The Daily Blog Open Mic – 12th August 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist abuse, homophobic abuse, racist abuse, anti-muslim abuse, transphobic abuse, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird Bullshit about the UN taking over the world and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.
How about giving us a particular example Jack so we can see for ourselves what you mean. Put up a link to youtube or one to local media.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/569843/mystery-payment-to-oyster-farmers-came-from-watercare
This is good stuff – can we have a continuing place for the latest near-fiction behaviour from governments and its contractors? We want entertainment here now – like me, I’ve given up tv and social media.
This story about sudden growth in someone’s bank account can be dragged out. Is it a legal impregnation that has swollen the account or is it illegitimate? Make the story sexy – that what people want to read and know about these days. The nation will be hanging out for the next instalment about it (like the readers of Charles Dickens’ serial characters), and then get sponsored by a muesli company so we can read the serial over our cereal!