Just in case Trump announces an attack on Iran in his state of the union address in a couple of hours, I made sure to top up my half empty petrol tank today. #nzpol

Note to self: fill up petrol tank before WW3 starts. #nzpol

Looks like Operation: Epstein Distraction is going ahead. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The latest Transparency International Corruption Perception Report is out and NZ is not doing as well as we're used to. Slipping from a peak of 91/100 in the mid 2010s to 81/100 last year. We also slipped 2 places in overall rank since 2024. #nzpol #corruption www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025/...

Today I am announcing my campaign for the Dunedin City Council byelection. I’m standing to offer leadership that's ready to go on day one; that's willing & able to challenge the government’s reforms; & that's prepared to make decisions in the best long-term interests of the city. aaronhawkins.nz

Noam Chomsky? FFS ... #Epstein #Epsteinfiles

Sigh. #nzpol #epsteinfiles

Hope the fire guy doesn’t get in trouble but 🤣🤣🤣🤣😊🤣😊😊😊🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 (watch the fire guy at the end)

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen is a wonderful human being. youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

Tofa Judith Collins. #nzpol

Alex Pretti was killed by a terror squad because of his instinct for humanity and compassion.

You know you're in for a good book when you're nodding enthusiastically in agreement with the first paragraph. From "Understanding Media: Communication, Power and Social Change" by James Curran and Joanna Redden #nzpol

289 days to change a government. #nzpol

Thought experiment. Imagine if Trump took Greenland and turns his eyes south, towards another mineral-rich frozen landmass. Where the US has long reserved a right to make a claim under the Antarctic Treaty. What country do you think he'd want to take as a forward operating base? #nzpol

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

I've been thinking this would be a good idea for a while now - either ring-fencing the GST for local content and news or imposing a specific levy. After all, we can't really go back to a tv license system now and the funding model established after it was abolished can't keep up. #nzpol

Crikey, did @naomiaklein.bsky.social have to be this prescient in 2007?

I've heard of the invisible hand, but the invisible Prime Minister is a new one. #nzpol

Gee, it would kind of help if our government was made up of thoughtful and serious people rather than the clown show we currently are stuck with. Given we're faced with the likely collapse of NATO and the global reverberations every corner of the world faces. #nzpol

Am I the only one who finds the Bunnings mobile site to be dogshit? Quit with the autofill, Bunnings, and let me make my query. I just wanna find a shelf location.

I don't casually drop the F word, but if you're not convinced the US is now fully a fascist state given the events of the last day, I think you're delusional.

No blood for oil. #nzpol

Pour one out for my fellow designated family tech nerds. I guess we're all going to handhold relatives through some personal cybersecurity self-audits over the coming weeks. It's a long way from setting the clock on the VCR. #managemyhealth #databreach #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Finally Dunedin had a clear night recently and I could spend a couple of hours imaging the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy. This little smudge is 6 million light years away.

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

Merry Christmas Bluesky.

Peters to Luxon: #nzpol

Do you think Peters and Seymour toss a coin over who gets to make Luxon his bitch on any given week, or have they worked out a roster? #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

It's going to start Christmas day, isn't it? He's just that kind of asshole.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

This tumblr post from exwife-of-frankenstein has been popping up all over the place in recent weeks. It rings so damn true.

On my summer reading list.

This looks like it'll be delightful.

Sometimes I really am a 12 year old at heart.

Seems relevant, given today's White House address.

If you're not happy with Firefox's pivot to AI, can't stand Brave because it was funded by Peter Thiel and obviously won't use Chrome because *gestures broadly towards Google* ... I suggest Librewolf. #browsers

Barbie at the Bish's place. Luxon not invited. #nzpol

Time to dust off your "No Blood for Oil" placards, folks. #ImTiredBoss

#nzpol Just catching up with the HYEFU data today - but the data looks grim pretty much across the board. One data point stood out to me - the economy will be cumulatively $28.3bn smaller at the next election than predicted by Treasury at the last election.

Turns out the war on drugs is going nuclear.

This government is wedded to an economic theory from more than a generation ago that clearly does not work. At least for the 99 percent. They need to be sent packing. #nzpol

All you need to know about our current relationship with tech is that recent words of the year across several dictionaries include: doomscroll ragebait brainrot enshittification slop

Rob Reiner? What an especially awful last few days it's been.

That guy who wrestled one of the shooters at Bondi Beach is an absolute legend. Amazing how he could run at him so fast given the burden of his massive balls.

There was a break in the cloud last night for a while. I think it's the law - or at least a convention - that people getting into #astrophotography take a shot of the Orion nebula as their first image. The highlights are a bit overexposed, but I'm happy with it.