May 2020, August 2023, December 2025. Pretty cool seeing this area develop of the last 5 years from a cow paddock to the beginnings of a coastal dune forest interspersed with ephemeral dune lakes. An example of a situation where planting is necessary as natural regen wouldn't happen. 🌏🌱

Incredible to have been researching something for 40 odd years, and yet still not learned a thing #nzpol

Goondam

Toad went back to bed. He pulled the covers over his head and fell asleep.

Jacinda Ardern is scheduled to appear at AWW - has she said anything/withdrawn yet?

Fuckin landlords eh

Drag Race doing a "Q-pop" themed girl group challenge and Ru Paul giving us "funk", "80s pop" and "punk" songs and a c-list white American disney pop singer judge instead of anyone even remotely connected to k-pop might just be the thing that finally gets me to quit. Wildly out of touch.

We need this energy from the NZ Greens. The public knows who Chris Hipkins is.

This. And despite their "outreach", they target and harm queer people.

I’m pikachu-shocked-face that the person who made a big public apology for having a racist rag that continues to be a racist rag would come out in favour of a white supremacist regime 😐

No it actually doesn't show that and in fact shows her trying to comply with demands to get out of the road. It also shows her deliberately *not* aiming her car at the officers and it ALSO shows the killer calling her a "fucking bitch" moments after killing her. Fuck Sinead Boucher.

I'm not sure if most people, including politicians, understand that OIAs require staff to be pulled off their regular work to spend hours trawling through emails and other documents. I spent 4 hours this week collating information for a request that was for something another agency did.

Genuinely surprised that no one brought up Howard Broad's chicken fucker video history when the news about McSkimming broke. The Police top brass have always been sus.

The poster child for everything National/ACT does #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...

The best short ghost story ever.

NZ PSA re Animates: Don’t buy Playology products that look like this - Indie ate half a lizard tail before I realised what she was doing (she’s fine but monitoring.) From the online reviews there have been very bad experiences across the range - alarming that Animates is still stocking them. 🫠😡😾

Why did they make the character artwork in the A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation anime so damn ugly 😭 every second frame is giving Frieren chin meme 😭😭 Gentle Noble's deserved so much better 😭😭😭

Liam continuing to be disconnected from reality. Right how much did Foodstuffs and Woolworths offer to advertise across NZME's spreads this week? www.nzherald.co.nz/business/sup...

I guess pictures of geriatrics dead from heat stroke doesn't get the same click through numbers.

For anyone confused by this headline, don’t worry, you don’t “gotta hand it to him”

About a twenty minute wait at the Terrace Branch at 8:30 this morning.

Love finding research that validates my "icks", call it bias confirmation but this paper by Buddhist researcher Minwoo Kang calling out neoliberalism for coopting "mindfullness" is a delicious hit of dopamine today. STOP TELLING ME TO BE MINDFUL BOSS ojs.aut.ac.nz/psychotherap...

And this is why we need to increase the fine under the Privacy Act for failure to protect people's private information: so the companies responsible take security seriously.

Every time a conservative opens their fucking mouths it's a confession.

Who wrote this? Why is there no byline? If the PM is working from home, he can still take calls, so what's stopping journos from getting on the blower and asking him what the hell he's playing at and what his response is to the major current affairs of the day? #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I saw someone posting an AI generated picture of what a large street would look like if part of it were converted to pedestrian use, and i can't explain it but AI is a car

Really, really want Bluesky to roll out a block reposts by individual users functions 😠

As a candidate (and councillor) the buck stops with me to be accountable for how much I spent and on what in the campaign. Those are the rules and they must apply to everyone. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

TIL martin freeman fucking sucks.

I told the editor how dodgy this was as I wrote my response piece, and was told to take out a fierce denunciation of the criminally anti trans British media and focus on the details of the claims that were nonsense.

Hey this was the basis of that Newsroom op ed from that anti trans academic who centered the whole thing on a client seeking law firm to "just ask questions" about NZs pretty good gender healthcare system.

Would have been nice if Tom Hunt gave us actual journalism like this before the election instead of joining in on Ray Chung's dishonest little misogynist campaign against our previous mayor. If Tom wants to keep up the belated good work he should ask our current mayor why he's still backing Chung.

And regardless of who has the direct contract with MMH, the Minister and Ministry have responsibility for leadership and stewardship for the WHOLE health system, including the pillar of carefully protecting patient information

Hmm, who could be asked to give local framing about them requiring government departments to post updates to an abuse generation machine. Hmmm

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

I look forward to Winston Peters condemning this, since it was obviously done by either act or NZFirst members.

david doesn't seem concerned about silence from the PM when it's a right-wing foreign government killing 80 venezuelans.

oh just found this old story, apropos of nothing at all.

Media in the last week of december: "Do kiwis take too long off in summer?" Prime minister: "I'll be back to work on the 3rd or 4th of Jan" January 7th (and counting): Prime minster: *crickets*

Note how quickly Hipkins himself was to condemn Hamas Literally the day after. Shows you that his priorities are to not rattle the imperial boat regardless of who suffers in Venezuela in the meantime. Domestically too, more than happy to call Wahine Māori "stupid" yet is mild towards Lux #nzpol

israel sniping children on their way to school during a ceasefire

A reminder Stuff's CE Sineard Boucher wont care one little bit as she became a member of the failed Vision Wellington group during the elections last year

Labour should be out there pointing to this and saying "this is why you don't privatize health services like Simeon wants" but it seems like being silent is their main strategy these days...

Still no Luxon? Weird, thought he'd be back at work by now...even my local charity shops are all open again and back at it, but no word of the PM...

Use of public funds for partisan political comms (& what else??) specifically to boost the current government has become untenable since 2023. Brian Roche's claim that anti-strike advertising was somehow "neutral" really shows that the rot is all the way through - this is how the rightwing operates

This story pairs beautifully with the leak to NYT and WaPo which they studiously held back.

i think what's FUCKING FUNNY is that this is almost indistinguishable from most Stuff/NZME, even RNZ articles where the current government is asked for comment EXCEPT that it doesn't have 3 paragraphs verbatim from David Seymour

And the media wonders why it has a public trust issue