Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

“More than 200 schools had written to the Education Minister Erica Stanford or confirmed they would continue to uphold the treaty and the number was growing.” Thank you to every leader standing up and saying “not on my watch” - it makes a difference in all the injustices wrought by this government.

This why you need people with practical life experience in positions of power. If you've had a white collar job you'll know the purpose of bureaucracy. From file naming conventions to good databases. It is the oil in the machine

There were 159,000 written submissions on the Regulatory Standards Bill (on top of over 23,000 submissions last year) - numbers that are second only to the Treaty Principles Bill in NZ’s history. More than 98% of public submissions were opposed. There’s a word for this, but it’s not democracy.

The revelation that basically everyone in a position of real power was either involved in or aware of a giant pedophile conspiracy should, I think, at the very least, mean no-one should ever see or hear from these people ever again.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Hey @kenwhite.bsky.social, is it finally RICO? www.tampafp.com/google-unlea...

Someone needs to have a word because this is not acceptable.

House GOP caucus should dump Mike Johnson and replace him with Jim Jordan, a man with a demonstrated record in covering up sexual assault of minors.

Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country. Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...

again i am perfectly fine with locking every one of Jeffrey Epstein's friends in prison, Democrat, Republican or Whatever.

🚨UPDATE WITH COMMENT FROM THE BBC: Byline Times can confirm that of the four-person BBC panel that interviewed Prescott and made the decision to appoint him as an advisor, three of them had longstanding Conservative Party ties. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

If you can spare 90 minutes, this film by #NotJustBikes is worth a watch. Even after the cheeky Californian 1972 CYCLOPS junction pops up 90 seconds in. youtu.be/pRPduRHBhHI?...

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

For context, four Aussie banks took approximately $6.5 billion out of the Aotearoa economy in the last year or so The majority of which was gleaned from mortgages on family homes The economy is improving? Sweety, it's tanking, sinking, shitting itself sideways, and you're a big part of the reason

that does seem to be the bare minimum for managing the rights to FUCKING STAR WARS

In fact, I think a truly mature conversation would actually assess some of our many past asset sales and consider whether re-nationalising some of those assets might be in the country's interest. But that's definitely not the conversation he wants.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Oh the government hasn't fixed the economy? You mean...

The UK sure likes to gaslight trans people! The BBC are the WORST out there for attacking trans people via their platform - be it via their website, or Radio4, or where ever. www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/10/b...

The Wealth of Other Nations, a short history of NZ financial policy

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

The Russian oil and gas company Lukoil has declared force majeure at the West Qurna-2 oil field in Iraq - one of the world's largest oilfields, Reuters reports. Iraqi authorities have halted all cash and crude payments to the company.

Humans: capable of building entire skyscrapers but still afraid to put the scary number on one of the floors

Yoon Suk Yeol ordered drone flights over North Korea to create pretext for martial law, prosecutors allege.

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608... Today COP30 starts in Brazil... I can't list all the things this coalition has gutted from the environmental plans. A sad day for all... #NzPol #Cartoon #COP30

National Party prepares to sell NZ government assets #nzpol #workers #union

It’s also a mistake politicians make. It’s actually a very common human mistake: to try and change the minds of people who dislike you, rather than focus on those who already love you.

Already run into kids who, when seeing my wildlife photos, exclaim 'that's AI'

So turns out John Forester (the Original Middle Aged Man in Lycra) was literally just the leader of a Bicycle Death cult

We don't don't have to accept the gig economy. We have a minimum wage and workers rights for a reason! #nzpol #union #workers www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/08/j...

And their attitude - smash stuff under urgency, because we won't be in charge anymore - just highlights the need for an #OmnibusRepealBill to undo the damage. Nothing this illegitimate regime has done can be allowed to stand. Revert it all on day one.

The regime knows they are going to lose the next election, so they're just spite-legislating now, smashing stuff and wrecking shit on their way out. The faster we are rid of them, the better.

This is much better advice than what's peopsed in the article.

Uncontrolled wildfires in Aotearoa and it's not even REMOTELY summer yet. I'm sure that's a good sign. #nzpol

Drug use is a symptom, as is street-level crime in general, of their own failed policies. But they're happy to see that crime rise, so they can repeat their "tough on crime" mantra, spend more on things everyone knows do not work, and repeat the cycle. All to impress their gullible base. #nzpol

In a big-box store the "must engage, must smile" is misery wrought upon employees and customers alike. In a small shop, like a comics and games store, genuine engagement from the lone human at the counter is kind of nice. It might just be waving hello, it might be "I'm over here if you need help."

One time I sincerely complimented an idea in Windows that never really panned out at the time, but was genius. It was the precursor to so much of authentication today. They sent me a signed copy of the book they wrote about it. I'm sorry Vittorio is no longer with us. Be exuberant. I hope I helped.

New Zealand would like to be normal too, please. #nzpol

Looking forward to NZ food prices going down since we are always told they are connected to world prices every time they go up 🧐

Nancy Pelosi secretly being queen of the stock market and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vocally opposing elected officials profiting off the stock market feel like intrinsically connected facts that quietly explain their instant bad blood the minute they became House colleagues

this is the one you want!

There are a lot of wonderful, passionate people on the centre/left in AoNZ who sincerely think once you get into office, you *have* to be more moderate, less outspoken, govern The Proper Way, and that's one reason (out of many) the 2017-2023 govts didn't achieve as much change as we all hoped for

oh, I see Bryce Edwards is using the recent US elections to try and be relevant again, lol

Meanwhile, in Aotearoa New Zealand, our horrid National/NZ First/ACT government is going to let NZ Pork put sow pigs and piglets back into those horrid little metal cages - you know - like the ones that Mike King protested so loudly against all those years ago. 🤔 🦗 🦗 🦗 #nzpol

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

Curious if “4 Year Terms Australia” presents any quantifiable measures that 4yr terms lead to better governance than 3yr or if it’s more of the usual vibes-based analysis NSW, SA, VIC, WA adopted 4yr terms in the 80s after decades of 3yr; if it leads to better governance it should be easy to prove

Rimmer, having said he received no complaints about te Tiriti in schools in an official capacity, is now trying to pretend he received so many that it would be "substantial collation and research" to collect them. What a lying piece of shit.

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