Just a reminder at how poorly served farmers are by agribusiness lobby groups, like Fed Farmers, which vociferously oppose action on climate change, leaving ordinary farmers to deal with the climate disruption. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn

Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue

theguardian.com

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

Semi regular reminder that Kornbluth and Pohl’s The Space Merchants is still one of the most accurate depictions of the future we are building. Prophetic, and awful. www.goodreads.com/book/show/39...

The Space Merchants (The Space Merchants, #1)

An alternate cover edition can be found here. It is th…

goodreads.com

The party that snapchatted 13-year-olds is now proposing to beat them.

The Free Speech Union is once again bravely holding journalists to account for the heinous crime of Attempted Journalism Free Speech Union attacks reporter for asking minister questions www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

Free Speech Union attacks reporter for asking minister questions

The Free Speech Union ‒ which exists to defend free speech ‒ has attacked a journalist for asking Health Minister Simeon Brown questions over email.

stuff.co.nz

It's "free" as in "free to express abhorrent views about the patients you serve" not "journalists are free to ask questions to Ministers" you silly gooses

‘Tax relief’ frame. It’s almost as though the people with wealth need special treatment, and can’t really cope with the burden of being grown ups. Can’t do life without support Weirdos needing special conditions just to live. Like they’ve got something wrong with them. So needy. Such babies.

Because ACT aren't even fake libertarians. They just genuflect in the direction of liberty while seeking to arrogate to themselves more state power So what they won't tell you is that the status quo is that NZ has easier, more accessble, more free hunting than any industrialised nation in the world

Because you can’t have a garden in New Zealand there’s a community one out the back of every Mitre 10. Compared to supermarkets it’s pretty cheap and anyone can use it - you just have to pay for at least one item you don’t need every time you go.

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

Henry talking about cost of living. I’m officially a fan of this creator’s work vt.tiktok.com/ZSXXD4RXx/

It's amazing how many NZ First candidates you can fit it one vehicle.

Clown Car Krusty

ALT: Clown Car Krusty

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We are currently looking for adults with DLD to take part in an interview study looking at your experiences going to the GP or going to see a nurse in your GP practice. #DevLangDis If you are interested, please start by filling in this short survey: uniofbath.questionpro.eu/t/AB3vC3yZB3...

Survey for DLD in healthcare - This survey is created by QuestionPro

Survey for DLD in healthcare - This survey is created by QuestionPro

uniofbath.questionpro.eu

So many arguments against Land Value Tax are focussed on individuals and (often) emotion. Henry Fudge is developing an argument that the property market is broken, but we see the symptoms in other places. He’s worth a listen. vt.tiktok.com/ZSXhtaMeL/

Greens - Our water needs less shit in it National - Thats a war on farmers! #nzpol

Why we pay more for accommodation during major sporting events. #HenryGeorge #LVT #Rentier vt.tiktok.com/ZSCsvScmQ/

@taniaroxborogh.bsky.social talking about you 😁 with Curly Lines aka Dr Christine Braid.

Hearing from an expert researcher in complexity in education. Learning looked at through the idea of ontological stacking. What is the stack we use? What do we value? How do we act in the world? How we make ‘normative’ judgements about the causes and effects. #ontology #education

When travellers found a Neanderthal in a swamp near Baton Rouge, they realised it was a missing link in bayou.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

I think we should start measuring government programmes in Hayden Donnell's 'metres of roading'. Lowering the age of bowel cancer screening to 45? 5 metres of road. A year of Three Waters? 63 metres of road. Reading recovery? 13mm of road.

every time you see a headline that begins with “we have to,” replace the “we” with “you” and you’ll immediately understand the purpose of the piece and the power dynamics at play

A friend of mine has built this very cool tool which will show you the impact the various parties' tax policies will have on you. Well worth checking it out. yourtax.nz #nzpol

Compare your tax under every party

What each party’s announced tax policy would change in your household’s week, compared with current law.

yourtax.nz

Incredibly sick of these on-repeat articles which describe the cost of greed crisis hurting people across the board, especially the vulnerable - yet fail to ask the politicians and oligarchies responsible for people being unable to heat their houses how they’ll urgently act to change the status quo.

‘A lot of people are going to be cold’: Kiwis brace for winter pain as power costs soar

One in four households struggle to pay their power bills and more than half of New Zealanders are concerned about the cost of their household’s energy.

stuff.co.nz

On the back of the Green Party tax policy I thought I'd reshare this effort to change the language and correctly point out what taxing the rich actually means: reclaiming wealth taken from us in an economy they engineered to enrich themselves. newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/08/l...

Let's call 'taxing the rich' what it really is

Opinion from the University of Auckland: As society groans under the weight of wealth inequality, Dr Neal Curtis calls for a different slogan to ‘tax the rich’.

newsroom.co.nz

this is media electioneering. Sorry Henry but I really expected better than this. dropping this with zero context about the immense damage done by National is a journalistic failure at this point it's reporting like this - even if it's just a social media snapshot - that has helped drive down trust

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NATIONAL TO CAMPAIGN ON MAKING KIWISAVER COMPULSORY: - Includes those who are self employed and over 65 - Will also include babies in the scheme with a $1500 boost - Only way out will be existing hardship test for withdrawals or similar defined contribution scheme www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Opportunity Party leader, Q, and local candidate, Netra Ghimire, building a picture of living in a country where purpose and meaning are the foundational values. I really have not ever heard a politician talk about purpose or meaningful life, so closely aligned with economy, health, education

I suspect it's worse than that. NZ govt has bill before Parliament to require Health Practitioner Boards to accept political directives and to let govt review competency cancelations of health professionals. Will NZ govt hand licenses back to anti vaxxers? I expect push back from some on boards

Today’s thought: Boomers actually experienced the ‘liberal’ part of Liberal Democracies. Now they are the ones preventing both liberalisation and democracy.