$20/kg! Packs are 500gm
Who’d have thunk laying off thousands of public sector workers, canning government contracts, and generally grinding the economy to a halt, would lead to this.
Add the huge numbers of people leaving the country every month and you’ve got a portrait of a drastically reduced workforce.
#nzpol
The Finance Minister fronting on TVNZ Breakfast and saying to the opposition "OK, what would YOU do?" should be a clear indication that she is completely out of her depth and has no plan. #nzpol
The Covid-19 Royal Commission's second report has been published, I've read (almost) all of it and here are the key takeaways:
newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/10/l...
Geniuses are all around us.
Get you some business association managers like Jamey from Karangahape Road, and Brent from Uptown 👏👏👏
And big shout out to the businesses behind them, who support doing what actually works to help those without homes rather than vice signalling.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
3. It is important to remember that there are other ways of managing inflation than keeping a bufferstock of people on the dole. The Govt can take direct action to reduce unemployment. They choose not to. They prefer to keep labour subjugated, atomised... whole communities abandoned. Ghouls. (Ends)
This is the same 2020 study you might have seen before, but it's true. I was gamely riding a lightweight street bike when and where I could, but it wasn't until I got an e-bike that the bike became my main means of transport.
Oh, and look, here's that class action suit! That anyone with half a brain would have seen coming! From, like, a million miles away!
Just because you work in tech doesn't mean you're smart.
Hahaha
Things are pants, generally. I can't make that better. So here's some comfort in the form of my puppy in her pink neckerchief.
yeah presumably it's annoying shit like having to prove you don't ship peas covered in salmonella
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One vaccine may provide broad protection against many respiratory infections and allergens med.stanford.edu/news/all-new... This new vaccine looks promising.
The 3 genders
1 in 3 households.
1 in 3 Households.
1 IN 3 HOUSEHOLDS.
DO YOU HEAR THAT, #CHRISLUXON?
Unacceptable. 🤬
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...
#nzpol #povertynz
I'm glad we went through all that pain from austerity and cost-cutting for fucking nothing. Just like every other time it's been tried by every other government. At some point we're going to need a government that is going to invest in the people that live here.
How things change
Thank you @rodemmerson.bsky.social so many of us are glad Brooke van Velden/ACT weren’t anywhere near the Government of the day too. We’d be dead, and BvV wouldn’t and couldn’t care less. #nzpol
Call for govt to drastically cut limit of nitrates in drinking water to protect New Zealanders
#TooManyCows
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Where is our rail network? Oh, thats right, we dont have one anymore...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
I did not expect this government's terrible idea to bite them on the ass so quickly and thoroughly, but it is darkly humourous #nzpol
The managed to make welfare harder to get and still put more people on it by deliberately destroying the job market. This level of sabotage is actually hard to imagine and yet Nats achieve it every time they are in government because they never face any real consequences.
“The Royal Commission report unequivocally endorsed the use of vaccines and found NZ had “among one of the best pandemic responses in the world”
The Royal Commission wouldn’t lie so Peters is pushing for another one that he hopes will? How much money will be wasted electioneering for NZF? #nzpol
Looking at the homepage of all of our news organisations, you'd be excused to think that war is happening on a different planet, and its effects are limited to costly/inconvenient supply chain disruptions. It's like we're not living through history. (See also: muted, cowardly coverage of Gaza.)
Oh, fair point. I saw the Hastings plant mentioned and I see now it’s just the frozen lines.
7,000 public servants barely caused a ripple
And a big thank you to autocorrect for changing “Watties” to “ye swaggies”, that totally makes sense.
They were just called hoppers back then
The two new ferries will be smaller and cost more than the original ferries and be delivered three years later. The port upgrades still need to be signed off and ratepayers both sides are stumping up for the govt fucking around? And that's for less than the iRex plan. Years later. Costing more.
