Tim

NZ hit fourth hardest per person.

Have you or someone you know been turned away from voting? Newsroom wants to hear from you! newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/27/e...

Two ticks Green! ✅ ✅ Is really important for me to be able to keep my electorate office+team so we can continue to serve the people of Wellington Bays! (Also good for Green Party growth to hold electorate seats.)

Two ticks Green! ✅ ✅ Is really important for me to be able to keep my electorate office+team so we can continue to serve the people of Wellington Bays! (Also good for Green Party growth to hold electorate seats.)

Two years. That’s all it took for this sucker to go from “Trump is the greatest” to “Whoops, I had no idea, but he might be racist.” Only 76,999,999 to go. Maybe your education system needs a few tweaks… #uspolitics

Happy Labour Day to us and our successors ...

TIL that the US passed an act of Congress that claimed any birdshit in the world was the possession of the USA. Be careful what you wish for! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_I...

Fucking thank you @mohanjdutt.bsky.social

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Elizabeth Holmes https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-elizabeth-holmes/

I get this manufactured media political outrage over politicians of the left meeting gangs, 'they're meeting bad people who will endanger your safety' blah. Casey Costello's ACT & National Govt have given $300m tax breaks to an industry that kills 13 kiwis a day. Who is the greater danger?

Also let's not forget this trend started with Ardern, first Metiria Turei, next Poto Williams, then Hipkins with Nanaia Mahuta, then Tamatha Paul, then Debbie Ngarewa-Packer now we'll see it with Kerrin Leoni. #nzpol

Let’s add, war criminals, Nazis…

#nzpol It's OK to talk to: * tobacco lobbyists * alcohol pushers * farming reps * climate deniers * gun nutters * business groups * sustainability greenwashers * believers in trickle down * vaccine cookers * outright racists But, somehow, it's not OK to talk to gangs? Sigh. 🙏

Got to love legalese. However, the existence of a charge of “improperly offering an indignity to a body” implies the existence of *properly* offering an indignity to a body. I’m intrigued…

Every day… #nzpol

Amateurs

40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...

I am reminded of this tweet, at which I laughed so much in 2019 that tears ran down my cheeks. It was a simpler time

Me (aged 51, I think?):

So I need a council permit to get a fireplace installed but farmers won't need council approval to house seasonal workers lol. #nzpol

You just don't get it. The technology is always improving - pouring river water in your socks is getting easier and faster and cheaper every year.

Otara, 1979 #nzpol

Redemption arc? #nzpol #nzhistory

And here’s Lady Thea Muldoon

Just a thought

This should lose National the election #NZPol

Me (aged 10):

Why does National keep reannouncing the same road?

One day, after *this* is all over, there’s going to be some very interesting research done on how and why formerly reputable news sources repeatedly treated “Trump announcements” as facts to be reported on, rather than deluded ramblings of the biggest liar the world has ever seen. #media #fantasist

Made this version awhile ago haha

Game over. We can give up on substantial tax reform for at least another three years then. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/opportunit...

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This election, the issue of child poverty has been swallowed up by "no new taxes". How did that happen and what should we do about it? New Substack post at Hopetown substack.com/home/post/p-...

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

Part of the reason for the organised vilification of the Ardern govt initial response to the COVID pandemic was that it was so effective in demonstrating how powerful decisive state intervention in the interests of the common good could be. The far-right and its big business backers were HORRIFIED.