In 5 months time we can vote these Nactzi pricks out. If you're not already, you need to enroll by 4 October, so you don't have to cast a special vote as you won't be on the printed rolls in the voting places. Spread the word. #nzpol vote.nz/enrolling/en...

Sure you can use a cli to convert your old markdown blog posts to some standard.site version. Or you can do it manually and see how funny you are, or thought you were

In this week's good news moment, the Waiheke Local Board unanimously decided to raise the trans flag next week to support the national day of action, and to submit opposing the bill 🥹 if you're on Waiheke, you can attend on Thurs 11th 5pm, 10 Belgium St

These two articles are a pair so consider them together. The big money, the strategists, the ground game and even the Neo Nazi-adjacent are trying to build for Australia an echo of the US’s MAGA Christofascism. #Auspol open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2... open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

This needs to be on bumper stickers and billboards across Cambridge and Taupō...put the shame on her electorate... #nzpol #NationalNotFitToGovern #OneTermGovernment #Election26 #DitchThePricks

Maybe what is needed is a step back to the old Usenet multiple moderated forums model that Reddit replicates. I still believe that each country should be entirely locally hosting their own competing but interoperating superapp(as in WeChat 微信 ) platform ecosystems - preferably as a CO-OP. #nzpol

If we are to prevent another tragedy, such as the mosque attack in Christchurch, New Zealand's security agencies need to up their game. We were an easy target for a racist coward with a grudge. These far right groups need better monitoring both here and in Australia. #nzpol youtu.be/0blx91tVsHY?...

Useful… If Luxon had a brain, 8% David had a heart, and Winston had… well… I was going to say “Courage” to complete the Oz metaphor… but shall we just say: “appropriate psychological treatment and a family intervention”. #nzpol

David Fucking Seymour. “He said as a result of the strikes, Iranian girls will have an opportunity to "dress as you like, go to school, do things that are normal rights that have been withheld from them by this regime" The 120 school kids killed by US bombs in Feb might feel differently. #NZPol

Misinformation initiatives keep being proposed by political establishment figures and parties and being completely limp because they don't take into account that a lot of people consuming far-right misinfo are doing so to post-hoc justify supporting what they see as protest options

Ramsey’s estimated delivery time: eventually TT: @rhiannoninthe904

From 'rain bombs' to El Niño: Debunking Australia's greatest weather myths and misconceptions

Nearly 21,000 🥳❤️ As a cis women I’m standing alongside trans whānau and I’m “calling on all members of this Government to affirm everyone’s right to exist as who they are in society, and vote against the Legislation (Definition of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill at its second reading.” #nzpol

Anti-War Aotearoa & Greenpeace have announced a joint March for Peace, calling on NZers to gather at Aotea Square on 20 Jun 2026. The hīkoi will demand that PM Luxon & the Coalition Govt prioritise people & the planet over imperial aggression & immediately halt any involvement in US-led wars. #nzpol

Accommodation supplements. My #cartoon today #NZpol #Accommodation

It feels wrong that a country of this size cannot quickly rein in this kind of shit.

the full extent of the fuckery is in "Option Five: Amend all Treaty standards to be no higher than 'take into account'. Importantly, the officials noted that Option Five was a 'late addition' proposed by the Minister of Justice, Paul Goldsmith" #nzpol

i try to allude to the full extent of this fuckery with friends and fam' who aren't tragically online politics junkies might as well be speaking 𒅴𒂠 #nzpol

every evening, sometime between 18:30 and 21:30, skinny's FWB and phone data turns to custard every evening yesterday it was particularly extended fuckery i guess that's all i can expect on cheap-arse data plans *sighs*

And again a little louder for people in the back row! 😉 Denmarks victory for animal rights has far reaching implications for New Zealand #nzpol

A better world *is* possible, and like Denmark, Aotearoa can — and should — break up its agriculture ministry. Break up the power of the agriculture lobby, and send Hoggard and the rest of them back to their farms for good. #nzpol

When sea temperatures rise, we get more moisture in the air. That means more rain in the west. Think atmospheric rivers, like the one that led to the Auckland anniversary day floods. #ClimateCrisis #nzpol #ElNiño

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Girl Dinner Mantis Pin. Male Mantis: So many people are on Ozempic now. I heard it works by curbing your appetite. That's pretty cool, huh? Female Mantis: Yeah I'm not interested in that. collabs.shop/ugerag

I’m tired of the “he’s racist because he’s a product of his time!” shit. These are grown ass men and women who now have an abundance of information that they can access at any time, and they actively choose to maintain their ignorance instead.

Even if there are legitimate, non-flashy use cases for AI that competent people are aware of, I still fucking despise it because the stupidest corporate management types in the world have enshittified every platform I use with nonstop "AI Summaries" and "Rewrite post with AI?" They all need to die.

I made a page for all my clocks so I will shut up about them Ignore the cosmic clock 🤣 It’s a mess. “Year” is better. But “Dial” is going to be running at an art walk with rotating languages the first Thursday of next month, so that’s neat.

Move on orders for politicians thieving from the collective purse by claiming our money to stay in their own house.

When I'm not dumping the contents of my brain on here uncensored, I think about how to get people to see how good my earplugs are. They're very good for concerts, specifically. They're endlessly reusable if you keep them clean. 🎈 pocomoto.co.nz/product/atte...

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need a poll of nz media - both journos and decision makers - to see what their stance is on the major issues feels like we're SO far gone from a functioning fourth estate, and I'm genuinely interested in how much that's the people employed there vs the people making editorial decisions

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Free Speech Union are now platforming Bob McKoskrie of Family First, and both are arguing that banning gay/trans conversion therapy is restricting ‘free speech’. FSU are homophobes (we already knew they were transphobes). Happy Pride month.

MH-60R is a 26 year old upgrade of 1970s SH-60B. 50+ year old helicopter. European AW159 is a newer helicopter (entered service 2015), or the NH90. So the Euro ones would've been newer futureproofing alternative to 1970s U.S. design. This is Trump pleasing deal, rather than upgrade of NZ military

SMRs don't exist. We just went through this in Oz - see link in my pinned post. A fossil fuel-mining funded #AtlasNetwork disinfo operation to distract from far superior, non-polluting & far cheaper ACTUALLY EXISTING solar/wind/battery/EV solutions that will end oil, gas, coal nukes forever.

soz about the flood, sweeties if atproto developers could catch up with Signal, i'd've just embedded a .txt file instead of a 16 skeet thread #nzpol

bugger, still can't share a .txt file been able to do that on Signal since forever *sighs* k, i'll cut my submission on the Let's Legislate Transphobia Into Existence Bill into pieces of thread #nzpol 1/

if anyone wants to quibble about the accuracy of my self-description as silly little celtic blonde airhead trans girl, argue with this i doubt that arguments against will stand up to scrutiny

i was @corporatewhore on a socmed site as a pun, but deleted 'cos ridiculous numbers of "i'll pay you" responses ffs, kiddies, that's my avatar, not who i am, well not literally this is me, literally

pls don' suggest doing boy mode, the bigots see through those illusions 'cos i'm part of humanity, like recognises itself, even when heavily disguised

my "take him out into the carpark and shoot him, let a pack of feral dogs enjoy the carcass" is a lizardbrain response it's not the response of my humanity "you're a threat to our evolution, but we're not sadists, so we'll remove from our evolution until your allotted time is up" is my preference

i still intensely dislike the "new" metservice dot com three day forecast visualisation do QA using a small screen phone, people, that's where most of us use it wind direction arrows are just static pls give me back the clearly visualised movement of pressure changes pretty pls, cherry on top

i dislike the term "victim" it implies submission rather, "wheeeee! i survived" implies fuck the power imbalance, ur not gonna break me, ever

i don't expect engagement from this skeet, i might even be suspended a good outcome is to remove the equivalents of him from further poisoning our culture the method of removal is societally conditional, but shouldn't be cruel a great outcome is, damage aside wheeee! i survived #nzpol

@dholms.at and I pushed up IETF draft text for atproto repos and sync: www.ietf.org/archive/id/d... www.ietf.org/archive/id/d... these are versioned in github (per norm) over here: github.com/ietf-wg-atp/...

In the winter months, deep in the ocean a delicate romance occurs when the long-lived orange roughy assemble to spawn. In recent decades, orange roughy stocks have collapsed. www.eli.org.nz/updates/oran... #orangeroughy #marinelife

oops, time for sōf to go shopping, which is a long walk as well, two birds with one stone, rather than accidentally freaking out her fam' in the midst of a Signal convo' my social filters perennially need working on, maybe take note ACT NAT NZF #nzpol

If you're exasperated by the NZ ferry debacle, the UK's HS2 high-speed train project is currently estimated to have cost up to £102.7 billion (the Artemis moon mission cost just £3 billion). It was meant to go to Manchester but only got as far as Birmingham before Phase 2 of the project was axed.