Nicola Willis is making up shit about the shape of the books, using tobacco tax to pay for tax cuts to landlords is just the start, they'll demonise smokers to sell this too, then gambling seems obvious. Next we'll see the privatisation of prisons and social welfare. Scary times #NZPol
A person starting at a crossroads, both leading to spooky, stormy castles. One is labelled "Be awkward by being quiet", the other is labelled "Be awkward by talking".
It is long since time we Pākehā confronted the unsettled history of the place in which the ‘team of five million’ lives,” writes Shaw, in this piece republished from The Conversation. “Time we were honest with ourselves. Time we ended the forgetting.” e-tangata.co.nz/history/from...
Christmas is coming, and you can help out with a cheeky donation to the Aunties Christmas Cracker Bonus. Every penny helps.
If you live in Aotearoa New Zealand and have Long COVID please sign up to the Long Covid Registry and help the research into this debilitating chronic and complex illness
#LongCovid
My husband has rage mown the lawn and is now weed eating the edges…and I’m listening to his phone beep away with messages from his ecstatic old mate in Cape Town…🤣🤪
Yes!
WasteWaterScan Dashboard for my area. Covid: spiking up at 4,000 units detected in the wastewater: "high." Flu: absent from its chart. Labeled "low." RSV spiked up to 30 units in late Sep/early October, but is nigh absent now.
If sick here, it's not flu. It's covid.
“It’s time to ask better questions and take up the obligations of the world that you see…Never again is right now.”
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Āna! ✊🏽
Warmest welcome to the brave, brilliant, inimitable Marilyn @altjewishvoices.bsky.social ❤️🙌🏽
I daily see how Brexit happened.
A coffee poem
I like this poem. Good morning ☕️♥️
Putting the rights of minorities to a referendum is bad.
A lot of people treat rights as a zero sum game, so often the majority will vote against the interests of the minority because they think that increased rights and protections for minorities means fewer for them.
I will fight that so hard.
Screen shot of an Insta story of the museum and a statement from artist curator stating the decision to light the museum in solidarity w Israel is not a position that reflects his views.
Tautoko Nigel.
This is going to be a Wayne Brown-ing on a national scale…
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#NZpol
Same!
I didn’t think I could watch at all but hadn’t thought about Māori tv….will give it a go, thanks.
Anyone in line before 7pm will be able to vote today no matter how long the line
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a thread on hellsite i’m navigating here
The story about “40 babies beheaded by Hamas” has, for at least 2 days, shifted from fact to unverified to fact to unverified to fact, causing any new updates to further inflame skepticism and confusion.
No, this one has a jacket
I voted last weekend. It’s the first time I’ve ever voted early and really for the same reasons - just wanted to get it done.
Letter to NZ Herald on benefit cuts
What kind of society are we?
From the hellsite. Too good not to share.
I'm really pissed that Craig Rennie has pretty much had to do the media's job of analysing party policies.
Analysis has now shown that if you are under 44, you will be far worse off under National.
Why were all of the critiques done by a union economist?
Why does the media just parrot shit?
#NZPol The hardest working person this election was Craig Renney. Without him we would not know how little the foreign buyers would bring in to cover Nats tax cut cost and that the much lauded $250 tax cut would only go to 3000 families
Nats-ACT-NZF is poised to bring in the highest-doofus government in the history of this nation, a ridiculous proportion of spanner-brained cockfellows, venomous undercants, and fully dazed bassoons. Parliament buildings will fold themselves inwards from the cringe of it. #nzpol
#NZpol
Couldn't GAF if Hipkins has health insurance personally, but I absolutely GAF Luxon wants to balance his tax cuts on the back of benes, the elderly, the disabled who need the public health sys the most, only keeping up current spend, when it needs far more, while giving landlords *millions*.
Okay, so as Air NZ CEO, Luxon banned uniformed crew having visible tattoos (racist), canned the Pink Pride flight (homophobic), vetoed a safety ad because dinosaurs aren't real (fundy), and biffed the Air NZ wine awards because he doesn't drink (tedious & patronising)
