Time for Labour to make it clear that Winston and NZF aren't an option ever. The only way he gets back into Government is supporting the weak and desperate National Party. No fucking around.

Terminally unpopular prime minister lashes out at his coalition partner foreign minister polling 10% by reminding everyone that he supported the most popular prime minister this century who won a majority of seats in an electoral system designed not to let that happen easily. What a prime minister.

Coalition spat deepens as Christopher Luxon fires back at Winston Peters

Seriously, we're in the middle of multiple international crisis and domestic states of emergency and these cunts are busy stabbing each other in the back

You are not a functional government, so give it up and call a snap election so we can vote someone competent to power

#nzpol

"Labour is a bad party because they would be willing to go into coalition with our current coalition partner" really is quite something

Nicola Willis has launched a broadside at Winston Peters, saying he has a "track record of picking Labour over National, and that's the risk you run with him".

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'".

Oh. My. God. Someone tell Willis who National’s coalition partner is, that they chose that partner, and that they will almost certainly choose that partner again should the votes fall that way.

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...I have no words

“I was tired. It didn’t appear anything good was ever going to happen,” he said. “And then Renee Good got shot. And I don’t remember being so distinctly angry at a news story in my life. I was just so fucking angry for days. Then I turned on Alex Jones to see what he was talking about, and he had Kyle Rittenhouse on and he was saying things that weren’t true and I was like nope, that’s it. He’s just going to keep selling boner pills on the back of the worst tragedies in our country in perpetuity unless someone puts a check on this.”

May I have the strength to be as furious and as totally irrational as @bencollins.bsky.social forever

Here he is, in conversation with a colleague and friend @lindseyadler.bsky.social at @flaminghydra.com, on the topic of buying INFOWARS

flaminghydra.com/issue-548/

It takes ages to train people properly and we haemorrhaged workers during Covid from how poorly they were treated and it infuriates me to this day

Nothing says "I'm a confident and secure Prime Minister" like reading a pre-written statement, which includes snarky attacks on the media, then walking out of your press conference without taking questions.

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"The matter is now closed" #nzpol

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

The Onion has reached a deal to acquire Infowars

• It will be turned into a parody site of itself

• Has the support of the Sandy Hook families

“A lot of people gave up on doing the right thing over the last two years. Despite an insane amount of threats & bullshit, we persevered"

(via Variety)

people who say this act like if they weren't at the airport they'd be at home curing cancer. what exactly are your big plans for your extra 45 minutes at home you fuckin loser

77mm in one hour in Berhampore. That’s just an incomprehensible rain intensity anywhere at any time, let alone in Wellington in Autumn. We used to use 7mm an hour as a threshold for “heavy rain”, and this was more than 10 times that.

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

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.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Caitlyn Jenner Appeals to Trump, Saying She Cannot Travel After Passport Gender Changed to 'Male' Jenner's passport reissued with male gender marker, sparking a personal and political conflict.

you there! fetch my smallest of stringed instruments

8 children dead after mass shooting in Louisiana, police say | CBC News A gunman in Louisiana killed eight children in domestic-related shootings at two different homes early Sunday, police in Shreveport said.

This only happens in a country that loves its guns more than its children.

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We're ok by the way, just a lot of water. Not much wind thankfully, which is what did all the damage back in Feb (which still isn't fixed).

I see people questioning what use this could have, but consider that we’re closer than ever to building a robot that can run away when you catch it stealing a pie from your windowsill

Youtube comment: @ScotClose • 3 hours ago I'm disappointed that you blocked me on Bluesky for trying to bring some real skepticism to this topic after you strongly implied that Platner is a Nazi and ridiculed people for asking for evidence. If you're only a skeptic about topics you disagree with, are you really a skeptic? Reply 0 replies ^ Graham Platner is an Embarrassing Liar WE @RebeccaWatson • O seconds ago I'm not shocked that a man who openly defends an obvious liar with a Nazi tattoo is also apoplectic that the woman he was yelling at opted out of a conversation with him. This is psychotic behavior and you should see a therapist.

PSA: never in the history of humanity has a woman cut a man out of her life for being insane and then changed her opinion of him after he found other methods to contact her.

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8:19pm email from after-school care: Because school is closed tomorrow, we are also closed, stay warm and dry

8:30pm email from school: oh yeah, we're closed by the way

Prime Minister do you feel that god himself is trying to wash you out of Wellington

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A screen-shot of the petition on the NZ parliament website.

Last election, DPA joined 23 organisations and dozens of experts in signing on to an open letter to call for an end to discriminating against disabled migrants.

The organisation at the forefront of campaigning to abolish this discrimination have a petition to sign.

Read it here: buff.ly/2XMkElX

“Well what I would say to you is, NZ picked me to lead this country and I haven’t actually looked at those numbers”

Honestly it is Chrises all the way down.

Anyone who still has “huge respect” for JK Rowling after Everything she’s said and done has definitionally no respect for trans people

Worth bearing in mind as NZ ramps up for a general election this year.

The very wealthy are extremely against anything that might create a level playing field for the rest of us

#nzpol