This is what happens if you cut the minimum wage in real terms year after year. This is what happens if you spend more time kicking people out of housing rather than building it. This is what happens when you care more about cruise ship passengers than kids in poverty

No, David. Just no. AirNZ, while far from perfect, is, effectively, public transport in this country. It needs rebuilding on that basis, including ditching demand-based pricing. But selling off a state asset because of one weak set of financials? Just be quiet. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

It's absurd that we provide electricity on the basis of maximising private profit instead of public good. The shareholders have had their fun. Take it back. #nzpol

So again you have $3.7b to spend on a single transport infrastructure project. Which will it be? Intercity rail between Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga or a 4-lane Road of National Significance Highway. The polling would suggest the Intercity Rail comes first www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sHO...

You want young people to vote? Every high school in the country should have an enrollment day for the 17 and 18 year olds who are going to be eligible in the next election.

More illegality with no consequences www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

“must ensure that artificial intelligence is not substituted for human intelligence and due diligence, but instead is used in careful partnership with it” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is a "papers please" "English is the official language" "eat slop and be grateful" "disappear the unhoused" "women are second class" "don't learn real history" "local FBI office" government and we really cannot afford to be smug about other countries' slide to open fascism, Aotearoa

Police given powers to order homeless to ‘move-on’ – Expert Reaction

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

I’ll again share my own article on Reform’s plans because it does an objectively better job than the BBC’s coverage. And I promise you we at Shado Mag have a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the BBC’s budget. Disastrous journalistic failure. shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

In July last year, NZME's Ryan Bridge lied about the number of emergency housing applications being declined. He lied because he wants his audience to believe the right-wing govt he supports hasn't increased homelessness through its policies. 'Kindness' is the last thing a NewstalkZB host wants.

Not NZ...but it sounds like it! "A change is announced towards the end of the Labour administration, the effects of which are to be greatly worsened by [the PM]’s drive to cut spending and slash regulation in the 2010s: “operational self-monitoring”" www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

“The submissions we received overwhelmingly agreed this [saving money prior to the budget] was the real reason for the bill being passed under urgency, and an unacceptable reason for such a radical departure from the rule of law and due process.”

Is this bad

'Meanwhile, the Wellington City Council this week confirmed it was pausing consultation on inner city cycleways and other yet-to-be decided projects to focus on infrastructure, including Moa Point.' Cycleways *are* infrastructure - with a high ROI. archive.ph/JJMcn

Dirty Business powerfully explains why water privatisation has FAILED 📺 9pm on Channel 4 tonight Watch it then sign up to join us next Wednesday 4th 👇 weownit.org.uk/news/on-wedn... Thames Water *currently want permission to pollute illegally until 2040* (yes really) #DirtyBusiness

given the political environment in NZ, and the world, at the moment - i'm very comfortable saying that Matthew Horncastle is doing stochastic terrorism when he uses his platform, money and influence to make statements like this By presenting and amplifying like this The Press is taking part in that

The press just casually spreading right wing propaganda. Giving people homes and healthcare is only dangerous to the owning class because they won't be able to profit from our collective suffering Vote green

Homelessness is a symptom of broken systems, not individual failure. We have seen that more so through the steps this Coalition has taken to further push our whānau and communities into poverty.

Aotearoa 2020: "Be kind" Aotearoa 2026: "It's OK to jail a 14 year old for 3 months if it means cruise ship visitors won't have to see homeless ppl on Queen St"

But Danielle, they might not actually need it, or they might spend it on something naughty and then you’d just be a sucker so just dont give them money, sucker (sarcasm obvs)

Voyager 1 is currently more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth and getting 17km farther every second and hilariously it is not as out of touch with New Zealand as our Prime Minister

Reposting MountainTui's ( @mountaintui.bsky.social )‬ 🔗 with the updated cover photo. The supposed vote "that prioritised increased cycle lane funding over pipes didn’t happen." "it turns out that the mysterious author of the piece, a “Peter Bassett” may not exist at all." Lying cowards. #nzpol

"Age verification" is false-flagged surveillance.

The Green Party is imploring the Government to choose actual solutions to homelessness, after Ministers today announced the Government’s plan to effectively criminalise it. www.greens.org.nz/luxon_choose...

Some nourishing information: A friend who took her teens to the Rainbow Parade yesterday said she saw Chris Bishop looking miserable, and getting booed and heckled by the crowd for just, like, existing. Last night I also walked passed Nicola Willis as I left a hotel, and she also looked miserable.

This is a choice...by the Govt of course. They have no answers because they don't want to give the obvious one. Be kind!!!! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I do not swear (at least not in public), but $%#@*. This defies all the values that NZers used to hold dear. 😢😭💔 Know the bar isn't that high, but this ranks as one of most heartless & gutless of recent policy moves. ☹️😠😡. BTW it makes little economic sense either. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

I generally think of Bond sales/Govt debt issuance as a service provided by the State to the finance sector / wealthy who want risk-free financial instruments, protected from inflation. How else do you explain Govt busily converting debt at 2.25% (settlement balances) to debt at over 4% (bonds)?

KFC, Nando's, Burger King and others ditch chicken welfare pledge. It is about profits. They prefer "franken-chickens" which mature quicker but have higher rates of premature death and muscle disease. What are people eating? Customers not told anything about chicken welfare.

If you loved Detectorists you need to see Small Prophets. Mackenzie Crook is a genius

Tim Murphy’s “omg everyone hates Luxon” piece is so funny bro white bread is up 60%, there’s no jobs, there’s literal shit in the air in the capital city, people responsible for the engines of economy are leaving in droves, no workers rights, no action on climate change, voter suppression 🤷🏽‍♀️

Wow. Must celebrate this HUGE win. Awesome result and mihi to all involved in this achievement.🙏🏾 And, it needs to be underlined, the draft decision wasn't *just* because of environmental harms, there was significant cynicism as to the claimed "economic" benefits. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Begging media to have a fucking spine and be honest because this article mentions Benjamin Doyle’s departure as if it somehow had something to do with list selection, and not a stochastic terrorism campaign spearheaded by the deputy prime minister.

I have worked for three companies now that have tried to implement AI - purchases AI product. - fires or forces out a number of employees they deem unnecessary now that they have this new system. -new AI actually creates more work and doesnt solve anything. three different companies same results.

Chloe once again telling it how it is. This government isn't stupid, they do know exactly what they are doing when they manufacture conflict and culture wars just like they are doing with this stupid languages bill. #ChloeForPM #ChloeHasASpine #WheresChippy #nzpol

Fuck off Winston. YOU'RE IN THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT THAT PASSED THIS BILL!!! YOU'RE THE DEPUTY PM OF THAT GOVERNMENT!! if you wanted to stop that bill you would've stopped it, just like you've done with other bills you didn't like in the past. don't fucking come with this bullshit. #nzpol

The government yesterday passed a law that basically makes it possible for every NZ employee to be reclassified as a specified contractor, so they don’t get minimum wage, holidays, rights to fairness etc. Not only Uber Drivers. NZ First supported btw.

Some of the best arguments I've seen against #LLM / #AI use: - undermines experience - redirects seniors away from teaching - have limited & biased knowledge - code has always been incidental for problem-solving - not conducive to truth seeking blog.fogus.me/meta/LL...

As predicted, the regime votes against the Greens' amendment for a longer SC period within the regime deadline. There's no pretence. They simply hate democracy. We're a challenge to their rule, so we must be bypassed.

"Water management has long been a contentious issue in New Zealand, with legislation to centralise its control and overhaul outdated services thrown out by the National-led coalition government in favour of local reforms in early 2024"

‘It’s a catastrophe’: Wellington rages as millions of litres of raw sewage pour into ocean

#BREAKING #TrainNews: Waikato Regional Council has today welcomed the NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi Board’s decision to support a 12-month extension of the Waikato-Auckland Te Huia trial.

Hey remember David Seymour waxing lyrical about Milei halving the number of govt departments, and halving poverty, and no one in the NZ media (with the honorable exception of @mountaintui.bsky.social ) questioned it? That was fun 😒 #nzpol

"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology. mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries. But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.