Colin
@barco030.bsky.social
💉💉💉💉 Cotton wool hater. Onychophagist. Can be a bit sweary. Here for the lolz. Ko tākuta ahau. He mōwai māku. He/him/ia
Takes some stones to fly a Union Jack in Kuku. Why would you?
December 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Takes some stones to fly a Union Jack in Kuku. Why would you?
Morph & Midaz; flip it around, Wakey Wakey.
December 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Morph & Midaz; flip it around, Wakey Wakey.
Dafuq is this guy’s accent?
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Dafuq is this guy’s accent?
As if there was any doubt how they would’ve handled it
Now we know how National would have handled the Covid pandemic. The 20,000 we saved would be dead.
The Minister of Health wants dead kids:
November 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
As if there was any doubt how they would’ve handled it
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for those of you who have never seen The New Zealand Tweet, the perennial flower
September 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
for those of you who have never seen The New Zealand Tweet, the perennial flower
Fonterra’s eyewatering profits just uncritically presented on the news as if it’s a good thing for the people of this country to be fleeced at the till every day.
September 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Fonterra’s eyewatering profits just uncritically presented on the news as if it’s a good thing for the people of this country to be fleeced at the till every day.
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Effortlessly done in under 20 minutes:
Zoe & Morgan✅
Lord of the Rings✅
Jon Stewart NZ endorsement✅
Whittaker’s✅
Hope & leadership✅
Nuanced answers to complex issues✅
Watching this and reflecting how much of an utter disaster this would have been with anyone officially representing New Zealand now.
Zoe & Morgan✅
Lord of the Rings✅
Jon Stewart NZ endorsement✅
Whittaker’s✅
Hope & leadership✅
Nuanced answers to complex issues✅
Watching this and reflecting how much of an utter disaster this would have been with anyone officially representing New Zealand now.
Jacinda Ardern - “A Different Kind of Power” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
m.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Effortlessly done in under 20 minutes:
Zoe & Morgan✅
Lord of the Rings✅
Jon Stewart NZ endorsement✅
Whittaker’s✅
Hope & leadership✅
Nuanced answers to complex issues✅
Watching this and reflecting how much of an utter disaster this would have been with anyone officially representing New Zealand now.
Zoe & Morgan✅
Lord of the Rings✅
Jon Stewart NZ endorsement✅
Whittaker’s✅
Hope & leadership✅
Nuanced answers to complex issues✅
Watching this and reflecting how much of an utter disaster this would have been with anyone officially representing New Zealand now.
What have we done to deserve seeing him on our screens on the nightly?
September 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
What have we done to deserve seeing him on our screens on the nightly?
THIS IS INSANE
Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."
September 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
THIS IS INSANE
Me pēhea koutou e whakanui ana i te wiki o te reo Māori?
September 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Me pēhea koutou e whakanui ana i te wiki o te reo Māori?
Was not one comment from the opposition benches sought for this piece?
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
My recall of such news under the last government would be endless reporting of the opposition flooding the zone to get their digs in.
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
My recall of such news under the last government would be endless reporting of the opposition flooding the zone to get their digs in.
GDP announcements are often dull - this one was a gut punch for Luxon and co
Dissatisfaction comes from many directions following a surprise contraction in economic activity, a bad poll and calls for resignations.
www.stuff.co.nz
September 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Was not one comment from the opposition benches sought for this piece?
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
My recall of such news under the last government would be endless reporting of the opposition flooding the zone to get their digs in.
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
My recall of such news under the last government would be endless reporting of the opposition flooding the zone to get their digs in.
He rangi mokopuna ki konei.
June 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
He rangi mokopuna ki konei.
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The quiet suburban pool is a microcosm of everything wrong with New Zealand’s broken rates system.
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...
Windbag: Khandallah Pool and the high price of inequality
The quiet suburban pool is a microcosm of everything wrong with New Zealand’s broken rates system.
thespinoff.co.nz
May 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The quiet suburban pool is a microcosm of everything wrong with New Zealand’s broken rates system.
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...
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It is about. Goddamn. Time. someone published this; it’s also obscene that political and financial reporters and editors run with the same household analogies day after day, budget after budget. It’s either lying or deeply, absurdly ignorant
"The Government knows there’s nothing similar between household borrowing and government borrowing. But it also knows that you don’t know that. (Because no one ever explains this properly.) So why use this metaphor if it’s so misleading?"
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Verity Johnson: ‘Running the country like a household’ is a political con
OPINION: Government knows there’s nothing similar between household borrowing and government borrowing. But it also knows that you don’t know that.
www.stuff.co.nz
May 24, 2025 at 6:27 AM
It is about. Goddamn. Time. someone published this; it’s also obscene that political and financial reporters and editors run with the same household analogies day after day, budget after budget. It’s either lying or deeply, absurdly ignorant
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May 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I’m selling two tickets to this weekend’s Urban Wine Walk in Wellington if anyone missed out tixel.com/u/3644843
Every street needs a binfluencer.
Some kind organised person puts their rubbish and recycling or glass and seems to actually know what their doing. Everyone waits until they've put it out then we all follow.
We don't actually talk to each other. Good god man.
We don't actually talk to each other. Good god man.
April 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Every street needs a binfluencer.
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Quite aside from anything else, it is frankly WILD for ministers or associate ministers to be micromanaging the work of ministries in this way.
From cellphones in schools, to speed limits, to precise wording on websites this is NOT how government is supposed to work, no matter who is in power.
From cellphones in schools, to speed limits, to precise wording on websites this is NOT how government is supposed to work, no matter who is in power.
April 15, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Quite aside from anything else, it is frankly WILD for ministers or associate ministers to be micromanaging the work of ministries in this way.
From cellphones in schools, to speed limits, to precise wording on websites this is NOT how government is supposed to work, no matter who is in power.
From cellphones in schools, to speed limits, to precise wording on websites this is NOT how government is supposed to work, no matter who is in power.
I’m seething at how bad the new quizmaster is at my weekly pub quiz. I just can’t get over how inept you can be to have not worked out a system yet. Arrrgh. Really ruins my life.
April 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I’m seething at how bad the new quizmaster is at my weekly pub quiz. I just can’t get over how inept you can be to have not worked out a system yet. Arrrgh. Really ruins my life.
A rare still and warm night of summer for Wellington tonight. Being its best self.
February 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
A rare still and warm night of summer for Wellington tonight. Being its best self.
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I wonder… do New Zealanders know that more than 45% of NZ's red meat exports are halal-certified? 🤔 Making a huge contribution to our economy 🧵1/7
February 14, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I wonder… do New Zealanders know that more than 45% of NZ's red meat exports are halal-certified? 🤔 Making a huge contribution to our economy 🧵1/7
Can’t wait to get this all hung.
February 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Can’t wait to get this all hung.
#TheTraitorsUK is once again proving to be fantastic television.
January 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
#TheTraitorsUK is once again proving to be fantastic television.
What the fuck is this? Does The Post hate Wellington? No byline either. Absolute garbage.
December 21, 2024 at 11:18 PM
What the fuck is this? Does The Post hate Wellington? No byline either. Absolute garbage.