Oh they understand alright

So, I’m making one huge ministry of everything that matters most to people like me/us: Urban development, Transport and Environment. Or, for short, UTE

Not remotely interested in going anywhere near Trump's America

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"The Dominion can reveal Hitler has invaded Poland'

Nero stuffed into a business suit

Chris Bishop ate my hamster

Senator Mark E. Kelly, Patriot of Patriots open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Nicky tells 
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That means it's two years since I stopped. I was chill with making myself broker and deader, but helping some asshole who's already loaded buy a new ute was a bridge too far, and to this minute I've saved $30,002.32

Impact is only a verb for dental purposes. Pls stop harshing my buzz.

Not keen on politicians who come here from wherever they lived overseas and don't have the first idea about how things work in Aotearoa and presume to tell us what to do. And to be specific and name names: Christopher Luxon

"While elite journos and businessmen kiss the ring of Trump, people in jammies and slippers confront ICE in the street. The courage of ordinary people has been stunning compared to the elite." On the pod @amandamarcotte.bsky.social is good on Trump's downward spiral: newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Poor Old Mate Grabaseat goes onto the list

Hmmm. Takapuna Grammar, Belmont Intermediate, Devonport Primary and Vauxhall Primary Schools together with St Leos do not yet appear to have made this commitment.

So true and such a frustrating shame www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

A parliament full of people as good as this would be bloody great

If you have a dairy that got ramraided six times by the same kids and then they turned up one day outside asking everyone to contribute to “help make the dairy good again” then you’ll know what it feels like to hear National pledge to make our super savings as good as Australia’s

This is the 2nd time a major government report from Deloitte has been found to contain errors likely generated by AI. First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte

The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders. The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here: newrepublic.com/article/2035...

just not possible to take seriously when they forever look like the start of a "walked into a bar" joke

A few core samples from the Musk putrefaction. Also, congratulations to Dr Turner on a great accomplishment.

***Please repost and share widely*** "The Tool Isn't Broken – The Wielders Are Corrupt Why the Ms Z case demands accountability, not the repeal of the Harmful Digital Communications Act" My defence of the HDCA. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/the-tool-isn...

Real reason this govt wants to spend 100 billion on roads finally becomes clear: they’re creating fresh assets for future National govts to sell so they can go on claiming to be “grown up” and “mature” about “economic reality”

By all means bring in flammable liquid and a device to set fire to it but do not bring in a thing with batteries that has very few moving parts that might cause disaster. Clap. Clap. Clap. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/gated-ret...

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

these boots are made for talkin' and that's all I can do

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Who would have thought that the announcement of the BYD Atto 1 selling for under $30k NZD would anger so many people on Facebook? It's crazy. Me and the other moderator have removed so many seething comments from people who feel threatened by this smöl car. 🤷

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

FRESH POST: @connorsharp.bsky.social's recent op-ed on Simeon Brown's legacy for transport in our city... ...gains extra relevance with the minister now attempting to personally redesign the (not yet completed) Rā Hihi/ Reeves Road flyover, on the fly. 🤨 www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/11/06/t...

I'll vote for whoever sets a target to get youth unemployment back below 10% in one year. I can't do ten years of centrist, round the next corner drivel. Waiting for businesses to get desperate enough to give young, disengaged or disabled people a job is fkng stupid. There is loads that needs doing.

Husband came home from his after school meeting saying the new social studies curriculum isn't a curriculum, it's just a list of subjects to be covered with no broader themes, guaranteed to make kids find the humanities pointless. "I've never felt more like my job doesn't matter"

If Mamdani wins I will leave New York. I will go live in one of the other 5 houses I have, perhaps the one in South Florida, or the one in Paris, or Napa, or Cabo, but I will definitely leave New York. I will keep my apartment, though, because it's awesome and New York is great. But I will leave.

Not so much express lane as Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area

National so far this term: Getting to your meeting 30 seconds quicker is a higher priority than protecting kids from cars on their way to school Keeping school attendance up is a higher priority than protecting kids from measles Saving a few bucks is a higher priority than a decent lunch

Thinking of lodging a bid to have the ACT party converted to a Charter School. We’d mostly be emphasising a better understanding of history and human decency.

The man in the pub with all the reckons now has a global rage algorithm platform, instead of the 3 or 4 people who could be bothered putting up with his bullshit after 4 jugs of Speights on a thrusday afternoon - and it's shit.

Can’t explain it really,God. I just like awful people

Laziest of non-thinkers gives himself another scratch

You’re never too old to make worse friends than Slater

It's headlines like this which helped the election of one of the most economically illiterate govts in AoNZ's history. Surely the "economic story" to be reset is that of National, purported guardians of the economy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Looking forward to seeing the Trump letter to “The Late Great Charles the Conquerer” demanding to be made Duke of York #NooneIsMoreQualifiedThanMeThinkAboudIt

Even Prominent New Zealander might do reasonably well in this lineup

He’s clearly been grabbed by something in the photo

It's a long way from the top when you're beaten by a sausage roll

Traditionally, of course, paper runs were done by bicycle, on quiet streets that were safe for children. So perhaps the minister is inadvertently onto something here? 🤔🤔