"Oh we got both kinds. We got country and western."

Analysis of the language used in Trump’s Ukraine “peace plan” shows it was drafted in Russian and translated into English. I’ll try to dig up a link.

A masterful gambit sir, absolute 5D chess. I'm tempted too

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpolitics

“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”

In today’s NZ Herald

Karen Chhour is quoted in this piece actively promoting conversion practices, after previously comparing gender affirming care to torture at Lake Alice. This coalition is evil. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This a thousand times. No, I don’t want help putting a meeting in my diary. No, I don’t want you to précis the report I’m reading. And no, I don’t want you to train on my content including the legally privileged attachments.

New: A follow-up to the major 2022 BCG report into the future of the energy system finds NZ is on track for 98 percent renewable electricity by 2030, with work needed to shore up existing gas fields but no "gas renaissance" on the cards. newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/19/n...

Like some kind of grim Omen of things to come, #Hawaii ’s #Kilauea volcano just unleashed a MASSIVE WING SHAPED eruption with lava fountains soaring 1,500+ feet high

Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!! It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱 newrepublic.com/article/2028...

Quite a staggering statistic. Trump isn’t just bringing misery to immigrants, he’s harming everyone. #TrumpSlump

"The country has plummeted from second in the world in 2023 to 53rd in the 2025 Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index." Its a shame those stats can't apply to homelessness, polluted waterways, substance abuse,, and other socio-environmental problems. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#nzpol The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of: - Food prices up 4.7% - Fruit up 11% - Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2% - Bread up 11.4% - Cheese up 14.8% - Eggs up 16.2% - Electricity up 11.8% Laser-focused on the cost of living

$12.50 for a bottle of still or sparkling water? No thanks Oh, it's from Oravida? Then my answer will be fuck no, cheque please

True story. Via @xkcd.com

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Honestly, the IPCA report into the police (mis)handling of the McSkimming case makes for jaw-dropping reading. But it’s 135 pages long so I’ve read it for you. Here’s my report on one of the most serious failures of integrity in modern policing history⬇️⬇️

when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale

Just call it what it is: corruption. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao

Need a push? #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

Err BUT... ❌️Potaka made it harder to access emergency housing ❌️Upston made it harder for teens to access Jobseeker ❌️Bishop cancelled thousands of planned social housing builds AND sold off existing social housing ❌️Chhour slashed OT investment into youth employment programs

chatgpt says it’s fucked

Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

I really do enjoy Luxury Marmite Sandwich on Instagram. The school lunches one is well worth a watch.

In today’s Weekend Herald #nzpolitics

You don’t raze entire towns and cities street by street with controlled demolitions and bulldozers for any military objective. You do it because the aim is to wipe those places out of existence forever, and it’s not like they’ve been hiding this.

I stumbled across this visual shared by @DKThomp who commented that this chart explains a lot about the New York City Mayoral election. He is spot on. Young people around many Western economies feel the system isn't working for them. They will obviously vote for solution that break the system.

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

I know the robots will kill me one day But today is not that day

So let’s get this straight. Lifeline is unfunded by govt & needs $2 million. But govt just hands $24 million to Gumboot Friday and is happy to give millions to the bloody Michelin Guide for tourism puffery of dubious value. Everything this govt does is run on vibes. www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/06/l...

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I wonder if the cookers and transphobes have figured out he's only playing them for media attention yet. The brilliant performative politics of NZ First’s fake members’ bills thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

Annual inflation @ 3% Every November I give all employees a pay rise of at least this amount, or more if they have taken on more senior roles. Juniors are paid more than the Living Wage. No need for anyone to ask for a pay rise, it just happens, every year. Anything less than 3% is a pay cut.

#nzpol Unemployment reached a 9 year of 5.3%. The labour market took another turn for the worse - unemployment growing, underemployment growing, fewer hours being worked, and wages are not keeping up with inflation. This data is another sign the economy is not working. A thread

If you, or someone you know has come into contact with Seymour, please isolate for 7 days. Read more here: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/the-other-...

This is a lot of pressure for a poo.

Gunning for Zilla. #grickledoodle #guns #kaiju #kingkong #godzilla #monsters #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

roses are red the french are easy to outmaneuver

Hey political candidates. Unless you are exceptional, if you’re over 65 I will not and will never vote for you. Retire. Get a hobby that doesn’t involve fucking shit up the finding out of which you’ll unlikely never have to suffer.

Pledges currently over $51,000 Fantastic mahi to help a national treasure

Looking beautiful, Titirangi. Not abundant though, the snapper normally start biting about now

A systematic review of 511 studies showed that immunisation against COVID-19, RSV, and influenza was safe and effective in people of all ages.