Isn’t this the entire Uncle Rico subplot of Napoleon Dynamite?

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

Just 2 to 3% of NZers are paid in the same bracket as MPs, the rest of them probably don't get to claim $1000 a week accommodation allowance and I suppose one could say that is unfair? Or we could all shout SHAME! at the hypocrites. They have no concept what it's like to lose 15 or $30 a week #NZPol

Parmjeet Parmar getting all upset about a haka when she literally wanted Te Pati Māori MPs imprisoned for the parliament haka last year …

Fuck David Seymour generally, but also how great is it to be able to get proper cold medication again?

I drove through Newmarket today and there were a LOT of confused people wandering around who looked extremely surprised to find the shops not open.

Harmful marketing is an overlooked social determinant of health. Marketing plays an essential role in sustaining harmful consumption. Children are exposed to unhealthy marketing 76 times per day. Are we willing to confront marketing for its role in harmful industries? #nzpol

Just watching the news and seemingly every single country in the world is doing *something* about the fuel crisis - public transport subsidies, reducing tax on fuel, four day working weeks, evening curfews, rationing … … and we are doing sweet FA.

I hate that the Fed Deli isn’t “late night” any more. Just got out of the Bic Runga show and really wanted coffee and pie. I don’t understand why you can’t get late night coffee in Auckland anymore. It’s like we’ve devolved since the 90s.

Good piece by Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, 1News Māori Affairs Correspondent, on the chilling effects brought about by billionaires propping up racists, and their lawfare. | Opinion: What I learned from Julian Batchelor’s defamation case against TVNZ www.1news.co.nz/2026/03/27/o... #nzpol

Brooke Van Velden was literally campaigning in the Tāmaki electorate last week. I feel like there MUST be more to this story.

Snootiest ever service for a Rodney Wayne Shampoo N Things today. Went looking for a specific brand of gel for my kid, got a lecture about how the brand I was looking for was a “chemist brand” and not a “professional brand”. Like, lady, it’s just goop. It’s not some hand-carved artisanal antique.

Well that's the first time in my life that I've ever seen diesel prices start with a 3 #nzpol

Really hard to work out whether the dystopian future we're living through right how is going to end up being more like Terminator or more like Mad Max.

If time travel isn’t a thing how come George Michael managed to appear in this photograph captured in Robert Frank’s book The Americans 1958, Fishkill NY (Newburgh) 1955.

Of all the weird shit served up by the algorithms on FB today, the grossest was an ad for a few free chapters of a book by former corporate raider and now convicted pedophile Ron Brierley. HARD NOPE.

Why is every motherfucker in my immediate neighbourhood using a weedeater or a leaf blower or a petrol mower AT THE SAME TIME right now?

My very brief Laneway review: * Wisp - really great 90s-throwback shoegaze, worth getting there early for * Alex G - I really like his music but didn’t feel like a “festival band” and was a bit underwhelmed * Lucy Dacus - absolute class act, would see her again in a second

The Free Speech Union didn't exist when black ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union didn't exist when LGBTQ ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union didn't exist when disabled ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union existed when racist white ppl were asked to keep their racism to themselves.

I don't know about all of you, but I am finding it difficult to process Venezuela, Greenland, Minneapolis, and the Fed all at once.

The new Trump line is that if you "disrespect" a law enforcement officer, he is entitled to murder you... unless it's Jan 6, of course, in which case the protester is entitled to murder the law enforcement officer.

Returning to an old favourite. The pink line is the official GDP data (% change for year vs previous year). The wild swings are due to Govt *subsidies* (e.g. wage subsidies) being deducted from the official GDP stats. The blue line shows the unadjusted data; far better reflects reality.

Yeah it’s day-fucking-seven. I want a follow up to this article in October.

Supermarkets: “It’s January 8th, TIME TO START SELLING HOT CROSS BUNS”

It’s January 8th. Is Luxon back at work?

Just a few weeks ago our “hard working” PM was bemoaning NZ’s long summer shutdown. Yet he’s been completely absent from fronting on either Venezuela or the Manage My Health data breach. Is he still uncontactable / on holiday?

I know everyone is on holiday, but I’m surprised no NZ journo has done a story on Amanda Palmer’s attempt at playing a show in Auckland this week. Both Waiheke venues “mysteriously” canceled and now it’s a “secret” show somewhere in the CBD tomorrow.

The first 90 minutes of taking down the Christmas decorations - taking down ALL the decorations. The second 90 minutes of taking down the Christmas decorations. Untangling this one set of lights.

Well this aged like milk ...

Gosh I’m glad I found out that the portal that holds my health data may have been breached via the news rather than direct communication from them ManageMyHealth investigating possible cyber breach www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I chose not to go camping this summer because the weather looked awful. I have chosen to not go camping every other summer of my life because camping sucks.

The entire Disney universe is just a gaslighting of Goofy. Your best friend buys someone who looks just like you and has them run around naked in the backyard? And you just continue on at the function like everything is okay?

Celebrities posting and then deleting tributes to Brigitte Bardot is my favourite late-2025 thing.

Witnessed my first “person standing in a carpark to hold it for a person driving around” and let’s not normalise this huh

Other than “stand around awkwardly” what exactly are you supposed to do when there are tradespeople in the house?

Apparently this is not a new thing, but some edgelord flag is flying a confederate flag in *St Helliers*. I mean, FFS …

[Guy whose dick fell off because there's a girl in star wars] I would probably do well in a civil war

chloe swarbrick and craig renney should do a debate and show everyone how much of a farce the tpu one is

This whole Ruth Richardson versus Nicola Willis thing is just an attempt by the right to somehow make the (clearly incompetent) Willis look “reasonable” by comparison, right?

A third of all men in Auckland appear to be wearing a Metallica tee shirt today

this is hardly the most salient point in the article but they only withdrew the charges against Ms Z *this week*? fucking hell

You know what would be a really popular law? A total ban on Christmas decorations in shops before December 1st. This is my pitch for being Prime Minister of New Zealand.

There sure are a lot of people who have been bullied by their unions into striking today

So much of this govt's strike messaging is 'these selfish ingrates are paid well & don't have the moral right to strike' which is so far beyond believable reality that it's just a weird choice. If they just said 'no money left soz', they'd get more public sympathy than for this Evil Mr Burns stuff.

“Politically motivated strikes” gotta be the funniest phrase I’ve ever read. WHAT LED TO PEOPLE NOT GETTING PAID ENOUGH AND WORKING CONDITIONS BEING SHIT EH? Was it fairies? Gnomes perhaps. Everything is fucking politics. They think we are stupid.

I went to the cinema last night. They played the trailer for the Springsteen biopic. The annoyingly chatty woman behind me exclaimed loudly “OH IT’S THE BOB DYLAN MOVIE” and I am not proud to say I grunted back “no it’s the SPRINGSTEEN movie”. This is why people hate me.

I declare the “humid, windy and overcast spring day” the worst weather type of all time.

Luxon is the kind of man who claims every entitlement he qualifies for whether he needs it or not. Luxon is the kind of man that takes benefit entitlements away from 18 and 19 year olds, saying that "the world doesn't owe them a living." Luxon has created an economy where they can't find jobs.

Well that episode of Peacemaker felt … very pertinent

The pre-election CTU ads were spot on & were true. “Out of touch. Too much risk” was the primary message, and inside the paper, the ad elaborated, saying he was focused on the wealthiest, called people “bottom feeders”, would scrap Fair Pay Agreements, and would give landlords tax breaks."