Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Grumpy Goblin Dawg

@loosewheelnz.bsky.social

850 followers 740 following 7.9K posts

Occasionally adults Toasted🥪 aficionado, 🥜🧈fan No terfs, terds, racists or a’holes GenX no f*cks given nolite te bastardes carborundorum 🐶🐈‍⬛ wrangler & servant Gin, make it a double cis she/her/ia. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈ally Born 324.23ppm. ex 🐦🗑️🔥 Te Whanganui-a-tara, Aotearoa

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hey peeps a lot more new arrivals from Aotearoa Twitter coming over. Might need to roll out a nau mai Haere mai, good idea to follow #Kikorangi feed. Don’t forget there’s a garden one, pets, books etc etc
Here’s a screen shot of feeds to follow
If you wish to block a holes I’ll tag in a post below 🇳🇿

Feeds
Edit

My Feeds

All the feeds you've saved, right in one place.

Following

Discover

Kikorangi

AoNZ Politics

OnlyPosts

Popular With Friends

Aotearoa Pets

Aotearoa Books a

Mutebot - Following

NZMusic

Aotearoa Gardens
＞

My Bangers

Aotearoa Craft 2 U

2 8 21

Reposted by Grumpy Goblin Dawg

(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 1d

My cartoon in today's www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

The Scream is a metaphor for nature & Munch was the receptor for its pain. Here he is, so overwhelmed he's taking time out of the painting only to find more pain in the news...

#NzPol #PoliticalCartoon #ClimateChange #EdvardMunch

Cartoon. Title: Government almost halves methane reduction targets...

We see the Scream, from Edvard Munch's most famous works of art, collapsed in a wingback armchair.

He had stepped out of the painting to take a break from the chaos. The metaphor of the artwork is of natures pain and how he had actually felt it.

But sadly he's entered into a world that is chaotic and deliberately trying to hurt Mother Earth even more.

He has a newspaper slowly sliding out from his hand with the title - Farmers Rejoice.

3 30 71

Reposted by Grumpy Goblin Dawg

Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 14h

Remember when National was going through endless leadership ructions?It got so bad journalist Andrea Vance wrote a political exposé, "Blue Blood".

Then-Labour leader, Jacinda Ardern refused to comment on the turmoil,steadfastly insisting to the media it was an internal matter for National MPs...(1)

1 15 47

Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 19h

Oops forgot to add… please sign this petition!

our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/op...

Oppose the Amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area Act

Join us in calling on the government to immediately halt all progress on the amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act.

our.actionstation.org.nz

3 2

Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 19h

Email today from ActionStation re update in Māori wards
Fingers crossed for the special votes update

In good news more people than ever voted for them and us peeps in Wellington Regional Council area - 40,000 more of us voted to keep! Nice work good peeps
And to all those racists out there🖕🏼🖕🏼

What is this all about:
• What we know about the Mãori wards results so far
• Meanwhile, fresh attacks on Te Tiriti...

After a big weekend for local elections, the preliminary results of the Mãori wards referendums have been revealed.
So far, the count shows that 18 Mäori ward seats have been kept, and 24 have been removed. There has been one flip already, showing that we cannot know the final results until all the special votes are counted later this week.
For the areas that have definitely lost their seats, the news is deeply disappointing. It didn't have to be this way. This was a deliberate act by the Coalition Government to get Mãori out of decision-making roles under the guise of democracy.
But their plan was not a resounding success.
In the bigger picture, new reports are showing that preliminary results indicate that across the nation, more people voted for Mãori Wards than against - and that's a win!
When we compared the results in the areas that have had a referendum in the last ten years, there was a 13% - 31% increase in support for Mãori wards.
In the Greater Wellington Regional Council alone, over 40,000 more people voted to keep Mãori wards instead of remove.
The special votes are still to be counted, and these are more likely to include Mãori and young people - but right now, it's looking like our country on the whole, is moving towards a Te Tiriti based future that values Mãori representation.

Yet while we were still out voting in force, the Coalition Government used the moment to push through even more anti-Te Tiriti measures.

1 5 9

Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 21h

*contacted

Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 21h

It’s definitely not clear there is it
Have now contact consumer to ask

1 1

Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 1d

Query re consumer guarantees act
Have batteries for a vacuum cleaner that I am now having to return for the second time. They last barely 30seconds
I have asked for a replacement and am told the manufacturer has right of repair or replace
Is this the case for repeat failures?
🇳🇿

2 2 1

Reposted by Grumpy Goblin Dawg

MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 1d

They have to list depression and suicide hotlines at the end of a story about how misogynistic, racist, transphobic, and hateful a lot of boys are.

JFC. This is on the parents.

RNZ News (Unofficial) @radionz.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 The teen says the behaviour of some of the boys at school was racist, homophobic and sometimes explicitly sexual.

13 year old girl changes schools due to misogynistic bullying in class

www.rnz.co.nz

5 7 18

Reposted by Grumpy Goblin Dawg

MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 3d

To ask a pakeha majority to remove representation of an indigenous minority is ongoing white supremacist colonisation. #nzpol

TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 3d

Preliminary results of the 2025 Māori wards referendums

#nzpol

Map showing preliminary margin of support by council for the 2025 Māori ward referendums

CC BY 4.0 TheLoyalOrder

13 67 170

Reposted by Grumpy Goblin Dawg

Glenn Evans @vinylsol.bsky.social · 4d

My first band, 1971. Bringing country and pop to the pubs and halls of Wellington, the Hutt Valley and the Kapiti Coast. Spot the 15 year old drummer at the back! Anybody got a copy of our only record, "Moonshine"/"Mountain Dew", on the Sonic label? Would love to get a copy.

1 2 8

Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 6d

It’s a feel good story. Winning against the establishment and people out to rip the hard workers off

Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 6d

For some reason had avoided watching Bank of Dave until last weekend. Just finished watching the second one
What a lovely bloke. Genuinely surprised at the movies. Honestly don’t know now why I didn’t watch them earlier

1 12

Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 8d

Or a combo of Labour, Greens, TPM colours

Reposted by Grumpy Goblin Dawg

Bumbleebee @parrykylie.bsky.social · 8d

Hmm @foxylustygrover.bsky.social (and anyone else). What colour shall I colour in the letters?

T shirt with hand drawn message
'I'd rather be a bottom feeder than a national voter'

7 12 60

Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 8d

Rainbow 🌈

1 4

Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 8d

Give Ash all the awards this week!

1 3

Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 8d

I got a job at 17 at a good chain hotel. Zero connections. So not necessarily
However for Luxon, I wouldn’t put it past him. But I seriously hope the son did this by himself.

2 3

Reposted by Grumpy Goblin Dawg

Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 8d

It's weird how Luxon's son got a job as international cabin crew at the age of 19 with the airline his dad had just spent 7 years as CEO of (did you know he used to run an airline?) which means he must have spent at least 18 months working in a high pressured customer service environment prior...

6 9 63

Reposted by Grumpy Goblin Dawg

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

710 4.3K 14K

Reposted by Grumpy Goblin Dawg

Matt | Toitū Te Tiriti | Tax Work Less Tax Wealth More @matt-rogersnz.bsky.social · 8d

Instead of taking up with the RNZ opinion piece, see that 20 economists from around Aotearoa have written and hand an open letter to the government asking them to change tack in the direction they are leading the economy.

Please share this letter.

open.substack.com/pub/craigren...

#nzpol #bhn

Open Letter to Prime Minister and Minister of Finance

Our current economic approach is causing real harm. We need to change track

open.substack.com

19 33

Reposted by Grumpy Goblin Dawg

Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 8d

Luxon and his govt have consistently prioritised landlords, tobacco industry, and their wealthy mates over and above everyone else in their legislation and policy making. This is no different.

This is Luxon rewarding wealthy business owners with a supply of cheap labour.

2 12 41

Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 9d

Especially from Mr I’m entitled to my entitlements FIGJAM

Reposted by Grumpy Goblin Dawg

Sheldon @brokenstarfish.bsky.social · 9d

“The world doesn’t owe you a living,” has to be the most mean-spirited thing I’ve read in some time.

Just how many ways CAN you say, “Go and die in a ditch” to the unemployed?

4 8 54

Reposted by Grumpy Goblin Dawg

Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 9d

In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as “the greatest crime against humanity” and called for reparations.

Ghana’s President Calls Slave Trade ‘Greatest Crime,’ Pushes U.N. for Reparations

For Black Americans, the motion — backed by a coalition of world leaders — intensifies calls to confront slavery’s enduring costs.

capitalbnews.org

48 120

Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 9d

He’s a small dick wannabe who’s absolutely scared of all others who don’t look and sound like him
Jumped up lil fucktard
Hate people like him
People like him should never ever be anywhere near power