Phil Garnock-Jones

Bagged dog poop by recycling bin

Woke 2.0 will be a movement entirely dedicated to rooting out people from society who bag their dog shit then leave it on the ground.

Inflation! I only got sixpence each.

Early advice from the Minister for COVID-19 Response to Cabinet was that a strong health response was the best economic response. This was repeated in the Cabinet papers of 20, 23, 27 and 30 August, and 6 September. The 20 August 2021 paper set out the evidence officials considered supported that advice. ° New Zealand’s infection and death rates were among the lowest in the world. ° New Zealand’s unemployment rate was at the pre-COVID level of 4 percent, because jobs and businesses had been protected with the wage subsidy. Unemployment in New Zealand peaked at 5.3 percent (whereas in the United States and Canada it rose above 10 percent). ° Economic activity in the March 2021 quarter was 2.4 percent above the previous year. ° The Government was in a ‘strong financial position’ – net core Crown debt stood at 31.2 percent of GDP at the end of May 2021, 8.8 percent lower than the forecast 44 percent (a difference of approximately $40 billion). ‘This gives us options to keep investing to protect New Zealanders and accelerate our recovery’

So Chris Hipkins not only took advice & kept the economy afloat and jobs and businesses alive through #Covid-19, he pushed to keep Kiwis healthy and alive at a time when corpses were piled up across Italy, UK, US, and India.

Kudos @chrishipkins.bsky.social #nzpol #newzealand

Accused Kiwi sex offender too ill to stand trial filmed climbing stairs of his waterfront Australian home “I haven’t made any recovery,” Ronald Thompson told reporters who confronted him outside his apartment on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

I don’t give a single fuck if some child rapist may be too elderly or unwell to stand trial for their CRIMES. I care about the VICTIMS OF PEDOPHILES & THEIR RIGHT TO JUSTICE.
What a sick fucking world these disturbed network of men have created for us all. 🤨 #nzpol

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Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol

This framing of war having a negative impact on the cost of living makes me wanna scream!

That petrol and groceries are the focus over the human cost is so unbearably grim.

I am sick of money being the measure of all worth in this world.

Fuck cost of living, I am worried about cost of lives.

They almost certainly did sleep well.

Book awards: Dredging literary gold from worlds inside and out | News | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington The shortlist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards has been released, and four of Te Herenga Waka’s incredible staff members, and five alumni, are among the 16 finalists.

The shortlist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards has been released, and four of Te Herenga Waka’s incredible staff members and five alumni are among the 16 finalists.

The Government has a responsibility to ensure that technologies launched from New Zealand soil are not being used to help other countries wage war.

If Rocket Lab launches from Aotearoa are supporting the illegal war on Iran then the Government must be transparent about this.

I wonder if the criteria for assigning naturalised status are comparable across samples.

Everyone knows after two terms it’s time to let the other lot have a crack. That’s POLS101 mate.

Glad he said that. Don’t want anything coming out of his foul twisted mouth associated with England.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

I had it. It was awful. I also had shingles because I had had chickenpox. Im now vaccinated against shingles, but I wish the chickenpox vaccine had been around when I was little.

You must be addressing this to the person who spoke hysterically about chickenpox. Crazy, huh? Weirdos who don’t actually remember what it was like.

Just remembering how Luxon bought a new Tesla EV when there was a Clean Car Discount, then cancelled the policy so others couldn't do it, and is now canning the Clean Car Standards and adding a new tax to petrol.

What a guy.

#nzpol

Sometimes, what doesn’t kill us tries to justify those who try to.

We wonder why.

What makes people living in democracies stan for autocracies and bash their victims?

We are blessed to have supporters with hearts of gold.

But we also wonder how we can mend hearts of coal.

Now would be a good time to introduce free public transport.

The people of Ukraine deserve so much better than this international shitshow performed by russian puppets.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

I’ve never voted Tory, but I’ll concede there have been a few good people elected for National in the 65 years I’ve followed #nzpol. Some kind, some capable. One or two both.

Any suitable new National MPs since Mr Fifth-choice got picked?

If only they could find somebody better in their caucus.

Mediocrity? Bloody hell thats high praise.

Satellite has 35 cm resolution and 1 hour return time. 👀

I expect that's the only thing saving Luxon at this point. Their well is thoroughly empty

Granted there is rarely ‘the perfect candidate’ in situations like this but oh boy there really is not a perfect candidate here. There’s not even a good candidate here. There’s barely a candidate at all.

Marco Rubio: “Let me explain to you guys, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

Have you met Trump’s personal spiritual adviser, Paula White?

I emailed this link to myself to check it out properly later, with the email header "nzpol", which my phone "corrected" to Napoleon. #enshittification

The fruit fly of plant science for #3DThursday! 🌱 #ModelOrganism

🔬: #microCT, Zeiss @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Versa 520 XRM (contrast-enhanced with OsO₄)
🌱: Arabidopsis thaliana
🥼: Keith Duncan @cygnusplantxray.bsky.social
🏛️: Danforth Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io #syGlass