You could do so, so much good in Te Waipounamu with $1.77billion instead of this madness

THANK YOU YES WE SHOULD BE SHOUTING ABOUT THIS

The Waikato highway extension is going to cost... $100 million per kilometer? Isn't this meant to be a bread and butter budget??

Forget the static. At a grassroots level we're only seeing a strengthening of commitment to Te Ao Māori & a Te Tiriti-led future for AoNZ. New from us this year, this online community of practice will explore how we can actively embed responsiveness to Te Tiriti o Waitangi within our communities.

If Mr Cans can send a bespoke email to *every* MP about the vile anti-trans bill, we should all be able to manage one or two at least. Tell these ghouls what you think (or encourage one of the good ones, they could use the support).

Email 1 to Steve Abel. Green.

"Ōtepoti, stand by your trans friends & whānau! ... Trans people deserve protection & celebration. They have always been part of Aotearoa, and they will be long after this bill is forgotten as a relic of a shameful past." @mickeytreadwell.bsky.social Ōtepoti Dunedin City Council, 20 May 📸 @criticmag

I’m in 2 minds about posting this. It may already be obvious to everyone. Just skip over if it is to you. National is going to campaign on being good economic managers, on the basis of cutting public spending and jobs. Austerity is supposed to convince you they are ‘prepared to make the tough calls’

Rates caps will force councils to increasingly adopt user-pays models for services, disproportionately harming our poorest constituents

"This government sees tamariki as unformed units of work" really gets to the heart of it! They refuse to acknowledge values that exist off the financial ledger, so they necessarily reduce our people to dollar figures

Just to expand on this: the DCC uses zoning in the 2GP to ensure that retail centre stays there, instead of relocating to a box mall out of town. Of course the coalition is stripping us of that power with their local government reforms (the Planning Bill replaving the RMA).

Wait, a walkable street actually works? omg! 🙃 “2nd hand store Static Age Vintage says the business is doing well — so well, ‘‘it’s like a dream come true. Times had changed. ‘‘I think there’s a lot of potential to do really, really well. ‘‘I wish they’d gone further with the one-way.’’

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

we are SO incredibly stoked to share that Toroa: Skycall has been nominated for THREE Pavs awards 🥹😭 🍰 the composed segment: excellence in audio 🍰 the diverse delight: excellence in representation 🍰 the ‘slice of heaven’ grand prize wish us luck and see you at NZ Games Fest next week!!! 🥳

*Please* sign this petition. This is an appalling policy that has led to many of the news articles you will have read about people being forced by Immigration New Zealand to leave the country, or contemplate splitting up their family.

oh Lorde this is good NZ @greens.org.nz

Shane Jones is spouting some of the most vile racism I have heard in #nzpol and it's barely being reported on. Left bloc MPs have lost careers for far less. NZ media has this strange presumption of evil that ultimately empowers our worst politicians.

We are stoked to be a part of the Earth Appreciation Festival on Steam this year, organised by the awesome folks at @slugdisco.bsky.social 🪩 Toroa: Skycall is a whopping 20% off PLUS we will be donating 20% of our sales made during this event to the Royal Albatross Centre!!! 🌊💙

It’s here! Baxter’s leftie guide on the by-election in Dunedin. Voting opening next week 🗳️ docs.google.com/document/d/e...

These unhinged rants are why we should not be following the US into war. Also a reminder that Israel and the US started this war by dropping a bomb on a school full of children. Say no to AUKUS. Say no to US military payloads being launched from Aotearoa soil.

Ōtepoti! There’s a nationwide day of action this Sunday to oppose the government’s proposed Move On orders. At best it’s ineffective policy, and at worst it’s performative cruelty. Come write letters to government MPs, calling for a little compassion. Sunday, 11am-1pm The Octagon

From the 20th-27th of March (NZT) Toroa: Skycall is 15% off during the Steam Spring Sale! 🌼🐝🐣

I'm not a prolific creative by any means, and there has been very little in the way of critical analysis of Toroa, so listening to these two lovely people fully connect with the game and GET what we were going for is so, so moving. Big mihi Kim and AJ!! 💓💓💓🪽🪽🪽

A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Te Reo at Dunedin Summer Shakespeare

Best meetup I've been to in aaaaaages! Really invigorating to find so many people just fanging to make Ōtepoti a better space for living in.

We should have left it in honestly

catching up on #devmas! 🎄 day 1 - in a nutshell day 2 - art vs. inspiration day 3 - favourite view day 4 - what if? + tysm for all ur amazing reviews 🥹💫

and the game award goes to... ...TOROA: SKYCALL!!! 😱🥳🥰

ok one earnest post……. 10 yrs ago today I graduated w my honours degree which I wrote my dissertation on the need for more self determined Indigenous video games… and on this very same day 10 yrs later released one w my friends!!! 🥹

☁️🌊 TOROA: SKYCALL 🌊☁️ 🐥 OUT NOW ON STEAM! 🐥 Unravel the fate of the ocean and glide across an ever changing seascape in the hopes of reuniting Toroa with their family 💙 After 5 years of hard mahi, love and dedication, we're so excited to share our first game with you all 🥹 Mauri ora e te whānau!

Tune in and lock in gang

📯ŌTEPOTI MENTIONED!📯 Extensively. It's baked into the game design really.

Introducing… the Northern Royal Albatross!! 🐥🪶💙 #indiegames #relaxing #nature #videogames

More and more people are saying this!

The coalition has done spectacular damage in one short term, and we're going to need a brave, visionary new government to fix it. Labour's "balance the books" chat is absolutely chilling because it means next election's BEST outcome is... Slightly gentler austerity.

Setting aside the actual impact of it for a sec: bloody hell this release is disrespectful to our regional councillors www.beehive.govt.nz/release/simp...

Now, wealth tax. Sure, tax away. But, it's after the fact - pissing in the wind. The rules needs to change - bring assets into public ownership, seize rentals that are unfit for humans (3 strikes and you're out for rentiers), provide fixed-rate state mortgages so banks can't suck us dry etc. [Ends]

1️ day till launch... #BrewsandBastards #gaming #indiegames #multiplayer #xbox #couchcoop #indiedevs #gamedev #xboxgame #indiegame

#Dunedin peeps - my Leftie-progressive DCC-ORC Voters Guide is finally completed and live.... Please feel free to share far and wide if you find it helpful (because, with suspicious timing, I've been blocked from my usual platform it gets good distribution on 😢 ). tinyurl.com/BaxtersLefti...

🤯 Incredibly cool tool alert! 👇 👉 Super Fun Wow Comic Creation Kit 👈 spookysoft.itch.io/comics make comics in your browser on your desktop/laptop. this tool is incredible, amazing, beautiful...and loads of fun. quickly throw together cute comics and export them. YOU NEED TO TRY THIS GO~!

I’m gonna tell you all a secret. All the games in the showcase slap AND bang. We hope you love it as much as we do💖

New CORPOREAL trailer tomorrow in @frostygamesfest.com 👁️📷

FORECAST IS LOOKING PERFECT SEE YOU ALL ON SUNDAY!!! ☃️

Extremely excited to see @veselekov.bsky.social 's Eldritch Tux Racer

It's June(!?) and for the first time, I'm doing #sweatwithpride! Every day this month I'll cram in 21 minutes of excercise to raise money for LGBTQIA+ causes💪💪

The amazing assets this city has! 😍 Look the Netherlands is great and has lots more bike infrastructure. But bike lanes you can build, landscapes like this you can’t. Feeling lucky to be living in this beautiful part of the world. ❤️💚

Fantastic news for ANZ gamers! A large bird told me there's some excellent stuff in the lineup too.

Note you can also update your details at vote.nz using a drivers license or passport but flagging that the RealMe verification option seems much harder than it needs to be if your RealMe info has expired (and who knew that it expired 🤔). May be good to double check all is correct ahead of time.

You deserve to be able to vote in your local council election this year, so make sure that you can by going to Vote.nz and checking and updating your details there.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GAME DEVELOPERS 🗣️🔥🔥🔥 I'm gonna be co-hosting @frostygamesfest.com alongside a bunch of really cool people, there's gonna be a ton of new ANZ-made games being announced! Show's starting June 8, 9AM AEST / 11AM NZT 🎮❄️ www.frostygamesfest.com