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submitted 4 hours ago • 20 comments

We cannot scicomm our way out of this, part …I-don’t-know-I’m-tired-of-counting

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

What an absolute mess Simeon Brown and NZTA have created in the northwest. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/06/30/n...

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

So in other words, the scheme failed which was consistent of what all the domestic and peer reviewed evidence said it would. Maybe National next time listen rather than indulging in your usual anti-intellectualism...

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

Or lower GST to 10%, increase 45% Income Tax at $250,000+ and start bringing in Wealth Taxes especially on residential property. OR Windfall Taxes on supermarkets, energy, and telco firms newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/27/i...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

How much of a venn diagram are the people who victim blame flood victims for buying/building in flood plains and the people who are staunchly against housing intensification in non flood plains cause “my property value”

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Snug as a caterpillar on a pear tree.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The only thing that could mitigate climate change is stopping the burning of fossil fuels. Tell your friends and radio producers.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Argghhh these Murderbot episodes are tooooo shoorrttt

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

No moko with us today as she’s got another daycare cold, she’s given it to my DiL who has tested positive for covid and I wish that ECE’s and schools had clean air regulations they were mandated to adhere to. Clean air at ECE’s would be a very productive for the economy. The end.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

If anyone asks me why they should bother voting in a general election, I remind them that a really high voter turnout means that NZ First requires a lot more votes just to get to 5%. Surely that by itself is enough to motivate non-voters to vote, isn't it?🤔 #nzpol

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

As I mentioned in @patbrittenden.bsky.social's show last night, I'm convinced Seymour knows what he is doing. I called him in approx. 2018 to stop encouraging online violence toward Golriz Ghahraman. In the end she needed Parliament security to escort her. He was sorry then but old habits die hard.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

If accurate, this is farcical. & inconsistent with the basics of good legislative practice, making it crystal clear the Bill isn't a good faith attempt to improve such. Insincere & undemocratic. & adds to a lack of legitimacy making it v easy for the next govt to justify repealing immediately.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

No one is clutching pearls here - we are genuinely concerned about the behaviour of our DMP targeting academics who disagree by name and singling them out for ridicule and online harassment. The PM should step up for our democracy. This is a danger to freedom of expression. Sign the petition #nzpol

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

'Since the early 2000s, researchers have used the term "stochastic terrorism" to describe a way of indirectly threatening people. Nobody is specifically told "harm these people", so the person putting them at risk has plausible deniability.' Seymour knows exactly what he is doing. #NzPol

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments