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we let the NZ Initiative in through the backdoor to run the country and all we got was these poignantly horrible graphs

finally bit the bullet, fully uninstalled Adobe Creative Suite and everything associated with it, and have set up a new workflow with Affinity. and it's... not terrible? in fact quite a lot better in some important ways?

I'll just leave this here, again, for all the leftists with (normally) National-supporting f&f who are utterly sick of the clownshow #nzpol www.emilywrites.co.nz/should-you-v...

Should you vote for the Opportunity Party?⁉️For a while now, folks have been asking me that exact question. I've been surprised to hear from Green voters who are considering voting TOP. I have publicly said I don't like TOP. I view them as ce...www.emilywrites.co.nz

it's not that hard. the story has a fairly normal three-act structure. then all you need to do is find and film a skyscraper-sized flying bear in the wild

this country would be immeasurably better if, when perusing articles, people read the words "by Dr Eric Crampton" and simply stopped reading there

Emma is a fantastic cartoonist and being let go by Stuff is yet more evidence, if it were needed, of their steep editorial and leadership decline

the great truth of New Zealand journalism is that it will elevate the most objectionable shitheels imaginable, the sort of insufferable people who you leave parties to avoid, and will then form an orderly queue with shining eyes to lick their boots

the evidence for my theory that 2026 will be the anti-2016 continues to mount

Without reading any others, I can guarantee that this is the only Opportunity explainer that includes the phrase "Hegelian dialectic" and that you should read it for that reason alone

If you say this out loud it comes to "Spay sex's sex eh I"

At last, the definitive guide (for lefties): Should You Vote For The Opportunity Party? www.emilywrites.co.nz/should-you-v...

Should you vote for the Opportunity Party?⁉️For a while now, folks have been asking me that exact question. I've been surprised to hear from Green voters who are considering voting TOP. I have publicly said I don't like TOP. I view them as ce...www.emilywrites.co.nz

Substack's dark patterns are out of control; twice now I've been subscribed to newsletters *simply by visiting them*, which is beyond the pale to the point that I think it's actually illegal.

huge subpost shoutout to the savvy political commentators in the chat who seem to be making the classic mistake of assuming that "centrist" swing voters are motivated by policy or logic and not deranged waking fever dreams that have an entirely tangential relationship to reality

the state of NZ political reporting is that they'll heap praise on a right-wing party for an uncosted policy consisting entirely of vibes and frame a couple of GDP's worth of roads as a "bold vision" but will savage the left-wing party's fully costed policy over an actual typo

Embodying embodiment Why I've started writing things by hand and you should too....

Embodying embodimentWhy I've started writing things by hand and you should too.www.tworuru.com

the Christchurch Wizard is the final boss of Milkshake Ducks

the hypocrisy is the point. the impunity is the point. they love it when you hone in on their hypocrisy, because they don't give a shit. they like having power; that's the whole of the game; to them that is all that distinguishes smart from stupid, have from not.