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Splakey
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A little fish swimming with big ideas in Te Whanganui a Tara
Wait until the cost of genocide catches up with Te Pati o Empty Suits …
#nzpol
October 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Grant truly impresses me with his consistent & singular wrongness.
In what universe are readers enlightened by a boomer libertarian mansplaining why taking a position against genocide is “demagoguery” while quite literally engaging in demagoguery against a particular female politician?
#nzpol #stuff
October 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
All this appeasement on Gaza is really paying off.

We could probably shave a few % off that movie tariff if Luxon erased a century of social and environmental progr…

(checks feed)

… never mind.

#nzpol
October 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM
There really isn’t any moral test that Luxon can’t fail.

#nzpol
September 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
“Let them eat cake”?
#nzpol
August 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
So, they just bought the butter from the pic?
August 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
. . . a transfer of wealth from NZ teachers and nurses to the military industrial complex. #nzpol
August 21, 2025 at 7:25 AM
10x increase in ADHD prescriptions in Aotearoa in less than 2 decades.

Were we under-diagnosing then and/or are we over-treating now?

Or is something else afoot?

Your thoughts?

#adhd #nzhealth

graph from:
Beaglehole, Jarman & Frampton. NZ medical journal, Vol.137(1594), pp.23-30. 03/05/2024.
March 21, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Asking for a friend:

What happens when Hitachi meets Takeuchi?

#naughtybits #lol
March 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Just another day at the coal face. . .
February 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Indeed! It will be interesting to see if wage growth, downward drifting diesel costs (and likely egg production rebound) continue to pull these trend lines back together over the coming months.
February 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
1/2
From the (now ancient) 5th edition (2001) of Janeway’s Immunobiology I studied. Across 800+ pages, only this brief description of what became the foundation for mRNA vaccines.

I recall the lecturer opining that could this could revolutionize public health, but he suspected…
February 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Kia kaha, kia marie, haere ra nga wakarere o Aotearoa!
February 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM