Sue 🥝🇳🇿

Screenshot of a social media post by a verified account named David Seymour reading, “Our dinner for Persian freedom fighters was well timed. Let freedom reign this time.” Below the text is a photo of a dining table set with plates, glasses, and a vase of flowers beside large glass doors. Outside the doors hang several green-white-red flags with lion-and-sun emblems. A folded cloth sits on a countertop in the foreground.

Let's not forget that Seymour called New Zealand's first Iranian born member of parliament, a woman whose parents fled the regime as dissidents, a "menace to freedom" resulting in her needing extra security as threats increased

He directed contributed to her being hounded out of public life

Oh, I know this one! We own Air New Zealand because its former private owners made a series of ghastly decisions and registered an operating loss of $1.45 *billion* in 2001 and the Clark govt stepped in, bought an 82% stake and renationalised it so we still had a national carrier.

And they are all descending on Ōtautahi this weekend for Electric Avenue 😬

Thank you

*ms ad person stealing your copy as we speak…

Severe weather States of Emergency in 2026 already match last year Eight severe weather-related states of emergency have already been declared this year, matching the total for all of 2025.

A terrifying acceleration.

The number of times a State of Emergency has been declared in 2026, has ALREADY matched the 2025 number.

How long before we’re in a permanent State of Emergency and unable to recover?

Preparing for climate change, AND cutting emissions have to be election issues.

What a wonderful explanation of your Mums work.
I saw your Mums Kahukiwi at Te Puia not long after you had visited and worn her. I was so excited x

🩷 yes, hugs to you xx

Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

Also The Clash “Julie’s been working for the drug squad”

Grizzly in Otautahi make them and they’re pretty good

Go you! I saw it a couple of times over the holidays and it was getting good use, even in inclement weather

Yes, it’s a terrific shade. (I’ve taken your cue and ordered pink)

Helly is a perfect name for her colouring 💕

Mine too, unfortunately she passed away at 79 from post polio complications.

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Oohh! great colour! Pics please.
Qs to follow: How many applications in that pouch? And does the colour hold well?

And he’s forgetting the almost three months of holidays schools have in the US - mid June to second week in September when we lived there. Only two weeks over Christmas

It’s like they’ve got a compass, as soon as you’re heading home, the brakes go on and they’re soooo slooow….

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Congratulations to you both! 💕

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Crikey they are almost identical to my Dansko ones and waaayyy cheaper 😬 def comfy though

Ahem

I’ll vote Tom too

I’m still waiting this morning… in St Albans - two out of three phones in our household have received it. Yesterday the alert came at 4.20pm, 9pm and 11.57pm to our phones 🤷‍♀️

I’m still waiting… two out of three phones in our household have received it. Yesterday the alert came at 4.20pm, 9pm and 11.57pm 🤷‍♀️

Jamie Oliver’s allotment pie.
Great for this time of year

#opinion Chris Bishop drinking in public vs Tory Whanau drinking in public

There's a word for this, or several, isn't there?

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This ⬆️ I’ve had three friends recently ‘discover’ Temu and Shein, all who have previously laughed at me over buying local items because ‘buying online’ 🤷‍♀️