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Luxon is trying to impress us, the small business owners. It’s not working You know, for a man whose whole tagline is “trust me, I’m good at business", Christopher Luxon still does not understand small business owners.

'This isn’t for us. This is for the voter in the isolated leafy ‘burbs, the ones who never go into the CBD but know with total certainty it’s going to hell in a homeless person’s handbasket anyway.' #NzPol

'Not good enough': City's overnight urgent health service already shut 13 times this year An average of between four and five people use the service each night.

Napier's urgent overnight health clinic has been closed 20% of this year due to staffing.

The Monty Python argument sketch, but Michael Palin is asking "is this the right room for a disappointment?"

Dearest people who don’t read or remember history:

The reason Iran is ruled by Ayatollahs now is because the U.S. overthrew the democratically-elected Iranian President in 1953 to help American oil interests.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

They don’t have a long term plan for Minneapolis much less Iran

Rakiura arrives home after the 2nd egg is placed in the nest. Remember while watching that it's pitch black - she has decent night vision but not good enough to see anything in the burrow.

The NZ Labour statement both-sidesed it and didn't even mention international law, and yet from what I've seen it's still stronger than Australia, UK and most of Europe for even hinting that they think the US did anything bad. This is not praise, this is a WTF Is The Western Centre Left Doing

The Nazi tick of approval.

Oh, well ... I guess you've made your bed, @albomp.bsky.social, so now you need to lie in it. 🙌🏻 #auspol #IranMassacre2026

5 decades of deliberate conditioning people to be proud to be stupid will fuck-up any society.
After a while, few can remember the time when anti-intellectualism was rare.
The RW manipulation/exploitation agenda relies heavily on people thinking it's cool to be stupid.😒
US and NZ and everywhere.

My auntie lost her son to suicide during the covid lockdowns. So Simeon Brown can stfu about "hardships" during covid 19. My auntie didn't tell our whānau until after the lockdpwns to ensure they didn't break lockdowns. That is the sacrifice she did for our whānau safety.

Being American means choosing between leveling buildings there or widening highways here

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

National have never met a super scheme they won’t destroy for the lolly scramble

A country surrounded by the ocean, with active geothermal zones, buffeted by winds and basking in sunshine should not be relying on tanker loads of oil, gas and coal shipped half way across the world to run its energy network.

I've never heard that Jack would be interested

Goodness knows what Elmo promised him

I would gladly have paid to make that sustainable

Pure community

KiwiSaver rule change to help farmers, diplomats and soldiers buy a first home Withdrawals to be allowed for the purchase of farmland.

National-led government tapping Kiwisaver to juice the property market. #NzPol

The King is mad

The one I still remember is the original #eqnz for Chch

I regularly come back to Sarah Kendzior’s expert advice that the Trump administration is a “transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government” and cannot shake the thought that on multiple fronts New Zealand is behaving as if we would like in on that racket.

Looks like he likes the taste

Hey Chris Luxon, remind me again how much solar energy passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters have released a joint statement condemning "in the strongest terms" Iran's "indiscriminate" retaliatory attacks on Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan, but not condemning the illegal 'pre-emptive' strikes on Iran that occurred in the midst of peace negotiations and which have been CONDEMNED BY THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL "We cannot risk further regional escalation, and civilian life must be protected." "New Zealand has consistently condemned Iran's nuclear programme, its destabilising activities in the region and elsewhere, and its repression of its own people," the statement read. "Iran has, for decades, defied the will and expectations of the international community. The legitimacy of a government rests on the support of its people. The Iranian regime has long since lost that support. "In this context, we acknowledge that the actions taken overnight by the US and Israel were designed to prevent Iran from continuing to threaten international peace and security," the statement said. The pair called for negotiations to continue and expressed hope the military escalation in the Mideast, described as a "crisis", "ends as quickly as possible".

Shame, shame, puppy shame, all the donkeys know our name

Dreamt you could track ballistic missiles on Flightradar last night.

X.com post: Alan Sadowsky @AlanSadows24597 If there was a Pulitzer Prize for eulogies, this would overwhelmingly be chosen. Quoting this post: Joe G • @EastEndJoe: Perfectly expressed! Image attached to post, which looks like a picture or screenshot of a letter to the editor, which says: By Oliver Kornetzke August 18, 2025 Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul— all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but has always been-arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul— it sh*ts out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.

Just remembering this post for no reason.

Trump and Neyanyahu planned this "for months" and the "date was set weeks ago" according to Israel.

Which means the talks were bullshit all along and Trump's started hopes for a diplomatic solution were a blatant lie.

We need to take a big step backwards from this ''friendship'.