cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

*cartman voice* “Respect mah authoritay!” www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/s...

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

As any military strategist knows, port cities are always particularly vulnerable to amphibian assault.

It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡 (Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)

I am old, tired and jaded. I gave up my place to those younger and better equipped, I told myself. So why did I just buy an inflatable frog costume?

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

I remember when asset sales were gonna lead to mum and dad shareholders and now we just have mum and dad paying $500 power bills in the winter. The right wing ideology is a scam. It’s a pyramid scheme. It’s useless. It improves nothing.

Sell a public asset, fund services for a day Apply a wealth tax, fund services for a lifetime

I still have friends in Welli, right? I know some of you use the library - drop off your voting envelope there, when you’re taking your books back. Just make sure to get in there before midday, mmmhmmm? 😏

Punitive policy, producing perverse incentives: “…a household which earns $65,528 in a year can bring in an additional $13,942.76 after tax from an 18- or 19-year-old’s Jobseeker payment. [But] if either of the parents earn one more dollar, the household as a whole loses nearly $14,000 in income.”

Another good piece of writing about the Aerospace Summit blockade on the Spinoff here: thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-1...

You might have seen news reports about the blockade of the Aerospace Summit in Christchurch yesterday, and JuCo mouthing off. Peace Action response here: peaceactionwellington.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/r...

A British academic is tracking the Dictator in the WH’s authoritarian acts since taking office in Jan. It tracks illegalities, unconst’l acts, abuses of power - anything undermining democracy & propping up authoritarianism. Tally is at 1466 authoritarian acts. 🆘🇺🇸 www.trumpactiontracker.info?

‘Nice rights you’ve got there, shame if something were to happen to them’

If Nicola Willis thinks we “shouldnt be so precious that we can’t use metaphorical speech” can we go back to why Chlöe Swarbrick was punished so heavily for her comments on the government’s spinelessness?

Today's energy announcement? A damp squib that locks us into expensive fossil fuels while families struggle with power bills. Sign our petition calling for a 30-year Energy Plan - 350.org.nz/homegrown-en...

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

David Seymour: “my colleagues are so bad at following proper legislative policy development process that I am creating an entire new legislative policy development process for them to ignore”

Green Party's Lan Pham said the docs showed a minister using their position to try to influence a council's legal process "to help out their mates". She said it’s a "gross misuse of power" that shows how little care the govt has in being "transparent about their conflict of interests." #nzpol

A short notice protest was called in Ōtautahi Christchurch today when Israel intercepted civilian ships in international waters detaining those aboard, including Aotearoa New Zealand citizens. Columbia has expelled Israeli diplomats. Aotearoa should do the same

I rarely talk about pop culture, but this transcends ‘movie review’ territory; watch this if you can, it is authentically Hawai’ian history from the early European contact period. tv.apple.com/nz/show/chie...

#NZPol John Key's hot takes age really badly, really fast these days. Here's Ol' Mate John Key on the 18th of July:

#NZPol I don’t know why nobody in the industry will acknowledge that primary agriculture is soon going to face at least one or two crop destroying storms per growing season as climate change increases. We’re already seeing it but are apparently hard in denial.

Three hoiho were killed in fisheries incidents in the last quarter. An emergency set net fishing ban to protect the rare penguin—the 2024 Bird of the Year—comes into effect at 5 pm today. Fishing net ban to protect hoiho – Expert Reaction www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/09/16/f...

Please read and share far and wide. The Coalition are the pits at economic management. They really are 🤡🤡🤡. #nzpol

Charlie Kirk in 2023: "It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment." He was wrong. No child, no moviegoer and no conservative commentator should have to die to maintain this perverted notion of the 2nd Amendment.

I love how the second part of Banksy's newest mural, which is a comment on censorship and oppression, was done by the very people he is critiquing. Their response was predictable, and relied upon, and imho has created a masterpiece.

thinking about what might have possibly caused that recent uprising in Nepal

The IDF’s own military lawyer is saying that what the IDF is doing is now indefensible under international law - and the IDF chiefs are ignoring that lawyer. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Luxon and Jones have blocked a massive new offshore wind electricity generation project off Taranaki. They fast tracked seabed mining in the same place resulting in two offshore wind companies leaving NZ.

Seriously, like bro there are military troops in Washington DC RIGHT NOW cracking down on “crime“ that doesn’t even fucking exist. They don’t need an excuse, they will do it ANYWAY.

This is ... a terrible way to make laws. So of course it's David fucking Seymour. #nzpol

the thing about being an fbi informant is there are LOTS OF RECORDS INSIDE THE FBI DOCUMENTING IF YOU WERE AN INFORMANT so now we are at 'release the epstein files and in addition also release the FBI informant files' well played Speaker Johnson

When I started working for the Greens in 2015 the landscape was significantly different. Yes, Metiria Turei received unprecedented levels of abuse and in my view, unhinged media reporting. Now, the rhetoric is much more violent, defamatory and there's widespread targeting of even more MPs/leaders. 🧵

I have exactly one friend who ever sang this the whole way through, word perfect. I remember that performance any time I play the song. It’s fine, right?

holy shit dude using a fake deployment for wildland fire crews from a fire that’s only 13% contained during peak western US fire season to detain multiple firefighters and remove the crews from the fire is a scale of evil & dangerous I can’t fully communicate to people not from wildfire regions

#Christchurch #NZ #eqnz AA Insurance says they are to stop opening _new_ policies in Lincoln (7608) and Rolleston (7615) due to reaching their earthquake cover limit. They can extend existing policies in those postcodes. www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...

New flavours dropped, plus a limited edition tin. Friends don’t let friends miss out 😉 whittakers.shortstack

“Private care does not "free up a bed" because the same limited pool of doctors and nurses work in private as well as public care. … Who will really benefit from an influx of government money into the private system - patients in need of vital healthcare or business owners?” Vital question to ask👇

Yeah, that’s pretty much the Minister for Housing’s position in NZ.

"‘belt-tightening’ created the exact opposite of reducing inflation. Imposing new fees and rates on consumers to replace Government-funded capital investment has added the worst surge in administered inflation in 35 years, as the Reserve Bank pointed out in its Monetary Policy Statement last month."

I’m a lot more prone to swearing, and protests of various sorts, but other than ‘mild-mannered’ and ‘man’, this is exactly my position these days.

Minister for Homelessness, Chris Bishop, said he didn’t want kids growing up in emergency housing in motels. So he dramatically cut emergency housing grant approvals, pushed the families out into the streets. And now they are growing up on the street.

Our nurses are struggling in a broken healthcare system. Sign to support them. www.patientvoice.nz/petition

Renowned for favouring the Nats, man least likely to disagree with Govt. Willis scored an own-goal on this one… www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/29/r...

Occupational Therapy professionals involved in study of Long Covid www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/26/l...