Gone by lunchtime? 🤞🏻

Exactly this. This is both an act of deliberate cruelty towards a marginalised, vulnerable community and a trial balloon to see how far they can push, and how fast. (Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)

Shameful that we’re better at this than our national sport.

Couple of branching thoughts before I move on. As long as we continue to view management and leadership as about control and status laddering, rather delivering results and elevating those around us, we will continue to incentivise unsuitable and sometimes downright broken people to cling to power.

Labour will repeal the Regulatory Standards bill.

Nice portfolio of rental properties you have there. Be a shame if they were to… catch fire Fully fund healthcare. Fully fund ambulances. And yes, fully fund the Fire Service. 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

Son was followed in his car for some distance just now by some assholes in a jacked up ute firing fireworks at him. Flashes caught on his dash cam but sadly no vehicle details. Ban fireworks AND utes 🤬

Hey anyone at #mpi or #biosecuritynz. We do wasp genomics. I reckon I could tell you in about 24 hours if these invasive yellow legged #hornets you have found in Auckland are sisters, or a larger invasion. For free. Hit me up now!

Change one letter, ruin a candy Shittles

Bari Weiss wants Louvre heist investigators to interview Dan Brown. US Secretary of Energy thinks solar power may use up all of the sun. What’s Idiocracy but several orders of magnitude stupider?

“May use up all the sun”

Great now Costello is coming for our elderly. Is there any group this coalition won’t fuck?

If you want to: Reduce crime, fix poverty first Reduce traffic, fix public transport first Improve employment, fix welfare and increase taxes Increase productivity, make education free Why do right wing govts do the opposite of what works? And they lie about it. So do “their” economists.

Struggling with the point of the Official Inflation Rate™️ (apparently 3%) when everything I need to live has inflated by far more.

“Haha I love how good his aim is, hitting all them libs with his jet powered shit cannon and not getting a drop of diarrhoea on us real patriots” MAGA this morning, probably.

My biggest #nzpol wish is for more people to understand this 👇🏻🧵

#nzpol We need to replace more than 3 decades of manufactured debt hysteria, with sound, robust, prudent *economics* as our basis for fiscal management. Spending, borrowing, taxing - it's called fiscal policy open.substack.com/pub/ganeshna...

That “get a paper round” remark should be shouted at him wherever he goes hounding him for the rest of his days.

All because these petty partisan fuckheads couldn’t stand the idea that “the other party” had done a decent deal for New Zealanders. Fucking coalition of losers. LOSERS.

“…I think people are getting sick of unions prioritising the politics over patients, or kids in education and parents being mucked around," No Christopher Luxon, people are getting sick of YOU prioritising your fiscal policies on your already wealthy mates, rather than on healthcare and education.

I made a video on exactly how the opposition can win, based on strategies from Labour's own 2017 messaging strategist Anat Shenker-Osorio that helped Jacinda win in under 6 weeks. If she doesn't know how to win an election no one does. youtu.be/4UHUg7u8Dtg?... #nzpol

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! FUCK NO.

Luxon -> Willis -> Reserve Bank: “GET THAT HOUSING MARKET GOING AGAIN ASAP”

New Zealand's electricity market is a total rort. Households pay high prices so that big energy companies can increase profits. We’re not in a cost of living or energy crisis at all. It’s actually a “markets gouging us blind while raking in massive profits” crisis.

So the @nzgreenparty.bsky.social is this government’s boogeyman and is responsible for all political dissent towards them for torching the NZ economy and/or refusing to act on Palestine. One rando throwing a brick through the foreign ministers window is our “Portland is burning.”

"Data shows in almost all parts of the country, there were more people unemployed than there were jobs available." www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Worth noting that we only see decent job growth for young kiwis when the economy is running hot - that's when employers give less experienced people a chance. RBNZ respond to hotness by hiking interest rates to slow the economy down. Youth unemployment is a feature of our economic model, not a bug.

I've submitted because it's a bloody anti-democratic outrage, but strangely complete radio silence from the Free Speech Union 🤔

As Argentina’s economy starts to rapidly unravel, let’s never forget the comments by our own politicians. Ta.

Queen shit 👑

Cowardly Custard #NZPol

FOOKIN EMBARRASSING THE LOT OF YAS

For those in #nzpol … I’m noticing a pattern in economies going down the toilet where they cancelled a bunch of economic activity and then a year later when their economy has … less economic activity .. they go “oh shit we didn’t know this would lead to less economic activity” and restart them …

subtly downgrade a band They Might be Slightly Taller Than Average.

Nazi Kirk took top spot on all of New Zealand’s news outlets for several days, and again on the day of his service. Sir Tumu Te Heuheu’s passing today rates #6 on RNZ and a no show for NZHerald and Stuff. This country’s media needs to ask itself some serious questions.

I’ll vote for anyone who pledges to IMMEDIATELY undo every single bit of the constant torrent of abuse Brooke van Velden has wrought on the workers of New Zealand. She HATES our guts.

We should definitely not be extending visiting hours 🤦🏼‍♂️ #nzpol

This is not good policy, nor targeted spending. It’s just a press release trying to distract people from the very real problems in health. Our health system needs real solutions and real funding - to properly support health workers across Aotearoa. Not more spin.

"I don't think there's a single New Zealander that could do a better job than Nicola Willis.” — Christopher Luxon I don’t think there’s a single New Zealander who could do a worse job.

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Walking on the beach and dipping my toes in the Pacific Ocean 2. Riding down a mountain with a snowboard under my feet 3. Drinking whisky with friends 4. Being a good husband, father, and friend (or trying) 5. Making beer at home

Make a band singular Me First

took time away from the social media drip today, but, it is wild that the right has turned 'these shooters are destroying our college campuses' into 'these college campuses are destroying our shooters'

Politician from the only party attempting to loosen gun ownership laws upset by gun being used to shoot stuff.

RNZ’s Casey Tolan, Isabelle Chapman and Allison Gordon need to learn what a “Groyper” is. Hint: it’s not an anti-fascist.

Regardless of how it happened, good fucking riddance.

Just watched the video of tech oligarchs fellating the cheeto, and I’m sick to my mother fucking stomach. Going to touch grass. Well, snow actually.

Folks, I can now reveal that the Trump/CoC economy has come for my job. Another job has not yet forthcome so now would be an extremely doubleplusgood time to commission yourself (or a loved one) a painting. Here is a very small selection of what I can do