I saw somebody say that Joel Osteen looks like Martin Short pretending to be Tim Allen and I can’t unsee it now, it’s the most accurate statement ever uttered.

Delta is highly transmissible. So, I reason that the solution is *not* to throw elimination out with the bath water, or fling our arms up and say "we've just got to live with it!" - but to look at how to improve the (3) modes of elimination that we're using, turbo-charge it /10

We shouldn't give up on vaccination to 90% either, just because it's getting harder at the tail end. We can look overseas to examples of policies and settings where vaccination rates were driven to very high levels: x.com/DrJinRussell/s… /13

So don't fall for op-eds and headlines that tell you we are essentially giving up on elimination. This view misunderstands that elimination is achieved through multiple approaches, not just alert levels. But delta means we need to lift our game on all fronts. /end

Yup

A rare tweet from me but #SuperSaturday is a huge deal. Get vaccinated tomorrow or, if you already have been, encourage whanau or friends to. Shot Aotearoa.

Great thread from Sacha about current state in the USA

This is my Wellington #MyWelly

Lots of people have been in touch to ask if “Rachel” has a Givealittle page. She does. givealittle.co.nz/cause/help-a-m…

To recap: We are having multiple televised debates for a process in which 99.8% of people cannot vote, between two candidates who are both appalled at the state of the country that *checks notes* they have been running for over a decade. Is that about it?

By age 30, you should have a big box of random cables which you 'might need someday'.

I've written up the past week of coverage, discourse and utter mess that has been written about Creative New Zealand's decision not to give the Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand funding in September. Read it all here: thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/19…

1. Update your card 2. If you don’t have one, get it done. 3. Encourage everyone who has turned 18, to get one too. 👆 GET IT DONE BY TOMORROW. 4. Know your polling venue. 5. If you will be traveling/working etc, apply for postal voting. 7. GO VOTE 🗳️. #FijiGE2022

The People’s Alliance/NFP and SODELPA to form the next government #FijiNews📰 #FijiVotes2022 ✔️ fijivillage.com/news/The-Peopl…

For a somber moment, Brij Lal is coming home, where he always belonged, the land he was born in but was not able to enter before his last breath.

Free at last Fiji is free at last #FijiVotes2022 #FijiElections2022

HISTORY BEING MADE RIGHT HERE! Party officials from National Federation Party The People's Alliance and SODELPA sign a letter informing the President of Fiji of their intention to form the next government.

Who are we? Where are we heading? And who will we be when we get there? My year-end politics column. Please read it (🙏🏽), no matter who you voted for, because - where are we heading? John Campbell: Are we on the cusp of something new or something old? 1news.co.nz/2023/12/30/joh…

Roses are red Violets are fleeting Today and all other days Toitū te Tiriti

Efeso was a truly great man and it was a privilege to know him. Today a mighty Totara has fallen in the forest. Thinking of his beautiful family at this very sad time #RIL