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There seems to be a real moral vacuum, or perhaps cowardice, or perhaps both, at the heart of political reporting by "the gallery" in New Zealand. At a time like this we deserve, and need, a far more courageous, knowledgable and reflective press. #nzpol

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Turtle Engines #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

what is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Emotional abuse experienced in childhood often has the same or more significant lifelong effects than other forms of childhood trauma. [Actually not even sure this is common knowledge in my field].

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

The New Zealand Labour Party does not support the ongoing attacks, including the United States bombing of Iran, which is in breach of international law, and the Government should be saying this. - Peeni Henare, Labour Party foreign affairs spokesperson. 1/3

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

No one knows what we lived through.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

These Ministers aren’t fixing the housing crisis they’re cashing it in. Selling off state land while our people sleep in cars isn’t policy. It’s a political hit job on vulnerable whānau. You don’t build homes by gutting the agency that builds them. #HousingCrisis #TePātiMāori #NZPol

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

"you're unhappy because you spend too much time on your phone" speak for yourself i'm posting this shit from desktop like a true lunatic

submitted 13 days ago • 75 comments

Nothing is more pathetic than wealthy property owner from Muriwai going on RNZ to complain about rates (after they just voted in a psycho RW government)

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Visited Te Papa today, then walked down Courtenay Place. Lots of homeless folks. NZ has a billion $$$ edifice for dead artefacts but SFA accommodation for living people in winter. #shame #whakama #NationalNotFitToGovern

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Letter to the Herald #NZpol

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

At long last, my PhD dissertation—Charles Darwin’s Science of History—has been filed and approved. I graduate shortly. The abstract is below. 🌱🐋🦋🦫🗃️🧠🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

Just having my morning tea, reflecting on the racist way in which conversations about constitutional change are handled in this country.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Appreciation to the sex workers for talking to me because they knew this was in the public interest. And I think we need to have a conversation about some of the wider issues here.

submitted 21 days ago • 31 comments

University scientists in China are making people healthier; research scientists in the US are looking for a job. In China, science is revered; in Trump’s America, science is silenced. Just this week, Chinese scientists enabled paralyzed patients to walk again... www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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This is what happens when you give an interview while you're hungry. #TACO #BURRITO #CHURRO #SALSA #ENCHILADA (Also, #economics)

submitted 25 days ago • 92 comments

What sort of crappy country are we anyway where some people still think that expressing and celebrating Toitu Te Tiriti is political at all let alone "overtly political"? Can we all just grow up and move on. Toitu Te Tiriti is like climate action. Only a***holes and idiots dispute the justice of it.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

In today’s HeraldOnSunday #nzpol

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

For the last day of NZ Music Month, we share the story of a man who has been making music for more than four decades, since he was a lad. Don McGlashan was raised on Auckland's North Shore (Westlake Boys represent...) www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/don-...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

In the documentary by @mihiforbes.bsky.social on Seymour, the previous ACT candidate expresses that Seymour knows his actions will lead to civil unrest, even civil war, and he welcomes that. I think this is well worth keeping in mind.