Bernard Winters

@secondzeit Class act

Tributes to Jools Topp from great NZers, including Jacinda Ardern, Moana Maniapoto, Shaneel Lal, Neil Finn and Christopher Luxon. stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360983…

@FirstOrderPixie @WholesomeMeme The picture will always be different to the fast food product

@WholesomeMeme Grease, mainly. And also that fast food isnt using good ingredients. Making a burger at home from fresh good quality ingredients and minimal grease is pretty healthy

@catshealdeprsn Water

Chicken 🐔 helps women trying to separate two fighting cats 🐈.

@JoyceCarolOates Nah it’s kinda synonymous with naive with cringe and gullibility

idiotic generic categories: "boomer" is the worst. "baby boom" was a term first used in People Magazine by editor Lanny Jones. it has since spread out, like sludge in water, to be used in reference to literally millions of people who have virtually nothing of substance in common except a vague category of "age."

The warriors are on fire

@Jeffreyhbaird @oakie86 @JoyceCarolOates With Tyson thier is no art with Ali it’s all art

@oakie86 @JoyceCarolOates He did crumble. But early on, what a force

the fact is, Tyson didn't train for the fight; he lacked discipline; he couldn't be bothered to keep up his superb conditioning or the habits D'Amato had instilled in him during his, D'Amato's, lifetime. fights are not won, they are lost: especially in this case, Tyson just threw it all away. he does give reasons, in his autobiography. are they genuine? are they just excuses? Dougles/Tyson was one of the most shameful displays in boxing, ever; matched by the Holyfield fight with two (two!) ear-biting fouls. in 1986 when Tyson so brilliantly out-matched Trevor Berbick, no one would have predicted that one day "Iron Mike" would throw it all away.

@UCo4rcnplZQkYFn @secondzeit The way the morons demand the “truth” sheesh the anonymous acc the terrible time lines , low followers , abuse in their replies.

@secondzeit @mediabiasnz The way they come on your thread and demand/threaten you it’s almost Jacinda territory

@DanielGalef @JoyceCarolOates If you own an art work this happens

@sillycuts @JoyceCarolOates Go stare at one for 12 hours and get back to us

that's just silly! why rush through a profound work of literature? like gobbling down a gourmet meal. people are so perverse.

@DanielGalef @JoyceCarolOates Their is a contemporary artist that exhibited a work on paper blank stating he’d stared at it for 500 hours

@futureghost327 @JoyceCarolOates I imagine the limit to be the time it took the artist to make said work

@matthewbdexter Wtf on the last tweet Unfollowed you whinging git

Thanks everybody here! I love you. You guys bought thousands of copies of my new novel these first couple weeks. I'm basically rich for the next couple years. Let's keep doing this! I only expected to sell a few hundred copies my first week. Shit, we'll sell 50,000 copies soon.

@Kiwipally @VJMPub When you made mad claims with no basis in science

@sillycuts @VJMPub Where did I mention causality?

There are still people in 2026 who think weed is a hard drug compared to alcohol

@Kiwipally @VJMPub I reckon you play with your self all the time

@sillycuts @VJMPub That isn't a reply to my question. Feel free to continue having a conversation with yourself.

@secondzeit Will the protesters make their presence felt

Good luck to everyone at tonight's Media Awards Formerly Known as the Voyagers, especially The Press and Post photographers, Paula Penfold, Steve Braunias and Maiki Sherman.

@Kiwipally @VJMPub This has been disproven their is no causality

@VJMPub Both are bad for people with serious mental health conditions. Get rid of both and bring in psychedelics.

@JoyceCarolOates They as you point out are not even hating art they are raging against a small jpeg on their rage device

reproductions don't do justice to any work of art & especially not Rothko. it is odd how hostile (some) people are to art which they have never seen in person, only reproduced. just preparing canvases is a meticulous process for painters like Rothko, Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns. you speak as if any work of art is divorced from its context: obviously, it isn't. if you purchase a work of art by Mark Rothko you are also purchasing, in a sense, the reputation of M. Rothko which is the consequence of an accumulation of work over decades. if you purchase a line drawing by Picasso, you are also purchasing the reputation of Picasso which is the consequence of an accumulation of work over decades. what is it about this statement that is so difficult to grasp? apart from just hating artists who've been successful in the fullest sense of the word, what is the point?

@dowlster @JoyceCarolOates A voice from the garbage dump

@JoyceCarolOates Literature, art, science...these are the 21st century know-nothings

amazing how many people, most of them apparently men, not only hate Rothko (whose work they've probably just seen on Twitter) but "modern art" generally. sometimes Twitter is akin to a pack of baying hounds. guessing that these fellows frothing at the mouth at Abstract Expressionism are the very same folks who believe that Helen of Troy actually existed; & that, since she existed, has to be 1) white 2) not-white; & that their opinion on this casting is very important.