if there's one positive thing you can say about Christopher Luxon it's that he lights up every room he leaves

AI systems are trained on data that is socially informed not just cold "facts" (ie all of attitudes & stereotypes that support ongoing inequalities based on gender, race, sexuality etc) unsurprising AI chatbots are advising women & minorities to ask for less pay #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Wonder what it’s like being friends with someone complicit in enabling the murder, kidnapping and horrific treatment of thousands of people across the US and then blatantly lying about it, maybe NZ’s media should ask about that 🤔

This post calling Noem her friend is still up on Judith Collins facebook by the way, and there really aren't ANY good reasons at this point as to why NZ media aren't constantly pressuring her about it

This kind of rhetoric was once the domain of fringe groups like Voices for Freedom, but NZ First now represents those fringe groups in parliament

This is embarrassing and we are fucking doomed.

The parable of the scorpion and the frog has been superseded by the parable of Winston Peters poisoning Aotearoa NZ until it dies, simply because he cannot help but support whomever seems most beneficial to him, rather than the people of New Zealand. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Last time we had Australian wildfire smoke drift across NZ it did this to our skies & then we had covid... Roy's Peak, Wānaka NZ

You know what? This year has actually gotten off to a pretty low-key, no breaking news, stress-free start wait nevermind

(🚨) Today is a day that should live in infamy.

BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:

The Public Service Commission has just published its three-yearly 'State of the Public Service' report. www.publicservice.govt.nz/news/state-o... This is its page on 'AI'. Prepare for more public service redundancy rounds if they carry on like this.

If you look at www.rightsaotearoa.nz you will see everything we have done this year: media releases, opinions, newsletters, submissions, letters, and more. If you like my work, you can tip me an Xmas coffee directly at: Paul Thistoll 03-0547-0039160-001

A grim anniversary today - six years since the first identified Covid case. In Aotearoa, we were lucky to have leadership that listened to the science in the early phases of the pandemic, saving thousands of lives. However, subsequently we have not applied the science that

It’s freezing in Gaza and people need food/clothes. Emily Writes is raising funds to help 60 families. We are gonna have lots of Christmases in our future - let’s give these families a fighting chance: chuffed.org/project/1589...

There is tremendous power and integrity in understanding how much there is to lose, and, with the platform and capacity you have, voicing strong dissent. Great to see this from RANZCOG.

Important news NZ peeps! Great to see PATHA challenging this terrible ban.

BREAKING: PATHA has filed an urgent injunction in the high court seeking to prevent the puberty blocker ban from coming into force, as part of an urgent judicial review we are seeking to overturn the ban entirely.

Restricting the availability of puberty blockers to trans kids but allowing them for cis kids is a blatant violation of NZBORA (1990) and the Human Rights Act (1993). This will undoubtedly end up in court - very quickly as the subject of a Judicial Review.

I’m delighted to announce I'm standing as the Labour candidate in Wellington Bays/Rongotai in 2026. I'm thrilled to fight for better jobs, housing, and health services in our community. Look in the bio to donate, volunteer, and help us deliver a better government next year.

Extremely important discussion of the anti-scientific, bigoted, transphobic government action this week

If you want to join me in showing your support, sit the open letter here: ry.org.nz/reinstate

Rainbow orgs have released a statement: “The banning of puberty blockers is an example of government overreach and political attacks on healthcare… it is an unprecedented and inherently discriminatory use of the Medicines Act to deny healthcare to a particular population on the basis of their sex”

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

Excellent @1of200.bsky.social episode on the Human Rights Review Tribunal case, in which I have played a small part

This racist, coloniser, misogynistic government can get in the sea

Let’s support @siouxsiew.bsky.social

NZ may be on the cusp of another measles outbreak - RNZ www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The people have spoken

A pleasure to chat to the team about online violence this local election season #nzpol (Enjoy my rambling, fam!)

Luxon said settlements need to be "affordable and responsible". "We don't have a bottomless pot of taxpayer money, but together they need to work through that with government employers and unions," he said Coughs* Landlords #nzpol

Generally mild-mannered @clrenney.bsky.social ripping the government a new one 🔥

This bill is so badly worded at present, there is no way to know beforehand whether you are breaking the law. It's Kafka-esque. It doesn't define 'near'. It's amateur hour. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...

BREAKING NEWS: More than 3,500 mental health and public health nurses have voted to strike for 24 hours on Thursday 23 October for better pay and conditions.

This just gets memory holed

Remember #nzpol the nurses are also protesting for safe staffing levels and not only a payrise

We’ve written to Minister Goldsmith, urging him to act on the Law Commission’s Ia Tangata report. The law must make the implicit explicit: clear protections for trans, non-binary & intersex people. Parliament must act—dignity can’t wait. #HumanRights #IaTangata www.rightsaotearoa.nz/letter-to-pa...

I wasn’t holding my breath for a release from Labour about the deliberate targeting of an MP and the deliberate creation of a toxic environment by both media & politicians to the point they received death threats but imo the silence says a lot about who *they* fail to stand up to - and stand up for.

We don’t have to accept shit, actually

We stand with the Lemkin Institute's call for GANHRI to withdraw the UK EHRC's accreditation. The EHRC has abandoned its mandate, systematically eroding trans & intersex rights. A captured institution cannot be a human rights body. #TransRights www.lemkininstitute.com/_files/ugd/c...

New Zealand will no longer give timely COVID death updates. From July 17, 2025, deaths are only reported via the Mortality Collection – a slower process that lags weeks or months. Official counts will look lower, but the deaths are still happening. Mortality: www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/for-health-p...

I genuinely can't understand why more 'normie' journos in NZ aren't joining the dots like this. If you have kids, it's their future this government is trying to strip away. Surely that matters. #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/23/a...

“Who is this Government working for? For the first time in my life, I’ve found myself seriously asking this question, while drafting submissions on an interminable series of rushed, poorly drafted bills that appear to work against the interests of many New Zealanders.” #NZpol

Kia ora koutou whanau. Our wonderful Ali was on the latest episode of @garypayinda.bsky.social's The Frontline (youtu.be/MaH4GUyghXI?...) talking about the Pae Ora Amendment Bill and what it means. Go give the episode some love ❤️ #nzpol

How Russians got to Kiwis: "In the final month of the Auckland lockdown, however, according to a Microsoft analysis, the consumption of Russian disinformation was thirty per cent higher in New Zealand than in the United States." And it's bliming obvious isn't it? #nzpol #kiwi