Grumpy
@grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social
Mind of Sid James in Jenny Agutter's body. Descended from Frenchified Vikings. Former Egyptian Archaeologist. English. Tangata Tiriti. She/they. 🏳️🌈
Pinned
Grumpy
@grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social
· Jun 9
It's that horrible damp cold in Te Whanganui-a-Tara today, the graveyard clamminess that seeps into your bones, that creeps under your clothes, the feeling of mould edging its way, silently, into your lungs, the wooden shack miasma that never quite seems to dry out
#NZgothic
#NZgothic
Reposted by Grumpy
Republicans and their allies have mainstreamed antisemitism for years, only to portray it as a left-wing problem to advance Trump's authoritarian agenda. So why are they feigning shock as it spills into full view?
Natasha Soffer-Roth
www.972mag.com/gop-antisemi...
Natasha Soffer-Roth
www.972mag.com/gop-antisemi...
The GOP fed the antisemitism monster. Now it's turning on its masters
Republicans and their allies have mainstreamed antisemitism for years, only to portray it as a left-wing problem to advance Trump's authoritarian agenda. So why are they feigning shock as it spills in...
www.972mag.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Republicans and their allies have mainstreamed antisemitism for years, only to portray it as a left-wing problem to advance Trump's authoritarian agenda. So why are they feigning shock as it spills into full view?
Natasha Soffer-Roth
www.972mag.com/gop-antisemi...
Natasha Soffer-Roth
www.972mag.com/gop-antisemi...
The problem with 21st century politics and government is the extreme lack of consequences for lying, sedition, and corruption.
It's, so often, clearly documented and evidenced, but nothing happens.
Even in NZ, our MPs are treated me harshly for accusing another of lying than for actually lying.
It's, so often, clearly documented and evidenced, but nothing happens.
Even in NZ, our MPs are treated me harshly for accusing another of lying than for actually lying.
December 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The problem with 21st century politics and government is the extreme lack of consequences for lying, sedition, and corruption.
It's, so often, clearly documented and evidenced, but nothing happens.
Even in NZ, our MPs are treated me harshly for accusing another of lying than for actually lying.
It's, so often, clearly documented and evidenced, but nothing happens.
Even in NZ, our MPs are treated me harshly for accusing another of lying than for actually lying.
Reposted by Grumpy
Reform UK councillor Andrew Harrison's business was fined £40,000 for hiring an "illegal immigrant."
Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Seaham Reform councillor's firm fined over illegal worker
Durham councillor Andrew Harrison says the worker was legal and he is appealing against the fine.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Reform UK councillor Andrew Harrison's business was fined £40,000 for hiring an "illegal immigrant."
Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I just made a terrible mistake and decided to check out videos of whether Kate Winslet sounded terribly English in Avatar....it was worse than that
December 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I just made a terrible mistake and decided to check out videos of whether Kate Winslet sounded terribly English in Avatar....it was worse than that
Reposted by Grumpy
Strong recommend to this piece and the danger lurking in existing case law ... "Essentially, if widespread vote theft has taken place, the perpetrators may actually be saved by the sheer scale of their offending."
Did NZ’s most brazen electoral fraud just take place in Papatoetoe?
Did NZ’s most brazen electoral fraud just take place in Papatoetoe?
In court, they opened up 53 wrongfully cast ballots. Fifty of them had gone to the winning side....
thespinoff.co.nz
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Strong recommend to this piece and the danger lurking in existing case law ... "Essentially, if widespread vote theft has taken place, the perpetrators may actually be saved by the sheer scale of their offending."
Reposted by Grumpy
December 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Same James Cameron who's playing lord of the manor in Aotearoa NZ, taking advantage of our shitty labour laws around film making, making ableist noble savage movies, and is campaigning to make our capital city into a White Boomer nostalgia fest?
thespinoff.co.nz/society/21-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/21-0...
December 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Same James Cameron who's playing lord of the manor in Aotearoa NZ, taking advantage of our shitty labour laws around film making, making ableist noble savage movies, and is campaigning to make our capital city into a White Boomer nostalgia fest?
thespinoff.co.nz/society/21-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/21-0...
It's feeling more and more as if NZ Labour are following UK Labour's tactics, and it's astonishingly daft
Again, Andrew Marr’s comments in late 2023 are always useful in explaining what it is that has happened here: the lads took a big punt on Labour having thought this through, and it turns out that they’d spent 2010-25 mostly feeling sorry for themselves and mouthing off at journalists.
December 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It's feeling more and more as if NZ Labour are following UK Labour's tactics, and it's astonishingly daft
Reposted by Grumpy
Every time I see some shill helping to flog a useless, toxic thing that nobody wants to the world, it’s Jimmy Fallon.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Every time I see some shill helping to flog a useless, toxic thing that nobody wants to the world, it’s Jimmy Fallon.
Reposted by Grumpy
Why are Labours attacks misfiring?
Because Labour support genocide.
Labour protect the power & wealth of the super rich.
And all they do is attack the Green Party.
Help us take the actual fight to Reform: join.greenparty.org.uk
Because Labour support genocide.
Labour protect the power & wealth of the super rich.
And all they do is attack the Green Party.
Help us take the actual fight to Reform: join.greenparty.org.uk
December 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Why are Labours attacks misfiring?
Because Labour support genocide.
Labour protect the power & wealth of the super rich.
And all they do is attack the Green Party.
Help us take the actual fight to Reform: join.greenparty.org.uk
Because Labour support genocide.
Labour protect the power & wealth of the super rich.
And all they do is attack the Green Party.
Help us take the actual fight to Reform: join.greenparty.org.uk
Reposted by Grumpy
Have just fired off a complaint to #Radio4 Feedback about their awful "biological man who identifies as a woman" nonsense.
Full text in the ALT
Full text in the ALT
December 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Have just fired off a complaint to #Radio4 Feedback about their awful "biological man who identifies as a woman" nonsense.
Full text in the ALT
Full text in the ALT
Reposted by Grumpy
This mouse has such strong eyebrow game. Detecting a crime? Disliking your outfit? Let your guilt decide…
Ancient Animal Advent Day 9! Info below.
Ancient Animal Advent Day 9! Info below.
December 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
This mouse has such strong eyebrow game. Detecting a crime? Disliking your outfit? Let your guilt decide…
Ancient Animal Advent Day 9! Info below.
Ancient Animal Advent Day 9! Info below.
Reposted by Grumpy
“wearing a face mask can help significantly stop the flu and other respiratory viruses from spreading.”
When The Mirror is suggesting people mask… things must be bad.
Mask up folks! Ideally N95 or better!
A good respirator will protect you and those around you from flu, covid, rsv and more
When The Mirror is suggesting people mask… things must be bad.
Mask up folks! Ideally N95 or better!
A good respirator will protect you and those around you from flu, covid, rsv and more
NHS 'cover your mouth and nose' UK-wide update as H3N2 strain spreads
People are being urged to follow safety procedures as the virus spreads
www.mirror.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
“wearing a face mask can help significantly stop the flu and other respiratory viruses from spreading.”
When The Mirror is suggesting people mask… things must be bad.
Mask up folks! Ideally N95 or better!
A good respirator will protect you and those around you from flu, covid, rsv and more
When The Mirror is suggesting people mask… things must be bad.
Mask up folks! Ideally N95 or better!
A good respirator will protect you and those around you from flu, covid, rsv and more
Reposted by Grumpy
"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more."
Los Campesinos:
Los Campesinos:
Here’s how much money Los Camp! make from streaming… - Los Campesinos!
loscampesinos.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more."
Los Campesinos:
Los Campesinos:
Reposted by Grumpy
This poster crosses my path from time to time and it demonstrates a number of things - that long-term planning, informed by environmental factors (in a negative way, maybe), was something the railway could envisage.
You might ask who this ad' by a state railway was aimed at?
Probably the Treasury.
You might ask who this ad' by a state railway was aimed at?
Probably the Treasury.
![Poster in black and white from 1978. Header reads: The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time'.
Below, four images of newspaper vendors in flat caps and overcoats by a board with headlines:
1978: Britain strikes it rich [a reference to the N. Sea oil boom]
1987: Britain's Oil Running Out
1995: World faces oil rationing
2005: Oil gone?
Bottom right: British Rail, The backbone of the nation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4xl4yfwwfwqlgm3hp6kv756j/bafkreig7z5kygehvzix4z34cmlumx2gx7mvsrdetcfxmxyy4wzufzvnj6a@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This poster crosses my path from time to time and it demonstrates a number of things - that long-term planning, informed by environmental factors (in a negative way, maybe), was something the railway could envisage.
You might ask who this ad' by a state railway was aimed at?
Probably the Treasury.
You might ask who this ad' by a state railway was aimed at?
Probably the Treasury.
Reposted by Grumpy
Luxon & Seymour's new laws are a trap. Hidden in the fine print: ratepayers must compensate landowners with cash if environmental rules stop them from developing. It’s your hard-earned money going straight to the wealthy. A kick in the guts. #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/09-...
RIP RMA: Government prays for economic boom with new bills
The government is hailing a 'once-in-a-generation opportunity to finally unburden ourselves from the millstone weighing down our country'.
thespinoff.co.nz
December 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Luxon & Seymour's new laws are a trap. Hidden in the fine print: ratepayers must compensate landowners with cash if environmental rules stop them from developing. It’s your hard-earned money going straight to the wealthy. A kick in the guts. #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/09-...
Reposted by Grumpy
Reposted by Grumpy
End childhood vaccines + villainize infant formula + stop SIDS prevention programs + dismantle maternal health programs = booming business for tiny coffin makers.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
End childhood vaccines + villainize infant formula + stop SIDS prevention programs + dismantle maternal health programs = booming business for tiny coffin makers.
Reposted by Grumpy
#GazaGenocide
Over 2 million people, are now crowded into a narrow zone that is smaller than Washington DC.
Israel declared that the “yellow line” under Trump’s ceasefire plan is a new border, giving “Israel” control over more than half of the Gaza Strip, including farmland and the Egyptian crossing
Over 2 million people, are now crowded into a narrow zone that is smaller than Washington DC.
Israel declared that the “yellow line” under Trump’s ceasefire plan is a new border, giving “Israel” control over more than half of the Gaza Strip, including farmland and the Egyptian crossing
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
#GazaGenocide
Over 2 million people, are now crowded into a narrow zone that is smaller than Washington DC.
Israel declared that the “yellow line” under Trump’s ceasefire plan is a new border, giving “Israel” control over more than half of the Gaza Strip, including farmland and the Egyptian crossing
Over 2 million people, are now crowded into a narrow zone that is smaller than Washington DC.
Israel declared that the “yellow line” under Trump’s ceasefire plan is a new border, giving “Israel” control over more than half of the Gaza Strip, including farmland and the Egyptian crossing
Reposted by Grumpy
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
Checked out Newtown's latest addition to its pantheon of excellent restaurants, Curryosity. This brings us to 6 Indian restaurants on the same stretch of road.
It's good.
Reckon it's top three. curryosity.nz
It's good.
Reckon it's top three. curryosity.nz
Curryosity - Authentic Indian Cusine in Newtown
Curryosity serves authentic and modern Indian flavours in Newtown. Fresh, bold, and creative dishes made to delight. Explore our menu and order online with ease
curryosity.nz
December 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Checked out Newtown's latest addition to its pantheon of excellent restaurants, Curryosity. This brings us to 6 Indian restaurants on the same stretch of road.
It's good.
Reckon it's top three. curryosity.nz
It's good.
Reckon it's top three. curryosity.nz
Reposted by Grumpy
👇Good thread from Grumpy.
Aligns with Gordon Campbell’s thoughts on what’s so troubling about Labour’s reticence to announce policy and clearly state beliefs and commitments.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL25...
Aligns with Gordon Campbell’s thoughts on what’s so troubling about Labour’s reticence to announce policy and clearly state beliefs and commitments.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL25...
December 9, 2025 at 6:47 AM
👇Good thread from Grumpy.
Aligns with Gordon Campbell’s thoughts on what’s so troubling about Labour’s reticence to announce policy and clearly state beliefs and commitments.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL25...
Aligns with Gordon Campbell’s thoughts on what’s so troubling about Labour’s reticence to announce policy and clearly state beliefs and commitments.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL25...
A thousand times this
If the project is really to move politics left by presenting a moderate message to get people on board THEN do progressive things (something I have literally been told by multiple Labour strategists), why would you keep drawing angry lines through any idea even *slightly* more radical than your own?
December 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A thousand times this
Reposted by Grumpy
But hey if you're all just desperate to do a Michael Cullen "we won you lost eat that" then go through another three years of Winston Peters as deputy PM throwing a handbrake on everything you claim you want to achieve, go hard comrades
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
But hey if you're all just desperate to do a Michael Cullen "we won you lost eat that" then go through another three years of Winston Peters as deputy PM throwing a handbrake on everything you claim you want to achieve, go hard comrades