I'm not super-fussy about the wine I drink, but I would love to stop buying wine from vineyards owned by billionaires, conservatives and anti-climate no-hopers. Have you got a favourite?

Really felt kindred with the mum ahead of me at the water fountain growling her two "OI! Kei te whakarauna kōrua!"

'Tis the season

I hate to see armed cops in this country patrolling outside the synagogue around the corner from the kids' school. What a surreal sight.

Tahetoka Limited (my very small business) is expanding. Our team is now offering Bookkeeping services with a focus on Māori Pakihi and Charitable Trusts. Ensuring we get mahi done quickly with pricing that works for you. Interested? Let us know. tahetoka.nz/bookkeeping

Got those nerd kids who quietly listened to the whole @nzgeo.bsky.social feature about moa tracks for a bedtime story.

Good old Jim Bolger eh? He once told me my baby was a very bouncy Māori which I thought was a nice compliment.

Look, did a bunch of us organise to have a pro Māori wards billboard on the same sign Hobson’s Pledge put their bullshit? Absolutely. Did we all put our names to it cause we're community leaders staunch in our position? Absolutely.

I grow fonder of Donald McDonald as the years go by and wish him many more happy years of running for Council

I turned 42 and made a playlist for dancing, enjoy if that's the kind of thing you're "into" open.spotify.com/playlist/5kX...

Oh I DO love to receive a $500 power bill! Well, I'm exaggerating for effect. It's really only $489.52

Don McGlashan, simply love him

I hadn’t realised that Leo XIV was even eligible to play for England

Yesterday it rained heavily all day and the kids were inside wreaking havoc. Please, some of you tell me your houses were also an absolutely irredeemable bomb site at the end of it

For a while there you only saw the young 'uns vaping, but now I'm seeing them smoking actual cigarettes again. Not durries either, the expensive ones. Where are the young people getting this kind of capital?

There's a new bar opening in our street, which I'm excited for, and I lodged an objection with the council about the hours in their licensing application. I was surprised that the council sent the submissions to the applicant without contact info redacted, and CCed us all in on the same thread (1/2)

7:30 and my kids have been scrapping for an hour already. Why can't a mother listen to her mushroom lady podcast in tranquility

Popes are chosen by God, making them the ultimate Dei hire

Aw, I liked that Pope.

Kids are ragin because they want me to put on Alien Ant Farm but I will only put on the new Pulp single

I've just made a submission to the Royal Commission into Covid, Phase 2, fondly recalling the good deeds of the team of five million and expressing my support for the actions of the government that mean I'm alive to badger you to go do your submission today.

Spotted today in the wild, all-time most influential woman ever Claire Hall - haven't seen her in ages and felt starstruck 🤩 cc @auchmill.bsky.social

Big Pharma? No. Big Parma? YES.

James Meager is doing a marathon chairing job very well today

In my view some of these people are dropkicks

It's cool how our Parliament banned slavery in the 1700s, didn't know we'd done that

Black coffee, good lunch. Mihail Sebastian, 1 February, 1938.

Today I think of the late Moana Jackson, God rest his soul, and keenly miss him taking his place as the first oral presentation to the Justice Select Committee. What a gift that would have been.

day one of hell and what happens

It's not that I think Morning Report should be on during the holidays, it's just that things are not right in the world without it

"The monster trucks do not have penises" a brand new sentence I had to say, and all before 11

Two days left for your submission, folks. It can be as simple as "I oppose this Bill."

According to the Find My app my husband has just driven the car off the end of the pier at Freyberg Beach so let's hope that all works out ok

Does anyone else's mother follow them around telling them where the light switches are and how to work the washing machine 😐

Oxen time again

I'm in sore need of some end-of-year escapism. My favourite reading genre could broadly be called British Magic. What would you recommend I pick up?

I don't know shit about how science research works so my hot take on the Marsden Fund is late screeching into the station, but it's safe to say in general I'm suspicious

My 7yo just asked to have 212 added to his playlist 🤷‍♀️

We need a world symposium on pockets. It will establish standards for the correct size and capacity of pockets, share manufacturing techniques to ensure they don't turn inside out when you're pulling something out, introduce treaties to make fake pockets illegal, and so forth.

The garden at Parliament was looking lovely this morning. Certainly not trampled and used as a toilet like some other occasions we could think of.

I feel like a lot of the discourse about echo chambers and bubbles misses the point of why most people are on social media: to talk to people they like and follow people who post interesting things It's not a bloody debating club

I think I can get through the day without hearing what the people who sell cigarettes to children think about the principles of the treaty of waitangi

What does it take to be a runner for the Hīkoi mo te Tiriti? www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

They've got their own room. We even gave them the bigger room. Why, then, do they want to come and play fkn Hot Wheels in MY room early on a Sunday morning

Yeah just watched this haka another fifty times and my favourite part today, apologies I don't know her name, is this nanny who sits next to Hana-Rawhiti just loving every second. I'm with you e kui! Beautiful!

I'm very much enjoying the renewed attention on and analysis of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, my mastermind topic. Every mention brings this kaupapa to more people. I hope many hīkoi attendees pop into the National Library during and after to say hello to Te Tiriti itself and give it a waiata or a shoutout.

Turns out if you say "that'll do pig" to someone who doesn't get the niche film reference that there's potential for that to go wrong

Good. Everybody be looking at the eclipse, so I'm gonna steal all your stuff. All of it. Teach you to look at silly stuff. All outta proportion. Will learn you good.

I'm sorry but 'country's state broadcaster can't afford an hour of news' is some real poor country shit.