I think it’s because they to like to take the high ground (which doesn’t cut through with voters) instead of constantly trashing the current government (which does). #nzpol

Phase 1 - Situation Normal Phase 2 - make a saving throw against foreign refineries Phase 3 - you are in a room filled with skeletons. A banner over the door reads "28 day deadline". You try to cast fireball, but your lighter doesn't work Phase 4 - while mining for fuel, you awaken a Balrog

When, during Covid, I thought ‘thank heavens Jacinda and Grant are in charge, and not a National led government’, I really wasn’t hoping to find out what the alternative scenario would look like for real. #nzpol

Well, at least we can look forward to six months in a leaky boat

Rejected as a national flag option in 2016 despite becoming a viral hit, the laser kiwi flag has now found a temporary home in front of the New Plymouth District Council.

E-bike plus electric train Name a more iconic duo For getting around AKL 😎

Finally the international respect he deserves. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...

They’ve now started pivoting from letting it be called “blaming” and are trying to paint it as “explaining” (see Paul Goldsmith on TVNZ Breakfast yesterday).

I've had an EV for nearly a year. As petrol prices rise, I've decided to share what I've learned (and saved) in that time: newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/24/w...

Well, I did used to be head teller at a bank branch in a swanky area of Sydney, with full access to the vault… 🤔

The wealthy people are not SELF FUCKING MADE. No one is self made you need economic stability, certainty of goods/quality/delivery, you need people in good health, with good education to execute. You need people to iterate on your vision. You need roads, you need governments to regulate everything.

People don’t line “wealth distribution” cause it seems like we are taking other peoples hard earned wealth and distributing to random people when the wealth is acquired off the backs of workers, public infrastructure, public education, public health, social services, regulations, trade agreements.

I blame @dimsie.bsky.social

A really nice story about how 'Pō Atarau' ended up on the soundtrack of Project Hail Mary. One thing I would add is that the 1976 master tape was preserved and digitised by the Alexander Turnbull Library. That's why it was discoverable. thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...

OK, this is actually pretty good! This'll get a spin or two. (Bonus points for being @foxylustygrover.bsky.social approved too!)

🤔 #nzpol

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a Windrose #EV Truck, just competed a loaded B Double run from Sydney to Canberra non stop, no need to charge, 100% electric. total cost $50 approx. Diesel would have cost near $500 or more. We have solutions to our fuel crisis.. #auspol #trucking www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/...

Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.

But what if – stay with me here – there's a direct relationship between those rigid spending limits and the declining economy? Come on, Thomas, you can't just keep blaming all those missed targets on bad Treasury forecasts.

What's happening? Stuff are fact checking the government👀 #nzpol

Even my politically unplugged daughter knows.

If it looks like a Mōhua...

Aren’tcha glad they weren’t in charge when covid hit???!!! #nzpol

my working assumption is that Trump is mad at Reuters

Accidental?

THIS is an extremely diplomatic way to put it. I'd say Willis LIES with such slick monotonous regularity, you'd have to be an orally-fixated scatophiliac to swallow any of her bullshit. Let alone keep asking for more. #nzpol

I feel like this one was specifically targeted for @dimsie.bsky.social

Does Willis understand the ‘fuel crisis’ isn’t just about fuel being expensive, but it that EVERYTHING becomes more expensive? Saying beneficiaries don’t have to drive to work ignores that they still have kids to drop off & pickup, still have to buy food & other goods for their families… #nzpol

She's saying that the ratings agencies are downgrading us because we have too much debt. THAT IS NOT WHY THEY'RE DOWNGRADING US NICOLA YOU LYING SCUMBAG #nzpol

As I was saying... #nzpol

OMFG! They're using this press conference to bag Labour's targeted assistance spending during COVID. WHICH. THEY SUPPORTED. #nzpol

I think it is important to give credit to RNZ for "looking out the window to see if it is raining" in this article. Because we should note when media are being responsible in reporting claims, not just getting angry on cases of bad reporting www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Paging our current government.

A real “Ding Dong the Witch is dead” headline from RNZ today.

In his voice this is such a perfect conversation

I realise I have been very slack with my kitten pics of late. Please accept these by way of an apology.

It is wild that the government hasn’t been able to come up with a single concrete example of their temporary targeted measures despite saying that for the last two weeks. We would have been stuffed if this lot was in charge during the first wave of Covid.

Today I am "Win an 80s album from The Coast" years old. 🤣

Be better, car drivers. With the fuel crisis there will be a lot more cyclists on the road. Many of them not overly experienced with contending with traffic.

TFW you see a “Current affairs” themed meme and it’s already out of date.

My Sharona? My my my I yi woo!

Apropos of nothing, if you’re publishing talking points verbatim without context, challenge or critique, especially leading up to a critical election where, as demonstrated in the US, lack of accountability for disinformation & bigotry have dire consequences, you’re doing propaganda, not journalism.

Dex Mex 3.0 underway. Using Scorpion chillies this year. Could feel the heat when chopping them. 🥵

Incompetence, intellectual laziness and compulsive dishonesty are not signs of humility. Nor is blaming officials for your own ineptitude, no matter how much you wrap it up in passive voiced weasel words.

At every turn we’re reminded that it’s our job to keep the economy afloat. But in a sane economic system these roles would be reversed. #nzpol