andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti

Blame Jacinda

Y'learn something every year!

✅️ 2026

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Thank you

I get the impression you're trying to use reason to decipher irrational beliefs

If so, that will never work

P.S.
There's no such thing as 'objective morality'

If not for being born into wealth, Musk would today be wearing a straightjacket

Save NCEA - Strengthen, Don’t Replace it! There has been little genuine consultation with schools, whānau, or iwi about what is a major change to what and how we assess. Any changes of this scale needs to be informed by the diverse communitie...

PETITION
TO: Erica Stanford, Minister of Education
Save NCEA - Strengthen, Don’t Replace it!

our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/sa...

All of that is surely nothing more than a function of the (natural) brain, though… right?

I still don't understand why we should make a distinction

I'm intrigued by your distinction between human nature and the human condition

(I think fear etc are just as natural as hunger)

As long as Luxon et al continue to refuse to listen to teachers, nurses, geologists, engineers, immunologists, oncologists, chemists, biologists, human rights lawyers, etcetera, etcetera, etbloodycetera, it's highly unlikely they'll be in any rush to heed advice on a subject they wrote the book on

𝐿𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝐽𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝐵𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝐿𝑒 𝑅𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒, 1765.

National Iwi Chairs Forum and Council of Trade Unions announce day of solidarity The day, Rā Whakamana, is aimed to "reaffirm the tino rangatiratanga of Tangata Whenua and protect the rights and wellbeing of all workers".

"… The national day of solidarity, Rā Whakamana, will take place on the 28 October, to "reaffirm the tino rangatiratanga of Tangata Whenua and protect the rights and wellbeing of all workers". …"

www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

Genocide in Gaza: Call for New Zealand to live up to its international legal obligations Israel’s long running siege of the Palestinian territories and its current destruction of Gaza are illegal under international law. This has been well documented in UN Security Council and General As...

PETITION: We call for the New Zealand Government to fulfil its international legal obligations, and to demonstrate moral leadership to the rest of the world by supporting Palestinian human rights and denouncing Israeli war crimes.

our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ge...

Rifle aimed at the stage over a crowd at a concert with the words 'Violence is only the answer when we are asking the wrong questions' in its sights

Violence is only the answer when we are asking the wrong questions

John Britten
New Zealand Engineering Legend
1 August, 1950 ~ 5 September 1995

Opinions vary

Get professional help

You have no reason to think that I am antisemitic

Good luck fooling yourself

Nuclear bomb mushroom cloud over Hiroshima

Eighty years ago today at 11:15 NZST (08:15 JST) on.the 6th of August, 1945:
'Little Boy', the first nuclear weapon used in war, was detonated by the Americans 600m above Hiroshima

Fighting for peace is like
praying for an end to superstition

Here's the year-on-year change in filled jobs. The yellow line is partial data but it is a bit more up-to-date.
While those lines stay below the white zero line, we will continue to lose jobs. Fewer jobs = less demand = fewer jobs. It's uncomplicated. [2/n]

Judy C out here being the only real politician from this caucus is wild. Who knew old Talofa Collins would be the voice of reason in this govt. #nzpol

She knows that, if she's going to roll Luxon anytime soon, shes going to need a plentiful supply of media oxygen

13 : 0
Ratio of men to women at the Last Supper

27 : 0
Ratio of male to female authored books in the New Testament

Not just dozens, but dozens of dozens of loyal tRumpanzees lined the streets of Washington DC

Not sure if the bleachers were needed, though

When LA *is* burning, Trump watches Fox News and threatens to pull emergency funding for existing fires in California.

When LA *isn't* burning, Trump goes on Fox News to announce he is spending MILLIONS on people in uniforms to pretend to stop nonexistent fires in California.

Since 1791, Americans have touted their 2nd Amendment as essential for maintaining a well-regulated militia and ensuring the security of a free state

Yet now in 2025, when the need finally arises… where the fuck are they?

Lest we forget: on this day in 1989, the Chinese government massacred hundreds -- if not thousands -- of its people in Tiananmen Square

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Ti...

I suspect that the most significant issue afflicting your brother-in-law is that he's allergic to critical thinking

Peterson is nothing more than a charlatan,unscrupulously exploiting the gullible to boost his ego and his bank account

"… You know, said Arthur, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young Why, what did she tell you? I don't know, I didn't listen …" Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams

DNA died today in 2001
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Douglas Noel Adams
11 March, 1952 ~ 11 May, 2001
#h2g2

$2.6B in 26 weeks

That's $100M per week

That's obscene

We don't have a cost of living crisis

We have a cost of corruption, greed, exploitation, and oppression crisis