Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.

Remember when it was too much WFH that was the problem? This is just that again – finding something to point at and blame. The fact that the economy is full of seasonal businesses that make their money in summer is studiously ignored. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

The tunnel will take a decade and total gridlock to finish, just to save a few minutes to the airport. Meanwhile Courtenay Place would have finished by 2029 and would have been fully transformed for people, public transport and a thriving hospo scene.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

So many people don’t understand what intimacy coordinators do. It’s not just about actor safety. They choreograph the scene just like a stunt coordinator choreographs a fight scene. Some actors underestimate how to make an authentic and genuine intimate scene.

And the great irony remains that just funding systems to house and support homeless people has a lower long term cost than the anti homeless architecture and move on policies that keep them homeless.

THIS. In the end, if cynical nihilism is your political jam, you're as entitled to go to Hell in a handcart of your own design as everyone else. Just don't whine when nobody else is keen to take the ride.

Take advantage of this. Re;ACT is a really fun game. Easy to teach, challenging to master. :)

Ugh. This is so stupid and just goes to show what a crap job these people are doing.

THIS. Friendly reminder that the only reason we know the Wannsee Conference even happened - and who participated - is because a single copy of the heavily edited record given to each attendee survived the war. And was accidentally discovered in an archive in 1947. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee...

So Winnie is saying he doesn't want to do the thing he said he wanted to do but promised he wouldn't do to get into government? More flip flop than a ute full of jandals.

Hills Hats supplies AirNZ ($126m profit in 2025) and the Defence Force ($9 billion Judith-driven spend-up) but neither of these organizations can afford to pay a fair price to a local supplier? Ffs #nzpol

If joking about Charlie Kirk is considered “violent rhetoric,” how do we describe open calls to hang members of Congress?

Just received my order from @storybrewersroleplaying.com and they even gave me a bonus gift I wasn’t expecting. Love your games ladies - hoping to get Fight with Spirit and Castles in the Sky games started these holidays! :)

A lot of the people who are saying that generative A.I. is the future and everyone will use it and we'd better get on board are the same people who said the same thing about NFTs

This is a ridiculous expenditure of money. Wellington needs to invest in the Golden Mile first. That will revitalise the main shopping strip of the city and do far more for everyone than another tunnel.

Nothing says “I’m innocent” like fighting openly to avoid letting any of the evidence that exonerates you from being shared.

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

There’s a third: The Greens suggested it so we will disregard it as nonsensical without reading the detail. #nzpol

I hate to bring stuff from the bad place over here, but I can't help sharing this screenshot I saw on Insta because it's incandescent with truth.

THIS. Andrew Little might not get it, but every other man should - the fightback against misogynistic harassment and general bullshit in every sphere of life is NOT "women's work". Step the fuck up - not just because its the right thing to do, but because thugs never quit unless you make them.

Listen up, you look at the reaction from Nats on Labours CGT and it's obvious they are in panic mode. They reeking of it and it's made them overreact. Nicola Willis' hyperbole was pretty far out but the social media ads almost satire! We've got this #NZPol

Anyone else catch Seymour stating on Breakfast this morning that we don’t need a new tax because the government has more money than most? The same government that tells us it has no money for anything that isn’t a road. 🤦‍♂️ #nzpol

Brownlee has to go. The House is a debacle. Luxon is a joke #nzpol

Never say voting doesn't make a difference Never believe anyone who tells you only to rank 3 candidates in STV

I want a return to classic Doctor Who where nobody had time to fall in love with The Doctor because they're busy being pissed off about being kidnapped and having to run away from EVERYONE and EVERYTHING because they're all trying to murder them in a multitude of inventively ghastly ways.

Bolger's legacy will always be the moral strength of his willingness to look back at the National Party's past and reflect on the wrongs done, and his willingness to say so in an era when it has become fashionable to make excuses for the errors and depredations of the past

THIS. Pardon my French, but The Post should remember nobody loves a hunty sore winner and boy, were you creeps ever obsessed with driving this uppity native out of public life. #nzpol

In hindsight, it’s easy to see that crypto is a fertile playground for grifters and cons. To be fair, it was easy to see in foresight and midsight too.

I was not successful in winning the Māori Ward. It would have been an absolute honour but democracy has spoken. A huge congratulations to @ponekematt.bsky.social who will be an amazing Councillor and serve our people well ❤️ #nzpol

"I mean, it won't. But it could!"

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Lorenz and I are currently house hunting at the moment and it has been pretty interesting to see the impact the housing bubble has had on seller’s expectations by suburb. 1/

Utterly smashing piece

Just this. Until white New Zealand gets over itself, we will never be a real nation...

Winston Peters set the full force of his social media against Benjamin Doyle because he didn't like their handle and that they had photos with their child but go off about attack dogs or whatever Nicola Willis #NZPol

Hey remember when Brooke van Velden pretended she was really shocked to be called a cunt about stealing women's money and made a big song and dance of it in Parliament? But it didn't work and none of us forgot that she stole our money? Thinking about that for no reason in particular #nzpol

So now they want young people to move to get work? Well maybe their parents can house and feed them at home but who is meant to pay for them to move away for work? These are not serious people, this is not a serious plan #NZPol

"Christopher Luxon says the world doesn't owe you a living. Tell him how you feel with your vote" on big signs on stalls outside high schools next year with big stacks of enrolment forms. Just a thought.

Yep. Poor results.

It's so obvious that it probably goes without saying, but any argument about gender norms should understand this fundamental truth: Some people need there to be a clear hard line between being a man and being a woman, because they want to clearly understand who they can be sexist toward.

"The Defence Minister wants to see New Zealand develop lethal weapons for international export through the help of tech companies." Orrrrrrrr get absolutely fucked #nzpol

Stop asking "Why are the radical right so vile" when the obvious answer is: Why wouldn't they be like this? Thing is, the longer you let people ride on their bullshit with ZERO real or lasting consequences, the harder and uglier the comeback gets. Laziness and cowardice has consequences.

*BREAKING: PLEASE REPOST* The Media Council has upheld complaints against RNZ, finding that the article about Alex lacked balance and failed to present alternative perspectives, particularly once information about Alex's own voice became publicly available. www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/park...

Soooo this is using paperwork to make 2900 unsafe buildings suddenly safe?

Emily Writes www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ybi... #nzpol

Interesting that UoA has done a u-turn on their *previously* compulsory Treaty of Waitangi course. Folding under the pressure of the white/right wing