Tim
Big, loud, smiling. Tāngata Tiriti.
- On this Jan 6, 1941, the Four Freedoms were introduced. The Four Freedoms (2026 version): - Freedom from speech - Freedom from worship - Freedom of want - Freedom of fear Just some minor changes from the original 😉
- Maybe ECan could try not being corrupt and incompetent, bending over backwards to issue licences to pollute to all and sundry? Just an idea. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
- Reposted by TimDepressingly, the NZ Labour Party has a lower % of Māori MPs than ACT, only outdone in their lack by National.
- Reposted by TimState Department Designates WNBA As Terrorist Organization theonion.com/state-department-de…
- Reposted by TimClearest example of governments being more interested in regulating individuals rather than institutions/organisations. We do not have lobby groups and donations, just the one vote. Make sure YOU separate glass and plastic but we aren’t gonna a do a damn thing about data centers or Big oil.
- Reposted by TimWhat do you think is the greatest ever TV news clip? For me this can never be beaten...
- Lebensraum *and* “The Greater North West Atlantic Co-Prosperity Sphere” are now official US policies. Let that sink in… www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by TimTrue fact, I am now 57 years old & I have never seen Mt Taranaki on the west coast of Te Ika-a-Māui North Island, not by land nor air. Flying back to Ōtepoti Dunedin earlier in the week I almost got excited, yeah the whole mountain was draped in cloud. Boooo
- Reposted by TimSo, today I'm wrapping up People Watching. Massive thanks to everyone who has supported it & all the cool people I've met and drawn. I wrote an article in the Sunday Magazine today talking about the lessons I've learned doing it - and there were so many. www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3609...
- Me when I sit down and think for longer than two minutes:
- Reposted by TimTell you when NZ suffered from mass uncontrolled immigration: it was 1850-1960 approx. #nzpol
- Reposted by TimAn effect of the changes to the Electoral Act is that a well off, likely right wing voting criminal who was part of the system who gets a home detention sentence for, say, possessing child porn will get to vote next year. A less well connected offender sent to prison for the same crimes won’t #nzpol
- Reposted by TimSilver Jandals ... To Barbara Edmonds for saying, well, it’s here, actually, in response to the perennial show me the money challenge on capital gains tax #nzpol
- Reposted by TimAbsolutely fuck all the way off with this shit. What a ghoulish thing to say.
- Reposted by TimYou know it. Aotearoa is on the list where this isn't happening. 🙄 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- Govt cancels Flu Tracker. Nek minnit: #nzpol www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Ummmm… how are we this stupid? How are 2000 people and builders and developers this stupid in this country? Why are we still allowing this? Insane. #nzpol
- Reposted by TimSo the supermarkets have breached Golriz’s privacy and were called out by the Privacy Commissioner. 1) Where’s the public apology and cost of damages to Golriz 2) When are these weird men going to stop obsessing over her and other women of colour in politics? #nzpol
- Reposted by TimI'm shocked that the inaugural recipient of the FIFA Peace Prize would be preparing to wage war on another country to seize its resources. It's almost like that prize was a cynical and meaningless gesture.
- Reposted by TimYou're not meant to SAY the "we have to keep the lowest paid poor so everyone else knows they're better than them"
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- Reposted by TimFamilies fight to put food on the table. Meanwhile the ACT Party and Coalition Government spent $150,000 on a 'Road Cone hotline'. Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!) We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Reposted by TimMore good news. Top of the South Iwi have been awarded 3000 hectares of land in the 'Nelson' Tenths case, including the Abel Tasman great walk and $420 million. This is not a treaty issue, its a separate case of fraudulent land grabbing by the crown.
- Reposted by Timgovt spends $750 per road cone to appease people who think $5 per road cone is excessive just normal everyday NZ shit now.
- Reposted by TimHappy Beethoven's birthday to all who celebrate.
- Reposted by TimDomestic honeybees for mānuka production disrupt native insect behaviour and reduce species richness. Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) were noticeably less abundant at apiary sites, and mānuka flower visits by other insects were also lower. 🌏 www.scimex.org/newsfeed/man...
- #nzpol For consideration…
- When mad drivers tell you that you, a cyclist, don't belong on roads because you don't pay registration and the gas tax, show them the Road Damage Calculator. Compare, for example, the damage made by a small SUV and a longtail cargo e-bike. Very different orders of magnitude roaddamagecalculator.com
- Reposted by TimNarrator - She did not resign #nzpol
- Reposted by Timseems bad www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...
- Reposted by TimYES the new mega-ministry is patently absurd YES National never campaigned on anything like it YES it won't work YES we all know it won't work BUT have you considered how Chris Bishop's dream of being Steven Joyce has come true today???? and that's surely worth all the chaos and redundancies
- Reposted by TimHyefu 2025: Economic recovery? I barely knew ye
- Reposted by Tim“With fresh air in its lungs, the economy is picking up,” Pretty sure that air contains the Black Plague
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- Damn. Something stinks. And it’s the classic rort of “govt trying to make money off addicts while pretending to protect people…but we also have to protect businesses who make even more money off addicts!” See also: tobacco and alcohol. #nzpol
- Reposted by TimThis issue of Who Benefits looks at the billion-dollar buyout of NZ’s gambling market by international wagering giant Entain. Newsroom takes stock of who netted the biggest wins and losses in the monopoly deal.
- Reposted by Tim“it’s beneath you” - lol. Lmao.
- Reposted by TimDo not let your infrastructure go past it's Use By date... #nzpol
- Reposted by TimYup, only 15% of ACT voters have a Bachelor's degree or higher compared to the Greens which is at a massive 55% of Greens voters with a Bachelor's degree or higher. Also educated people are 2x as likely to vote Labour than National and a massive 7x more likely to vote Greens than National
- Reposted by Tim"64% of ACT voters want more state homes"... WHAT? LOL Classic libertarians and RW.
- Sorry…what? Surely this is a misprint. How delusional do you have to be to support the party that is absolutely all about getting the State out of *literally everything in the world*, but also think there should be “more state houses?” WHO is that stupid? #nzpol
- FYI in today’s Chorus email/podcast… Economist says RBNZ guidance of interest rates higher a 'mistep' & hurts economy pre-Christmas; Hipkins says 'NZ can't afford to be aspirational again'; 64% of ACT voters want more state homes #nzpol
- Reposted by TimThis is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
- Worst kept secret ever #nzpol
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- Reposted by TimNZ racism hits different: ‘I’m not even going to try to pronounce the next name’
- Reposted by TimThe Whakatipu #takahe breeding season is off to a good start, with approx 6 nests in the Greenstone and several from the new population in the Rees. www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r... Great pic by takahē ranger Lisa van Beek. #conservation #rails #birds
- The top 1% don’t really earn income that’s taxed as effectively as wages/salaries. Their wealth allows them to generate more wealth that is, again, essentially untaxed. But the 1% do have *very* strong opinions on how the country should be run…and taxation spent… #nzpol
- Reposted by TimHere's our country summary. Top 1% have 12% of income and 22.7% of wealth. "inequality remains moderate but has risen slightly in recent years..but shows signs of gradual widening across income and wealth dimensions"
- Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions. 👇Share this thread, share the report! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
- This announcement from a couple of months ago keeps popping in to my head. No money for health, education, social security, public transport, or protecting the environment, but we can find some coin for wealthy kids to play tennis. Are we a #plutocracy now? #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
- Reposted by TimTrue, life would be easier with a name like John Islander.
- Reposted by TimStolen from FB (just posted) St Kilda
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- Reposted by TimMy last story for the year - the third in a sort of trilogy about the energy crisis. This one is about about the unmanaged, unfunded, messy transition away from gas and the impact on businesses.Feels like a perfect example of where we really really could be doing better www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
- Great article. It seems the NZ govt is happy to destroy the original plans and just subsidise businesses that have buried their head in the sand for 15+ years regarding dwindling gas supplies. Businesses saying “we just need another 15 years, promise!!” #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
- Reposted by TimNZ sucks so hard we could make diamonds with our unwillingness to join the 21st C
- Reposted by TimAustralia has had solar subsidies for so long that some of my Aussie colleagues are eligible for a second round of upgrades because it's been ten years. NZ meanwhile, we can't have nice things. It might upset the status quo.
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- Reposted by TimOur Board have a defined vision to achieve world cricketing domination by the year 2082. We will not overturn the global order in one single act, but do so incrementally. We can bide our time. Our ice melts fast, but cricketing glory can be attained patiently.
- Reposted by TimMy cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609... If you type '𝗚𝗼𝘃𝘁 𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲' into google you get a whole shit ton of articles - by the current lot. #Cartoon #NzPol #Caricature #Luxon #Stanford
- Reposted by TimNational have been going a hundy in the PR since Labour last oulled ahead, paying for soft focus magazine articles and positive press across a range of media. ACT have been systematically targeting the Greens in a sustained fashion. NACT have money and can buy fawning media attention.
