Anyone who cares to know the truth already knew that the Wes Streeting hit job on me and GLP was an intellectually dishonest and morally revolting attempt to cover up the tragic consequences of withdrawing gender affirming healthcare from young trans people. But this data makes that clearer still.

And there it is. In exchange for supporting their transphobia, the Christian right are now holding anti trans howlers to their part of the deal. Go after abortion. Trans people told you. Real feminists told you.

When it becomes clear that those same rich and powerful men are exploiting your anti-trans crusade as a diversion from the exposure of their crimes, a dodgy sense of priorities becomes a criminal level of complicity.

Might we tactfully point out that to obsess negatively with trans people when the richest and most powerful men in the world are trying to reverse centuries of humane progress and equality to acquire impunity for rape and murder shows a weird sense of priorities?

Man who personally owns Social Media platform with an AI that produces CSAM at click of a button, and who refused to shut it down... ... much more closely connected to CSA provider and offender than previously "known". NOBODY can have an excuse for still using that place.

Ok, that woman right there was 100% badass.

So, Luxon is offered a seat at Trump's new ̶g̶l̶o̶b̶a̶l̶ ̶m̶o̶n̶a̶r̶c̶h̶y̶ 'Board of Peace', which he's giving "due consideration", despite the fact the consideration it's due is basically nil. Meanwhile, he's started criticising the UN. I guess it's a case of whatever serves him best.

this reminds me of the way i’ve seen susan bro speak about her daughter, heather heyer. when a fascist murders your child, you aren’t allowed to just grieve. you have to defend their memory, even their very grave.

When I was a kid, the end of WW2 was 45 years prior. Those barely starting retirement back then were adults when it ended. Many may have fought in it. And now, most of them are gone, just as the Brit tabloids start manufacturing consent for conscription. I hope these things don't come in cycles.

[I am reposting as I have fixed an error in processing the csv file (in turning dates in Jan and Oct from text to date where Excel truncated year.month x.10 to x.1) Visualisation of how much bread the minimum wage can afford to buy, which is well below 2016 when National were last in government.

1 in 100 year event, they say, conveniently forgetting when they predicted that we could be impacted by up to 3 such cyclones this summer.

Confirmed by Election NZ, voting opens on Labour Day 2026. elections.nz/media-and-ne... You need to be enrolled by midnight Sunday 25 October.

If you're top of the North and you know anyone who works for Civil Defence Emergency Management or local govt, be extremely kind to them and offer any help you can. Please.

Hey the voter suppression laws mean you can only vote up to twelve days before November 7 and have to be registered thirteen days before that. Twelve days before Nov 7 is 26 October. THAT IS LABOUR DAY. THE ELECTION VOTING STARTS ON LABOUR DAY.

So, has our PM said anything about the flooding and extreme weather events around the country yet? Or was it just about the election date and how he's "very proud" of the "work" he's done? Ardern would never. #nzpol

Red warnings represent a threat to life. They are not supposed to be an everyday occurrence. Shit be effed up.

Holy crap. Kp 8 to 8.33? The clouds have rarely hidden a stronger aurora. 😂

Pretty sure that’d be the Aurora Australis in between those Nelson clouds then…

Things… … Can never get better. They can never get better… While voting for you (or you, or you, or you) Even Tony “Open hands, wide arms, broad toothy smile” Blair would approve.

What I’d say to you is “what I’d say to you is “what I’d say to you is “what I’d say to you is “what I’d say to you is…”””” … etc.

“Nobody asked for my opinion, but I’m giving it anyway, and giving it firmly, to a woman with whom I disagree and wish to see silenced”, says old man. Again.

You know you’re in Aotearoa New Zealand when …

All Killswitch, no Engage.

Has anybody checked that list of UK FSU donors to see if there are any NZ names in it? Just curious.

According to Google, there are 544,083 occupied properties in Auckland, with an average rates bill of $4,083. That’s a theoretical annual rates income of 2,213,873,727 for Auckland council… … or about $1230 per person, per year. Living in civilisation is *expensive*.

Another ferry failure, another article that fails to mention the Nat/ACT/NZF decision to cancel new ferries. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Nobody needs to hear from Winston and the Cookery Set… … and nobody needs to see Elmo’s TwiXXXer.

Is that the same CSAM producing AI that is installed in every Tesla?

What will come first: Fallout 5, or fallout? War. War never changes.

Remember that time when the previous government of NZ produced an answer to the issue of diurnal load balancing of NZ’s electricity network, in the form of a massive hydroelectric battery… … and then the new Government cancelled it before complaining that Huntly made dirty power as propaganda?

David Seymour is as the anti-democracy deputy Pm of New Zealand. Pass it on. vt.tiktok.com/ZSPv6eQGc/

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

So, in other news, what anti-trans-activists in the UK relish in referring to disparagingly as “Stonewall Law”… … is now apparently legally adjudicated as “worthy of respect in a democratic society” by equity of protection afforded to it by paragraph 93 of the Judgment in Bailey’s failed appeal.

Between the rationales given by Queensland, the NT, and also apparently by the current NZ shitshow of a government ignoring medical advice… each apparently waiting for results of a UK study: They do all know that the good science they claim to want doesn’t just rely on one knobbled study, right?!

“NT Health Minister Steve Edgington said the government was barring the treatment for under 18s, saying children should be safe from “dangerous ideologically driven practices”.” So, at least they’re openly stating these moves are political in nature now. I guess that makes it a federal court issue.

And also, if people really didn’t “understand the plan” (they do!), then perhaps it shouldn’t have been one that looked at everything you said in pre-election debates and said “Yeah, nah. Let’s do the opposite.”

Lol NZFirst voters love woke cycleways

“I look forward to completing your training”, said Starmer, his words bellowing from the contorted face beneath the dark shadow of his cloak upon the throne. “Soon you will call ~me~ aspirational.”

Large numbers of unread emails make you recoil in horror, you say?

Tune for today. Purely because I’m just loving this tune today.

Centrist waffle doesn't appeal to people. Showing that you care about something, that you want to make people's lives better, that you will listen to them and use your position to do it, and unifying "minor" issues under a coherent story about your principles and goals REALLY APPEALS TO PEOPLE

The thing is, taking a strong stand in defence of trans people's rights isn't just the correct moral thing to do. It's also the politically smart thing to do.

Tried to die a few nights ago. Almost succeeded. This was not wise. Be wise.

One huge eyeopener for me has been how many people apparently believe everyone else would excuse sex trafficking if someone they liked committed it

"We claim Half of the Globe as our neighbourhood", says the disgraceful representative of man oncedescribed a prolific paedophile as "dangerous" and the worst person he'd ever met, with "not one decent cell in his body".

This a regular issue in the Cheapside area of the 'small' welsh market town of Bridgend also, which during WW2 was connected to part of a massive ordinance factory complex identified by the Luftwaffe as a strategic target. They just found 4 this year, over two separate occasions.

Idea: Drag Queen Story Time, but aimed at a strictly adult audience. Nothing much about the event changes and it's still as perfectly innocent and magical as it ever was... ... It's just that instead of a pre-school book about the weather, she reads a series of Tolkien's tree descriptions instead

Great thread 🧵