Lew
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Chopper of water, carrier of wood, reader of the fucking article
Cut a limb off one of the trees in the backyard and nearly missed the washing line. But not quite
Then fixed it with a section of steel pipe off an old section of chainlink fence we have been meaning to use for a bean frame but haven't gotten around to yet #LewItYourself
Then fixed it with a section of steel pipe off an old section of chainlink fence we have been meaning to use for a bean frame but haven't gotten around to yet #LewItYourself
November 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Cut a limb off one of the trees in the backyard and nearly missed the washing line. But not quite
Then fixed it with a section of steel pipe off an old section of chainlink fence we have been meaning to use for a bean frame but haven't gotten around to yet #LewItYourself
Then fixed it with a section of steel pipe off an old section of chainlink fence we have been meaning to use for a bean frame but haven't gotten around to yet #LewItYourself
Anyway here is the timing: immediately after the new govt's formation
Worth contemplating whether the complainant chose this timing since a new govt would be more willing to blow up the coziness within senior police than the outgoing govt; it's a shame that this was not the case
Worth contemplating whether the complainant chose this timing since a new govt would be more willing to blow up the coziness within senior police than the outgoing govt; it's a shame that this was not the case
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Anyway here is the timing: immediately after the new govt's formation
Worth contemplating whether the complainant chose this timing since a new govt would be more willing to blow up the coziness within senior police than the outgoing govt; it's a shame that this was not the case
Worth contemplating whether the complainant chose this timing since a new govt would be more willing to blow up the coziness within senior police than the outgoing govt; it's a shame that this was not the case
O fuck yes. Worth ten times the price of entry* just for this par
*(literally the whole thing is free, go and read it)
*(literally the whole thing is free, go and read it)
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
O fuck yes. Worth ten times the price of entry* just for this par
*(literally the whole thing is free, go and read it)
*(literally the whole thing is free, go and read it)
I still can't believe they missed this marketing opportunity too
October 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I still can't believe they missed this marketing opportunity too
I didn't take many photos but if you know Clinton, you know how big these redwoods are. Trees and branches down at Queen's Park in Invers and on practically every farm in the region. Shelter belts that have stood for 100 years just tipped over in rows. Simply incredible damage
October 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I didn't take many photos but if you know Clinton, you know how big these redwoods are. Trees and branches down at Queen's Park in Invers and on practically every farm in the region. Shelter belts that have stood for 100 years just tipped over in rows. Simply incredible damage
Everyone loves the "Shitsville" wheel for Wellington seasons but let me now share with you the 12 seasons of Melbroune (courtesy of my colleagues there) pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/don...
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Everyone loves the "Shitsville" wheel for Wellington seasons but let me now share with you the 12 seasons of Melbroune (courtesy of my colleagues there) pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/don...
"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
October 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
Here's one where even he could not avoid reflecting a few photons
October 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Here's one where even he could not avoid reflecting a few photons
RIP Mongoose, from scrawny alleycat to majestic panther voidbeast in a year and a half, until he picked a fight with an enemy too powerful for him (a car)
October 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
RIP Mongoose, from scrawny alleycat to majestic panther voidbeast in a year and a half, until he picked a fight with an enemy too powerful for him (a car)
And lest the rules-lawyers observe that this clear example of the difference between the law of the Pharaoh and the Right Thing To Do was not about Jesus ... take it away, Matty boy
September 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
And lest the rules-lawyers observe that this clear example of the difference between the law of the Pharaoh and the Right Thing To Do was not about Jesus ... take it away, Matty boy
Literally Chapter 1 of Exodus
September 29, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Literally Chapter 1 of Exodus
Find o' the weekend at the St John shop in Timaru: this Less Than Jake shirt with a double eagle
Less than Jake aren't even my kind of shit but if I wear this there's a chance someone will want to fight me for being a Habsburg or a Tsarist so swings & roundabouts
Less than Jake aren't even my kind of shit but if I wear this there's a chance someone will want to fight me for being a Habsburg or a Tsarist so swings & roundabouts
September 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Find o' the weekend at the St John shop in Timaru: this Less Than Jake shirt with a double eagle
Less than Jake aren't even my kind of shit but if I wear this there's a chance someone will want to fight me for being a Habsburg or a Tsarist so swings & roundabouts
Less than Jake aren't even my kind of shit but if I wear this there's a chance someone will want to fight me for being a Habsburg or a Tsarist so swings & roundabouts
September 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Two far-right tails wagging Luxo's dog.
Just ACT & NZ First straight out dictating terms to a Prime Minister who is already underwater due to his inability to do anything about the economy and anything else without their sayso
We are not a serious country
Just ACT & NZ First straight out dictating terms to a Prime Minister who is already underwater due to his inability to do anything about the economy and anything else without their sayso
We are not a serious country
September 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Two far-right tails wagging Luxo's dog.
Just ACT & NZ First straight out dictating terms to a Prime Minister who is already underwater due to his inability to do anything about the economy and anything else without their sayso
We are not a serious country
Just ACT & NZ First straight out dictating terms to a Prime Minister who is already underwater due to his inability to do anything about the economy and anything else without their sayso
We are not a serious country
Anyway this seems like a good time and place to repost my master take on Paora Goldsmith: he is low-key one of the worst actors in NZ politics
September 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Anyway this seems like a good time and place to repost my master take on Paora Goldsmith: he is low-key one of the worst actors in NZ politics
Honourable mention to The Gun by CJ Chivers, not about a single war, but about how the AK-47 changed all wars for ever
September 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Honourable mention to The Gun by CJ Chivers, not about a single war, but about how the AK-47 changed all wars for ever
I Shall Not Die, about Tītokowaru's War in Aotearoa, 1868-1869
Tītokowaru used what we would now regard as terror tactics in a defensive war against a vastly superior illegal occupying force
He was never defeated in battle, but ultimately lost his leadership due to the shame of sexual infidelity
Tītokowaru used what we would now regard as terror tactics in a defensive war against a vastly superior illegal occupying force
He was never defeated in battle, but ultimately lost his leadership due to the shame of sexual infidelity
![Tactics
Tītokowaru sought to instil fear in the settler community. In late June he wrote a letter in which he referred to having ‘eaten the European’ (Trooper Smith). Pākehā were advised to:
cease … travelling on the roads [around Waihī] lest ye be left … as food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the field, or for me. For I have … begun to eat the flesh of the white man; I have eaten him like the flesh of the cow, cooked in the pot; all have eaten him, even the women and the children. My throat is continually open for the eating of human flesh…. I shall not die; I shall not die. When death is itself dead I shall be alive.
There were no known portraits of Tītokowaru, and rumours quickly spread that he walked the streets of Whanganui, ready to kill unsuspecting settlers. He became the stuff of nightmares.
In fact Tītokowaru did not consume human flesh. Nevertheless, the colonial press portrayed him and his supporters as ‘fiends in human shape.’ A correspondent in the New Zealand Advertiser described him as the ‘most villainous-looking Maori I ever saw’. Auckland Punch emphasised the cannibalism associated with his war in headlines such as ‘TITO-KAWARAU & CO., BUTCHERS AND DRYSALTERS…. A large supply of Cured Constable, Potted Pakeha, and Dried Militiamen always on hand’. In reality there were few verified instances of cannibalism; for Belich, the focus on this aspect of Tītokowaru’s war deflected attention from his military achievements.
As a rule, Tītokowaru ‘directed operations from a safe command post’ and did not use a weapon himself in battle. He may not have needed to: the only account of violence by him during his war has him ‘breaking a colonist soldier’s neck with his bare hands’.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y5ef7ykskrf34je7djcylqwm/bafkreigdjpowudvt7bnnsmbezuzncizpecb3soreax4dpocqwsupyigtgq@jpeg)
September 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I Shall Not Die, about Tītokowaru's War in Aotearoa, 1868-1869
Tītokowaru used what we would now regard as terror tactics in a defensive war against a vastly superior illegal occupying force
He was never defeated in battle, but ultimately lost his leadership due to the shame of sexual infidelity
Tītokowaru used what we would now regard as terror tactics in a defensive war against a vastly superior illegal occupying force
He was never defeated in battle, but ultimately lost his leadership due to the shame of sexual infidelity
Look he's not wrong but still
September 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Look he's not wrong but still