In the grand tradition of getting the worm, it's time for some early Bird of the Year campaigning. IN COMIC STRIP FORM. (This will be an ongoing series). #BOTY taracomics.substack.com/p/go-takahe-go

calling on NZ Labour and @greens.org.nz to get a press release to media TONIGHT immediately ruling this out actually absurd that reporters here have asked ZERO current politicians & parties what their stance is before releasing a story - especially during election year. It's discourse manipulation

Spiral. My @smh @theage cartoon.

I am not certain, but I think this might be the greatest thread (and greatest use of alt text) of all time.

In this election year, I want to be clear that I want a government that functions as a government. Not like a business. Not like a household. These are three very distinct and different things. Conflating them is purposefully misleading. Not to mention absolutely wrong. Let's push back. #NZPOL

Hungarians turn out in thousands for first Pride march since Viktor Orbán was voted out

Welp, election year and climate-related disasters are wrecking havoc up and down the country and across the globe, guess I’ll go check the various parties’ mitigation and preparedness policies, which no doubt they all want to promote heavily right now… just the Greens? Really? #nzpol

My beautiful horse. #makeaterriblecomicday2026

This was such an excellent read! I hope the sale encourages more folks to pick it up because it was just it was yeah no there was wailing (on my end) and gasping (ditto) and just a low-level constant admiring resentment at Isaac's impeccable craft (sorry)

Wellington version… #nzpol

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

Seen on Cuba St.

In case you wondered whether people were taking this generationally disastrous government lying down.

This is brilliant. “Roberts displays, and honors, verbal nuance. I had not noticed that rock, stone, earth, in the True Speech of Earthsea, is tolk, while the word for ocean is inien. “Le Guin is saying that Earthsea is tolk-inien,” “an elegant way of acknowledging her major influence”.”

"Has a director this talented ever had so few genuine masterpieces to show for it? Oh, but when he hits the ball square, he changes the world." Always read Walter Chaw:

If this thing goes we lose a reasonable chunk of global agriculture. I doubt one politician on the New Zealand right could tell you what the AMOC even is, and the knock-on effects of it collapsing will wipe out everything they claim to care about.

Radio New Zealand have thrown an approving "Willis shows she's ready to fight" headline on an article about our finance minister using obfuscatory and contentious statistics to not-quite-lie about opposition policy costing. Horse race media coverage will be the death of this country, I swear to god.

To put that into perspective, Musk has amassed enough obscene wealth that he could give every last one of those 4.5 million destined to starve $200,000 each--more than enough to live a healthy life--and he would still be a billionaire.

Remember The Hobbit is about 15 guys conspiring to murder a billionaire because he stole too much money and then a sixteenth guy who was not even involved shot that billionaire because he just knew it was the right thing to. Class solidarity, you know? There also was a bear.

Possibly my hottest take is that every time I hear someone whine about speed cameras all I hear is "I routinely drive faster than the speed limit and I don't think I should suffer any consequences for it"

Happy Pride! My friend Ash made this piece of commentary on trans entertainment icon from the 80s/90s, Caroline Cossey (“Tula”), but BS is being weird about it—please share, save, even watch if you have an hour! Support trans creators!

I like to document in my fiction the anti-king sentiments and efforts that did exist in history--yes, in the history I write about; power was always contested. We don't have to write medieval monarchy, not simply. It is less true to do so. Historical fiction is just a conservative genre, very often.

TODAY: @ilanaslightly.bsky.social on the worlds and politics of Terry Pratchett, who was, by the way, "passionately anti-authoritarian, and a humanist, whose values shine through every book." flaminghydra.com/i-too-am-beg...

This 🗳️🙏 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

“The damage …will show up in a decade, when New Zealand’s deep-tech sector is thinner, its universities are less competitive for global talent, and the high-value industries … have less to build on. By then, nobody will connect the dots back to the year the seed bank was raided to fund the harvest.”

For those not on Instagram, here is the pic with all the locations, dates, and times nationwide.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

thank you for this thread! i had an off-the-cuff comic turned into a meme and it's such a weird feeling that my art is just being spread out there without any credit here's a version with my name on it, im fine with people using that one :)

My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social

Happy pride

Why is NZ's government so sanguine about firing thousands of public officials? Perhaps because they never listen to them, even when being warned their plans constitute a human rights violation and also will not work. thekaka.substack.com/p/every-expe...

This right here.

It's out smack-bang in central June, and -- aside from everything else it has -- happens to be my gayest yet. Leap in with Pride. 🌈

$15b in weather losses over the past decade. Moa Point dumped 70m litres of raw sewage into Wellington Harbour. Groundwater contamination is rising. Half our rivers are unsafe to swim. Budget 2026 drops water spend from $127m (2026) → $35m (2027) → $5m/yr (2028–30). Make it make sense.

Daily bunny no.3331 is flying the old-fashioned way

I just made a submission on the bullshit terf bill in my capacity as someone who spends a lot of time thinking about why people believe dumb shit. (I was uncharacteristically respectful of authority.) If you're in New Zealand, I hope you see fit to do the same: www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

❤️‍🔥 YES ❤️‍🔥 Cis women of Aotearoa, let's DO THIS! ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️ "We're making it clear: transgender women are women and we stand alongside them! We reject the discrimination and attempts at exclusion of trans people in the name of our safety." Not In Our Name 😤 our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/e-...

Strawberry economics

Tonight I've published a reference document on the inspiration and history of NZ First's transphobic definitions bill. If you plan to make a submission, as I do, I hope this background can help you plan and write your submission curly.kiwi/articles/202...

Any society that allows billionaires to exist will be eaten by them. The first world war saved us from the last gilded age, at the low, low price of a butchered generation. If we allow this one to continue the price will be higher.

Spotted on Cuba Street today, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Have they done a thorough proof of concept for AI in public service? No. But are they using it successfully themselves? Also no. But do they have clear plans for how AI will be deployed? No. This article would be hilarious if it wasn't devastating. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Wellingtonians, the new section of Te Ara Tupua from Ngauranga to Petone opens on Saturday🚴 There will be cloud, and a possible shower, but nothing to stop you walking or biking if you’ve got a warm jacket. Southerlies also provide a good tail wind for the ride north to Petone 💨

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

An amazing colleague & her whanau lost everything in the Wellington floods & friends have put together a fundraiser for them: givealittle.co.nz/cause/suppor...

I'm a takahē fan.