Danny Webster
@nzrazzledazzle.bsky.social
Activist, musician and nerd having fun at capitalism's expense in Pōneke Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Any views expressed here are my personal reckons only.
Any views expressed here are my personal reckons only.
It's bad.
What the HELL is happening with the new school curriculum?
Over and over again, I've had emails and messages from parents asking me about the new curriculum. I tried to get my head around it, but just had more questions than answers. So I teamed up with my fr...
www.emilywrites.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It's bad.
All of this just makes a change of government next year even more crucial so we can make sure local authorities serve local communities, not the whims of whoever happens to occupy the Beehive at the time.
This is the plan that the coalition government says is "not about centralising power". Jesus wept. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
All of this just makes a change of government next year even more crucial so we can make sure local authorities serve local communities, not the whims of whoever happens to occupy the Beehive at the time.
"Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says the Government is no longer committed to advocating for a global phase-out of fossil fuels"
How far we have fallen.
Australia, the UK, the EU and Pacific nations backed a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels at COP30, but New Zealand turned its back.
Australia, the UK, the EU and Pacific nations backed a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels at COP30, but New Zealand turned its back.
Govt backtracks on fossil fuel phase-out
Australia, the UK, the EU and Pacific nations backed a roadmap away from fossil fuels at COP30, but New Zealand didn't sign up
newsroom.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says the Government is no longer committed to advocating for a global phase-out of fossil fuels"
A very disappointing start to the new Mayor's term. Chung ofc immediately starts beating Little with the olive branch he's been handed, let's see how many more whacks from Council's most toxic players he'll endure before he wises up.
Andrew Little buddies up to the right
In his first council meeting as Wellington mayor, Andrew Little opened a political rift between Labour and the Greens.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A very disappointing start to the new Mayor's term. Chung ofc immediately starts beating Little with the olive branch he's been handed, let's see how many more whacks from Council's most toxic players he'll endure before he wises up.
Absolute must watch, incredibly insightful.
"The fire engines are not coming. If you want to fix the economy, you need to demand it."
"The fire engines are not coming. If you want to fix the economy, you need to demand it."
Gary Stevenson: 'They own your country' | 30 with Guyon Espiner S4 Ep3 | RNZ
YouTube video by RNZ
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Absolute must watch, incredibly insightful.
"The fire engines are not coming. If you want to fix the economy, you need to demand it."
"The fire engines are not coming. If you want to fix the economy, you need to demand it."
"National's campaign chair Chris Bishop didn't rule out his party supporting a repeal of the RSB."
Yall voted for it though? What an absolute clownshow 🤡
Yall voted for it though? What an absolute clownshow 🤡
Winston Peters vows to repeal Regulatory Standards Bill; David Seymour hits back
"We did our best to neutralise its adverse effects and we will campaign at the next election to repeal it," Peters told Radio Waatea.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
"National's campaign chair Chris Bishop didn't rule out his party supporting a repeal of the RSB."
Yall voted for it though? What an absolute clownshow 🤡
Yall voted for it though? What an absolute clownshow 🤡
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No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
Reminder that the world spends 7 times as much on fossil fuel subsidies (~$7 trillion annually, ~7% of global GDP) than it does on renewables, which as of 2025 provide twice the bang for buck invested, even without the cost of ruining the biosphere.
In other words, late capitalism is a death cult.
In other words, late capitalism is a death cult.
Scientists now say we're on track for a catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise.
It would mean the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe and drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, with lethal heat and humidity widespread.
#cop30 #climatechange
It would mean the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe and drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, with lethal heat and humidity widespread.
#cop30 #climatechange
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Reminder that the world spends 7 times as much on fossil fuel subsidies (~$7 trillion annually, ~7% of global GDP) than it does on renewables, which as of 2025 provide twice the bang for buck invested, even without the cost of ruining the biosphere.
In other words, late capitalism is a death cult.
In other words, late capitalism is a death cult.
We have more than enough for everyone to have a good life.
You know how they want to “sell the silverware” because we are all living well beyond our means & apparently drowning in debt?
Yeah, BULLSHIT. It’s just another daylight robbery being plotted by some of the most corrupt politicians on earth. Don’t fall for it. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment
Yeah, BULLSHIT. It’s just another daylight robbery being plotted by some of the most corrupt politicians on earth. Don’t fall for it. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
We have more than enough for everyone to have a good life.
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It was always going to be impossible for Israel to suppress all witness accounts of its genocide in Gaza, and there will be more like this. All evidence for the prosecution in The Hague.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It was always going to be impossible for Israel to suppress all witness accounts of its genocide in Gaza, and there will be more like this. All evidence for the prosecution in The Hague.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Del Toro's Frankenstein seemed to me a gorgeous but lifeless diorama; all gothic aesthetic, none of the gothic *affect*; hyperrealism in the lens jarringly at odds with the surrealism of its subject. I've rarely vibed with his films & but it's only with Frankenstein that I've figured out why.
November 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Del Toro's Frankenstein seemed to me a gorgeous but lifeless diorama; all gothic aesthetic, none of the gothic *affect*; hyperrealism in the lens jarringly at odds with the surrealism of its subject. I've rarely vibed with his films & but it's only with Frankenstein that I've figured out why.
Has heaps to teach those who want to win but to do so they will have to take power from the mediocre apparatchiks who care more about retaining their baubles of authority within the movement than they do about its success.
Obviously the Mamdani victory has nothing to teach Labour because he came out of the grass roots populist DSA and the Labour right deliberately killed any community based organising of that type and would move any and all institutional levers in their control to stop a Mamdani emerging
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Has heaps to teach those who want to win but to do so they will have to take power from the mediocre apparatchiks who care more about retaining their baubles of authority within the movement than they do about its success.
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
"I don't know what the answer is. I really don't", says Kerre Woodham.
I don't want to spoil the riddle for the commentariat but has anyone noticed there's actually a subtle clue to the solution for homelessness in the word itself
I don't want to spoil the riddle for the commentariat but has anyone noticed there's actually a subtle clue to the solution for homelessness in the word itself
Kerre Woodham: I don't blame retailers for wanting to ban the homeless
Kerre Woodham comments on the potential of a law banning homelessness in city centres.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
"I don't know what the answer is. I really don't", says Kerre Woodham.
I don't want to spoil the riddle for the commentariat but has anyone noticed there's actually a subtle clue to the solution for homelessness in the word itself
I don't want to spoil the riddle for the commentariat but has anyone noticed there's actually a subtle clue to the solution for homelessness in the word itself
A truly outstanding speech by a dude who truly understands the brief history has given him. This is the future of progressive politics. Bold, determined, unapologetic, inclusive, and relentlessly focused on making ordinary people's lives better. I'm so here for it 🙌
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
A truly outstanding speech by a dude who truly understands the brief history has given him. This is the future of progressive politics. Bold, determined, unapologetic, inclusive, and relentlessly focused on making ordinary people's lives better. I'm so here for it 🙌
$8 👏 CHICKEN 👏 OVER 👏 RICE 🐔🍚🗽
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
$8 👏 CHICKEN 👏 OVER 👏 RICE 🐔🍚🗽
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The Govt quietly announced a loosening of climate rules at 8pm last night:
- Decoupling the ETS from Paris
- Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years
- Delaying the public sector target by 25 years
- Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
- Decoupling the ETS from Paris
- Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years
- Delaying the public sector target by 25 years
- Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Government quietly loosens climate rules
An announcement at 8pm on Tuesday saw the Government delinking the ETS from the Paris Agreement and extending another emissions deadline by 25 years.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The Govt quietly announced a loosening of climate rules at 8pm last night:
- Decoupling the ETS from Paris
- Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years
- Delaying the public sector target by 25 years
- Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
- Decoupling the ETS from Paris
- Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years
- Delaying the public sector target by 25 years
- Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
"Education Minister Erica Stanford said the treaty was the Crown's responsibility, not schools"
SCHOOL BOARDS ARE CROWN ENTITIES YOU ABSOLUTE DISINGENUOUS 🤬
SCHOOL BOARDS ARE CROWN ENTITIES YOU ABSOLUTE DISINGENUOUS 🤬
Teachers shocked by government decision to remove Treaty of Waitangi requirement in schools
The minister had been moving to change the requirement, but has announced it will remove it altogether.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"Education Minister Erica Stanford said the treaty was the Crown's responsibility, not schools"
SCHOOL BOARDS ARE CROWN ENTITIES YOU ABSOLUTE DISINGENUOUS 🤬
SCHOOL BOARDS ARE CROWN ENTITIES YOU ABSOLUTE DISINGENUOUS 🤬
Next Monday I'm stoked to join the Greens' 2026 campaign team as Campaign Administrator 💚 slinging spreadsheets for justice ✊️
That also means we have an opening for an amazing new fundraiser to fill my old shoes! Link in comments.
That also means we have an opening for an amazing new fundraiser to fill my old shoes! Link in comments.
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Next Monday I'm stoked to join the Greens' 2026 campaign team as Campaign Administrator 💚 slinging spreadsheets for justice ✊️
That also means we have an opening for an amazing new fundraiser to fill my old shoes! Link in comments.
That also means we have an opening for an amazing new fundraiser to fill my old shoes! Link in comments.
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Just trying out a way of showing Don't knows/Didn't answers.
Calculating the percents of Trust level and Party, then multiplying the don't know by -1 and using geom_col()
#rstats
Calculating the percents of Trust level and Party, then multiplying the don't know by -1 and using geom_col()
#rstats
November 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Just trying out a way of showing Don't knows/Didn't answers.
Calculating the percents of Trust level and Party, then multiplying the don't know by -1 and using geom_col()
#rstats
Calculating the percents of Trust level and Party, then multiplying the don't know by -1 and using geom_col()
#rstats
Greens are now the 2nd highest polling party in the UK, ahead of Labor and Conservatives. And yes, Reform at 32% is terrifying.
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 32% (=)
GRN: 17% (+2)
CON: 16% (-1)
LAB: 16% (=)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 29 Oct.
Changes w/ 22 Oct.
RFM: 32% (=)
GRN: 17% (+2)
CON: 16% (-1)
LAB: 16% (=)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 29 Oct.
Changes w/ 22 Oct.
October 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Greens are now the 2nd highest polling party in the UK, ahead of Labor and Conservatives. And yes, Reform at 32% is terrifying.
Zohran is showing us how it's done. It's so satisfying to see the panic and confusion from corporate politicians and their media pals against someone running on authenticity. It's time for real progressives to take the wheel, & for those who'd rather be captains on a sinking ship to walk the plank.
This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic party.
It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic party.
Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/28/zohran-mamdani-democratic-party
It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic party.
Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/28/zohran-mamdani-democratic-party
Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party | Robert Reich
Democratic party leaders like Chuck Schumer refuse to endorse Mamdani, and the New York Times wrongly cautions against h
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Zohran is showing us how it's done. It's so satisfying to see the panic and confusion from corporate politicians and their media pals against someone running on authenticity. It's time for real progressives to take the wheel, & for those who'd rather be captains on a sinking ship to walk the plank.
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This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in nz pol yes even funnier than the dildo
October 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in nz pol yes even funnier than the dildo
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Cease fire seems to be going well 🙃
🚨 BREAKING: Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu says he has “instructed the military to immediately carry out forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip.”
October 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Cease fire seems to be going well 🙃