Part time workers get less sick leave because they and/or their kids only get part time colds, viruses and covid. This is a other attack on working women. #nzpol

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

There's literally entire farming systems evolving around 'agrivoltaics', but apparently 'it won't work in NZ' - why because we are all fucking country bumpkins with shit for brains & your grandfather is your uncle?

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

It's always the way with privatisation - always take the easy profitable stuff and leave the rest for the govt. Post was the same - worked OK so long as all the costs were spread across the country - then got super expensive for rural as all the money was going to private companies...

Finally! Some genuinely original decision making from this Government!

People will blame anything for their kid's autism before they admit they fucked a nerd

Also, if someone is promising no rates rises or, even more bizarrely, 'lower rates' then they are lying and are not worthy of your vote.

Man it’d be embarrassing to be raptured and then look down on the damned, only to see they’re all having a swell time without you.

This executive order.

A new solar farm that will power 70,000 homes (& still be available for farming) has been approved for Central Otago! The Otago Daily Times headlines 'one business will close', FB comments 'it will cause bush fires'. We better hurry up & fucking rapture sometime in the next 24hrs

Drs (and nurses, teachers too) only ever strike as an absolute last resort - and because they care about YOU and the service they can provide to you. Unsafe staffing impacts you. Exhausted Drs impacts you. Underpaid Drs means they LEAVE. I stand with our Drs today, and always. #nzpol

“I’m a meep. I’m a weirdo”

To my peeps who wear lipstick: Nicola Willis’s bright red lipstick is and odd choice, right?

Have the Christians been raptured yet?

Tylenol is about to be rich from the Fed govt after the ABSOLUTELY for certain lawsuit

Aotearoa should leave the five eyes as soon as possible. Pack the NSA and CIA equipment we host here back to the US, and politely, but firmly, tell the FBI field office here that they are no longer welcome.

Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler. Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”. Well sod that. Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

FWIW The real Mike Godwin occasionally appeared on Twitter v1.0 in the good days. He said a few times there's no problem making Hitler comparisons when it's justified.

I give you a government that operates like it is being run by 4th formers. No care, no responsibility with fuck you attitude #nzpol

An incredible example of how one street has been reclaimed for people after having been brutalized for the automobile.

If you think these 'new' school projects sound familiar..

People will tell you Myanmar and New Zealand have little in common but in fact they're two of just a few world nations that don't recognise the State of Palestine

It may be grey in Te Whanganui-a-Tara but you can still get out the vote to #KeepMāoriWards

why is luxon wearing a high vis vest for this announcement? him wearing that is hilarious to me. especially standing next to stanford looking all professional and like an actual politician. not a weenis in a suit and high vis.

You dont need money in heaven. Give it to this person who needs it instead

"No Farmers, No Food" they love to wail, demanding we bail them out and cut the tax on their utes, and yet 27% of our kids are going hungry. This country is a failed state when it comes to self-sufficiency. It would rather sell its soul than feed its children.

What FUCKING good is our farming industry if we can't even feed ourselves? As it stands, it's a colonial parasite bleeding Aotearoa to death before moving on to another host.

something that bothers me about the state of wellington hospo owners is that I escaped the hospo industry. I know what these people are like, for one; and I know that the industry is full of people who could be running really cool hospo venues but won't get to because of hospo pay/hours

small business owners will run for council on a platform of "business(wo)man knows best", meanwhile they're penny-wise and pound-foolish, losing money because they won't spend on equipment and training that would more than pay for itself

Why am I getting “trains and camps” vibes from this? www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

We used to be the country that punched way above its weight internationally, e.g. being anti nuclear weapons, anti-apartheid, Covid response etc. Now, we wait like cowards looking to see if the bully gets beaten by someone else. Our govt is useless. #nzpol

Technologically advance a band: The Cat 5’s Been Spayed

Partial Solar Eclipse Taken by Taichi Nakamura on September 22, 2025 @ Dunedin, New Zealand Canon R6 Borg71F+x2converter 1/8000s ISO 100 spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...

The pre-election CTU ads were spot on & were true. “Out of touch. Too much risk” was the primary message, and inside the paper, the ad elaborated, saying he was focused on the wealthiest, called people “bottom feeders”, would scrap Fair Pay Agreements, and would give landlords tax breaks."

Fuck these plant species in particular

I think I might be a robot. But I'm a level 16 robot at least.

Celebrities and venture capitalists throw millions at a company claiming it can breed fake dodos, which seems especially cruel given the dodo’s living relative., the Samoan tooth-billed pigeon or manumea, is on the brink of extinction for lack of money. news.mongabay.com/2025/09/fund...

You know the govt are destroying the Health system on purpose right? It's an Atlas/Project 2025 thing. Completely fuck public services and then privatise them. The "charter" schools are just Seymour getting the private system started ready for fail-over. #nzpol

If the govt doesn't subsidise the landlords they will leave the country and take their houses with them

Without landlords, there would a rapture of houses

Todays partial solar eclipse. Luckily the clouds stayed away until after maximum eclipse. From South Canterbury, New Zealand Lunt LS80tha and Grasshopper 3 camera #eclipse

We also have a partial solar eclipse this morning (about 69% peak where I live) but the skies did not cooperate and this was as much coverage as we got before the sun moved behind a cloud layer.

The sun is getting eaten

The partial eclipse as seen from Wellington

I love you like I love the ocean: ice cold in parts and getting dangerously more acidic.

So Simeon Brown just announced $20m "investment" in ED frontline staff, immediately after it was revealed Christchurch hospital is in code red every single day. But it turns out it's just OLD money from the 2025 budget & already allocated. Brown strikes again #nzpol #Kiwi