10s of 1000s of people out of work, the most in 10 years! 10s of 1000s of Kiwis fled the country last year. business are closing left, right & center. the economy is tanking! Are we "Back on Track" yet Luxon? #nzpol

this is going to become more and more common place. insurers are going to stop insuring homes and businesses as we continue to ignore climate change and the weather gets more wild more often.

I’m excited. This weekend is the NZ Elite National Road Championships. There are a whole bunch of Kiwi superstars riding on the world tour stage. Who’s coming home to earn the fern and take it back to Europe with them? I know Bennet is here. So is Gate. What about Fischer Black or Strong or Pithie?

ah yeah .... mermaid science .... yup. gotcha. dear gods.

not just in Seattle .... the NIMBYs of Auckland (and NZ) are cut from the very same cloth

fascinating numbers around the demographic for this. old(er) white women.

#BackOnTrack #EconomicRecovery #BusinessConfidence #LusonIsInept #WastefulWillis #nzpol

here's my response to your latest mailer @chrishipkins.bsky.social .... so, does Labour have what it takes to lead NZ? convince me. i haven't seen any signs of this, from you. #nzpol

this is your regular reminder that no, David Farrar is not David Farrier*. they are in fact different people. * also not Louis Theroux, also different person.

I truly hope that if that smug fucker shows up at the treaty grounds this Waitangi Day that they are boo'd off the grounds. There's no reason, at all, to give them audience, after their showing. Don't give them a stage. Don't give them an audience. #nzpol

oh fuck off Nikki No Boats .... you don't get to utter a single word about anything to do with money after the last 3 years ..... you cancelled the ferry replacement, out of spite, and cost this country nearly a billion dollars in the process. #WastefulWillis #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Uggggh. Dammit. Just checked my machines, nope, not installed. Pheeew. Just regular Notepad and VSCode. Tell me again how open source is so much better for security. techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/n...

Highly recommend these. I got a pair from @silkehartung.bsky.social last year and love them. Gigs are often so darn loud that my ears hurt for days after. I find i hear better with them, than without. Do yourself a favor, get a pair!

but business confidence .... economy booming .... back on track ... #nzpol

#NowSpinning wow! i don't usually do cover versions. there are some exceptions, of course, and this is one of them! what a record! less of a "covers" but a real tribute that brings new life to many favorite Leonard Cohen songs. and no sign of Hallelujah anywhere.

10:30 and 28C and 90% humidity. This is pure hell. But at least it’s not raini…. Oh, wait

Ok, what's happening in the world today. No, wait, i probably don't want to know.

28C and a billion percent humidity. Yikes.

A fond reminder of Torpenhow Hill back in the Old Country

Oh do FUCK OFF Winston. Seriously, get in your land whaka and drive off a cliff. you do not speak for Aotearoa you old, irrelevant, has-been. #nzpol #uspol

This really is becoming our new normal, innit?!? *sigh* and yet our govt keeps walking back it's commitments, weakning it's climate change responses and gutting our emergency recovery funds. *sigh* At least there's still KFC! #nzpol #climatechange

Oh christ on a cracker .... this was even a thing? Suppose i should be thankful for small mercies. #nzpol #uspol

Why are there disabled ramps and disabled toilets and disbaled parking spaces everywhere when I have two perfectly functioning legs?

Laughing HARD at the racist eegit on the interwebs fighting against Mauao .... claiming it should be called Mt Maunganui, because "how dare we try undo our colonial past"... ummmm, yeah my dude, aside the racist shit, where in the flying fuck in colonial England does the word Maunganui exist?

Why do we have thousands of roads when I only drive on a handful.

Hello Classic Outlook my old friend, oh how I have missed you!

Ok, that's it .... "New Outlook" can get in the bin. Just way too many issues with it. It's unusable. There are bugs (functionality that worked in the old version, that doesnt work in the new version, confirmed by msft in forums, that are still open a year later). Can't work like this @microsoft.com

At least it was KFC and not a school lunch box from Seymour. #nzpol

OMG. Shrinking Season 3 is out and none of you told me. Not a single one. Why do i bother keeping you around?!!?!?

Sometimes i feel bad for Future Ryan .... Current Ryan is an asshole.

I know there's lots of talk about Melania, the movie, but what about Melania herself? The orange turd used to trot her out, like a trophy wife, at every opportunity. Has anyone seen or heard from her recently? Melania, blink twice if you need help!

i just realised .NET Framework 2.0 is more than 20 years old. TWENTY YEARS! i remember the day .NET first launched. damn. i feel old. i've been doing this for too long. #dotnet #microsoft

Great writing by @nzdodo.bsky.social and more of the sort of writing we need to be seeing in our mainstream media. This piece once again shows how we’re flooded with shitty rage baiting headlines and muppets like Orsman twisting facts for sensationalism.

Here’s where you can complain about RNZ’s twisting of survey results www.rnz.co.nz/formalcompla...

Let me fix the headline for you: "Nearly 60% of voters don't think the treaty has too much influence on government decisions" Good to know. Sounds like a clear majority to me. Racist baiting bullshit from NZ media as we head towards an election later this year. FFS. #nzpol

Let me fix this headline: "Forestry companies not cleaning up their mess leave the NZ taxpayer with billions in damages from recent storms. "

If only Peters was part of the current govt, you know, like Deputy Prime Minister, then he could be a "change candidate" now and we wouldn't have to wait for the next govt. FFS wake up cookers. He is this govt. He was also part of the last 2 govts. He didn't change then, he won't now. #nzpol

Uggggggh this weather

But Nikki No Boats stood there just yesterday and told us all that the economy was booming! Yeah, it's booming if you're a power generator, or a supermarket, or a landlord, with ever increasing prices ... but the common folk on the ground are struggling HARD and ain't gonna be spending large. #nzpol

ah yeah, wondered how long it would be for the absent wanker to jump in a helicopter to "visit flood areas and offer help, from afar" #nzpol

Ah yeah, at least Luxon is laser focused on the important stuff like his summer Playlist while the country around him is being destroyed. #nzpol

Aaaaaaaaand once again slash left over from forestry has destroyed towns on the E coast of NZ. Where are the forestry companies responsible for not clearing up their mess? Long gone with the profits they reaped, leaving us the mess to clean up. Again.

If you're deliberately failing at climate and emmisions targets, then you are not "doing everything we can to help flooding victims"

there is flooding & destruction across much of the North Island with many missing, displaced from houses, businesses ruined, families destroyed, and ol mate Luxon is out "campaigning in Christchurch" in pubs having a jolly good time on the taxpayer dime, and proud of it. #nzpol

Come on Willis, come on Luxon, i dare you fuckers to look at the data and then tell me again that the economic recovery you promised us is on track. come on, i dare you! #nzpol

You know it is bad when Luxon has lost the op-ed authors in mainstream media. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... #nzpol

Today is a day i find myself agreeing with Ian Taylor. I mean he is not wrong in his calling out Bishop for the bullshit that is the gold mine in Otago that is set to be FastTracked ..... all of that for 1 teaspoon of gold! fuck these fuckers #nzpol

I remember when the FIFA Peace Prize meant something

OK, maybe late to this party but, Fallout is, ummmmmm, something. Not sure what, yet, but it's, ummmm definitely something.