"up to 10 minutes" That's the maximum amount of time saved. Ten minutes. How fucking WEAK are we that we cannot abide ten whole fucking minutes for the sake of the environment, road safety, etc etc? Christ, this is a country of whiney piss babies

But we can't afford to spend $4b on future proofing the connection between the islands. #nzpol

Remote vs. in-person work has become some kind of politically polarised thing as well, post-lockdown. With commercial landlords and anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists firmly on the right But you know what else would make your commute 10 minutes faster? Less people on the road at peak hours!

this is so much of right-of-centre politics in NZ, just scolding the left for not caring about real issues like saving 10 minutes on an airport trip. who cares if the standard speed limit will instantly kill any child hit by a car, it might takes 1 minute longer to drive through this school zone

Greens pledge to revoke fast-track consents for coal, hard-rock gold, seabed mining projects

In addition to the incredibly apt comparison to Robotdebt I reposted earlier, I'd like to mention the perverse incentives here about getting folks off ACC. Not removing their need for ACC, but rather removing the provision of ACC to them. There's quite a difference. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Have the people who approved this ever heard of Robodebt? 🤦‍♂️

Somewhere in a policy paper will be a line saying that this will result in suicides.* *And if there isn't take it as a sign that ACC really haven't done their due diligence.

we shouldn't be allowed to consider building another bit of car infrastructure until we have a cycle and public transport network that's fully-connected

"nobody gets seconds until everybody's had firsts" but for transport infrastructure

Sorry you had to wait 10 months for your cancer surgery – a politician needed to save 10 minutes getting to the airport.

Five minutes into the job and Andrew Little's already rooting for dogshit National Party plans that will cause irreparable harm to our city and giving away our town belt. Anyone who still thinks he's going to be a left-wing mayor is a fool. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

My hot take on this is that one of the writers saying their book should be eligible because only the cover, not the contents, are AI generated is a failure of solidarity.

This is just so sad, we dont even have tariffs to blame and we produce this stuff locally Its all greedy profit

RNZ's Focus on Politics has three right wing Pākekā discussing Te Pāti Māori. Whose decision was that? #nzpol

last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before

Ooooooh get amongst it #NZSecretSanta

False advertising aside, yet another example of landlord greed killing NZ hospo

We talking about shopping small? I am small. I also donate a portion of my art product sales to conservation efforts, so my best to reduce waste and produce locally, and make good art that people seem to like 💜💜💜

Lastly, I don't think it's wise to give Meta the excuse that they're just trying to get ahead of regulation. They're making bad moderation decisions, because they are mostly incompetent at moderation.

Platform design choices matter. Algorithms that auto-escalate malicious reporting can be used to target advocates and marginalised communities, or for political advantage. These are governance decisions, not accidents. And they should be open to scrutiny.

Some are saying Meta is taking a “conservative” approach to avoid regulation. But if Meta was truly concerned about regulation, it would prioritise governance design, safety by default, and consistent enforcement not irreversible bans w/o due process.

LMAO. Every single damn time with these Ray Chung voting car park fetishising rate hating NIMBYs. Enjoy the airplanes fuckos.

#nzpol Nowhere near far enough, and the denial that the problem with the Police is systemic means it may not move at all despite the horrendous behaviour/revelations. The Police are still prosecuting the victim ffs, imo that’s a signal they don’t want change.

I must say, it's a bit delightful to read of Erica's 'own-goal' here 🤩 www.engaginglearningvoices.com/post/the-mis... #NZPol

I'm only two tracks into the new Avett Brothers/ Mike Patton collab album and I'm already prepared to call it an album of the year contender

Tech really has become a series of cults, and its really really annoying

The amount of scrolling I had to do to clarify that this was not referring to Magic the Gathering

It's infuriating that local council services discussions have become all about rates, especially that truly most dumbarse of dumbarse complaint of "Why have my rates gone up so much when everything is broken and expensive to fix?" People, for a species so supposedly intelligent, we're thick as shit

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How did we let our politicians turn us into a society that resents public services, support, and kindness? How did we let them convince us that human decency and empathy are wrong? We really need to sort ourselves out before we kill ourselves through selfishness.

I just finished this survey for Ayesha Verrall, List MP - Wellington Issues Survey. I'm not one to miss an opportunity to give my thoughts, if they're daft enough to ask for them... Check it out! mp.org.nz/survey/OSWV

Exactly this. Tory Whanau tried to break the stagnation to move the city forward, the loud homeowners engaged in a campaign of sabotage. And now here we are, only a few weeks into Little's term, straight back to the sclerotic norm.

#NZpol The promotion of Chung - PROMOTION after all that insidious, hideous RW troll did - tells us a lot about how "forward thinking" the Council will actually be. It's assuredly fucked us for the near future. Some of these people are just addicted to having power, and damn it, it fucking shows.

People who say that men don't do enough emotional labour have never beheld the breathtaking emotional work of a man whose mate might not get a prestigious appointment because of some annoying woman he abused years ago

Former PM Key - who laid hands on a waitress without her permission & when she spoke out she got pilloried & fired - says public's trust in police threatened by recent events McSkimming case. Why is he even getting to comment ffs? It was a lesser offence but on the the same spectrum. #nzpol

If you voted for Andrew Little because you thought he was the best option: fuck you. If you sucked it up and voted for Andrew Little because you thought he was the least worst option: fuck you.

Andrew Little, you fucking coward. You spineless lickspittle.

This is beyond self-destructive. Wellington is being suffocated to death by its insistence upon huffing the reckons of Old Farts. Fuck them and their exhaust-fume addled, circle jerk, brain rot fantasies of a place that exists only in the depths of the human centipede arsehole in front of them.

A powerful piece by Michelle Duff on sexual violence myths, policing culture, and why the basics still matter. Highly recommended 👇 #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/15/s...

RIP Eric Hobsbawm

I’d be happy if some of the uber rich in NZ left. They disturb the peace, aren’t Living Wage Employers, throw $$ at political parties to remove regs, workers rights, safety&conditions. They continue taking more when they have enough while impoverishing people & communities. #nzpol #CallTheirBluff

Can’t wait for the Sensible Sentencing Trust to reveal their billboard absolutely roasting this guy

Remember this is the guy who tugged on a young woman's pony tail at the cafe she was working at because 'he found it alluring', with his wife beside him. That's sexual assault Fcuk off pervert

"Questions to the IPCA at the time noted that it was understood the officer had been stood down pending an investigation into his alleged inappropriate behaviour with female officers." NOTE: female officerS, plural Yet the investigation has gone nowhere after THREE YEARS!!!

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

This succulent morsel of a post describes neatly how NZ keeps ending up with right wing governments.

If anything comes close to being a monocausal explanation for those disgusting things mentioned at the start of this thread, it’s those two big words demarcating social reality: wealth and power. And we DEFINITELY cannot have that as the explanation.

Could go on, just search for name suppression and court cases on any major NZ news site. We don’t even need to talk about the proverbial pigs rotting from the proverbial head to know that something is wrong here.

The govt press secretary Michael Forbes collecting intrusive photos and secret recordings. The failson of a prominent NZ family business empire amassing a horrifying collection of child abuse and snuff films.