Mostly okay

New Zealand is extremely fortunate to be less dependent on gas than many countries. Let's keep it that way.

-increase speed limits: kids getting hit by cars
-make school lunches cheaper: mouldy slop for kids
-cut IT jobs: hospital IT system failing
-cancel ferries: no new ferries
-ban gang patches: more gang members

Results!

#nzpol Child poverty data from Stats NZ out today. All political parties except Act agreed to the Child Poverty Reduction Act 2018, creating legally mandated targets for child poverty reduction. Right now, we are missing even the looser targets the government has set. A 🧵

Where exactly are we going to “move-on” all the people in need of housing? Won’t be into the 3,500 cancelled new state home builds, or the 900 up for sale: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/where-exac...

All this expense (prison is $$) & brutality, just to avoid the cheaper option of providing housing.

Multiple studies worldwide: Providing housing & medical care is the cheapest & most likely way to ensure anyone in this situation recovers.

But our Govt are stupid, wasteful, cruel dipshits.
#nzpol

Failing to check the weather forecast ahead of their outdoor promotional event, then declaring themselves heroes for having to run out with an umbrella when it rains, seems symbolic of this government.

Floods in Ōtorohanga, shit storms in Wellington and E. coli in East Christchurch. And this gov cancelled three waters and introduced a rate cap.

There's been this hit job on the Green Party by ACT's NZCPR, claiming money was "stolen" from water infrastructure for cycleways.

In fact, their Council invested significantly, more than others over decades.

They put $2.7 billion to 3W in 2021 and 1.8% of that on cycleways #nzpol

The iconic three bridges over the forth of firth

But where is the forth bridge?

And this is the mayor of the city with shit pouring into the sea

RNZ piece on NZ's falling in the Corruption Perception Index, illustrated by a stock drawing of a hoodlum sitting at a computer.

Kind of weird to illustrate this using a hacker-like figure as opposed to, say, a photo of Shane Jones

Erica Stanford announcing a NEW IDEA. Twice yearly school reports which show how children are doing in reading, writing and maths and how their progress tracks to expected achievement. This is to replace twice year school reports which show how children are doing in reading, writing and maths and...

He took the moment of silence literally

Two posts from Luxon's instagram account posted 2 hours apart - the first depicting flowers laid around a flag pole at Pukuranga college to remember the students who lost their lives in the Mt Maunganui landslide. The second post shows Luxon receiving a basketball shirt with his name on it court side at a Breakers game.

We know Luxon appears devoid of empathy and tact but his media team has to have some kind of awareness too, right?

Two posts side by side from his instagram account. Two hours separate the posts.

#NZPol

Many things in life are nuanced and complicated. The benefits of cycling infrastructure is not one of those things.

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

Insurer temporarily halts new policies in Westport due to flood risk AA Insurance's decision will be the first of many as the full force of climate change arrives in New Zealand, one researcher says.

How will you control the narrative of this inconvenient truth as you run up to the election Mr Luxon?
#ClimateCrisis #nzpol #methane
#flooding#landslides

Insurer temporarily halts new policies in Westport due to flood risk www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Tofā Soifua and good riddance. Her legacy will be of her sleaziness, her cold heart and her sad need for attention. She worked only for her own interests while constantly stomping down. I never need to hear her name again.

This is what Labour should be doing more of, telling the truth about this deeply shitty government

Text: Fear and Loathing: Closer to th... is with The Smitten Kit... and 3 others. • Following 1d • S The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics. It arrived in a cardboard box full of clearance-bin dildos, under purple neon light. We were standing inside Smitten Kitten like lunatics planning the world's dumbest coup. The place glowed like a queer cathedral built by horny anarchists. Purple light everywhere. Shelves of lubricated possibility. Staff who had absolutely seen some shit in their lives, but not this specific flavor of organized insanity. We explained, that we were bulk-buying dozens of dildos because we intended to psychologically dismantle a federal law enforcement agency at a hotel protest.

Text: Nobody flinched. Nobody laughed nervously. Nobody asked, "Are you okay?" They just nodded like hardened revolutionaries and said, "Okay, how many?" Arianne started sorting through colors like a warlord assembling a Pride parade for ANTIFA. Neon pink. Mint green. Electric blue. Flesh-toned beige that screamed "HR violation." Short kings. Long gods. Curved menaces. Blunt-force disrespect dicks. Matt Wagner examined girth ratios like he was calibrating a NASA payload. Chance Meeting filmed everything like an embedded journalist in the Dumbest War of All Time. I stood there realizing we had crossed a sacred threshold into a better version of America that cable news will never be emotionally equipped to understand.

Text: Then Arianne turned to the camera, radiant and feral, and said the words that permanently altered the course of protest history: "I'm going to hand out big dicks to little-dick ICE agents." The Geneva Convention disintegrated. The Founding Fathers wept. Somewhere, a federal HR manager clutched their chest and whispered, "No. Not like this." We walked out of Smitten Kitten carrying a box of dildos like it was radioactive plutonium wrapped in hope. The neon sign behind us glowed like it had just joined the rebellion. Arianne cradled that box like a newborn baby destined to grow up and ruin someone's career. Chance kept filming. Matt looked like a proud dad. I felt like l had accidentally joined a cult that only worshipped humiliation.

Text: Then we did something truly unhinged. We went to dinner. Because even revolutionaries have blood sugar needs. Two doors down sits Beckett's, warm and civilized and filled with the scent of real food instead of revolution and silicone. We sat like normal human beings, ordered meals like responsible adults, and plopped our box of dildos on the table like it was a deeply obscene centerpiece. Hot food. Soft lighting. A cardboard box full of rubberized middle fingers. The contrast was so beautiful it should have been framed. Arianne was smiling—not a polite smile, not a tired smile, but the full-throttle, eyes-crinkling, I am about to ruin someone's whole week smile.

Hey #Resisters!

This is probably the most beautiful and hilarious protest story you’ll find.
Is there violence? Yes.
But this is protesting with “Tactical Frivolity”, which has become the key phrase for #ICE protests, inspired by #Portland

This story happened in #Minneapolis

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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

I found this a really interesting thread, and if you are interested in instructional design, I think you will be too.

Picture of the sky over farmland with clear Aurora in shades of purple, pink, yellow and green

For anyone else who hasn’t seen enough of this weeks aurora, my cousin took this pic in Southland

Last night's Aurora Borealis over Greenland.

I love living in the central city but sometimes I wish I lived somewhere with less light pollution

A night sky with some faint green and purple with houses in the foreground

I managed to get some faint green on my phone eventually

Anyone been able to see the Aurora today?

So with Queer Eye coming to a close, it's time for Trans Eye, right?

I'm serious

Queer Eye was massive for shifting public opinion on gay rights, simply by humanizing them. We need that now for trans people

If done as well as the original or reboot, it could show America... We're just people

🚗: I hope I find parking.

🚴🏽‍♂️: I hope I don’t die.

Our priorities are not the same.

I remember how the media here covered the Kellie-Jay Keen speech in Auckland (the one where she got souped) that I attended, and how it was described as an angry mob when it was the most joyful, calm day. It was also telling that Action Zealandia turned up to support KJK and got zero mention.