Trickybirdy

New electoral legislation won't speed up official results That's despite the changes primarily being made to improve the timeliness of the official vote count.

What the Electoral Amendment Bill would do:
- bad things like take away enrolment rates of everyone, and voting rights of prisoners, and make manaakitanga near voting places illegal.

What it wouldn't do:
- speed up election results.
#NZpol
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Wellington’s new waste plan is a step toward a greener city OPINION: Half a century on, my grandmother would have been dismayed to see waste piling ever-higher – but heartened by the signs that, at long last, those piles might soon start shrinking.

Wellington City is becoming even greener with its new waste plant. Yes it has been a high investment but the impact it’ll have on our environment and long term savings is phenomenal.

Love this piece by @maxrashbrooke.bsky.social #nzpol

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says: RECOMMENDATIONS: Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible... View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

YouTube video by Christina Talks Important for parents of autistic children in the USA

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I suspect some of them want NAct to go even further.

Wind power firm departs, amid fast-track controversy over seabed mining A plan for an offshore wind power generation site has been abandoned as the company has pulled out, as controversy continues over seabed mining also planned for the area.

New Zealanders electricity bills are already high. When Luxon blocks offshore wind, by fast tracking seabed mining in the same place, he is driving electricity prices higher, while blocking new low emissions generation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Ugh, and then they wonder why we don't want to spend time with them.
Good job.

Money, Money, Money, Christopher Luxon It's a Rich (Wo)Man's World

Luxon is such a grifter, not content with giving himself a 10.5% pay rise and taking him to the near $600K band, he is also charging rent to Kiwis at a rate 3 times more than comparable politicians. And that goes into his own pocket!

Say it again, with me folks - grifter Luxon

#grifterluxon
#nzpol

Those kids are going to need years of therapy to be deprogrammed, and if there isn't SA going on now, I bet there will be in a few years when they it puberty.

Cult scholars have the definitions of 'one on one cults' (ie DV situations) and 'single family cults' (ie dysfunctional abusive families) because the coercive manipulation and ability to inflict and hide abuse in both those situations is exactly the same as what we generally consider a 'cult'

I hate how public opinion is turning in favour of that forehead guy stealing his kids away and making them live rough in the bush and do crimes in marokopa. they're all going to start going through puberty soon, which includes two girls starting periods, they have no mates and no social lives

Digital art of a rendition of The Moon tarot card, featuring a dragon with a long coiling body, fur running down the length of its back. The bottom of the drawing has handwritten lettering reading “The Moon” and a flowering, creeping border all along the edges. In the center is a full moon with a crescent moon above and below, radiating lines expanding out from the full moon. All the lines and borders and details are in gold with a dark blue background.

#Smaugust day 23 - tarot
#art #dragon

Bottom of Otaki Street on Ira street in Miramar, or the Miramar Ave side of the cutting are always full if you're heading out this way in thd next few weeks

The absolute audacity of this woman blaming “local leadership” and cycleways for the flailing economy after firing our public servants. You’re the Minister of Finance AND Economic Growth. Take a hard look at yourself, your lack of plan and your missing boats before coming at us. #nzpol

Never apologise for the truth my friend.
Fuck I hate this world my kids sre growing up in

Reuters and AP journalists killed in Gaza strike were not 'a target,' an Israeli military spokesperson says Israeli forces struck Nasser hospital in Gaza, killing at least 20 people including journalists. Reuters has frequently broadcast a feed from Nasser hospital during the Gaza war.

Yesterday Israel hit a Gaza hospital in a double tap, which means bombing the location a second time as people went to help. IDF killed 20 - including Reuters & AP journalists who were filming. Despite all of this, David Seymour is still defending Israel's actions & Peters is using ACT for cover.

Oof
I felt that like a kick to the gut

Residents could lose homes: Mayor Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher fears residents could lose their homes over an astronomical rise in water charges which will cost households over $200 a...

Imagine if instead of fixating on the politicians who got Aotearoa through Covid with minimal deaths, all the nation's cookers & grifters & TalkBack hosts focused their attention on the mayors & councilors who vocally opposed 3 Waters & promised cheaper alternatives?
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Since 2023, Luxon’s coalition “has repealed, defunded, or delayed dozens of climate initiatives: from electric bus funds to agricultural emissions pricing to subsidies for solar and wind. Officials have been ordered to stop planning for lower car use. Climate scientists have lost their jobs…” #nzpol

Oh nOoOoOoOoOo not another new book idea

"A highly atmospheric senses-saturating story." ELIZABETH KNOX author of The Absolute Book HONEYEATER - September 2025

The absolute @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social on HONEYEATER!

That would be true of big ticket items, but the slow constant bleed of lower cost items wouldn't be covered by insurance.

ultralol

"Another consideration, when it comes to building immunity, is the growing body of research suggesting that for several months after a Covid infection, people become more vulnerable to other infections and there can be lingering effects on the heart, cardiovascular system and the brain."

In my experience, ESOL Asians often pronounce Māori better than old white people bc they - you know - read the words as written. Te Reo Māori could be really effectively deployed as a foundation of any phonics-based literacy system here, but that would involve not being fucking racist.

#NZPol Any government should need a significant supermajority and to have campaigned on selling any publicly owned assets.

It’s disgusting that these morons are allowed to impoverish our shared future prosperity for a 20 second sugar hit because they are too stupid to invest in productive growth.

Oh shit, it was a wrapped present? 😬😆

That would be so awkward. I think I'd rather get a sex toy from a grandma than a present like that. At least we could all have a laugh about that!