Heads up that terfs are planning on being terfy at Kilbernie Pool next week on Thursday and Sunday so you may want to avoid if you don’t want to deal with them

If Little takes nothing else away from Joel’s piece, let it at least be “cars are not people”

I fucking HATE "Wellington Bays" Bring back Rongotai.

PS: Has anyone asked Bishop how the Mount Victoria tunnel proposal complies with that same Transport GPS, which forbids any part of the overall budget for a road project from being used for walking and cycling infrastructure? Are they hoping no one notices? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

This is grimly amusing. Bishop couldn't fulfil a campaign promise because of Simeon Brown's footpath fatwa, so he had to raid a Kāinga Ora fund. Maybe running transport policy as a culture war was a stupid and destructive thing to do in the first place, eh.

It's not about making Wellingtonians' lives easier. It's about making Wellingtonians pay for shit from which they won't benefit, plus so they can't afford things they do need. This is a punishment for rejecting RW politics. Which is a bit ironic after Little became mayor.

Build light rail and put a better cycling link in to take cars off the road. All trips go faster. Not that any of this matters because Wellington Airport will be underwater in a few decades.

The stupidest thing about a second Mt Vic tunnel is that the cars have no where to go. You pop back onto 1 lane each way Ruahine St or into the snarl of the basin. Like whats the point. What problem does this solve?

Huh. Fascinating. In both Rongotai and Wellington Central, the electorates on both sides of the tunnel. Your party came a distant third on party votes and your candidates also came a distant third. Weird how so few people I Wellington voted for you on this

"up to 10 minutes" That's the maximum amount of time saved. Ten minutes. How fucking WEAK are we that we cannot abide ten whole fucking minutes for the sake of the environment, road safety, etc etc? Christ, this is a country of whiney piss babies

"It just keeps me busy during my retirement otherwise I go sterile or do something even sillier and get back into politics or economics, and I don’t want to go backwards" That's some amazing self awareness from Gareth Morgan - please can more rich people learn from him? www.rnz.co.nz/life/culture...

It cost Casey Costello $4500 to hire a room to meet with Irish anti-trans activist Helen Joyce. $1000 for a council social event to unveil a painting is peanuts & much more positive bc it involves sthg tangible (painting) & supports a local artist.

Thinking about creating an event for Wellington Pride Festival 2026, but got some questions? This online event is for you! We’ll also be joined by some of our partners who’ll have more information on grants and venues. Full details www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/events/onlin...

Congrats to the good people of the Onslow-Western ward of Wellington, you've elected a man who thinks being a Councillor is beneath him (but he'll still keep the salary, thanks)

Emily (Emily Writes) and I drafted a letter to Andrew Little about his decision to appoint Ray Chung as chair of the CCO Review & Appointments subcommittee. We think this is unacceptable given his past behaviour. Here's a template for a letter if you agree: sites.google.com/view/really-... #nzpol

instead of spending a bajillion dollars on a new tunnel to the airport couldn't we achieve the same goal cheaper by moving the beehive to miramar

Please let Wellington totally and utterly reject this school

Okay props to McNulty for this shade

Labour Party councillor and new Deputy Mayor Ben McNulty using talking points that are indistinguishable from those used by right wingers 😒

A four lane road cutting through the most densely populated part of Wellington and NZTA still can't tell the Council where it's going - but apparently they can get in touch with over 200 property owners whose land they need for the new tunnels. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Horrors! A tragic jet plane accident in Wellington.

FYI this just got moved to 7am-7pm

Did you know that @drmorsetattoo.bsky.social @lofty.tattoo does HP tattoo coverups? For any J K Rowling-related coverup at Dr Morse studio, they’ll donate 20% of the price to Gender Minorities Aotearoa.

Pancakes at Neo on Willis Street: Rhubarb Crème Brûlée Pancakes w roasted rhubarb, crème anglaise, caramel shard, rhubarb syrup, freeze dried raspberries, pistachios They’re GF and cost $26. The bacon was extra. They were delicious.

Oh and just a note for the 4,496 people who ranked Ray Chung: hope you weirdos wake up with stiff necks and you spill your coffee all over your trousers.

Ray Chung has held on to his seat by a 45 vote margin in the final count. Gosh, maybe he could buy himself a swatch to celebrate :-)

and stop referring to the government as "Wellington". if Wellingtonians actually got to run the show we'd be a very different country.

Yay for Joel if this is what he wants but booooo for us as a city, what a loss!

Why are there fireworks?

"He was so confident, he’d even told me at an event he had a $90,000 Rolex pre-ordered from Partridges as a gift to himself for when he won." Ahahahahahhahahahahahhahaha

Narrator: Ray Chung has in fact learnt nothing

Nobody ray chung tonight

Better Wellington everyone

Dompost got it's arse kicked in the election. Big loser.

Well Pōneke, you’ve made some good choices and some bad choices wellington.govt.nz/your-council...

The fact that Kerry Prendegast has her mayoral portrait in front of a motorway sums up everything she did for Wellington: pave over the best bits so some cunts up the coast could spend 5 seconds less in traffic:

Our last fundraising film for the year (probably?) is happening next Friday 10 October. We've got classic comedy with The Birdcage (1996). Hosted by drag legend Ellie Kat, old school gay camp needs a deserving location, so where better than Scotty & Mal's? www.trybooking.com/nz/events/la...

as of yesterday (Wednesday) 27.52% of eligible voters have sent in voting papers for the Wellington City Council elections. we’re ahead of 2022 and 2019, but have fallen behind 2016, the year bookended by the deaths of David Bowie & Carrie Fisher - a.k.a. where everything started going wrong

Now this is going to come as a shock but it seems that the Cones Hotline is a complete waste of time and money.

Wellingtonians - Are you interested? An hour of unlimited play on the machines at Ye Olde Pinball Shoppe before regular opening hours on a Sunday from 10-11 am. N95 or better masks to be worn at all times and there is an air purifier. $20/person and we need 25 people to make the event happen.

Kerry Prendergast and Rex Nicholls own this billboard

Peter Jackson is a dickhead landlord not some benevolent city saver? WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?

only once wayne guppy is defeated will Wellington elect a mayor for a second term

the reason Wellington has had so many one-term mayors is bc wayne guppy, mayor of upper hutt for 24 years, has absorbed their tenure

The old band is back under Better Wellington for the 2025 election, with the ticket Independent Together, including friend Guy Nunns. Guy is well known in these circles. He can be found in footage ranting towards parliament at the failed Unite 14 Days of Protest. Back to the bigger picture /5

Daniel Tither (back of the photo) campaigned for Ray. He secured an interview for Chung on The Platform. He works with Inwood often. He was part of The S.B. Group, third-party promoters for New Zealand First in 2023, along with Paul Heffernan, the Better Wellington authoriser. /4

as of Friday just 12.38% of eligible Wellington City Council voters have returned their voting papers! there’s only 2 weeks left mates, what are you waiting for

OMG I can still get married at the Paramount Theatre after all! www.thegods.nz/about

More details about the roles we need to fill are available here: www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/hello...

Better Wellington/independent Together not even managing to switch to the right Facebook account to claim they’re not the same organisation is some kind of performance art, right?