Cue a "pretty relaxed actually" side-step explanation of why this is good actually and just shows how much Labour agrees with everything Luxon says.

Did anyone else notice that the reason given that Luxoff wasn't at the UN to announce our position on Palestine was "scheduling"? The scheduling🤬 #nzpol

If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it! That’s just me though.

In today’s HeraldOnSunday

Knew this was coming when we didn't line up with the others a few days ago, and Luxon was all like "nothing to do with me, ask Winston." Wrong side of history.

Fixed your headline: “National pushes for voter suppression - new laws being silently pushed though will suppress up to 55,000 votes” #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Goldsmith is worried about sovereign risk from court recognition of tikanga Māori But the real sovereign risk comes from a govt that has repeatedly meddled with the independence of courts and legal proceedings for cynical self-serving ideological reasons www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Win what? What exactly are you winning? This was a fascism vs capitalism battle and in this case capitalism came out on top. But if capitalism can benefit more from cosying up to fascism you better believe that's what it'll do. You might think you've won a battle but you've already lost the war.

If you see this, post a bridge (am I doing this right?).

I fear somebody in the Australian government may have misunderstood the meaning of pull requests

Breaking news! Nicola Willis advising US government on infrastructure investment based on success in New Zealand of comparable results in national transport policy. mastodon.social/@randahl/115...

Cookers

When privatisation is on the agenda, the question needs to be asked? #nzpol My power bill is unaffordable now, what will happen to my healthcare if it’s privatised? Profits as the driver for essential services is always a disaster.

Rich mayoral candidate realises trying to buy his way into a position is not always the ideal course of action. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

I'm amazed she's blaming international turmoil and not Labour.

Places I am glad I will never work: UnderArmour. flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk... It's astounding the number of entitled, arrogant dictators who are so damn sure of their own infallibility and capability that they have time in their day to be doing other people's jobs for them on top of their own.

New Zealand media institutions have been running stories on the murder of an obscure US podcaster for the better part of a week, and I'm not sure I like what that says about the editorial judgment of those organisations.

Peter Jackson announces 31 movies.

Got this text from some random NZ number …I’m very agreeable

Flight ANZ675 from Auckland to Dunedin is having a bit of a fun time trying to land in high wind gusts down here in Ōtepoti. www.flightradar24.com/ANZ675/3c2ed... #AVGeek

The very appropriately named Act party are a manifestly unserious circus show and David Seymour doubly so. Nothing they say at all should be considered valid and the fact they have so much control of Luxon's racist government is an indictment on this country and its leadership.

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Fascism thrives on ignorance. That is why they don’t want you to read history. Because if you did, you’d see that this all happened before.

I can't begin to explain how freaking angry I am at yet another 'why we can't have nice things' decision from these cunts in power. Pls sign! our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ke...

LOL. toad.social/@wdlindsy/11... It was the fuckaroundest of times, it was the findoutest of times, etc. etc.

Will media start treating TPU as the rightwing, extremist political astro-turf group that they are? Or keep platforming them and publishing press releases even as they harass and abuse political opponents?

Oh the humanity. ‘The pub’s television was stuck on the te reo Māori broadcast, and nobody could figure out how to change it. “What language is this?”, they asked. “What country are we in?”, one bemoaned.’ newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/08/n...

Dame Patricia Mary (Pat) Harrison DNZM QSO 1932 – 2025 King's boys will be feeling for their 'sisters' at Queen's the loss of their Foundation Teacher and Principal 1975–1994, extraordinary educator and South Dunedin identity. Forever thankful for her support personally. RIP Pat 💙

The independent Law Commission has advised changes to protect transgender and intersex people from discrimination in housing and hiring

This is a validation of disability care providers' arguments that the government's funding changes last year were unfair, harsh and ignorant. Penny Simmonds should be made to apologise for the stress, harm and damage caused but, well, MPs and accountability I guess. 🙄 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

We need pest control on these rates control assholes. It’s called your Vote!

Look we already took your last one and we all know how that turned out. Maybe start owning your own problems for a while, yeah?

For comparison, around 70% of Americans believe angels are real (c.f. nypost.com/2023/07/29/n... and www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/an...), so to say that critical thinking and evidence-based viewpoints are culturally tenuous at best probably isn't doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Might watch the film Civil War again tonight for no particular reason that definitely has no bearing on current affairs.

Fixed it.

ceo caught on video stealing a hat from a kid at a tennis match. ceo caught on video cheating on his wife at a coldplay concert. guys i’m starting to worry cameras make ceos turn evil

thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago

The amusing part of this rumour is trying to think of how anyone would actually notice. I guess we'd watch David Seymour have a small panic attack as he tries to figure out whose arse he has to stick his hand up next.

"I think we should start calling them Fisher and Paykel, because they've got more spin than a front load washing machine." I'll give Hipkins credit, that is funny #nzpol #fisherandpaykel www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The economy must be going super good when the Reserve Bank Governor and Chair resign within six months of each other, having both conflicted with the Finance Minister over the role of the Reserve Bank and how it is funded to be independent. That's a sign of the recovery being around the corner.

There are many reasons to be sad about the loss of so much media culture and competence lately but one of the reasons is that there is not one single article about this headlined "BELL ENDS" www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

During a TV debate with Jacinda Ardern back in 2020, Judith said “Trump is the best president USA ever had”. That’s all you need to know to make sense of this. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I thought vitrue signalling was woke?

#nzpol Monthly jobs rose this month – great! Except we have 36,734 fewer jobs than at the election. There are 17,573 fewer jobs than this time last year. Total wages have fallen 4% in real terms. If the current economic plan is working – its not working for working people. A 🧵

"Informed". They were all informed at different times. Didn't any of them need to give *permission*? FBI base in NZ: Judith Collins knew 78 days before PM, Luxon briefed 6 days before FBI director arrived www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

But of course.