A friend just said to me "Are we supposed to be working during the coup?" and honestly it was the most American thing I've ever heard.

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Following the national arrangements to allow for travel to and from New Zealand earlier this week, I can confirm that from 12:01am, Monday 19 April, we will treat New Zealand as another jurisdiction under Western Australia’s controlled border regime.

To be fair. We do rock some good memes during a snap lockdown.

Jab #2 done! #VaccinateNZ

The pandemic feeds fear, which in turn is manifesting itself in racism and discrimination. We must not forget that the virus is the problem and not people.

1/ HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT COVID-19: A PRIMER The maddening thing about our (the world's) situation is that the tools to live without COVID are all readily available and technologically simple to implement. Read on to see how we can (and must) LIVE WITHOUT COVID...

This is AWESOME - find the soonest vaccine in your area, rather than the nearest. vaxx.nz/?lat=-41.29238…

188 new cases today. Ao/NZ should be extremely proud. Modelling based on experiences with Omicron abroad suggested we should have far more cases by now. But because we vaccinated, masked up, and took responsibility for our wellbeing, we are breaking the trend. We are amazing. ❤️

When these protesters & extremists leave #Wellington, who else is keen to get down there together & clean the place up? Give it a deep clean 🧽 🧹, heal some stuff, fix up the wairua, & claim back our City. I’m in. Who else?

It's on! More here: teu.ac.nz/news/universit…

We have now confirmed details of the strikes at all eight universities. Thursday's the day! See you on the picket line! teu.ac.nz/news/universit…

Meanwhile in the actual world…

As it's now December, time to repeat my new holiday message: Don't take your unenclosed garbage laser cutter/engraver to the craft fair or, far worse, your child's classroom to make presents. Don't do it. No. [shakes spraybottle] Bad maker! BAD!!!

TEU members, students and community leaders told it how it is to Massey University's council yesterday. Did they listen? Will they act? stuff.co.nz/national/educa…