GOOD GRIEF by Andrea Gibson From You Better Be Lightning Button Poetry, 2021.

Not all heroes wear capes. Some are brave rangatahi with strong morals and no fear of heights or war criminals. Dig deep and help them out, every little bit will really help. @patbrittenden.bsky.social, @chewienz.bsky.social please give this a boost! #nzpol #kikorangi

What's that? The dim light of hope on the horizon?? Brilliant work, PSNA. Well done. #nzpol #kikorangi

New political slur just dropped... (60 years ago but I just found it and I think it's perfect) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propert... #nzpol #kikorangi #propertarians #classwar #generalstrike

Labour has proven they can’t - or won’t - rise to any of the challenges of our times. Those deeply seated within the party are well ingratiated into the private industries that need to be regulated. They won’t offer any real political alternatives because they’re National (red edition). #nzpol

www.instagram.com/reel/DJlN_W4... #nzpol

Never forget: NZ Govts for 50 years have bought into an economic management model that relies on keeping a bufferstock of kiwis unemployed & desperate. Jobs are kept scarce, so that kiwis sell their labour at poverty-wage prices. If unemployment is too low, Govt's henchmen at RBNZ crash the economy.

The alt text is perfection. And yes, that is a bald head with a hairnet and then a hood and then another hairnet. Something something efficiency metaphor...

Not to get all Marxist Feminist on you (she says disingenuously as I am totally doing that): all the unpaid household caring labour we do drags down the wages for the external caring labour we do. If you pay nothing for household labour you can justify paying nearly nothing for outsourced care work

Particularly those who were silent about the “defining a woman” bill. This govt wants to define women only to systemically oppress them - if women are considered people first and women second, it’s harder to legally disadvantage them. Systemic pay inequity was always the next repeal. #nzpol

Does Matriarcho-Communism exist yet? Because it should. #nzpol

Vote be buggered. We no longer have the time OR the money! We need to have a general strike & force the Gov. Gen. to call a snap election. It should've been done months ago. Now is the time or we'll end up with the same living conditions as UK/ US. The 'haves' are fine, the 'have-nots' are fucked!

I'm going to keep repeating this until the media actually picks up on it. David Seymour wrote a literal book on how much he dislikes democracy called "Birth of a Boom Saskatchewan's Dawning Golden Age" where a chapter is literally called "Democracy, too much of a good thing" #nzpol

I'm happy to strike for a many unions as will have me.

BREAKING Luxon Government to pass law TONIGHT that legalises killing kiwi www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #WarOnNature

Some huge news for Aotearoa's trans/non-binary community: a new grant has been announced to cover costs of name changes! If you need this, check it out, and if you don't, spread the word! rainbownzcharitabletrust.org.nz/cpg/ #nz #rainbow

#nzpol #kikorangi ##hopeissayingstop Dame Cindy Kiro, the Governor-general of NZ, represents the British monarch and has the authority to carry out his constitutional duties. One of these duties includes having the power to dismiss the prime minister. Another one is to dissolve parliament. 🧵

That moment gave us hope but we can’t rest yet. They’re coming for Te Tiriti in 3 waves. #ToitūTeTiriti #OneTermGovt #NZPol Strike 1: The Treaty Principles Bill loud, ugly, and upfront. You see it in the distance.

#hopeissayingstop Thank you, Tu Chapman. I have signed it, and wish I could sign it twice.

@maramadavidson.bsky.social @tepaatimaori.bsky.social @benjamin-doyle.bsky.social @chewienz.bsky.social @patbrittenden.bsky.social @davidfarrier.bsky.social @bernardchickey.bsky.social Please keep paying attention. Protect rāngtitahi who stand up for justice. #hopeissayingstop #kikorangi #nzpol

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Game changing. Let's explore why a jobs guarantee is fabulous social *and* economic policy. Quick reminder that making sure kiwis have jobs is not that radical. NZ Govt thru the mid-20th century was scared witless if a few folks (well, white men) were unemployed. See image 2 (1960 Stats NZ) [🧵 1/n]

#AoNZ #NZpol You know what to do, blow this up Aoteoroa! Hana's haka and David Atlas Seymour get a feature. Please help us ward of a fossil fuel Atlas/Dutton LNP government at #AusPol election on saturday.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecqD...

If you want to know where hope is, look to the students. #SJP is peacefully protesting against #UoC investing in armaments. The weather is shit & the economy is fucked, but the students are there standing up for justice. Hope is our brave young people saying stop. #Kikorangi #AoNZ #NZpol

As @davi-en.bsky.social likes to say, it's as surprising as finding a fork in a kitchen. A remnant of an empire built on blood and theft, and I don't think we ever collectively agreed that we would stop being shitful. We apparently have just settled into seasons of heightened fuckery.

This NZ government isn't dysfunctional. They are the #AtlasNetwork stealing the country. Wealthy people are paying wealthier people to buy politicians who will funnel money to the billionaire tier. This is a pyramid-scheme coup. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

The moment Peters and his ilk start addressing our rates of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, pay equity, safeguarding access to abortion…is the moment I say Well done, now you’re addressing women’s rights. Cis men are the biggest predators of cis women. The end.

Happy Easter to all those who like this kind of thing.

Yay! New episode from the best podcast in the world! Haven't even listened yet, but i know it'll be perfect. My morning is sorted :) #theclimatedeniersplaybook @climatetown.bsky.social pca.st/podcast/588f...

Defunding the police is good policy, actually

youtu.be/TNI92D_fvO8?... I humbly present this. Genuinely good content, well thought-out, nicely produced. You'll feel better after watching, I promise. #kikorangi #AoNZ #renaissance

Erotic imagery.

So happy to see Te Pāti Māori here - looking forward to the clarity, intelligence, honesty, and morality that this pāti brings to the discourse. He rā ki tua. #2ticksTPM #toitūtetiriti #kikorangi

The best graphic of earth’s temperature over time that I’ve seen is from xkcd. It provides much needed context to the RATE of change as opposed to just mean surface temp. Plus it’s funny! xkcd.com/1732/

THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The cognitive dissonance is migraine inducing

Wahine Māori: “People don’t feel safe around the police. Here are the experiences of my constituants…” Buncha white dudes: “Hiw dare you. That’s a fucking insane opinion to have you nutjob.”

Why the deliberate health cuts and chronic underfunding? To pay for tax cuts for the rich of course. Fix it with this one simple trick. #taxtherich #taxwealthnotwages #nzpol

Reminder that this is on this Wednesday! UC student or not, come kōrero with Greens' MP Tamatha Paul about issues of #police reform and #military in #Aotearoa #nzpol. Hope to see you there!

I wish all the “fiscally responsible” people who chuck their vote to National would read this thread. It’s clear which parties are actually economically pragmatic.

Siri, seize the means of production

Sometimes, the world makes sunsets like this, and I feel really lucky to be here. #kikorangi #Featherston

The Māori worldview—kaitiakitanga, whanaungatanga—values people and the land over personal gain. A Māori Kuini would be deeply tied to Aotearoa in ways no British monarch ever could. Why not keep the constitutional monarchy but change the monarch? #ToiTeTiriti #LongLiveTheKuini

#kikorangi #nzpol Imagine a visitor coming into your house & setting your curtains on fire. Extremely shocking, & you need to put that fire out, obviously. But while you're busy doing that, they're quietly making a secret copy of your house keys. This is what our govt is doing to us. 🧵...

So this, from Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver, is delicious. youtu.be/hGtThOtkqGk

For all the disillusioned folks, drifting in a current of despair. Take a breath, then let it out and take another one. #kikorangi www.adbusters.org/full-article...