Andrew Jull NZRN (he/him)

The wonderful Betty-Anne

Why can’t we provide a free school meal scheme as good as Brazil’s?

Comment from Auckland University: More than half of children experiencing food insecurity in NZ do not get a free school meal

Iran has been screaming "Death to America" for over 40 years and have been waiting for this very moment.

They are very capable in technology and maneuvers, while the U.S. regime is compromised and inept to deal with this manufactured crisis.

Cartoon. Title: “Carpet Moth” Luxon as a moth, bumbling around a light bulb with “USA” written on it. There are hands at the bottom, holding reporter’s pads and a piece of paper with “US and Israel Attack Iran” Luxon is saying, “we support any action the US takes…Uh…Did I say…well, I meant…Except, Um, …Maybe not…Carpet Bombing?” Then down the bottom it says, “And with that, he bombed into the carpet”

Luxon, the Hapless Carpet Moth.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #USA #Iran

Herbs frontman and Pacific reggae pioneer Dilworth Karaka dies Karaka was the only constant member of Herbs across four decades, helping define Aotearoa’s Pacific reggae sound and its tradition of musical activism.

Musician Dilworth Karaka leaves us. 🇳🇿

RNZ is at it again so here are some pertinent facts about pensions. #nzpol

#nzpol

Good explainer here if you are still on FB:

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Unjust sentencing was one step to inhumane execution | STEPHEN COOPER Burton was outside the robbed business when the shooting happened but was nonetheless convicted under Alabama’s felony murder statute and sentenced to death.

Burton’s execution by nitrogen-gassing is on March 12. It’s imperative people make their voices in opposition to this heard. www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...

Imagine a parallel world where NZ had spent the last 2 years doing everything possible to reduce fossil fuel dependency in energy and transport. We’d have lower climate pollution and a more resilient economy. Instead the Govt subsidised fossil fuels and now we are exposed to Trump’s madness.

Hey folks, you know the Roads of National Significance are ruinously expensive, with extremely poor business cases? That was before oil prices started rising. Factor in fuel costs and these projects just became even more ridiculous.

Yeah but he’s sorted bc he got the clean car discount and bought himself (whoops, “his wife bought it”) a Tesla.

Thanks, Kevin.

And Steven Joyce former National Party Campaign Chair and Minister is chair of the board of NZME which owns the Herald and ZB

Ladies and gentlemen: your Prime Minister

AoNZ is 8th on the list with a mean of USD 388,761. Above us are Switzerland, Luxembourg, US, Hong Kong, Iceland, Australia, and Denmark. Below us in the top 10 are Norway and Singapore. Canada is 11th.

Wikipedia, using UBS's Wealth Databook, places AoNZ as the 8th richest country in the world, and yet we need to reduce dialysis programmes for patients. #NZpol

RATIONING DIALYSIS

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

Luxon has gone and gone on 1ZB on a Friday afternoon to say he's got what it takes and won't be stepping down. Clueless till the bitter end eh dude? lol #NZPol

Amazing - I have ornitho-envy.

Hubris is a signature of Dunning-Kruger effect. That Key recommended this dude is also pretty telling about Key too. Wouldn’t recommend him to run HR.

Screenshot from linked article that notes bother Ryan Hamilton and tama potaka could lose their seats in the upcoming election

Hamilton could swing red this election...

#nzpol

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And in daylight.

'I want to sounds smart and inspirational': How ministers use AI Most ministers say they don't use AI – but those who do use it for speechwriting, research, drafting questions to officials and generating images. Marc Daalder reports.

Unbelievably on the day Erica the North Shore racist pushes a leadership bid Marc Daalder details her getting a speech from ChatGPT.

She actually typed "I want to sounds smart and inspirational." Great use of grammar for an Education Minister.

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100% agree re: Curia poll reliability but there's significant fallout in the Beehive today (ie will Luxon be rolled?) and that's newsworthy. So given that other media outlets are covering it, has there been political interference in TVNZ's decision not to report it? It's just plain weird.

Just when you think it can’t get any worse, Luxon’s lot are going to kill the Clean Car Standard.

At a time when fuel prices are rising and emissions have to come down.

Russia is the only other OECD country without these standards, it’s BONKERS.

Analysis: What would it take for Christopher Luxon to quit as prime minister? Analysis - One of Luxon's weaknesses has been his inability to take feedback. Another is his complete lack of self-doubt, writes Jo Moir.

Key should be embarrassed he gave us this buffoon, but he won’t be. He’s mentored Luxon since day 1 and this is what we’ve got. Key would have voted for Trump because he’ll always put his venal self-interest ahead of the common good in any country. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

On NRT: "Papers, please" for the internet - norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/03/pape...

Just talked with my thesis student working in the Persian Gulf area. They are safe, but missiles/drones have hit close by, and they work near a US base. My questions about their safety and best wishes for them were met with "Inshallah" - God willing. This Trump / Netanyahu lunacy must stop.

Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an author’s paper unless he paid a fee — even though he didn’t write or submit the article. For one reader, some det…

Sure, we'll retract that paper we published that someone else faked your name on.

Just pay us $500.