At every turn, the Government has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Government’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

A good time to remember that in addition to being a liberal value that most of us actually agree on accross the political spectrum, "free speech" is also the weakest defense of an argument, if you have to resort to "it's not illegal to say this" what you're saying probably has little value

Trans people exist. Nonbinary people exist. Gender and sex and biology are wonderful chaotic messes. And the biggest threat to cis women's safety and dignity in 2025 is the globally coordinated far right movement which seeks to Handmaid's Tale us all Refuse to be divided.

I’ve already had a journalist reach out looking for comment in response to Helen Joyce to “give balance”. To be clear: when one side is openly calling for fewer trans people and saying “every trans person is a massive problem”, there is no balance. It’s genocidal intent.

People Against Prisons Aotearoa invites you to support us in calling on the Department of Corrections to give people in prisons appropriate clothing and hygienic supplies on Sunday 16 November from 1PM outside Auckland Region Womens Corrections Facility. www.facebook.com/events/68706...

Excellent from my law colleague up at Auckland. Legal AI is truth agnostic, often wrong, and time saved is often illusory. newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/l...

There are a lot of wonderful, passionate people on the centre/left in AoNZ who sincerely think once you get into office, you *have* to be more moderate, less outspoken, govern The Proper Way, and that's one reason (out of many) the 2017-2023 govts didn't achieve as much change as we all hoped for

It’s important to note that he was the person responsible for protective security during the time period many many people from the PM to me were receiving regular death and rape threats. The past is making more sense to me now.

JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL #eqnz

This isn't the worst article in the world but the phrase "A study shows" is giving far too much gravitas to what is more accurately "Business NZ surveyed some workplaces"

She is a minor. He raped her. Don’t dress it up as ‘services’.

100% with these smart and talented posters. It's ground game AND message. The centre-left have (conveniently) focused on the former while sending every possible signal that a vote for them is a vote for... not much really, nothing scary, we promise, but like, you still have to vote for us

🚨 STOP EVERYTHING YOU ARE DOING MUM AND DAD ARE BACK 🚨 variety.com/2025/film/ne...

+1 to this. It does matter for media to be clear about how Parliament's processes work, because a lot of people don't know and will take away incorrect ideas about the law and how it's made

I think it's really important to understand that this isn't a contradiction for far right conservative ideology. They want people to have more babies, yes, but they do not want having more babies, especially out of wedlock, to be a *choice*

"Mamdani-style politics" is just being good at it, which to Third Way-types is alien and horrifying

I think it's frankly appalling for RNZ and 1News to callously, flagrantly undermine the public's trust and confidence in the police by exposing widespread dishonesty and fraud committed by police like this

I'm sorry, it's actually embarrassing that a senior minister of the Crown is resorting to op eds to get her point across without critique If your policy is defensible, defend it under questioning by an actual journalist, without a paywall in the way

Talking to a nurse at my GP's office today - apparently they're being inundated by people wanting MMR vaccines. Thousands of them, she told me it seems like. Hopefully this means our vaccination rates will get somewhere near where they need to be to stop future outbreaks.

All I want in the world (at this precise moment) is for Epic Rap Battles of History to reactivate and drop Mamdani vs Cuomo

ok but like 9 more gets us to 1000 total for this campaign which is would be wild bsky.app/profile/thef...

Quote: "I only have uniforms relating to this unit [of the Waffen SS] so when I was invited to put a display into the museum, this is what I had to offer" that's what we call a warning sign, friends

90% of people under 55 identify Alex Guinness - who had won an Oscar 20 years previously and headlined some of the most iconic British comedies of all time - from one role towards the end of his career.

Husband came home from his after school meeting saying the new social studies curriculum isn't a curriculum, it's just a list of subjects to be covered with no broader themes, guaranteed to make kids find the humanities pointless. "I've never felt more like my job doesn't matter"

The truest thing anyone has ever said On Here is @prisonculture.bsky.social's bang-on statement that most Americans simply do not know what's going on. And people continue to equate "illegal" with "impossible." (If you doubt that, read my mentions.)

I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it.

I hate how the question of school attendance has been deliberately flattened by the right. YES, OBVIOUSLY breaks in attendance can affect learning, but guess what constant preventable illness and potentially deaths ripping through your community does to it?

On the one hand I strongly reject the trope that older generations can/should leave it to the youth to save the world but on the other hand: they absolutely will

The inner struggle between making a Princess Bride joke or a Grand Nagus joke may tear me apart

"The curriculum is dishonest and it's regressive because it's not an honest reflection of our past" www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Next on the list... assembling granny squares 😭 🧶🇳🇿

I really can't emphasize enough that OpenAI is, as Dr. Gilliard has described in the past, a social arsonist enabling racism, and I urge colleagues in education using OpenAI's products - including ed-tech platforms that incorporate its products like Khanmigo and MagicSchool - to stop.

She's done! (Still needs blocking so she's a bit rumpled but it counts!) 🧶🇳🇿

I did it again today despite having a lot less energy. Achievement LOCKED IN.

1/200 S2E168 - Pork Farrow Politics We talk Pike River & work safety policy under the coalition. The far right is being given free reign to AI-ify NZ’s curriculum while removing NZ history & making it more white supremacist. w/ @bootstheory.bsky.social @pmax.bsky.social @kyledchurch.bsky.social

Every policy of this government shows us their worldview: other people, including children, have no value but economic value. Drive everywhere. Eat slop. Pay more for everything. Learn the right words, not how to think. Don't worry about your health or your neighbours, that doesn't generate revenue

National so far this term: Getting to your meeting 30 seconds quicker is a higher priority than protecting kids from cars on their way to school Keeping school attendance up is a higher priority than protecting kids from measles Saving a few bucks is a higher priority than a decent lunch

Wellington Girls’ has moved to WFH for at least Monday-Wednesday next week after another measles case was found. The student was at prize giving, so basically the whole school is now affected. As are family members who attended. Contract tracing is going to be a bit of a trick.

I think about how amazing my kids' primary school is and how connected to the community it is and how the last thing I want is for them to go to a school based on the provocation of a white supremicist dog whistle that's nothing more than one man's social experiment www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

"People are getting free food and they might not deserve it!" who gives a shit man literally one of the unambiguously good things about the 21st century is we have lots of excess food production and we have the capacity to have hunger be significantly less important in decision making.

Well this is as nauseating as it is predictable (content note for discussion/apologism of the March 15 terrorist attack in third post)

At a kebab place in Porirua and have encountered the two most beautiful words in the English language: "Nutella baklava"

Siouxsie Wiles: Why I’m crowdfunding despite winning my legal battle

Okay, personal goal for the month is No New WIP November because I just gotta finish some of these projects that have been on the needles and hooks all year 😅 What I'm working on today: a newish piece, solid hexi cardi for the kōtiro 🧶🇳🇿

Exciting day today. Not only is it Halloween, but my crowdfunding campaign is also live! Please support me by making a pledge and/or sharing on all your socials and with your friends, family, and colleagues. Thanks to everyone offering rewards. You rock! www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

Yeah that's a solid "nah" from me too. Fund schools better. Fund more teacher aides. Give EVERY kid an education plan which supports them to learn and thrive! This is an excuse to keep underfunding the public education system by segregating autistic kids and it sucks.

"It's normally a school itself that puts itself up to be converted to a charter school. But this time it's outsiders, and the school doesn't want it." If the school doesn't want it, shouldn't that be the end of the matter.

I guess we're also supposed to forget that the media defending the fiscal honour of Triple-Dipper Luxon weren't quite so fastidious eight year aso, when it came to Metiria Turei's trial by media for benefit fraud almost thirty years before. She was fair game. #nzpol

As a white New Zealander I am often thankful for the civilising influence of Māori and Pasifika culture, and this was one of those times because I saw one post like "Mamdani falsely claimed someone was his aunt" and I knew EXACTLY how bullshit the story was going to be

The Waitangi Tribunal has coincidentally just started the Educational Policy and Services kaupapa inquiry and it appears that this government has just given us the basis for an enormous series of claims #nzpol