This is your regular reminder that according to IRD, the richest 350 families in the country pay an effective tax rate of 8%

They are saying 32% GST and 72 for retirement age so we will happily accept 20% GST and 68 for retirement age. Why don’t they say 5% wealth tax and 40% corporate tax on big conglomerates? No of course they won’t say that no siree.

Ahem the guy who invented the term "evidence based medicine" just rebuked the most prominent anti-trans health lobby group in the world www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

He is cracking me up again today. I know its serious but it is so funny - he should be at the retirement village doing sing a long Sundays!

IT WOULD BE FUCKEN GREAT IF THE SCEPTICISM THAT THE NZ MEDIA HAS SHOWN TO "TYLENOL CAUSES AUTISM" COULD BE APPLIED TO "GENDER AFFIRMING HEALTHCARE IS BAD" BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH FUCKING LIES SPREAD BY THE FAR RIGHT

Just spat all over the computer screen I laughed so hard. Guys this dude is President

My kid got introduced to Ace Ventura on the weekend and now cannot get a single sentence out telling me about it without falling into a puddle of giggles. I am desperate to show her Dumb and Dumber - my personal fav

This actually could be multiple fuckheads

Lets give it the Streisand effect @davidfarrier.com Its actually a good and very readable book. But I did start shouting about eating the rich 20 pages in.

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"a relentless campaign of threats, break-ins, threats on their child, assaults, and police interventions that turned their life, and their child’s, into what they call “a tsunami” of fear." www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/09/21/a...

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

My piece on how this moment calls for a broad-based movement for Māori liberation, based on solidarity with other indigenous peoples, oppressed minorities, and the working class.

What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures? Let us pierce the veil. For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture. Consider this an urgent warning: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

Someone was going to Mars

If you have investments with Simplicity you should, as I did this morning, send them an email in support of Sam Stubbs because I guarantee there will be an onslaught of emails supporting his firing from the worst people you can think of.

"What churchs are they from??" Ones that follow the teachings of Jesus Christ Not surprised Hannah Tamaki is unfamiliar

Love her. She has already done an apocalypse film called Last Night back in the 90s which also starred my other fav Sarah Polley if you get the opportunity to see it - do! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Hacks is awesome and I endorse this message - she is so fuckin cool

I like science and kindness

Sometimes bad things happen to bad people. eg. Stuart Nash lost his job 😊

This one has been a long time coming.

Once again please be advised that NZ First is the "cancelled" and cooker party now. 👍

Exciting morning here at the life sentence block. While working at my desk I noticed 3 small wild pigs in the top paddock bothering our steers. They were not too worried about me - however my neighbour with his gun and pig dogs made them extremely worried for a very short time.

Oh man the US is gonna have a rabies outbreak isn't it? Along with measles and a fuckton other things. With the availability of guns people are just going to shoot every dog on their street. Oh boy.

I have no fucking time at all for the kind of men who see their kids as possessions, entitlements, and a means of getting back at their mothers. I've felt this way since I was 14 and my father acted like this. Fortunately it didn't escalate, but I could see what might happen and cut contact.

Shoot me up baby I have as many as I can as soon as I can.

"Post-Covid surge in heart disease raises alarm" "Cardiologists report a noticeable increase in heart attacks, cardiac emergencies, and mortality among both older and younger populations. Yet, the reasons behind this surge remain hotly debated." 🤦‍♂️ Source: archive.md/kZyom

You don't own your children, you are responsible for them and if you do not have what is best for them in the forefront of your mind you will hurt them.

55,000 adults have died of AIDS since DOGE shuttered PEPFAR- 6000 of the dead were children

surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity

Every councillor that voted for this crap on the Kaipara council needs to go. What an embarrassment.

Rowling is a shitbag but also! HP is NOT GOOD. This isn’t one of those mildly nuanced “oh but Polanski is a genius” situations — HP is derivative, mediocre, critically insubstantial, even with a generous poptimism handicap. Its single outstanding quality as a cultural artifact is its ubiquity.

I have infinitely more respect for a fullblown Walt-is-capitalist-Jesus / second home in Orlando-owning Disney Adult than I do for even the lowest-key Harry Potter casual gcn.ie/j-k-rowling-...

The way this government frames our striking health professionals and support staff as a problem answers how we would have fared under them during Covids early years. How we've forgotten the sacrifices made by those that protected us 5 years ago is disgusting. Pay them what they're worth. #nzpol

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

Bone - petite! I can't, these people are so stupid.

Absolutely loved hospo years. Exhausted from walking about 25kms in a shift but every table a performance, every night a perfect show. Nothing better than being proud of the food and wine you serve and the joy and unpredictable nature of a night on the floor with a full section.

We’ve published an Open Letter calling on NZ leaders to deliver risk-based AI regulation & a national oversight body. AI has huge potential, but harms (deepfakes, gendered abuse, bias) are real and rising. Read the Letter (and sign it if you agree!) #nzpol regulateai.nz

today on webworm, a guest piece from a former american high school teacher on active shooter drills and why they no longer wanted to prepare for warfare (please RT, if you can): www.webworm.co/survivalsimu...

What is so funny is that we are trying to get our solar panels up and running and for 2 weeks electric kiwi's customer helpdesk email sends us round and round in circles with its requests - we are going to change power companies to get the job finished. Electric Kiwi sucks.

Our community in South Auckland is in a constant fight to try to limit the harm of alcohol and this govt with its coalition (no one fucking voted for them) partners keep throwing dirt on us. For every alcohol related death they a black plastic rose should be sent to Parliament. Assholes.

Wow. New evidence acquired under OIA by Greenpeace has revealed that dairy giant Fonterra first requested, and then helped to write, the Government’s new grass-fed standards.

Worst “I told you so” ever I’ve always said attitudes towards disabled people and elderly people makes “mission creep” inevitable and that it would affect the most vulnerable in our society The arrogance of people who kept saying only people who are going to die within 6 months would be eligible

Thank you @thespinoff.bsky.social there has been next to no coverage of the Kaipara region - please can we have someone decent and not crackpots!!

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

Look this is extremely unfair for it to happen (a) in the school holidays (b) one week before we have a planned weekend away.

Kaipara residents please be aware Jonathan Larsen (mayoral candidate) is on his 6th year of an employment dispute with FENZ because he cannot accept he is in the wrong. We all know at least one person with this kind of personality 😳 do we really want someone like that as mayor? Let alone on council?

Every government has neglected Northland not just this one. The highest meth use in the country, worst oral health - we tick up the top for poor health outcomes and have some of the most vulnerable rural communities in the country.

There is a lot in this interview that would make great fodder for an episode of the Brokenwood Mysteries