Tom V
@tomwv.bsky.social
Avatar is a piwakawaka, a restless chattering bird native to my home. Waitaha Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand. 🇳🇿
The absolute gall of the Waitangi Tribunal interfering with an important plan to deceive the public by secretly introducing a controversial bill weeks earlier than previously announced. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Calling all bookish Kiwis 🚨📚🇳🇿 Public Libraries New Zealand are running a library user survey "to help public libraries better understand what you value most about the services and activities they offer." The survey took me 2–3 mins. You can complete it here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/PDZGKKV
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“ I'd just say to that member, if he cares a lot about conflicts, I wouldn't call a sister-in-law a 'distant relative'." From his own mouth. Fucking dickhead doesn’t even listen to himself speak #nzpol
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's sister-in-law works for tobacco company
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has admitted his sister-in-law works for a tobacco company but says he has not discussed tobacco policy with her.
rnz.co.nz
Who's old enough to remember when all of the right-wingers were outraged that Tova dared to ask her if the boot camps would be permitted to use physical force against their rangatahi, including Karen Chhour who called these & related questions "revolting" www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Minister defends proposing bootcamp providers have use-of-force powers against kids, but can’t say who they could be
She wouldn’t say what safeguards may be included against these powers.
nzherald.co.nz
If you want to know why ppl like John Key back ppl like Trump you need look no further than this
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2y agoOne Biden priority "has been to reassert public regulatory powers over the economy, reversing 40 years of corporate control. And you know it’s working because the titans of industry, who have felt the coziness of government capture for decade, are throwing a fit." prospect.org/economy/2024...
NZ Parliament just put this up on YouTube. Wouldn't it save the NZ Taxpayer if they just contracted "The Compass Group" to provide MPs the same meals they provide to the kids? #nzpol
Recruitment - Catering
YouTube video by NZ Parliament
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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔)))@creativeelc.bsky.social · 2y agoMy cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3604... D. Seymour’s school lunch ‘revamp’ (cost cutting exercise) inspired today's cartoon. The Compass Group will be hoovering up a huge number of contracts like our hungry Audrey 2 from the cult classic.
I'm calling it - this is the most extraordinary thing I've seen on the internet
VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.
It's becoming a truism with this government that the more noise they make about fixing a claimed problem, the more their policies achieve the opposite effect
PERFECTLY NORMAL@nzpom.com · 2y agoPart of Seymour's cunning plan to get kids to school. Stop the school buses🤦🏻♂️ Fuck these pricks #nzpol
imagine you wake up every day in room-sized bed. you are gently lifted from the covers and dressed in warmest sweaters each morning. your favourite foods are brought to you. you have no bills, no job, no responsibilities. but you are a chihuahua, so you are blind with rage.
Holeee shit that is the first time India has ever been beaten 3-0 at home #BlackCaps
Weird how there is lots of coverage of Spain’s flooding on NZ news but nary a peep about this. Can’t qwhite put my finger on it.
News Feed@news-feed.bsky.social · 2y ago@anadoluagency: Nigeria grapples with severe floods after months of heavy rain, leaving 321 dead, 2,854 injured, 740,743 displaced, and over 1.3 million affected, with 281,000 homes damaged and 258,000 hectares submerged ⤵️ https://t.co/TNxKJmGaqs
The neighborhood I live in was completely wiped out. All my childhood memories and university memories are gone. Here in Gaza, we are suffering psychologically and physically, and everything in us is being harmed.
On this day in 1898, New Zealand became the first country to adopt a standard time. At noon, all the clocks in NZ that were connected by telegraph to Wellington struck 12 at the same moment.
A workmate and friend, aged in his 60s had a heart attack while driving home the other day. He died this afternoon. RIP Ross. Worked his whole fucking life, then just dropped dead All that shit you're planning to do when you retire. Don't miss living now to achieve it.
The bill, introduced by a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu's party, passed its preliminary reading on Weds and will be further deliberated in Knesset committees. These people are desperate to rule over millions, without representation. Or drive them away. What do they want us to call that?
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2y agoNew Israel bill seeks to ban any Palestinian citizen of Israel from running for the Knesset www.newarab.com/news/new-isr...
I am in awe of Palestinians' caapcity to turn even the most unbearable horrors into poetry.
so many ppl have left twitter they should call it ex
To be fair they can't release the information. Chris Bishop has lost the envelope it was written on.
Health NZ refuses to release information that would shed light on escalating Dunedin Hospital costs
The government has claimed that without changes, the Dunedin Hospital build will run millions of dollars over the $1.88 billion so far committed.
rnz.co.nz
i knew a girl who put her phone down once, she died. right there on the spot, dead.
we are just one mates-with-Tories contract away from a public health service provider telling us to inject bleach
Ross@rossthesedays.bsky.social · 2y agowww.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mental-he... I.....what.
So in less than a year, this Govt's: - made it easier to smoke & vape - let in the big online gambling companies - given gazillions to a charlatan who promotes alcohol as being beneficial for mental health Surreal times.