Lorde and founder of the Spinoff working with the founder of SubStack is just more evidence that once you get to a certain amount of power and influence, a little pro-Nazism is apparently quite tolerable

This grift has been going on forever: Nat MP owns BUT DOES NOT LIVE IN Wellington apartment. Nat MP RENTS their apartment to ACT MP (who ALSO owns but does not live in a Wellington apartment) Nat MP rents NZF MP's Wellington apartment. All claim $1000/wk allowance while bashing beneficiaries.

So effectively, they’re destroying the essential fabric of our society to satiate the extremely wealthy, while claiming there’s no money bazooka…for the poors. There is always a great big money bazooka pointed straight up to the greedy though, isn’t there Nicola?! 😠🙄 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

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.

I didn't think I could hate Nicola Willis any more than I already did but I was wrong. She is totally despicable #nzpol

Pro-tip for any budding politicians: Saying "It's a distraction" when your opponents begin a policy directly targeting a minority, one which will reverse your own governments gains for that minority, tells everyone in or supportive of that minority that you didn't give a fuck then and you don't now.

I'm so sick of hating everything. I'm really a super loving and supportive person but between governments destroying everything good about life and tech companies picking up any slack left behind by the governments in that regard, I'm just so full of incredibly hostile emotions and I don't like it!!

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

"Payroll, HR, administrative functions and responding to Official Information Act requests were highlighted by the minister as tasks that could be partially offloaded to artificial intelligence." So the govt wants, in turn, Novopay part 2, mass personal grievances, and endless Ombudsman reviews.

Fucken stand up for our trans and non binary friends folks. Email your MP, email any MP that you think will listen. Email candidates for MP. Make a select committee submission. Speak to your submission. Cause fucken trouble.

Remember, when in the 1980s, they said computers would be able to do all the work, we’d have a society with SOOOO much leisure time, and be paperless? Hasn’t happened for me either. (except for paperless rates bills and concert tickets)

The guys who are the “good economic managers” did this

Re-upping this, penned almost exactly a year ago. | Institutional collapse: How 10,000 public sector job cuts threaten New Zealand’s national, and human security sanjanah.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/i... #nzpol

This fucking government eh.

Now in my third year of posting this little doom loop graphic.

Next time you see press gallery journalists having a sook about public service departments being slow to respond to OIAs, remember how they chose to represent massive cuts to "backroom" staff 👇

Fuck it, maybe it is time to leave NZ for a bit. Another round of 10k+ job losses and it's not like the other side are helping, Shitkins saying he'll find common ground with Willis on increased use of AI

Yet again, the ‘expert economy managers’ are on the receiving end of warnings from credit ratings agencies.

You've got two weeks left to pre-order your hoodie................:D

If a political party wants ~5-10,000 guaranteed votes in November, just push that you’re going to make properly funding FENZ a bottom line of any coalition agreement. Boom, fire fighters and their families and friends and supporters gravitate towards you and your very sensible party.

I wrote these 2 posts before Luxon's anti-immigration speech. What I would say to him is that it is him and his government who are dividing communities and encouraging racism and they can all fuck off #nzpol

Signed ✍🏽 Petition of Sam Troth on behalf of The Road to Healing Aotearoa: Ban character references from consideration when sentencing sexual offenders petitions.parliament.nz/cf986021-083...

If you wanted to know what Simeon Brown as campaign chief meant, now you do.

‘Social stability’ is an imported dog whistle, explicitly designed to prime us with idea that immigrants destabilise things and are a danger. This is the worldwide right’s plan for climate change: it *will* just happen, we can’t stop it, we just need powers to repel climate refugees.

6. What the ghouls don't tell you is that in NZ - given our persistent deficits with the rest of the world - we can only really reduce Govt debt levels by increasing private debt levels. Those celebrated Govt surpluses were made possible by spiralling private debt. Cheers! [Ends]

No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.

it sucks that theres still some creatives out there who only seem to take issue with gAI when its in their field, but will happily use it to replace other creative workers. Its remarkably easy to have a bit of solidarity and never use this shit. Up till 2023 it was the default state

Bess has woken us up barking every hour tonight 😭🥱

When John Key sold 1000 state homes, it made headlines & sparked debate Now Chris Bishop has cancelled 3500 builds & selling 900 #houses in what's been called a private developers' lolly scramble, it's hardly making a splash How #NZ has changed #nzpol #homeless #poor newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/01/g...

Happy Mothers day and quick reminder that National cut womens pay to make up for their massive screw up last year and then shortly afterwards those Mps got pay rises 👍

I have more in common with a trans woman who suffers under misogyny and patriarchy than I do with a cis woman who chooses to enforce and internalize misogyny and supports patriarchy. Trans women are my sisters. And trans men are my brothers.

I am always looking for interesting frames - my most regular op shop buy - but sometimes you just want colour! These are two warehouse frames, painted with water-based primer and a test pot of "flax", with A3 print out of photos I took up in Waikawa last weekend, for Mother's Day this weekend.

So, we leave 170,000 young people (1 in 3) with no work or not enough work, and then we shame them publicly for not finding a job.

What @musicalchairs.bsky.social said. Over 20 % of Māori & Pasifika aged 15-24 unemployed is shameful.

"We, like you, believe in localism and devolution, not centralisation and control" Luxon 2024 “Centralism over localism doesn’t work” Luxon 2023 "Central government shouldn't be running roughshod over local communities" Luxon 2021 #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-...

@collegegymnews.com any update on why Riley Jenkins seems to leaving UCLA?

If horse racing is unsustainable without tax breaks we should just let it die www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Trying out a new metaphor: "A.i." = cocaine. Cocaine is inevitable! Cocaine can enhance your creativity! Cocaine can make us all faster and more efficient! If your kid doesn't learn how to use cocaine, they'll get left behind!

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

OF COURSE Dawkins wants his flattery robot to be female.

It’s May Day so I’m allowed to tap the sign: universal benefits are fiscally responsible because they’re way way less expensive to implement. Public Policy 101, the money that’s wasted on policing targeted benefits is wasted.

1,500+ businesses in Wellington have shut down because of the government’s war on this city and that’s completely fine but if putting people’s safety due to to severe weather causes a loss OH NO WE CANT HAVE THAT.

Oh FFS. Once again for those at the back - and sorry, must SHOUT 'cos obviously didn't hear last ... few hundred times ... it has been said ... THE GOVT DOES NOT HAVE HIGH DEBT. WE DON'T NEED TO SELL ASSETS. IS FICTION USED TO NARROW ARGUMENT TOWARDS "GOVT IS BAD, SO SMALLER GOVT IS BETTER".

The Post asked MPs about their use of AI and I'm fucking livid. Especially the guy using Grok, a tool that famously allowed users to create nonconsensual sexualised deepfakes. You think the standing orders are "complex" and need a tool made by a neo Nazi to make sense of it? Get a grip. #nzpol

New rule if you're polled by one of the major companies (sit down Curia) you have to say Sam Neill for preferred Prime Minister

I was saying to a colleague today, in my fifteen years in the public service, I've never gone more than eighteen months without a restructure. I'm TIRED 😩

Many many years ago I was involved in Major Projects Reporting, between this and the rebranded 'Government Digital Delivery Agency', innnnnteresting moves in the investment system. Budget always has the focus, but major projects and CAPEX is in some ways, IMO, more important and impactful...