Luxon made a big deal of school attendance, then his government lied about improving it. Perhaps they weren't deliberately lying, we know Willis can't count. Perhaps that's the explanation, they need to go back to school. OK my typing sucks, but I'm not canvasing for government based on it. #NZPol

#nzpol Luxon legacy.

Jfc 🤬 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

What I'd just say to you is, my esteemed Min of Fin #NickyNoBoats assures me this chart has no correlation to the new projected NZ inflation number she's hiding from you. Besides everyone knows it's all(ways) Labour's fault. #LyinLuxon #nzpol

i looked into this company. nothing of theirs has made any cultural impact it's grift after grift after the initial grift has already passed its peak. see: hypebeast.com/2022/3/mila-...

Please tell me the engineers set the fly by in a SINGLE measurement unit this time? We all remember the Mars mission where half the orbit was in metric and the other half imperial....

An entire industry written article that never mentions how most of the profits over the last 30 years went to shareholders, rather than being invested back into the network. Like water infrastructure, this is a self-made problem. newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/01/y...

This is proof that sometimes you never know how good things can get, and even then, they can sometimes get even better. 13/10 for all (TT: matiastapia2409)

This video product is about that fraggin’ bastich, Lobo. What else do you need to know, fanboy? Nothing. So herd your space dolphins together and watch it. youtu.be/sPQU0bMKflQ

I know the pain of sudden, catastrophic expenses and the strain it causes. Best of luck to @comictropes.bsky.social and I hope this succeeds and that burden is lessened.

Ralph (The Elongated Man) and Sue Dibny :)

The literacy crisis continues because not a single person understands what the fuck a prologue or epilogue is “If it was important it would be part of the story” BITCH IT IS

Such a good run!

Remembering Rachel Pollack for trans visibility day. Coagula is definitely her best-known creation, but today I want to bring up the False Memory, a very minor character from Pollack's run who goes through a number of identities of various genders before settling on a dream-like female self.

Lol, they think Tilly Norwood had fans, but her and any AI actors would never work, they aren't like CGI characters like Gollum or Rocket Raccoon

Israel is desperate for this to be a religious war cause the state of Israel has lost the nation-state PR.

America is pissing on us and Penny Wong is telling us all it's raining. And they wonder why people don't trust politicians

メタモンのミュウ寝可愛い💕

This becomes more and more grotesque. His rich, well-connected mates wrote letters attesting to his good character. His excuse appears to have been that he was home and bored and acted out of character. But why was he home? Because he'd been stood down for sexually harassing his colleagues.

Did his peers consider this consistent with good character? Did none of them think that finding a hungry 14 year old and making her pay for food (that he could easily afford to give her) with pictures and videos is not a sign of good character either?

I can't with this. The situation he "found himself in" like it just magically happened all by itself and he just stumbled into it.

What a heartwarming tale of community stupidity and arrogance.

When RNZ starts printing anti-abortion propaganda, some of you on here are going to be so shocked. This is little more that trad wife angst being given full voice by the state broadcaster And look at those names - fundy shite from RNZ TURN OFF RNZ #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/life/relatio...

The season premiere is out now. The new era of the show. Maybe the best video we’ve ever made????? nebula.tv/videos/patri...

Our govt is asleep at the wheel! awrworker.substack.com/p/new-zealan...

A very good thread about journalists and AI, much of which also applies to writers of nonfiction books. We are being told, with increasing frequency and stridency, that we "just don't get" how AI can help us, by people who are manifestly not interested in helping us. Know your enemy. Hold the line.

I'm listening to an older episode of Ryan Coogler's podcast where he talks a little bit about Batman: The Animated Series being a favorite show growing up, and somehow it makes perfect sense.

Whenever people talk about GHOSTBUSTERS like it was a mighty franchise, I’m 99.9% certain they’re actually thinking about THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, which did some kickass worldbuilding and expanded the concept beyond a sci-fi/fantasy allegory about working class exterminators in New York.

Gen Xers do NOT take well to Star Trek, Star Wars and Ghostbusters that are not made SPECIFICALLY for them and then cry “Star Trek should be for EVERYONE” without understanding it’s their turn to adapt to new stories the way the world had adapted to them

Has Luxon done National any favours by demoting a hard working and mostly respected MP to raise up prayerful Christians in his Cabinet? Will that enthuse middle New Zealand? #NZpol www.1news.co.nz/2026/04/02/a...

Some rare good news today! #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This kind of analysis and commentary is what we should be seeing from our media. The lack of critique, context and approach of repeating talking points verbatim and calling it a job done is deeply damaging to our democracy. This approach in an election context is unacceptable - and a likely reality.

USA… but coming to a NZ city near you given NACT has literally failed to build new homes! Congrats Landlords! You are one of the few groups this Gov gives a crap about… but don’t feel too safe. That’s only b/c NACT MPs are all Landlords, too. You aren’t rich enough for them to really care. #nzpol

Compared PM Luxon's "column" against addresses by the Australian PM Albanese, and British PM Starmer on 1 April in their respective countries, around the same set of issues. The UK, and Australia are two of New Zealand's closest allies. Comparison establishes quality of political leadership. #nzpol

#NZpol interesting comparison 🧵⬇️ Down in the thread - “Luxon's fixated on partisan messaging dressed as crisis comms, with no new policy framing to deal with major crisis fallout.”

We know Christopher Luxon does not care about social cohesion, but could someone at least try and explain to him that leaving rationing to exploitative markets is a big mistake. #nzpol www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqjm...

#NZpol Peters and defining 'women' Lifting this from within the thread in case readers aren’t seeing it as the first post being a quote post might be hiding it -

The Chris Bishop thing has me kinda torn cause he is definitely more reasonable than most Nats, certainly Simeon and Penk however I deeply dislike him personally due to my encounters with him from our uni days.

Nats playing identity politics with mainlanders and farmers? #NzPol

There's a lot to unpack in this article, but what stands out to me is this is a teenaged girl (14yo) performing sex acts for...Uber Eats. A child, selling nude pics for food. And a wealthy man, who had the means to send her food, for free, but required pics first. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Yesterday's Cabinet reshuffle is a clear signal from Luxon, he values loyalty to him more than hard work for NZ Government. #NZpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

#nzpol 🇳🇿 train wobbling on the tracks… where’s the train conductor or whatever?

Strands #761 “Smooth(ie) operator” 💡🔵💡🔵 💡🔵🔵🟡 🔵💡💡🔵

Greyhound racing in New Zealand to end in August as bill passes, which enables the establishment of a transition agency to oversee the wind‑down of racing and the rehoming of dogs. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #nzpol

115,000 households can’t afford electricity, people freeze in winter, thousands are hospitalised from cold damp homes. What costs us is the shareholders getting the profits and not reinvesting them into infrastructure and consumers being expected to pick up the tab through rising bills. #nzpol

We need some grownups in charge to deal with this. #nzpol theconversation.com/bigger-storm...