Winston seems to be getting what we wants which is media attention away from Costello being dodgy asf Ps. Shane Jones brother is director of Te Aupōuri Fisheries Management. They have 9 marine farms on fast track list btw rnz.co.nz/news/political…

It’s high time we lock up those climate change activists blocking our roads. 🤔 This was yesterday in Spain.

Risk of long COVID reaches 37% after three infections, according to INSPQ ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/21163…

Skeletons got dressed up for #Halloween #Dunedin #NZ

The Thesis

The Two Ronnies (1st November 1980). Mastermind sketch by David Renwick.

“This should be a relentlessly humiliating exercise for the Crown and everyone who had the power to stop it and didn’t. Because it is horrific.” — Kim Mcbreen e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-an…

Picture of the Year 2023 on Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ince… All finalists: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:P… Previous winners: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:P…

It's wild to see a PM whose sister-in-law is a marketing manager for British American Tobacco insinuate that a public servant is corrupt on no evidence other than how she has a politician as a sister-in-law. #NationalNotFitToGovern stuff.co.nz/politics/36047…

This is why we need free RATs. NZ National Party reinstate them. Please email your MP. The tests are expensive, and many families are already stretched paying increased living costs.

So Dunedin, you don't get a new hospital, because Nicola Willis wants to save Wellington commuters NINE. TO. ELEVEN. MINUTES. In a city that has lost 10,000 inner CBD workers and shops are going broke. This govt is THAT stupid.

MOAR WEEVILS

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary (seems an appropriate time to say that as this space has degenerated I'm spending a lot more time over where the skies are bluer instead! Find me there)

Our prison population has grown by 25% since 2021, yet the latest Crime and Victims Survey shows that we are not any safer for it. Prisons don't work, they don't keep people safe, they don't get people the help they need or address the drivers of crime. nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/pr…

odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/o…

Ask yourself why the leading researchers studying Long Covid are wearing respirators in a conference at Rome. Hint: They might know a thing or two about what SARS2 does to the brain and body, and they don’t want to risk an infection. (aaaand respirators work!)

What are the liberatory potentials of #Wikidata? Lydia Pintscher, the portfolio lead manager for the wiki project, tells us more in the final episode of this season of #WhoseVoices. 🎧 🔗: whoseknowledge.org/dsd-whose-voic… #DecolonisingStructuredData #FeministTech

Jack Tame pushed Chris Luxon on why he agreed to see David Seymour's divisive Treaty Principles Bill to a second reading when it wasn't a bottom line for ACT: "It says so much about your negotiation skills but also your character as a leader."

Oh Jack, Jack, what I'd just say to you is, what I'd just say to you. #LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver