THEY'VE DONE IT AUCKLAND FC HAVE WON #ALeagueGrandFinal New Zealand has the Australian domestic football trophy for the first time ever. Congratulations

#Aleague Not pretty but Auckland will that. Congratulations Auckland FC

If you're working fulltime on minimum wage, you'll take home less money per week than the Minister for Social Development gets paid for LIVING IN HER OWN HOUSE. On top of a $320k salary, earned by making housing less affordable for low income households. The absolute state of it.

Rowing friend off dropped off some old newspapers and this is some headline and story from the ODT in February 1959. (This would now lead the news not be tucked on page 5)🙄

Quick reminder: We shovel a lot more cash offshore than we receive. As we buy more and more digital services (yellow) and pay out profits to offshore owners (red) we scramble to afford it. (1/3)

All the political news this week has been absolute garbage. It feels overwhelming and that’s on purpose. So it’s more important to seek out the people and causes that give you hope. And give them your time, money and attention. It can be better. We just have to work together.

Much like some of the men present in this video, I thought I knew where this was going and I was extremely wrong

Congratulations to @domesticanimal.bsky.social for winning 2026 Cartoonist of the year (used to be the Voyager Award). Bloody brilliant news and well deserved. Look forward for to seeing more wonderful creations this year ❤️❤️❤️

#nzpol Gull watch 7.57am 23rd May. No change overnight - diesel now unchanged for nearly two weeks. Wonder if next week's Budget will change anything. I doubt it but who knows.

Mōrena e te whanāu, the spell of good weather here in Tamaki Makaurau appears to be over with Rangitoto looking very Autumnal under low clouds and watery sunshine today. Kia pa tō rā!

In this week's Podcast, more on the Australian Budget and the changes to the taxation of discretionary trusts & capital gains, is New Zealand a tax haven, Google NZ’s 2025 results highlight the Big Tech, Little Tax problem and what might be in the Budget next week. soundcloud.com/user-2622281...

Definition of a Woman, NZ First - Someone who Shane Jones can enjoy watching on a hotel TV screen at taxpayer expense. ACT - Someone who is probably safe from Tim Jago. National - Someone who does not deserve pay equity.

Sunrise, Saturday, 23 May, from Wainui Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

I think I mighta just got inaugurated as President Business.

The most overt and blatant example of ministerial interference in neutral public service broadcasting that I can remember

In this week's Podcast, more on the Australian Budget and the changes to the taxation of discretionary trusts & capital gains, is New Zealand a tax haven, Google NZ’s 2025 results highlight the Big Tech, Little Tax problem and what might be in the Budget next week. soundcloud.com/user-2622281...

It’s bad to be in social housing cause you are poor but completely fine to charge the taxpayer $52,000 to rent the house you already own. National party MPs are disgusting people and people who vote for them are disgusting too.

Sunrise, FRIDAY, 22 May, from Wainui Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

a movie so horny if you released it today they would throw you in jail

New Listener column just dropped.

THIS. I'm not joking when I say I'm a high-functioning misanthrope who gets the creeps from pretty much everything and everyone all the time. If I can deal with that without crying for Nanny State to make my ouchie boos go away, every transphobic arsebag out there can HARDEN THE FUCK UP. #nzpol

Reading the updates on the everlee wihongi case will make you want NZ to cut off all diplomatic relationships with the USA and expel the ambassador because what the fuck.

Also I hate to be the person that connects everything to Palestine but we have been completely desensitized to how human beings should be treated over the last few years. You are now expected to be perfect or face rape/torture/indefinite detention for the smallest transgressions - THIS NOT NORMAL.

Mōrena e te whanāu, a dramatic sky over Rangitoto at sunrise. Very mild now compared with earlier in the week so let's enjoy this spell of good weather while it lasts. Kia pa tō rā!

Guys. They’ve fixed the economic crisis. By… increasing the font size of the English words and making the te reo Māori words smaller. It’s just what you all were hoping was a priority right now. Imagine being new minister and this is what you think is important. How embarrassing.

#nzpol Gull watch 7.25 22nd May. As I thought price of 91 and 95 has risen 3 cents a litre. Interesting to see diesel is unchanged. (Second photo is from Wednesday to exclude effect of yesterday's specials)

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

About the worst thing watching Willis trot out that "won the Lotto" is seeing her obvious relish. She clearly believed she was delivering another zinger. Ghastly.

social housing tenants would probably feel more like they had won the Lotto if they could claim a $36,400 accommodation supplement to live in their own property

National, laser focussed on the cost of living, have decided, in what will be a surprise to no one, that a major problem with tbe economy is that the poorest people have too much of the money.

Last year I spoke to a journalist for the UK Daily Telegraph (aka The Torygraph) about our tax system & his look of disgust was something to see after I explained this transaction (in the context of our absence of a general CGT which also astonished him).

I don't loathe Nicola Willis because she's a woman or a Tory. I despise her because she's an insufferably stupid, mendacious and feckless ghoul who is astonishingly shit at her taxpayer-funded job. #nzpol

Email 1 to Steve Abel. Green.

one of the major clues that social housing tenants haven't in fact won the lotto is that they need social housing

#nzpol 😡💔😢 ... just so so angry ... and so so so drained by these inane arguments ... If those in private rentals are worse off than those in social housing, ... surely the solution is to *lift up* those in private rentals ... rather than *push down* those in social housing?🙏

This would be completely unsurvivable if it was a real product being delivered in a real market, not the Potemkin market of lowest bid wins neoliberal public service contracting. Corporate business models are not fit for purpose here. The old system worked. businessdesk.co.nz/article/poli...

#nzpol Gull watch 7.29am 21st May. Gull is running a non-advertised special today so it's not like with like but that special is usually 14 cents/litre so there does seem to be some small movement in prices.

Billions of dollars. The costliest stretch of mega-motorway ever proposed in New Zealand. And so wildly over-scoped that simply *letting the public see the benefit-cost ratio* might be the end of it? Another major story broken by @connorsharp.bsky.social: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/05/21/w...

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Mōrena e te whanāu, slightly warmer this morning and there's an onshore breeze but still another glorious sunrise over Rangitoto to start the day. Kia pa tō rā!

In today’s NZ Herald

GOP in a nutshell... #Iran #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Sunrise, Thursday, 21 May from Wainui Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. View #1: this cool mushroom growing in the dunes. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

"protecting women and girls" this was YESTERDAY

A 40 year consensus on the existence and operation of a ministry dedicated to our environment is set to end. Not one Government party campaigned on this, and not one credible submission was in support ☠️☠️☠️

The prime minister and minister of health are extremist Christians but of course that has nothing to do with it.

"Everyone just wants a decent cost of living, secure home and their privacy. Today the Government has instead chosen to import another culture war to try confuse and divide us." Chlöe Swarbrick @greens.org.nz 20 May #nzpol

It’s all just so needlessly cruel. All of it.

I had a relative who was very pro cutting the public service. Said it was overbloated, lazy, etc. After the cull had reached 6000, I said "how has your life changed now with 6000 fewer public servants?" "It hasn't" they said. "And how do you think their lives have changed?" "Oh" they said.

Get absolutely fucking fucked