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1. The responses to this illustrate a point I've been making for years: namely, that people tend to view the causation behind what is asserted here as binary. It was *either* the societal non-pharmaceutical interventions (notably, the lockdowns) *or*...

@southstarbrew @Becs There's a series called Firebite about zombies in the outback. Strong Indigenous cast and storyline, absolutely an underrated classic (of Indigenous and zombie genres).

@Becs Gif was just a little window dressing, tweet inspired by real life Australians in 2026. I do love The Castle although not sure I agree with your wider conjecture about the quality of films.

It's funny at a certain level Australia is a bigger badder harder more grimy place than NZ but then it is also a place where people publicly and un-ironically refer to their partners as "hubby" and "wifey".

@Becs Don't mention it to straight guys. They fkn hate it🤣

when I get to Vancouver do I have to explain my Heated Rivalry thirst?

@danielneljack @petetweetsshit Went to war against Bolsheviks and shat on his own workers but what do I know. Just a bit of history.

@petetweetsshit "Bad right-wing guy is actually left-wing" is one of the stupidist genres of right-wing posts

Guy who thinks the Nazi’s were left wing:

@PouTepou @TheZeitgeistNZ Meet him once. Was warned he smells. He does! Mofo doesn't wear deodorant.

@TheZeitgeistNZ So when Taine came back from being a migrant, he was concerned about migrants

Taine Randell says “he’d had concerns about the “mass immigration” he’d witnessed since returning to New Zealand, claiming it had a “huge effect on our culture” and pointing to the growing demand on infrastructure.” Thank you Taine! Read more - archive.ph/7U1No

@sirkrisnz @dpfdpf 'Screw', you don't screw the crew.

@dpfdpf Never dip your pen in company ink. Don't shit where you eat. Don't do the crew. All concepts that were around pre 1996.

Asking someone if you can kiss them, and when they say no, not kissing them is hardly a scandal.

@Tanmedia @secondzeit "A man who doesn't read the news is uninformed. A man who reads the news is poorly informed." Probably applies to women too.

@secondzeit Media, advertising, entertainment - all industries that spend much time patting themselves on the back but often only to impress those nearest to them. Smacks of insecurity.

This is bad news for many people on Twitter: Trust in news rises after years of decline in NZ. What’s behind the shift? theconversation.com/trust-in-news-…

@GutterTwits @MrHilariouskiwi That would automatically be my father's birthday story 🤣 I paid $32 for two handles of Panhead Supercharger at the Amberly Hotel, Nth Canterbury. He went on about it for months!

@MrHilariouskiwi @slambert360 I was AKL two weeks ago for my dad's birthday and paid NZ$63 for three fkn beers at the Viaduct.

Fkn hell, since when did a price of can of Heineken cost $7.50.....??

@MrHilariouskiwi @GutterTwits $18.50 for a 'pint' of Emerson's Bookbinder 2 weeks ago in Wellington (St. John's bar). Would normally have 2 (it's 3.7%) but $37 for 2 beers??! Nah.

@GutterTwits Where? At a bar or at the supermarket?

@Raffiatim @RusselNorman No just the phosphate. We'd have to go industrial scale for compost but why not?

@slambert360 @RusselNorman Ah sorry I thought you meant there were environmental concerns manufacturing our own compost

@RusselNorman - is there any way NZ can build up its own fertiliser/compost supply to replace imports?? If so how, & how long would it take to get sufficent supply?

@Raffiatim @RusselNorman It's on, or under, the seabed. No way to get it without trashing the marine environment.

@slambert360 @RusselNorman Environmental damage?

@Raffiatim @RusselNorman Just pointing out we have the resource. Efforts stymied by concerns for environmental damage. Surprised it hasn't come up in the last month.

@slambert360 @RusselNorman Good (I suppose?) ... but be good to ramp up safe sustainable methods.

Pedo-adjacent

@southstarbrew Blenheimer Muller Thurgau

This was a good doco. I was interested to see NZ wines were on the list at the Seagram Four Seasons Restaurant in New York in 1959.

@BenThomasNZ @sootytweet Draft legislation continues advisory roles for Māori. Govt pathologically opposed to Māori being in decision-making roles even when its literally life and death.

@sootytweet Yep this is the same thing. Idk about reimbursement pre Gabrielle. On the point about being included in CD planning- doesn’t that make sense? I’d think the golf club should be too ideally. re say funding a generator, that makes prima facie sense for a known hub in an emergencies?

@BenThomasNZ Cyclone Gabrielle Māori Communities Response Fund share.google/Sifhi1todAPcxP…

@gaye_ess Could always read the research journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

I've done a deep dive into the original project of playing whale sounds to sick kauri trees. I'll post on it later, but for now, know this: it was based on Maori legends -whales and kauri trees were "brothers", from a time when whales walked the land. Yep, over 4 million dollars of taxpayer's money was spent by academics from learning institutions on the idea that whales once had legs, and trees currently have ears. Let that sink in.. #nzpol

@FXMC1957 Enjoyed it a lot. And he really did seem nice. Makes a cameo appearance in the movie 'Human Traffic'.

10 April 2016. Welsh-born Howard Marks died (aged 70). After his release from prison, on a charge of drug dealing, he wrote a best selling autobiography called Mr Nice which was turned into a film. He also campaigned for the legalisation of cannabis.

@MusicalChairs14 @NMowbray23 Anyone can become a billionaire which is not as reassuring as it should be.

@NMowbray23 What a blithering idiot. How do you look at the country's balance sheet and decide that the problem is Govt debt? That little pink stub on the left, which is easily overpowered by the financial assets held by the very same Govt?

What a GREAT article by Bruce. Oil crisis: Why New Zealand needs a ‘kamikaze Cabinet’ to fix the economy – Bruce Cotterill nzherald.co.nz/business/econo…

@BenThomasNZ Marae fill a gap that should not have to be filled. I know of one that was asked by authorities (who are funded for this) to house homeless people during a recent emergency.

What’s more, the purest goddamn expression of the kind of New Zealand people like the OP say they miss and want to return to - where everyone is treated equally, people take care of their neighbours, blah blah

Marae are emergency shelters, not because of wokeness or (non-existent) govt funding or policy, but bc they voluntarily open their doors & pantries to local communities without being asked in disasters (thru earthquakes, terrorism, flooding) - ur free not to take up the offer