It was literally their entire manifesto, destroy PT, EVs, ferries, jobs, health, everything 'Burn it all down so we can make roads' They even failed on that #nzpol

'Health New Zealand data showed there were 1954 hospitalisations of homeless people in 2024/25, up from 971 in 2018/19.'

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

You know what I’ve done in the past and still do in the present, when I come across or hear a word that I’m unfamiliar with? I look it up an dictionary online. That’s it. The end.

Count Binface winning would kinda be hopecore. Clacton-on-sea styles 😁

An interesting and thoughtful piece. Well worth a read. #NZPOL

Norway will always be the GOAT of the energy transition. Instead of talking about the future, they proved it could be done & showed how. In 15 years, new car sales went from 0% to 99% electric, while the rest of the world kept arguing about timing and speed. #Bettrification #EV

Here's the trailer for NZ Wars: Stories of Waerenga-a-Hika, available this Saturday from 12pm. www.rnz.co.nz/video/nz-war...

"We are stoked to see political parties now competing with each other over who can cut power bills & climate pollution fastest ... @greens.org.nz have offered National our 15 votes to pass this scheme since the fossil fuel crisis first hit, months ago." do it now! www.greens.org.nz/green_party_...

Hello from the 1%

Clocking in for another shift at the ‘Tamatha Paul was Right’ factory. I talk more about this over at my substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/another-sh...

Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This seems kind of turbo but also amazing: boingboing.net/2026/07/06/p...

Fancy putting this paragraph/lie from Luxon in an article without context/facts of the coalition doing the extreme opposite. “We're not mandating it from Wgtn. We believe in localism. We believe in devolution. You make your decisions. That's a conversation you & your community need to have. #nzpol

In 2002, Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujurat and stoked so much bloodshed and violence against Muslims in the infamous riots that year, that he was banned from entering the UK, Europe & US for a decade - as essentially, a genocidaire.

They can forget that Modi was banned from 'The West' for mass-scale human rights violations, because a) those standards don't exist anymore, b) they never knew or cared enough about it to forget it. I won't ever forget it though.

On my way, Clacton.

Don’t then?

From anti-gay to anti-trans: rhetoric’s the same, 40 years after homosexual law reform

Egypt is crushing Argentina like Rameses II and his army destroyed the Hittites in Syria at the Battle of Kadesh in 1275 BC

This is the cop who told me rape and death threats were "public criticism" that journalists should expect and weren't intended to harm me because they weren't directly sent to me.

At this point, I thinks it’s on the cops to point out when Tamantha was wrong. #nzpol

Happy Fourth, everyone. My latest piece is about how the current US administration is directly threatening babies’ safety. Them have been multiple botulism outbreaks in infants bc of contaminated baby formula since Trump and DOGE took a hatchet to the FDA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NZ Police seem out of control imo. Not a day goes by and they’re ignoring protection orders, yet another senior policeman under investigation for serious conduct and his SA cases require reviewing and the victims supported!! Too many of them behave like misogynists and/or thugs. #nzpol

#nzpol @henrycooke.bsky.social @marcdaalder.bsky.social Hey team journalism, it would be great to get an in-depth article on where exactly we’re at with the ferries. What are the actual costs v previous? has a contract been signed? Who with? How much? When? Budget allowance? Has Winston lied to us?

In Germany, cats are called 'Stubentiger', which means 'living room tiger.'

“Art is Resistance” ✊

Even if a large swathe of these people were declared fit for work, there are no jobs for them. But as is so often the case, the cruelty is the point. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610... Crossposted with @openvibe.social

It's dark and dreary and raining ki Pōneke. Anō.

New paper out with Alex Barnes and Taydia Meta-Morris looking at published literature about Tiriti-based organisational change. Spoiler alert there isn't much published yet. www.heathercameassociates.com/post/a-rare-...

Lol just saw a tiktok saying the new PHF Science building, the one that's being built to replace the old one that's no longer fit for purpose, is an AI Data Center. Well it will generate data, but no it's not that kind of data center 😂 disinformation and misinformation continues to be wild 🧐

#nzpol YES TO ALL OF THIS! YUSSSSSSSSS 💚💚💚💚💚 www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

Matariki baking season, ahoy!

Caring about ordinary kiwis by importing US white supremacist talking points cool cool cool.

#nzpol Seymour, McLay and Patterson fighting tirelessly for the rights of capital, extraction and offshoring profits over people and planet 😡 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

#ACTs Brooke vanVeldon has taken the Health & Safety out of workers’ Health & Safety #nzpol

Italy could be the next country to build a solar railway after Switzerland’s successful trial - Euronews

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

This is an interesting one to watch as cases work through review, challenging ACC’s interpretation and application of a landmark Court of Appeal ruling.

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

“Do you have questions about Te Tiriti that you’re too shy or afraid to ask? Dr Heather Came, an antiracism educator, has a simple yet effective way to draw out those questions and open them up for discussion.” #nzpol e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

90s scientists: “We cloned a sheep! We landed a robot on mars!” Scientists today: “Please stop drinking bleach and urine smoothies.”

Today's adhd morning went something like I woke up at 4.30am but if I go back to sleep it'll be worse cause I need to go uni today, so you doom scroll till half six when you force yourself to get up, cause transitions are hard.

Where it all started. #Rstats

I was today years old when I learned base #Rstats has a helper function `data.matrix()`. Better late than never, and it's only been three decades give or take ...

Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich — not the poor or immigrants or any other group of people vilified as scapegoats. The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has yacht and private jet tax deductions. Hello?

“north of the Brynderwyn Hills, where two towering stands of kahikatea trees flank State Highway 1 and form a natural gateway to the historic town of Waipū.”