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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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This government is failing us, and leaving feels like my own personal “fuck you”. The fact that there’s thousands of others just like me is enough of a statement itself.
#nzpol
#nzpol
‘I love my country. I don’t want to leave’: readers reflect on the exodus from New Zealand
As people continue to move away in record numbers, readers share their reasons for leaving and contemplate life in New Zealand
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This government is failing us, and leaving feels like my own personal “fuck you”. The fact that there’s thousands of others just like me is enough of a statement itself.
#nzpol
#nzpol
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THIS. P.D. James, was very reticent about her private life but talked candidly about how the only way she could write her early novels AND hold down a full-time civil service job while raising two young children alone in the 1950's was with a LOT of help from a non-stereotypical mother-in-law.
If you have ever thought that my journalism or my first book were net positives for the world, understand that they probably would not exist if I did not have a spouse who paid the mortgage. If I'd been a solo earner/parent, I likely would have left criticism, journalism or book writing long ago.
And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
THIS. P.D. James, was very reticent about her private life but talked candidly about how the only way she could write her early novels AND hold down a full-time civil service job while raising two young children alone in the 1950's was with a LOT of help from a non-stereotypical mother-in-law.
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Dear NZ Labour,
Everyone hates National right now, and a big part of that is their coalition with ACT and NZF, so I'd suggest you get very on board with the Greens and hope that you don't need to touch Seymour or Peters with the shitty end of a very long stick.
Laters
G
Everyone hates National right now, and a big part of that is their coalition with ACT and NZF, so I'd suggest you get very on board with the Greens and hope that you don't need to touch Seymour or Peters with the shitty end of a very long stick.
Laters
G
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Dear NZ Labour,
Everyone hates National right now, and a big part of that is their coalition with ACT and NZF, so I'd suggest you get very on board with the Greens and hope that you don't need to touch Seymour or Peters with the shitty end of a very long stick.
Laters
G
Everyone hates National right now, and a big part of that is their coalition with ACT and NZF, so I'd suggest you get very on board with the Greens and hope that you don't need to touch Seymour or Peters with the shitty end of a very long stick.
Laters
G
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Captures the mood of much of the country under this government - bleak, with a sense that everything is broken, that there is no opportunity for young people to get ahead, and that the government simply doesn't care.
‘I love my country. I don’t want to leave’: readers reflect on the exodus from New Zealand
As people continue to move away in record numbers, readers share their reasons for leaving and contemplate life in New Zealand
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Captures the mood of much of the country under this government - bleak, with a sense that everything is broken, that there is no opportunity for young people to get ahead, and that the government simply doesn't care.
Read this and gnash your teeth.
#nzpol
#nzpol
What the hell is going on with the new New Zealand school curriculum, and what does it have to do with the Atlas Network? (No, really!)
A thread:
#nzpol #kikorangi
A thread:
#nzpol #kikorangi
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Read this and gnash your teeth.
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Jodie is a highly respected professor of teaching mathematics. Jodie understands every aspect of pedagogy & assessment.
Stanford, with a BA in Pols, doesn’t even under how NCEA works.
Listen to Jodie. #nzpol #nzed
Stanford, with a BA in Pols, doesn’t even under how NCEA works.
Listen to Jodie. #nzpol #nzed
"it's very problematic to say that these children have made one to two years progress, when potentially looking at what has been released, they are only testing the children in one very small area of mathematics, which is numbers," Hunter said."
#nzpol
#nzpol
Maths professor says Education Minister's claims a school trial is 'groundbreaking' is problematic
Erica Stanford said the results showed the government's focus on fixing the basics is working.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The weather is really weathering.
There's wind, there's rain, and the clouds have swallowed up the transmitter mast on Mt Kaukau.
There's wind, there's rain, and the clouds have swallowed up the transmitter mast on Mt Kaukau.
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The weather is really weathering.
There's wind, there's rain, and the clouds have swallowed up the transmitter mast on Mt Kaukau.
There's wind, there's rain, and the clouds have swallowed up the transmitter mast on Mt Kaukau.
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I’m not at all saying it will be easy, but the nations calling for phase out of fossil fuels are in many cases fossil fuel importers. If they all decarbonize rapidly together the roadmap gets executed whether petroleum exporting counties like it or not.
Fiji's Story of Energy is Just Being Written - Land Art Generator
How can Fiji transition to 100% clean energy? Fiji’s 20-year National Development Plan calls for all power to be generated from renewable sources by 2030 and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Lik...
landartgenerator.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I’m not at all saying it will be easy, but the nations calling for phase out of fossil fuels are in many cases fossil fuel importers. If they all decarbonize rapidly together the roadmap gets executed whether petroleum exporting counties like it or not.
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You know what Wellington really needs to help kickstart its economic recovery? More unemployed people! That always makes things better for everyone! #nzpol
Just noting which consultancy wrote this report and the history of their reports for public agencies internationally. Anyone check the footnotes of this one?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Hundreds of job cuts proposed in new report to Wellington City Council
Wellington City Council could save tens of millions of dollars through cost-cutting, such as reducing staff, according to a new report.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
You know what Wellington really needs to help kickstart its economic recovery? More unemployed people! That always makes things better for everyone! #nzpol
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Two years and one day later.... yep
"This is a government put together in order to advance personal career ambitions rather than deliver meaningful change."
Lamia Imam on point again:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#NZPol
Lamia Imam on point again:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#NZPol
![Winston Peters, Christopher Luxon and David Seymour at [Fri]day’s coalition announcement (Photo: Marty Melville/AFP)
Peters looking truculent, Luxfake with his trademark smug grimace and Seymour looking more like Rimmer everyday.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2a2ucpadl5c62xv3ln3wpevt/bafkreiaulfp7htuwcn73nrsydpyxujhjydr3hcswi3dlomn52grquaqoba@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Two years and one day later.... yep
Every day a fresh round of political nasties.
I miss when government was technocratic and wonky and people were, on the whole, acting in good faith, and I didn't have to dread reading the day's news.
Bring back boring politics!!
#nzpol
I miss when government was technocratic and wonky and people were, on the whole, acting in good faith, and I didn't have to dread reading the day's news.
Bring back boring politics!!
#nzpol
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Every day a fresh round of political nasties.
I miss when government was technocratic and wonky and people were, on the whole, acting in good faith, and I didn't have to dread reading the day's news.
Bring back boring politics!!
#nzpol
I miss when government was technocratic and wonky and people were, on the whole, acting in good faith, and I didn't have to dread reading the day's news.
Bring back boring politics!!
#nzpol
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The government's right hand doesn't know what its far-right hand is doing www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
'It's not impossible': Willis says National may join other parties to repeal Regulatory Standards Act
The National deputy leader said her party may also campaign to get rid of the law.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The government's right hand doesn't know what its far-right hand is doing www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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"We might campaign on repealing the law we just passed" is dumber and more flailingly chaotic than literally ANYTHING on the left (and I'm making the call that that includes losing an MP to kleptomania and the implosion of TPM)
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
"We might campaign on repealing the law we just passed" is dumber and more flailingly chaotic than literally ANYTHING on the left (and I'm making the call that that includes losing an MP to kleptomania and the implosion of TPM)
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YOU PASSED IT
YOU PASSED IT LAST WEEK
WHAT ARE YOU DOING
YOU PASSED IT LAST WEEK
WHAT ARE YOU DOING
Christ on a bike, these fucking idiots are ruining the country for no other reason than coalition agreements.
VOTE THEM OUT
#nzpol
VOTE THEM OUT
#nzpol
'It's not impossible': National may campaign on regulatory standards repeal
The National deputy leader said her party may also campaign to get rid of the law.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
YOU PASSED IT
YOU PASSED IT LAST WEEK
WHAT ARE YOU DOING
YOU PASSED IT LAST WEEK
WHAT ARE YOU DOING
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What are the odds of National campaigning in this and then forming a coalition with ACT and keeping it?
I reckon quite high...
I reckon quite high...
Christ on a bike, these fucking idiots are ruining the country for no other reason than coalition agreements.
VOTE THEM OUT
#nzpol
VOTE THEM OUT
#nzpol
'It's not impossible': National may campaign on regulatory standards repeal
The National deputy leader said her party may also campaign to get rid of the law.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
What are the odds of National campaigning in this and then forming a coalition with ACT and keeping it?
I reckon quite high...
I reckon quite high...
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14YO girl sent man naked pics for food. She told him she was 17YO. They met up for sex she now describes as disgusting. He paid. Age for paid sex work in NZ is 18YO.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
How many teens will turn to sex work now NZ Govt has cut benefits?
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
How many teens will turn to sex work now NZ Govt has cut benefits?
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Auckland executive paid teen $1000 for sex, exchanged Uber Eats for intimate photos
The man, who described himself as a 'sugar daddy' on on Snapchat, has admitted paying a teenage girl for sex.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
14YO girl sent man naked pics for food. She told him she was 17YO. They met up for sex she now describes as disgusting. He paid. Age for paid sex work in NZ is 18YO.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
How many teens will turn to sex work now NZ Govt has cut benefits?
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
How many teens will turn to sex work now NZ Govt has cut benefits?
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
I don't even know what to say about this.
These are not serious people and they should be nowhere near government.
#nzpol
These are not serious people and they should be nowhere near government.
#nzpol
'It's not impossible': Willis says National may join other parties to repeal Regulatory Standards Act
The National deputy leader said her party may also campaign to get rid of the law.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I don't even know what to say about this.
These are not serious people and they should be nowhere near government.
#nzpol
These are not serious people and they should be nowhere near government.
#nzpol
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The track record has been:
1. Abolish something
2. Replace it with something meant to do the same thing but less effectively & more corruptly which
3. Actually takes forever to set up & therefore nothing is getting done before the next election & everything is disintegrating
4. ????
5. PROFIT
1. Abolish something
2. Replace it with something meant to do the same thing but less effectively & more corruptly which
3. Actually takes forever to set up & therefore nothing is getting done before the next election & everything is disintegrating
4. ????
5. PROFIT
Going out on a limb here to suggest that the PM doesn’t understand what it is that regional councils do
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The track record has been:
1. Abolish something
2. Replace it with something meant to do the same thing but less effectively & more corruptly which
3. Actually takes forever to set up & therefore nothing is getting done before the next election & everything is disintegrating
4. ????
5. PROFIT
1. Abolish something
2. Replace it with something meant to do the same thing but less effectively & more corruptly which
3. Actually takes forever to set up & therefore nothing is getting done before the next election & everything is disintegrating
4. ????
5. PROFIT
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He got a lot of money to do nothing more than support what the Government wanted to do to Kainga Ora - gut and decimate - he’s got more than skin in this game imo - and the money he got was taken from emergency housing. They literally unhoused people to pay Bill English. #nzpol
Govt paid Kāinga Ora reviewers out of urgent housing fund
Cabinet ministers dipped into an unexpected and unlikely fund to pay the costs of the new review into Kāinga Ora and public housing, reports Tim Murphy
newsroom.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
He got a lot of money to do nothing more than support what the Government wanted to do to Kainga Ora - gut and decimate - he’s got more than skin in this game imo - and the money he got was taken from emergency housing. They literally unhoused people to pay Bill English. #nzpol
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I don't think any of this is really a surprise but it really does reveal how much the government doesn't give a shit about the consequences of what they do
They didn't do it to pad out their benefit numbers target, just to save a tiny bit of money in the short term and who cares about the effects.
They didn't do it to pad out their benefit numbers target, just to save a tiny bit of money in the short term and who cares about the effects.
Ministers were warned against teen welfare crackdown, documents reveal
Officials said the changes could actually increase long-term benefit dependency.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I don't think any of this is really a surprise but it really does reveal how much the government doesn't give a shit about the consequences of what they do
They didn't do it to pad out their benefit numbers target, just to save a tiny bit of money in the short term and who cares about the effects.
They didn't do it to pad out their benefit numbers target, just to save a tiny bit of money in the short term and who cares about the effects.
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There are always billions available to these 🤡🤡🤡 but never for essential workers and our most vulnerable.
Vote this lot out and bring back a govt that will put working people before military spending #nzpol
Vote this lot out and bring back a govt that will put working people before military spending #nzpol
Govt pledges $4b for Devonport Naval Base in major upgrade of flood-prone, mouldy defence estate
The Defence Force warns 70% of its infrastructure has less than 20 years of working life.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
There are always billions available to these 🤡🤡🤡 but never for essential workers and our most vulnerable.
Vote this lot out and bring back a govt that will put working people before military spending #nzpol
Vote this lot out and bring back a govt that will put working people before military spending #nzpol
There's a sentence in this article noting that these changes save the government money.
So they're going to proceed despite receiving strong advice about the harms it will cause to already vulnerable populations and the probable *increase* in costs over the long term.
#nzpol
So they're going to proceed despite receiving strong advice about the harms it will cause to already vulnerable populations and the probable *increase* in costs over the long term.
#nzpol
Ministers were warned against teen welfare crackdown, documents reveal
Officials said the changes could actually increase long-term benefit dependency.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
There's a sentence in this article noting that these changes save the government money.
So they're going to proceed despite receiving strong advice about the harms it will cause to already vulnerable populations and the probable *increase* in costs over the long term.
#nzpol
So they're going to proceed despite receiving strong advice about the harms it will cause to already vulnerable populations and the probable *increase* in costs over the long term.
#nzpol
