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Three weeks ago I spent a few days in one of our global dark sky sanctuaries in Rakiura Stewart Island New Zealand. Never has deep time felt so real or so close. But every now and then one of Elon's dumbfuck satellites would interrupt the eternal rhythms of the stars. Let's not let it get worse.

🚨 BREAKING: The Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton by-election from Labour 🟢 GRN: 14,980 (+10,170) ➡️ REF: 10,578 (+5,436) 🔴 LAB: 9,364 (-9,191) 🔵 CON: 706 (-2,182) 🔶 LD: 653 (-746) Changes w/ 2024

Maybe Chuck and Mary can do some supply teaching when they’re here. FML.

Everyone knows Luxon is a chocolate teapot but it turns out his likely replacement Bishop is particularly inept at legislation. Fast track already needing rewrites RMA reform being called unworkable by farmers Granny flats cockup Housing reform scrapped Another Nat dunger.

In 'honour' of our rapid descent down the corruption pit complete the following saying (because I can't think of the last word). Two manky crooks spoil the ...?

Just your daily reminder that Chris Bishop is both the chief fundraiser for the National Party election campaign and needs major donations, and the decision maker giving businesses access to the fast track process. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Chris Bishop stopped social housing new builds; made the homeless crisis worse; crashing the building sector; declared a war on nature, helping national party donors; and his 'granny flat' rules are a mess. www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...

In today’s NZ Herald

For years we had Morrison refusing to take responsibility for his mistakes and now we have Albo doing the same. We all know what he meant when he used the word difficult so he should just own it and apologise. Trying to mitigate it just makes it worse. #auspol

I love how quickly New Zealand media gloss over that Jacinda Ardern is still the most popular politician according to polls measuring favourability, and she always was as Prime Minister as well which was always contrary to the dominant gallery narrative that she had become a figure of division

The Government is currently negotiating an Enhanced Border Security Partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security that would grant US agencies, including ICE, automated, direct access to New Zealanders' biometric data and identity records.

#nzpol Child poverty data from Stats NZ out today. All political parties except Act agreed to the Child Poverty Reduction Act 2018, creating legally mandated targets for child poverty reduction. Right now, we are missing even the looser targets the government has set. A 🧵

Nicola Willis says Chris Hipkins’ big speech could have been AI - but is AI writing her speeches? Every accusation is an admission #NZPol

Another snouts in the trough story about Luxon and ministers. " ministers are entitled to claim ...from the DIA ... 20% of an MP’s base salary – far above the 3% default contribution paid to other Internal Affairs staff. Ministers claimed at least $700,000 of the taxpayer top-up last year."

@yeehawtheboys.bsky.social is on fire this week.

Our power bills have become completely detached from the cost of generating and distributing electrons. Given the purpose of price rises is solely to increase the size of the dividends paid to the Crown, they’re basically just taxation by other means #nzpol

So a couple months ago I lost my wallet somewhere in Wellington. I figured it was gone, but today the police station called and said someone turned it in. Amazingly everything was still there, including $50 in cash! I figure I should donate that to a local charity - any suggestions?

@yeehawtheboys.bsky.social is on fire this week.

In today’s NZ Herald

"It builds a cradle-to-police-station picture...of a royal whose long association with a known child sex offender may look like the nadir of his behaviour, but is also completely congruous with a priapic, exploitative and money-grubbing life in which nothing was ever refused him."

Where exactly are we going to “move-on” all the people in need of housing? Won’t be into the 3,500 cancelled new state home builds, or the 900 up for sale: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/where-exac...

Following Luxon's lead another very low IQ coalition minister refuses to listen to those far more qualified than themselves.

Who is Peter Bassett? Going by this "The blog describes Bassett as “an observer of media, politics and public institutions, writing on how narrative replaces scrutiny”." I'd say it's a fair chance its Jordan Williams using a pseudonym.

British cops have finally learnt to arrest the right people.

GOOD NEWS: The world’s largest steam-producing heat pump is now online in Finland, delivering 12 MW of superheated steam from waste heat and CO₂-free electricity. Proof that industrial heat can be electrified at scale. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/19/w...

Look. What I say to you is this. I didn't piss millions of taxpayer dollars up the wall on getting the Michelin guides out here for the super wealthy to then see the results of my housing, employment, health and economic policies on the streets. Lock 'em up!

Luxon claims that homeless people are bad for tourism. Must be the reason London, Paris and Barcelona famously have no tourists.

Which of the following statements got Marie Antoinette into hot water: I’m sorted Let them eat cake Blah blah blah?

Luxon reminds me of executives who force you to do things you know won’t work and they never take that advice and eventually things fail and they throw their team under the bus and they get moved from org to org and then eventually getting pushed out and they do the same thing at the next company.

So let me see if I have this right. There weren't enough police to support folk in mental health crisis at hospitals, so now they just drop them but the police are, according to Luxon, going to hook up homeless people with wrap around services as they tell them to piss off? *cough* Hbullshit! #NZPol

Voyager 1 is currently more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth and getting 17km farther every second and hilariously it is not as out of touch with New Zealand as our Prime Minister

Everything but the actual issues.

Luxon would have moved Jesus on for being homeless.... #nzpol

It isn’t fun, it isn’t, ‘haha, aren’t Winston and Jonesy characters’, the poisoning of discourse’ll be felt by its targets even if NZ First does its usual approach of doing fuck all when in power. We fight irrationality by community, hearing other voices, and yeah, solidarity

Got a policy that costs $20b? Solution - nationalise the Mowbrays wealth. Another that cost $12b? Solution - nationalise Graeme Harts wealth and add on an extra 10%. He's always going on about how easy it is to make money, give him some incentive.

New election billboard just dropped. #nzpol

Please can you guys share this piece or if not the piece, the information in it, on social media. #nzpol NZCPR Author on Tamatha Paul Cycleways vs Water Piece Doesn't Exist. Minutes from the meeting and those there, on the left & right of council, have confirmed the vote never happened as described

Offering an MP money for something for any act in their capacity as an MP - like resigning - is a crime punishable by 7 years in prison www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1...

New election billboard just dropped. #nzpol

Luxon getting all the good headlines today. This from Stuff. It is not photoshopped. #nzpol

Luxon admits to being wilfully gormless. We all knew it but him admitting it is up with Trump's destroying the country outburst.

Night time soundtrack has switched over from cicadas to crickets.

The reason why we can afford to put homeless people in prison but not housing is because if you house them the homeless person benefits but if you put them in prison we can funnel public funds to a private prison corporation. It’s always about funneling public funds to the wealthy. Always.

Live your life so that a photo like this can never be taken of you, and so that your family does not feel or share your disgrace.

The economic cost of fraud in NZ is about $10 billion a year; $7-$8b of that is tax avoidance. Wealthy individuals and multinational corporations are the primary drivers of large-scale tax avoidance. If we want to “claw back welfare payments” let’s start with the ones we’re giving to the wealthy.