Kate Mahoney
@katypi.bsky.social
Southland-dwelling old lady, knitting, handspinning, one cat, NZ politics
Tangata Tiriti
Woke Leftie
I have a partner, thanks, now eff off
Tangata Tiriti
Woke Leftie
I have a partner, thanks, now eff off
I think it's important to spell it out though, because it might not occur to people as a natural result of removing professional educators from the scenario.
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I think it's important to spell it out though, because it might not occur to people as a natural result of removing professional educators from the scenario.
Opening the doors wide to all sorts of abuse, but rubbing kids of a decent secular education is a travesty of education. Of course the curriculum changes do the same thing - we'll have a generation of people who don't have any educational basis to help then through life.
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Opening the doors wide to all sorts of abuse, but rubbing kids of a decent secular education is a travesty of education. Of course the curriculum changes do the same thing - we'll have a generation of people who don't have any educational basis to help then through life.
Also because they don't have to hire qualified registered teachers, there is almost bound to be sexual abuse. Parents beware!
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Also because they don't have to hire qualified registered teachers, there is almost bound to be sexual abuse. Parents beware!
Grifters gonna grift if the government gives them the chance.
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Grifters gonna grift if the government gives them the chance.
If the government is deliberately suppressing employment, yes, it does owe them food, and housing, and healthcare and dignity and support, or at the very least the means to obtain them.
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 AM
If the government is deliberately suppressing employment, yes, it does owe them food, and housing, and healthcare and dignity and support, or at the very least the means to obtain them.
I'm proud to have two working grandchildren who joined a union as a matter of course.
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I'm proud to have two working grandchildren who joined a union as a matter of course.
This is both a travesty and a tragedy. It shows the bare greed and self-interest of dairy farmers, and their willingness to harm the economy if it profits them.
October 31, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This is both a travesty and a tragedy. It shows the bare greed and self-interest of dairy farmers, and their willingness to harm the economy if it profits them.
It's outright asset stripping
October 30, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's outright asset stripping
I'm disappointingly vanilla in all ways
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I'm disappointingly vanilla in all ways
I'm just disappointed that I've left it too late in life to get the necessary traction to have a hope of being elected.
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I'm just disappointed that I've left it too late in life to get the necessary traction to have a hope of being elected.
I have been directly affected by others' addiction. I have never been in favor of imprisonment or experimental treatments, and believe that social change led by informed government policy is the only way to stop people feeling such social isolation, pain and despair that drugs are the only answer.
October 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I have been directly affected by others' addiction. I have never been in favor of imprisonment or experimental treatments, and believe that social change led by informed government policy is the only way to stop people feeling such social isolation, pain and despair that drugs are the only answer.
Somehow the original agreement that when the mine was sold the land would become parks with paths and recreation lakes vanished in the resale, leaving us with nothing but future allergies, windfall and fire risk (the trees will root into the layer of coal debris under the thinly replaced topsoil)
October 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Somehow the original agreement that when the mine was sold the land would become parks with paths and recreation lakes vanished in the resale, leaving us with nothing but future allergies, windfall and fire risk (the trees will root into the layer of coal debris under the thinly replaced topsoil)
PS he would definitely have benefitted personally from that refund.
October 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
PS he would definitely have benefitted personally from that refund.
They just don't care. The company that bought the now-closed coal mine planted out the land in pine trees, 50m from our village and directly in the path of the very strong northerly and north-westerly winds we experience, and right in the magnificent views that are the best thing about living here.
October 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
They just don't care. The company that bought the now-closed coal mine planted out the land in pine trees, 50m from our village and directly in the path of the very strong northerly and north-westerly winds we experience, and right in the magnificent views that are the best thing about living here.
Selling some of his houses after his government rolled back the bright line tax and the landlords' tax on rental income, also refunding (seriously? refunding?) the tax they paid under Labour's fair and just decision that landlord's rents were a business that should be taxed like anyone else?
October 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Selling some of his houses after his government rolled back the bright line tax and the landlords' tax on rental income, also refunding (seriously? refunding?) the tax they paid under Labour's fair and just decision that landlord's rents were a business that should be taxed like anyone else?
They've been logging near us, and the amount of debris left behind is staggering.
October 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
They've been logging near us, and the amount of debris left behind is staggering.
Just sitting around in bags, on repurposed concrete platforms. And RT? Not our problem, we sold that on, so not our circus.
October 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Just sitting around in bags, on repurposed concrete platforms. And RT? Not our problem, we sold that on, so not our circus.