As a bicyclist you are both an out of touch elitist who rides to work on a toy and also a poor loser who can't afford a car and has to ride to work on a toy

If I was a journalist I would have also mentioned how funding for wilding pine control was cut by two thirds by the same government in 2023/24. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

“Isn’t this just a bit of horseplay Bit of a laugh Get a sense of humour “ Well that’s what David Seymour would say if he was accused. But the left must always be sorry. Labour's Barbara Edmonds apologises for calling Nicola Willis 'duck-faced horse' www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Colorful dachshund tattoo by me (Inked Muse), Costa Rica

I WILL SAY fuck you. #nzpol

Ruin a band by replacing a word with a bodily fluid Living Colostrum

we need a royal commision into the corruption of this government

Ruin a band by replacing a word with a bodily fluid 8 Foot Saliva

Ruin a band by replacing a word with a bodily fluid. Earth, Wind and Faeces

Holy shit. This is quite serious. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Why does the world media so earnestly publish “Trump says Iran deal done”? Are they thick? Wishful thinking? All the words after “Trump says” are fabrications, imaginations, lies, bollocks. Just to be clear.

Who could have foreseen Luxon lying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Holy moly. Luxon on tv tonight denying his office ever saw the draft climate law given to his office by Fonterra & Z Energy; the companies confirm they handed them over. Language of our draft legislation almost identical. Banger of a story www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361... #nzpol

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Perhaps someone should tell Nicola Willis.

If you're working fulltime on minimum wage, you'll take home less money per week than the Minister for Social Development gets paid for LIVING IN HER OWN HOUSE. On top of a $320k salary, earned by making housing less affordable for low income households. The absolute state of it.

Our power is off 8am till 5pm today. We’ve got the internet running off an e-bike battery. Checkmate, petrolheads.

IF THEY CAN MAGIC UP $1.5B FOR THE MILITARY THEY CAN MAGIC IT UP FOR HEALTHCARE. #nzpol

Adopting an AI for everything strategy like amateur hour idiots, means we are committing to paying ever more licence fees and profits offshore. Doubling down the wn in stupid. Put simply, we can't afford it. (3/3)

Quick reminder: We shovel a lot more cash offshore than we receive. As we buy more and more digital services (yellow) and pay out profits to offshore owners (red) we scramble to afford it. (1/3)

Email 121 - Megan Woods - Labour

I read this yesterday and it struck a chord. "The US isn't the way it is because he's the President... he's the President because the US is the way it is." 🤔 I think I finally understand. It's not just him... it's almost half of you. Pity.

This fucking government.

Won the fucking lotto? Won the fucking lotto? This is such easy attack fodder but where are Labour?

Absolutely symbolic of this government.

This is an excellent melodic death metal song. Play it loud - so dramatic, so camp, so heavy youtu.be/Mxh1WdXZ52k?...

#nzpol And yet the NZ Gov is openly pushing AI despite all the evidence it's shit and costs more $ than saves/generates, rather like their bloody RONS.

Why not make all drugs legal, install a quality regime, treat abusers as a health issue and collect tax plus GST Customs unveils underwater tech to combat smugglers www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

🧵Also lovely people, I avoid talking politics because there are people articulating how I feel out there far more eloquently. But if you've followed me for any amount of time, you'll know that my philosophy is kindness first. This gender bill going through NZ parliament is truly horrendous. (1)

new zealander everlee wihongi - kidnapped by ICE 41 days ago - was meant to take the stand today in front of a wisconsin judge. but ICE had other plans. webworm has the latest on this story - please RT, and share: www.webworm.co/everleemay21/

Guys. They’ve fixed the economic crisis. By… increasing the font size of the English words and making the te reo Māori words smaller. It’s just what you all were hoping was a priority right now. Imagine being new minister and this is what you think is important. How embarrassing.

This person could quite easily remigrate themselves back to the UK - they’re holding their solution in their hands ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Imagine (justifiable) public consternation, and MSM coverage if someone held up the ISIS flag inside Parliament House? But this, by neo-Nazis championing the violent extremist 'remigration' trope I suspect won't elicit a single question even in parliament. #nzpol @ponekeantifa.bsky.social

"I'll turn the podium over to Secretary Kennedy" KENNEDY: *makes animal sounds into the microphone for 10 sounds*

Hey, so, from an absolutely dispassionate, politics as sport perspective: it's my opinion that the champions at 'Flood the zone with shit", at least in the english speaking world, may actually be the current government in Aotearoa.

That's so greedy, like two and a half years of my entire benefit as lollies on top of their already outrageously high pay packet 🤪👍👍

Less than a decade ago

Louise Upston pushing down hard on state housing while claiming $1000/week to stay in her own apartment: #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

So Louise Upston owns a Wellington apartment but claims a $52,000 a year tax free accommodation allowance for the city But she wants accommodation allowance cut for the poorest Kiwis. This is the same Upston who relied on the benefit & now maligns beneficiaries www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Bryan Roche describing the thousands of public servants whose jobs are under threat as "Human Capital" is a bit of a tell as to the worth they place on the working class.

Strands #809 “In a material world” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵

I don't mean this to say the houses themselves are shit. I grew up in HNZ homes, and they were perfectly cromulent. But the fact you're poor enough to end up in a HNZ house generally means you are very far from being Lotto-rich. About as far as you can get, without being homeless. Insulting remark.

imagine if this said "immigrants" instead of "expat" lol

This #nzpol

National’s public housing reform ‘cuts costs’ at the expense of our most vulnerable. The Green Party is warning that the Government’s changes to public housing will see more public housing tenants evicted and driven deeper into poverty.

THEY'RE TAKING $390 MILLION AWAY FROM SOCIAL HOUSING TENANTS AND GIVING IT TO PRIVATE LANDLORDS WHO HAVE TENANTS RECEIVING THE ACCOMMODATION SUPPLEMENT - IT WONT GO TO THE TENANTS, IT GOES TO THE LANDLORDS NATIONAL ARE GIVING MORE PUBLIC MONEY TO LANDLORDS, INSTEAD OF SOCIAL HOUSING PROVIDERS