@Salty Let's have an election with retrospective effect.

By my count this is the third law with retrospective effect from this government? 1- Pay Equity, extinguishes ongoing claims 2- ACC / Benefits clawback, including from past beneficiaries otherwise settled 3- This bar on climate lawsuits The corrosion of democracy accelerates. #nzpol […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@NZHerald/116554295238328924 "They want to borrow more, tax more, spend more and they delivered nothing." Wait, you're talking about *Labour* there, right? Because as far as I can tell, borrowing is up to a record amount, my taxes went up, and you've delivered me […]

"I'm [superlative]ly [synonym of comfortable] about [thing that I should actually be paying some attention to]" -- Christopher Luxon

And in other shocking news, Trump rejects Iran's proposals ...

If we arm the bears then all salmon should be given bulletproof vests. The ecosystem must stay balanced.

Fucking MS Teams. First meeting of the day: it sounds like you're underwater. After meeting: turn off auto mike sensitivity and noise suppression, make test call. Perfect. Second meeting: OMFG WTF *host mutes me immediately* After meeting: make test call. Perfect. God I hate Teams, but […]

Or, and hear me out, you could make those other things subject to the BSA as well. #nzpol https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360975073/government-axe-broadcasting-standards-authority-media-shake

Awwww modern cones of shame are so cute! #catsofmastodon

Good lord, the ACT Party are advocating for free PT. Is it April already? #nzpol https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594278/let-the-kid-on-act-wants-children-to-be-able-to-hop-on-any-passing-school-bus

I have two kittens stacked on my chest and it makes computering slow.

@KiwiEV Oh, well, good then. :)

computer, eight miles of soup, no bowl

Ugh, Microsoft Teams. I can either have notifications turned on for 5 seconds which means they stay on my screen forever (because one of the nonstop f'n useless updates has broken the "5 seconds") or turn them off and miss potentially important messages. *bangs keyboard on desk*

Indeed.

Letter to the Minister day again... #nzpol Minister, I refer to your comments here reported by RNZ this morning. First, you said that Winston Peters has a "track record of picking Labour over National, and that's the risk you run with him". And then you said that "choosing to get into bed with […]

"National's deputy leader Nicola Willis said by convention, the party had a secret ballot, with anonymous votes. The scrutineers were not allowed to reveal the numbers to the leadership or to the caucus." "When Hipkins asked if Luxon had unanimous support within his party, Luxon again said […]

Breaking news: PM offers caucus members a cup of polonium tea flavoured with ricin, nobody wants to drink it. #nzpol

Electrify Everything! #nzpol https://action.greens.org.nz/electrify_everything

I am pleased to discover this requires its own category in WIkipedia.

Going to turn over the emergency canned foods in the garage into the kitchen for use now as they will all be at or over their use-by dates. Doesn't mean it's now poison, just that it won't taste as good. Why now? Well... even if the war ended today (spoiler alert, it didn't!) we're still not […]

"Uber are 80% of AoNZ ride share market. They are also the largest player in food delivery market. Sponsoring the AllBlacks, but only reported $1.2m revenue. Only 2% of their income was classified as taxable income. 91% was internal fees." #kiatikakiapono

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rssgma/116411653109945099 Why not? You *started it* overnight.

RE: https://effinbirds.social/2026/04/15/alt.html Presumably it comes free with your Republican Party membership.

'Vance noted there was a lot of mistrust between the two countries. "You are not going to solve that problem overnight," he said, according to Reuters.' Well gee, James, I wonder why they don't trust you?

Not sure what the point of posting on Mastodon is if you tell everyone who replies to you that you aren't having a conversation so fuck off. I mean, I get that there are reply trolls, but when you tell that to EVERYONE who replies to you ... well, if you just want a soap box to tell people your […]

Phew! Car just gave me an alert that someone was trying to open the driver's door. Look at camera in app ... just a regular business dressed guy, fumbles with phone, tries to open door, does stuff on phone again, tries to open door ... repeat a couple of times before he realises he's standing at […]

“We've just heard from US Vice-President JD Vance who is accusing the Iranian government of engaging in an "act of economic terrorism" by blocking traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Vance tells Fox News' Brett Baier that President Donald Trump has shown that "two could play at that game".” […]

“Will Trump's blockade strategy work? Find out more in this video from the podcast.” And tune in next week to find out how fucking restores virginity.

Tourist operator on RNZ this morning says that reliable ferries needs government intervention. In case he missed it: we don't have any reliable ferries *because of* government intervention. #nzpol […]

Chickenara in Orewa is awesome. That is all.

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116394830801469009 oh god isn't teams already punishment enough what have i done

The same ones who complain the cyclone was blown out of proportion because it didn't affect them are the same ones that claim they're sorted when talking about the cost of living. Problem with shoving your head up your ass, it's hard to see past your own shit.

Now and then I am able to tell myself "I don't need to feel stressed about this" and it works and I wish I could bottle it.

Mr. 19 keeps turning off the download throttles on all his game services and choking the internet for everyone else. So - make DHCP lease static; enable 5M/2M throttle in the router.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wikihow/115560974341115859 I mean, we wouldn't *complain*

Ladies and gentlemen, the Decade Moth. She's no Millenium Falcon, but she gets the hauling done without any Imperial entanglements, if you know what I mean.

Local body candidates for Te Tiriti. #nzpol https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=122096971946967976&id=61579039287027

I guess this means we're clear to go ahead with the Digital Services Tax and some other goodies like rolling back DRM protections, Don't Kill Games, etc.? #nzpol https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/568698/new-zealand-hit-with-surprise-15-percent-trump-trade-tariff

Oh I'm sure the Green Party will get right on that, Shane. #nzpol https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/568623/coalition-parties-call-for-opposition-not-to-re-ban-oil-and-gas-exploration

Good board election result as well.

Now this one I don't necessarily have a problem with. Might reduce some of the garbage drop-shipping sites that pretend to be local but really just send you stuff you could've bought on AliExpress for 50% less.