JMK

@jmk15.bsky.social

I'm a retired New Zealand teacher/facilitator with a passion for inquiry-based learning & learning with digital tech. Also love Lego, gardening and Dr Who. She/her.

Winston Peters is a racist, a transphobe, a homophobe, and sexist. Any one who votes for NZF is ⬆️ Any political party that is happy to form a government with Peters, also ⬆️ It's as simple as that.

Sobering reading. Report finds exactly what some of us have thought were the likely scenarios. We need to elect a government that takes this seriously and is prepared to do something about it. And that isn't anyone in the current Coalition of Chaos. #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/07/l...

Landmark report finds climate harming NZ now, will worsen with inaction

A major new report on the risks climate change poses to New Zealand has found targeted action now could avert the worst impacts, Marc Daalder reports

newsroom.co.nz

Some reporters seem to think that uncritically parroting the lies of politicians makes them unbiased. But when you give an easily disprovable lie equal weight to the truth, you are in fact taking a side.

David Farrier@davidfarrier.com · 3mo ago

winston peters told reporters that new zealander everlee wihongi has been in ICE prison for nearly a month because she didn't declare something on a form. the thing is - there *is no form*. please RT: www.webworm.co/winstonpeters/

Coincidences are weird. Just finished reading 'Livid' by Patricia Cornwell, now reading 'Blitz' by Daniel O'Malley. (Very minor spoiler ahead). Both have characters wearing Faraday suits.

"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President [or PM] should on no account be allowed to do the job." Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue