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My first book launch

submitted 64 days ago • 30 comments

Mocking struggling families isn't leadership. Good on for Arena Williams calling it out in this powerful piece. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Deeply disingenuously statement from Seymour, just as we'd expect.

submitted 183 days ago • 7 comments

Luxon literally doing Trump-style “if you didn’t vote for me, I have nothing to say to you.”

submitted 183 days ago • 32 comments

Ōtautahi turns out to support the hīkoi. #ToitūTeTiriti

submitted 183 days ago • 2 comments

Remember kids, if you are at the protest today you have to keep up your literacy and numeracy to keep the Act Party happy - so count how many people at the protest, and record all the signs you see, remember to correct spelling and grammar if necessary.

submitted 183 days ago • 1 comment

We’ve had possibly our busiest morning ever on the Wellington rail network for the Hīkoi, with 40,000 people through the railway station. Crowd likely at least 50,000, probably more. If you’re heading out of town by train today, make a plan now because trains will only be running until 8:30pm.

submitted 183 days ago • 5 comments

From MD's FB page. Great image. #nzpol #hikoi #staunchaf

submitted 189 days ago • 6 comments

A hīkoi dispatch from Ōtautahi thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13-... #nzpol

submitted 189 days ago • 0 comments

No they don’t. NZ would have had a Capital Gains Tax now if she hadn’t made her infamous ‘captains call’. Her inaction is Nationals Landlord tax break.

submitted 219 days ago • 2 comments

Once again, PM Luxon doesn't know why his govt has or hasn't done something.

submitted 219 days ago • 2 comments

“This idea that the coalition agreement takes precedence over the founding document of our nation, should give everybody cause for concern.” –Tamatha Paul A succinct summary. And applies to many other fundamental principles: nature, climate, evidence, logic, lives etc newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/14/g...

submitted 219 days ago • 5 comments

#nzpol listening to this story abt Grenfell [Today in Focus (Grenfell: the lies and greed exposed)] and can't help but fear that between Seymour's 'red tape ministry' and Penk's 'Major reforms' for building consent we'll have our own Grenfell in a year or two flex.acast.com/audio.guim.c...

submitted 234 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry to say I called it. What is it when people keep going back to their abusers expecting different behaviours even though they haven’t changed but instead, got much, much worse? Why do voters keep believing their lies? #nzpol

submitted 236 days ago • 13 comments

Droughts in the coming decades could be longer than projected by current climate models, a new study published Wednesday in Nature warns. (And when it rains, it pours) arstechnica.com/science/2024...

submitted 243 days ago • 0 comments

Amanda Marcotte hitting it out of the park again. For Kiwis this relates directly to the toxicity of David Seymour’s hate that he is riding into power, Winston’s demented hate-filled conspiracies, and NACTs broad agenda of demeaning “others” as weak/undeserving: #nzpol www.salon.com/2024/08/08/t...

submitted 243 days ago • 1 comment

Lunchtime walk scene. Video for the sound. Lovely little moment to happen across

submitted 243 days ago • 0 comments

Both Wastewater and Current Cases pages (independently) updated. Wastewater national estimate lowest all year, 2 weeks in mid 2023 were lower since covid spread nationwide. Number of people in hospital on Sunday night with covid at record low since covid spread nationwide. So we are in a lull.

submitted 244 days ago • 0 comments

I wish that places like the UK and Canada would stop trying to shove profit models into healthcare; the US system is really bad, actually!

submitted 244 days ago • 50 comments

Celebrating Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori 2024! Ake, ake ake - A Forever Language ❤️

submitted 244 days ago • 0 comments

The really fun thing about AI assistants cropping up in every piece of useful software is that now it takes me longer to do anything because I have to keep moving them out of the way so I can see what it is I'm trying to do (which I know how to do, and can do quite quickly on my own, thank you).

submitted 259 days ago • 1 comment

National to focus on increasing emissions, making cities less liveable www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

submitted 261 days ago • 2 comments

Luxon went line by line and cut wasteful toast

submitted 263 days ago • 2 comments

And notably: a reliable 69% of urban New Zealanders support people cycling in their communities. This is very neighbourly, very normal, and very nice. Anyone who’s vociferously propagandising otherwise is trying to sell you something not very nice. Start wondering why! Resist harmful reckons!

submitted 261 days ago • 6 comments

Levy's claiming that Te Whatu Ora is going broke. It's not a small private business, it's a government department; it can't go broke. The govt has complete control of its finances and can inject more money at any time. This is a deeply cynical scaremongering exercise. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 288 days ago • 1 comment

Shows Luxon is a fundamentalist without a fucking clue Music is math Art is math You try and work out 4/8, 5/3, 128bpm, Octaves and semi quavers You try work out the RGB and CYMK in Photoshop You will find Art and Music is applied Math and teaches better than theoretical math

submitted 289 days ago • 12 comments

Gov cut health, have their guy cry crisis , repeat. #nzpol

submitted 288 days ago • 2 comments

I guess fixing potholes is important to many, but you have to think it's a poor investment when the trucks are too heavy for the roads and there's no plan to reduce the amount of freight moved by road. The roads are just going to continue to get slammed. 🤷‍♂️ www.1news.co.nz/2024/06/06/n...

submitted 349 days ago • 2 comments

"What Act’s argument ignores is that the Crown has been imposing race-based policies on Māori from day one and those race-based policies were built on Pākehā supremacy." The Crown versus Māori Children newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/03/t...

submitted 383 days ago • 1 comment

New: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says threats by ministers Shane Jones and David Seymour to reform or close down the Waitangi Tribunal were "ill-considered", as legal experts say they may have breached the Cabinet Manual. newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/19/m...

submitted 397 days ago • 4 comments

The job cuts are occurring: “(a) in order to reduce the role of govt, (b) to open up monetising opportunities for the private sector, & (c) to abolish outreach programmes targeted at Māori communities, which is the real aim behind the jargon about getting back to “core” (i.e.white) functions. #nzpol

submitted 398 days ago • 0 comments

Acting ambitiously on climate change will be better for society and the economy than a business-as-usual scenario, the commission has found. newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/08/f...

submitted 408 days ago • 2 comments

"We will do what it takes to increase school attendance rates!" "Free school lunches?" "Ah, no." "Classroom ventilation?" "Also no." "Improve school facilities to make them equitable?" "Absolutely not." "Decrease poverty?" "I think you are missing the point." "Punish struggling parents." "Exactly."

submitted 408 days ago • 3 comments

This govt doesn’t know how to run a health system. They’re making ideologically-based decisions which make no sense from a wellbeing or a financial pov. For the good of the country, health sector unions need to set the agenda through our bargaining & campaigns #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2024/04/08/f...

submitted 408 days ago • 0 comments

The govt trying to gaslight the nation into believing the only way to get things done is to remove all checks and balances despite the fact there is no real evidence for this view, a ton of evidence it is bullshit and a metric shit ton of evidence it is extremely dangerous.

submitted 461 days ago • 1 comment

JN.1 joined class towards the end of last term, so did not get to introduce itself to all the students until the start of this term.

submitted 461 days ago • 4 comments

Spain is bringing back some mask mandates (for hospitals and health centres) as COVID surges

submitted 497 days ago • 2 comments

And another claim from another iwi...... If this new government thought they'd be able to push their anti-Māori policies through without pushback they are in for a shock.

submitted 497 days ago • 4 comments