War ravaged Portland

First time I’ve seen the rabbit/bird illusion with an actual photo. Took me just a half second to process the word in all caps…

I fear somebody in the Australian government may have misunderstood the meaning of pull requests

A disease which impacts your brain, including specifically the ability to feel empathy, coinciding with the rise of worldwide fascism.... Curious

Winston Peters is wrong; morally, and in totality. If we wait for the "right" time, there will be no palestinians left. Israel has been crystal clear what their intention are...and Israel is no friend to NZ

I have never been more ashamed of my country than now. Both the prime minister and foriegn minister are living in a fairy land. This was their springbok tour moment, their nuclear free moment....and they fucked it. I will not forget this

Thanks to One News for including us in their story www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/27/n...

Asked Copilot for a list of Seinfeld episodes Mr 12 could watch, and it suggested 'The Contest'

Got my performance review.

If you want to understand where the tangerine fascist is going next, read this. “the plain truth is that NSPM-7 is a declaration of war on anyone who does not support the Trump administration and its agenda.”

If you had mocked up this Truth Social post in late 2024 as "the future under a Trump 2.0 administration" it would have been ridiculed by media and fact checkers. "There is no position called 'Secretary of War'" they would have said and, "the military can't be deployed for domestic law enforcement"

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Farmers.

“To refuse to provide a symbol of hope and promise during these dark days is akin to arguing that we need to wait for the genocide to be completed before we recognise the place Palestinians can bury their dead,” he said. “Shame on us.”

Personally think we should consider making this not just the way it is

Got a new Christmas tree ornament

Reminder: National has always taken the side of Apartheid regimes.

'Put your clocks forward for the summer' - Noj Toobad

Autumn in the Dolomites 🧡 #landscape #nature #mountains #photography

Star Wars discourse *looks for some harder drugs*

Genuinely (and pleasantly) surprised to see Hipkins stake a really solid position on this. More of this, please.

Sometimes I think how it's a straight line (a single dot?) from "how come Americans didn't realise who the bad guys in Starship Troopers were" to the year 2025.

Always wondered why it was not in supermarkets. @haydendonnell.bsky.social

Chlöe Swarbrick on the Treaty Principles Bill, but truer words were never spoken about this government.

Saturn, rising behind its largest moon Titan. This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn. Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans

Dad died during Covid. Vicar asked my brother what my Dad's favourite song was. "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" he replied, and he helpfully provided a link to YouTube of the version my Dad loved. The wrong link. Funeral service outside with a dance mix that boomed across the village.

Goldsmith is worried about sovereign risk from court recognition of tikanga Māori But the real sovereign risk comes from a govt that has repeatedly meddled with the independence of courts and legal proceedings for cynical self-serving ideological reasons www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Glimpsed while Winston exposed Aotearoa to international shame and condemnation, MFAT officials looking glum, with one sporting a Flying Nun sticker on their laptop.

This only happens to you once

I feel ashamed to see Luxon and Peters failing to make a stand. Over 150 countries have already recognised Palestine. They have wimped out

We watch a people go through an attempted genocide, and we sit back and say you are no people. You have no state. For you see, we are friends with both you and your murderer.

16x7 is a great format - not quite as wide as XPan, so a little more to folks taste. Calendar 2026? Central Otago summer sun

Excellent message from Chlöe Swarbrick and the #nzpol Greens. www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...

Well don't I feel stupid

Feel like our priorities on what's urgent may be a bit skewed

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." - Desmond Tutu

NZ discourse tends to memory-hole this while pretending everyone was on the side of HART during the Springbok Tour protests

This. A thousand times. Journalists, you are being manipulated. Write about that.

New Zealand prevaricates on whether to recognise Palestine as a state, or not. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Palestine #Gaza

Palestine is not Hamas any more than Ireland is the IRA or Aotearoa is ACT

Use “I” statements please Winston. The tens of thousands of NZers who marched, the thousands and thousands more who see this genocide for what it is and who know recognising Palestine is an important symbol of solidarity, your decision does not represent us.

They do not represent us. We have to get them out. #nzpol

“We are shocked to our core by harrowing images of famine in Gaza. We are revolted by what can only be described as a grossly disproportionate response from the Israeli Government." It is described as *genocide*, you tool.

So, it really is as simple as "we've chosen to back Team Israel, they're in the dominant position militarily, and as long as they choose to keep Palestinian lands we'll tacitly reward them for doing so." This is what our current government claims as being "global leadership".

All the other claimed reasons (recognition will be used as validation by bad actors; recognition just provokes worse behaviour; there's no present hope for peace between the two states) apply both ways - if these are reasons not to recognise Palestine, then we also shouldn't be recognising Israel.

Worth expressly noting that the ONLY reason given in Peters' speech for why AoNZ should recognise Israel and not Palestine as a state is that Palestine "does not control its own territory". So, we reward Israel for its illegal actions + will keep doing so until it chooses to stop.

"If you boil a saveloy too long the skin will split, but if you don't boil it enough the unmelted fat content will line your mouth and stick to your dentures, this same wisdom informs our decision today"

This government are fucking cowards and I hope they get run out of office next year if they don't collapse under the weight of their own incompetence before then www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I have never in my life felt as ashamed of the settler state of New Zealand as I am today. #FreePalestineNow

Peters does know that Israel boosted Hamas as a counter to the Palestinian Authority? I'm sure the thousands of dead Palestinian children share his concerns. Oh, that's right, they can't because they're dead.