Aro Valley residents are annoyed our mural-ed bus stops were painted over in grey. Someone took their protest offline this morning. (photos from Sean O’Kane/Aro Valley People’s Republic FB Group)

JFC. @emilywrites.co.nz spoke to RNZ journos when RNZ "alluded to foul, untrue rumours that amounted to gendered abuse of @misswhanau.bsky.social ... editorial team knew story was untrue, & had been told by owners of the bar & other staff that it was untrue..." www.emilywrites.co.nz/how-are-we-a...

Wāhi Kōrero have a new project "I have provided care for someone. These are the thoughts and feelings I keep to myself." They use the stories shared to advocate for better support and policy. Share your story about care, anonymously, via this link:- wahikorero.co.nz/projects/i-h...

This is exactly why they hate it. Allowing young people to reflect and choose their own path in life is poisonous to an economic ideology built on grinding workers into paste

Look at this fucking classist bullshit, exactly what you get from a Tory government #NZPol

At the time School C first operated, it failed 50% of people at the rather vulnerable age 14 or 15. It was designed that way to funnel half the teen population into jobs that didn’t need qualifications. There was little social stigma from being in that bottom 50%. All that has changed radically.

“If they’re re-elected…” is doing a lot of heavy fukn lifting here, and tells you how much they actually care. #nzpol

'She turned her focus sharply to identifying and exposing the presence of bias in psychology. Her core thesis was that it was flawed because most research was based on men’s experiences and treated male behaviour as the “normal” standard, leading to distorted and damaging views of women' ...

“After analyzing crash data over a 13-year period in areas with separated bike lanes on city streets, researchers estimated that having a protected bike facility in a city would result in 44% fewer deaths and 50% fewer serous injuries than an average city.” Safer for ALL. Via @usa.streetsblog.org

I have reported 12 government MP posts on Facebook tonight for spam - all posting the same “we’re changing NCEA” - same post, word for word, from multiple accounts within an hour of each other - that’s spam. I recommend everyone do the same when they see it from government MPs to limit their reach.

EPIC #ArtWork. The New American Gothic, 2017, by Criselda Vasquez Just… amazing. ❤️

Next time you see one of those National party billboards touting tax cuts or their "Future Plan," think about where the tax cuts come from and what that future plan involves.

People need to rewatch that early Jack Tame interview where he signals fast track is about them deliberately hijacking us for special interests because they can sell us to their mates before anyone can stop them, it's chilling. 23-26 mins Can someone clip this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvW2...

this is ENRAGING. when I couldn't drive due to seizures I relied on the Total Mobility subsidy even just to get to work. public transport out west is chaotic, disruptive and often inaccessible, and absolutely cannot be relied on to get anywhere on time. why the fuck would you cut the subsidy down???

OH FUCK OFF. THIS IS ABHORRENT, ABLEST BULLSHIT. IT WAS A FUCKING LIFELINE FOR MY MUM JUST TAX THE RICH YOU CUNTS.

Craig Renney said 170k chn in poverty (size Tauranga) estimated to cost $16b in lost future revenue & misery. If you spent $3b you cld solve poverty & have money to spare. In the last few years each worker's lost $3000. Need to alleviate child poverty & bring back Fair Pay Awards & chg tax system.

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This govt is fixated on making our education system old-fashioned, outdated, and more appealing to pensioners than students. Government confirms NCEA replacement details www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Mayor Mamdani Keeps Raising The Bar, For Other Mayors To Follow His Successful Path.......

"The Minister is spinning this as “strengthening” Total Mobility, when what they are doing is implementing austerity measures and making it harder to access - and making it so that disabled people get out less" #nzpol

Gross that the govt cutting disability supports doesn’t cause much of a stir in the general public. #nzpol

This is the back on track Winston Peters, David Seymour and Chris Luxon support. #nzpol

All to fund tax cuts for wealthy while imposing austerity on everyone else.

The Transport Minister has confirmed that the Total Mobility subsidy is being cut - disabled ppl use the subsidy to do ordinary things like meet-ups with friends, shopping for groceries, and attending health appointments. #savetotalmobility open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

Instead of a social media ban, the committee urged meaningful regulation of recommender systems and feeds. I'm just genuinely surprised that a group of politicians actually looked at the evidence, and then collectively made an informed, sensible decision.

“$711,408 of attachment order payments leave MSD each week and this contributes to the need for $708,167.88 of Temporary Additional Support that is supplied to this group of clients.” Essentially, we underpay benefits, ppl need to borrow $$, then need TAS to make it up. A ridiculous debt-go-round!

NZ Minister Louise Upston's sanctions on beneficiaries doesn't save govt money, instead it gifts ~$37M to debt collection agencies like Baycorp. Waste of OUR money! #NZpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/13/3...

Well well well. There's a turn up for the books! Perhaps we might get an evidence based approach after all?! E.g. regulate the platforms, not the end users! A new and improved BSA that covers alllll media!

“… when disabled people are missing from decision-making tables, governments make decisions they would never survive themselves. They cut disability supports because they have never relied on them. They build inaccessible housing because stairs have never excluded them. They underfund healthcare”

The head of the OECD’s New Zealand desk has bluntly told an audience at the Commerce Commission’s Competition Matters conference that the keys to turning around the country’s economy lie in reducing bank profits and fixing power market.

Hey folks, if you joined InternetNZ last year to fight the good fight and haven't renewed your membership, I'm sorry to say this but the job's not done. There's a grace period until June 30 to renew so you've still got time to get in and make a difference. And thanks to all who have renewed.

Free middle-school hot lunch, Shingu, Japan

Baffling comments from ppl who have no understanding of what a charity does nor the legal requirement to remain independent of political parties and candidates. Forest and Bird and Greenpeace are both charities. Greenpeace was founded in 1974. Forest and Bird 1923. The Green Party in 1990.

An OIA document delivered up by MBIE after 54 working days. It shows MBIE officials advised that the cheapest response to gas decline is to help users switch, not to import LNG. Based on more recent EECA information, this overstates the cost to government of a switching programme.

Zohran says NYC has erased a $12 billion budget deficit in part by taxing the rich

“The Waitakere Ranges are precious. They provide Auckland with fresh air and clean water. They provide us with serenity & artistic inspiration. They have been described as “the lungs of Tamaki Makaurau” and Te Wao Nui o Tiriwa is a very effective sequesterer of carbon.” #nzpol Sign & share.

“The Reflecting Pools in Washington, D.C. were designed for one purpose: reflection. They are supposed to mirror the beauty, dignity, and symbolism of the monuments around them. They were never intended to look like a chlorinated Olympic swimming pool where you can count pennies on the bottom.”

#nzpol They’ve forced through the RSB which forces us to pay for the potential lost profits of corporations and business while removing our ability to sue for damages. Remind me again who these pricks work for 🤬🤬🤬 www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Bernard Hickey doing god’s work with Verity Johnson. This is so worth sharing far and wide on as many platforms to which you have access!! #nzpol

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

nice piece on the Canvas ransomware hack (now paid off for an undisclosed sum by Instructure), its effects on new zealand higher ed, and why universities should skip enterprise businessware in favour of local expertise and open source (I'm not holding my breath) #nzpol

This expectation that we all have to perfect model citizens and workers and never get sick and never lose our anger and do everything perfectly and never lose a job and never have an accident is WILD. You don’t deserve to be in prison for filling out a form incorrectly be for fucking real.

Fascinating thread by Julie on the realities of trying to bring local govt together to agree on ideas and progress work - and how some councillors often don't have a great understanding of social issues or even council processes 😳

Also I point to @drbex.bsky.social excellent work about how home gardening doesn't solve food insecurity (and I don't see HCA saying that) just putting this here to avoid anyone going down that rabbit hole. Fletcher asks abt AKL Deal discussions on food security. Staff response no, but could be.

I do expect the nation under whose passport I'm travelling to care about my wellbeing at least to the level of keeping me out of a concentration camp. Perhaps I'm hopelessly naive. #nzpol

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...

At the moment, all we are offering to our young people is a future of inequality and precarity on an increasingly hostile and dangerous planet #nzpol

My kids are 16-22 in age, its bloody dim when they look forward. Two are studying and racking up student loans, one is job hunting and one at school. It’s depressing for them and for us as parents seeing them being treated like crap by our govt. Vote Nact out.

Worth repeating this government is offering our school leavers nothing "No jobs, no welfare, no training or education support ..."

This government is now offering less than nothing for our young people. No jobs, no welfare, no training or education support ... this does not augur well for NZ's future and creates conditions civil unrest: open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...