Merry Christmas everyone! Currently waiting for my nieces to arrive from Australia, to spend Christmas with me.

They've just booed the comedian imitating Keir Starmer on the Royal Variety Performance.

Epic story unfolds. 🧵

I appreciate this graphic issued by the NZ Central Sikh Association in response to the Destiny racists for its inspiring message of anti-discrimination, mutual aid and unity across ethnic & faith communities, and also its subtle reminder that Sikhs are known badasses so why would you fuck with them.

Just in case you or someone you know gets offered some bargain cheese. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

What sort of special POS brings a fucking dog to Tiritiri Matangi? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Reupping because lots of folks may be in the air and on the road shortly: there's decent emerging science that you can materially reduce the risk of acquiring COVID by (a) taking antihistamines, (b) masking, and (c) using antiviral nasal sprays. And (b) and (c) also help avoid crappy colds/the flu!

A bit of a shock to discover someone in my old Sydney neighbourhood has 95 guns, and that this is an improvement on previous years when someone had 386 guns. This is in the supposedly respectable lower north shore.

😂

This fuckin’ government, man… “We would like to inform you that FluTracking New Zealand will pause over the summer period. The final survey for 2025 was emailed on 15 December. The Ministry of Health of New Zealand has decided not to renew the contract with FluTracking Australia going forward. “

Help the Red Cross now with blood donations, they are urgently needed for the #Bondi victims. Most critically needed is O type donors. Booking link to donate blood is here: account.donateblood.com.au

Latest report is 10 dead at Bondi www.news.com.au/national/nsw...

Stolen from FB (just posted) St Kilda

It turns out Ikea New Zealand are having delivery issues. Impossible to get through on the phone and a message via Facebook got the answer to wait 3 or 4 days. Some very unhappy punters in the Ikea fan groups.

Has anyone else had this? Are we being treated as Australian?

Forgive my drum banging, but teenagers don't lose everything to romance scams and crypto rug-pulls, nor are they the ones getting radicalised against public figures in FB groups and occupying parliament. The kids are better suited to modern life on the t'internet than their elders.

More measles locations of interest including Waikato Hospital ED, a concert and some shopping malls. info.health.nz/health-topic...

Two new measles cases confirmed - Queenstown & Auckland, linked to known exposures. 30 cases nationally (22 no longer infectious). New locations of interest: Bluebridge ferry 30 Nov, RÜFÜS DU SOL concert 29 Nov, malls in AKL & WLG. Check LOIs & advice: info.health.nz/measles

Getting a free concert tonight

There are people still letting off fireworks! It's 10 days after the actual date.

New Zealand, sounds familiar?

HE’S ON A MISSION FROM GOD

In today’s HeraldOnSunday

It’s giving suburban Thai restaurant

I’m at Narita Airport and got approached by a self driving wheelchair that was quite persistent. It really didn’t understand that I didn’t want to use it.

🐱🇳🇿Photo gallery: Pets relaxing to RNZ Concert's soothing sounds for Guy Fawkes www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

i know this is too long a headline but it would be so cool to highlight that this school *followed* ministry advice which led to 900 close contacts of student with measles. Our government is not serious people. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

What I thought about the group of 4 adults and 2 children on the airport train who completely filled the luggage racks with ginormous suitcases.

Hi we are a small garden landscaping business that also sells plants. We are based in the Wellington region and currently have some room for a bit more work.

There’s a small group of teachers at Morningside shops with placards. Most passing cars are hooting in support. #Oct23strike

I'm doing live updates on the 'mega strike' today for RNZ. Please post enough content here on the Bluesky so I don't have to scroll the bird app for content, I'm begging you www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Couldn't recall why I'd saved this picture, Image search reminds me it's a photograph taken by Tokugawa Yoshinobu (the last Tokugawa shogun) of his cat, Han. It is perhaps Japan's oldest pet cat photo.

So lemme get this right, we burned 50k jobs, lost 90k citizens, fucked the energy, retail, hospo, manufacturing businesses, murdered worker rights and equal pay, set fire to public services and threw the entire health service in the dumpster And we didnt fix inflation? #Nzpol

"But soft! What light through yonder window... BRAKES!"

Healthy Halloween 😀

KANGANAUT! 👩‍🚀🦘That is all.

Certain politicians made a point of wandering through to placate the "protesters". When they finally left, the neighbourhood was left to clean it up.

I lived in Molesworth Street during the 2022 occupation. It wasn’t “peaceful”; it was filth and menace. People shat and pissed on our lawns. Emergency workers were blocked from reaching neighbours. The smell lingered for weeks.

Sakaithunder, a 3-year-old panda wearing overalls, is a YouTuber from Fukui Prefecture. If you open the zipper on her back, it leads to the demon world.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Just look at these Epsom voters wasting Electoral Commission staff time by doing special votes in Botany. #nzpol www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-...

In case you happen to need a reason to want to be alive today, 711 in Tokyo is now taking reservations to provide a special New Year’s holiday meal for your dog.

Buried in the detail about reducing earthquake strengthening is the removal of requirements for disabled access and fire safety. You know who does that? Sociopaths.

It’s that time of year again. #WestAuckland #Duck #Duckling #Rescue

Luxon can't be bothered going to the UN like real a world leader, but he is at the rugby. #nzpol

Reminder When emailing MPs - be polite. NEVER make threats, of any sort. A template email is easy to be automatically sorted into a folder which will be ignored. Probably. Same goes for cc emails. Email your MP and say ‘I am a constituent’. Postcards (& letters) can be sent free to Parly.

The address to write to is: [insert MP name] Freepost Parliament Private Bag 18 888 Parliament Buildings Wellington 6160

Use “I” statements please Winston. The tens of thousands of NZers who marched, the thousands and thousands more who see this genocide for what it is and who know recognising Palestine is an important symbol of solidarity, your decision does not represent us.

We aren't going to recognise Palestine because Israel has invaded it and so Palestine doesn't control its own territory ...

I have just fired off an email to Luxon. Here's hoping he arrives to email hell on Monday morning. #nzpol