As Poxy Posie tries to spread her hate in NZ, it seems like a great day to celebrate on NZ Twitter that I’m non-binary. Only my partner and Mum have known up til now. In my tiny world it’s a *huge* thing to discover in your early 50’s!

Massive migraine today... but this my chest right now 🥰

Kitten wrestling on my lap 🥰

Sure farmers don’t catch the subsidised bus, but public transport users don’t get their livestock emissions totally subsidised so go figure

And just like that… we are a whanau of six 🥰🥰🥰

On our way home ...with new whanau!!!

What I’d say to you is, how dare you ask me a question suggesting a number of economists have said the $2.9b tax cut for landlords put us into recession, and then try to talk over me as I not answer the question. Show some frickin respect would you!

Three sleeps til we meet 🥰

Never related to a cat more in my life 😴

Hickey nails it. Net interest is about 2% of government revenue, and the Crown's assets beat its debt by $185bn. The "no choice" line is a ghost story, the bond vigilante myth I pulled apart on Substack. It's a political choice, not a fiscal limit. Scoop: NZ Govt has more assets than debt, by @bernardchickey open.substack.com/pub/thekak…

RT @HelenClarkNZ: Unless NZ Police know something that’s not in the public arena, this reaction seems over the top. When Don Brash & Tim Gr…

Oh my... these wee babes may be coming to join our whanau on Saturday 😭😭😭💜

Wow! 😭

Richard Murphy is exactly right, and the same analysis applies with equal force to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. When energy prices rise due to a war in the Middle East, the RBNZ did not cause that problem, and neither did New Zealand workers or households. Yet the orthodox response - raise the OCR, slow the economy, increase unemployment, weaken wage bargaining - deliberately transfers the cost of an external supply shock onto the people least responsible for it and least able to bear it. That is not monetary policy. That is class policy dressed in technical language. The MMT framing makes this even clearer. Interest rate rises do not create more oil. They do not resolve geopolitical conflicts. What they reliably do is redistribute income upward - to those holding financial assets, to banks earning on reserves, to mortgage lenders - while compressing demand by making borrowing more expensive for households and businesses already under pressure. The inflation that followed Covid and the Ukraine war was always supply-side in origin. It passed as supply chains normalised, exactly as heterodox economists predicted. The rate rises that followed added a demand destruction crisis on top of a supply shock and called it responsible management. New Zealand is not an exception to this pattern. The RBNZ raised rates aggressively into a supply-driven inflation episode, tipped the economy into recession, pushed unemployment up, and watched inflation fall anyway - as it always does when the underlying supply shock resolves. The lesson was not learned. If the Iran conflict drives another energy price shock, the appropriate responses are targeted fiscal support for affected households, windfall taxes on those profiting from the disruption, and accelerated investment in energy resilience. Higher interest rates would simply add a second, policy-made crisis to the first. Murphy is right to call it what it is: an ideology that has no solution to supply shocks except making ordinary people poorer.

버버리가 고양이와 협업했다. 고양이는 양모 펠트로 만들어졌고, 움직임은 스톱모션이다. 그런데 털실을 가지고 노는 모습이 너무 자연스러워서 한 번 더 보게 된다.

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy. One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what?? The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you. Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

Make sure you’re enrolled early. This govt is looking to reduce the voter base of those less likely to vote for them. @chrisluxonmp @dbseymour @winstonpeters @NicolaWillisMP @GerryBrownleeMP @SimeonBrownMP @PaulGoldsmithMP

Thank you Lucy Cooper from @the_postnz for your comprehensive report on taxpayer money being used to fund branded bags given to schools It is appreciated as🦗🦗 from other Media thepost.co.nz/nz-news/361018…