Getting our mojo back, baby! / Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿
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Kirikiriroa. Gully adjacent. Airbnb valet. Serial pedaler of te Awa. Political opinionator.
My other car is a canal boat.
- Yesterday our future became more electric. Callie's new car! It's freakily good - and for less than a Toyota Yaris.
- Great piece here. broligarchy.substack.com/p/fight
- Mr Seymour has made it clear he'll be championing privatisations in this year's election. Gotta be a Gallery journo out there who could tally up the many privatisation failures (NZ Rail, BNZ, Air NZ, power cos*, Forest Service, Post Bank. Trust banks...) vs any successes? Y'now, for the record.
- 1. Those failures were just the first ones that jumped into my head. Please reply with others if you wish. 2.Yes, the power co 1/2 privatisations may have been successes for investors, but they've been terrible failures for consumers
- I've literally never seen Thomas Piketty in print on a NZ media site. His thinking - and writing - is a breath of fresh air in comparison to the jaded neolib nothing-can-be-done punditry we're used to here. Have a read of this archived piece from today's Le Monde. It's inspiring. archive.ph/4omFz
- CW rape references: These hordes of wealthy & powerful people who've been involuntarily revealed to have had close associations with Jeffrey Epstein yet disclaim any involvement in raping girls and sex slavery would have a little more credibility if they could tell us who did.
- Amazing how all these politicians, royal family members, academics, techbros, media barons & pundits...none of them can shed any light on how was actually using Epstein's criminal sex services on that island.
- When your Govt is made up of complicit toadies, it's extra-special when a real Aotearoan demonstrates those mythical yet seemingly lost "kiwi values" by standing up for the resistance.
- Just finished watching tonight's Hoon with Bernard Hickey and the final 30 minutes are with David Farrar as a guest and WHOLLY SHIT Peter Bale went at him like a rabid dog and can I say I'm totally here for that? Best Hoon ep ever! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmzU...
- They will NOT be exchanging Xmas cards.
- I know NZ's news rooms are woefully under-resourced these days , but's its frankly weird how how the destruction of NZ war graves by the IDF has gone unreported - as far as I can tell - on Stuff and RNZ.
- I guess if there's been no response from the NZ Govt then there's little to report? Just imagining an act like this taking place on Helen Clark's (or Bolger's, or Ardern's) watch and how differently that would have transpired
- +1. And delighted to see David Simon here on bsky. Automatic follow.
- Wholly fark!
- Confirmation of the fragility and non-universal nature of our health system. #NZpol
