Now would be an excellent time for Luxon to release the Uffindell Report.

He wields the holy hand grenade of chaos

Not as a formal casting vote, but the only reason I can see for them to call him in when he normally doesn't attend is because they are deadlocked

He usually doesn't attend caucus at all

They had to call the Speaker in to cast a tie breaking vote ..... next time he's toast

Contents: National has announced a dairy farmer from Ashburton as their Dunedin candidate for the upcoming election, this continues their past practice of running candidates in local electorates who go on to get safe rural seats. Obviously this current government is such a poisoned chalice that no local supporters want to run. It also shows how deeply unserious National are about Dunedin. Now is probably a good time to remember the past election where their candidate was sidelined and gave up, they sent a carpetbagger in to campaign, he promised they would station a list MP here and keep the local electorate office open, that was the very first election promise that National broke, closing the office within days of the election. - Paul Campbell

The ODT published my letter to the editor today, was only written yesterday, can't believe they did it without redactions

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On their outages page
www.auroraenergy.co.nz/power-outages

They were due to do some scheduled power outage downtown, someone might have popped the wrong switch

I'm guessing their 12 o'clock time is initial wishful thinking, we'll know more when they find the fault

Hope you get the job, Steve!

Plucky backbenchers who are going to lose their seats at the next election ......

Arriving shortly

PM laser focused on next move

I'm afraid my hookup wire dump was smaller than I remembered, you're welcome to half of it if it's useful

OOps, will go look tomorrow - I used to be a ham, 50 years ago. A friend was telling me at Code Crafters last week that he's been playing with lora meshes (meshtashtic of one of those) I can put you in touch if you want

I keep a pile under my desk for electronics, a pile lasts a decade or more .....

I'll poke around tomorrow and see what I can spare

Crowd in Ōtepoti's Octagon listening to a speaker

Palestinian prisoner's day crowd today in Ōtepoti

I have some, not a lot, how much do you need?

(I used to run the Dunedin Makerspace before we lost our lease, Lee's running the library one, I don't think he's got a lot of stuff in general)

Lead, they're feeding them lead

because .... election ....

ICE is not about immigration.

ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets.

Abolish ICE.

From the lyrics:

This is a fucking ass machine gun war
With your boots on the ground, boots on the ground
Boots on the ground, boots on the ground
We trim your hedges, we fight your wars
Wait in the trenches and we're fucked 'til we're sore

Shouts to Renee Good, Alex Pretti, B Taylor, George Floyd

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Massive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

Tom Waits x Massive Attack just released a brand new single

Parāoa have short and long vowels

A Facebook post from Nicole McKee MP - it reads: Being kind to crims didn't work. We're putting the rights of victims first and locking up the worst offenders for longer. The attached image is split vertically. The left side has two Mongrel Mob members, seen from behind, and features the text "Labour" and "Out on bail". On the right is a police officer or prison officer leading a handcuffed man in an orange jumpsuit, seen from behind. The officer is clearly wearing a holstered pistol. The text reads "ACT" and "Go to jail"

A close-up of the holstered weapon from the ACT image.

I see that ACT is arming its cops (or prison officers) in their political ads now.

Touché, Daily Star
Cc @ericidle.bsky.social

Who are the terrorists again?