"When they go low, we go high" has unfortunately aged very badly. Gavin Newsom, like it or not, is the answer to Trump. When kindness fails, fuck it, take a torch to the whole thing.

What I thought was politeness was actually my inner humanity coming out. There was never a good reason to mandate the vaccination of teachers, or frankly of any profession outside a healthcare setting. We all went a bit mad over Covid, obviously antivaxxers but the inverse too.

I remember speaking to a man at a New Zealand First rally, who had been a teacher, and lost his livelihood over not getting vaccinated. I said to him at the time I was sorry and we shouldn't have done that to him. I didn't mean it at the time, but I actually do now. Huge mistake.

There was a brief period where parties like ACT were calling for the kind of extreme measures the govt ended up taking, and the govt was downplaying it, and then it flipped. No one really knew what to do.

COVID happened fast. The govt made a lot of mistakes. Some of them cruel. But in the fog of war it was hard to see what was necessary life saving action and what wasn't. I truly wish we had an inquiry that wasn't a partisan football, but that's what it has sadly become.

Luxon says he uses Chat GPT to "understand different bands".

Likewise, when John Key urged the opposition to get some guts, it was a call for them to unleash a bloodthirsty rage.

Requesting that an MP acquire a spine does not necessarily imply they don't have one. It could be a sort of violent call to war, to rip out the spines of our enemies.

Brownlee surely knows it's comically wrong to say that an insult like "spineless" has "never" been let slide in the House.

Winston standing up for Swarbrick, possibly afraid of losing his own right to rough and tumble.

The downside of this is that it will effusively agree with every point of order.

Feed Standing Orders and the entire history of speaker's rulings into GPT-5 and hook it up to an animatronic. Solved.

I have been reliably informed that implications of cowardice have always been a very strict hard line as well - so this is all fairly cut and dried actually.

I understand Parliament has quite strict decorum and there are certain hard lines - ie "liar", "lying", etc - but I'm a bit surprised "spineless" is over the line when I feel like I've heard MPs call each other or at least insinuate much worse. Unsure. Will have to investigate.

Hard as it may be to imagine Winston working with the Greens in his current posture, it's probably worth remembering that not long before this govt was formed, he was threatening to send David Seymour to the hospital.

Common sense is perfectly fine for:.- Choosing not to touch exposed wires.- Driving on the correct side of the road.- Don't spook that goose. It is not only bad for, but detrimental, to:.- Scientific inquiry.- Politics and other complex issues.- The brains of Platform listeners.

To exercise common sense is to believe whatever is obvious to your intuition is true. It's why people like Laws get scientific issues so badly wrong. Had I asked him 500 years ago what caused the tides, there's no fucking way he would've said "the moon". That's not common sense!.

Scrapping NCEA is a terrible mistake. I tutored NCEA for a while. The idea behind it is that we find where your skills are, rather than giving you an overall arbitrary appraisal. Moving back to the latter is so fucking stupid. NCEA needed recalibrating but this is not the answer.

Also apparently on Instagram! Just hasn't come up on my feed there.

Unsure he has Twitter but shoutout to Paaka Davis on TikTok who's doing excellent work explaining Māori pronunciation to regular people. We need more of this and he does it really well.