Pip Adam
@pipadam.bsky.social
Audition :: Nothing to See :: The New Animals :: I'm Working on a Building :: Everything We Hoped For :: Better off Read :: she's no Hemmingway.
Sauce. This was the solution considered. Give me strength.
BusinessDesk@businessdesknz.bsky.social · 21h agoAs schools reported throwing out nearly one in three Compass lunches late last year, the Ministry of Education looked into adding sauce to make the meals more appealing but shelved the idea over cost.
“The fact is, the Minister was told that this decision would disadvantage our community, yet she did it anyway.” #nzpol
Kay in the End Times 🏳️🌈 💗💜💙📚@jennykaynz.bsky.social · yesterdayNZ Lotteries Minister Brooke van Velden cut Individuals with Disabilities )Fund) Committee against expert advice that specialist expertise is essential for delivering equitable and well-informed funding decisions. Why should she care? She's OK and sorted. #NZpol thedlist.co.nz/newsfeed/min...
So Luxon claims he has official advice that Data Centres won't increase energy costs but, when the Greens requested a copy of the advice via an OIA, his office says there wasn't any advice and Luxon was just repeating their talking points, then Nicola says MBIE gave her advice ....🤡 #nzpol
Luxon backpedals after office says 'official' data centre advice actually 'media talking points'
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has landed in another controversy about the OIA.
nzherald.co.nz
The only thing more important than the honesty and integrity of our parliament is the immediate removal of anyone who questions the honesty and integrity of our parliament www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Chlöe Swarbrick kicked out of House after challenging Speaker's 'double standards'
The Greens co-leader has been kicked out of the House, after challenging what she called the Speaker's "double standards".
rnz.co.nz
if firing a geriatric old racist means the government will fall, then it doesn't deserve to stand #nzpol
Um. There is no stable government. This coalition is over in everything but name. If someone is only keeping their job so you hold onto power that's not stable government. Snap election now.
RNZ straight up turned down blathering Luxon to go straight into the news.
Had a package delivered this weekend which was left with one of my neighbours in the building: surname = Kluge. A signal from the universe for sure that @pipadam.bsky.social's kluge is just around the corner! teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/klu...
kluge
If you and I are in the same =‘entertainment venue’ for this =‘stand-up comedy special’ and I am =‘my body’ and you are =‘my audience’ I run to you and shout your name into the dark, in the hope you a...
teherengawakapress.co.nz
Small local Manhattan newspaper is reporting - hope no one notices... #NZPol
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d agoChina has lodged a formal complaint after New Zealand’s top diplomat on Wednesday told a Chinese-born lawmaker to “go back to your own country.” His comment has also prompted calls in New Zealand for the minister’s dismissal.
"We're getting spending under control so stop crying and just grow up" - Christopher Luxon. The same Christopher Luxon that just agreed to spend $140,000,000 per km to build a new 26km road that will save 10mins per journey while also claiming there's no money to pay nurses or teachers. #nzpol
We need to stop talking about the financial debt of NZ - govt has net positive assets - & talking about debt just helps Neo-liberalism We need to talk about our: Loss of community Loss of fairness Growing Poverty Loss of Government services Lack of Infrastructure Growth in inequality #nzpol
It is significant and important that this guidance has been prepared by Women in Sport Aotearoa, given that so much of the anti transgender participation rhetoric is led by those claiming to speak for women in sport. Check out their toolkit here: www.wispainsighthub.org/insight/tran...
Transgender Inclusion in Community Sport Toolkit
wispainsighthub.org
Last night, Women in Sport Aotearoa, alongside InsideOut and the Clare Foundation launched a new toolkit for community sports providers to support the participation of transgender and nonbinary people in sport. Filling the gap created by the deletion of the previous guidance by the Minister of Sport
A new piece @publisherswkly.bsky.social about the recent influx of books of/on Gertrude Stein includes Lana Lin's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM! @lanalin.bsky.social
Gertrude Stein Is Having a Moment
A recent cluster of genre-spanning books variously interpret, adapt, and play with the life and legacy of the modernist icon, as well as that of her longtime partner Alice B. Toklas. Their shared subj...
publishersweekly.com
And $8 away is where we end the week
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · last wk.As of two minutes after trading start, it's $13 away.
We celebrate SILK & SINEW contributors with a look at the inspiration behind @leemurraywriter.bsky.social Lee Murray’s story, “The Poppy Cloud” and Australasian Shadows Award nominated poem, “Charcoal Skies”! #badhandbooks #silkandsinewantho #folkhorror #authors #bramstokeraward
Winston Peters: foreigners who don't understand new zealand should go back to their own country Also Winston Peters: making a foreign language an Official Language of NZ stops the wokeness of Te Reo Māori
The heartbreaking thing about the lack of any meaningful communication from Tiaki Wai around the large water bills sent out yesterday *surprise* is the realisation that as a monopoly & under present policy, any support to people through this change offers zero advantage & is a waste of their profit
How much you'll be paying under Wellington's new water regime
There has been shock and confusion for some Wellington residents, as households received separate water bills totalling hundreds of dollars for the quarter.
rnz.co.nz
This government got to 100 days of the election and you've got Luxon desperately trying not to offend his racist coalition partner by issuing criticism as National Party leader not as PM, which is another complete failure to lead the country. The Prime Minister doesn't have a problem with racism.
I am begging a journalist to ask Luxon, on camera, why the Prime Minister refuses to condemn the racism of Winston Peters. When he says "I have criticised it" hit him with the, "not as Prime Minister, why is that?" and watch him slowly melt.
He cannot criticise Winston for being openly and proudly racist, the Chinese Embassy registering protest with MFAT, Shane Jones doubling down on the racism as PM because the government will fall apart. Luxon is without a doubt New Zealands weakest ever Prime Minister, a shadow of a man. Wet wipe.
'Despite being opposed to the legislation philosophically, Labour voted it through the House.' Lol, classic Labour. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
English to become official language of NZ alongside Te Reo Māori and sign language
English will join Te Reo Māori and sign language as an official language of New Zealand, after the English Language Bill passed its third and final reading at Parliament.
rnz.co.nz
Vera Ellen's HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT TIME album release tour with band concludes this week — playing tonight at The Loons in Ōtautahi with Goodbye Starlet & Friday at Pearl Diver in Ōtepoti with Phaedra Love! Get tickets now via UTR ✨
Interview: Vera Ellen 'HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT TIME' Album Release Tour
Multi-award-winning songwriter is touring her new album nationwide with band.
undertheradar.co.nz
this feels like a massive breach of free speech principles by Brian Roche, AGAIN. Keep in mind that this guy was in the middle of a scandal late last year where he directed funds to advertise AGAINST unions taking strike action. Roche is not fit for office.
Public service boss tells union to pull 'change the government' postcards from workplaces
The country's top public servant has directed the Public Service Association (PSA) to stop handing out its "change the government" campaign material in departments and agencies, saying it breaches exp...
rnz.co.nz
