He has 7 social media workers, and they all hate him obviously

Right at this very moment we have 2x kereru visiting for a drink 🪶 Pretty happy having such regular visits

Don't become a bookless statistic this year 😥 #pukapuka

We honor the bravery of Ahmed al Ahmed, a bystander who risked his life to protect those under fire. The lesson, yet again, is all too clear: Our safety is bound up together.

deer dreams

This is one of the weirder rabbit holes I’ve gone down in my life, but yes, Grohl was an active contributor and supporter of the aids denialist groups

A little more detailed press release about the release of our new national guidelines. Honestly it still hasn't hit home that we finally got them published - relief doesn't even begin to cover it.

If you are a parent, and your kids' school is not on the list, email the board of trustees and ask them to join it.

Good statement from the Greens. www.greens.org.nz/our_trans_wh...

The Andrew Little situation strongly implies he just confidently assumed he could manage Chung fine, and put zero thought into it beyond that. Which means he also just assumed Tory Whanau was doing a bad job when he could cruise through. And that's disrespectful/racist/sexist as shit. #nzpol

If you have any interest in trans rights, this is a pretty incredible documentary. It’s about Chase Strangio, the trans man who has been arguing before the Supreme Court. And about the ways the news media can misunderstand and misrepresent trans people. gathr.com/vod/9320a621...

Opinion: If The Herald's political staff wants to sneer about a "C-grade scandalette" let's go there. There's a lot of material in the archives of a newspaper, let's not forget, that waged an obsessive, and increasingly petty and bizarre, campaign to slut-shame an elected Mayor out of office.

Geoffrey Palmer: The McSkimming scandal shows we need a whole new Policing Act - https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-11-2025/geoffrey-palmer-the-mcskimming-scandal-shows-we-need-a-whole-new-policing-act - Details and more news at: https://nzccl.org.nz/news

Our heartfelt congratulations to all of our Uber members and the four drivers - Nureddin, Julian, Bill and Mea’ole. It is not easy to stand up and speak out about a multibillion dollar multinational corporation that controls almost every aspect of your livelihood. You have done it. And won! #uber

Love this so much. 💜

I need a huge favour Pōneke friends. I can't weight bear on my toe so I'm going to After Hours to get it xrayed. Can someone please go to Chemist Warehouse on Lambton Quay & pick up my blister pack medication for me today and drop it off to my front door. I will give you all the necessary info. ❤️

If anyone has any spare coins, or connections to people with big pockets - please note funding is needed to support this vital and deeply urgent cause: www.tika.org.nz/donate

A pernicious addiction Written about the UK but equally applicable to #nzpol Credit: @davidallengreen.bsky.social

Given the grim news in the political reporting at Teen Vogue, we need to support media like The Flytrap even more!

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

You can become a free or paid sub either on my patreon above or on my Burns Notice site. Either are fine, and each will send you an email whenever I publish. www.burnsnotice.com/gopers-have-...

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

as reported in webworm today, the nz media council has ruled against RNZ, saying it lacked balance and fairness in its reporting over the death of trans teen alex. hopefully this encourages RNZ to look at all their reporting on trans issues - they need to (www.webworm.co/trainhopping/)

I have been boosting Bevan’s work for some time & am dismayed that there seems to be little interest by media to pick it up. THIS needs to shared widely amongst #nzpol The overriding of proper process and underhanded inclusion of colonial power in a govt curriculum document is an outrage.

Patreon is still the best way to support my work but for those who don't want to create a Patreon account, you can now financially subscribe to my news letter for $4 or $8/month burns-notice.ghost.io/welcome-to-h...

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

"When academics can't invoke settled patterns of far-right mainstreaming without hitting up against coordinated harassment campaigns sanctioned by elected officials, we've already lost something important." culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...

Sorry. The bar to gun ownership cannot be high enough. Owning a gun brings certain very significant responsibilities. If you can't obey a few fucking traffic rules, then you are completely unfit to own a gun. Ditto if you email your police mate to help out. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A reminder that the brutal occupation of #WestPapua and the ongoing persecution of Indigenous Papuans is a horror that is largely undocumented & invisibilised. Like so much black suffering, furthest away in proximity to Whiteness, their revolution has NOT been televised. #FREEWESTPAPUA #Oceania

if you don't like The Offspring then maybe you should have hired a different funeral stripper

The heroes here are the nurses getting paid crap to do genuinely great things for kiwis. They might not actually pay that much tax (net), but they are still worth a thousand times more than the rentiers who are winning at the game of hungry hippos that is our economy. Cheers! 🥂 [Ends]

not my circus but those ARE my monkeys and that's the whole problem

The first rule of Chinese Whispers Club is you never chalk a boot shiny wasp horse cubs.

I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

Whenever Charlie Kirk's snowflake fans try the "so much for the tolerant left" response.

Tom Phillips is dead after a police shooting, and his three children have been found alive. The immediate danger is over. But a larger question lingers: who decided Tom Phillips was safe enough to be left alone with his children - and why? My story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

His “offending really is a worst nightmare for those who live alone or alone with a young child,” and there’s a “high risk of striking again” yet this guy only got two years and eight months’ jail. It is absolutely no wonder women do not report in NZ, when there is so little justice to be found.

Opaque algorithms are killing discourse when it matters most. Keep talking about these things and don’t let the algorithm bully you into avoiding things.

guys Your brain doesn’t finish developing at age 25. Twenty-five was just the oldest person in the study

*scrooge mcduck diving into a safe-pile of kidneys* I'm the king of piss!!

Slightly diminish a book. Confederacy of Dancers.

The kids are safe, the guys dead. That's it, I don't need to know any more about this situation. The kids will need some help and support but that's not public interest now. I'm sure NZ media won't get really fucken weird about this family forever.

Get IT support on the phone, the Luxobot is glitching again.