First two news stories Labour: we want to subsidise public transport (Nats: classic labour, where’s the money coming from? They’re bribing voters etc etc) Nats: here’s $60 million for primary industries (🦗🦗 not one question about where that money is coming from) Utterly shameless. #nzpol

I fucking HATE David Seymour & his AI party of androids who have turned teaching into a fucking nightmare of a job. I’ll add in Stanford for totally fucking with the curriculum, a fundamental & area she has NO understanding of unless it aligns with her bullshit ideology 🤬🤬🤬 #nzpol

I don't loathe Nicola Willis because she's a woman or a Tory. I despise her because she's an insufferably stupid, mendacious and feckless ghoul who is astonishingly shit at her taxpayer-funded job. #nzpol

It’s bad to be in social housing cause you are poor but completely fine to charge the taxpayer $52,000 to rent the house you already own. National party MPs are disgusting people and people who vote for them are disgusting too.

Bishflap having the brass neck to point out a road would’ve been delivered cheaper had it not been cancelled in 2017.

#nzpol I feel like the world over and throughout time this holds true. It feels like right wing ideas and politicians are held to a different standard

Arrrggh the TVNZ+ Audio Descriptions and the inability to turn them off is ruining my life.

Nanoparticle pain medicines: coming to a theatre near you in the future? What a fascinating plenary talk at #asm26akl

Tova making Luxon's thumb-head turn puce was outstanding. #nzpol

She comes across as vapid as him; and each quote from her is a loop of empty tautologies.

Baked Ima’s Hizzle Crizzle Bizzles for work tomorrow.

Are all the cookers going to go into conspiracy theory mode when advised to drive more smoothly to save gas?

Despite an oil crisis being nothing like a novel deadly virus, the government are trying to blur the lines — drawing false parallels to take subtle digs at pandemic decisions. #nzpol

Evergreen #nzpol

I’m already sick of hearing ‘targeted, timely and temporary’. Just do something for crying out loud. #nzpol

Willis currently outlining her plan to Corin Dann on RNZ. To summarise, no help is on the way and you just have to patient.

Nicola Willis trying to work out how to help as few people as possible while simultaneously doing nothing while simultaneously trying not to piss off her base while simultaneously trying not to help the poors #nzpol

I do not understand how the ABSOLUTELY VOLUNTARY destruction of the original ferry replacement is not a massive political scandal?! It was a reflexive ideological decision that has disadvantaged the country significantly.

Maura absolutely fucked over by a fuckboi. Lol.

I will not put the heating on in December

Takes some stones to fly a Union Jack in Kuku. Why would you?

Morph & Midaz; flip it around, Wakey Wakey.

Dafuq is this guy’s accent?

Shakes shakey #eqnz

As if there was any doubt how they would’ve handled it

for those of you who have never seen The New Zealand Tweet, the perennial flower

Fonterra’s eyewatering profits just uncritically presented on the news as if it’s a good thing for the people of this country to be fleeced at the till every day.

Effortlessly done in under 20 minutes: Zoe & Morgan✅ Lord of the Rings✅ Jon Stewart NZ endorsement✅ Whittaker’s✅ Hope & leadership✅ Nuanced answers to complex issues✅ Watching this and reflecting how much of an utter disaster this would have been with anyone officially representing New Zealand now.

What have we done to deserve seeing him on our screens on the nightly?

THIS IS INSANE

Me pēhea koutou e whakanui ana i te wiki o te reo Māori?

Was not one comment from the opposition benches sought for this piece? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... My recall of such news under the last government would be endless reporting of the opposition flooding the zone to get their digs in.

He rangi mokopuna ki konei.

The quiet suburban pool is a microcosm of everything wrong with New Zealand’s broken rates system. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...

It is about. Goddamn. Time. someone published this; it’s also obscene that political and financial reporters and editors run with the same household analogies day after day, budget after budget. It’s either lying or deeply, absurdly ignorant

I’m selling two tickets to this weekend’s Urban Wine Walk in Wellington if anyone missed out tixel.com/u/3644843

Every street needs a binfluencer.

Quite aside from anything else, it is frankly WILD for ministers or associate ministers to be micromanaging the work of ministries in this way. From cellphones in schools, to speed limits, to precise wording on websites this is NOT how government is supposed to work, no matter who is in power.

I’m seething at how bad the new quizmaster is at my weekly pub quiz. I just can’t get over how inept you can be to have not worked out a system yet. Arrrgh. Really ruins my life.

A rare still and warm night of summer for Wellington tonight. Being its best self.

I wonder… do New Zealanders know that more than 45% of NZ's red meat exports are halal-certified? 🤔 Making a huge contribution to our economy 🧵1/7

Can’t wait to get this all hung.

#TheTraitorsUK is once again proving to be fantastic television.

Some vague thoughts about managing a sense of impending doom at a new year given everything that's going on. I'm a registered counsellor who specialises in trauma and bereavement. This is not specific therapeutic advice to any one individual or situation. Ymmv.

What the fuck is this? Does The Post hate Wellington? No byline either. Absolute garbage.

Psst:...advice from my big brother: direct all your anger and outrage at Luxon for allowing such craven bullshit from his coalition partners - he's the one who handed them the power. He won't like the heat.

The Hīkoi is 14 times the size of the 2022 anti-mandate protest, yet there has been only one arrest. Additionally, no one has bought a noose with them, and no one is calling for "Nuremberg trials" of politicians, or comparing David Seymour to Stalin

Today has been a good reminder to New Zealand, and hopefully to other good folks around the world: Solidarity is not just a thing that you feel. Solidarity is a thing that you practice.