The year is 2068. New Zealand is all roads. The meagre remaining population huddles together under overpasses for warmth, slowly starving to death, but their commutes are all 8 minutes shorter.

The tarp game is harsh, man. One slip and you’re on your own 😂

"Also runs a company called Arctic Pies", you won't get this level of intrigue from your fancy IPL millionaires

At a pub with the World Cup opening ceremony on but there's no sound, so I assume this is "Green Honda" that Benee's doing

It has been A Day, but that was pretty great.

Dear everyone, Without further ado = proceeding without further delay or fuss or activity; what you actually want Without further adieu= proceeding without a French person saying goodbye; not a thing Thanks, Your friendly neighbourhood subeditor.

X marks the bots.

When Crowded House comes on in The Bear

Hard to quantify but man, every day just feels like games marketing and PR has triumphed while any meaningful space for criticism is stomped out. The level of antagonism normal-ass gamers have towards thoughtful critique is off the fucking charts.

Oh it's an AI lmao

National : We're going to build more roads, at a cost of just eleventy million dollars. Everyone: You just made that number up. National: No way, it's going to be real cheap, our mate Dave's gonna do it.

Feels like perhaps the exodus is reaching critical mass.

I regret to inform all the people of my approximate political persuasion currently getting upset about Luxon playing cricket in the hallway of his workplace that I find it to be literally the best thing he has ever done.

PHWOAR

Sensible people are asleep and Twitter is dying but it's still nice to know that you fellow tragics are out there with me watching Conway and Ravindra look like a million dollars. (NZ cricket BlueSky when?)

Every NZ cricket fan paying a bit of attention to the game, sure, but with their heart *much* more in their mouth when they read things like this.