I’m not in the least bit surprise, it seems perfectly on point for him

I know I buy far too many books but I like to think that lining the walls of my house with them wards off evil in some deeply important way.

Note from my notebook (2016)

Square of tartan with vertical and horizontal thin stripes in red and grey on black

A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine

Yip ✊

this should surprise absolutely no one at all.
But will be said regardless. At volume.

Te Pati Maori burn a paper in front of Parliement steps. Brownlee is livid.

When David Seymour drove a Land Rover up Parliament steps then lied that he wasn't warned not to, until footage emerged, Brownlee said "Let the public decide what they think of it, not me" #nzpol

#BHN The government keeps telling NZ that the unions need to get back to the negotiating table, while the government also refuse to accept a date for the unions to get back to the table to negotiate #nzpol #NZPolitics @chewienz.bsky.social

This is an important video to share today #megastrike

Genuinely appalling to see Collins cosying up to Noem, who is a climate change denying, no abortions for anyone ever, anti-state funded health care, anti-immigration Republican. AND the current boss of ICE.
#nzpol

Genuinely horrifying malevolence. NZ is being pulled into violence and complicity in Trump administration crimes. We didn’t ask for this and it’s not in our name.

Judith Collins calling open fascist Kristi Noem a friend and posing for photo ops with her would have her hounded out of politics in any reasonable democracy - and a functioning, non-propagandistic media would lead that charge

Unfortunately we have neither of those things in NZ

Govt says it can't afford to fund health and education properly but found $200m to subsidise fossil fuel cos, $200m for tobacco cos, $2 billion for five new US war helicopters, $3 billion for landlord tax cuts; $1 billion subsidies to dairy cos via ETS etc

#nzpol

In a time of AI slop and 90 second attention spans, it's good to take 10 minutes and read a well-crafted, human crafted, story.
Becky Manawatu brings us a rich and melancholy glimpse of time in a setting that is very Kiwi, but also very universal.

Mind blowing.

The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol

A hyper-realistic mural of a long-haired cat with green eyes painted by SwiftMantis in Feilding, New Zealand. The artwork, titled Rustle in Feilding, shows the cat’s paw extending beyond the frame, creating a 3D illusion against the white wall of a building. The detailed fur and vibrant colors were created for the Manawatū Street Art Festival in Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand.

‘Rustle in Feilding’ – Cat mural by SwiftMantis at Manawatū Street Art Festival in Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand.

@nzmeg7.bsky.social

The 'longest, deepest, slowest' job market - recruitment agency The prime minister claims jobs for young people are still out there, but one of NZ's largest recruitment agencies says the employment market is the tightest it has been in decades.

"This is the worst we've seen in New Zealand since 2005."

It's not the needy who are a problem in this world, it's the greedy.

Young people aren’t owed a living but landlords are owed accommodation supplement & subsidies, & employers are owed WfF so they don’t have to pay workers a decent wage & shareholders are owed $$ even if it means 120,000 households can’t afford electricity. #nzpol

Luxon&Co represent the worst of us

Genocide intensifies & Winston Peters is still a yellow bellied chicken shit COWARD

Environment minister accused of using position to influence council's legal process Penny Simmonds says it is "wholly appropriate" to engage with the primary sector.

So National MP Chris Bishop wrote to Penny Simmonds to push the Environment Minister to intervene in local councils for the benefit of National MP Suze Redmayne's private farm.

National Party say this is all cool and above board for them. #nzpol #kiwi

Environment Minister accused of conflict of interest over water consents dispute Penny Simmonds waded into a dispute involving farmers in the Manawatū – including the family farm of MP Suze Redmayne.

It's genuinely like the MPs in this government have never heard of conflict of interest #NZPol

Education Minister Erica Stanford accused of 'manufacturing a crisis' Reforms will unleash a "tsunami of work", says a former school principal and NZQA executive.

Manafacturing an NCEA crisis while ghosting the cost of living crisis they were supposedly elected on. #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

In a move truly shocking to every woman ever, a man took her idea and presented it as his own.

Doubtless this, legendarily, unaware man will tell us he was unaware of the woman's suggestion and ideas, and that he'd already been thinking the same thing for ages and ages.

www.instagram.com/share/_pHXQo...

You can't fence sit genocide, you're either for it or against it. #nzpol

Pay Equity Pledge I’m voting for Pay Equity. Will you?

#nzpol Good peeps, you can help keep the pressure on govt & other parties by pledging your intention to vote only for those who make the return of fair pay equity legislation & funding for settlements an urgent priority if elected next year.

www.together.org.nz/pay_equity_p...

Email to former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming led to arms vetting policy change Disgraced former deputy commissioner Jevon McSkimming told staff to make changes after an acquaintance complained they might lose their licence.

This feels like corruption..

NZNO nurses are quite literally turning their back on a speech from Health Minister Simeon Brown at their AGM