Tonight Matthew, I’m going to be… @chewienz.bsky.social Is this a vague enough reference to Stars in their Eyes? Does it make sense? www.youtube.com/live/6LVPMs0...

Something something doing the basics brilliantly. Something something back on track.

I’m kind of jealous of the Artemis crew - there’s many days I’d like to be the furthest away person from all of this trash fire.

I’m starting to think I’m the only person in Aotearoa who doesn’t love fejoia. I don’t dislike them - I’m just ambivalent about them 🤷‍♂️

At my local Gull station tonight, there was a cent difference between Diesel and Premium. I really wish we stopped giving stupid people positions of authority, it’s exhausting seeing how much they screw everyone over with their ineptitude on such a big scale.

Been working on updates today for the election2026.co.nz website - now there’s more policy out, and more polls, I’ve updated the tool sets and created a match game - where you get to match dodgy quotes to the politicians that said them. Will have it all good to go by Sunday :)

Was surprised today to get a booking for my warrant immediately- never not had to wait a few days to sort it out. When I asked why they said “business has tanked with the cost of living - people have to choose between eating and getting a warrant, and they’re choosing not to starve.”

I wonder if Simeon was made campaign chair for National because he’s better suited to appeal the hard right cookers and empathy free converts to Act and NZ First over the past few years 🤔

The worst kept secret in Hamilton is out! 💚 😎 Politics can be different, it can be better. Sign up to change the government here: www.greens.org.nz/volunteer

open.substack.com/pub/paulbarl... There’s that saying about those who don’t know history, being doomed to repeat it. It’s the same for those who study media - if you don’t know what you’re seeing you’re doomed to let it keep happening. We don’t have to. But so much MSM seems keen to do it anyway.

While mainstream media fails its duty of care, @paulbarlownz.bsky.social excellently and succinctly contextualises the rant of the old man yelling at clouds and the introduction of a worrying new candidate to Te Pati Aotearoa Tahi. #nzpol #ditchthepricks26 #bhn youtu.be/hJKP9ypQuNA?...

The hard right in this country are so desperate to shit stir and be seen as relevant they are happy to be their own followers for clout 🙄 here’s Walmart Dirty Politics subject Cam Slater said last week compared to the first poll result since last week. And yet our media keeps listening to them 🤦🏼‍♂️

PREVIEW of Winston’s Shtate of the Nayshun today…

There’s something inherently weird about trying to sooth the nation over fuel prices in a way that seems best described as Temu Jacinda during the height of the pandemic response. I know National love roads but the response makes it seem like that’s all they give a shit about…

The man who stood up on the tiles to add to the witch hunt against a green MP because of their personal life and specifically appeals to conspiracy theorists tells us he doesn’t want to deal with personal stuff and to stop spreading disinformation.

Context will always be king 👑 It antagonises me no end that politicians are able to spin facts because their words lack context, and I REALLY would love if we could hold them to account more. Thank you @paulbarlownz.bsky.social for your tireless work 🫂 #nzpol #bhn youtu.be/3V1SUCEPMLg?...

I really hope someone has put in the OIA on the Matai title request because honestly it’s the sort of self serving, oblivious idiocy vibe I’ve come to expect from our wealthy, sorted, entitled Prime Minister. Says a lot about him that so may think it’s feasible he asked for it.

Remember when MPs post the same images and same sort of leading info, you can report it as spam - it’s what scammers do and sharing a bunch of dodgy similar info that seems coordinated and platforms don’t like that. Also I haven’t looked into it but considering the source I smell horse shit.

Find all the data you can - we’re clearly going to need it to keep correcting the MPs who plan to campaign by spreading total bullshit and hoping people don’t bother to look up facts, while trying to drown out those that do. A lie will run around the world before the truth has got its boots on

As @paulbarlownz.bsky.social really validly points out, if we were to have a snap election, many would be voters could be caught out not being enrolled. Please make sure you and those around you are enrolled vote.nz #nzpol #bhn #ditchthepricks #onetermgovernment youtu.be/ddG68u6QQaA?...

Got one episode left of the new Netflix Dinosaur show with Morgan Freeman. I really like the characters, I hope they make it to the end, would be terrible if there was like a giant cataclysm that wiped them out or something. That would be a sucky ending with no real character development!

This weekend I’ve had half a dozen chats to old friends looking at leaving the country, one is already working remotely for an Australian company. I heard about how funding cuts to alt transport in Akl mean rerouting cyclists onto one of the busiest roads in the city. How right wing local elected…

#BHN Tonight 9pm - @paulbarlownz.bsky.social joins us LIVE to chat about his new Election2026 fact checking tool - Bishop awaiting industry to give advice on scrapping Clean Car Standards - NZSIS and NZGCSB's annual review reveals state of cybersecurity and threat intelligence re: Iran War

If only someone had tried to warn voters before the election about these people… Pity it seems no one did that 🙄 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

People kept telling me I was wrong last year when I said TVNZ was not left wing. Then it turns out their new CEO is ringing the minister directly to talk editorial choices of 1News in something that smells very close to breaching the laws around Ministerial interference in state funded media.

Please can you guys share this piece or if not the piece, the information in it, on social media. #nzpol NZCPR Author on Tamatha Paul Cycleways vs Water Piece Doesn't Exist. Minutes from the meeting and those there, on the left & right of council, have confirmed the vote never happened as described

20 years later, Councillor Goldsmith (now Minister) finally got his wish, he gets to see homeless people arrested. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

When Dr Frank-n-Furter told Brad and Janet he’d remove the symptom but not the cause, that wasn’t advice for conservative politicians on how to help homeless people. Reason number 19274 why we need to all check our enrolment details and prepare to relegate this cruelty to history

Loving watching a newly elected Hamilton Councillor who teamed up with conspiracy theorists get all defensive in her content because she agreed to the council purchasing something the hard right followers didn’t see value in. She’s defending water infrastructure changes when her followers worked…

I wrote it since I couldn't find a similar article NZCPR, founded by former ACT Party MP Muriel Newman published an article in Scoop putting the Moa Plant sewage disaster at the feet of Tamatha Paul. But they omitted critical context. Please share #nzpol

It’s so funny to me that the hard right in the country are so angry that Parliament won’t be using Twitter any more - like they’re demanding the staff behind the page have to endure their wrath and choosing not breached their free speech somehow. God they’re the worst, and so dumb.

When the same people getting upset over a proposal from a report to charge $9 per bridge crossing as a potential way to fundraise are also the ones who claimed He Puapua was guiding all govt decisions - the problem is clearly not the reports, it’s the way they get presented to the public and by whom

This week the coalition ditched a referendum on a 4 year term - something should always be at least considering if it strengthens our democracy. But they did put in a Bill to make English an official language and made blatant racist remarks in the house. Again. They keep showing us who they are!

Don’t worry folks - record unemployment, record business failures, record hardship and poverty and inequality growth. But we can get back the people who are leaving for greener pastures by changing the vibes 🙄 - I wonder if NZME gets gift baskets for the free idiotic PR they do for the coalition.

It must have been an absolutely harrowing night for people in Waipa with the storms and flash floods. Times like this we need elected officials to step up. Pirongia’s Cambridge based cooker Councillor hasn’t posted a thing since Jan 20. On carbon credits as a fraud.

Can we please have one day without something crazy, stupid, cruel or ridiculous happing? Please? I promise I’ll be good if we can!

Government must be feeling under pressure - the rolled out a surprise covid related inquiry. It’s like they use the Covid response as an excuse every chance they get to deflect from being really awful at what they do knowing at plays well with the coalition supporters.

I cannot fathom why New Zealanders support them, especially the elderly when nothing is being done to support them, like @paulbarlownz.bsky.social excellently pulled together this morning, none of the coalition’s current actions support the elderly, especially renters youtu.be/lexUqvG3gek?...

Now MSM is covering pink slime-AI Slop News, will the AIs trained on scraping the news sites be reporting on how problematic they, themselves are? www.1news.co.nz/2026/02/09/a...

The creators of one of the most prolific pink slime AI News sites in the country put out a tik tok this weekend talking about how it makes him $30k a month on Facebook. When slop is incentivised and originality and creativity is restricted and not financially viable, the world is really fucked

@paulbarlownz.bsky.social excellently pointing out that the Greens ARE THE ADULTS when it comes to planning out policy, it’s not only a matter of protecting the whenua but also all of us aginst having to foot the bill for greedy companies 👏 #nzpol #bhn #ditchthepricks2026 youtu.be/Y-QLwI-AhpE?...

Lovely day, out for a walk - can’t go to any local cafes though because in the past 6 months the three in Beach Haven have all closed. Is this what back on track feels like?

What started with an inane post from my local MP has now been posted by a dozen other Nats and they are all shitty for treating voters like idiots. The BS Asymmetry Problem and Why We Need To Know about It youtu.be/Q57yuU06rjc

This idiot that’s in charge of our Health sector can’t even get an insult using the Muppets right. They’re so embarrassing on every level.

I totally agree with @paulbarlownz.bsky.social, who gives a fuck what Nicola Willis thinks? She gets far more screen time to blab nonsense than necessary! Solid points on observing the media, I’m grateful for content like this 👏 #nzpol #onetermgovernment youtu.be/4DFOCShUCSU?...

My local Nat MP who sat in candidate events and made racist dog whistles to roaring crowds of packed audiences, posted tonight a “fact sheet” that claims they lowered inflation, set interest rates on mortgages, vague lines about “more kids achieving” and more roads and hospitals.

These people make sure they vote - make sure you do too!

Two Protests, One Agenda for the Media... youtu.be/VMKfta5ceNQ

When I see who directed the critically panned Melania - the worlds dumbest suck up bribe to a dictator in a long time, I remember that Abed’s reaction to the director in Community was spot on - youtu.be/YPSgDCoyljI?...

So weird how NZ First voters are dead set against foreign ownership - unless it’s by the mega wealthy for houses they’ll never afford or if the country is sold off tiny bit by bit out of mines to overseas interests. But I guess using logic and voting for NZ First are two very different things.