Why is it so hard to buy an outdoor USB port in New Zealand?! Seems like such an easy thing to make Here's one from Britain. It ain't rocket science

MPs work 30 weeks a year in Parliament MPs earn at least $181,000 MPs get 20% pension contributions at 2.5x what they pay in MPs can claim $36k+ a year rent MPs get $17k a year office expenses + travel reimbursed +car allowance The cheek of this, priceless #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Recession is over apparently

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

All aboard the Back On Track train, toot toot https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/580992/nz-s-rejection-of-emission-targets-fuels-risk-of-international-law-breach

Back On Track 🚂 🔥 🔥

We hose this shit everywhere in New Zealand https://www.commondreams.org/news/roundup-cancer

FYI I’ve opened this one up to all to read, listen and share after requests from paying subscribers to make it publicly available as part of my public interest journalism mandate. Many thanks to subscribers who pay to allow me to do as much of this work in public as possible. #nzpol

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

This is so cool.

How it started / How it’s going

COVID-induced brain damage?

Incoherent misstep about sums up this government’s entire term. #nzpol

Excellent article by Cathrine Dyer. Worth a read https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/28/clean-car-standard-tinkering-an-incoherent-misstep/

I decided to try @scaleway.com as an alternative to US tech giants. A bug in their system caused a 1 cent charge. Another bug caused me to be unable to view the cause of this charge. They haven't resolved my ticket for 2 months and now have referred me to French debt enforcement. Lmao

@jonathanmilne.bsky.social @newsroom.co.nz as someone directly impacted by Adrian Page's actions, it's unbelievably misleading to imply he was swept up by an overzealous regional council and there's nothing more to it. Do your research

How is it even possible to have this little charisma and wit?

This guy invented a super innovative worm bin in NZ, grew his business here, then sold out and gave exclusive manufacturing rights to the USA. They tripled the price and won't ship to NZ. Wow.

Highly rated for feet #enshittification

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

This is what happens when Dunning-Kruger incarnate on an ideological bent gets into power. Similar thing happening in New Zealand to be honest. Right wing ideology is toxic to a functioning government and society. That is exceedingly clear. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Bad time to be a New Zealander who doesn't export anything. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/579440/why-the-new-zealand-dollar-has-plunged-to-13-year-lows

Terrific

Nice article summarising the senseless choices this government has been making on energy https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360891513/fuel-last-resort-how-imported-gas-became-new-zealands-first-choice

Better things are possible www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9dZ...

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Looking forward to the legal cases against NZ. Let's go! So tired of this deranged behaviour from the right wing. Time for some legal consequence https://theconversation.com/cop30-pacific-leaders-now-have-world-court-backing-to-call-countries-to-account-over-climate-risk-262616

What's the name for this but for startup bros who have a single success? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_d...

Sure, but for a brief moment in time we did make some sick profits www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Can't believe Labour have done this www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/578...

Can't believe Labour have done this www.interest.co.nz/currencies/1...

Day 296 I'm glad I don't live in the USA

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

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

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Ah yes Guy Fawkes, the night where several of my neighbours let me know how low their IQ and consideration for others is 🙄

A House of Dynamite? What a disappointment. Started out so hot but man, what a let down in the end

Democrats won big. If it holds through 2028, it's going to be interesting to watch all the tech giants pretend they're not a bunch of MAGA fascists.

Curtis looks like a bad guy from Red Alert lmao

Can't believe Labour have done this https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/05/unemployment-rate-rises-to-near-nine-year-high-stats-nz/

There's a reason I don't spend my evenings and weekends on climate startups anymore

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”