David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Saturday Mornings with Kerri Woodham, and we’re bringing back Leighton Smith to give The Panel a bit more edge 8506
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If we're talking about the spring forward events of 2026, 2025 and 2024 you might call them "daylight savings" But if you just mean today, sorry to shout but IT'S JUST FRICKEN DAYLIGHT SAVING 2224
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026been more or less immobilised all week by a cold and I fucking hate it. big apologies if you're a subscriber, hoping I'll be back on deck soon 5340
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 20/09/202696% of NZ First policy is sustained by Vitamin Seethe 24511
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I become a deer culler -- Flynn becomes a pig-dog -- That healthy outdoor life -- Some good keen men -- I meet Harry -- Trouser trouble -- I hunt the cocky's pigs with Jim -- I meet legs -- In for my chop -- Harry again -- A good keen dog -- Two prize heads -- Wilmer 152
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The difference between Christopher “cry me a river” Luxon and Marie “let them eat cake” Antoinette is that she was misquoted 1024369
Reposted by David SlackPatrick Morgan @patrickmorgan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Meet Olivia. She's hosting Cycle Forward, a fundraising event on Te Ara Tupua next weekend. @cyclewgtn.bsky.social #cyclingwitholivia 22112
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A bunch of quizzes www.davidslack.net/election-2026/davidslack.netElection 2026Test your knowledge 041
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Back in 1936 Luxon's own party Nationalised the Tories 1105
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Can’t tell if this is a news story or the cover of an Airport novel 7739
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026How's your recall? www.davidslack.net/pm-fibs/ Which of these did Nats actually deliver? A. Funding 13 new cancer treatments in its first Budget B. 500 extra police officers within two years C. Banning cellphones in schools D. $250 a fortnight in tax relief for the average household 83717
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026www.davidslack.net/pm-fibs/davidslack.netFibs my PM told meOut on the campaign trail last election the National Party talked a big game. How much was actual pony and how much has turned out to be just horseshit? 1218
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 02/09/2026How fast would you run screaming from the hospital if these two told you: "We're here to do your brain surgery"? Would you even be confident they could hang out your washing without fucking it up? 4412
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Newspaper founded to argue the side of the colonisers' Waikato Invasion remains simpering handmaiden to vested interests with dismal agenda 0215
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Thinking about mythical figures The Duke of Wellington, who fought the Battle of Waterloo singlehanded Eisenhower, who fought his way up multiple Normandy beaches entirely on his own And Chris Penk, who was the only one who thought Luxon was too woefully dismal to go on being our Prime Minister 3476
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 30/08/2026National Party: "Just re-elect us you fricken dimwitted ingrates, here's a Moro bar to make it worth your while." 0333
Reposted by David SlackBSanya @msfitnz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The most incredible poem of 2026, surely newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/30/t...newsroom.co.nzThe most incredible poem of 2026, surelyAn epic memoir told in four-line stanzas. 042
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Free to share www.davidslack.net/borrow-story/davidslack.netTrainwreck debt quizChristopher Luxon is forever talking about the colossal economic train wreck the last government left and this gets repeated as certain fact. But what are the actual numbers? 53733
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Christopher Luxon is forever talking about the colossal economic train wreck the last government left and this gets repeated as certain fact. But what are the actual numbers? www.davidslack.net/borrow-story/davidslack.netTrainwreck debt quizChristopher Luxon is forever talking about the colossal economic train wreck the last government left and this gets repeated as certain fact. But what are the actual numbers? 119446
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 24/08/2026When the aliens arrived and started eating our brains, I didn't stand by and do nothing. I took to them with fly spray, more and more fly spray, as much as I could find, and saying loudly to everyone: “We simply cannot accept the harm being done to a generation of New Zealand children.” 1150
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Well there’s a coincidence. I’d hate to see our parliament become a dumping ground for crap CEOs 915737
Reposted by David SlackKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/202614 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion! 303109291844
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 15/08/2026On the MMP Luxon was blurting about www.davidslack.net/just-let-me-...davidslack.netJust Let Me Get On With ItThe world is full of impatient people, drumming their fingers in irritation tap tap tap on table, tap tap tap on their steering wheel tap sighing loudly at the inconvenience of all the stupid people h... 0151
Reposted by David SlackCEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This country spent seven years carefully establishing a water regulatory framework and setting up large nationalised water organisations to give effective scale, and then three years cancelling that and bodging together 40 really expensive water companies to make anti-Māori racists feel better. 27927
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 13/08/2026We can't bring you footage of the court proceedings, but here are two warthogs fighting over a naked mole rat 0120
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Just like McDonalds employee of the month, yesterday's caucus vote was a demonstration of how you can be both a winner and a loser at the same time 3180
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 13/08/2026If you mean you're sorry for the gouging and please come back from Wise, go and get stuffed, you had your chance 1140
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Blindingly obvious that Chris Penk acted alone and none of the senior ministers were into it. Also gravity is bulllshit and Santa is real. 1612816
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Liam Hehir only has a voice for radio in the sense that you might want to use a radio to scare away bats 4361
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Vox pop on RNZ has some drone intoning the wisdom that “people forget the country was in a mess” and Luxon is great because “he’s running the country like a business” and I bet you if you asked him for even three bits of data to support this he’d have no fucking clue 7596
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026www.davidslack.net/diary-of-the... What I saw at the stunted spilldavidslack.netDiary of the last 36 hoursWhat I saw at the stunted spill 0151
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The following is a list of all the simmering issues addressed comprehensively by the three hour discussion in today's caucus - Who is the current leader? This concludes the list of all the simmering issues addressed comprehensively by the three hour discussion in today's caucus 0383
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It's going to be proper Red Wedding if it's Winston who comes out 2496
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Luxon enters third hour of explaining what the fuck go out there and smack it and go create the road means 56911
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 11/08/2026National party mulls appointment of turnaround expert Chris Luxon to fix the clusterfuck left by turnaround expert Chris Luxon 37317
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Mark Mitchell might ask "what would Grandad have done?" 050
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Luxon has given the same electric jolt to the nation that the Hillman Hunter gave to motoring 3334
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If they’re shit at everything else they do, sort of follows they’ll be shit at this too 0192
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 11/08/2026www.davidslack.net/signifying-n...davidslack.netSignifying nothingA few ideas about National Party leadership 5112
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 11/08/2026In honour of his serial word-mangling it's not going to be a SPILL it's going to be a BUCKETISING GOING FORWARD 2456
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Man brings sledgehammer down on his foot, rejects suggestions he is not good with sledgehammers Man brings sledgehammer down on his foot again, rebuffs questions about his hammer skills Man brings sledgehammer down on his foot once more, says defiantly to everyone going WTF, "WHAT??" 95914
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Coming up next in Cartoon Government: Mr Weasel replaces Mr Wile E Luxon who lies imobilised beneath 15 ACME anvils 5275
Reposted by David Slack🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 09/08/2026"but no one seems to have any bright ideas how to fix this sorry mess". The Greens have comprehensive policy statements publicly available on their website, but cleary Verity would rather pull shit out of her arse than do the bare minimum research. You never have to hand it to Verity. 25010
Reposted by David SlackCuriousCat @felissapien.bsky.social · 09/08/2026“Time and time again we are seeing money pour into our democratic system, threatening to drown the broader public interest under narrow vested interests. Our democracy is at risk of drowning in a flood of money.” #nzpol www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...greenpeace.orgCleaning up politics in Aotearoa for planet and people - Greenpeace AotearoaSomething is rotten in the state of Aotearoa. We like to think of our country’s politics as pretty clean, but is it? There is fundamental tension in our political system between democracy and money. I... 0107
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Air Force puts on cheer-up plane ride for entirety of NZers who still think Luxon is any good 4536
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Got to hand it to Prime Minister KPI. You keep thinking “well you couldn’t put in a worse week than that” and then he comes right back the next week and digs even further down towards Valencia 5624
