I want to see a headline that says "Govt to remove $300 million from Wellington economy"

Completely braindead take. Comparing Wellington to towns with timber mills that closed down and implying it won't be so bad is so fucking dumb because almost none of those towns ever recovered and it led to massive poverty, and gave rise to gangs. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Quick, someone send this to all of the GPs in NZ that insist on using AI for their notes. #AoNZ

#nzmusicmonth #NZMM jazz album of the day Ron Samsom and the Neutrino Funk Experience Ace Tone rattlejazz.bandcamp.com/album/ace-tone

Hey NZ lawmakers!

National improving the relative living conditions of disabled people by dragging everyone else down to join them.

are you: trans? a metal musician? want to contribute to a compilation album that will raise money directly for trans people in need? then what the fuck are you waiting for?? get in the pit!! forms.gle/dhtLGhurrwQs...

Wee music from yesterday youtube.com/shorts/9Zf0x...

Episode 2 of The Bilingual Professor Podcast is here: The “Confusion” Myth. When bilingual kids mix languages, pause for words, or move through a silent period, they’re often labeled “confused.” But the science says otherwise. open.spotify.com/episode/120W... #Bilingualism #Parenting

Wee music from yesterday youtube.com/shorts/9Zf0x...

15. The Mutton Birds - Since I posted a Mutton Bird cover, it seems a shame not to share the OG as well. Obviously there are endless good song choices from them, they're one of the all-time Aotearoa greats, so I'm going with my personal favourite (which was their only single to hit #1!) #NZMM

England right now:

A modern person likes it! Funny story - the last track was about the LHC at CERN which was then about to be activated but I rec it could read well for AI derangment these days #destroyingtheuniverse

He thinks if he says it enough we'll ignore what our families have lost.

Back at the turn of the century I was in a guitar band. We played around AK for a few years, made one album and split up. It's a bit cringe but there's some nice stuff in there too lucidsunparlour.bandcamp.com/album/into-t... #nzmusicmonth

Of course DIA will be out sourcing the 'citizenship' tests. What happened to 'back to basics' if our public service doesn't even have the capacity to implement this new requirement that came out of nowhere.

Cough @andrewlittlenz.bsky.social @ponekeben.bsky.social

Birds #NewZealandValues

We're doing men can't wear skirts discourse again? Come on, lavalavas are functional and comfortable. What I'm hearing is people haven't been chased by Samoans at 2am and that means you haven't lived yet mate.

🇳🇿🪶 this kererū was keeping its eyes on me! #AoNZ #birds #pūkahaMtBruce

The ministers who support and push this frankly incredibly racist idea should be the first ones to undergo the testing (especially the NZ born ministers). www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

i wish someone in the NZ media would remind Bishop about this. Do your fucking job NZ journalists! But no, once again our media just parrots the crap the idiots in govt spew forth and never actually challenge them on the things that matter, like this.

No person - and no party - should be taken seriously as a left wing proposition if they don't extend basic humanity to immigrants, whether they're RSE workers, 20somethings on working holiday visas, refugees, people on work visas, or family of any of the above.

The knock effect of removing safer speed limits around schools and streets? #nzpol The Government Parties really don’t care about our tamariki, neither their safety getting to school or the food they receive in school. Police 'appalled' by motorists speeding through school zones

Too good not to make it accessible for my #AltText homies

Yet another case in the epidmic of firstitis thst has been ramapaging though healines and presa releases for the last few years.

Well, he was already a fucking psycho, so it's a small bridge to cross.

I had so much fun writing this piece for Te Pūnaha Matatini. As someone who is food oriented; naturally, I thought about how transdisciplinary research was like a potluck where everyone could bring a plate to the table www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/transd...

The back on track and fixing something, but definitely not the basics Luxon, Peters and Seymour gave us in 2025. Fixing? I’d say rigging. #nzpol From Oxfam Aotearoa Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DXx6j1g...

This is quite the graph (from newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/30/t...)

8GW is probably more than New Zealand's total generation capacity.

So for the next 5 days, all TVNZ political news should contain the words "we sought comment from the Minister, but we were not allowed to talk to them", and see how the regime likes that www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-t...

Good to see Auckland Transport respond positively to our concerns, and to the lessons of their first test. A successful, if less ambitious, launch of the City Rail Link now looks more likely. We look forward to more true Rapid service levels building soon: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/04/30/c...

*whispers* not sure if we're ready for this convo yet but I really notice how much better it smells in cities like Florence and Helsinki that have low-emissions zones, once the switch to e-vehicles (plus foot/bike/transit infrastructure 🤞🏻) is complete I bet we'll think this about streets too

No notice required to allow "for a client to dispute the accuracy of their personal information, when an adverse action such as a clients’ benefit being reduced or stopped is being taken based on shared information." This is not ok. #nzpol

how the new zealand government reacts when you're imprisoned overseas, but white and rich:

Swearwords bad, driving a car up steps good, thank you for coming to this episode of 'It's all okay as long as we're the ones doing it.'

& we'll always have 'but blowing up a ministry of brown people was a joke, why can't you people take a joke'.

Oh suddenly offensive language on social media is not okay? But when people called Ardern a c*** who needed to be hanged that was okay? Lmao okay! #nzpol

A new report about online abuse against women politicians just dropped. This one also highlights a new AI tool designed to help, used by @misswhanau.bsky.social. Here's a breakdown of the report, cross posted from Instagram (a bit more measured than last time I talked about it lol) #nzpol

monogamy was used as a tool to control black and indigenous groups. It was a Eurocentric way of being because polygamy was viewed as “uncivilized” polyamorous relationships are supposed to be extended kinship networks. Community building, raising children, cooperation, strengthening families—

Useful thread to think about, not just in relation to ‘AI’, but also its impact on #FOI and the public information sphere.

Fuck off

This seems to have involved actullal crimes doesnt it? National Parks stuff. Maybe she can buy us an electic ferry as reparations

NZ chose not to electrify the bus fleet. 80% still diesel. Oil shock hits, Auckland Transport needs subsidies, ratepayers wear it. We chose not to subsidise EVs. Now we're subsidising diesel. Climate action was the cheaper option. #nzpol

I have watched entire social ecosystems rendered asunder by the introduction of Exceptionally Cute Abusers Who Everybody Believes. I’ve known them to move around every few years, because they had chewed their way through a community and had run out of willing victims.

the OTHER big question that needs to be asked here is that if MPs are using this at scale, how much private information - for example that of constituents - is ending up in databases without the consent of the individuals? For example, have any of these freaks fed in the voter database?

This is the main reason I don't think he's a good leader. He has absolutely no vision beyond becoming prime minister. He made major concessions on everything and still lost. Seeing her talk about how leaving might mean some changes stay, and then watching Hipkins gut everything must have awful.

A few weeks ago I was asked if I'd ever written about how we plan and prepare for a cyclone. Well, now I have.