if successful at the next election- not a sure thing even now- labour could put up a list of all the current coalition's policy's that they will endorse in their first 100 days.

The people: ‘can we have pay equity?’ National: No. Labour: No ❤️ ✨ 🌈

mist, 50 yards visibility, bit of a breeze, 19 degrees. pipiwharauroa/shining cuckoos are ecstatic

somebody line up a job as a deputy principal for hipkins somewhere and do us all a favour pls.

i'm replacing some large single glazed sashes in an old villa with new double glazed ones. if the original joiner was the same age as me when he made the original sashes he would have been born in 1848..

i'm no metallurgist but that was an extreme wind gust

democratic expression scares the shit out of these ppl

idly wondering if duncan, who is retiring from politics, is doing this because he no longer has to appease hipkins.

til a ruptured pec would require a fresh cadaver to harvest an achilles tendon from. anyway, surgeon reckoned my diy do nothing approach was as good as or better than anything he could do and wished me well.

has renney rolled hipkins yet

i'd be more excited if the nice left wing guy decided to run for a left wing party i guess

There is a strategy and it's becoming clearer. if labour have their way they will diminish the green vote, allowing nz first, their prefered coalition partner, to have more leverage.

gf's conservative, catholic father came home from work at the railways joinery workshop, chch, years ago in a happy mood. said he had a visitor, seemed familiar but couldn't place her. then she told him ' I was John, your apprentice'. then he clicked. 'so nice of her to come and see me.'

Has anyone even noticed that, in the current framing of a Peace Plan for Ukraine, Europe has been given the same role as Namibia or New Zealand (i.e. none)? This is the price Europe is paying for being Washington's lackeys for so long: utter irrelevance www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

more innovation lol. less costs lol. like getting rid of the requirement for treated timber to be used in house framing, that sort of innovation/ cost saving. that went well didn't it. ( actual cost of H1 treatment at the time was $70 a cu/m). your builder would have spent more on biscuits at smoko.

laying out a template for hipkins

I think Simeon overdosed on puberty blockers already

this is worth a listen. it describes the differing reactions of women and men when a man is publicly confronted.

lets hear it again for the public health system: txt this a.m to schedule an x ray. x ray confirmed for thurs. surgery called this avo, appointment with surgeon on monday. cost: $60.

i've got a training tip for aspiring pākeha cops. role play: a `pakeha cop trainee is made to stand outside the entrance of a supermarket in, say, Huntly, or Kaitaia. 3 māori cops then stand either side and in front of him, in aggressive postures. the māori cops smile at the incoming māori shoppers.

I have a work truck with a 4.4 metre deck and a cab over body. Full chassis and 16 inch rims. to get into the cab there is a step and a handhold to pull yourself in. at traffic lights when next to an suv the driver and I are at eye level.

TA college, circa 1980. the head girl shows up at the senior ball with the new P.E teacher.

gorgeous sunny day with a cooling breeze all day. and to top it off- no lawmowers, no weedeaters, no chainsaws, no 2 stroke motorbikes no music. just birds. all day. perfect!

so many great things about living on your own but one of the best things is when you make pancakes you don't have to share any of the pancakes

not just riding bikes. we had skateboards too

a mate had a bach on the boulder bank here in whakatū/ nelson until quite recently. it was owned previously by a long term identity, boulder bank bill. he had a solution for noisy penguins under the bach. a pressure cooker.

Lots of cash still being burnt by the Israeli PR machine in Aotearoa, with John Key speaking for the New Zealand Israel Innovation Hub in a few weeks. I wonder how much his speaking fee was? #NZPol luma.com/03ufemp5

This is one of the many reasons that they can both fuck off into the sun.

a pākeha mate was arrested and held in cells in chch after an alleged assault. strip searched, belt removed, shoes taken, held 24hrs. complained to his lawyer about this but got no sympathy. ' you got preferential treatment. i defend māori and p.i. they have reason to complain. you don't.'

saw this motor race not long ago, the car that won had a turbo. going to put a turbo sticker on my car now

when costner was first appointed in 2020 i remember a convo on twitter with tim mckinnel, he assured me costner was one of the good guys. i wonder how he's taken the news.

learnt this brutally as a teenager. my mate's killer was not prosecuted for murder we suspect due to intervention by the minister of police at the time - Ben Couch. taught my kids to be wary of police, military and authority in general.

Oi! Hipkins! That's you bro!!

outdoing the act party at this point. some feat.

If you talk about forgiving or cancelling debts nowadays, you may face a variety of insults from conservatives But it is something built into Biblical law. Maybe those conservatives need to read a book about the history of Debt.

so hipkins and peters have both voiced their opposition to asset sales. where do think this is heading come election time. huh?

sure as eggs is eggs. doomed seems somewhat dramatic in my view, but entirely understandable when mere humans have taken to positioning themselves exempt from the laws of evolutionary biology. life will go on quite happily without us. enjoy the day!

Seriously, read it.

quail up in the silver beech tree behind the house has been insistingly calling 'bill' 'bill' 'bill' for ages so i went out to see what was up but then it sounded like he was saying 'ralph' 'ralph' 'ralph' so i'll just let ralph deal with it

i've often thought coroners seem apt to make outrageous recommendations, and here is a classic. all the supposed defects that are assigned to carden shaft brakes also apply to conventional brakes. there have been 6 deaths attributed to these brakes apparently. how many due to conventional then?

imagine if we had someone like this in nz politics pushing back against scum like seymour, goldsmith, brown et al

David Graeber, a Jewish New Yorker, would be smiling today to see a Socialist win in his city.

the radiology outfit is next door to a good bakery as it happens. my appointment was at 2pm, got a txt at 6.45am this morning from my gp to discuss results. arthur schopenhauer lived in frankfurt for 30 or so years because he reckoned the place had good cafe's and physicians. he'd like nelson.

shoulder ultrasound today and the monochrome images on the screen were to my eye reminiscent of tony fomison's oeuvre

i have this one home. tax me if i sell it, and start spending up large in housing /infrastructure/education/arts/science/health and everything else your miserable austerity economic model has neglected in the last 40 years. see if i care.