Wellington - We can swim in poo! Christchurch - hold my feces, we'll pipe it right too you! #nzpol

About 10 years ago, at least in NZ, there was a genuine chance for queer rights to cease being a left/right faultline. Key voting for same-sex marriage, a few out National MPs etc. The policy choices of the right the last 5/6 years have meant that the faultline v much remains. And that's on them.

good morning, #linguistics 🐦🐦 pals the University of Essex wants to cut 50% of our Language & Linguistics department, close our foundation programme & our Southend campus, + cut 400 jobs academic departments and professional services jobs across all depts join us in the fight against these cuts!

NZers (specifically Auckland): What are the options for a 16YO who is adamant they are running away from home? I don't know this world at all. Youth shelters? Can they offer a same-day intake? I'm Googling my butt off, but if you have firsthand knowledge please reply or DM me.

A reminder for $2.7b you could put solar and batteries into every home in Aotearoa with enough money left over to put solar and batteries into every factory in South Auckland. Now that is called an investment.

Kind of weird to illustrate this using a hacker-like figure as opposed to, say, a photo of Shane Jones

It's totally weird that it's people like David and Musical Chairs I see highlighting that the inflation issue was global, not a result of Grant Robertson making money printer go brrrrr. NZ opposition parties seem to find it difficult to go "look, same for EVERYONE".

Ffs

Not 'struggling'. Not 'hard up'. Not 'skipping meals'. *Starving* In Aotearoa. In 2026. This is so immoral and disgusting that opposition parties should be 20 points ahead in the polls by now.

bloody hell mate

Families are starving in NZ in 2026 and the heinous crew who run the Govt are cutting money from food banks & other social services to fund the multi billion dollar gas industry, tax cuts that favour the wealthiest, landlords & the tobacco industry #nzpol Back on track to Dickensian times.

This was a bittersweet moment last night, so I'm tagging it with #thehorrors. I am glad we made her feel safe. I am glad we are still a country that can celebrate Pride openly and have rainbow lights on our biggest monument to unbridled capitalis.. ERM building. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Happy flying dildo anniversary to those who celebrate it.

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

Minister Erica Stanford celebrates "the 1st time in 50 years that we’ve built a new specialist school”. She ignores the history of abuse that saw former segregated schools like Kimberley shut down. Please read Sir Robert Martin's words on his torment there. #NZpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/04/n...

Kua oti te #jamuary2026

There shouldn't. But this article is just speculation from an addiction soecialist who has issues with ADHD being diagnosed at all (McBride). The patients quoted don't support the story that's being set out at all.

No surprise why people have an immune reaction to this sort of thing. They've been doing it from the very beginning. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Kua oti te #jamuary2026

Tom Morello live in Minneapolis

Penultimate jamaury jam (going on NA time lol)

Leaders should absolutely show up, but disaster response isn’t a photo op or should be trivialised. Watching our Prime Minister hand out boxes of KFC to impacted communities was peak cringe IMO. We need serious, systems-level action and that 6b resilience fund like yesterday.

Time for a rewatch. The money is going to pour into ACT as fast as their misinformation, lies and divisiveness will pour out leading up to the ejection. They’ve got millions but we’ve got community, organising and facts. #NZpol #ACTout

This year as well, I donated the same amount as last year to the Department of Urology at the medical university affiliated with a hospital in Tokyo, using the profits from my 2025 Bandcamp sales. Thanks to the support of each of you, I was able to contribute again. I’m sincerely grateful.

Nat politicised every extreme weather tragedy by defunding in the first place. #nzpol

If they hadn’t fired the geologists working on the Landslip database, they might have had comprehensive knowledge of how they have increased in frequency over time. But let’s save money instead. 🙄

media don't seem to get any smarter about it though! almost as if they're on the same side!

Getting pretty slamed at mahi, surprising no one. So here is jam 5 for #jamuary2026 #synthsky youtube.com/shorts/B80HL...

'We'll just adapt,' they say blithely, as record rainfalls cause deadly landslides in places they've never happened before because of record rain. My heart breaks for these people and their families. We have to demand more climate action. #nzpol

One of the big things of noticed in the responses to the Manage My Health data breach debacle is the fact so few people seem to understand that our Primary Health Care system is a privatized neoliberal system, hence why a for profit private entity operates the primary care patient portal that is MMH

I'm honestly so sick and heartbroken watching incredibly passionate, skilled, and qualified healthcare workers being so burnt by the funding cuts carried out by this government that they're leaving the healthcare system altogether. #nzpol

Nothing to add. pocomoto.co.nz/product/far-...

Good grief. What the ever loving f**k is this article about. Political journalism unhinged. A new class of puff piece. Can can someone just admit Luxon is incompetent. His speech was gobbledegook, it was unattached from the reality of life for NZers, the climate and cost of living crisis. #nzpol

Remember the 38yo unexpectedly pregnant woman who had to deal with a terrorist massacre, a volcanic eruption and a global pandemic while raising a baby? Did anyone cut her one tenth of the slack this POS is getting?

I mean, we all know he can't talk, but his other issue is that he's a spineless suckup fundy weirdo, Henry #nzpol

warned about this end of ‘24, these moves are part of the incoming sell off to foreign interests and the National coalition will almost certainly do an “open for business” narrative, amplified by the media, to fudge the numbers and claim the economy is recovering

do not put this shit on your house

Grok is so much worse than you think.

Inflatable mannequins explains all of the National Party in my lifetime, very well. We should re-inflate them with helium and anchor them over crops fields to scare birds away.

This is New Zealand too, on our typically shittier scale: it is common knowledge among journos which press gallery hacks are poinking politicians and their staff but it’s all nod nod wink wink yawn yawn.

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

Someone calculate the price difference of Christopher Luxon's "marmite sandwich and an apple" school lunch since he became PM

Exactly

I am a cybersecurity professional who gets consulted on travel policy and my professional opinion is that travel to the US is not currently worth the risk for most non-US persons

I missed this part, Auckland Council data was not included because the planned rates rises were TOO LOW and might skew the National Average (the data also didn't include like, 50 other local authorities), so its probably way less than a can of baked beans or whatever

Today was the first meeting of my AI and music class, and in the first hour we drew a direct line from AI slop Xmas music to the wildfires raging in LA right now. If you teach AI and don’t discuss its immediate climate impacts, you need to start doing it. Every single day. Here are some sources (🧵):

I did the very local version of this half an hour ago. My flex is being a direct academic descendant of Bruce Biggs #MāoriLinguists made #MāoriLinguistics