America: This is your *entire* government. Three co-equal branches? gone. Checks and balances? gone. A decomposing psychotic and a fucking stupid hat. You're going to let him kill us all. Aren't you?

Is it just me that thinks if the cars were going through store fronts instead of children there'd be something from this govt about it? But since it's people's lives and not businesses livelihood they're quiet. Since their policies create the situation, they're quiet. Deafeningly quiet. #nzpol

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I don't want a city on Mars. I don't want AI in every app. I don't want data centres in space. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want bees to survive.

Well the hive-mind is not wrong. The people want climate adaptation, electrification, rail, and ferries, way before, massive road projects. And least of all- subsidised fossil fuel infrastructure.

You want young people to vote? Every high school in the country should have an enrollment day for the 17 and 18 year olds who are going to be eligible in the next election.

Hey, at least Chuck and Mary will have a Beggar-free Britomart to enjoy! I dive deeper over at my Substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/chuck-and-...

Quick reminder that The Dawn Raids only targeted brown people at a time when our largest group of overstayers came from England.

This is a "papers please" "English is the official language" "eat slop and be grateful" "disappear the unhoused" "women are second class" "don't learn real history" "local FBI office" government and we really cannot afford to be smug about other countries' slide to open fascism, Aotearoa

“i’m still punk” i whisper to myself as i turn down the music in my car so i can see better

Voyager 1 is currently more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth and getting 17km farther every second and hilariously it is not as out of touch with New Zealand as our Prime Minister

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

This semester I’m teaching composition in a prison. One of my students is a literal sociopath serving multiple life sentences for crimes that are identical to those of several famous mass murderers. This is still preferable to grading AI essays.

Seven stories is not 'high rise' by any stretch of the imagination. Get a grip, people. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

Yes please.

More extreme weather more often. What do our leaders think we should do? In a word, not much. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Climate

People working themselves into the ground to make products nobody wants. What are we doing here, people? www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

From 2017

Wow.

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

DOGE must have overlooked this one in their exhaustive search for waste.

We're so lucky the New Zealand government made him a citizen. 🙃

In a 21st century special, this 'summer' Wellington has had figurative Shitsville and, now, literal Shitsville.

What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

😂👇😂

After decades of recovery, southern right whales are showing signs of a climate-driven decline in breeding rates, which scientists say is a “warning signal” about changes in the Southern Ocean. #climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Brilliant cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

If James VanDerBeek was left broke because he couldn't pay the bills during his cancer struggle, imagine the plight of millions of Americans? Medicare for All or some major, radical overhaul of the system will only gain steam as Republicans and billionaires continue killing us.

I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race

When your poll numbers are so bad you coerce pollsters to stop polling. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Mike Hosking says you should blame Labour for our high energy prices, but despite what Shane Jones told him, the oil and gas ban did not cause that problem, it was already in decline (as Kirsty Johnson has shown in her excellent reporting).

How is anyone 'unaware' of this?

Assaulting people while they pray peacefully in public is a new low for the Australian police. Shame on them. #Herzog #Gaza

Dude got beat by Puerto Rico and Puppies! Now maybe he’ll just go the fuck away!

I found the NZ fairy tern / tara-iti! There are only about 50 adult fairy terns in New Zealand, making them the rarest bird that breeds here by far. It took a lot of trial and error (and some dumb luck) but yesterday, I succeeded! 🪶 www.instagram.com/reel/DUeIROk...

Welcome to the future (for backward places like NZ) or the present, if you’re Norwegian. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Trump: top of the Epstein class.

In today’s HeraldOnSunday

Palantir fasciitis

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

So weird how this keeps happening. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

NZ says it will explore “co-operation on critical minerals” with the United States, a day after NZ PM Christopher Luxon brushed off talk of any such co-operation. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Trump #USA #RareMetals #MineralDeals #ShaneJones

#nzpol New unemployment data from Stats NZ today, showing the impact of an economy that isn't working. An additional 5,000 people became unemployed during the quarter, rising to levels last seen in 2015. 164,000 people are now unemployed, up 39,000 in just 2 years. A🧵

Cool cool cool cool

Can we just hit pause on the black mirror shit for a beat while we fix the basics?

Fact: Climate change is making the weather more extreme. My #cartoon today #NZpol #ClimateChange #Floods #ClimateInaction

How about nope.

Amazing! Reverses cartilege loss in aging joints! www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Ridiculous that this was even considered.