Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A bit rich, coming from a paper that Kiwi-washes the dystopian fever dreams American oligarchs by platforming TPU, Curia, Atlas … #astroturf #nzpol 0187
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Just leaving this as a marker of a certain moment in the “before” time. 010
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This is an American solution to a universal problem. As a hospital worker, I appreciate the work of security. But research clearly points to other root causes, all of which this govt fails to address. As with the push to hire more prison guards, this govt prioritizes force, not knowledge or care. 110
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Unless the Post editors are willing to spend 10x the ink on how the Coalition restricting voter access erodes the foundation of democracy itself, this is nothing more than racism in respectable clothing. #nzpol 46321
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Alas, the Penk Pity Party cannot end until Damien has sounded a final howl of white male fragility. Stuff will now return you to your regularly scheduled neoliberal stenographers. #nzpol 181
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Just gonna leave this here in case any actual journalists are keen to ask PM Bishop a follow up question. #nzpol 010
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I’m curious, Damien, is it as painful as watching a woman die freezing under a bridge because of his policies? #nzpol 2017146
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 08/04/2026To be fair to Winnie, it’s hard to speak at all whilst boot licking. #nzpol 2123
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Again, there is no moral test that Luxon cannot fail. #nzpol 5349
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Willis has the look of someone figuring out what “regime change” actually means. Unfortunately for us, she has no clue how to handle any of this. Remember: #ETTD #nzpol 042
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 16/03/2026“among one of the best pandemic responses in the world” notes the (2nd!) Royal Commission I clearly remember how collectively frightened, but determined, NZ felt going into COVID We enter the current crisis with mean, self-pitying leadership and a Trumpian “idea of a plan” This ends poorly #nzpol 041
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Opens today’s Post: —Malpass’ turd-polishing prose (and sooo much of it!) —Willis’ desperate spin on the limits of deficit spending and crisis response —Soft filter power pose This is gonna get ugly, and soon, and they know it. #nzpol 1173
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 06/03/2026World War III: Psychopath reality TV star vs psychopath nepo baby. #worsttimeline 120
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Oooh, I know this one! 1. Blame Labour 2. More tax cuts for the rich and more austerity for the rest of us 3. Enlist media hacks like Malpass to “explain” this to us #nzpol 52912
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026What a pathetic stance for a head of state. Basically, “I’m too uninformed and bereft of a moral compass to comment.” Again, there is no moral test that Luxon can’t fail. #nzpol 1/2 2296
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026🙄The sane-washing the media does for right wing war mongers. There is no plan. 020
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 14/01/2026She’s in her lane: reserve banking Winston’s in his: tosser Nothing to see here. Perhaps the media should stop feeding this troll … #nzpol 070
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 13/01/2026From March 2025. Just gonna leave Luxon’s “I trust Donald Trump” here to remind you how f&$@‘d we all are. #nzpol 1186
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 15/11/2025… in which Smithers explains why Springfield loves Mr Burns. #nzpol #lolibertarians 75914
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Wait until the cost of genocide catches up with Te Pati o Empty Suits … #nzpol 0100
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Grant 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 1101
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 01/10/2025All 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 0131
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 27/09/2025There really isn’t any moral test that Luxon can’t fail. #nzpol 68922
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 21/08/2025. . . a transfer of wealth from NZ teachers and nurses to the military industrial complex. #nzpol 0124
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 21/03/202510x 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. 340
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Asking for a friend: What happens when Hitachi meets Takeuchi? #naughtybits #lol 010
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Indeed! 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. 030
Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 16/02/20251/2 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… 100
