Gaming is totally a niche thing for nerds. That's why a new store in Palmy has lines around the block on opening day right? Love to see this, even if it is mostly CCG focused they do carry board games. Just neat to see a games store being treated like a big deal when it opens.

Labour front benchers scratch their heads and wonder why their base has collapsed, why so many people are disillusioned, frustrated, furious. I mean, what is it about pissing on every value and principle your party once upheld that alienates the electorate? Beats me. 🤔

Nearly 3,000 peaceful people have been arrested under this outrageous ban. It was brought in after lobbying by arms companies and Netanyahu's government. It has been condemned by UN rapporteurs and many other experts. All the while, our government has been collaborating in real state terrorism.

So, will the thousand plus people the English regime has unlawfully arrested and persecuted under their unlawful proscription be compensated? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Seattle’s millionaire tax is a huge success. Here is how grassroots groups beat big money and are now raising tons of money for mixed income, rent stabilized housing. (We call it “social housing.”) www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/

Finally, the rain.

The Clean Car Standard review has started already but it appears that only a select and secret group have been invited to provide input. driveelectric.org.nz/policy-submi...

Rod Carr: "The government’s levy-funded foreign gas proposal for an LNG terminal shows New Zealand’s politicians being outmanoeuvred yet again by the multi-trillion dollar energy industry." www.carbonnews.co.nz/news/36547/n...

NZers can still vote from overseas. Friends and family should encourage them to vote for parties that would support a country they'd want to return to. #NZpol

Dodgy deabed mining company is dodgy www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

Wikipedia meetups are on in the North and South Islands this weekend! All are welcome. Wellington is meeting on Saturday 14 February: ⏰ 10am–12pm 📍 Te Kupenga room, National Library 🔗 w.wiki/HXrA Christchurch is meeting on Sunday 15 February: ⏰ 10am–12pm 📍 Scoundrel eatery 🔗 w.wiki/HXrH

Anyway: in actual news, the select committee has removed the clause allowing NZDF and SIS to just not keep records when they're collaborating in US torture and war crimes overseas. But will the Minister simply put it back in? www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...

Something I hadn't noticed: amendments to the Public Records Act in the Regulatory Systems (Internal Affairs) Amendment Bill would allow the Chief archivist to destroy records which pose a risk to public safety, if it is the only way to mitigate the risk... www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...

The cat has spoken!

The only reason there's an 'affordability' issue as the population ages is because the government refuses to tax rich people. The richest 350 families only pay 8% tax, and if Nicola Willis changed that, then the affordability problem goes away #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Good news after all! We're degasifying, whether National likes it or not!

People have talked about solar + batteries letting NZ keep water in the lakes - our big batteries. But by smoothing evening peaks they reduce gas use - saving that for later too. But National would rather import LNG.

Anyone talking about making people work longer for retirement & not mentioning taxing billionaires isn't worth listening to, indeed is worthy of ridicule. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Petition: "That ownership of property, residential or commercial, or direct interest in same, or indirect interests through any arrangement of trusts, connected to a person, other than the primary family home, makes that person ineligible to be elected as an MP, or selected as a List MP in Aotearoa"

Every time a Government MP gives a speech at first (or any!) reading that lasts five seconds and consists of "this is a good bill and I commend it to the House", they're spitting in your face. It's their job to thoroughly explore every bill and explain why it is necessary to change the law. #NZPOL

Astonishing how Costello recalls events from an evening nearly 15 months ago (www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...), yet still can't recall the source of the tobacco industry friendly "mystery document" she passed on to the MOH to inform tobacco policy.

"Only following orders", say collaborators in ethnic clensing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

On NRT: Rot at the top - norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/02/rot-...

Mayor shows whose backs he has got.

Winston now lying to the House about whether Wellington City Council minutes are publicly available. #nzqt

And now National is trying to blame the Moa Point shitshow on cycleways. Fucking culture war bullshit when there's a major disaster in our capital city. But I guess they just fly over it when flying in and out every week. #nzqt

“Should LNG imports proceed, domestic gas pricing would increasingly be influenced by international energy markets as existing long-term contracts expire. This has the potential to place upward pressure on gas prices over time.” - LNG supplier. @dileepafonseka.bsky.social (paywalled)

On NRT: Pure Muldoonism - norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/02/pure...

National and NZ First now worrying about "sovereign risk" for their LNG project - that is, the "risk" of democracy, that we might vote them out and cancel their bullshit. #nzqt

i am not hiding anything, just "made multiple repeated mistakes for 20 years" on something that's pretty damn hard to be mistaken about. i mean when you own as many properties as these poor fuckers do it must be hard remembering all of them when it comes time to declare and register them. #nzpol

Luxon's taxpayer subsidised LNG import terminal expected to increase NZ domestic gas prices. businessdesk.co.nz/article/poli...

New from me: Big industrials are slated to close or switch off gas whether the proposed LNG terminal goes ahead or not, new modelling has found. newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/12/m...

#Epstein details scrubbed from #Mandelson’s #Wikipedia page by shady paid editor - www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026... "As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein"

Thought 6 - Who should pay the levy? (assuming the govt bloody-mindedly pushes it through). I don't buy the argument that electricity consumers should pay. It's gas infrastructure. The government's proposal seems like a smokescreen to get others to pay for the gas industry's needs. 14/-

FFS Hipkins, just say you'll cancel the gas project no matter what. Don't use IRex to take some illusory moral high ground. Just take a strong 'we'll cancel it' position now, and no company will sign a contract until after the election. Yet again he snatches defeat from the jaws of victory #nzpol

In all seriousness, this is why he is building a secret police force: because nobody governed by the actual laws of the country, even as much as he has mutilated them and stacked the benches with his cronies, will do the kind of shit that he wants except a secret police force

We should do this! I wonder how many people that would be.

On NRT: The cost of National - norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Indeed. How about putting the *other* guys' policies on the bonfire this time? Also, this one happens to be super-flimsy (you might even say flammable) - seize the moment, win the day! #nzpol

Luxon, having repealed all climate change policy, now wants a "bipartisan" approach. Fuck that and fuck him. He's shown he can't be trusted. #nzqt

Winsto complaining about "pinko communist" "anti-americans" in #nzqt . Like its 1984 or something. And if people aren't opposed to the present US government, there is something fucking wrong with them.

This is good news www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ahmed-zao...

Oh look! Public money being spent to provide National and ACT with a *completely neutral* report with which to beat Labour in the run up to the election.

Kind of weird to illustrate this using a hacker-like figure as opposed to, say, a photo of Shane Jones

Another reminder that no nation should make any deal with Trump’s United States. None. You can’t make any deal with a corrupt crook that will break every deal. Simple as that.

FAFO #nzpol

It's 968 AC. An artificial sun shines down upon Doskvol. Autopods cruise down rows of peaceful, prosperous houses. Beneath it all, strange actors and twisted conspiracies work their shadowy agendas. Blades '68. The future is now. Don't miss it: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Max fucking 'the market will force prices down' Bradford

Interaction? 𝘐𝘕𝘛𝘌𝘙𝘈𝘊𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕? The woman was assaulted by the Police, @australia.theguardian.com. There were witnesses on the ground. Stop the whitewashing. #auspol #nswpol #PoliceViolence