Please read this whole thread, but this clip really drives it home, now imagine the AoNZ Healthcare system in 2020, it would have fully collapsed under waves of covid. Think of this the next time someone is complaining about our response, think of this as you tell them to shut the fuck up.

Please submit on or before Tuesday, to support the Medical Council to require competence and understanding in doctors treating Māori and diverse patients. www.mcnz.org.nz/about-us/con...

Though shoutout to the screener in RDU who said, as she started the patdown, “My boss wants to know what you’re afraid of?” and it was such a nonsequitor that I panicked and said “Ducks?” We stared at each other and I said “The beaks are all pinchy?” and she said “AFRAID ABOUT THE SCANNER.”

📢 Annual food prices increase to 4.5% in year to February driven by higher prices for meat, poultry and fish, according to latest Stats NZ data

Politics. Fight the policies, fight the impacts, fight the cruelty. Don’t pick on people’s looks, weight, children. It might seem funny - but if we’re fat or bald or whatever - we’re watching & we know you’re secretly judging us. Let’s be better.

“At Waitangi this year, the prime minister structured his speech around the three articles of Te Tiriti, and explained what each article says and means. The problem is that he was just plain wrong, writes legal scholar Carwyn Jones.” #NZpol e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

Please help

If you have an electorate MP not from Greens or Te Pāti Māori, it’s worth sending an email and letting them know you expect action against genocide.

Omg I’m a third of the way there! Thank you to all who have donated. Feeling slightly less distraught right now. chuffed.org/project/zareef

Posting to share the campaign started by someone else- whatever your views, this boy deserves a home. In the meantime, let’s get him shelter chuffed.org/project/zare...

RSE workers win landmark case over unlawful wage deductions by their employer - Pick Hawkes Bay. #nzpol Brave workers. 5 years of their lives on this case for justice Pick Hawke’s Bay is a ‘not for profit’ profiteering off RSE workers by being really despicable greedy humans & employers imo.

“Conrad Joseph Lawrence Goodger and his companies Rent Ezi and Nice View Limited ran eight boarding houses - four of them unlawful and overcrowded, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment said” He can afford the fine but NZ can’t afford this type of landlord. #nzpol

Lol: huge burn from the experts to the Ministry of Ed statement. They note "We can’t help but point out the incorrect use of “than” (it should be “from”) and “practice” (it should be “practise”). They’re minor things, but this is the Ministry of Education, after all." e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

Here's Chlöe Swarbrick's speech, that led the Speaker to throw her out of the House. Clearly makes the case for New Zealand to recognise the genocide and ethnic cleansing taking place in Gaza and the West Bank, and for it to recognise the state of Palestine. youtu.be/yc6oLAzbqoQ

A tweet from Ori Goldberg who has been consistently critical of the Palestinian Genocide.

This, please can we do better

We lost Efeso Collins to heart disease. We have lost Takutai Tarsh Kemp to kidney disease. In a parliament of 123, that's a pretty good indication that Pasifika & Maori have worse health outcomes than the general population.

This is very very good newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/09/h...

#MWSecretSantaAoNZ My secret Santa hit all I sweet spots! Fudge mmmmmmmmyum, hand cream yes please!, and kiwiana socks. Thanks to my lovely secret Santa xx

#MWSecretSantaAoN it has arrived !

Thanks, it's been fascinating watching from the sidelines and seeing Quin botch things so badly. There's an air of arrogance about Foodstuffs that mirrors the bad old days with Fonterra. (Non paywalled version in the Nelson Mail) www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa...

Emily Writes is such a treasure. Everything's shit and awful but it can still also be funny. The National Party Toxic Boyfriend excuse generator open.substack.com/pub/emilywri...

Lolly Cake (pictured) is one of the highlights of New Zealand cuisine. No one is quite sure of its origins, but 107% of dieticians agree it is the leading causes of diabetes, obesity, and Morgellons Disease in New Zealand.

So good when your secret Santa match gives hints that could actually be your own! It will be like finding a present for me, so easy, so fun. #MWSecretSantaAoNZ

#MWSecretSantaAoNZ got two cats, love spring flowers, cookbooks, getting people’s favourite recipe.

bsky.app/hashtag/MWSe... Have two cats and an out of control garden. A good match

#MWSecretSantaAoNZ Love my garden, love chocolate, love socks, love art, don’t need my person to spend money :)

If you have submission writing fatigue, you can add your name to Gun Control NZ's response to Minister McKee's efforts to erode gun safety laws here: www.guncontrol.nz/submission Submissions close 28 Feb. #nzpol

What happened to the Curia Market Research suspension? #CuriaPolls #nzpol #National #ACT #FreeSpeech open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

Rang MSD earlier as they *require* me to make an appointment with them to apply for child disability allowance and OSCAR subsidy. Wait time was 78 min but I dutifully went through the menu layers…only to be hung up on as calls overloaded. Rang back twice, current wait time is 86 minutes.

While we go about our daily business the death toll grows in Gaza. My Stuff cartoon today.

Waitaki Council has provided an excellent template for organisations finding themselves in the TPU firing line. Provide the media with press releases to this standard and they will get published. Well done them

Media peeps, this article demonstrates a good way to position TPU opinions if they have to be reported at all. "A Wellington-based lobby group is..." "...the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union, a right-wing pressure group..." i.stuff.co.nz/otago/133496...

www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/opin... Well worth a read, to understand where our new ministers could be going with policies

Gemini: In the entire history of the universe, there has only ever been one you. So you can see why the rest of us are so disappointed.

Health (in)equity www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/opin...

If you’re thinking about where to put some $$$. Here’s an organisation that protects people protecting rights. “Supporting safe spaces for racial, social, environmental and Tiriti justice.” themanaakicollective.wordpress.com

“New Zealand’s slapdash new government has no vision – only a plan to take us backwards” amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gemini: You’ll come in second place at a major competition this week! Unfortunately, it’s a duel.

Copied from Twitter. For anyone who's got to know @larnz1111 over the years on Twitter, we have a chance to help her get into her own home on family land. Please donate if you can. We need to raise $3,500 over the weekend and then they can get into their own place.

"The New Zealand Geographic Board is starting public consultation to call the town Waimarino." National Park name change gets traction after 100 years www.newsroom.co.nz/national-par...

I hope the SUFW folk are speaking out loudly against an old white man going into a young wahine’s home uninvited.

Love this! Adopting forthwith.