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

You mean like the University you studied, the support you got, the social housing that was available at the time, the airlane you used to go places, the health system that was available to you and now you want to take away from everyone else you tosser! www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/24/s...

"In my view, the Government choosing lower mortgage rates over healthier people, homeless people and more investment in future economic growth is a political choice. It is not a financial necessity. It’s also a sociopathic choice." #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

Don’t be fooled by this subterfuge. The Coc refuses to pay nursing staff what they deserve so guess why the sudden 24/7 access to hospitals? IT FORCES WHĀNAU TO TAKE UP THE SLACK AS UNPAID OVERNIGHT HELP!! They know there’s a staffing problem🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Te kino mai ō tērā tuāhuatanga!! #AoNZpol

Erase art history, and you erase memory. Without memory, there is no future.

Art history at high school taught me about visual language, art, media studies, culture, history, religious studies, philosophy, psychology, sociology and political science. It was the grounding for a lot of things that came later.

#Kapiti voters.... if you need some background on the candidates - Paul's got you covered. There are really good, experienced people to vote for. But oh man, there really are a lot who you shouldn't..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOIL...

Found this handy comprehensive public access map for NZ  https://www.herengaanuku.govt.nz/outdoor-access-map

If you're planning on a big weekend - plan accordingly

The doco Prime Minister will launch in cinemas nationwide on Thursday, 25 September. This is your early warning system that haters are gonna be hating hard....again.

I'm searching online but also want to put the word out here: I'm looking to hire a storyboard/comic artist for a small supernatural/horror side project I'm working on. Preferably in Aotearoa with lived experience working on inclusive projects. I'm violet @ violetblue dot com if anyone had leads.

Last night's full moon rising shot

Reminder today thanks to @EmilyWrites

#TodayInHistory: September 8, 1906, New Zealand's first fatal car accident. Janet Meikle was killied when her 8-hp De Dion Bouton went over a bank on her family farm near Timaru. Just 8 years after the colony's first cars arrived. #NZHistory Img of a jaunty little 1903 De Dion Bouton

"Celebrating every language spoken in New Zealand except one of its own." There you go, @rnzrss.bsky.social I fixed it for you!! www.rnz.co.nz/internationa...

For almost two decades, all New Zealanders had free access to one of the world’s most trusted libraries on medical information. Apparently, that was a nice-to-have... #nzpol shorturl.at/0oHKA

96 There are 96 active bills in NZ Parliament this month. 😱 A deluge of shitty selfinterest from the coalition @mountaintui.bsky.social's reporting blowing my mind again

Shame never solved anything

A Reverse Mortgage nightmare.... my parents took out a loan 17 years ago for a moderate sum. They lived longer than expected....

Just saw this list of 40 jobs that Microsoft says are at most at risk from AI. Only AI could have written it. It has no understanding of the required softskills. 2nd on the list - Historians

On this dreary winter's day, I'm feeling grateful because I have not one, not two, but three beautiful picture books out in the world. 🤩 Hard to believe, but wonderful. 🦎🦉🦇#nedbarraud #scholasticnz #kidlit #STEM @steamteambooks.bsky.social

Just fucking why would you choose to not fund NZs most valuable cultural website? It's so tremendously important and popular. Stupid blind bullshit #nzpol

Imagine being lectured on values by this guy.

An excellent, alarming article from Anne Salmond about the current state of democracy in New Zealand. #nzpol

Ahh geez, the loss of Martin affects me so much. Last year, after he died, I made a slide so that I could tell my students about him in my lectures. Maybe I should finish a blog entry I drafted in his memory but couldn't bring myself to finish... The playlist is: open.spotify.com/playlist/79o...

Worth noting that you want voting papers for local elections sent to you, do your change of address before 1 August.

National just isn't very good at this. The most underwhelmingly piss poor providers of policy

Nicola Willis just isn't very good at this, 1st thing was the $250 for families that only 153 got. Then it was cancelling ferries for Toyota Corollas but getting none, she robbed women for her budget, she meets Fonterra about butter, just to say "Suck it up Kiwis" Over promise, under deliver #NZPol

Thanks for all the good times and good sounds Mu xx

In the face of all the shitty news in Wellington - behold this magnificent splendour going on in Auckland! www.aucklandlive.co.nz/show/wharenu...

Wrapping up the dirty politics of the week. Go channel your disgust into the following actions: 🗳 vote.nz to check your enrolment 🤝 vote for candidates committed to personal decency 🙋‍♀️ volunteer for your local candidates in that camp

Rewrite - Richlister withdraws support because of backlash today.

#pukapuka #aonzbooks #aotearoabooks #nzbooks #booksnz 📚🇳🇿

What's New Zealand book have you always wanted to own - but never been able to find?

Can't wait!!!

Take a stand against Govt's plans to tear down freshwater protections & allow even more pollution of our rivers, lakes & beaches. Here's an easy to make a quick or long submission depending on how much time you have. www.choosecleanwater.org.nz/make-a-submi...

Well worth watching Paul Barlow's ( @paulbarlownz.bsky.social ) after broadcast Live Q&A as well. #nzpol #kikorangi #nzmedia #mustwatch

Hey NZ, you have to watch this.. How the public is being manipulated in the run up to 11 Oct Local Body Elections #nzpol #kikorangi #nzmedia #mustwatch

Updated, because... you know. #Covid for doctors, hot new masks, voice amplification while masking, very accurate at-home tests, The #LongCovid Game (Haunted Woods), community connections, what to do if you catch Covid, clean air tools, testing tips, and more: www.patreon.com/posts/huge-f...