This piece by the EnableMe company on @NZStuff is very wrong: buying a ‘retirement unit’ does not guarantee continuity of care. In fact, when at their most vulnerable, people are forced to move home - often to other places - and sell at the village’s leisure. www.stuff.co.nz/money/360902...

It really is.

Fulford has had a rebrand. He is now Elvis Piggily, according to @realgregjack.bsky.social

Why do people do this shit to themselveswithout consulting experts?? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

I could be Kingfish and you, you could be Bream #DoctorWho

What we need to do is support every 17 year old we personally know to enrol.

THis law is purely about voter suppression because National, ACT and NZ First can - and will - win again by a narrow margin in 2026 if the centre and left do not shut up and work together.

True. Also I think this proposal merits further discussion.

Fuckers

Lianne Dalziel is scathing about the proposed abolition of regional councils. newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/26/r...

#slackFriday Taking the car for a warrant of fitness

Catherine Dyer is the best of climate change straight-talkers. She skewers this government’s vandalism of our future in a sentence.

The Reith Lectures are always worth listening to. Last year's were exceptionally good, I thought, but this looks equally interesting.

Very hot day in a dry city and of course fireworks are going off just on dusk

#photography #landscapes #nature #fire #NationalPark #NZ

Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.

I want

My favorite (sorry—favourite) #NewZealand bike shop, Bicycle Junction in Wellington, will be closed on Friday for #SlackFriday. I salute them! www.bicyclejunction.co.nz/blogs/bicycl...

Aftermath . #fire #photography #landscapes #NZ

Performative dickheadery as always

Car recorded 34deg this afternoon

Deniers works nicely Paid shills usually apt

Rengarenga. (Not a great photo but I like its painterly quality)

I am of the simple opinion that stuff like this is the peak of human endeavour and we can cut it out with the missiles and demonic computers in favour of getting really good at a cool little thing

Remember, govt has advice that it can’t repeal the local act providing for Ngai Tahu representation on Canta RC by a govt bill without some dodgy suspension of SOs etc. So, instead, it looks like ACT is going to tear down the institutions itself making the local act moot.

I’m not doing Black Friday this year. I’d rather be honest with you than try to compete with big brands. Every purchase genuinely makes a difference to my tiny business. Shop independent this Christmas. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

There is a milk tanker in Southland done up like a cheese roll. For real

Y’know, believing there’s a kind of racism that isn’t hurtful or insulting is itself quite revealing.

House wasn’t there, neither were the unknown people when snapped. Somehow they arrived, doing unknown things

Collateral purpose of reform of regional councils?

That beach, that light

The fuckers are gutting the public service as they lose grip on power. newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/24/p...

Making Christmas present list to execute. @realgregjack.bsky.social says, “Easier to buy Christmas presents.”

Many Otautahi schools do not seem to have got around to looking at this yet. Within a couple of weeks we’ll all know the suburbs we wouldn’t want to live in.

today the NZ climate minister implied because we signed up to transition away from fossil fuel agreement back in 2023 we didn’t need to join the 83 countries including the UK, Ireland, and the Pacific wanting to put this into action at cop 30 -leaving NZ on the side of oil states blocking action

The tsunami of changes to education in Aotearoa should give every citizen the heebeejeebies. Removing Boards' obligation to honour te tiriti is plain wrong. 100s of schools BoT fighting it. Please do the same. This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...

The number of school boards across New Zealand choosing to go against the Government's action to remove Te Tiriti o Waitangi obligations has surged over 1000 over the weekend.

One son now has a 1970s liberal-minded-secondary-teacher moustache. Suits him fine but I want to call him Mr Lancaster

Mike Hosking is wrong about the results of the UK Covid Inquiry this morning. The inquiry found an earlier lockdown could have saved 23k lives. It did find that "stringent restrictions short of a mandatory lockdown" if imposed earlier could have avoided a lockdown – which is diff from "unnecessary".

What could go wrong? I can think of some things and I’m not versed in building law. Is this more of the government’s seen-to-be-doing nonsense that will never happen? Or a time-bomb like leaky buildings? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Nice article quoting the right voices on low fertility: "we should be asking questions to certain organisations about why some of them are making it harder to raise children....we shouldn’t be blaming women for not having children and instead focus on what kind of society we want to live in"

Well that’s great news.

Need to buy firewood and do not want to. I want an overlocker, not firewood.

COP30: Labour decries non-commitment to cutting fossil fuels www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Fulford is quad-core

Me and Pineapple

@beechworks.bsky.social scroll down!

My brain’s not well at all today-depression, but I made this photo to try to lift my dark thoughts & have hidden a tiny owl in it. If you find it &/or your brain likes this image maybe let me know below? Connecting with other humans is another way to lift very low mood 🌿

This is how the govt promotes public health in NZ