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Merlin was having a nap #cats
February 1, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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JD Vance in 2026: Ermm, so THAT happened
JD Vance in 2021:
January 31, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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not one for removing citizenship generally, would prefer if we just seized all the assets of NZers who are named in the Epstein files. Criminal Proceeds Act and just rinse these monsters.
January 31, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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"Put simply, AI bros are mad that people are stealing their recipe for the plagiarism machine — an irony which is pretty hard to ignore."

(The grift is reaching "grifters eating each other" stage, I see.)
Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.
futurism.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Fish are friends, look after our freshwater rivers, streams, and lakes <3 I designed these stickers for the Green Party here in NZ, and I just wanted to share them because they're my special little guys. I assume you'll be able to snag these from Greens events in the future!

Pepperraccoon.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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Shane Jones is doing his best to lose the votes of the recreational fishing sector.

This clip is being posted all over various platforms and the reactions are 99% bad for Jones and New Zealand First

#nzpol
January 30, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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In today’s Weekend Herald
January 30, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Trump's "Board of Peace" looks more like having an all you can eat buffet to fundraise to combat famine.
January 30, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
January 29, 2026 at 9:34 PM
"Why didn't you warn us about this problem?" asks man who ignored warnings about the problem & continually said warnings were about a fake crisis.
Today on NewstalkZB, Mike Hosking said it's a "reality check" for the Government to not have a proper response for climate hit areas.

Some examples of his previous work that may point to how we got here.
January 29, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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Today on NewstalkZB, Mike Hosking said it's a "reality check" for the Government to not have a proper response for climate hit areas.

Some examples of his previous work that may point to how we got here.
January 29, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Maybe it's just me, but at work the quotes that I get push back on are more often small amounts from smaller clients. Large quotes, or for large clients, tend to just be accepted as is.
January 29, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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January 29, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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NZ Post should not be run "as a business". It's a fundamental public service and every issue you have had with it, or with courier delivery, in the past 30 years is down to governments sacrificing that public service for the sake of short term cashflow
January 29, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Winston Peters showing his cards...

#NzPol #Caricature #PoliticalCartoon #Trump #WinstonPeters
January 29, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Turns out that when you ‘let women speak’ they vote for trans women to be included. Even on TERF Island.
January 29, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Leaders should absolutely show up, but disaster response isn’t a photo op or should be trivialised. Watching our Prime Minister hand out boxes of KFC to impacted communities was peak cringe IMO. We need serious, systems-level action and that 6b resilience fund like yesterday.
January 29, 2026 at 5:40 AM
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Yet again, in almost any other NZ government a minister telling NZers to *eat less food* to save money would have them hounded by media and pushed out of politics.

Never forget the immensely important protective role that NZ media have played in protecting these fascists from public outrage.
#GinnyAnderson "Are wages keeping up with the cost of living when white bread has gone up 58.3% in the past year?"
#DavidSeymour "Consider wholemeal."
Ginny Anderson: "It's more expensive."
David Seymour: "Eat less."
You first, Scrooge McFuckFace. You first.
#nzpol #TheAtlasNetwork
January 29, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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pretty funny that anyone left of National gets pulled up and hounded for at least a month for getting half a percentage point wrong, yet this government have regularly and drastically fucked the numbers with very little real pressure from media
It appears the current gov has made a rare miscalculation!

Our Co2 numbers are fucked! Why you ask?

Its because we have more diesel vehicles than we thought!

Why you ask? Well let me tell you a story....

#nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
900,000-tonne miscalculation makes carbon target even tougher
It's given New Zealand less wiggle-room to meet all of its planned greenhouse gas savings.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 29, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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2013: Recently former ACT leader writes a column arguing that slavery was better for slaves than democracy: www.nbr.co.nz/a-southern-s...

2026: ACT refuses to support anti-slavery legislation, forcing Grand Coalition
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I suppose consistency is a kind of virtue
A Southern slave owner vs the modern democratic state - NBR | Business news & analysis | Independent, ad-free reporting
Read premium business news, economic analysis, and market reporting from New Zealand’s most trusted business newsroom. Subscribe to support independent journalism.
www.nbr.co.nz
January 28, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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Puts ACT corporate donors on the hook for misleading about their supply chains and is actively against the interests of NZF fishing industry donors if you're wondering why it's not a govt bill.
National and Labour MPs are teaming up for a modern slavery bill, using a new and never-before-used rule that allows them to skip the biscuit tin for a members' bill with enough support.
January 28, 2026 at 10:11 PM
It's weird that a news organisation ran a poll asking if the founding document of our country had "too much" influence on how the government opererates.

What will they ask next, does the Bill of Rights Act give us too many rights?

#nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Nearly 40% of voters think Treaty of Waitangi has too much influence on government decisions - poll
Voters also had their say on whether the Prime Minister should be in Waitangi for Waitangi Day commemorations, in the latest RNZ-Reid Research poll.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 28, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Has the current government appointed someone to a position to a chorus of "That's a great choice", or even a "They're adequate"? Almost all appointments I hear of are of people unsuitable for the role or mates of those in government.

#nzpol
January 28, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Let us remember that the NZ police unlawfully raided the house of journalist Nicky Hager after Hager published a book exposing the malfeasance of Judith Collins. Police had to apologise while Collins is being appointed by Luxon to head the Law Commission. What a joke. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3505...
Stuff
www.stuff.co.nz
January 28, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Nicky Hager says Judith Collins is “clearly and demonstrably not” fit for the Law Commission role

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Nicky Hager: Judith Collins not fit for Law Commission role
The journalist behind Dirty Politics has questioned Collins’ appointment.
www.thepost.co.nz
January 28, 2026 at 6:39 PM