A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

How many of these roles will disappear with the mighty gutting of the Public Service? I’m sure the Yellow Legged Hornet is stoked about it😡 #NZPol share.google/JH6kziqmKVv9...

Bernard Hickey "This is a clear income transfer from state tenants to private landlords of ~$500 million and this is on top of the $12.5b tax breaks that have been handed to landlords in the last 2 years, and that was taken from the Climate Emergency Response Fund" www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5u0...

So effectively, they’re destroying the essential fabric of our society to satiate the extremely wealthy, while claiming there’s no money bazooka…for the poors. There is always a great big money bazooka pointed straight up to the greedy though, isn’t there Nicola?! 😠🙄 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

New Listener column just dropped.

To mark Grace Jones’s 78th birthday, please enjoy her insisting that ‘Pull Up to the Bumper’ is simply a pleasant song about the joys of manoeuvring a long, well-waxed limousine into a very tight space, and ‘shame on you’ if you think otherwise! 🚘

Time to court the women's vote, once we define what one actually is. I chat more about this over at my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/yeehawth...

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

Kestrels are famous for their ability to hover. This allows them to lock their eyes on the ground and search for small prey like voles and mice. TT: Jacob Rheams Wildlife Photographer - UK

just got to the love shack, you wouldnt believe the size of the chrysler in the parking lot

Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™

Best news in a long time. Te Waikoropupu springs are safe, for now

this is a masterpiece

Need a payroll system? Thankyou Payroll is NZ based, so it is all over tax, law, public holidays and local support. My weekly payroll for 3 staff takes about 2 minutes and costs about $60 per month, very happy with this. Please used T03614 as a referral code (we can both win purepods.com)

and now, your moment of zen. 🎥 (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYhEwUvv67q/)

Meta is making smart glasses for soldiers to call in drone strikes? You know exactly how this is going to end 😢 www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/18/1...

Remember when Nicola Willis wanted to tax online gambling and didn’t know what a VPN was ….does not bode well - given her fervour for all things AI 😬🤦🏻‍♀️

The very next post in my timeline says ...shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane. The AI bubble will burst spectacularly, and I'd rather have government remain functioning

BLOODY BASTARD CYCLEWAYS!!!!

US drops fraud charges after billionaire Adani pledges $10bn investment https://aje.news/dm0esz

Quick update, TOP getting another wedge from the Serato dude #nzpol Chart by @marcdaalder.bsky.social

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We must action real clean energy solutions Aotearoa #nzpol

The guys who are the “good economic managers” did this

I think it's about time I embraced my french heritage a little more... J'en ai marre #NZPol

Lawyers for Climate Action NZ 👏👏👏 To CoC, from 118 NZ & international civil society orgs (includ Union of Concerned Scientists & orgs from Europe, USA, Asia) and prominent academics from NZ & Oxford, Chicago, Melbourne, Imperial College London. #nzpol www.lawyersforclimateaction.nz/news-events/...

We should all aim to be like Finland. It leads the world in 2 things: education and frequently #1 for happiest place on earth. Only 2% private schools, no Standardized Testing until teenagers, free meals, highly educated teachers, all have masters. I am sure teachers are highly paid too!

An unanticipated danger of ambient AI: converting a the statement “female mail man” into a “Patient is a 26 year old biological male identifying as a female” #MedSky

RFK Jr.’s health department halted publication of two Covid vaccine studies involving 12 million Americans. Draft findings reviewed by outside experts reportedly showed serious side effects were rare and benefits outweighed risks. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/fda-pulled...

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Prophecy. My cartoon in the Saturday @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

A lady asked me if I really needed the glasses I was wearing to see. I said, “No, I just wear them so I can take them off and rub my eyes with my palms in exasperation when someone says something really stupid.” I then proceeded to take off my glasses and rub my eyes with my palms in exasperation.

Timeless (who else)

this is ENRAGING. when I couldn't drive due to seizures I relied on the Total Mobility subsidy even just to get to work. public transport out west is chaotic, disruptive and often inaccessible, and absolutely cannot be relied on to get anywhere on time. why the fuck would you cut the subsidy down???

Otautahi Chirstchurch, get yourselves to watch Ivan Aristaguieta standup comedy tonight at Little Andromeda. Saw him last night in Auckland, absolute genius. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKfi...

Cartoon by Nick Anderson. (Follow him on Substack: https://nickanderson.substack.com/)

So vaccines of various (all?) types appear to cut dementia risk. No mention of a link between early onset dementia and the antivax movement, but it would explain a fuck of a lot

I need like a wiki database of how to do this with every car, if possible. arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/r...

Can you spot the point where he learned a Black woman was going to be in a movie

Shocked and ashamed that only 8,000 non-Māori have so far chosen to be part of history by adding their name to the Claim that Tania's talking about. Deadline is Monday. "Worse than the Treaty Principles Bill!" @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol 📝 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Paging Christopher Luxon #nzpol

Lemee get this straight: $3m subsidy for Robbie Williams is a $50/head subsidy on Eden Park tickets. Nick Sautner says big events see 3000 people employed on the night - but that works out at only 8 FTEs. $375k an FTE is truly "job rich".

Another for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...

🇪🇸 Spain's electricity in 2000: 56% fossil, 2% solar & wind. By 2026: 44% solar & wind, just 17% fossil. The crossover came in 2023. Gas now sets the price only 15% of the time vs 89% in Italy. More in my forthcoming Substack newsletter 👇 janrosenow.substack.com

I worked in a bar in Edinburgh. Old timer: Fey groo Me: Sorry, what was that? Old timer: Fey groo Me: Um, one more time? Old timer: Feyyy groooo Me: Can you point to it? Ah, Famous Grouse? Old timer: Aye, fey groo