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Will Shame Jones be serving up penguin or the last orange roughy to his fishing industry buddies?

THIS. And I don't want the media to start being equally credulous about horse feathers from "the other side." I want to see healthy scepticism & due diligence being applied everywhere, all the time. Baseline professional competence isn't too much to ask. #nzpol

Quick video for the 'we saved too many lives, spent too much $, sent inflation to the moon, made interest rates go up, and now we have to pay for our sins 😢' crowd.
The idea that NZ could have 'opted out' of global inflation surge is daft. Almost as daft as NZ opting almost uniquely for a recession.

A cartoon shows Chris Bishop driving an old car. The car is labelled “Road User Charges Plan.” It’s kicking up a lot of dust which obscures a billboard saying “Highest Unemployment in 5 Years.” Bishop says, “I’d say it’s time for some distraction - like burnouts and doughnuts.”

Kicking myself for falling for the cynical, bait and switch, Peters bullshit again. Emmerson didn’t draw him but this cartoon highlights the actual story: fewer and fewer jobs.

Just did what I should’ve done first: read the teacher’s notes at the end of the resource. It’s a beautiful piece of work, excellent for introducing ideas about marae. Good readers might cope with it as a reader. Struggling readers (of English) might continue to struggle. Excellent whole class book.

…that purpose. I’d use it as a book I’d read to a class, or present it to kids who are already well down the track to solid English literacy.

I agree with Taika Waititi’s assessment of racism in NZ. And I hope I’m doing my bit to challenge it. AND I think this book could confuse young readers

…for kids that are struggling those words represent another barrier.

The book under discussion looks great. I would definitely include it on bookshelves in schools and libraries.

But if I was teaching struggling readers to read English (and we 100% have a crisis) I would avoid the book for…

My cognitive dissonance is gonna cost sleep tonight.
I wanna join in with the “Racists!” finger pointing. But…

…there is a definite scope and sequence that helps struggling learners make rapid progress in reading English.

Of course words that are exceptions can be accommodated but… 🧵

My husband - who turned 80 yesterday - worked in the rail industry for fifty-five years, starting as an apprentice driver and ending up in rosters & scheduling. Peters is exactly the kind of arsehole who ended up as the guest of honour at too many work funerals over those years. #nzpol

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

#5albums50s60s5
That moment Miles switches out the mute in All Blues
#goosebumps

Also, he gives himself away when he asks “Who put you up to this?” As others have said, journalists would have a field day with Peters in hi-vis and helmet. Let’s hope the cartoonists weave their magic anyway…

It was the sneer. The mocking laugh. Looking for validation. The “Hey lads! What a nerdy prick, eh?”

I’ve faced it myself, rarely. I’ve seen it in schools, often.

Playground bully. End of.

Watch: Winston Peters refused to wear high-viz in tense exchange with rail boss The Minister for Rail had a tense exchange with the CEO of Auckland’s City Rail Link over a request to wear a high-viz vest during a site visit and test train ride. He eventually put it on, but only a...

Peters got mad when he was asked to wear hi-viz inside the CRL; said he worked on the Snowy Mountain tunnels in Australia back in the day and "no-one benefits" from this.

121 men died on the Snowy River project - 4 Pike Rivers. The good old days, apparently. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Of course he highlighted the fasces

I’m guessing you’ve highlighted the fasces photo deliberately

Apt

Billboard with an image of Don Brash and the text: Everyone deserves representation, Vote Yes to Māori Wards

Love the new billboards, Don.

#5albums50s60s5 is easy! Iggy!Sly!Roberta!Zep!CCR! Job done.

What’s that? Last 5 on the list? Whaddya mean?

95?! More albums?!?!

Oh maaaaan…

To the lawyers. Someone owes Ellen a lot of money.

Road user charges for all vehicles move a step closer Chris Bishop says it will be the biggest shake-up of road funding in half a century.

This shift will significantly advantage gas guzzlers at the expense of those who drive efficient cars... if each were driven 14,000km/yr, a small hybrid will pay around $500 more in tax per year than at present, a Ford Ranger petrol will pay around $500 less.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Someone has 3 dollars and you tell them you’re gonna give them 2 more so they’ll have 5 now and 2 more to someone who has 1 so they’ll have 3 now and the person who already had 3 will complain that they got their 3 without handouts and this sums up the average rightwing voter basically.

Yeah, nah. Pay me double that, give me high tech safety gear, etc. and I miiiight start to think about it. Before deciding it’s not worth it even then 😄

Incredible. 7k to pull that down, one brick at a time

Fred Dibnah, steeplejack, standing atop some shonky scaffolding, photographed from above, what the hell!, high in the air, fixing a steeple, probably in the 70s or 80s

Fred was a proper legend, a childhood hero.

First thoughts? He deserves better.

But what does his family say and what would he have said?

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Well that’s a little frustrating