Paywall lifted: At every turn, the Govt has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Govt’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

In today’s Weekend Herald #nzpolitics

Hello Culture and Heritage

Pluribus. Yes.

OK so shareholders usually give their votes to the chair or CEO in lieu of attending an AGM so I suspect Musk just gave himself a trillion dollar payday and has royally fucked the business as nobody will invest if all the profit (haha) goes to the owner’s salary.

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

School lunches scheme switches to regional suppliers.

I'm just going to say ... that's a wrap :)

There's just a handful of corporates that stand to benefit from Commerce Minister Scott Simpson's unexpected call to dramatically loosen climate reporting requirements; some are political donors. Jonathan Milne investigates.

No. Bad. Die in a fire.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

A report from the Minister for Growth, on the unemployment rate. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #unemployment #joblessness

This post lives rent free in my head much like the microplastics in my brain.

Meanwhile in Aotearoa, our government keeps pouring money into fossil fuels

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Senior German officials have accused the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of deliberately abusing parliamentary powers to collect and likely pass secret information about the country's military capabilities and the state of critical infrastructure to Russia. Source: Der Spiegel

Investors are going. Regulators are circling. Customers never asked for it and don’t want it. The bubble is popping.

Islay. Somewhat incredibly, we STILL don't have a Scotch Whisky Tourism Strategy and Budget. It's 25% of ALL UK Food and Drink. One Scottish thing! We need to keep the riches of Scotch, in Scotland. More Tax is generated in Islay than some UK CITIES! Scottish Independence is a no-brainer.

I don't want the imdb app! I don't! I don't! It's right there on the internet! I don't need it taking up space on my phone! Shut-up, imdb! Shut-up! Shut-up!

Current state:

I am not a military strategist, but I have a vague memory that not feeding the troops was one of those big fuck-ups that Sun Tzu talked about.

We're gonna buy a boat! But no not a ferry This would be about $1.5bn www.janes.com/osint-insigh...

“And we have a new number one, it’s Bitch Slapped with ‘Know what I mean’.”

Hey that’s me.

He's desperate to give off the Illusion of leadership by making his problems and people disappear!

Alternate framing - People learnt the impact of transmission during the pandemic and now are less likely to come in and get everyone else sick.

Last night’s electoral successes happened in spite of white voters, not because of them.

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpolitics

"Cubs, to the left flank! They're weaker there because they've got their pants down. "Girl Guides, fire all flaming toilet paper at the long drops. Catch them off guard!"

Asked whether he’s sure technology will allow the Government to meet its climate goals, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts replies: ‘Can we be sure about anything in life?’ newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...

Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one

Court convicts two donors for illegally diverting £100k to Eurosceptic think tank run by Nigel Farage's girlfriend.

Haha they used louise-upston-announces-beneficiaries-to-be-fed-into-shredder.jpeg and not louise-upston-happy-times.jpeg

In the bunker planning and exercising for a major space weather event.

Bravo.

www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... The way you strengthen telco resilience is by strengthening electricity resilience. This will also strengthen hospitals, schools, homes and everyone else’s resilience.

“on a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, i sat on a throne of blood. what was will be; what is will be no more. now is the season of evil. death is but a door. time is but a window. i’ll be back”

*IF* you are wondering how this is going in #NewZealand

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www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608... “Brown said the flyover had sped up morning commutes, BUT HAD ALSO INTRODUCED NEW CHOKE POINTS…” Yes that tends to be what happens.

Apparently we should be hearing more about Labour’s election platform soon and I really hope it’s more Mamdani than three Starmers hiding in a Mamdani trench coat 🤞

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

Jesus Christ, I was looking for a photo of Kieran McAnulty with his dog and I found this! #NZPol

NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

It’s not the kids I worry about. They’re pretty good at spotting bullshit. It’s their grandparents who can’t tell fake news from fact, AI puppies from real and who share and believe the most useless shite I’ve ever heard.

School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

Had to share this from twitter just because

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods