Morgan Jones

I don’t give a damn what any politician says. Te Tiriti o Waitangi is foundational to my country, therefore it is foundational to my teaching. Q.E.D. #nzpol

How every history and science textbook should start

Mash up bands:

Fleetwood Mac Daddy Kool and the Gang of Four Non Blondies.

Not nearly strong enough. Labour needs to unequivoically commit to putting agricultural emissions in the ETS once elected. Which Labour should have done years ago instead of letting the industry string you along with He Waka Eke Noa. Today’s outcome was painfully predictable. Labour got played.

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

I’m not in Lambton but if I was I’d probably vote for Geordie Rogers, Tim Ward, and Afnan Al-Rubayee.

And I’d definitely avoid Nicola Young, Zan Rai Gyaw, Dan Milward, and Stuart Wong.

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

Tahoe is by far the buggiest and most frustrating #macOS update I’ve ever had the misfortune to install. Especially for Music. Avoid.

Kārearea has won before but miromiro hasn’t.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

I teach L3 Art History. It is the ultimate blend of Art, politics , history and Philosophy. This subject brings me so much joy. I am devastated for it have disappeared from the subject list with zero consultation. I encourage everyone to email their views to nceaconsultation@education.govt.nz

Was there someone especially awful on on the list?

NZ is seen as an attractive place to live because of the perception of environmental protection and lack of corruption. The Govt’s Fast Track Approvals Act is a direct attack on both.

You don't have to love children, and you don't have to have children, but you do need to recognise that children are people. It's really weird how some of you online are very comfortable saying heinous things about a group of people because you feel they don't count.

Front of Te Matapihi

Corner of Te Matapihi

Front of Te Matapihi

GREAT NEWS! Our wonderful library, Te Matapihi, has reached a huge milestone with construction work now finally finished. On time and on budget. It'll re-open in March 2026. For me, this marks an exciting future for Wellington where we'll start to see parts of our city open back up again. #nzpol

Black and Purple trust scientists as a general statement, orange and yellow mistrust. No opinion excluded.

I absolutely agree the Greens have pro-social collective values, but I also found that the 2023 NZES has a how much do you trust trust scientists question, and Green voters in 2023 exhibit the highest positive (lot + somewhat) trust with 98.9% of Green voters.

A cute baby elephant

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

I think Ai chatbots passing the Turing test is impressive, in the same way that a magician passing a coin through a solid oak table is impressive. But the thing is, magicians can't actually pass coins through tables; their skill is in making it seem that they can.

A Pitch for a new political best-seller! The Adventures of Hipkins: The Plight for Promising Policy! Read he full pitch here: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/the-advent...

Post a song from the year you turned 12…

Discovered that New World sells "straight croissants" in their bakery. WTF?! They taste even less genuine than our "camem-brie" does.

Please nobody tell the French or they'll bomb us again. #nzpol #kikorangi

a man without a shirt is hanging on a cross with a woman standing behind him . Alt: a man without a shirt is hanging on a cross with a woman standing behind him .

An actual hard mode would also need to exclude Monty Python.

On a chairlift in the Canadian Rockies in 1999. Older American skier hears friend and I conversing, tries to place our accent.
Him: Are you guys from NZ?
Me: Yeah! Well spotted!
Him: Cool! Do you know Tim and Jackie Taylor from Taranaki?
Me: Umm… yeah…

(Paraphased, but not much.)

Morning visitors. #kikorangi

Wow, that's quite the typo in the papers today. Someone spelt "Damn" with an e instead of the n in an article about Ruth Richardson...

Tim Pool claiming "my kid won't be watching this gay shit" to a picture of sesame street posting characters holding hands with the message "let's build a world where every person and family feels loved and respected for who they are"

Sesame Street can't stop taking W's lately

Proposal to change Russell's name to Kororāreka declined The Geographic Board say a proposal to change the name of the Northland town to its original Māori has been declined.

A pig-ignorant decision. It will always be Kororāreka to me.

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