@juliailse

I know - I still can't get my brain round how this is not a crime

Thanks :).

@tinamakereti.bsky.social we are debating which Moturoa is the island Mere's family goes to - was it Moturoa Rabbit Island near Nelson?

Excellent thread

Patient email verification - Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora We are using safe and secure email to communicate some appointment dates or health information with our patients.

I just checked health nz and apparently it's real but I'm so well inculcated by now about not clicking email links I still don't want to 😂 www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/health-servi...

Question - I keep getting health nz patient email verification requests with an email address that looks correct and a link to select. Has anyone else received these?

Made a $200 bid on a skycouch upgrade - suspect I have about as much chance as the proverbial snowball

Nice review - makes me want to read it :). Félicitations!

Water colour painting with plants, beach and sea in foreground and misty hills and stormy clouds on other side of Tasman Bay

Nothing for it but to paint - weather is blerrrgh

⬇️ 😜 ⬇️ 🤣

Seymour becomes Deputy PM this weekend. Sales of tinfoil hats and Ayn Rand books suddenly on special.

Ssshh… we didn’t say that.

Have a laugh 😆 , but don’t forget to do your RSB submission. And help someone else do theirs too.

Love the generosity and collective mahi going on ❤️

#NZPol

Graphic saying that a submission to the RSB Discussion document is not the same as a submission to the Select Committee (which is open now).

Make sure everyone knows that they really need to do a submission to the Regulatory Standards Bill now in front of the Select Committee before 23rd June @ 1pm.
#nzpol

www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

Borrowed graphic.

All good but thank you :).

Totally unrelated but where did you get your tshirt?

"It would hear submissions, and Waring offered the promise of anonymity to anyone who could share Government documents or other sensitive materials.

“I expect from both the public and private sector, that things will fall off a truck,” she said."

Classic.

#nzpol

This thread

Superlative use of alt text

Former MPs unite for ‘people’s select committee’ into pay equity Women who served for the National, Labour, NZ First and Green parties will form a committee to analyse the Government’s pay equity changes.

Unpaid women doing the work that governing MPs wouldn't do before deciding that women should remain underpaid for doing women's work ...

Hasn't she got the get out of jail card of reducing pay increases because of higher employer contributions? Not much talk about this either

NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”

Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

Glass blower or sports photograher

This

This is the reality and its heartbreaking www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

Denim jacket with bright sashiko stitch patterns

Stitching in progress

We could and should be cleaning the air in our schools and hospitals.
That we aren't is one of the biggest lost opportunities of our covid response.

@tvnz.bsky.social gah please stop with the 2 minute silent prigramme promos - utterly destroys any viewing pleasure

Scratchboard can be a really tricky medium

The suspension of @tepaatimaori.bsky.social tātāriki for daring to bring their mana, mauri and wairua into parliament is systematic racism.

What is says to tangata whenua is you will be silenced for being Māori.

I’m equal parts pōuri and tino riri. #NZpol #ToitūTeTiriti #BeingMāori #Kotahitanga

In today’s Weekend Herald #nzpol