Unemployment at its highest level for 11 years, did I see? And THAT INCLUDES THE COVID AND LOCKDOWN TIMES. Thanks to the Ardern government that protected jobs and businesses at the time.

This⬇️⬇️, as the kids say.

K. Wroten 🍏@jukeboxcomix.bsky.social · 23h ago

Hey Siri, who was in power when unemployment was last this horrifically high? … The same people? But I thought they were good at the economy?

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 19h ago

National backs its policies as unemployment rises to 11-year high

Today's chart after ACT got another $25k The system is rigged

Party events & electioneering cannot be billed to he taxpayers. He needs to pay this back

POOP SCIENCE

Julien Kimmig @jkimmig.bsky.social · yesterday

Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...

Physical abuse doesn’t help kids but cleaning up the abuse coming out of the mouths of ACT and NZF politicians might help us all. “Act wants to deal with the little shits in the classroom. Perhaps they should clean up the ones on their own turf first.” #nzpol

The little shits are coming from inside the House

Act wants to deal with the little shits in the classroom. Perhaps they should clean up the ones on their own turf first.

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Point taken Andrew, but my study of the Hansard from 2024 onwards is a clear record of how Winston Peters, far more than any other MP, is responsible for the decline in the standards of the House, which ironically he so often decries. The Speaker appears to be complicit in enabling this. #nzpol

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa@sanjanah.bsky.social · 3d ago

The wrong, dishonourable MPs: Targeted harassment in New Zealand’s legislature sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/t... (WordPress) www.linkedin.com/pulse/wrong-... (LinkedIn) #nzpol

“The Electoral Commission has told staff to turn away voters who aren’t on the printed roll and who say they’re unenrolled, but has no plans to count how many people will be affected.” So nice to see democracy in action, nothing to worry about here, love NZ’s accessible and clear election process.

Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · 2d ago

The Opposition says people who think they're not enrolled should lodge special votes rather than being turned away from voting entirely.

Still true.

One of my favourite things about election time... This was one of a series from 2023. I'll have to dig out the templates.

Interestingly the current "Oh woe is us, the government debt is 20 million dollars a day" did not issue from the same mouths when St. John Key also had that figure. November 9, 2013

Debt climbs $27m daily

Government debt has reached $60 billion, having climbed $27 million a day since John Key became prime minister - and forecasts show it will rise for years to come.

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Liam, a middleaged white man with RW leanings, finds Luxon, a middleaged white man with RW leanings "likeable". Meanwhile, Luxon is tanking with women across the board. Could it be that we don't care about how "likeable" someone is when their policies are actively and directly harming us 🤔

Daily Indignation@dailyindignation.bsky.social · 3d ago

New Zealand journalists in 2082, as the seas have swallowed the land and we're living in a Waterworld-style society: Christopher Luxon is actually really great in person, the voters just need to get to know him.

With Monday coming up, I wonder how Luxon and his caucus are going to respond to 1) the international visibility of Peters' fuckups 2) Luxon going down like a jug full of dog sick 3) and ACT's ongoing shenanigans. Grin and pretend everything's fine? Panic and finger pointing? #nzpol

To vote in this years general election you need to be enrolled by midnight, 13 days before Election Day. Days left to enrol or update your details. Maori Roll: 3 days General Roll: 83 days Remind your Friends & Whanau #nzpol

Yep. Root causes interfere with profit margins. Always more cruelty, less wages, higher rents, more deaths at work and less recourse for those impacted.

Also, 'Less Immigration, More Babies'? Nazi-ass bullshit

Grumpy@grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 4d ago

How exactly is a new baby boom in Aotearoa NZ going to helpful when folk can't afford food, housing, education, health care, there's huge unemployment, wage stagnation, and general misery? You know what encourages folk to have kids? Great social investment, secure income, and fewer RW twats

It's almost as if the one and only question Western politicians and authorities ask themselves every morning is: "What would Adolf Hitler do?" #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust #FreePalestine #FromTheRiverToTheSea www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump followers = Troompa-loompas.

Gee, I can't understand why young folks feel feel that there is no point to voting. After seeing what happens to young people in the political process in NZ. I guess they feel a bit marginalised by old entitled white men bloviating about shite all day while the economy bumps along the bottom.

Compare this to @emilywrites.co.nz using actual context from the classroom to show that if you have properly trained and supported teachers, the student cohort will pull through as incredible mini human beings www.emilywrites.co.nz/your-childre...

So Seymour and Henry want to give teachers license to use reasonable force and Henry says that classes are full of "little shits" these days. What about the Big Shits in ACT? These complete idiots should not be in charge of anything more complex than a chook raffle.

$96 a week to wreck your body, career, sleep, to raise kids who will be little servants to 4 billionaires who want to infect them AI psychosis in a dying planet with increasing severe weather events and dwindling drinking water and disrupted food supplies and no birds. LESH GO LETS DO IT!

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 4d ago

Winston Peters wants to pay people up to $45k, tax free, to have three kids. It’s a policy with a very nativist bent that will naturally draw comparisons to the “great replacement theory” conspiracy. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

#CoalitionofChaos #nzpol Just remember the majority of the $3.5billion "major economic opportunity" from building the Datalink DC in Southland is going overseas as Aotearoa New Zealand does not make the specialised AI microchips that are manufactured elsewhere.

Kermit the Frog Holds 'Vote' Mug

ALT: Kermit the Frog Holds 'Vote' Mug

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Rob Isaac@rmi.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’d love to know what people outside the industry think “data centre” actually means, because no one I know expects them to contain any jobs at all. As someone who has built several: any employee is a design flaw.

Whenever Christopher Luxon talks about New Zealand, he makes it very clear that he fucking hates us and everything we are. Voting for that is an exercise in self loathing.

“The kick-arse business he ‘built’ ‘like an adult’ exists because the state bailed it out, one of the largest corporate rescues in this country’s history.” So many quotable lines in this analysis of a Prime Minister’s dismissive address to a room full of people paying for his breakfast… #nzpol

Musical Chairs@musicalchairs.bsky.social · 5d ago

Lovely work @andrewdickson13.bsky.social... andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/luxons-wea...

I'm tired of old men punching down on vulnerable communities. Please stop voting for them. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

The R-word is an ableist slur

Winston has form, lets leave him in the past where he belongs

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So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.

If you prefer not to use AI, this looks really helpful.

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Luxon told his fans that voting for NZF is bad because Peters was in the government when oil exploration was banned and this cost people their jobs. LOL, had a look at your own government on that score, champ?