Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A Tūī has joined our garden, taking command of the kōwhai beside the deck. Gorgeous. And a right shit. Every sparrow, finch, thrush and blackbird we’ve kept watered and fed over winter has been dive bombed, terrorised and chased off. They are all sitting glum and traumatised on the neighbors roof 051
Reposted by Auntie JoanSophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 05/09/2026There seems to be a cone of silence around climate change in the AoNZ media. All the better to spread misinformation and denial. Here's a piece on the looming El Nino. It's Australian but still relevant for us. #climatecrisis #biodiversitycrisis #nzpol 3188
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Going through my usual desire to move back to Dunedin and saw this beauty - first time on market since the owner built it in the 60s. I’d buy it and keep the wallpaper forever www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/r...trademe.co.nz97A Wickliffe Terrace, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, OtagoWhat an opportunity for home buyers. Built by the current owner in the 1960s, this sunny home is for sale for the first time. There is plenty more about the ... 7110
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Last day, thank you for the stunning weather Karitane, -2 when I got up to see the sun rise and now it’s t-shirt weather 000
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Mānawaita a Matariki from Karitane (way down in Te Waipounamu) Staying in an old 1920s hospital for shell shocked soldiers, hope this view soothed them, it’s doing wonders for me 4202
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Had a couple ants in the house yesterday and I was ‘it’s the end of May shouldn’t you be hibernating or something?’ 110
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Nz’s “democracy operates on an implicit social contract…a government that repeatedly destabilises workforces, reduces services and creates widespread insecurity will find that contract beginning to erode.” A great piece walking carefully through issues in a way that jo-public can understand #nzpol 1189
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Just found a brownie in the bottom of my handbag I forgot I bought yesterday but it was gluten free and not the good kind so the evening just took a downturn 030
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Standing in the same place spot in Raumati Beach looking south and north, like a curtain rain being drawn behind us 1164
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Balmy sunshine before that dark band of weather from the south (where usually you can see the silhouette of the South Island) hits us #kāpiti 1121
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Don’t understand what is going on or where things are at re fuel/the conflict? This will help. Nathan Surendran analyses the situation including global responses (energy chain and govts) and the repercussions for AoNZ. We need to be at Alert Level 2. And we need more communication of the issues. 020
Reposted by Auntie JoanDavid Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026To Jan 20th 2026 there have been 1779 paid ACC claims for vaccine injury from 14 million doses. We know this already. side effects are no surprise, but they are rare. e.g. there were 73 vax site infections. But knowing facts does not publicise "angry bloke in pub's reckons" for ACT & NZF 16514
Reposted by Auntie JoanChris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 06/03/2026If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch! 6764051739
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026The rolling of PMs when parties are doing poorly is yeah, ok. The warning is that the media will salivate over the rolling, not dissect the policy that lead to the bad polling and pivot to any new leader with breathless ‘new energy’, ‘turning the tide’ without addressing the policy issues. #nzpol 0144
Reposted by Auntie JoanRussell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 04/03/2026IT IS NOT THE JOB OF A PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN A DEMOCRACY TO REPORT THE NEWS IN A WAY THE GOVERNMENT LIKES. IT IS ESPECIALLY NOT OKAY FOR MINISTERS AND POLITICALLY-APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS TO DICATE INDIVIDUAL EDITORIAL DECISIONS. THIS SHOULD BE FUCKING OBVIOUS. 829082
Reposted by Auntie JoanKirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Bit late to it but if you want to know the chain of events that led to us importing gas (and charging electricity users to pay for it!!), I did this deep dive for RNZ last year www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...rnz.co.nzThe fuel of ‘last resort’: How imported gas became New Zealand’s first choiceIt's expensive, vulnerable to price shocks and terrible for the planet. So why are we importing gas? 715079
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026“Journalism is not just another profession. Society’s right to be well informed rests on our work. Freedom, equality and democracy depend on our work..” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comIf you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de MiguelLeaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel 010
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Took one look at Stuff’s reporting on Waitangi and closed the app. Bloody hell. Until we get a media that isn’t immature and partisan we are not going to see any adult conversations about politics or the massive challenges facing this country yes I was a dumbass for reading Stuff #nzpol 080
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I’m seeing Aucklanders complain about the humidity and I stuck the heater on today wtf 030
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I’ve been reflecting on GP care. Went the other day. $85 (10 mins) It’s always the same pattern. Kinda response to issue.. (small but not resolved), ask me if I want prescriptions renewed, then check when my mammogram/cervical smear is due. 1/3 190
Reposted by Auntie Joanannaksage.bsky.social @annaksage.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Key dates for the general election. #NZPol #Vote26 065
Reposted by Auntie JoanBridget Williams Books @bwbnz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026'The idea of Māori privilege continues to be deployed in order to constrain Māori aspirations and maintain the power imbalance that colonisation achieved in the nineteenth century.' Peter Meihana's 'Privilege in Perpetuity' is reprinted and back in bookshops! www.bwb.co.nz/books/privileg... 1309
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026There’s a lot of talk about political parties, policy and positioning - usual election year articles starting to ramp up. But there are two things that are pivotal that will drive any election result 1) Will the mainstream media hold the govt to account? 1/2 #nzpol 133
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Going outside to clean out (again) the two large lasagne dishes I intended as bird watering stations which they use as swimming pools as apparently they quite like to swim and shit at the same time 030
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026In spite of everything, at flaxroots there are so many people going amazing work everyday to support others. Marae and [good] churches and mosques and temples and community groups and just good bloody people quietly holding the threads together best they can. You can’t break it. It perseveres. 050
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026It used to be like the media was ‘I don’t remember what the govt did ten years ago that relates to this very thing happening now’ and now it’s like ‘ I don’t remember what the govt did last year that is directly responsible for this thing I am horrified about’ 020
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Seeing articles on homelessness. In 2020 the NZ govt launched an evidence based, fully funded Homelessness Action Plan. It had support of iwi, local govt and communities. It recognised the complexity and trauma of intergenerational poverty. So please journalists, ask what happened to that … 1/2 19043
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026I know most of NZ has crazy weather today, either extreme heat or extreme wind But here on the Kāpiti coast it’s windy and a pleasant 22ish… but weirdly MENACING 280
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026A good thing to do right now is turn off auto play on videos 062
Reposted by Auntie Joanmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die. 333231547021
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026There’s a builder next door and I don’t know if he’s just an angry man, an Australian or he keeps hammering his thumb but he’s yelling fucking effing c every five minutes and its ruining my wfh serenity 240
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I’m finding the Metlink timetable really unclear on if trains are running or if they are all bus replacements Anyone used trains on the Kāpiti line this week? 000
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026The Manage My Health breach has exposed how inept many are with comms/incident management. My GP practice has been silent. So I went to its website and saw that it has just put up a banner directing people to MMH app FAQs. Just says ‘You may have heard about a thing- go here’ Incredibly poor. 050
Reposted by Auntie JoanPhil Twyford @philtwyford.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The New Zealand Labour Party condemns the US attack on Venezuela including kidnapping its president as a blatant violation of international law. 31594146
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 04/01/2026First day back and I’m gazing out the window into the sunshine and contemplating the existential angst of working. It’s not even 9am yet. 151
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 04/01/2026This is a good watch. Her view on why Trump did it? 1. Yes, a cornered president and administration desperately seeking distraction (from Epstein files, economic issues, poor polling) and 2. A resource grab/corruption grift but also… 1/2 130
Reposted by Auntie JoanDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 17/12/2025Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today. 1570823051
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Oh FFS another dumbass bird just came in! Sort your shit out you feathered muppets I can’t stand the trauma 060
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 02/01/2026There are a whole lot of teenage birds around at the moment making dumb decisions A young thrush just walked into the lounge Or maybe it flew in, I dunno I was in the other room. And it checked out my Thai monstera (why??) and got stuck on the fungus gnat sticky trap 1/2 170
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Right, sound track for 2026 What’s the song you want to go into battle with? www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9ea...youtube.comMidnight Oil - Forgotten Years (Official Video)YouTube video by MidnightOilVEVO 032
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025For those wondering about the Manage My Health data breach, the thread below is helpful. If you are wondering what to do - well, nothing really. As an individual using the app, I’m just waiting to see how quickly MMH management sort their comms out, which at the moment, are pretty shit. 020
Reposted by Auntie JoanMusical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 30/12/2025A few requests for 2026 forecasts. So, quick 🧵 of reckons. First up, we are at the *bottom of the cycle*. Like we were in 1992, 2000, and 2009. What causes these ups and downs? Animal spirits? Brief flashes of entrepreneurial genius? Well, mostly we blow in the winds of the global economy... [1/n] 1327
Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Toilet window just slammed shut which is our early klaxon warning for here comes the fucking wind 140