Strong recommend to this piece and the danger lurking in existing case law ... "Essentially, if widespread vote theft has taken place, the perpetrators may actually be saved by the sheer scale of their offending."

overnight, australia became the first idiotic country to ban social media for anyone under 16 years old, and new zealand's education minister has confirmed NZ intends to be the second idiotic country before the next election. @dylanreeve.com looks at why this is DUMB: www.webworm.co/socialmediaban/

I made a formal complaint about this last week and WINZ had a manager call me within an hour to formally apologise. It was a training and IT issue that they are now resolving to prevent it happening again.

Want to support trans rights in Aotearoa & get a bunch of cool TTRPGs? The Ban the Ban bundle is raising funds for action against the NZ govt's blocker ban. Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now! itch.io/b/3421/ban-t... #transrights #ttrpg #nzpol

Public statement from WPATH: “New Zealand’s decision seems to be driven by political motivations and runs contrary to the Ministry of Health’s own evidence... WPATH requests the New Zealand government restore access to puberty blockers.”

On the back of my struggles with WINZ today and in October, I'm bringing this back. I'd say stopping someone's SLP without warning for a Regional Medical Advisor to verify their diagnosed, well-documented disability counts as a sanction. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

If JK Rowling herself doesn't separate her art from her transphobia, and has said she sees every Harry Potter fan as a fan of her transphobia, and uses every dollar she makes to fund transphobia, I need people to stop insisting they "separate art from artist" because it's beyond disingenuous atp

At the start of October, WINZ cut my SLP cos I'd missed a letter. I provided them a medical certificate and it was reinstated. So why, today, 2 months later, have they cut it again - this time with NO letter?!

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

It's exhausting reading about TPM drama when as a member, not once have I ever been approached about local hui, opportunities to have my voice heard outside of AGM, etc. We have processes but god they're naive and lacking the grit and rigour needed for living in a Pākehā world.

Ōtepoti: Palestine solidarity Rally for Palestine Saturday 15th November 2-4pm Upper Octagon image: same info, illustrated with Palestinian flag at the bottom & a background photo of a person holding up a sign "Stop the genocide", amongst a crowd of people

Now #SecretSantaAoNZ has kicked off, I’m going to have a think about some good clues I can give my Santa. I’ll probably post around the time we get paired up. Want to play with us? Go to secretsanta.nz for details and sign up!!

Genius move from me to tackle the big questions right on bedtime - the find out about it tomorrow board.

My friend died. I'm sad. They meant an awful lot to me. The world without them feels like a very bleak kind of a place.

The Children’s Minister lied about the harm the state is inflicting on children to make the Govt and herself look better. It’s beyond unacceptable. It’s morally bankrupt. #nzpol

RIP North & South, but anyway. Just thinking about this article from 2021 describing how price gouging has been normalised in NZ. And this was BEFORE a whole lot of the inflation shocks and upheaval. NZers aren’t angry enough at the people responsible for it all. northandsouth.co.nz/2021/08/26/w...

Absolutely tremendous amount of power outages across Southland, good grief

It's real important, clearly, that we are policed at the mega strike in Ōtepoti. Imagine deciding that teachers, nurses, doctors, firefighters, education and health support staff require police supervision just cos it's a strike.

Parenting an autistic kid is wild. I just walked in to the lounge to hear Google rattling off a list of serious ailments all causing death. Asked what was going on. "I was just seeing what would happen if you were stung by a box jellyfish."

Come on FENZ get Fire(fighter) wise!! Support your local firefighters on strike this Friday! Sticking for safer working conditions and fair pay! Talk more over at my substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/come-on-gu...

SHORT NOTICE CALL TO ARMS FOR DUNEDIN FOLKS

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

Margin is a 100 votes!!! And they are still counting, so not final yet. 🫣

One of those days I could really use my own support worker. I gotta go special vote and pick meds up from the pharmacy. I'm too wiped out to get myself out and about to do either.

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

I finished my masters!! Yay! MSD cut off my Supported Living Payments and my payments stopped this week because in the flurry of OSCAR subsidy letters and finishing my masters and being constantly sick, I missed a review letter. Boo

“The world doesn’t owe you a living” Vs “I’m entitled to my entitlements”

Holiday casualties of Sept/Oct 2025: - 2x flooded bathroom ("I wanted a swimming pool") - 1x snapped kitchen knife ("I was trying to get into the lock box") - 1x heavily scratched lock box - ♾️x punched Pāpā - 10x removals of the Google home to prevent unauthorised YouTube use ("but it's a habit!")

I have about $8000 in extra student debt because my parents refused to fill out the forms with their income and it took a year to persuade Studylink to waive it at the ripe old age of 20 but yeah, means testing jobseekers for 18 and 19 year olds is a super smart idea that will go perfectly fine

As a historian, I don’t require my government to have the same level of knowledge I do, but I do ask of them the listening to those who have the knowledge. Our refusal to recognise Palestine is a national shame.

It’s always crazy to that the govt will wield their enormous power and punish people for being poor or bully children by withholding lunches but not do unhinged badass things like kick the Israeli ambassador out.

Officials drafting Government policy say more than half of the time they are being "constrained" from following a normal policy process. New story from me in The Post: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Disabled people being jammed into rest homes has been a quiet problem for decades since NZ's big residential institutions were closed.

my final draft, it is Done

Ōtepoti: Palestine solidarity Tomorrow there's an event that'll be good for the soul - Rozana for Palestine Community fundraiser Music, kai, poetry, cultural exhibits. Family friendly! 28th September 12pm-8pm 45 Māori Rd $10 entry, under 18s free All proceeds to Rozana (image, same info)

I get the gig economy concerns, but I'd love to see Total Mobility cover Ubers. An Uber will show me on the map where they're at, arrive on time, and let me ride in peace. A taxi will get there 30 mins after I call with no warning, and the driver will spout racist misinfo the whole ride.

Single parenting in the holidays with only family for childcare and two jobs and 3000 words/3 weeks left on a Masters is ROUGH. Today I've parented, been to a big provider hui, been to another work hui, done laundry and dishes, and I'm only just sitting down at 2.24pm able to maybe write 🤪

I've been quiet everywhere lately - I'll be back in like 3 weeks once I finish my masters. I hope you've all missed me 😁

Oi who decided my house was turning into an ingredient house this week, shit mate, all I want is dopamine snacks 🥴

Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.

"Oh em GEE - its like a dreeeeam!" - My child when a car actually stopped for us first try at the pedestrian crossing instead of speeding over it.

#nzpol Please take note of this. Kate is bang on and it’s disappointing to see it still happening. Nicola no boats is fine. It’s not tone policing it’s kicking misogny to touch.

US folks do have a look at the replies to Steph's post here. A perfect eg of a phenomenon you probably don't notice if you *are* in the US: many of us *aren't*. Mapping the dynamics & institutions of your politics onto the rest of us is bad enough, presuming we're always talking about you is worse.

friendly reminder that if you bought hogwarts legacy you directly contributed to the legal fund that created this ruling

The NZ government is trying to legislate out bilingual education like that my daughter's been in. She reads voraciously, and bilingually. She's also a much more secure kid for having her culture in her school with her. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Please do share this story so people don’t fall for this shitty scam

My kid has her first wiggly tooth, which firstly wtf and also how and also isn't she still a baby?! But secondly, omg I can't even handle looking at it and I couldn't stomach dinner thinking about it omg