Simon O'Neill
@sjponeill.bsky.social
Green-leaning and living, Rottie lover, rural dwelling Aotearoan.. ...until I left the Air Force for DOC after 28 years in the military, most if not all of my career decisions had been shaped by the Airfix and Revell catalogues from the 1970s...
Please keep your ill-informed opinions to your own country....
'has been' is right...
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿@notjustdna.bsky.social · 2d ago#NZpol From @henrycooke.bsky.social at X-Twitter: “Chlöe Swarbrick says the Speaker has told her in private meetings that he has a different standard for Winston Peters as has been here so long he is part of the institution.” 1/2
This is not the media turning on luxon. This is the media smokescreening his f*ck-up in Rotorua and inability to control Peters...
Watershitdown@watershitdown.bsky.social · 2d ago
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Armageddon Crew: Astronaut Team
ALT: Armageddon Crew: Astronaut Team
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samuel mehr@mehr.nz · 2d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
An exceptionally good read. It's long but all the better for the length... Also good context for some current affairs... the-end-is-naenae.ghost.io/ake-ake-ake/
Ake ake ake
Lies aren't always fleeting - and monsters are no more self-made than better men. This post contains distressing violence and racism. Please take care.
the-end-is-naenae.ghost.io
BREAKING: Mass hypothermia event as Wellingtonians line the shores to welcome penguins.
🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝@pepperraccoon.com · 3d agoALL I AM HEARING IS THAT WE ARE GETTING PENGUINS
The Army faced similar staffing challenges in the mid-80s post-ANZUS. It offered territorial soldiers opportunities to volunteer for four month PAID tours of duty in Regular Force units. Their day jobs were protected over this period.
New Zealand Professional Firefighters' Union@nzpfu.bsky.social · 3d agoFRONT PAGE 📰 New Plymouth firefighters slam FENZ cost-cutting plans to use volunteers for emergency cover at career stations. Ōākura & NP West Volunteer CFOs back the NZPFU, calling the move a "significant reduction in frontline capability" and an unacceptable burden.
In 1940, these two muppets would have been demanding "Keep the schools open - the Germans only usually bomb us at night."
Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago@lewisgoodall.com / @jonsopel1.bsky.social said "I am not sure that even in the first lockdown, school closures for any length of time were a price worth paying." But no discussion of the alternative. The alternative was never "schools open and everything else the same". 2/12
FM! I just looked at the actual transcript of luxon's comment's in Rotorua, thinking they could not be as bad as reported. They're not. They're worse. WTF is this "radically disrupting" "disrupt yourself aggressively" mumbojumbo bullsh*t? #OutOfTouchMuch #MostMockedPM #Election26 #DitchThePricks
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I'm good...are you? With Willie Apiata - Aug 7 Fordell
Get tickets on Humanitix - I'm good...are you? With Willie Apiata - Aug 7 Fordell hosted by Rural Support Trust. Fordell Hall, Fordell Hall, Station Road, Whanganui. Friday 7th August 2026. Find event...
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The US continues to seek the war it wants while being systematically trounced in the war it got. Day #152 of the #CursedEarthOrigins story....
WIRED@wired.com · 3d agoWater utilities in at least seven states were hit with cyberattacks last week. Revisit WIRED’s inside look at a closed-door war game simulating what could happen if hackers carried out a catastrophic hacking campaign against US water utilities. wrd.cm/45znDXl
After dark visit to Turoa. Reminded me of the sets for SHADO's Moonbase...
Just waiting for henry to say "I turned out alright". No, dude, no, you didn't...
(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔)))@creativeelc.bsky.social · 4d agoAbso-bloody-lutely. Growing up in London in the 80's & 90's for me was violent all round. I experienced & saw abuse regularly. If I had of been diagnosed then it would have put a target on my back. Of all the policies he could come up with... I thought he wanted a golden age!
"what3words" is a super useful app that needs much wider adoption and employment across emergency services in Aotearoa... A simple app on your phone that enables you to quickly describe or locate any patch of ground in the world... For example: skincare.retrieving.slackers
AI slop has no place marketing our district. In addition to just being so totally lazy when you can literally stick your camera out the window for a great pic...it is also dangerously misleading re the state of the #TongariroAlpineCrossing at this time of year... #RuapehuNZ #CruisingSH4 #Waimarino
A. Winston fired. B. Winston resigns. C. Luxon resigns. D. Labour blamed.
Foxes@foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 4d agoDo nothing Luxon is going to have to do something and it will cost him the election, lol #NZPol
Listening to The Tilt now, straight after finishing The Seven and did Treasure and Dirt last year... Great "reads", each is different from the others. There are so many turns in The Tilt I have had to draw a map of relationships in my notebook as I listen. #BookSky #ChrisHammer
Great read!! "...Look mummy, I did a big poo in the potty!..." Best description ever of the luxon govt...
Frank@fmacskasy.bsky.social · 5d agoAnother brilliant piece from Dr Dickson... This really deconstructs Luxon and his utterances, open.substack.com/pub/andrewdi...
Good luck to Movenpick Taupo but out of touch much, Louise Upston... #Election26 #DitchThePricks #OutOfTouchMuch
5-4-3-2-1... Ukraine develops its own, not only better than Patriot but uses it to shoot down Patriots just to make the point. Declines to share its technology with the US.
NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 6d agoUS President Trump said the US has not decided whether to license Ukraine to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, calling the weapon extraordinary and saying Washington must be careful about who receives production rights. He added that the US is seeking peace and an end to the war. #Ukraine
Prophetic that these klowns couldn't even AI up an image of a busy highway in use... ...and a sad reflection of the declining ability of "the party of business" to even try to market this crap well... 4 empty lanes at high risk of increasing weather events is all $3.6bil is buying.... #Election26
The next step on our way to be a dirtier and less healthy nation as people start to scrimp on water use... www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
Can people ‘afford’ to stay? Residents in ‘shock’ at first water bills for Wellington
With the first instalment of Tiaki Wai bills being sent to home owners in the capital this week, some residents are questioning the capital’s affordability.
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Parliament has 18 more sitting days and is likely to to limp to the finish line even with a bit of a constitutional crisis which is why Winston is pushing it but it’s always good to check your enrolment just in case
Electoral Commission
Enrol, check or update your details here.
enrol.vote.nz
Racist wanker (unlikely to even be a real person) makes dickhead comment. Man who actually knows what he is talking about responds... #nzpol #Election26 #DitchThePricks
Quite interesting observing charger behaviour in Taumarunui this evening. For reasons I known my scheduled home charge didn't start so had to charge in town to get to work. First charger has a camper on it: fully charged but no driver there... Other 2 chargers are u/s but only once you scan...
Text needs work but good use of colour...
Rob@robdickinson.bsky.social · last wk.National finally come up with a good new flag design!
