Yes, super is going to cost more. We already decided to pay it. So the question isn't whether, it's when. We won't fund the GP, so we fund the hospital. We won't fund the pension, so we fund the rest home. That's not a saving. That's a bill posted forward. #nzpol

Torrent of crap coming out of Jordan's mouth this morning on Q&A. I should not have started fact-checking, but here we go. Claim 1: The old '2nd largest fiscal response'.
Jordan is referring to an IMF report, which was adopted conveniently as gospel by NZ Treasury. Friends, it was bad. [🧵 1/n]

Tāwhirimātea really came in clutch with the wind at the Hīkoi

Erica Stanford on children participating in the hīkoi mō te Tiriti:

'if schools were holding an "education-outside-the-classroom" activity, they needed to ensure it had a literacy and numeracy component.'

Imagine being this dumb and also being in charge of education for a country

two of my favourite pastimes are deeply incompatible
knitting baggy sweaters
and letting dogs jump all over me

Booting up Half Life for the 20th anniversary and realising during the tram ride that you're 6 years older than Gordon Freeman