🐻Iona🐻

Dystopia is living in a world where this is a reasonable question

Ā fluffy baby albatross practicing flapping its stubby little wings

The world is a big and scary place, but this fluffy baby albatross is practicing flapping its wings on a sunny Dunedin afternoon.

That site would have been good for worker housing within 15 minutes walk of work and or school. And not paying 3 bucks a litre in gas stuck in traffic

Good thing we have a center-left mayor in charge with a big left-leaning bloc of councilors.

Oh sorry, I've been informed that our Labour Party is actually the party of right wing business owners and landlords.

National MPs ain't right

CASEY NO

Screenshot on RNZ website reporting on three crashes, one after another.

How are those speed limit rises going?

I'm all for the media releasing the hounds on Luxon, but it's interesting that it's a bad poll that gets them frothing rather than his govt's support for war and the immense harms the govt has done to health, Te Tiriti, education, the environment and the people suffering as a result.
#nzpol

Thomas Coughlan: After the Government's horror week, things are about to get a whole lot worse OPINION: This weekend is the most precarious for Luxon since he became National leader.

Says everything you need to know about gallery journalism that huge things that will deeply affect the whole country are parsed through the lens of 'How will this affect one party and mostly one man?' and not 'Here's some analysis on how we should deal with this massive problem as a nation.' #nzpol

The rolling of PMs when parties are doing poorly is yeah, ok. The warning is that the media will salivate over the rolling, not dissect the policy that lead to the bad polling and pivot to any new leader with breathless ‘new energy’, ‘turning the tide’ without addressing the policy issues.
#nzpol

Deadly bombing of Iran primary school ‘a grave violation of humanitarian law’: UNESCO The UN education agency, UNESCO, says that the bombing of a primary school during the US and Israeli military attacks on Iran on Saturday constitutes a grave violation of humanitarian law.

Do you think it might be getting slightly different coverage, and more of it, in more prominent places, if Iran had just massacred a hundred-odd little girls in Tel Aviv?

news.un.org/en/story/202...

Ministers, the NZTA Board Chair, and CE should be subject to corporate manslaughter charges

Your reminder that Joss Whedon wasn’t allowed to be alone with 14 year old Michelle Trachtenberg.

Just if you’re getting excited about his career re-launch and don’t care about his revolting behaviour toward Charisma Carpenter.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon 'absolutely not' considering standing down The Prime Minister told Newstalk ZB all of his ministers were telling him they back him.

"The only thing I am considering is the future of our children & grandchildren." #nzpol And let’s be clear, that’s only his children & grandchildren. He’s made the lives of 10s of 1000s of children & grandchildren infinitely worse.

Luxon believes he has skills.

You wouldn't know my poll she goes to another school

I've lived in Pōneke my entire life but I am still not yet convinced that Vogeltown is a real place

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

”Vote Labour Get ACT“ a Wellington story

Remember when Chris Bishop showed his truest self in front of Don McGlashan?

Someone somewhere has decided enough is enough for Luxon. They've trailed it to journalists, who've contacted their National MP and Minister sources, and from 5am this morning it's been a full court press on the egg man.

Then consider that earlier this week we maybe got one story about how Kiwis don't think billionaires should exist, want more taxes on the ultra rich and investment in public services.

If you ever think your friendly socialist podcasters are being too insane about how the right wing has our media on a string look at how a TPU Curia poll has been all day news.

I just like the thought of Luxon being sad and realise that actually, yes, we all do hate his guts (including his own MPs). If he quits, that's great - a politician was unhappy! And if he stays, that's great, because he'll drag his regime down with him.

The people who talked him up and fawned over him, despite his immediately apparent mediocrity, should never get to show their faces in the punditry mines again. But, alas, they’re still out there pontificating.
#nzpol

I saw the worst minds of my parents' generation destroyed by madness about cycleways, starving hysterical naked, driving themselves through the wellington streets at dawn looking for a pipe that needs to be fixed

So where are we, at the end of this discussion? We are at an understanding that government deficits are normal in New Zealand. The New Zealand government is not going to run out of New Zealand dollars. There was no fiscal crisis in October 2023. There was no reason for cancelling infrastructure investments. There has been no reason for underfunding public services. The New Zealand Government could pursue a vision of a future New Zealand with job opportunities for all (and a job guarantee); could invest in its young people and in the creation of a clean, modern economy; and would be better able to do this if it understood that the means of New Zealand are its people and skills; its capital and technology; its natural resources and its institutional capacity. This would be a future based on hope which might end the mass emigration to Australia and which, in my view, would tempt ambitious young Australians to move the other way. It would at the very least end the self-harming policies of the past three years.

Louder for the people in the back:

I'm so jealous of their trams 😭

He may be a Tory [derogatory], but he's no Tory [Whanau]

So the Minister for Education who forced schools to drop consent education from their health curriculum has gone to celebrate the release of a prominent child rapist at the religious compound he lives in.

Am I missing anything about this Briscoes Epstein Island story?