It’s kind of amazing that while social media has been a very girl-coded or at least gender-neutral bullying medium, everyone immediately sees visual media as the male gaze.
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Gosh I hope @haydendonnell.bsky.social is working up a piece about Cycleway Derangement Syndrome… Just so bizarre to act all publicly miffed about a bike lane that *didn’t even exist* at the time one is claiming to have been inconvenienced by it?! Most peculiar indeed. 🚲👻🥴 bsky.app/profile/jenn...
Kay in the End Times 🏳️🌈 💗💜💙📚@jennykaynz.bsky.social · 4d agoThe cycleway on that map (shown in green) wasn't there in 2023 when Luxon lived in Kate Sheppard apartments. The cycleway on lower Molesworth Street has only been recently added. #NZpol
Luxon’s apartment is across the street and premier house is like a 10 min walk to parliament. If dude can’t handle it maybe he shouldn’t be in charge of running the whole fucking country.
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Luxon didn't live in Wellington in the 1980s. He moved there to work for Unilever in 1993, the year after he left the University of Canterbury. The car racing relied on ratepayer funding, which was withdrawn in 1995, the year he moved to Sydney.
Aaron Hawkins@ahawkins.bsky.social · 4d agoLow voter turnout is one of the biggest things conservative politics has going for it at a local level (in the cities at least) so I'd be careful what you wish for.
The fact that a couple just out of university, one of them a teacher, could just straight up buy a house in Ngaio might explain why Wellington seemed better
He does realize the only way to avoid being called "woke" is to become a far-right psycho?
Yes. Yes it is. More white guys, more fundies and wingnuts 👍
I can smell the desperation in amongst the stench of condescension
The OED defines woke as follows: woke, adjective: Originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice. Pricks define it differently
“The most important thing is we’ve got incredibly creative, talented, innovative, aspirational, ambitious people. I’ve lived all over the world for 16 years, and I can tell you, no one beats a Kiwi.” 1. You didn't live all over the world. You lived in Chicago and Canada 2. You don't like us at all
Todd McLay , Corporate Tool. Get stuffed. Go talk to the people wiped out by slash #nzpol #corruption #ditchthepricksin26 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
You’re scaring off forestry investors, Minister tells Gisborne council
Over the past three years the council has started taking a harder line on forestry companies that failed to comply with resource consent conditions.
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On that note; I think David Stealmore has wildly underestimated the power of the people of AotearoaNZ. This incredibly intelligent & frankly quite exquisite young woman, would wipe the floor with his devious & racist filth. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ #BHN #ToitūTeTiriti youtu.be/7a_abCbiYfU?...
#BHN Kirsty Fong wants to thank David Seymour #nzpol #nzpolitics
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷@paullecomtephoto.nz · 7d agoDon’t want to live with indigenous people - fuck off somewhere else fuck face. I have never hated a NZ politician more in my life. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
Delighted to be at Dr. Ayesha Verrall’s campaign launch today. Ayesha is an MP will get things done for Wellington, and knows how to represent everyone in our City. We have 84 days until we can get rid of this one term government, and start looking after people again.
Your brain is a nervous cauliflower hiding out in a warm meat cave
I've never met Gareth Morgan and he comes across as a bit of a plonker; or at least: a techbro-adjacent white male who thinks success in one area means ability in many other areas. This puts me off but is not a showstopper.
If the basics are “razing it to the ground and rebuilding over multiple decades while leaving the residents traumatised for a generation. “
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Rob@robdickinson.bsky.social · last wk.We dont have money for school lunches, we cant afford power or groceries but we have ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS suddenly appear for gondolas in Queenstown? #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
More of an admission than an accusation, but: the thing that makes them attractive (techocratic rationalism) is also what makes them questionable. I *love* "why don't we just do things gud"! But what I've discovered is that trying to do rationalism without relationships and community is a dead end.
Ben Gracewood@ben.gracewood.nz · last wk.I'm going to get absolutely rinsed on bsky for this but: convince me not to vote for Opportunity. 50+ white male, former swing voter, been a Green voter for ~20+ years. If Opps drift around 5%, voting to get them over the line is perhaps the strongest way to keep NACTFIRST out. 1/n
A petty reason to crow over Chris Penk, but as Minister for Land Information he nixed changing Petone to Pito One and Russell to Kororāreka, and wouldn’t add a macron to Rangitīkei and Manawatū. These name proposals are thoroughly researched and consulted for years, but he declined them on vibes.
So good. Sacks the guy rumoured to be doing the numbers but neither of the people said to be actually gunning for his job. Sacked guy was on the record as a supporter. It's a human centipede of chef's kisses
Chris Penk loses ministerial portfolios after Luxon leadership challenge
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has removed Chris Penk's ministerial portfolios.
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Most journos only get to interview their typewriters. Vance gets to interview her editor.
Until @kiwicraig74.bsky.social posts this himself. What a meme! Craig you legend (c/- his X account)
Not really poverty – although I don't think he claimed that. He was a year ahead of me at Burnside High, and one of a cohort of kids from the state houses pepper-potted around Bryndwr. So, solo mum, state house + the ability to attend a big, modern secondary school.
National party mulls appointment of turnaround expert Chris Luxon to fix the clusterfuck left by turnaround expert Chris Luxon
I do wonder if he hasnt already resigned by email but nobody could figure it out
Sassy Little Hobbit@sassypolitico.bsky.social · 2w agoIn his last act of CEO perhaps, Luxon is forcing a zoom meeting into an in-person meeting.
When there was a sudden, intense and terrifying media panic about The Left tyrannically oppressing men who were credibly accused of sexual assault by multiple people, many of them Epsteined up to the eyeballs, I simply put two and two together, because I am not a rube.