On the plus side, a candidate is finally standing against woke playgrounds
On the plus side, a candidate is finally standing against woke playgrounds
This wrecked my evening
Supporters of the Christ Church Cathedral got a report claiming a repair would generate $1 - $5 of economic value for every New Zealander purely because of the increase in vibes lol
When will supporters commission a report claiming vast economic benefits from this bridge’s intangible vibe.
How is there no lore for the Teletubbies. They just dropped these hideous beasts on us with no contextual information.
Technically no one - she co-owns Stuff Digital with Trademe and owns all of Masthead Publishing.
Just adding that reporters are not the most sympathetic lot but the media would be more robust/competent if pay and conditions were improved and it was seen as a viable career for more people.
Wonderful corporate citizen found wanting
Stuff split its company in two and is using that as an excuse to divide the union. This industry has eroded beyond recognition and workers, not management, are bearing the cost of that www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Tubby Hansen candidate statement just dropped
Not until the late 1990s. And since then they don’t have to fully fund depreciation.
Thank you! Mike is a legend.
It’s also hard to research and then explain substantive issues when you’ve also got three stories a day to write to meet the click quota or whatever
Yes he is most definitely not racist
Tbh I’m increasingly seeing this as the defining media failure of recent memory (myself included). Lots of debate to be had about the reform policy itself but the co-governance element was radically misrepresented with very little pushback.
Three waters and Three Waters are different things
Three waters has become a financial disaster for some councils. I spoke to a five-term mayor who says it has wrecked his council and the current reforms appear to be failing www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Okay, this is getting scary. No one could plausibly detect that I generated this with AI.
To make sure no one is confused, I will from now on be referring to the Rakaia by its English name, the Cholmondeley River
Yes, that is optimal, but the state of journalism is such that people who do that sort of reporting are close to non-existent. In this specific case the information is accurate - it would be a totally different matter if it wasn’t.
The only evidence is that the link itself was supplied by ChatGPT, not any of the text, which is functionally no different from googling something. The original post is misleading.
Definitely can’t rule out the former, but the link being from ChatGPT is not evidence of that. I’m personally sceptical given I don’t think I’ve ever successfully preserved a hyperlink I’ve copied into Stuff’s CMS.
ChatGPT provided the link to the Wikipedia article. The hyper-linked text, probably written by the reporter, accurately summarises that article. I do not see the problem.
I don’t see how this is different from a reporter googling mega-tsunami and finding the Wikipedia page, which no one would take issue with.
Kelvyn Alp claims to be the leader of NZ Loyal, despite it being deregistered. The party’s founder, Liz Gunn, has accused him of stealing it. www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...
Iconic new quote from the Prime Minister just dropped www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
The most expensive house in Christchurch belongs to the owner of a Pak ‘n Save, if there’s any doubt about the capacity to make money from a duopoly www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
This hoax began circulating in 2021. It is widely known to be fake. This video was posted a month ago. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_...
A former MP repeats the viral hoax that some classrooms have litter boxes for kids who identify as cats. He then complains about people letting their beliefs usurp reality. Incredible.
Media Council rules that you can put the c-word in the newspaper (context dependent) www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/bob-...
We use it for long stories that are difficult to illustrate with photos. I can’t see it being common outside of that.
Pandemic-era protest groups are creating council watchdogs and concerned ratepayer groups ahead of upcoming elections. VFF has created a handbook for candidates with talking points focusing on rates rises and bike lanes. Much different from last time. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Dunedin closes with more than 50 candidates running for 14 council seats. We need a programme to export democracy-loving Dunedites to other regional centres to run for office.
why do you think they were too busy to enter? and not a conspiracy, just indifference
Curious www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Is this a good time to remember that a similar subduction zone sits about 20km beneath Wellington
Magnitude 8.7. A real stonker. Absolute ripsnorter.
Richard Sivell sentenced to 11 months in prison. Featuring a great quote from his mum, via a text message to him: “Richard, you promised not to kill anyone.” www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
They're not even hiding it anymore www.thepress.co.nz/food-drink/3...
Had to rawdog a crumpet due to the price of butter. Revolting.
I'm detecting a subtle theme here
www.thepress.co.nz/business/360...
Simon Upton scathing on Government's proposals for freshwater reforms, accusing it of chasing 'quick wins' at the expense of coherent and enduring policy www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Interesting numbers: 63% in a recent poll said they thought Ardern's leadership during the pandemic was "good" or "very good", compared to 23% who said it was "poor" or "very poor". Pretty solid given how quickly memories fade. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Dunedin already has 26 people running for council seats and seven mayoral candidates. That's more than Christchurch and Wellington and similar to Auckland.
Yeah, there's evidently no rift here. Wayne Wright had a very chummy interview with Sean in May and he repeatedly referred to The Platform as "we" and "us". He owns most of the business. I'm guessing this is playing games with the word "funding".
Nice to have balance - using your wealth to support women and kids, but also to fund someone who jokes about women and kids starving to death.
I've never seen a headline more in need of an asterisk than this one
Love this company but I draw the line at milk flavoured ice cream.
The pie awards are biased against the South Island and I’m tired of pretending they’re not
In the spirit of this exciting new frontier of journalism, I asked ChatGPT to give an honest analysis of Wishart's most recent article about extreme weather attribution.
Turns out if you ask ChatGPT to examine the study on its own merits, and don't prime it to say what you want, it gives a different response. Who would have thought.
AI is responsible for many stupid things, but this is surely one of the stupidest.
Poetry in @thepress.co.nz letters
I’ve re-watched that Leka Halasima try about 10 times today. No idea how he made those last 15 metres.
Incredible book.
Only Sam Bailey has had hers cancelled, I think. Others have had licences temporarily suspended or have opted to go unregistered.
Anyway, if you were wondering if Covid stuff was getting even dumber somehow, yes it is.
He also says he's aware of a vaccinated person who became "so magnetised she was sent to hospital". "Only the US, Slovakia and possibly the Philippines have started to face reality" about the truth of the pandemic, he concludes. Goof stuff.
Group member Matt Shelton, who met with Winston Peters and has claimed credit for this inquiry happening at all, says there is "clear evidence that both the injection and the illness itself were being lined up well before 2020".
Later, in the same document, a contributor uses the term "Jewess" for some reason
Reading the submission by NZDSOS to the Covid inquiry and it's a truly strange document. It implies that a holocaust of the non-vaccinated was prevented only due to the Canadian truckers.
Hm, I wonder what the significance of her maiden name is. What could it possibly be.
Tubby has also advocated for reducing speed limits to 50kmh (even on motorways), two birthdays a year, euthanising criminals, being polite to bus drivers, hosting Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at separate hotels at Lake Te Anau, re-introducing the strap, and a "menopause benefit for exhausted women"
Incidentally, Tubby proposed a 5% rates cap in 2013 - a policy the current mayor recently endorsed. He is perpetually ahead of his time.
Tubby Hansen, an obnoxious and sneaky man popularly known as "His Royal Slyness", is running in his 19th consecutive Christchurch local body election.
Good to see this finally settled. I have no further questions.
Check out this very well argued and written piece by award-winning environmental journalist @comingupcharlie.bsky.social arguing against the de-extinction of moa www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607... @stuff.co.nz
Frankenmoa and the fantasy of undoing extinction www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Damn, Turkish Grok went off
Asked about Jeffrey Epstein, Trump replies: "I can't believe you're asking a question on Epstein at a time like this where we've had the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas." "It just seems like a desecration."
Sad to hear that Dr Hilary Stace has died - she was a brilliant historian and advocate for disability rights www.whaikaha.govt.nz/news/news/ac...
Must be nice knowing that the worst thing the best-resourced newsroom in the world can dig up about you is that you accurately filled out a form as a teenager www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...
I admittedly haven’t been to the Zanzibar slave museum but I suspect this might be trivialising it somewhat
"Teething problems" they told me. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
lmao
Great idea. Cathedral Square is a wasteland, even with the Southern Hemisphere's finest building overlooking it. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
I had a great chat with @comingupcharlie.bsky.social about why some people reject germ theory in favour of alternative views like ‘terrain theory’, and make a brief appearance in this deep dive into the NZ influencers promoting these ideas. Well worth a read. 👇
The Baileys went from being conventional medical doctors to sovereign citizens who deny germ theory. They now have a popular Substack where they have advised cancer patients to not get chemotherapy and for people with mental illnesses to go off their meds www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
We are now two resignations away from having an MP who suggested dead vaccinated people emit bluetooth signals and confessed she once "genuinely thought 9/11 was real” www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
www.1news.co.nz/2025/06/24/i...
The baby boomers love being nuclear free but I think most of the rest of us are fine with it/can be convinced
Wondering if New Zealand should tuck away a nuclear weapon or two, just in case
The statement includes the father's response to a journalist, which expressly calls the focus on gender a "misdirection". Does anyone believe that a group called 'Resist Gender Education' agrees?
This situation is catastrophically sad. As grieving parents are trying to de-emphasise the role their child's gender identity played in his death, a lobby group devoted to gender identity swoops in as their de-facto press officer.
If a cat getting a community board award cheapens it just wait until the complainant finds out who gets knighthoods www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Another strange detail not mentioned here: The co-author of the book, Rebecca Keillor, is married to Tameem Bakarat, who runs The Centrist. So they're not exactly just hands off backers as is being implied www.nzherald.co.nz/business/med...
plump wife guy
Yes. He’s 92.
Admittedly he lost me when he started having a go at trans people. Hard case to make when your whole thing is pretending to be a wizard.
The ‘counter-cultural artist to tedious Facebook reactionary’ pipeline is real
Love how sensitively you handled this - great job, as always. It’s chilling that he probably knew about this one-party consent loophole because he was a journalist.
Appreciation to the sex workers for talking to me because they knew this was in the public interest. And I think we need to have a conversation about some of the wider issues here.
The Daily Mail has committed an incalculable number of journalistic sins but this may be the worst one yet
Remember, this government wants 10% of infrastructure spending in the next 25 years for a single road. Not transport spending; all infrastructure spending.
I’m sorry but a member of the current government rejecting a transport project because “economically it doesn’t stack up” is beyond parody
A poem by the great Brian Turner comes to mind - “Born here, buggered it up.” Department of Conservation proposes cutting 84 jobs, primarily affecting women www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
