'Tamihere's lawyer Davey Salmon KC said there had been limitations on what Tamihere's response could be to the allegations as the application had emerged at a time when he had been in transit.' #NzPol

the worst thing about 2025 for me is that my best friend of 34 years no longer speaks to me.

I'm writing about Merleau-Ponty, Judith Butler and Andrea Long Chu, and this from The New Yorker on Judith and their adopted son, struck me as hilarious.

This sign raises more questions than it answers

Maori leadership is as complex as an Elizabethan court, yet it is framed as messy by the media, meanwhile henry VIII cut off his wive's heads and named a religion after it, then we imported a dynastic system of government, hana was right to tear the paper in half.

I am not voting for a stale sausage roll

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kiri tamihere got insulted by eru during a zui where he said her whanau were not coping with the loss of her brother, that is why JT called utu, and he should not have, this thing is more complex than Macbeth i tell u but yea he needs to go and so does she.

people will say maori politics are messy and still watch Succession for their classy tv lol

not a parody, amazing!

The stupidest people who have ever existed are building the dumbest possible future and expect the rest of us to think they are geniuses and love them for it.

Obsessed with this one by @esichr.bsky.social from HAD (I forget if I’ve shared it before, but it’s so good it’s definitely worth sharing twice!)

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had a really stressful dream experience trying to pull off a dine and dash in a chinese restaurant, i would never!

I used the c word in my pukapuka and Whitcoulls dngaf, maybe no one read it lol

Writers have a tough time and nobody likes them either! Till they are dead. Then they become quite respectable and useful.

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Folly only pays a few of their writers for the um privilege of being in their magazine and now they want to cosplay slavery at some weird event that would have been tasteless in the 80s. Make it stop. Also I hate the title font. A lot.

Does anyone worry that all the water required to power AI is also going to give it wairua? I mean it's kind of ironic that water is the stuff of life but tech billionaire bros are using it for a grabby orgy.

Does anyone else find it kind of endearing when hōhā people are on one about something and start complaining about being shadowbanned instead of facing the fact that even their closest friends are ignoring them. Especially their closest friends tbh.

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

I tried to happy hate watch All's Fair and I got 5 minutes in before I was like what have you bitches done to language and your faces?

People can be so kind to me. As a permanent wretch I'll never understand why lol.

After watching Matthew Rhys demolish a chicken in The Beast In Me I've decided they should make a True Detective with him and Phil Dunphy. Also I am quite stoned.

Nepo babies that are more talented than their parents tho? No Beckhams allowed. So far I have Kate Hudson and Margaret Qualley on the list. Kate was marginal.

Settling into my flop era

Jack Russells are such assholes lol.

My feeling about the tīpuna is that they want a day off from all our hoha ego driven nonsense lol.

It can take all day to recover from a crazy dream

Hm since All's Fair received a zero rating I'm in tbh.

Even tho I would love to throw all the double happys into a cop Xmas BBQ I think scarfies should be treated like terrorists over Guy Fawkes.

This is elitist but possessive apostrophe abuse makes me angry

I have found the Facebook profile of a man who runs free movement workshops for men in Takaka and the photos and the captions are serving all my hate needs.

Yesterday my son was talking about having two Māori parents and said he is brown on both sides like a meat pattie and lol!

Once Were Warriors is a masterpiece tbh. RIP.

Eighteen months later it occurs to me that maybe swearing in that email by signing off ngā mihi fucking nui was a mistake

The moon is full tonight so the insanity makes sense. Otherwise I never spare a thought for it, you blank communion wafer, you

Today she is less sound lol.

Kiri Tamihere is sounder than her dad and her clown husband tbh. Also I think people forget how close Willie and JT still are so a deal with Labour is better placed with that whānau still around, Eru Kapa-Kingi has hoha bighead nrg, god help us all lol

the last time I dressed up for Halloween it was 1997 and I put an incredible amount of Natural Glow on and went to the party as a Rastafarian, thank god there is no photographic evidence #suzannepaulface

committment

Aileen Wuornos is the relatable serial killer.

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