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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 47m

No. NZ doesn't have a liberal party (that's Australia) and while there is a conservative party it's never made it anywhere close to Parliament. The National Party is Neolib centre-right but more or less socially liberal, however it's currently in coalition with minor libertarian and populist parties

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1h

Um, no. You're in the middle of the full-blown fascist overthrow of democracy. We've just got a case of garden variety conservative neoliberalism that probably won't survive the next election.

AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 9h

This perplexes me given that, with the exception of NT, Australian speed zones are similar. 100 on the open road, 50 in built up areas, 40 for school and high pedestrian areas, 10 in mixed zones, and variations for specific road types. What is she on about?

DiLawson 🇦🇺 @dilawson.bsky.social · 10h

#NZ will be sorry to say goodbye: fiords, glaciers, lakes and hobbits. What a place 😍 If I could offer 1 suggestion for improvement: pick a speed zone. We have adjusted driving to 10, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 100 kms/hr. Why???

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 10h

It gives me Germania vibes, and I'm fairly sure I could guess the short list of tenders. Architectural traditionalists get a bad rap but a handful of them are opportunist jackasses.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11h

President Trump is considering a triumphal arch at Memorial Circle in D.C. for America’s 250th anniversary.

It would represent Trump’s most audacious effort to remake the landscape of D.C.

Trump eyes a triumphal arch to mark America’s 250th anniversary

The arch would be constructed across from the Lincoln Memorial, on a small patch of federal land currently occupied by a traffic circle.

www.washingtonpost.com

AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 20h

Sure Jan

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 21h

Te Pāti Māori leaders claim broken trust abruptly ended 'reset' media stand-up

After this week's 'reset', Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi discussed their future with Mata host Mihingārangi Forbes.

www.rnz.co.nz

AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1d

No, Noel Leeming. Either you need it to be perfect or you need it to be done perfectly. English grammar has enough bullshit to put up with.

AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1d

You're fine. It's absolutely ok to make a gentle joke about it, especially under the circumstances. Some of the responses though - urgh! They must be young enough that funerals are still relatively unusual events.

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1d

They never learn and will be goneburger next election www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...

Government mulls sell-down of investment in Chorus debt

Nicola Willis says the Crown no longer needs to own these securities.

www.nzherald.co.nz

AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 2d

With a bayonet

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so intrigued, but I know my Spanish probably isn't up to it.

AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 2d

a man is touching a boy 's head with his hand .

ALT: a man is touching a boy 's head with his hand .

media.tenor.com

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 2d

Did the Holy Father also get chronic diarrhoea? Asking for a friend.

AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 2d

$7000 for a high-quality portrait that supports an artist strikes me as much more of a bargain than $2000 for a photographic portrait (that's the real scandal if you ask me) www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Error leads to $7000 painted mayoral portrait of Tory Whanau, rather than photo

A mistake by council staff led to a portrait of Wellington's outgoing Mayor being painted, rather than photographed.

www.rnz.co.nz

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 2d

In fact, it was the company owned by the obsessively micromanaging couple, so that's completely different, obviously.

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps not contradictory, but definitely historically and contextually simplistic.

Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 2d

It is in no way contradictory to hold the view that immigration - from the Romans to the Huguenots to the Irish and the Green Lanes Kurds - has brought many benefits, but that recent immigration has been too high and socially destabilising*, and that U.K citizens should decide who can settle here.

AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 2d

Or indeed, what's the point of getting exercised about the fact that someone terrible likes the same thing you do, because all it means is that it's good and you agree it's good. Unless you're Jonathan Jones dismissing Pratchett as not being literature and then you're just an irideemable twat.

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 2d

I find this sort of thing utterly pointless. People usually don't see themselves the way you see them. Books aren't magic and don't make anyone a better person ever. People can enjoy things without agreeing with all of it. If it's well-written you might not even notice the politics of the writer.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 3d

Same. And there's all the gross stuff about the "niece"

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 3d

I think they started out earnestly enough, but once they became high profile the grift started.

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 3d

As passive-aggressively as possible

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 3d

Dammit God, don't take Dolly and leave us that asshole Trump

AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 3d

I have my suspicions that by analogy to the similar hair of the "gorgoneion" at Bath and the Bocca della Verità that it's more likely some kind of water deity than Medusa per se. Perhaps associated with Rhenus Pater.

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 3d

Well, not entirely. The Medieval English "chewet" sometimes included soft curds with minced beef, the Medieval French "tourte de viande" sometimes included grated Gruyere, and the German "Fleischpasteten" sometimes included Emmental or Limburger with shredded beef or veal.

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 3d

Who created our quintessential cuisine? Credit for first putting cheese in a beef pie is hotly contested – but one thing seems certain, it was a Kiwi. Jonathan Milne investigates.

The mystery of NZ's world-famous mince and cheese pie

newsroom.co.nz

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