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When I was a newborn I saved up and bought my own basket. We all did. This generation just wants a handout
June 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
When I was a newborn I saved up and bought my own basket. We all did. This generation just wants a handout
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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
June 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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Managed to find a few million to subsidise private schools a bit more.
We pay taxes to support public schools so we have an educated pop via compulsory schooling. If you want to privately educate your kid, fine. But leave the crowns money out of it.
We pay taxes to support public schools so we have an educated pop via compulsory schooling. If you want to privately educate your kid, fine. But leave the crowns money out of it.
May 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Managed to find a few million to subsidise private schools a bit more.
We pay taxes to support public schools so we have an educated pop via compulsory schooling. If you want to privately educate your kid, fine. But leave the crowns money out of it.
We pay taxes to support public schools so we have an educated pop via compulsory schooling. If you want to privately educate your kid, fine. But leave the crowns money out of it.
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Guess Winston got his way, huh?
May 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Guess Winston got his way, huh?
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Think about how this budget would have looked if they hadn't gutted pay equity. You are now imagining what this govts management actually looks like.
They had to gut the promised pay equity to deliver, this.
They had to gut the promised pay equity to deliver, this.
May 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Think about how this budget would have looked if they hadn't gutted pay equity. You are now imagining what this govts management actually looks like.
They had to gut the promised pay equity to deliver, this.
They had to gut the promised pay equity to deliver, this.
@mrbarnabyb.bsky.social ran past your old place on riverlaw today. Up for auction! As is where is. Time to move the crew back? It’ll probably be underwater soon
May 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
@mrbarnabyb.bsky.social ran past your old place on riverlaw today. Up for auction! As is where is. Time to move the crew back? It’ll probably be underwater soon
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The stadium myth: new grounds won’t rescue your club – or your city
The stadium myth: new grounds won’t rescue your club – or your city
From the Premier League to MLS and the NFL, huge stadiums with gargantuan costs are a symptom of elite sport’s unrealistic promises
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The stadium myth: new grounds won’t rescue your club – or your city
In case you need any more examples of the success of the Warriors brand off field, it is standing room only here at Tūranga for an event where some of the Wahs will read books to kids on a Thursday morning
April 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
In case you need any more examples of the success of the Warriors brand off field, it is standing room only here at Tūranga for an event where some of the Wahs will read books to kids on a Thursday morning
Had a lovely, wet walk around Te Kuru wetlands today. Interesting to see that efforts have been made to un-straighten the course of the river, which had been altered by Cracroft Wilson in the 19th century
April 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Had a lovely, wet walk around Te Kuru wetlands today. Interesting to see that efforts have been made to un-straighten the course of the river, which had been altered by Cracroft Wilson in the 19th century
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maybe for every 5 think pieces about the effect of social media on the youths we should get 1 on what is happening with the olds who are feeding like hogs on deranged conspiracies, AI slop they don't recognise as fake, and algorithm spoonfed bigotry they think is old time front page news of the day
We need an Adolescence but for red pilled geriatrics
April 9, 2025 at 5:37 AM
maybe for every 5 think pieces about the effect of social media on the youths we should get 1 on what is happening with the olds who are feeding like hogs on deranged conspiracies, AI slop they don't recognise as fake, and algorithm spoonfed bigotry they think is old time front page news of the day
Riverside Market is great; you can walk past dozens of vendors with literally hundreds of different food options, then you get Dimitri’s
April 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Riverside Market is great; you can walk past dozens of vendors with literally hundreds of different food options, then you get Dimitri’s
Uh. Here’s a picture yesterday I took of a guy outside the church that is now in the centre of the bomb threat cordon in Somerfield. Dunno if they’re related but some pretty weird goings on down by the local
March 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Uh. Here’s a picture yesterday I took of a guy outside the church that is now in the centre of the bomb threat cordon in Somerfield. Dunno if they’re related but some pretty weird goings on down by the local
Khruangbin at the Christchurch Town Hall, Feb 20. Someone came up to me and thanked me for saving the Town Hall! It was Jess and Barnaby and Lianne and others mainly, but I had kind of forgot that we had to fight for it. Imagine if we’d knocked it down … for what? The perfect venue
February 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Khruangbin at the Christchurch Town Hall, Feb 20. Someone came up to me and thanked me for saving the Town Hall! It was Jess and Barnaby and Lianne and others mainly, but I had kind of forgot that we had to fight for it. Imagine if we’d knocked it down … for what? The perfect venue
Luxon excited to spend Waitangi Day on the Auckland Islands, as is tradition for Prime Ministers avoiding the consequences of their own actions
February 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Luxon excited to spend Waitangi Day on the Auckland Islands, as is tradition for Prime Ministers avoiding the consequences of their own actions
Did Luxon just say “I want agriculture pumping, absolutely on fire”.
February 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Did Luxon just say “I want agriculture pumping, absolutely on fire”.
Crane on waterfront at Akaroa tipped over into the harbour about five minutes ago
January 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Crane on waterfront at Akaroa tipped over into the harbour about five minutes ago
@morgangodfery.bsky.social at your fringe labour event thing. Sorry you can’t be here. Get well soon etc
November 29, 2024 at 5:53 AM
@morgangodfery.bsky.social at your fringe labour event thing. Sorry you can’t be here. Get well soon etc
Double rainbow (all the way)
November 20, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Double rainbow (all the way)
1. Reading a book from 1989 about the Christchurch Drainage Board (voluntarily!). Amongst other things, the board would keep the rivers clear by dredging them regularly. On the Avon, they would put the silt on to some adjacent land they had bought.
November 17, 2024 at 9:26 AM
1. Reading a book from 1989 about the Christchurch Drainage Board (voluntarily!). Amongst other things, the board would keep the rivers clear by dredging them regularly. On the Avon, they would put the silt on to some adjacent land they had bought.
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The Greens expelling Darleen Tana is a victory of politics over principle. They claim it is justified by the merits of her conduct. But that's special pleading.
Their position against waka-jumping was an implicit view that there were no possible merits sufficient to support such action.
Their position against waka-jumping was an implicit view that there were no possible merits sufficient to support such action.
October 19, 2024 at 1:51 AM
The Greens expelling Darleen Tana is a victory of politics over principle. They claim it is justified by the merits of her conduct. But that's special pleading.
Their position against waka-jumping was an implicit view that there were no possible merits sufficient to support such action.
Their position against waka-jumping was an implicit view that there were no possible merits sufficient to support such action.
Hey did anyone go to Seinfeld last night and if so can they give me a rough idea of the start times? Was there a warm up? Does he make everyone watch Unfrosted before he comes out?
June 25, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Hey did anyone go to Seinfeld last night and if so can they give me a rough idea of the start times? Was there a warm up? Does he make everyone watch Unfrosted before he comes out?
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National's new charter schools bill (its not called that) just dropped. it explicitly disapplies the OIA from charter school sponsors when running charter schools. So, we're getting secret schools! www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...
Education and Training Amendment Bill 66-1 (2024), Government Bill 40 New subpart 6A of Part 3 inserted – New Zealand Legislation
This section establishes the Charter Schools Authorisation Board.
www.legislation.govt.nz
June 25, 2024 at 2:11 AM
National's new charter schools bill (its not called that) just dropped. it explicitly disapplies the OIA from charter school sponsors when running charter schools. So, we're getting secret schools! www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...
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I wrote this feature about Frances Rawling, who for years lived alone in the ruins of a red-zoned Christchurch suburb. She persevered through incredible hardship, made much worse by the earthquakes https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/350105339/lonely-death-horseshoe-lake
The Press
www.thepress.co.nz
January 6, 2024 at 12:09 AM
I wrote this feature about Frances Rawling, who for years lived alone in the ruins of a red-zoned Christchurch suburb. She persevered through incredible hardship, made much worse by the earthquakes https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/350105339/lonely-death-horseshoe-lake
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This is a tremendous piece of writing. Thoughtful, surprising and kind.
I wrote this feature about Frances Rawling, who for years lived alone in the ruins of a red-zoned Christchurch suburb. She persevered through incredible hardship, made much worse by the earthquakes https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/350105339/lonely-death-horseshoe-lake
The Press
www.thepress.co.nz
January 6, 2024 at 7:40 PM
This is a tremendous piece of writing. Thoughtful, surprising and kind.