The Minister lied. The Minister should resign. How can we expect any change in the systemic issues in the NZPolice if the Minister supposedly in charge isn’t fit for the role. #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Banning #PubertyBlockers, or denying them to new #trans patients, is against the #evidence, and is anti- #science & anti- #child, regardless of the lazy talking points rolled out in yesterday’s announcement. #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/20-...

Mitchell's pack of lies about the emails is starting to unravel. "He has also maintained that the 36 complaint emails sent to him were diverted by police staff seconded to his ministerial office under a protocol set by Coster, meaning neither he nor his political advisers saw them." (1/3)

Had a meltdown for a few minutes when my new studio monitors started emitting a weird screeching sound around the bass frequencies - on reference tracks, too. I unplugged and reconnected all the cables and... everything was back to normal. They're still under warranty but, well, you know. 😥😰😓

Locking people up, and roads It's, literally, all they've got #nzpol

Geezuz H fucking Christ they are trying to kill people instead of funding actual staffing 🤬 #nzpol

Let's remember - the government spends more cleaning up coal damage than it collects in meagre royalties. Join the movement: 350.org.nz/coal

'The Cemetery Of The Asymmetrical Heart' is one of the tracks on the upcoming wordsSHIFTminds album 'Efface, Expunge, Erase, Delete', with track titles taken from Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished and posthumously published novel 'The Original of Laura'. #music #synthwave #downtempo #synths #youtube

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The significant majority of New Zealanders favour stronger action on climate change, but you certainly wouldn't think that from reading the comments in the NZ Herald. yikes.

They lie as they breathe & they don't care if their message is the truth or not, the cult certainly don't care.

If you want to see what Erica Stanford's plan is to take control of local schools assets, look back to the uk tory model they are no doubt copying from 2016.. #nzpol www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A late in the day edition of the mid-week Other People's Music teaser! This is a look at this week's batch of music, previewed via the first line of the review, with all appropriate links (music, socials, full review) linked. Here's the full post: www.etherdiver.com/2025/11/14/o... #Musicsky

I have a phobic reaction to music videos featuring people dressed as animals or wearing animal masks. I am seeking therapy.

How dare these braindead a-holes talk about "common sense"?

What is still happening in Gaza is NOT by any stretch of the imagination a "ceasefire".

Ah, Tina from Turners, singing your silly commercial 'song'! "You got so fat, the seats don't fit," you tunelessly sing. But it isn't the seats, it's the person your song is addressed to who doesn't fit. 🚗

On some days it seems hopeless. We are surrounded by darkness and horror. Our opponents seem unstoppable, in spite of being ignorant, cruel and wrong. Find something you love, something creative. It doesn't matter what it is. Do it if it makes you happy or, at least, content. Remain in light.

Um, wuthering doesn't mean unsightly.

“Meeting with govt 'complete waste of time', Pike River families say” Unsurprisingly Brooke van Velden ACT was focussed on employers not the safety of workers. #nzpol Winston Peters talks big but he’s all mouth, he spends political capital on making trans teen unsafe not on making workers safe.

Woolworths, part of our supermarket duopoly, is plugging "Black Friday Specials", and then when you go to its site, most of the items are out of stock. Useless bastards. 😡

Here's the work in progress I've been talking about on here for a couple of days (a view from the digital audio workstation, Ableton Live). @huiasue.bsky.social @sarahpolo10.bsky.social

This is upsetting on so many levels. Banning new prescriptions is extremely harmful and doing this during trans awareness week, a few days before the transgender day of remembrance just makes it so much worse. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

(And they especially shouldn't be made by swivel-eyed religious loons like the current health minister or his mate Brian Tamaki)

Forgive me, delulu, I just couldn't take any more...

Things happen. Maybe you have a little accident crossing the street, I don't know. Be a shame if anything happened to your children... Trump has been watching too many Mafia movies.

The Government is banning new patients from being prescribed the most common form of puberty blocker and is explicitly aligning NZ's future policy on this matter to the UK's. PR below.

In an example of how little the regime cares, their motion remembering the Pike River Disaster (which their health & safety policy plans to re-create) was forgotten. #nzqt

Pop singer is intellectually challenged HOW IS THIS NEWS?!

My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NZDF to get new "scab force" www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

We are paying more for worse ferries A $596m deal on top of the $300m contract break we had on two better ferries for $550m $nzpol iRex was slated to cost about $2bn for 100 year infrastructure

New cover art for the next wordsSHIFTminds album, 'Efface, Expunge, Erase, Delete'. #music #instrumental #synthwave #downtempo #synths

Pretty embarrassing for journalists to have to overlay a "committing crimes" clarification in square brackets after the Prime Minister of NZ says "And it's pretty simple, we do not want people in the community." which frankly rings reasonably true given the exodus they have been driving.

New Zealand kills twice as many workers as Australia and four times as many as the U.K. per capita. Despite the introduction of WorkSafe in 2013, we’re seeing issues with weak enforcement, inadequate fines, and a Workplace Relations and Safety Minister hellbent on taking us backwards.

#nzpol Meanwhile, here in Aotearoa New Zealand, we have an absolutely disastrous coalition government that's happy to ladle out more pesticides. 🤬

Interesting that the photos of Willis are changing. In this unflattering one, she is literally looking/glaring over her shoulder. The tide is turning for her #NZPol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

This govt is hellbent on being hated. They gave $2.9 billion to landlords and when caught short,raided funds for state housing. Unbelievable. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

It's a bit rich for Nikki NoBoats to be complaining of the Greens policy to scrap fast-track mining permits."You can't rely on New Zealand",she sez?! She scrapped the iRex ferries costing taxpayers $600million-plus.No mention of that in Lloyd Burr's story. *pffft!* www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Willis is part of a Govt that is destroying NZ’s core international brand, ripping up our Paris climate commitments, deliberately undermining the climate sections of trade agreements , that has alienated Aus and the Pacific by supporting bottom trawling etc etc www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Fucking hell, what an amoral ghoul

David Seymour, the pupil poisoner, has labelled the Green Party "terrorists" 🤔. Meanwhile, the government's fast-track antics, removal of clean car standards and reneging on emissions targets are unequivocal environmental terrorism. Shut it, Seymour, you're an embarrassment.

This is from Grokipedia's woeful AI-generated article on New Zealand. Yes, it really is citing Hobson's Pledge as a factual source.

Why is he always being interviewed by journalists on a fucking plane? What is he so frightened of on the ground?

"We think EVs are good for NZ" Which I assume is why you murderated the fuck out of EV sales? ALWAYS watch what these people DO , not say #nzpol

"...25 drugs that an independent panel has assessed as being of highest concern, including eight opioids and 10 sedatives (mostly benzodiazepines). None of these substances will be detected at the roadside, despite each impairing more drivers than cocaine and MDMA combined."😒 #EndProhibition #nzpol

Happy coffee, Bluesky.