The Daily Blog Open Mic – 8th October 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.
If you like your thinking accompanied by graphics, images you might like this site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurzgesagt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0
AI Slop is killing our Channel
More – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q
YouTube Is Flooded With AI Slop — And It Will Get Worse
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dimitarmixmihov/2025/02/17/youtube-is-flooded-with-ai-slop—and-it-will-get-worse/
The Blue Lady has the blue megrims? So do we, it’s a match!
Megrims – Definition, Meaning & Synonyms
Vocabulary.com https://www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › megrims
a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/575077/opinion-nicola-willis-is-right-the-economy-isn-t-as-bad-as-the-merchants-of-misery-claim
Conversation By Dennis Wesselbaum
( Dennis Wesselbaum is an Adjunct Fellow of the New Zealand Initiative and an Affiliate at Motu Research.)
and
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/575299/morning-report-political-panel-nicola-willis-defends-telling-greens-to-call-the-dogs-off
Nicola has support for her missadmistations – ‘she’s our girl (womun) we’re behind her.’
also
Perhaps we will have to have our citizen-back-up; use AI – have a battle of the titans?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-technology/575167/our-changing-world-putting-ai-to-use-in-aotearoa
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/575303/180-billion-of-homes-sitting-on-flood-prone-land-government-report-finds
Boo they are just trying to scare us – it’s all part of this climate change hoax. /Sarc!!!!
A major new report is warning that more than a thousand seaside homes could
suffer significant damage from extreme weather by 2060.
And hundreds of thousands of homes worth an estimated $180 billion are located in flood-prone areas, according to Our Marine Environment 2025 from the Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ.
The fourth and latest stocktake draws together peer-reviewed research, government reports, mātauranga Māori and official statistics….