MonzaGT
@monzagt.bsky.social
Bookish boomer, leftie, no cats or dogs but I love them.
After all the rain and wind the sun is out and the garden lush. Making pesto, freezing beans.
February 18, 2026 at 3:38 AM
After all the rain and wind the sun is out and the garden lush. Making pesto, freezing beans.
Applies to NZ as well.
February 17, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Applies to NZ as well.
It was a quick fix at the tyre place but picking up a roofing nail in a tyre just added $59 to the weekly blowout budget. Going into hibernation for winter to recoup.
February 17, 2026 at 10:11 PM
It was a quick fix at the tyre place but picking up a roofing nail in a tyre just added $59 to the weekly blowout budget. Going into hibernation for winter to recoup.
Haha! So many in government are constitutionally incapable of putting money aside for maintenance. They want the photo op project and that’s it. Chuck in the zero rate rise bandwagon in local government which useless people ride to get elected and you have our current disaster.
NEW: The Infra Commission just released its official plan, and it's a massive challenge to the Govt and NZ to:
- Trim transport spending
- Double spending on renewal/maintenance
- Spend twice as much on hospitals
- Trim transport spending
- Double spending on renewal/maintenance
- Spend twice as much on hospitals
February 16, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Haha! So many in government are constitutionally incapable of putting money aside for maintenance. They want the photo op project and that’s it. Chuck in the zero rate rise bandwagon in local government which useless people ride to get elected and you have our current disaster.
Went to the dentist and to pick up a repaired printer and the techies gave us a treat. On a wet and traffic crazy morning it brightened things up.
February 16, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Went to the dentist and to pick up a repaired printer and the techies gave us a treat. On a wet and traffic crazy morning it brightened things up.
What the hell would 20 vehicles be doing up the Turakina Valley in weather like this?
February 16, 2026 at 12:15 AM
What the hell would 20 vehicles be doing up the Turakina Valley in weather like this?
Get your buckets out(if they’re not already catching water). A truly sick making moment on Stuff. Country is flooding all over and she’s trilling about eggman grabbing an umbrella.
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
‘This is the Christopher Luxon I know’: National MP gushes over PM’s ‘no drama’ act
List MP Nancy Lu has praised Christopher Luxon after he was seen holding an umbrella for a speaker at the Government’s State of Origin announcement.
www.stuff.co.nz
February 15, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Get your buckets out(if they’re not already catching water). A truly sick making moment on Stuff. Country is flooding all over and she’s trilling about eggman grabbing an umbrella.
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reposted by MonzaGT
Posts with minutes of each other...
Unaware.
Out of touch.
Abject failure.
Unaware.
Out of touch.
Abject failure.
February 15, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Posts with minutes of each other...
Unaware.
Out of touch.
Abject failure.
Unaware.
Out of touch.
Abject failure.
Brilliant cartooning.
Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
February 15, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Brilliant cartooning.
Nothing but bad news from across the country both weather and family and friends health situations. Our extended whanau seem to be bottling and making jam to help themselves get through.
February 15, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Nothing but bad news from across the country both weather and family and friends health situations. Our extended whanau seem to be bottling and making jam to help themselves get through.
Weather watch Christchurch Sunday morning style. J went to Mass at the pro cathedral on Manchester and there was a skimpily clad working girl in the car park across the road. The wind was so cold by the end of Mass she’d retreated around the corner for some shelter.
February 14, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Weather watch Christchurch Sunday morning style. J went to Mass at the pro cathedral on Manchester and there was a skimpily clad working girl in the car park across the road. The wind was so cold by the end of Mass she’d retreated around the corner for some shelter.
Love how One News has a big piece talking up Christchurch as well as a piece about the boil water situation. Just a reminder of 3 waters importance.
February 14, 2026 at 5:47 AM
Love how One News has a big piece talking up Christchurch as well as a piece about the boil water situation. Just a reminder of 3 waters importance.
I so want there to be a Kiwi curling team wearing floppy tartan tam o shanters, Red Bands and carrying hip flasks of whiskey.
February 14, 2026 at 4:27 AM
I so want there to be a Kiwi curling team wearing floppy tartan tam o shanters, Red Bands and carrying hip flasks of whiskey.
Boy the nitpickers and angry ones are out there on FB over the Christchurch East boil water situation. Local MP Reuben Davidson doing good clear calm comms but apparently Chris Lynch is doing it better.🤷♂️
February 14, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Boy the nitpickers and angry ones are out there on FB over the Christchurch East boil water situation. Local MP Reuben Davidson doing good clear calm comms but apparently Chris Lynch is doing it better.🤷♂️
Holy heck! Phone just went off with emergency boil water alert!
February 14, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Holy heck! Phone just went off with emergency boil water alert!
Don’t know but pretty sure he spied for Israel. Mashup of Israelis, Russian/Ukranian Jewish oligarchs/gangsters doing evil crimes and spreading their evilness around the world facilitated in part by Epstein’s networking with American money and academia. (Jewish and non Jewish, gullible and aware).
February 13, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Don’t know but pretty sure he spied for Israel. Mashup of Israelis, Russian/Ukranian Jewish oligarchs/gangsters doing evil crimes and spreading their evilness around the world facilitated in part by Epstein’s networking with American money and academia. (Jewish and non Jewish, gullible and aware).
This sounds very grounded, schools and others earn extra money, and with batteries it increases community resilience. www.thepress.co.nz/business/360...
Christchurch high school gets free solar panels and 25 years of cheaper power
Hornby High School is about to plug into what its solar provider says will be the largest rooftop solar array on a school in the country – and it will not cost the school a cent upfront.
www.thepress.co.nz
February 13, 2026 at 6:37 PM
This sounds very grounded, schools and others earn extra money, and with batteries it increases community resilience. www.thepress.co.nz/business/360...
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Apart from describing more from this absolute cluster fuck Stuff has captioned a picture of workers cleaning up the rocks as “officials cleaning up” Excuse me. It’s poor bloody workers doing this stinky job. Officials sit at desks and tell poor bloody workers to go the shitty job.
February 11, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Apart from describing more from this absolute cluster fuck Stuff has captioned a picture of workers cleaning up the rocks as “officials cleaning up” Excuse me. It’s poor bloody workers doing this stinky job. Officials sit at desks and tell poor bloody workers to go the shitty job.
Profit innit? Always about making money with the sacred cows.
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Our latest LinkOnline webinar shares insights from the Survey of Rural Decision Makers, exploring management priorities, technology adoption, and emissions mitigation.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Profit innit? Always about making money with the sacred cows.
The kowtowing to Israel is shameful in the light of this but even in 1995 this poor woman had to endure a 2 hour grilling by Mossad! The money/kompromat grip they have on politicians is awful. Her father’s war grave in Gaza was bulldozed by Israel. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Her father’s war grave in Gaza was bulldozed by Israel. Amid the grief and anger, she wants answers
Wilma Spence’s father was an Anzac buried in a part of the Gaza War Cemetery bulldozed by the IDF
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:07 PM
The kowtowing to Israel is shameful in the light of this but even in 1995 this poor woman had to endure a 2 hour grilling by Mossad! The money/kompromat grip they have on politicians is awful. Her father’s war grave in Gaza was bulldozed by Israel. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Aargh rats in the vege garden! J is firing up traps. We have not had this problem for years. Neighbourhood moggies falling down on the job. 🌱🇳🇿
February 8, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Aargh rats in the vege garden! J is firing up traps. We have not had this problem for years. Neighbourhood moggies falling down on the job. 🌱🇳🇿
Why is he so proud to be a carnivore? I always think omnivore is a much more impressive word.
RFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."
February 8, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Why is he so proud to be a carnivore? I always think omnivore is a much more impressive word.