"At a time like this, it is extraordinary that a Deputy Prime Minister here should initiate an online campaign of intimidation against university scholars, using Trumpian rhetoric and tactics to harass them for exercising their academic freedom."
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/23/a...
Let’s all jump to a parallel universe where the US and UK didn’t back the successful coup which overthrew the democratically elected govt in Iran. Because of… access to oil.
If only
Remote control.
Why does he wear orange make-up in the first place? Can anyone explain it?!
First time at one of these, it’s mayhem, in a super polite way
Feeling like a very young 54 year old at Auckland Writers Festival
I have a cold at the moment
Possibly the only good thing this govt has done was bringing back proper Night & Day tablets
Late to the party but calling it: this country is being run by a cabal of nasty vampires (the extra nasty kind not the cool Cullen family type)
Am I missing something, is there a way to opt out of PNs for marketing, versus why I have the app?
Opted in for Uber notifications, yeah want to see when my car is arriving:
Uber app: only 2 min wait!
Always: 6+ minute wait
Pineapple Shingles
Yesterday’s call to cancel the Easter trip to the Coromandel makes me normally sensible.
Why are only hearing these criticisms now?
These opening paras are utterly damning of a Press Gallery which apparently couldn't be arsed doing any form of due diligence on Luxon.
Trust in media in AoNZ is at record lows & here's a big fucking reason why.
What’s up with FB changing its Messenger app logo. Don’t like it.
Oh, man, not Gene Hackman.
2025 can just fuck right off.
Okay. Let me tell you a little bit about Gene Hackman...
💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
Shane Jones used to stand for something but now he’s just a fat bellied grifter with his snout in the trough #nzpol #TeTiriti
Mean-spirited And Graceless Assholes
Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing
Yes. Plus distraction tactics much
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
Absolutely correct. Every day that the beast Elon Musk walks free is an obscenity.
The USA has had two major plane crashes in the last 4 days.
The USA had previously not suffered a major plane crash for 16 years.
‘DEI’ programs have existed for decades.
So what was it that changed in the last 14 days or so to suddenly cause so many crashes?
This would be beautiful
Too confronting to accept they support a pack of monsters. Easier to accept the lies.
