Tonight I've published a reference document on the inspiration and history of NZ First's transphobic definitions bill. If you plan to make a submission, as I do, I hope this background can help you plan and write your submission curly.kiwi/articles/202...

The thing about AI is that it’s that episode of the office where Michael listens to every step his GPS tells him even as he sees that he’s driving into a lake except the gps is AI bros and Michael is every ceo of every industry for some reason

Fucking conservable

Context: I'm allergic to fucking tomatoes, they make me feel like I'm having a fucking heart attack. Much like fucking conservatives give me a fucking headache

How the way I fucking feel about fucking conservative heritage compares to how I feel about a fucking tomato glut. I mean, we could fucking preserve some of them, if you fucking want, I don't really fucking care but they are fucking conservable, in a pinch, if you really feel so inclined

Bishop, the guy who doesn’t understand why the cool musicians think he sucks. This is why moron, you’re in the party that fucks people over every single time

Again. They're doing this again. The accommodation supplement is a subsidy to landlords that already costs us $2 billion annually. There's a sorry history here ...

If you have not already done so, here's how to lock down your Bluesky account. As easy as 1, 2,3 “Settings” > “Privacy and security” > “Two-factor authentication (2FA) freedom.press/digisec/blog...

"Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda. The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...

You can download a printable copy of this poster from my website: www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/...

The cruelty, the chaos and the overwhelm are absolutely the point. They want the despair, the disengagement, the feeling like nothing will make a difference. I don’t think they’ve planned on the rage. I’m so deeply angry; and everyone I talk to is too. A clever opposition would turn that into votes.

Aotearoa BSky - please help clinicians, patients & their whanau to combat Pharmac's racist decision regarding access to Type 2 diabetes medications: Empagliflozin, Dulaglutide, Liraglutide. 🔴 DEADLINE is NEXT WEEK - 5pm, Thurs 28 May 🔴 🧵 Resources & how to submit (very easy) #1) @HaumanuHauora IG

Yesterday my octogenarian MIL learned about the Featherston WW2 POW camp, and the massacre of Japanese prisoners. She was rightfully distressed, about the people dead but also the fact our people commit atrocities too, and about the cover up in her education. Anyway, good morning...

This is not bad luck - not lifestyle. It is the accumulated weight of a system that was not built for them and too often, actively excluded them. When Pharmac introduced the ethnicity criterion in 2021, I felt something I don't feel very often in the health system: I felt the Treaty being honoured.

Death cult govt

Heather was one of my art teachers. And I met Burton at a shed talk, it was him talking to CF Goldie. They smuggled a desicated cat from under a house, wrapped like a mummy into the US for the talkshow circuit in a crate marked CAT, which of course denotes catalogues, say for an art hoax #pukapuka

Y'ever build up a nice bed of coals in the wood burner thing and then nestle one of those heavy as fāk blocks of red gum on top and let it burn slow and good until it's at that red hot charcoal stage, a perfect sculpture of the log but in coals, and when you poke it it shatters with a tinkle? Didja?

BREAKING ‼️ My members bill has just been drawn from the biscuit tin that would draw a line in stopping any new mining on public Conservation land 🌳🦎🐧🐝🦋 ...with all the Government's attacks on nature, this could not come at a more critical time. Big ups to the original bill holder Eugenie Sage 🙌

From one of my all time best favourite great albums, been spinning that disk since the 80s, when I was a young teen, and I don't believe a word of this

#nzpol For those writing to MPs about the heinous bill on gender identity, this short piece on the scientific evidence that debunks the alleged biological binary might be helpful: www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Tomorrow I'll be breaking out my Tranarchy tshirt. Every trans person I've met irl and online is a shining star. I'm with Ricky Jupiter. Made by @greengecko29.bsky.social, Ricky Jupiter. They got into drumming thanks to their love of Animal.

Thanks to the Government, many NZ diets are increasingly deficient in food which this article barely mentions as a cause of deficiency that despite widespread evidence many NZ families are starving #nzpol 1/n www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbei...

The terrible things happening with AI are not about the tech so much as they are about who is wielding it and why they have so much wealth & power to do so. That system doesn't go away if we "defeat" AI. They'll find something else. This won't stop until we deal with the systemic root of the problem

A distraction from the wealth being funneled to the wealthy

#nzpol In an ocean of shit news, the good shines like a beacon of hope. Resist e te whānau! Resist and we WILL prevail 💚💚✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

I've set up the sleepout/storage/office so that my sitting desk is in between both recumbent desks (the couch and the bed). Or: I've set up my room so I can play electric guitar in bed

Email 1 to Steve Abel. Green.

From around this time last year thomashainsworth362.substack.com/p/how-the-ec...

If someone offers me a seat on the rocket ship, I have many many questions

We need to get a progressive party in, like @greens.org.nz and get this going! Sand!! We should have enough of that here. It's past time we ditch fossil fuels.

one of my favorite out of context sentences I've ever seen on Wikipedia

RespectEd Aotearoa, one of the few specialist sexual violence prevention organisations in the country, is to close after government's sector funding was withdrawn. “We are not closing because the need has gone away. We are closing because the funding did.” - Jan Logie, RespectEd Aotearoa

NZ govt: we will strip the land of resources, and make it illegal to complain. We will screw your health and education systems, we will lie and cheat and tell you it's the fault of the bloody mowries. NZ people: they are rich so they probably know better than us. This is fine

I fucking hate how older boomers got to retire at 60, then changed it to 65 for the younger boomers, and now it's going to be 67 (?) for everyone else. we have to work 7 years longer than people who had free tertiary education, bought their first house for $1.99 and own 19 rentals

Yes, but BNZ and The Herald are NZ institutions who were fundamental… <checks notes>… oh… oh no… <sweating>… land wars

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Wtf is wrong with these goons? Is it that they believe in Roko's basilisk and are trying to curry favour? Pre-emptive simping before the boss is even created? Any, he says "interesting" as if "actually"is coming next,, he says "you must learn to listen" while he plows on, not listening Q

Remember, books can go in the recycling bin

again,

the average working class rural Kiwi goes "well it's a bit strange but we're all God's creatures" while the average Nelson crystal shop owner is screaming at me that I'm part of a network of satanic paedophiles

Hey fam, according to the Pastafarian calendar today is Advanced tree hugging and arborial sex day. I don't know if we're supposed to have sex in a tree or with a tree but my piety compels me to try both. r'Amen

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

Sir Geoffrey Palmer explaining what he thinks is the Waitangi Tribunal's biggest contribution over the last 50 years

perhaps we would all be better off if “wealthy racist has racist opinions” was not treated as newsworthy

It could happen here: the future the right wing wants

RNZ please. There is no good reason for me to hear David Seymour's voice during my first coffee, or ever. He has NOTHING of value to add. In fact we'd gain by losing him, he oughta be banished for life from Aotearoa.