. #nzpol
February 11, 2026 at 1:55 AM
So struggling kiwis are going to subsidize for years nz's largest gas user multinational Methanex & fonterra. The only profit Methanex make is on-selling (price gouging) their gas quotas to electricity retailers during shortages.. All very corporate socialism from Luxon.. #nzpol
More skeets, so more typos I wish I hadn't made.
Still can't believe that Bsky tried to be a better Twitter, yet STILL didn't give us at least a time-limited edit button.
Still can't believe that Bsky tried to be a better Twitter, yet STILL didn't give us at least a time-limited edit button.
February 11, 2026 at 2:30 AM
More skeets, so more typos I wish I hadn't made.
Still can't believe that Bsky tried to be a better Twitter, yet STILL didn't give us at least a time-limited edit button.
Still can't believe that Bsky tried to be a better Twitter, yet STILL didn't give us at least a time-limited edit button.
I grew up in the 80s. That 80s level of cruelty and self-centeredness ought to be the default normal to me.
The 2020s still hit that much harder.
The 2020s still hit that much harder.
I was in my 20s in the 1980s: The Cold War, the Chernobyl disaster, Reagan as President, Thatcher in No 10. What a strange, cruel time to be alive, I used to think. But the 80s had nothing on the 2020s.
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 AM
I grew up in the 80s. That 80s level of cruelty and self-centeredness ought to be the default normal to me.
The 2020s still hit that much harder.
The 2020s still hit that much harder.
This isn't new, not least in this location. I've come out ofd the Spark at thend of a show only to see this happening a few times over as many years.
The CBD has buss lane cameras: well, stick a bike lane camera there and watch the revenue roll in until it stops.
The CBD has buss lane cameras: well, stick a bike lane camera there and watch the revenue roll in until it stops.
Watch: Six cars drive down Auckland bike lane to 'skip traffic'
The vehicles were filmed in the bike lane on Waitangi Day.
www.nzherald.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 12:12 AM
This isn't new, not least in this location. I've come out ofd the Spark at thend of a show only to see this happening a few times over as many years.
The CBD has buss lane cameras: well, stick a bike lane camera there and watch the revenue roll in until it stops.
The CBD has buss lane cameras: well, stick a bike lane camera there and watch the revenue roll in until it stops.
Is that before or after the new levy on electricity to pay $2.7 billion on building leased infrastructure to buy gas from overseas?
February 10, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Is that before or after the new levy on electricity to pay $2.7 billion on building leased infrastructure to buy gas from overseas?
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But what I'd REALLY say to you is... "I want to tie NZ to the import of fossil fuels long after we're gone".
Wait, $1b so we can import LNG? This is insane.
February 9, 2026 at 8:24 AM
But what I'd REALLY say to you is... "I want to tie NZ to the import of fossil fuels long after we're gone".
I swear, if this energy insecurity is as bad as they claim, then what we really need is to store excess energy in the good times, so that we have it for a so-called rainy day.
... but that would take a battery the size of, errr, a lake maybe?
... but that would take a battery the size of, errr, a lake maybe?
February 9, 2026 at 8:21 AM
I swear, if this energy insecurity is as bad as they claim, then what we really need is to store excess energy in the good times, so that we have it for a so-called rainy day.
... but that would take a battery the size of, errr, a lake maybe?
... but that would take a battery the size of, errr, a lake maybe?
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An energy security asset would be, now let's see, ah yes the Lake Onslow pumped hydro project which would genuinely have secured energy for the country and not be reliant on the dying field of gas markets.
Further to this.
An importing facility ISN’T actually an energy security asset. For one thing, fossil fuels can only be used ONCE. The facility doesn’t do anything without the fossil fuel being shipped to it. It’s the fossil fuel that’s the temp energy asset.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
An importing facility ISN’T actually an energy security asset. For one thing, fossil fuels can only be used ONCE. The facility doesn’t do anything without the fossil fuel being shipped to it. It’s the fossil fuel that’s the temp energy asset.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
'Strategic energy security asset': Govt reveals plans for $1b LNG import facility
Luxon warned New Zealand is experiencing swiftly declining gas supply.
www.nzherald.co.nz
February 9, 2026 at 8:04 AM
An energy security asset would be, now let's see, ah yes the Lake Onslow pumped hydro project which would genuinely have secured energy for the country and not be reliant on the dying field of gas markets.
“A palantír is a dangerous tool, <insert government leader>. They are not all accounted for, the lost Seeing-stones. We do not know who else may be watching.”
Sometimes you just have to wish Gandalf was real.
Sometimes you just have to wish Gandalf was real.
I find it amazing that a company named palantir, owned by a famously shady guy with connections to shady people, was ever up for Government contracts.
Like, do politicians not watch movies or read books?
Like, do politicians not watch movies or read books?
February 7, 2026 at 8:40 PM
“A palantír is a dangerous tool, <insert government leader>. They are not all accounted for, the lost Seeing-stones. We do not know who else may be watching.”
Sometimes you just have to wish Gandalf was real.
Sometimes you just have to wish Gandalf was real.
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Seymour really out there telling us all to eat cake.
Seymour says colonisation means even the poorest live like monarchs.
As someone who's spent far too much of my life involvedin studying the past, I say he's talking undiluted shite.
As someone who's spent far too much of my life involvedin studying the past, I say he's talking undiluted shite.
February 5, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Seymour really out there telling us all to eat cake.
How many monarchs live on the streets?
Because if what Seymour says is true, Auckland alone is effectively a national showcase for the sheer diversity of destitute royalty present in New Zealand.
Because if what Seymour says is true, Auckland alone is effectively a national showcase for the sheer diversity of destitute royalty present in New Zealand.
Seymour says colonisation means even the poorest live like monarchs.
As someone who's spent far too much of my life involvedin studying the past, I say he's talking undiluted shite.
As someone who's spent far too much of my life involvedin studying the past, I say he's talking undiluted shite.
February 5, 2026 at 10:35 PM
How many monarchs live on the streets?
Because if what Seymour says is true, Auckland alone is effectively a national showcase for the sheer diversity of destitute royalty present in New Zealand.
Because if what Seymour says is true, Auckland alone is effectively a national showcase for the sheer diversity of destitute royalty present in New Zealand.
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Look folks, this year we've got to support Jen and PATHA and make sure every political party you trust has a sound trans rights policy.
Today, the Court of Appeal has given clarity and confidence to medical professionals in Aotearoa to continue prescribing GnRH agonists/reversible pubertal suppression. You can read PATHA’s statement at patha.nz/news
February 5, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Look folks, this year we've got to support Jen and PATHA and make sure every political party you trust has a sound trans rights policy.
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The Court of Appeal agreed today that our appeal was in the public interest and that clarity was required. The Court clarified that the High Court order was effective, and that it would be extraordinary for the Medical Council, HDC, or similar to facilitate complaints based on these regulations.
February 5, 2026 at 2:54 AM
The Court of Appeal agreed today that our appeal was in the public interest and that clarity was required. The Court clarified that the High Court order was effective, and that it would be extraordinary for the Medical Council, HDC, or similar to facilitate complaints based on these regulations.