There are no words. Fly high Bobby, and thank you.

They won't have the numbers to occupy the nation and force everyone to comply, and that's why they're engaged in such an aggressive show of force. They're hoping we all get cowed into submission and do their work of suppression ourselves. Once again, no. The mantra remains "fuck you, make me."

No data? I've written multiple academic papers presenting said data. Not to mention many other researchers working in the same area.

Every famous NZ police story is about how they bungled an investigation and/or planted evidence to convict the person they decided "done it". Every NZ "commissioner" seems to have committed at least some variety of sex crime in the 90s. They'll LOVE making a gestapo.

New Study finds a significant reduction in suicidality after trans people receive gender-affirming hormone therapy. “Hormone therapy was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time…” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them. It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.

Ask your employer tomorrow why they operate an official account on the Twitter/X web service that built a child sexual assault materials generation machine & why they tacitly approve of pedophilia. Have your fellow employees ask the same question.

Nyika is one of many who we (that's we as in the country) are not paying properly while they do research for us (the country). It is nothing less than exploitation by the crown. In 2026, this is my number 1 issue in the public research system to work on. Amplify if you will join in this mahi. #NZPOL

"The war on drugs", being lost since 1980 #kikorangi

One of the funniest things ever. RIP Rob and Michelle Reiner.

This is organized fraud, it's not accidental. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A bit on the nose, I think. 😆

This is a must-read article by @gregsargent.bsky.social, from start to finish. Greg starts by showing how ethnicity-based immigration laws excluded people like Miller’s Jewish ancestors, and how he nevertheless celebrates those restrictions (which came in 1924). newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

'Medical Cannabis and Opioid Receipt Among Adults With Chronic Pain' Another study showing decreased #opioid use with medical #cannabis This is harm reduction at its best. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

OPINION: 8 reasons the government should not introduce oral nicotine pouches to NZ ⬇️

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers. Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +) Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders. I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

New from us at the Christchurch Health and Development Study: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In some good news, today PATHA has finally been able to release the 2025 Guidelines for Gender Affirming Care in Aotearoa New Zealand. You can read them here: patha.nz/resources-an...

It's so cool how this government is doing so many Trumpian things- voter suppression, climate denial, interfering in education against expert advice, destroying healthcare, rolling back environmental protections- but we're still largely treating them as normal and being like 'But how's the economy?'

This is straight up disenfranchisement.

As Craig Renney revealed to a shocked Dr Gary Payinda, Te Whatu Ora underspent its wages budget by $500m which has been signed off by Willis & returned to general coffers. Let that sink in. The money was there, but they deliberately underspent. On orders?

WOULDN'T WANT TO SPOOK MIDDLE NEW ZEALAND.

Bad health-care decisions cost lives. #NZpol #deathcultgovt doi.org/10.1038/s415...

This new study demonstrates that using LLMs to learn about a new topic produces less retention/understanding than traditional web search, and that learners spend less effort in giving advice based on their research when using LLMs. doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

The legacy of British austerity can’t be understood without considering the effects on mental health, especially childhood trauma.

So in a few month's time when the govt is telling you the social media under 16 age ban is to protect children, remember that they don't actually care about children's safety. They don't care about trans kids. They don't care about tamariki Māori. They don't care about feeding kids. #nzpol

Are you at researcher using online data for surveys? 👇

Anxiety is the most common mental health condition globally. It’s estimated that 4% to 5% of people in the world have an anxiety disorder at any given time. Long-term surveys in the United States suggest that around one-third of people experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives.

In light of the assault on American science by its own government that launched in January this year, we published the Anti-Autocracy Handbook in June to provide some guidance to scholars about how to respond to an emerging autocracy. The handbook is available at: sks.to/autocracy. 1/n 1/4

New from me, in The Conversation. theconversation.com/detection-is...

The NZ School Boards Association has launched a petition calling on the Minister of Education Erica Stanford to reverse her ill-informed, hostile decision to remove the obligations of boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi in NZ education. Boost pls our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...

The last New Zealand tobacco farm closed 30 years ago. There are no commercial tobacco growers in New Zealand. So this isn't even protecting our own farmers/producers. It's 100% offshore interests harming New Zealanders. And our laser focused government? They decided to make it easier for them.

29 bells.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

I'm looking to see not only which Senate Dem candidates oppose this surrender (all of them will) but also where they go beyond this with respect to senate leadership. I want to see concrete promises for a new fighting Dem Party, because the current one is broken.

This tracks.

Read the entire series "Free Speech Union Part 1 The rise and rise of the Free Speech Union Part 2 A lobby group’s charm offensive and a doubting Thomas Part 3 Seymour steps in and directs officials to consult" Part 4 Who Benefits: The rise and rise of the Free Speech Union" #nzpol

Ignoring evidence about both what the drivers of crime are, and what works to reduce reoffending, they recycle policies that have been tried before and failed. Ka pai to organisations like Te Pā! Learn more about them here: tepaa.nz

Tonight showed that playing to the middle isn’t the way to win Voters want progressives who will push for change Mamdani stood with immigrants. He stood with trans people. He stood with the homeless and the marginalized He stood with everyone society has left behind. He won.

It’s up to you New York! 🍎💙 #Mamdani youtu.be/TK0Vdb1RUCk?...

The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.

And the meltdown posts from the president and the billionaires start in 3...2...1...

Love how National proudly opposed the Treaty Principles Bill, and wore it like a badge of honour. Then basically rolled it out anyways. They’re dismantling and removing anything that honours the treaty, and undermining Māori. Without consultation too like yesterday. Depressing.

If your not going to use the word "Fascist" "... is hell bent on becoming more like the Trumpist United States today. ..." [ bsky.app/profile/nzhe... ] Add ▪️Trumpist voter suppression; ▪️Trumpist privatised incarceration; ▪️Trumpist minority victimisation; ▪️Trumpist [political fuckwittery]... #nzpol

Not quite the obituary I was looking for... nevertheless...