Are we now expected to declare EVERYTHING that may be considered a criminal offence anywhere in the world? Everlee Wihongi is supposedly being held by US immigration because she didn't declare a previous conviction for possession of marijuana in New Zealand. A declaration that was not required.

First first place of pub quiz season 🎉

Great chat with columnist for @stuff.co.nz Verity Johnson about idea NZ Govt is too indebted & we can’t have nice things.We’re actually rich & have low debt/gdp. The budget cutting obsession is ideological, moves wealth from young to old, & stunts NZ Inc. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

youtu.be/kn-N4fnYwE4?... Not to mention Jordan Williams has written for some of NZs media pages like the New Zealand Herald. The right has sooo much cronyism in our media. #nzpol

Being asked for the source of false information you shared in your capacity as a minister is not "a hypothesis". What a prick. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

What the fuck is he even on though Luxon calls OECD warning on government's LNG plans 'load of rubbish' www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

She just learned that today is not, in fact, the day she goes to daycare and she’s quite upset about it

Aussies have it right, you can make any occupation gender neutral by shortening it and adding y or o at the end and it's much better than adding person instead of man

Breaking hiatus because this government has done a lot of awful shit but I really, truly believe that not only letting ICE disappear a New Zealander, but lying on ICE's behalf to justify her detention, has got to be the kind of thing that cuts through to politically disengaged people

Not only is the US not safe to travel to (or live in as a foreign national), we can apparently not rely on our own government to step in when citizens need it most

After the feijoa jelly fail to success, let’s see how quince goes

One of my students knitted me a little fish bag (it contains chocolate) and look how skilled they are

I absolutely love it when the computer does what I tell it to

I’m glad there are still examples of responsible government regulations in the world

we've been well-educated about why we need to pay the world price for our products (meat & dairy). Why doesn't the same logic apply to our people? www.1news.co.nz/2026/05/10/w...

NZ could achieve electricity security, affordability and sustainability by breaking the power sector's reliance on gas, economic forum advises - Newsroom Pro - $ -

It’s a good thing that if the front falls off our country, at least we’re outside of the environment

99.1% of select committee submitters said don't do it. #NzPol

Oh also on one of my outings I saw a guy wearing a maga hat and why is he doing that here go away

another classic of the genre

I left the house four separate times today and that’s too many times

However you feel about Mother's Day, Helly (61% wrinkly) is concerned that you have a good one

Thanks for eating flies for me, spider bro

I worked hard getting the access into housing now its gone, just gutted www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

I hope the person who made this fitted sheet always has a perfectly ripe avocado exactly when they need it

TPM plan: write off student debt, create a universal student allowance, restore support for part-time, postgraduate and long-course students, and make public transport free for tertiary students. Because education should build futures, not trap whānau in debt.❤️🤍🖤 #nzpol #aonz #education #students

This is blatant misinformation from Seymour. It’s very easy for homeowners to have solar installed. Most do it with a single inspection. Mine was installed one day, signed off later that week and up and running the same day.

I hate when people who got free uni education or never had to worry about a dime, do everything they can to burn the bridges behind them because landlords and tobacco companies needed their tax cuts.

Sir David Attenborough has a soft spot for #kakapo. We named a kākāpō after him (Attenborough the bird is now ten years old, living on Te Kākahu) and he kindly narrated a short video for us about them, which you can see here: youtu.be/5eZVjQowNvw?.... #attenborough #conservation

A true legend turns 100. We all owe Sir David for inspiring so many people to care about the natural world. And we’re particularly grateful for his support of the #kakapo and #takahe recovery programmes. You couldn’t meet a more enthusiastic - and humble - great man. #conservation #attenborough

Watching some interviews with Rachel Entrekin and turns out we have the same motto 😎 “why not?” (Or as she said “why not you?”)

Name a better Friday night than a sleepy fluffy sofa dog and some David Attenborough on the TV

FFS🤬 ‘Budget leak’: Winston Peters confirms fees-free university scheme to be scrapped #nzpol

Has an NZ government ever before so flippantly risked disaster as one that thinks breakdown prone passenger ferries, that cross one of the most unsettled straits in the world, do not require the safety measure of sea going tugs that can rescue them? www.rnz.co.nz/news/regiona...

Someone fluffy would like to know where to direct her complaint that I made her go for a walk in the rain this morning

SAME Happy 100th birthday 🍀

I've got ANOMALOCARIS in stock!! My sister just sent me a batch she'd finished sewing and I've put eyeballs on them all. They're currently being stuffed and sewn up! Available here: www.palaeoplushies.com

TFW you have to have a good mirror chat with yourself cause you looked up Cocodona 250 results and videos so the algorithm is showing you more ultramarathon content and you told yourself you wouldn’t do that again

He really thinks he can come for John Campbell and get away with it?

Ministers need to be careful about weighing in on matters that are within the constabulary independence of the Police etc. 👀

Some of us will remember attempts by Jenny Shipley to create a formal binding Code of Social & Family Responsibility in the late 1990s, which would apply to those who qualified for benefits. It's in the Right's DNA to try to deny people access to their rights under cover of "responsibilities".

At lunch time today we had front row seats to (hopefully) a training exercise between the coastguard, harbour master, and rescue helicopter This evening saw more coastguard activity closer to their HQ and haven’t seen news about any relevant local emergencies

Threads is such a laugh

TFW a meeting starts with a mood board and you were accidentally doing number 9 out loud because your data wrangling is not going very well

Like staring directly into a snow storm

I can’t wait to see the back of this government

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

Love it when my 15 min appointment is at least 10mins late like I have nothing better to do

Remember Marlborough council want none of this shitfuckery the port side infra upgrade is a national infrastructure project and should not fall on the local council finance The costs for this (and the welly one) now fall outside ferry project cost www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.