I'm going to Laneway exclusively to see Chappell Roan. I mean also, Lucy Dacus, Wet Leg and Womb. But still. Can't quite believe I'm gonna do this but here we are.

People are going into debt & taking loans for power bills. National said privatisation would reduce bills. Seymour says power companies shouldn’t be renationalised as it would interfere with profits for s/holders. It’s what Seymour wants - profits for private providers ahead of healthcare for us.

Auror, who work with the cops, are expanding surveillance capitalism here and violating our civil liberties through providing facial recognition technology to shops with minimal safeguards. This will only end when surveillance capitalism is abolished. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Rangatahi learn carpentry skills while building whare for iwi www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

In a historic first, iwi leaders and unions have united to call for mass mobilisations against the Government on the 28th of October. Rā Whakamana will affirm tino rangatiratanga and workers' rights and mark He Whakaputanga and the first Labour Day in Aotearoa.

This rules - when I was a teacher we had special provisions for a few students who were school refusers, and it made such a difference to them! Sometimes it was just letting them do work at home a few days a week, and it improved their overall attendance and learning so much

National did an austerity, which, as the comparative studies already showed during the last global recession, deepens recession and delays recovery. Not even controversial. Widely accepted IMF type stuff. Rarely is the question asked, are our governments learning?

Like homophobia and transphobia, fat phobia is not actually actually a phobia at all. It’s not a *fear* of fat people (or trans people or gay people). It’s HATRED and CONTEMPT for anyone who doesn’t fit inside capitalism’s strictly enforced hegemonic hierarchy of patriarchy and consumption.

Because 'Antifa' is not an organisation, this means anyone can be designated 'Antifa', just as anything in Hong Kong can be designated a threat to 'national security'. State terror works best when no-one knows where the line is.

Little interview with me up on Booklovers! www.nzbooklovers.co.nz/post/intervi...

Police is using the surveillance capitalist Auror system to regularly violate our civil liberties. The cops use of Auror must end immediately. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

women will tell you it has been more than a decade, but who ever listens to us lol

whoever Wellington's next mayor is, he benefited from a campaign of harassment of women

NZNO nurses are quite literally turning their back on a speech from Health Minister Simeon Brown at their AGM

you can't excise trans people from society because transness is an emergent property of free will. if you divide the world up into men and women and say men do this and women do that, some people are going to say that sucks, fuck you, i do what i want. it doesn't get more complicated than that

Ah Willis is doing the "no I'm not intimidated but *other* people might be" about the vicars and priests who are quietly and peacefully protesting outside her office about the government not taking action to stop a genocide: www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Protip for Members of Parliament, if a bunch of priests want to meet with you to discuss a serious issue, you DO have the option of just... meeting with them

Team of 4.1 million

Aoteroa New Zealand: I'm reposting this just in case you missed it. Anyone voting (or running) in local body elections, particularly Wellington ones, should be aware of these enabler names. We all need to follow the money so we know who's behind dirty politics. thespinoff.co.nz/wellington/1...

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

We went down to support the Anglican and Catholic clergy who have chained themselves to Nicola Willis' office door to call for sanctions against Israel.

This enrages me. So many brilliant people in my life had Art History as a core subject in Uni and I think it's outstanding to offer it at a high school level. Art is a brilliant window for understanding the intersection of history and culture.

we're on the precipice of a universal antiviral medication, mRNA technology is out here curing cancers every other month, HIV is cureable AND preventable, renewables generate more energy now than fossil fuels worldwide and and more cost-effective, coral reefs are growing back all over the world rn

Tell artists you like their work. It’s how they stay filled with life-giving art mucous.

it's really interesting that what ray chung and co did to Tory Whanau has not been described in the media as sexual harassment, which it was

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This behaviour has lingered throughout council all term. I hope people can see why it seemed so chaotic at times. We weren’t dealing with decent people.

The mask has slipped from Better Wellington www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/better-we...

I’m in the paper! www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3607...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

#NZPol TPM-linked provider found to have not misused funds to promote TPM. News you won’t read on Stuff, the harold or RNZ. newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/12/w...

as your local election voting packs arrive remember that anyone saying they want to keep politics out of councils is literally an aspiring politician seeking a job in local body politics

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

"The March for Humanity, a protest organised by Aotearoa for Palestine, has brought 20,000 people to central Auckland on Saturday morning." www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

The president of the ACT party groomed and raped teenagers. There is evidence (and allegations) that the party leader covered it up. Is this kind of behaviour acceptable for a deputy prime minister in NZ? Was his honesty and fitness for leadership ever persistently questioned in relation to this?

The poetry slam tonight in Ōtepoti Dunedin is looking for more competitors. No experience required! It's a supportive, fun event. Have a poem you'd like to perform? Check out the details: youngwritersfest.nz/events/otago... Please share!

Here’s I wrote about gamergate 11 years ago. Almost nobody major in the media got what this was or why it mattered. “Eh, it’s just nerdy Online Drama.” The difference now? The cluelessness remains, fewer publications & reporters—& gamergate took over the country. www.huffpost.com/entry/anita-...

There are thousands of us queuing to join the march.

Aotea square has gone from barely full to entirely overflowing in 30 minutes.

What an honour to be part of the offical dawn blessing of Te Matapihi Central Library this morning. This has been a long time coming (starting before my time) but what I love most is the poem Brown Optimism by J.C. Sturm outside on display. Very relevant in these difficult times for Māori. #nzpol

The vulnerability hangover from releasing a book of poetry about some hard years in your life is real. Too real some might say.

Democracies are on the skids, submit if you can while ours is still salvageable

Taranaki Whānui, WCC and the Crown can confirm we've FINALLY established Mātai Moana, a public reserve at Te Motu Kairangi/Watts Peninsula. It's amazing what can happen when iwi, local & central govt work together. This reserve will honour mana whenua, our environment and heritage. ❤️

More info on this announcement here. www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/09/10/t...

You seldom see an army of jellyfish attacking a solar farm, do you?

Banks draining resources from the New Zealand economy is the real Australian mining boom.

My perpetual hobby horse is that it is A Problem that a private company runs almost all local elections, esp when something goes wrong. Something has gone wrong here. What are the lines of public accountability? Who is responsible? Do we hold the company to account or the Council for hiring them?

If you want to leave and never come back, Winston, that’s a decision you can make and everyone in Pōneke will endorse.

Wow. And this is the kind of study that will likely lose funding in our current moment. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

First they came for Bill Clinton, and I said, yes, that man is a sex pest, get him