Good morning all, Let me introduce you to Toby. Toby roams the dunes near Luskintyre Beach

This shit seems waaaay too broad and we know what happens when police are given discretion. Government moves to give police back more information-collecting powers www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I was at the Ilam Gardens this afternoon. Azaleas are in full spate. 🌸

Government to starve teens and their parents of resources to meet targets is par for the course, they kicked people out of energency housing onto the street to meet energency housing targets, people are being refused specialist health appointments to meet health targets…the list goes on #NZpol

The girlfriends who founded Antifa.

A welcome back down from the coalition. #nzpol

#nzpol Of course there would be a haka. It's totally appropriate and normal for there to be a haka after a maiden speech. Gerry needs to chillax because his blatant racism is showing. 🧐

#nzpol GOOD NEWS ALERT 🚨 Today the government relented to pressure from the @livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social and retained the requirement for contracted workers to be paid at least the Living Wage rate in Government Contracts. Around 5,000 workers will likely benefit from this decision

Giggled inanely at these for some time

Andrew Hoggard says he will allow cancer-linked glyphosate to be increased by 100 x in our food production. He's also ignored a High Court order telling farmers to remove cruel farming practices around pigs - extending the 2025 due date out by 10 years. This is ACT #nzpol #kiwi

On the one hand, medical science is beginning to get a handle on the very complex physiological basis of this disease. On the other hand, we can expect the greatest medical scandal (so far) of the 21st Century – the mass mistreatment and neglect of ME/CFS sufferers – to continue.

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long. There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

My mum told me her and dad built their first house in Kaitaia in the '70's for $17,000. Lolololololol *sobs*

The below, in turn, helps to explain this ...

The actual glory of this

Have you ever noticed that old clothes online sometimes look better than old clothes in your closet? Why is that? 🧵

Was reminded both on TV and earlier by my wife that it was protests outside politician's homes that stopped the Dawn Raids. With our politicians increasingly curating where they are available, I am unsure how I feel about it being a criminal act to protest outside someone's home.

Growing calls for independent #watchdog to keep NZ politicians honest: As scrutiny of #politicians’ interests rises & public trust in institutions declines, there are legitimate questions to be asked re whether current #integrity mechanisms are working newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/15/g...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Just for clarity, the unemployment numbers under this government may look terrible, but keep in mind, Luxon has driven tens of thousands of Kiwis overseas as well, so its actually far worse. These numbers are just the ones that couldnt leave.

to all the Labour mps on here can you tell your leader we need a commitment to reverse the Jobseekers policy that National has just introduced. Thats not giving your policy away that is exercising basic humanity and getting rid of very poorly formulated policy. Just say it. Come on.

Just saw a post from someone saying that peoplke outside america shouldn't be able to talk about american politics. Ok. Once you withdraw the american military from every overseas military base on the planet, and stop being involved in foreign politics.

Golden Crab Apples, Eliot Hodgkin, 1957, private collection.

Repost. NZ pensions are not a problem. They are not unsustainable. That’s a lie. #nzpol

Hey TVNZ Breakfast, there’s absolutely no value in having the Finance Minister on if you’re going to let her present her spin completely unchecked. #nzpol

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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A story for @brannavan.bsky.social ! No pie or Penthouse this time…

A Sora. A beautiful delicate water bird rescued today. #birds #wildlife #california

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842 In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

It's so funny when somebody cancels plans and profusely apologizes. Don't apologize. This is everything I hoped for

Decriminalising drug use best way to combat rising addiction, report finds www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Me: I'm getting older, and strange things are starting to happen around my period. Dr: Have you considered that you might be stressed? Me: I am indeed stressed that strange things are happening around my period. Dr: We could treat you for anxiety. Me: I was thinking like. Some endocrine tests.

Now this is going to come as a shock but it seems that the Cones Hotline is a complete waste of time and money.

Informed by these two that it is time for morning dental treat and lying in bed like a sloth is no longer acceptable 🐕🇳🇿

Bryce Edwards, another example of an inadequate White man getting a paid public platform to present biased nonsense in New Zealand. This country is colonial to its core.

I just finished up my last tutorial for the year on intellectual virtues and vices, and in the context of discussing open-mindedness, I got to talk about epistemic reputation and my favourite guy from my own life, Comet Guy.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

suspending my generalized agnosticism to pray for Dolly Parton

Sorry about that, lawyers. All that stuff you learned in law school doesn't matter anymore. Unlike doctors. All the stuff we learned in med school and thought we'd never have to actually know about is now becoming very critical again (measles, diphtheria, pertussis)

📢 1,700 Policy, Advisory, Knowledge and Specialist health workers have voted to join strike action on 23 October. The strike follows the failure of Health NZ Te Whatu Ora to provide an offer during bargaining that fairly reflects their value to the public health system.

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Our own ‘war on woke’ is well underway The latest Gender Attitudes Survey makes depressing reading for those concerned about gender equality. The view that equality has gone too far is strongest among men aged 18-34.

Fark, I didn’t realise they were going to be THIS cruel and stupid #NZPol

Tory Whanau’s final speech as Mayor (in part) called out the racist misogyny, and gendered disinformation that defined her term. The comments on FB had to be turned off. That's what online violence against women politicians looks like in real time. #nzpol

Light & Shadow I love the secret feature at Nine Elms London Underground station that reveals itself during a sunny day. If you arrive at the perfect moment, the roundel logo is beautifully projected onto the floor. So I took Dancer Andreya with me to interact with the scene.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

So I stumbled across a protest today outside an Aerospace Conference. Pro-Palestine protesters calling shame on an industry that supplies satellite info to the IDF to target innocent Palestinians. Judith was there as was RocketLab & the US military. 1/ #nzpolitics #KeepSpace4Peace