🎶You say I always played the fool Well I can't go on, if that's the rule Better to jump than hesitate I need a change and I can't wait History never repeats I tell myself before I go to sleep And there's a light shining in the dark Leading me on towards a change of heart (ah-ar)🎶 #nzpol #Aotearoa

#NZPol Not a bad headline.

And this cascade is just starting now. A dawn redwood cutting started last spring now being trained as a cascade #Bonsai. Always imagined the foliage hanging from a cascade form. Will be nice to achieve it. I keep the tree propped up on an angle so the apex points up to promote leader growth 🌱🇳🇿

NZ 2025 word of the year - enprofittication = making something shit so that you can profit from it Eg "Simeon Brown is doing really well with the enproffitication of NZ's health service! His party donors must be delighted." Enprofittication

Sound familiar? #nzpol

Ask the question you fucking cowards. #nzpol

"Ayn Rand receiving govt benefits" vibe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Boycotts work. If you're sick and tired of how NZMedia are increasingly pushing us towards fascism, BOYCOTT them too. #nzpol

🧵Worth reading the whole thing. #NZPOL

I think the Stuff all day live coverage of Charlie Kirk memorial & 1News leading with the story shows that there's some heavyweight interest in pushing US culture and Republican talking points into NZ living rooms. NMZE is naturally already atuned, posting headlines painting Kirk positively #nzpol

Trumpists are apparently going to try to tie paracetamol to autism. Someone must not be paying the right bribe, and it is a chance to Mom shame too. Evil bastards.

Some mornings it is hardly worth clawing your way out of the grave in which you were prematurely interred by your scheming children, impatient for their inheritance.

Have you seen a National idiot using a hammer.

#nzpol Reminder...

Some days it is not worth getting out of bed and quoting Richard The Third at the cats.

#BHN "I will be a President for all Americans", Donald Trump victory speech "I hate my opponent and I don't want what's best for them", Donald Trump at the Charlie Kirk service #nzpol #nzpolitics

NZ didn't like the lady who saved them from covid so they voted for a rich right wing white man. This is the result, cuts to public services.

Got it! Partial solar eclipse in Ōtautahi, New Zealand

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

I did think this at the time. Seemed to be quite an important step but who knows anymore in the shit cyclone.

Sometimes Mr. "I just wanna debate" was quite the race baiting fear monger, eh.

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

*we* aren't talking about him. The oppressor class is trying to impose its own reality on everyone else. THAT's the issue.

A landlord! In trouble!? Quick, to the money press!

So, #nzpol, firstly this isn't new money. Simeon is AGAIN resorting to reannouncing the repairs and maintenance capital expenditure allocations already signalled in the reading of the 2025 Budget. This is smoke and mirrors. This is not taking action. 🧐 www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

To label racist rhetoric as a grassroots uprising is to swallow its central lie. Its logic is familiar: appeal to threatened people, claim a treacherous government favours those who “look different”, and blame them for what you lack. apple.news/AF1FqAOnZRL2...

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

These people really believe there’s secret govt services available and it’s like no you don’t want to pay capital gains and you don’t want billionaires to pay 2% taxes THERES NO FUCKING SERVICES YOU DIDNT WANT ANY BLOODY SERVICES

The average (uninformed) punter spends more time worrying about how the "not properly disabled" are rorting the system and getting all those sweet sweet disability services for free than they are worried about the total lack of service provision for those who need them.* *see also trans, Māori etc

Alarming US FBI falling for "Transgender violence hoax". US Heritage Foundation asked FBI to label “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism” #TIVE as domestic terrorism. 🙄 Trans folk more likely victims than attackers. 😢 98% mass shootings by cis men. 😒 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transge...

Interesting / alarming. I've spoken to former head of NZSIS and then head of GCSB about potential threats that anti trans activists and associates pose in Aotearoa NZ, like Brian Tamaki / Destiny Church / Man Up and Kyle Chapman / National Front etc. Trans people aren't a threat in NZ #NZpol

I have voted locally. Someone has to counter the Back To Basics gang.

Attention, Aotearoa New Zealand Long list of recalled Tasti brand products - suspected presence of metal fillings. www.mpi.govt.nz/food-safety-...

Are you having a Saturday night in? Can I suggest Aro Vision as your local, non corporate source of movie entertainment? Every interesting, non commercial movie you could want, including lots of NZ content. This one has been my fave movie this year. Head South. www.nzonscreen.com/title/head-s...

Holy fuck 150km/hr winds! Stay safe Cantabrians, please!

Starting one's lawsuit with "Waaaaah it's not fair!" was a bold move, however.

Just your regular reminder that Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on donations from businesses for a successful campaign, and the Infrastructure Minister, who decides if businesses get to access the RMA fast track process.

This is the bullshit our stupid govt is throwing money at instead of science btw #nzpol

The Velvets "He's never early, he's always late First thing you learn is you always gotta wait" The Velvet Underground- Waiting for the Man

This is both sad and funny. Hilarious how bad they are at politics. #nzpol

In the AoNZ context the right hand panel would be Maori. #nzpol

Don’t forget they gutted pay equity, want to abolish the Ministry for Women, thought it was a “good day” when Roe v. Wade fell, want family (women) to do unpaid labour in hospitals, removed Relationship & Sexuality education guidelines… and want you to believe everything they’re doing is normal.

My, now weekly, Hera Lindsay Bird moment is upon me. I am so sick of the 1/2 wits "running" the country. Damn them all.

Candidate from the purported party of free speech weirdly triggered by me exercising my free speech to call my blog Local Aotearoa.

The irony of people saying that Labour just "taxed, borrowed and spent" is that yes, all governments do that. The problem is that National cut taxes, cut spending, somehow is borrowing more, and making things worse in general. #nzpol

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

So let me get this right: the PMSTIAC to date now has eight members and zero (0) with any experience working in CRIs/PROs. We shall not even start on the gender balance. I guess they're slowly lowering the dairy industry overrepresentation at least...

The correct answer is The Levellers and New Model Army. But we had to give a point to the team who answered Wham! and Take That.

Also! For NZ fans of the discontinued Best Fruju Flavour ™️, grapefruit and lemon, get thee to the frozen section of your local Reduced to Clear and see if you can snap some up, because I just bought nine of them for a dollar apiece at the Henderson branch It's been a banner day for Foods I Like!