Bloody Nora... this sounds like a financial house of cards. I wonder who owns the land now. And I hope that all the orchard workers have been fully paid. www.nbr.co.nz/primary-indu...

Ugh! Fucking November cannot come soon enough! I'm so tired of being governed by childish, weak, misogynistic, unqualified, narcissistic, cruel, money-hungry, traitorous, gutless wankers! 😒

The constant punching down & belittling by men in powerful positions is exhausting. These roles are a privilege, and they should be held with integrity, respect and a sense of responsibility. We deserve better than politics that normalises this garbage behaviour, and we can definitely choose better.

This is Cupcake. She is either living her best life or really going through it. Either way, probably best to give her a moment. 14/10 (TT: bundleofbullies)

David Pocock pauses, overcome with emotion, while detailing UN’s horrific findings against Israel “IDF has now killed 20,000 Palestinian children” “…deliberately shot at children’s limbs…as a twisted game of target practice”😔 Barbaric & sickening. This is our ally?

anybody wanna buy 1/3 of the novichok house? www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

A very lovely doctor at A&E has just confirmed that the 'floaters and flashes' that I've been seeing are just another delightful degenerative part of aging. 🤦 #BetterLivingEveryone

A newborn's cut umbilical cord is a wound. Where babies are born at home, cords covered with substances like soil or ash can carry the bacterium causing neonatal tetanus, a preventable disease. Prevention: maternal vaccination and clean cord care.

Cruise ships are simply too big now. IMHO, you're asking for trouble what with so many people packed in together playing 'user pays sardines'.

Rewind back to an interview between Zack Polanski & the Day Time TV presenter known as "Ed Balls" who took exception to Polanski calling him a “Labour politician” and accusing him of bias. "I lost my seat in 2015 & I’ve not been a Labour politician for 10 years" lamented soon to be Labour Lord Ed.

Yep. Will be there. #nzpol

I want to be petty about this. I really do. trump's "Great American Fair" was as empty as the reports said, per Rep. Melanie Stansbury, who actually showed up to see it. But the punchline isn't the empty fairgrounds. It's that our tax dollars paid for that failure. Again.😠

⛽️ Gasoline in Russia. Diluted with ethanol so much that the water fraction falls out.

“north of the Brynderwyn Hills, where two towering stands of kahikatea trees flank State Highway 1 and form a natural gateway to the historic town of Waipū.”

#nzpol ⬇️🤔⬇️

I’ve just learned my new fact for today.

For myself, as someone with ME/CFS, I would have scored this mostly in the red. We really do need a ME/CFS/LongCOVID care and treatment and referral pathway established in Aotearoa New Zealand. #nzpol

1) 🇧🇪 In Belgium, the Federal Knowledge Centre (KCE) published a 144-page report on ME/CFS. It measured the healthcare needs and priorities of ME/CFS patients (shown in the graph below) and recommends investments in research and specialist centres for ME/CFS.

My submission on the Marcroft Bill. Deadline's tonight if you haven't, go here: www3.parliament.nz/en/ECommitte...

Hey @swordsjew.bsky.social I am packing up my office on penguin street and took some video for you.

Cast yourself as a villian.

Man with Tibetan flag dies after setting himself on fire in front of UN’s New York headquarters https://fascinating.news/r/NeAmDinM

Thanks Coley. I hope this sets a precedent for the other spurious cases Grenon’s funding against leading disinformation researchers, award-winning investigative journalists, and mainstream media.

Today's news that Jim Grenon has been ordered to pay costs to TVNZ and my friend and colleague @sanjanah.bsky.social is a genuine win for free speech in Aotearoa. If you don’t remember the (frankly, insane) details of this case, strap in and I’ll do my best 🧵 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

...and surgeons should always put the lives of their patients first. He asked, if surgeons are continuing past 70, who are they doing it for, because it's not the patients. That earned him massive respect in my eyes.

What in the actual merry fuck? *incandescent*

There seems to be a growing issue with developers just lying (sorry - submitting "significantly incorrect information") to fast-track panels, then trying to leverage the tight timelines to gain consent regardless www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

The National Museum of Funeral History in Houston, Texas, sells a coffin-shaped stuffy called MORT ⚰️

#nzpol When will our government depts and ministers show that they have ethical backbones by quitting the X cesspool?

Labour Party Leader Chris Hipkins keeping his powder dry. My #cartoon today #NZpol #Election26

1) 🇪🇺 Good news! The European Union has awarded € 7.5 million for a big ME/CFS consortium that will study biological mechanisms in hundreds of patients. This is a major milestone for ME/CFS research in Europe.

E-commerce giant admitted it failed to ⁠prevent 80,000 illegal drug product sales, according to US Justice Department.

Eight Thai monks killed after child drives truck into procession https://aje.news/a5s9b2

Data centers spike the cost of power for everyone who lives nearby. Often, people building new projects promise they’ll build out power infrastructure to make up the cost and prevent normal people from footing the bill. That's not how it works. @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/henrico-virg...

#nzpol Ahem, do pay attention National/NZ First/ACT coalition government. 🙄

Vatican expels members of rebel Catholic group over unapproved ordination https://aje.news/3vj8yu

As the political situation in the USA devolves into Dr Strangelove territory, everybody needs to revisit the reasons why even Ronald Reagan wanted a test ban treaty in the first place. [ apnews.com/article/trum... ] #nzpol

Where on earth did the Minister get the idea councils are spending too much on climate resilience? Yes, the "worse case" scenario has been retired (because of global action), but councils not coping with 1.3˚C of warming: nobody's using the worst case scenario for central planning. #nzpol

Submissions on Conservation Amendment Bill extended to 13 July after Minister Potaka's request to the Environment Select Committee. If you're writing submissions do Definitions Woman + Man Bill or Move Along Orders first! #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... ⤵️ www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

Submissions on the Conservation Amendment Bill have been extended by a week. This follows Luxon backtracking on his plan to open up huge sections of NZ’s conservation land for sale after massive public blowback. Have your say now. #nzpol

#nzpol 🎯⬇️

Some people dont deserve to be in politics Matt Doocey is one of those people. #nzpol

Councillor Rebecca Matthews said, “The very lowest bar we could expect from a councillor is they are not an impediment to public safety.” INDEED. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610... (premium) @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social

Very useful video to settle debates (in New Zealand, and elsewhere) on whether increasing speed limits on highways from 100kmph to 120kmph make any sense. You only ever save, at best, around one minute. Taken from Instagram, www.instagram.com/reel/DaP4kyF... #nzpol

”Hide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,” the person who reported the issue said.

Gallup survey says the financial toll of scams in the United States in 2025 was estimated at $68bn.

Oh yeah, I am now an award-winning independent journalist. Pretty cool!

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