The state of things. Tragedy intensifies. 😢 Remind me, which “waters” did those bamboozled billboard people think they wanted to “stop”… and why, again?

Oh swoon.

Yes and – might want to update the terms of this enquiry to also cover the Standard of the Shit we are Expected to: * swim in * ingest unknowingly via our tap water * serve up to hungry children under the guise of “Healthy Lunches” * wade through as we flee for our lives What have I missed?

The book is in press! HK Lennon Wall cover fuck yeah ✊ @keithng.bsky.social , harking back to Te Papa's first round of Asian activist materials collections. I wrote the intro & a few other bits & bobs. Can't wait to see how Grace has let our history speak through objects in the national collection.

i've never been quite as frightened of something i've written as i am of this thing i've just written. which makes me realise i'm not sure what it would be like to write something that doesn't scare the life out of me. and for each thing to get more and more frightening.

Another AWP Offsite event for us! Also on Thursday, March 5, but this one has Lana Lin and a lot of cupcakes!

The difference in monitoring between this and any pennies through "māori" research funds 👀👀👀

ahahaha not a zuru exec complaining in public that they know people in the epstein files but it’s unfair because they’re not “guilty” and reputations are being “unduly affected”

I wish I was a smarter person & could work out the elements of the strategy both Pam Bondi & Nicola Willis are using - it's wild. The whole, 'Riddle me that,' line from Willis yesterday is the epitome of it but I can't work out what they are both doing. Is it simply shout lies & belittle?

Given that we still have an 81 on the perceptions of corruption index, there’s still plenty of room to move down!

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people. 1. JK Rowling 2. Maya Forstater 3. Helen Joyce 4. Graham Linehan 5. Kathleen Stock 6. Posie Parker 7. Wes Streeting 8. Rosie Duffield www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

"How on earth can we possibly say that somebody was appointed because they were the best person for the job, when there was a decision to not even consider anybody else for that job?" - Chloe Swarbrick. #NzPol

Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire is a work of stone-cold beauty and genius. Thank you @thwupbooks.bsky.social & @pacificraft.bsky.social teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/lyr...

Kind of weird to illustrate this using a hacker-like figure as opposed to, say, a photo of Shane Jones

This really has to be internalised by everyone. It's the core of every social ill. No more billionaires.

The organisation I am part of accepted a collective agreement that was awful because this economy sucks & people are worried about jobs etc our employer played on this. Jobs were safe but this govt has created fear and delivered a terrible economy. I hope they get obliterated at the election #nzpol

I absolutely guarantee you that the below and Luxon announcing a gas terminal isn't a coincidence. Corrupt piece of shit #nzpol

A marine biologist says the Moa Point sewage spill could be a massive ecological disaster that would take many years to reverse. Millions of liters of raw sewage now pour into the sea, following a catastrophic sewage treatment plant failure in NZ’s capital city. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

We choose to go to the moon, not because it's easy. But because it's easier than Mars.

This looks great - two of the smartest and most intriguing writers I know of, chatting about timely topics together. Bound to be invigorating for the busy ol’ brain, especially in these weird and wearying times. A most welcome and refreshing invitation! #pukapuka #nzbooks

can we PLEASE get some fucking coverage of Thiel’s interests here, past, present and future huge red light flashing given the way media have almost completely ignored him

IT'S FEBRUARY 2026. THE RAIL ENABLED HYUNDAI FERRIES FOR I REX WERE MEANT TO ARRIVE BY NOW. Instead we have no rail enabled ferries, the two we have are clunky as fuck, and there will be no replacement ferries until 2029 at the earliest.

oh you mean NZ citizen Peter Thiel who NZ's entire media is just refusing to report on effectively, if at all, these last 2 weeks?

When Seymour said there are always a small group of people that turn up and ruin it for everyone, for a brief moment I thought he'd developed self-awareness.

LAND BACK.

Nicki Minaj loves MAGA but not enough to appear at the Turning Point alternative halftime show *OR* Turning Point are not at all sure about people from Trinidad. Blergh all round.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

this was done intentionally - multiple ministers including Willis & Seymour bragged about how many jobs they’d cut in the first 12 months of their government. the reserve bank literally said it wanted unemployment up to control inflation. as with so many other policies this term, it’s social murder

This Sunday (8 February at 3pm) i'll be talking with Jordy Rosenberg at The Open Book in Tāmaki Makaurau. It's a free event. Jordy's new book Night Night Dawn is AMAZING and i can't wait to talk to him about it. theopenbook.co.nz/events/2026/...

Join us to launch Party Boy, the highly anticipated debut novel by Breton Dukes! 🎉 Sunday 15 February, 3pm 🎉 Woof! bar, 368 Moray Place, Dunedin 🎉 All welcome!

MBIE has announced the board members of Research Funding New Zealand, the new org that will make funding decisions for NZ's "major public investments in science, innovation and technology" My initial response: 😬🤔🙄WTF Why are three of them Aus-based? Why such a strong Agri lean? ⚛️🧪👩‍🔬

If you feel "hamstrung" by human rights laws and by health and safety laws - you are the person those laws were designed to protect us against. You need to be obstructed by those laws. Also, she's lying.

YES AND: over 50% of voters think the level of Treaty of Waitangi influence on government decisions is about right *or could be even stronger* - same poll (Support is closer to 60% if you set aside the “don’t knows”, and just look at those who have particular feelings one way or the other) #nzpol

Bravo!

I remember when Judith Collins tried her hand at being Pauline Hanson in 2020. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/judith-co...

It's like she's doing Pokemon Go but with Nazi war criminals.

I do remember when Judith Collins leaked the name and details of a public servant to the right wing attack blogger Cameron Slater and then the public servant received personal attacks and death threats. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Slashing all Marsden grants to social science and humanities another Judith Collins legacy www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Then there was the Oravida scandal www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/collins-d...

NEW VACANCY: Kaiwhakahaere Ratonga Māori – Team Leader Māori Services, permanent, full-time, applications close 11.55pm Sunday 15 February 2026. More details: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/jobs/ #libraryjobs ^MT

I think NZ cartoonists should be the press gallery. They don't do horserace, they give us a clear picture of the reality we're all living with or facing they recognise b/s and don't repeat it, they front the issues and don't regurgitate RW/far right talking points uncritically. #nzpol 1/n

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Seriously though, the political sinecures that ministers have control of is shocking. This proposed enshittification of the Law Commission demonstrates that while the 1912 Public Service Act may have reined in Seddon’s worst excesses, political patronage is alive and well in Aotearoa, to our shame.

Byeeeeeee

BYE BITCH

“For years, a certain kind of liberal has either minimized such culture war rhetoric coming from the other side, or urged political actors of all stripes to ignore this, in favor of ‘material’ & ‘kitchen table’ issues—as though the state regarding one’s life as ‘garbage’ has no tangible consequence”

By cancelling the Climate Emergency Response Fund, the government was telling us there was nothing to see here. The past week has shown they could not have been more wrong. We need a government that takes climate change seriously because it's only going to get worse. #nzpol

See also Luxon saying the UN hasn't 'disrupted or innovated' enough in his interview this morning.