Milly

come on you fuckers, own the libs by going all out for solar and wind, own us hard

Houses by Philip Trusttum

Thunderland, by Pat Hanly

Summer Joys by Frances Hodgkins

Had an inspiring tour today of Wellington’s best collection of NZ art currently available to view: the NZ Parliamentary Collection.

Highlights include these paintings by Frances Hodgkins, Pat Hanly, and the late Philip Trusttum.

"Once did a thing where he'd hypnotize your boobs to make them bigger" is by a wide margin the LEAST scandalous thing I've ever heard about a political party leader

If, like me, you joined InternetNZ last year to ensure your point of view was not overwhelmed when it came to board election (thanks) and AGM voting, then it's coming up time to renew your membership to continue that mission.

If you didn't join last year, maybe you'd like to this year?

How nice to have visitor this evening 🪶

mclusky "as a dad" YouTube video by Ipecac Recordings

youtu.be/2TBUGgeeXa8

as a dad? as a dad x

A male tuatara sitting on a stone with its mouth slightly open.

I will never get tired of seeing the tuatara up at campus. So serene, you can't help but feel a bit calmer around them.

Didn’t he used to run an airline? You’d think he’d have some kind of awareness for a change…

I am so over the farming compliance bullshit - you're running a business - a food business no less - of course there is compliance paperwork, the fact that your forebears did less paperwork doesn't mean you get to avoid it. if a food truck can do compliance you fricken can.

I'm glad we went through all that pain from austerity and cost-cutting for fucking nothing. Just like every other time it's been tried by every other government. At some point we're going to need a government that is going to invest in the people that live here.

Imagine for a moment that an Iranian missile strike had butchered 160 Israeli or US schoolgirls.

It’s be front page news worldwide, we’d see pics of the kids, interviews with their distraught parents etc.

But when innocent victims of US mass murder are “only” Iranian, whoopsies, accidents happen!

'We're just meant to say thank you': Goverment u-turns on disability funding The Government has wound back controversial cuts to disability support services made two years ago.

#ChrisLuxon'sGovt's record on abuse of marginalized communities is abysmal.

#nzpol #disablednz #onetermgovtnz

'We're just meant to say thank you': Goverment u-turns on disability funding www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Beneficiary numbers soar to 12-year high despite government's reduction promise Louise Upston vowed to "curb the surge in welfare dependency" after taking office, but the numbers are now the highest since at least 2013.

Govt created this - still blaming the opposition - desperate and ‘incompetent’ is polite …

“As of December last year, 427,236 people - about the population of Christchurch - were receiving a main benefit”
#nzpol

I did not expect this government's terrible idea to bite them on the ass so quickly and thoroughly, but it is darkly humourous #nzpol

MPs know that they’ve been saddled with a muddled middle-manager who on the Great Prime Minister Scale would be lucky to be a 3/10 but, right now, they’re collectively afflicted by the disease, the Ghost of Elections Past.

Janet Wilson going all slasher movie on Luxon 😆 #NZPol

Comic. [Person with microphone in front of three people standing behind their own desks with drawers and a round box on top. The boxes of the first and last are shaking with their lids slightly raised.] PERSON WITH MIC: And now, for the final round, you have each been given a skunk with a hangover and chewing gum stuck to its fur. You have 30 minutes. Good luck. [caption] The Home Remedy World Championships

Home Remedies

xkcd.com/3217/

Voters reject Luxon, but National has decided we’re stuck with him Janet Wilson Janet Wilson

Janet Wilson is really good at her job, this is a beaut! lol #NZPol

Goose chase meme NEW ZEALANDERS ARE EATING LESS VEGETABLES? WHY ARE THEY EATING LESS VEGETABLES MUTHAFUCKER? imgflip.com

They are still victim blaming us #NZPol

"We realized we were making ourselves deeply vulnerable to a class action suit that absolutely would have wiped us out financially so we're going to find a way to do this without actual human names attached."

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

Getting ready to move house I threw out at least a dozen single socks. On moving day, shifted the wardrobe to discover my cat Hugo had made himself a sock nest underneath it

Whilst the rest of the world has imaginary fairies, Aotearoa NZ has imaginary ferries

Important issues in play here -- the stories told about MethaneSAT don't add up. (And they should add up to the $30M in public money that was poured into it)

And the people who won't tell us what happened play a key role in deciding what missions can launch from New Zealand soil.

Every time you see it called the Iran War, remember and remind folk this is the correct designation:

US‑ and Israeli‑led war on Iran.

A reminder that the outgoing Solicitor-General, Una Jagose, was revealed by the Royal Commission on Abuse in Care to have acted to shut down and deny claims by abused people.

But National, and Collins, allowed her to stay in office, and deal with response to the RC.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...

Former DOGE staffer Justin Fox testified that his job at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) was flagging grants tied to “DEI” so they could be canceled under Trump’s executive order.

One problem: he admitted he didn’t actually know what DEI meant!

#ProudBlue
📹: 404 Media/TT & IG

From the ZB article -

Luxon on Wednesday said he was back at work “quite intensely from the 4th and 5th and then it cranked up on the week of the 11th and I was back here, I think, meeting with teams, my own team at the end of the 11th”.

Straight out lie. This from the 15th.

He seems nice