I am transmed. If you don't do ketamine you're not really committing

Hinerapa Puhuru, who journeyed from Aotearoa to Samoa on the double-hulled waka Ngāhiraka Mai Tawhiti, is preparing to captain the waka for the first leg of the journey.

Our university has decided to pander to racists rather than living by its stated values. The new Waipapa Taumata Rau course, which was designed as a core foundation for Tiriti-based learning, will now be optional for most students. This is a shameful and spineless decision.

Given that the right wing want to suppress turnout it is always contingent on the “left” to give people a reason to vote. The Labour bloc didn’t even run a mayoral candidate. This was a perfect opportunity to run some groundwork for 2026, but they’ve just made everything harder.

My analysis: The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/08/g...

al brown attributes this to parents working multiple jobs and not having time to teach their kids to cook. you guys are being kinda weird about this, sorry.

The way that struggling against the tour was a path to a significant shift for the Maaori liberationist movement and lead the paakehaa left in this country to accept that this was actually a racist county. The way that internationalism and solidarity is the pathway to liberation for each and all.

“..the collective wealth of the country's wealthiest went up by $4.5b last year - while the net worth of all households declined by $4.2billion.“ Recession for some. But not all. #nzpol

In the 70s National stood strong in their racist abhorrent politics. Today they have to send Winston Peters to do it for them and give wee speeches on being friends with everyone like some kind of horrible sophist What Now production

Sarah Decker, staff attorney at RFK Human Rights, told Newsweek that [Asst Warden] Reyes targeted trans men & masc presenting LGBTQ+ people. "If someone complained about abusive conditions, the response was always 'If you wanna be a man, I'll treat you like a man'" www.newsweek.com/ice-detentio...

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“Even the most skilled school leader is constrained by the ongoing failure of the state to address the deep inequity in our education system. New Zealand ranks 33rd out of 38 developed countries for its overall equality in education.” — Rebecca Macfie, author of ‘Hope and Hardship’.

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

"general strikes are illegal in NZ" while technically true always comes off as "we shouldn't do a general strike" which is of course false

"we won't necessarily work with te pāti māori" ok mr 23%

kia ora everyone! a mate has helped organise a fundraiser for Alzheimers NZ through ozone coffee. Really worthy cause if you're able to spare a few dollars ❤️🙏 alzheimersnz.grassrootz.com/move-for-dem...

The first personal computer for under $200.

not being trans enough to “deserve” it is what doctors told me in the 2000s! this is ACTUAL gatekeeping. it kept me from medically transitioning past the time informed consent became the norm because it got in my head so bad. i wanted to start medically transitioning at 20, i didn’t until i was 40

Both monogamy and polyamory have tons of very annoying people that practice them who use their stated values as excuses to justify shitty selfish shit they want to do because that's always been a thing some some humans do within any value system

oh is morrissey selling his rights to the smiths because his former band members hate him?

Opinion: Amazon's NZ boss makes one of the clumsiest and most embarrassing attempts to spin good news out of a fiasco, in a long time, writes Jonathan Milne. - Newsroom Pro - $ -

newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/02/a... No, it's stranger than that. The data center hasn't been built.

Happy 30th Birthday to this Brian Eno banger

Israel is not an "ally" of the US. It is a proxy force. It is used to attack popular liberation movements across West Asia—and elsewhere in the global South—to prevent sovereign development and thus maintain the conditions for US capital accumulation.

Israel bombed and murdered the Prime Minister of Yemen along with several cabinet members, and there is zero outrage in Western media… it’s barely even a story. The level of impunity is breathtaking.

we as a society went wrong when we stopped having casual nudity in movies

Just to be safe in 2028 we should elect a third dying guy as president

TIL that in Aotearoa New Zealand the average life expectancy at Auckland City Mission is 55 and I feel that more people should know this

ROOMMATE: Thank god we found the alien shapeshifter before it could escape containment. Imagine if that thing made it into the general population! ME: (fully aware he’s the alien but he promised to drive me to the airport in the morning) No kidding. Would you like another glass of gasoline?

reading books & watching movies & listening to music to get laid is normal dude. when you buy clothing you should be a little bit wondering if people will think you look hot in it! grow up!! people like sex!!

Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.

🧵Excellent piece "They appear to have inverted the promise of the internet as an endless archive of information one can navigate for themselves. Do your own research has, in short order, become Get one canonical answer." This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...

came on here to see my boyfriend has a popular post i'm sorry babe

i know why we're mad but i also i regret to inform everyone they're dancing with a member of the far-right BJP

So called "prison riots" are a last resort protest against intolerable, inhumane conditions. We need an investigation and full transparency around what prompted this. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Hey. I found a piece of cheese. Whose piece of cheese is this?

You won't get far dressed like that.

she'll be coming round the mountain when she WHAT???

kids don't get to yell "it's on the floor/roof!" at year 9s anymore, because of KAMAR

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

i feel like mr beast paying people to be subjects in his 1970s style psychological experiments sold as children's entertainment is probably going to have some flow on effects that might be less than ideal

We strangled our rivers; now they're fighting back newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/13/l...

hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously

VOTE ORIINI KAIPARA FOR TĀMAKI MAKAURAU 🗣🗣 "It's a natural progression for me to be a part of Te Pāti Māori; there was no other choice. - Oriini Kaipara. ❤️🤍🖤✊🏾 @whaeadeb.bsky.social @rawiriwaititimp.bsky.social #aotearoa #maori #toitūtetiriti #nzpol #AONZ #tāmakibyelection

behold: a woman

Environmental storytelling.