Garth Biggs
@garthbiggs.bsky.social
Male, pale, allegedly stale. Lefty, semi-retired former IT programmer, turned business leader and company director. Opinions are all mine.
BREAKING: Waikato Regional Authority responsibilities and authorities to be sold to Serco.
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
BREAKING: Waikato Regional Authority responsibilities and authorities to be sold to Serco.
Made my go-to salad the other day - cucumber, green beans, jelly bean tomatoes, feta, olives, and beetroot - and was shocked to discover we’re very good friends with someone who won’t eat beetroot. This is surely un-kiwi?
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Made my go-to salad the other day - cucumber, green beans, jelly bean tomatoes, feta, olives, and beetroot - and was shocked to discover we’re very good friends with someone who won’t eat beetroot. This is surely un-kiwi?
Golf is so weird. Huge swathes of landscape culled and privatised because men are too scared to just ask their friend if they want to go for a walk.
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Golf is so weird. Huge swathes of landscape culled and privatised because men are too scared to just ask their friend if they want to go for a walk.
From an article about walking in the New York Times: “Those who regularly walked longer than 15 minutes were 80 percent less likely to die from any cause”.
Somehow I don’t think this is accurate…….
Somehow I don’t think this is accurate…….
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
From an article about walking in the New York Times: “Those who regularly walked longer than 15 minutes were 80 percent less likely to die from any cause”.
Somehow I don’t think this is accurate…….
Somehow I don’t think this is accurate…….
Young woman with 2cm-long fingernails on the ferry. She sticks her cellphone to the window, turns on some sort of mirror effect, and spends the forty minute trip perfecting her false eyebrows, makeup and the lie of her hair.
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Young woman with 2cm-long fingernails on the ferry. She sticks her cellphone to the window, turns on some sort of mirror effect, and spends the forty minute trip perfecting her false eyebrows, makeup and the lie of her hair.
Apparently the emergency signal on the ferry is seven short blasts of the horn, followed by a long blast. Why not really stretch it out and make it ten short and three long? It’s not like you’ll be in a hurry during an emergency.
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Apparently the emergency signal on the ferry is seven short blasts of the horn, followed by a long blast. Why not really stretch it out and make it ten short and three long? It’s not like you’ll be in a hurry during an emergency.
The Occidental in Vulcan Lane, Auckland was deservedly packed tonight.
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The Occidental in Vulcan Lane, Auckland was deservedly packed tonight.
National Party announce new policy - first $30,000 of all incomes to be tax free. To be phased in starting in 2180.
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 AM
National Party announce new policy - first $30,000 of all incomes to be tax free. To be phased in starting in 2180.
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C’mon, they stand for road-building, fishing, and mining company owners who smoke and own numbers of rental properties.
C’mon, they stand for road-building, fishing, and mining company owners who smoke and own numbers of rental properties.
Two years on, Luxon yet to say what Govt stands for
Opinion: Labour’s frustrating but clever strategy of saying and doing as little as possible in opposition further compounds Christopher Luxon’s problems
newsroom.co.nz
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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C’mon, they stand for road-building, fishing, and mining company owners who smoke and own numbers of rental properties.
C’mon, they stand for road-building, fishing, and mining company owners who smoke and own numbers of rental properties.
I’m calling bullshit on the Minister’s failure to explain why the police staff filter what his own staff get to see rather than the other way round.
November 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I’m calling bullshit on the Minister’s failure to explain why the police staff filter what his own staff get to see rather than the other way round.
I can’t believe the coalition of clowns would fudge the comparative costs between old ferry deal and new ferry deal just to try to hide their fuckup.
November 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I can’t believe the coalition of clowns would fudge the comparative costs between old ferry deal and new ferry deal just to try to hide their fuckup.
One of the reasons I support vaccines - me front, fourth from left at the Durban Open Air School in South Africa in the 1950s. The school still offers specialised schooling for children with physical impairments. Many of my classmates were victims of "mild" polio.
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 AM
One of the reasons I support vaccines - me front, fourth from left at the Durban Open Air School in South Africa in the 1950s. The school still offers specialised schooling for children with physical impairments. Many of my classmates were victims of "mild" polio.
Maybe we just don’t understand, and the bridge is mainly so Kãinga Ora clients can cross to the other side?
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Maybe we just don’t understand, and the bridge is mainly so Kãinga Ora clients can cross to the other side?
One of the lessons of the whole Epstein email dump is presumably that if you exchange emails with dubious characters you should always copyright your emails.
© Garth Biggs 2025
© Garth Biggs 2025
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
One of the lessons of the whole Epstein email dump is presumably that if you exchange emails with dubious characters you should always copyright your emails.
© Garth Biggs 2025
© Garth Biggs 2025
Seriously? Isn't this shit just illegal? What's the parliamentary budget process for?
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PM backs minister's 'pragmatic' call to spend Kāinga Ora money on local bridge
Chris Bishop is rejecting criticism over a decision to reallocate funds to a walking and cycling bridge in his electorate.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Seriously? Isn't this shit just illegal? What's the parliamentary budget process for?
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Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Emails With Epstein www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
In reality, he’s “deeply ashamed” to have been found out.
In reality, he’s “deeply ashamed” to have been found out.
Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Emails With Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Emails With Epstein www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
In reality, he’s “deeply ashamed” to have been found out.
In reality, he’s “deeply ashamed” to have been found out.
Can’t he just plead: “I was only obeying (the FBI’s) order.”
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Can’t he just plead: “I was only obeying (the FBI’s) order.”
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The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.
November 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.
My hobby is winning large Lotto draws. I’m not very good at it, but it’s cheaper than golf, and I don’t have to spend hours listening to the right-wing reckons of other golfers.
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
My hobby is winning large Lotto draws. I’m not very good at it, but it’s cheaper than golf, and I don’t have to spend hours listening to the right-wing reckons of other golfers.
His whole career he played with a straight bat, so I cant believe he’d do anything naughty just to make money.
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Sir John Key named in US insider trading lawsuit
The former prime minister says "there is no merit" to claims raised in a lawsuit against him and other directors of cybersecurity company Palo Alto.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
His whole career he played with a straight bat, so I cant believe he’d do anything naughty just to make money.
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It’s just a matter of time before Trump demands that Luxon pardon McSkimming, isn’t it?
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
It’s just a matter of time before Trump demands that Luxon pardon McSkimming, isn’t it?
The McSkimming saga should have been stopped at the point where he asked that a specific person be employed and assigned to the same office as him.
That's not how public services work. This is so basic, the mind just boggles.
That's not how public services work. This is so basic, the mind just boggles.
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 AM
The McSkimming saga should have been stopped at the point where he asked that a specific person be employed and assigned to the same office as him.
That's not how public services work. This is so basic, the mind just boggles.
That's not how public services work. This is so basic, the mind just boggles.
If Statistics keeps reporting huge numbers of people leaving the country, we’ll just have to stop them collecting this data.
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
If Statistics keeps reporting huge numbers of people leaving the country, we’ll just have to stop them collecting this data.
Look, the economy must be getting stronger - people are still buying food despite the rampant price increases,
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Look, the economy must be getting stronger - people are still buying food despite the rampant price increases,