Stories from the Sea
@huttjatt.bsky.social
Former journo, current public sector comms pro. Owner of three Greyhounds, part owner of one child, partner of @mizjwilliams. Upper Hutt hard. It's a London ting.
Wanna know how much of a blow hard Trump is...ask Bill Clinton.
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Wanna know how much of a blow hard Trump is...ask Bill Clinton.
Radio Nu Zuland having a totally normal one over the German Air Force taking part in joint exercises with the NZAF, and obviously feeling very strongly that the only way to mark this momentous occasion is by making WW2 references. Like they aren't even called the bloody Luftwaffe anymore!
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Radio Nu Zuland having a totally normal one over the German Air Force taking part in joint exercises with the NZAF, and obviously feeling very strongly that the only way to mark this momentous occasion is by making WW2 references. Like they aren't even called the bloody Luftwaffe anymore!
White folks are what's wrong with the world.
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM
White folks are what's wrong with the world.
Power cuts can't get in the way of making tea, particularly when your partner is a gearhead like @mizjwilliams.bsky.social.
October 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Power cuts can't get in the way of making tea, particularly when your partner is a gearhead like @mizjwilliams.bsky.social.
Upper Hutt has a new Mayor!!!
The awesome Peri Zee!! Unseating a Mayor of 27 years.
A new start for a great city. 📣♥️🫡
The awesome Peri Zee!! Unseating a Mayor of 27 years.
A new start for a great city. 📣♥️🫡
October 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Upper Hutt has a new Mayor!!!
The awesome Peri Zee!! Unseating a Mayor of 27 years.
A new start for a great city. 📣♥️🫡
The awesome Peri Zee!! Unseating a Mayor of 27 years.
A new start for a great city. 📣♥️🫡
@stuff.co.nz have been screwing their staff for years. I was earning $46,250 a year before tax when I worked for them, barely enough to live on.
September 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
@stuff.co.nz have been screwing their staff for years. I was earning $46,250 a year before tax when I worked for them, barely enough to live on.
September 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
🎵Oh Nicola,
You came and you ruined our economy,
With job cuts and payouts to the wealthy🎵
#nationalnotfittogovern.
You came and you ruined our economy,
With job cuts and payouts to the wealthy🎵
#nationalnotfittogovern.
September 18, 2025 at 5:02 AM
🎵Oh Nicola,
You came and you ruined our economy,
With job cuts and payouts to the wealthy🎵
#nationalnotfittogovern.
You came and you ruined our economy,
With job cuts and payouts to the wealthy🎵
#nationalnotfittogovern.
Australia: "Honestly, we're not just a country of racists".
White Australia: "Hold my beer".
White Australia: "Hold my beer".
August 31, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Australia: "Honestly, we're not just a country of racists".
White Australia: "Hold my beer".
White Australia: "Hold my beer".
Sausage head Luxon and his cabal of nasties are failing on almost every single metric, and the public are no longer buying any of their lies.
August 31, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Sausage head Luxon and his cabal of nasties are failing on almost every single metric, and the public are no longer buying any of their lies.
Once talk of potential leadership spills start, they are very hard to quell.
August 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Once talk of potential leadership spills start, they are very hard to quell.
9am on August 8, 2025. RIP my sweet girl, we will miss you so much. Fly well Meggles. 💔❤️🌈🐾🐕
August 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
9am on August 8, 2025. RIP my sweet girl, we will miss you so much. Fly well Meggles. 💔❤️🌈🐾🐕
Looks like Don Brash is a big fan of Màori Wards.
August 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Looks like Don Brash is a big fan of Màori Wards.
Oh Americans, when will you learn!! 🤦♂️
August 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Oh Americans, when will you learn!! 🤦♂️
This was a challenge, but I'm happy with my choices.
July 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This was a challenge, but I'm happy with my choices.
That's it @thespinoff.bsky.social, I'm done. It's bad enough when right wing politicians platform these kinds of colonialist views, but I'm damned if I'm gonna financially support a supposedly liberal media organization doing the same.
July 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
That's it @thespinoff.bsky.social, I'm done. It's bad enough when right wing politicians platform these kinds of colonialist views, but I'm damned if I'm gonna financially support a supposedly liberal media organization doing the same.
There are some great films on this list, Zone of Interest, The Art of Killing, Spirited Away, City of God, but Parasite at number 1, it doesn't even deserve to be in the Top 100!
June 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
There are some great films on this list, Zone of Interest, The Art of Killing, Spirited Away, City of God, but Parasite at number 1, it doesn't even deserve to be in the Top 100!
🎵It's Trump's Birthday, and he's probably crying goes nobody went there🎵
Loads of people did protest against his pointless Birthday celebration.
Loads of people did protest against his pointless Birthday celebration.
June 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🎵It's Trump's Birthday, and he's probably crying goes nobody went there🎵
Loads of people did protest against his pointless Birthday celebration.
Loads of people did protest against his pointless Birthday celebration.
I can't share the link because the @thespinoff.bsky.social app won't let me, but this piece by Duncan Grieve is the worst kind of dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin what-aboutism I've read in a long time.
June 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I can't share the link because the @thespinoff.bsky.social app won't let me, but this piece by Duncan Grieve is the worst kind of dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin what-aboutism I've read in a long time.
June 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Keir Starmer cosplaying as Enoch Powell is literally the last thing the world needs right now. Blainchod. 🖕
May 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Keir Starmer cosplaying as Enoch Powell is literally the last thing the world needs right now. Blainchod. 🖕
Being without power is no problem when you have a super organised camping gear-head like @mizjwilliams.bsky.social as your partner. We are replete with all kinds of USB powered lights and candles, and two batteries to power them.
May 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Being without power is no problem when you have a super organised camping gear-head like @mizjwilliams.bsky.social as your partner. We are replete with all kinds of USB powered lights and candles, and two batteries to power them.
93% of all NZers don't want to go to the USA. Not surprising really.
April 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
93% of all NZers don't want to go to the USA. Not surprising really.
Even the 100% completely representative Stuff poll has the Nats polling lower than the mighty Greens. 💚
March 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Even the 100% completely representative Stuff poll has the Nats polling lower than the mighty Greens. 💚