📚 Libraries, what are they good for? Absolutely everything Commentary at Newsroom: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/26/l... #NZ, #Wellington, but relevant plenty of places elsewhere.

An amazing NZ story of a consumer taking a int'l jeweler to a dispute tribunal after they claimed the "lifetime" guarantee on a wedding ring ought to be for 12 years, since the average NZ marriage lasts 14yrs with 2yrs of separation. (This is not the wildest detail.) www.reddit.com/r/newzealand...

No, sorry, I mean, fucking Christ, how many nurses is that we could have kept in ANZ? How many radiologists/radiographers is it? Enough to clear the eight-month wait list for a basic CT?

What the actual ....FUCK!

My mental health... I think this is just my whole personality 🤷

Kāpiti coasters can take them to Paraparaumu, Ōtaki and Waikanae libraries:

#Journalling games.... #SoloRPGs.... I have just discovered these are a thing and I am intrigued. Please hivemind share your knowledge with me. Are there any NZ creators?

Te Reo Māori: The Basics Explained by David Kārena-Holmes, available in print, ebook and audiobook oratia.co.nz/product/te-r... #oratiabooks #reomāori #tereomāori #māori #māorigrammar @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social

How to make beautiful comics: Step 1: Have something to say. Step 2: See Step 1.

Oh ho no #SecretSantaAoNz forgive me for I have transgressed. It's been days with no hints... I'm a local-loving, sweet-toothed, tea-quaffing culture-vore with a stationery fetish. Really, I couldn't be easier to buy for. 😘

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

Direct hit

A mature conversation? Ok then. I sincerely think that politicians who have sold public assets without getting everyone's approval should be jailed for theft, and people who bought it should be done for receiving stolen property.

in case you needed a reminder that there is the capacity for good in this world, in people...

NEVER NOT FURIOUS ABOUT THIS. #nzpol

Another recent release based on the NLNZ multitrack digitization is this Bailter Space live LP, mixed from 16-track 1" tapes bailterspace.bandcamp.com/album/fused

North American readers. Get your hands on the just released MG 'The Grimmelings' by @rachaelking70.bsky.social www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Gr... Think, Dark Is Rising mixed with The Silver Brumbies mixed with all those gothic, thrilling tales you read as a kid & re-read as an adult

#NZpol MAKE IT LOUD, AOTEAROA! Let them know where we stand, it's what Aunty Helen would do if she were here on the #MegaStrike "The Union forever defending our rights Down with the blackleg, all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters from many far off lands There is power in a Union" ✊

"There is power in a factory, power in the land Power in the hands of a worker But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand There is power in a Union" This Govt WILL take your #WorkersRights away if you don't stand up. You ARE worth it. So let them know, *VERY LOUDLY* ✊ #OneTermGovt

Chris Hipkins has pointed out that it would normally be the Ministers' job to front media etc about pay negotiations etc, not the PSC, as he was expected to do as Min of Ed.

A useful perspective.

Grifters gotta fucking well grift! Sorry NZ educators, this is where your stolen money is going #nzpol

Before you tell a disabled person it’s their family’s responsibility to care for them… remember that not everyone has family. What’s more, disabled people are far more likely to be trapped in abusive relationships. Better social supports would help them break free.

Moreover - surprise, medical unions can do maths and count up the fake salaries, beds and jobs you claim exist, and teachers can immediately isolate your bad faith lies and speak clearly and impactfully to the media about it, it's as if they're highly qualified and educated professionals.

Like, they just keep *lying* as if the public don't have any real world interaction with the collapsing health system or actual schools, why do they think this will work?

So much of this govt's strike messaging is 'these selfish ingrates are paid well & don't have the moral right to strike' which is so far beyond believable reality that it's just a weird choice. If they just said 'no money left soz', they'd get more public sympathy than for this Evil Mr Burns stuff.

Facts #NZ Dita De Boni doing good work in The Post today Big Business needs to do more

Tautoko. #nzpol "I would rather have a smaller road on my way to a high-class hospital." 🎯

Regime would rather give money to foreign billionaires for facebook ads slandering public servants than negotiate with them in good faith. Yeah, fuck them. Shut it all down. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

People are understandably Fuming, Upset, Critically Kicking back and Extremely Displeased OF Fasttracking Bendigo-Ophir gold mine in Central Otago.  9 NZ artists have gifted works to raise funds for the No-Go-Bendigo campaign. And you can buy them now at https://nogobendigo.substack.com/

According to a number of politicians, breaking a window is a clear case of political violence, but pushing people into poverty and poor health, destroying the environment, ripping up Te Tiriti, and making the military more lethal is business ss usual. #nzpol

Vote! Vote in your local election! Post your vote by 5pm today! It matters. Hayden explains this more hilariously than I can: thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

'Over 400,000 New Zealanders want work, or more work, but can’t get it – a record.' #NZpol

What's that line by Lil Wayne? I see beef as dead meat... And what the hell does that have to do with Chris Knox? These are the weird ways my mind works reading Gary Steel's bloody good review of Knox's new bio-tome #kikorangi tinyurl.com/cwb39dpf

I have spent the weekend devouring the new Homegrown Fruit Trees book by Kath Irvine & Jason Ross and it is unbelievably good solid, non-consumerist advice #nzbooks #nzgarden #gardening 100% recommend

So grateful for people like Brie. ❤️ #moe #nzpol #oia #brieelliott #outdooreducationnz #EricaStanford #nationalpartynz #coalitionofchaos

It is offensive for the person supposedly in charge of the government and its economic levers to suggest that youths, and their playstationing ways, are responsible for the most rapid surge in unemployment since the Great Financial Crash

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

Regular sleep pattern, not just sleep duration, supports mental health | BPS

🚨16,000 more dairy cows approved for Canterbury🚨 That's a LOT more urine leaching down into groundwater, cow shit running off into rivers and methane driving the #climatecrisis. It means more polluted rivers and dangerous nitrate contamination of drinking water for rural families. #TooManyCows

While Fonterra makes more profits, we all pay the price. Canterbury dairy conversions surge amid soaring milk prices and looser rules www.thepress.co.nz/business/360...

#nzpol LARGEST STRIKE IN DECADES: More than 11,500 health workers and about 40,000 primary school teachers have voted to walk off the job on the same day - and thousands more may join them. The NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi 100% backs our affiliate unions in advancing their collective agreements.

She basically invented astrophysics. She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally. She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe. She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.

Three New Zealanders are developing dementia every hour, according to alarming new research from Auckland University, with a total of 500 new cases every week #nzpol

※ Creative and Cultural sectors make a $17.5 billion contribution to NZ GDP. ※ Creative outputs were our fourth-largest NZ export in 2023, ahead of fruit, wine, and seafood. www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3608...

#NZHistory On this day 1951 the Māori Women’s Welfare League was formed. 74 years and 1000s of volunteer hours later they've built clinics, pushed te reo in schools, revived traditional crafts, led kōhanga reo, fought health inequities, backed wāhine in business and leadership