With the list out today, for Aotearoa New Zealand to get get it's first Palestinian Member of Parliament the Green Party would need to get 14.4% of the vote
newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/10/p...
The comments from both senior ministers on RNZ's Morning Report signalled the election campaign has well and truly begun, with Willis also saying Peters was "mischief-making". She went on to say that Labour was "choosing to get into bed with the party that referred to Indians choosing to come to New Zealand as a 'butter chicken tsunami'". Willis' comments were on the weekly Morning Report political panel alongside Labour's Tangi Utikere, who she accused of being in a party that was "courting exactly the same concerns that New Zealand First are trying to whip up" in regards to the New Zealand-India free trade agreement.
Nicola Willis, in coalition with NZ First, accusing Labour of jumping into bed with NZ First and using racist comments made by her coalition partner, NZ First.
Ihab, one of the people in Gaza I've known the longest, needs someone to start a new GoFundMe campaign, if anyone in a country where this is possible (it's not in mine) would be available to help send me a message and I'll put you in touch with him
"Over 371,888 housing units have been destroyed or damaged, more than 50 per cent of hospitals are non-functional, and nearly all schools have been destroyed or damaged. The economy has contracted by 84 per cent."
news.un.org/en/story/202...
It's now thermal underwear season in Ōtautahi, at least for those of us who leave the house before dawn 🥶
I'm not sure they'd listen though, a few might, but a lot of them are the same people who uses to go to book stores to turn books with Jacinda Ardern on the cover backwards. It's not just being uninformed, it's being willfully ignorant and stubborn
It's going to be an interesting election year now we've entered an era where we now have boutique social media for different worldviews, I imagine people who get their news and views via X or Facebook probably assume they are in the mainstream
I do often feel a sense of whimsy when I ride my ebike
Hopefully it backfires, I'll breath a sigh of relief if they slip back to single digit polling
I know I shouldn't look, but now that I'm studying online conspiracy / disinfo discourse it's a bit like doing anthropology for me
The traditional ways of knowing prove true yet again (with replacement Winston).
Visited my partners parents recently and they had for a year or so been paying for Apple TV (service) because they assumed it was needed to use Apple TV (hardware) never had watched a single Apple show
I assume a lot of tech/streaming companies are making money from situations like this
Every Facebook post about about a Green Party policy announcement is like
[Policy throughly researched by a bunch of wonks, fully costed with economic impact forecasted]
Comments
Barry: And I guess without cars we'll ride unicorns to work 🤣 🦄
Gary: Chole flys business class
Just as the impacts of climate change are really starting to bite, AoNZ as a nation is busy 'deprioritising' research funding into it. You can probably tell from some of the quotes how chill I'm feeling about this.
"butter chicken tsunami"
Echos of "taco trucks on every corner" xenophobic, no doubt, but also sounds like a delicious outcome we should be bringing about, not avoiding
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Shane Jones is spouting some of the most vile racism I have heard in #nzpol and it's barely being reported on. Left bloc MPs have lost careers for far less.
NZ media has this strange presumption of evil that ultimately empowers our worst politicians.
We turned rivers into road and wetlands into suburbs.
Extreme weather turns them back to rivers and wetlands.
This is what the #ClimateCrisis looks like.
The govt has weakened workers rights, cancelled perfectly good ferries, taken money from women, focused on gang patches, created more unemployment, and constantly is trying to dismantle the Treaty. They’ll literally do anything but fix cost the living crisis WHICH WAS THEIR ONE JOB.
This puts the past year of British polls on context. This is the demographic that's made Reform the most popular party, radicalised by far-right content on Facebook
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
A good day to remind people that, around 2000 or so, Edward Said began routinely telling journalists and editors in his interviews that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory was now the longest in modern world history, after having surpassed the Japanese occupation of Korea.
Caraway seeds
2 small cabbages (or one big one) a teaspoon of salt, and a couple of tablespoons of carraway seeds
Chop the cabbage and massage it with the salt and seeds, then put in a jar with a little water to cover the cabbage
🚨NSW anti-protest laws ruled unconstitutional, massive blow for Chris Minns Government and vested interests.
Huge week for democracy, with High Court yesterday unanimously ruling Victorian ALP Govt's rigging of donations laws likewise unconstitutional.
theklaxon.com.au/ouub
A jar of sauerkraut
Made some sauerkraut
i would really like people to get over the idea that comedy is particularly dangerous to authoritarians. if it was we wouldn't be here.
It's a nice thought, but the evidence ain't there.
A basket of feijoas labeled 'free help yourself'
Jackpot
So far it hasn't seemed too egregious but knowing it was a film from apartied era South Africa I did go in with low expectations
Poster for The Gods Must be Crazy
Tonight's watch is 'The Gods Must be Crazy' (1980)
Just landed on Kanopy
