Announcements by the RW parties today just show how desperate they are. Hopefully it won't resonate with many kiwis. We're better than this. #nzpol
Craig Shearer
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Software Architect and Developer, coding since 1981. ♥️ Angular and Nx, .Net, Azure. Former Chair of NZ Skeptics, Photographer, Pianist, Husband and Dad. EV enthusiast - Tesla owner, but Elon hater! He/him
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
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Craig "2547" Good@clgood.bsky.social · 2w agoMeta sells plenty of ads to scammers; at last 95% of the ads I get are for fraudulent products. But they won't sell an ad for this movie? It would be a shame if everybody reposted this article.
Trying out a timelapse on the road to Glenorchy, Otago NZ 30 exposures, 10 seconds apart #photography #nz
A question that's just as relevant in NZ as it is in the UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBqy... #nzpol
The one question journalists never ask politicians, and should
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Beautiful light at Wheal Coates in Cornwall, UK. #photography #eck #nature
Glad to be part of the in crowd today!
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt’s International Left Handers Day  🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Today we celebrate people that are left-handed in a right handed world Approximately 10% of the population are southpaws. Scientists don’t know why But a child will be left-handed if one parent is a lefty We will be okay Love Foxy
Seems calculated to minimize opposition vote. #nzpol
Katya@nzkatya.bsky.social · 3mo agoGordon Campbell on Luxon's voting law changes: "Under the new rules, who is most likely to miss out? Answer: young voters. Students. Maori. The Pasifika community. Renters shifting addresses from one electorate into another, people on low incomes working long hours at multiple jobs etc" #nzpol
"I don't like being called cis" "I don't like being called white" "I don't like being called abled" That's because you view yourself as "normal" or "the default" and everyone else as *not*. Viewing yourself as the baseline is just another form of prejudice. It's just a more implicit type.
Matariki connects us all, no matter our background or origins.
For all the people who think if we tax the super wealthy they'll just leave. No, most of them won't. #nzpol
Andy McKay@korimakoecology.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Decades of economic research show that billionaire “flight” is rare, exaggerated, and often confused with tax avoidance through accounting maneuvers rather than physical relocation. Policymakers who mistake avoidance for exit risk misdesign taxes and leave substantial revenue on the table."
Yeah, got it, thanks Emergency Alert System for making me jump! #nz
Auckland city at night from the Waitakere Ranges, zoomed while exposing to produce lines of light. #photography #nz
A pipe dream? No, the world has enough resource for everybody to live well, they're just not distributed fairly. Not arguing to everybody being the same, but that inequality is vastly reduced. #nzpol
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo agoA good life for the 99% isn’t a pipe dream: it can be done. Here’s how