Will de Cleene
@zippygonzales.bsky.social
Burned out hospo droid
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Reminder that juror fees have not been increased since 2004 (yes 21 years ago). The maximum payable is $127 for more than 3 hours and beyond 9 pm.
The usual daily rate is $62 for more than 3 hours but not beyond 6 pm.
Jury duty is obviously nowhere near as important as being on a board.
The usual daily rate is $62 for more than 3 hours but not beyond 6 pm.
Jury duty is obviously nowhere near as important as being on a board.
😡 #NZ Neoliberal RW Govt approves HUGE pay hikes for #CrownBoard, #authority members after fee framework changes, in many cases doubling the amount they receive, despite huge cuts in pay for teachers, nurses, carers & others #pay #inequality #AtlasNetwork #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
'Absolutely huge': The pay hikes Crown bosses got after recent changes
The Government is defending it, but Labour's not impressed.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Reminder that juror fees have not been increased since 2004 (yes 21 years ago). The maximum payable is $127 for more than 3 hours and beyond 9 pm.
The usual daily rate is $62 for more than 3 hours but not beyond 6 pm.
Jury duty is obviously nowhere near as important as being on a board.
The usual daily rate is $62 for more than 3 hours but not beyond 6 pm.
Jury duty is obviously nowhere near as important as being on a board.
*waves at BVV*
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
*waves at BVV*
Nice one. Just waiting for the Supreme Court to rule all courier drivers are employees as well, not just slave drivers. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
www.rnz.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Nice one. Just waiting for the Supreme Court to rule all courier drivers are employees as well, not just slave drivers. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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#nzpol
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
#nzpol
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
#nzpol is Bistromathics.
Stop comparing New Zealand politics and economy to a household.
It's more like going out to dinner is a restaurant that only does one bill per table, and nobody will cop to drinking all that really expensive wine or ordering the table full of untouched sides. #nzpol
It's more like going out to dinner is a restaurant that only does one bill per table, and nobody will cop to drinking all that really expensive wine or ordering the table full of untouched sides. #nzpol
November 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM
#nzpol is Bistromathics.
Goddamnit. Two days of overcast night skies during massive CME event. Literally, old man shakes fist at cloud.
Tonight’s #Aurora is going gang busters in Alaska & Western Canada atm.
In NZ it won’t be as intense as last night, BUT should be visible across a wider NZ. Good luck to all those going out. I’m not racing out tonight.
In NZ it won’t be as intense as last night, BUT should be visible across a wider NZ. Good luck to all those going out. I’m not racing out tonight.
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Goddamnit. Two days of overcast night skies during massive CME event. Literally, old man shakes fist at cloud.
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Only 1/2hr after sunset, while taking a timelapse, this was happening in front of my camera (timelapse processing later).
This was about 1/4 of the #Aurora happening off the South Otago coast.
#Nikon #NZ #AuroraAustralis
Nikon Z7ii 20mmS ISO f/1.8 1.3 seconds
This was about 1/4 of the #Aurora happening off the South Otago coast.
#Nikon #NZ #AuroraAustralis
Nikon Z7ii 20mmS ISO f/1.8 1.3 seconds
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Only 1/2hr after sunset, while taking a timelapse, this was happening in front of my camera (timelapse processing later).
This was about 1/4 of the #Aurora happening off the South Otago coast.
#Nikon #NZ #AuroraAustralis
Nikon Z7ii 20mmS ISO f/1.8 1.3 seconds
This was about 1/4 of the #Aurora happening off the South Otago coast.
#Nikon #NZ #AuroraAustralis
Nikon Z7ii 20mmS ISO f/1.8 1.3 seconds
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Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades?
Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes
The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes
The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades?
Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes
The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes
The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
Crikey. That escalated quickly. www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/pla...
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Crikey. That escalated quickly. www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/pla...
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Oh my god, KP9 (highest level) Aurora right now
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Oh my god, KP9 (highest level) Aurora right now
I was introduced to Gandalf a couple of years ago. He's a GC.
Hero. No doubt about it. Absolute hero.✊
We have a medical cannabis industry focused on profits and only open to those backed by corporate funding.
Paul "Gandalf" Smith is always focused on the welfare of the people he serves.
Total hero.🥰👍✌️
#EndProhibition
#nzpol
We have a medical cannabis industry focused on profits and only open to those backed by corporate funding.
Paul "Gandalf" Smith is always focused on the welfare of the people he serves.
Total hero.🥰👍✌️
#EndProhibition
#nzpol
‘Gandalf’ the Medical Marijuana Grower: Folk Hero or Criminal?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I was introduced to Gandalf a couple of years ago. He's a GC.
NZ needs to have a mature conversation on whether we should gift our drunk racist uncle a Christopher Luxon-shaped butt plug for Xmas.
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
NZ needs to have a mature conversation on whether we should gift our drunk racist uncle a Christopher Luxon-shaped butt plug for Xmas.
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A bonfire of the climate policies. An emissions Guy Fawkes Day
The Govt quietly announced a loosening of climate rules at 8pm last night:
- Decoupling the ETS from Paris
- Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years
- Delaying the public sector target by 25 years
- Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
- Decoupling the ETS from Paris
- Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years
- Delaying the public sector target by 25 years
- Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Government quietly loosens climate rules
An announcement at 8pm on Tuesday saw the Government delinking the ETS from the Paris Agreement and extending another emissions deadline by 25 years.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
A bonfire of the climate policies. An emissions Guy Fawkes Day
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Just leaving this here:
"YES. I AM A SOCIALIST AND I'M PROUD OF IT. YEAH-THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. BRING IT ON, AND I'M VERY PROUD TO SAY TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF THE WAIRARAPA THAT THEY ELECTED A PROUD SOCIALIST
AS THEIR MP." KIERAN MCANULTY, LABOUR MP.
#NZPol
"YES. I AM A SOCIALIST AND I'M PROUD OF IT. YEAH-THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. BRING IT ON, AND I'M VERY PROUD TO SAY TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF THE WAIRARAPA THAT THEY ELECTED A PROUD SOCIALIST
AS THEIR MP." KIERAN MCANULTY, LABOUR MP.
#NZPol
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Just leaving this here:
"YES. I AM A SOCIALIST AND I'M PROUD OF IT. YEAH-THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. BRING IT ON, AND I'M VERY PROUD TO SAY TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF THE WAIRARAPA THAT THEY ELECTED A PROUD SOCIALIST
AS THEIR MP." KIERAN MCANULTY, LABOUR MP.
#NZPol
"YES. I AM A SOCIALIST AND I'M PROUD OF IT. YEAH-THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. BRING IT ON, AND I'M VERY PROUD TO SAY TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF THE WAIRARAPA THAT THEY ELECTED A PROUD SOCIALIST
AS THEIR MP." KIERAN MCANULTY, LABOUR MP.
#NZPol
I fully support this, noting that the skeleton of the Social Security Act is still buried in the original 1930s meaning, and has significant catching up to do.
What if we did tho, what if we didn’t means test disabled people on the SLP and just paid it like we do for NZ Super? Not related to your partner’s income, not related to your income, and just, well, supported people?!
#nzpol
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
#nzpol
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
What if we paid the Supported Living Payment like we pay the pension?
A simple policy change that could dramatically lift disabled households out of poverty
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I fully support this, noting that the skeleton of the Social Security Act is still buried in the original 1930s meaning, and has significant catching up to do.
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It doesn't get said enough that Nats have built just 45 State houses since coming into government, no one is being housed in your ghost houses Bishop and now you want to hunt people off the streets? Where worse can you send them, the sewers where you slither? #NZPol
Rough sleeping ban in central Auckland considered by government
Rough sleeping ban in central Auckland considered by government
Government ministers have confirmed they are considering measures to move homeless people out of Auckland's city centre - but the exact details remain unclear.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
It doesn't get said enough that Nats have built just 45 State houses since coming into government, no one is being housed in your ghost houses Bishop and now you want to hunt people off the streets? Where worse can you send them, the sewers where you slither? #NZPol
*golf clap* That's some Obama-grade rhetoric he's throwing.
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM
*golf clap* That's some Obama-grade rhetoric he's throwing.
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It's Melbourne Fucup day
Honest Government Ad | The Melbourne Cup
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
It's Melbourne Fucup day
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I want to think he shat himself at fireworks last night, prompting him to pen a stern letter to the editor in the form of a bill, but it's more likely he was - like me - cuddling his scared dog, so I'm with him on this occasion.
Let's call time on Fuckwit Christmas.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Let's call time on Fuckwit Christmas.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
'Enough is enough' - New Zealand First wants to ban private fireworks
"The abuse and misuse of fireworks has far outgrown any of the benefits," claims Winston Peters.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I want to think he shat himself at fireworks last night, prompting him to pen a stern letter to the editor in the form of a bill, but it's more likely he was - like me - cuddling his scared dog, so I'm with him on this occasion.
Let's call time on Fuckwit Christmas.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Let's call time on Fuckwit Christmas.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Just a reminder that's there's a symposium this Wednesday on Drug Reform in Wellington. hrca.nz/symposium-2025
Symposium 2025 — Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa
hrca.nz
November 2, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Just a reminder that's there's a symposium this Wednesday on Drug Reform in Wellington. hrca.nz/symposium-2025
Flat meeting, everyone. We're a year away from the next election. Everyone hates Christopher Luxon, including his caucus. He was parachuted in too early by John Key's request, so that's on him as well.
November 2, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Flat meeting, everyone. We're a year away from the next election. Everyone hates Christopher Luxon, including his caucus. He was parachuted in too early by John Key's request, so that's on him as well.
#HighFlyingBooksReviews Terry Pratchett's Small Gods. Should be required reading for any first year PHIL or Religious Studies paper. The whole mistaking map for the territory goes to a whole new level.
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 AM
#HighFlyingBooksReviews Terry Pratchett's Small Gods. Should be required reading for any first year PHIL or Religious Studies paper. The whole mistaking map for the territory goes to a whole new level.
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Ok, here's the thing.
If Donald Trump runs a third time for president, the Democrats need to run Obama.
If Donald Trump runs a third time for president, the Democrats need to run Obama.
Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"
November 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Ok, here's the thing.
If Donald Trump runs a third time for president, the Democrats need to run Obama.
If Donald Trump runs a third time for president, the Democrats need to run Obama.
It's a thin edge of the wedge. They'll be taxing my large collection of racehorses and luxury cars next.
November 2, 2025 at 4:33 AM
It's a thin edge of the wedge. They'll be taxing my large collection of racehorses and luxury cars next.
I was temporarily conflicted over this thing. I was born hearing impaired. Somewhere on the spectrum too. Mainstreaming gave me nothing, except speech therapy classes. I was offered Deaf School as a kid, but back then I was the Diet Coke of Deaf. NZSL was banned from 1880 til 1979.
This is so disappointing. When I started out teaching in the 90s people were still arguing for deaf students (FFS) to be taught in different classes.
Spanky Seymour is a disgrace to moden humanity
Spanky Seymour is a disgrace to moden humanity
This is what I expected from the government, but it's incredibly disappointing that Autism New Zealand should go along with it. We need to make "regular" schools cater to neurodivergent students — which will benefit everyone! — not segregate difference.
October 31, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I was temporarily conflicted over this thing. I was born hearing impaired. Somewhere on the spectrum too. Mainstreaming gave me nothing, except speech therapy classes. I was offered Deaf School as a kid, but back then I was the Diet Coke of Deaf. NZSL was banned from 1880 til 1979.