"What if all the Ai is gone tomorrow? How would everyone survive without it?" is sort of like asking "what if herpes suddenly stopped existing?"
I'm running late for work in the morning. Can the defence force give me a lift? #nzpol
kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · 12h agoNot for *government duties* for his role as leader of the National Party for a party *fundraiser* for the *election* Surely this is outside the bounds of what the Air Force should be used for?? Seems like an enormous breach of his access to public assets! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
RNZ framing this as a wily Peters evading comments, rather than as a coward who refused to answer questions and abused the rules of the house to do so is just par for the course in the current media environment, sadly
Regular viewers will know that I had serious doubts about the 'recovery' well before Trump decided to cause global chaos (and trading opportunities for his buddies). Suffice to say, today's unemployment data is GRIM! Let's have a look... Unemployment rate vs the guesses of clueless ghouls. [🧵 1/n]
give a man a fish and he'll look at you suspiciously and ask what happened to the chips
11-year high of 5.6% unemployment. Fixing the basics, like fuck. Absolute economic vandals. #nzpol
Well now I’m confused. If a tank comes rolling past will it mean there’s an invasion or just Luxon on his way to a fundraiser?
'For Hickey, there is a deeper structural challenge. “You’ve got an economy which just doesn’t know how to operate without house prices rising”.' #NzPol
As unemployment hits 11-year high, how does it look under the hood?
Bernard Hickey breaks down the numbers released today.
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More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
Winston caught out by asking him whether he agrees with a statement by the NZ First Leader, and getting angrier and angrier about being forced to answer. Now just being abusive. #nzqt
Winston twice tells Speaker he is wrong about Standing Orders. Brownlee takes no action. #NzPol
Sacha@sachadylan.bsky.social · 14h agoWinston being cute about Standing Orders after 4 decades in parliament. #NzPol
Kick this foreign warmonger company out of Aotearoa.
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 14h ago🚀 ROCKET LAB JUST WON A $397M SPACE FORCE CONTRACT. $RKLB will build, launch and operate multiple Flatellites for the SB-AMTI tracking program, with Neutron handling deployment. Rocket Lab is becoming a defense space prime, not just a rocket company.
Jeezus f**king Christ... In essence that ruling says that any time your side doesn't win an election, just ransack the capitol, and everything will be okay...
US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday granted the U.S.
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Watching NZ Parliament TV with Wellington MP Tamatha Paul talking of the desperate situations of rough sleepers and homeless people. Like the man found freezing and unresponsive on the street this week. He couldn't be saved. Many others need help. #NZpol www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
Bare shelves, freezing nights: Wellington’s rough sleepers at risk
It comes as a man, known to sleep rough, was found dead on the streets of central Wellington.
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“A total of 171,000 people were unemployed, a rise of 7,000 on the previous quarter and 13,000 higher than a year ago.” Luxon’s government has done absolutely nothing in their 3years in power to reduce the cost of living as they promised. Instead they’ve robbed tens of thousands of families 1/3
Any minute now, that track will be right on the horizon, we just need to apply more cuts, this time it will work #NZPol
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 16h agoNational backs its policies as unemployment rises to 11-year high
Xu-Nan's question pointing out that Peters had used MFAT comms to stand by his statements outside the House deserved a better hearing than it got from Brownlee, who then fluffed around and failed to make Peters answer a valid question directed to him as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Winston Peters relentlessly dodged answering Lawrence Xu-Nan's very precise questions inviting him to stand by his racist outburst in the House last week. What a snivelling coward. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan grills Winston Peters on 'racist' comments that were directed at him
The Green MP who Winston Peters told to "go back to your own country" has challenged the Foreign Minister in Parliament over his comments.
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Luxon wants an American style presidential motorcade so bad lol it would be funny if it wasn’t so sad
The Government lacks the 75 percent support needed to push reforms through – but the next Parliament could vote to delay the 2028 census.
Stats NZ forced to eye census Plan B as impasse threatens overhaul
newsroom.co.nz
Party who has categorically shit their pants doubles-down on refusing to remove their shitty pants, and in fact sit down in them.
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 16h agoNational backs its policies as unemployment rises to 11-year high
If you include New Zealanders who are underemployed/working part-time when they want to be working full time, there’s 440,000 people who are underutilised in this country in the latest data. That’s 440,000 people who can’t get the hours they need to make ends meet for themselves and their whānau.
Aotearoa’s unemployment rate has hit an 11-high of 5.6% Māori, rangatahi, and Te Tai Tokerau are bearing the brunt of the downturn.
Unemployment hits 11-year high as Māori, rangatahi and Northland bear the brunt
Aotearoa’s unemployment rate has hit an 11-high of 5.6% Māori, rangatahi, and Te Tai Tokerau are bearing the brunt of the downturn.
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At some point we — all of us — have to have a serious conversation about priorities. We can't just keep squeezing corporate profits out of everything and insisting everyone just make do somehow.
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 19h agoOlder Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite
Brownlee says "he's always the Prime Minister!" I think Luxon will make a different claim if someone tries to #OIA him about that fundraiser.
Finally forced to admit that he was. What a greedy prick #nzqt
Now squirming over which hat he was wearing when he attended the party fundraiser, because its not the hat which entitles him to military transport. #nzqt
Luxon wriggling to avoid admitting he was at a party fundraiser before using military transport to get to important events. #nzqt
Gods, he’s embarrassing. If he had skerrick of self-awareness he would be mortified by his own haplessness, but he’s just truculent and aggrieved, and pissed off about being called to account by people he holds in contempt. #nzpol
Idiot/Savant@norightturnnz.bsky.social · 14h agoNow squirming over which hat he was wearing when he attended the party fundraiser, because its not the hat which entitles him to military transport. #nzqt