This is the kind of thing that I thought might save us all when I was a teenager, but just seems objectively fascist now

Buttadeus@thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 2h ago

I love this, the news is "I photographed a billboard of my way to work"

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 2h ago

City Rail Link opening date revealed as 13 September

How would I get by without AI? If I need a factually-dubious opinion expressed in a cliched manner with unearned confidence, I’ll just talk to a straight white cis man. I can get by on small-batch, locally-sourced, artisanal mansplaining, the way we always used to.

I'm familiar with arguments that both prog and punk were the music of fascism, but EDM is a new one unless you count VNV Nation

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h ago

oh hey we're doing degenerate Jewish art but leftishly.

NEWSFLASH: if you're a liberal and you've ever looked askance at leftists going absolutely nuts at the latest St*ncil take - as opposed to ignoring and/or blocking him - DO NOT I repeat DO NOT become one of those people yourself. JUST DON'T LOOK JUST DON'T REPOST JUST DON'T SCREENSHOT

"Desperately chasing working class anger" has been what passes for strategy on the Marxist left as long as I've been involved, and that's gotta stop

Theo Landsman@ordinalandsman.bsky.social · yesterday

In general it's underrated that a lot of the dumbest left aligned ideas are the extremely recent product of desperately chasing economically illiterate working class anger in the 90s wherever it went out of (incorrect) view that these voters were the natural base of the U.S. left.

Douglas Adams: life seems harsh and cruel. i feel all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain Barker: i got great news for you! Barker: the treatment is simple Barker: the great humorist douglas adams is doing a reading tonight. go see him. Adams: but doctor

The City and the City by China Miéville The Alteration by Kingsley Amis Hyperion by Dan Simmons The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley Imperial Earth by Arthur C Clarke (allegedly). And, while deploring Gaiman, I still love most of his output.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterday

alright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.

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ALT: Emperor Palpatine Smile

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

Nicola Willis and Mark Mitchell suggested this morning that firing Winston Peters would bring down the Government. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

We stan our orange, decaying, poop-selling, ecosocialist prince

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Here we go, an amended bingo card with the Australian references localised to Aotearoa references, which does double duty for all your NZ First and ACT candidate needs!

Byron C Clark@byroncclark.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wild how you could use this card this side of the Tasman for NZ First candidates and barely have to change a thing

On Facebook, most Left reaction to this has been bitter muttering to the effect of "these houses won't REALLY be affordable and they'll be handed to evil developers" Left-NIMBYism is simply the assertion that new buildings are a bourgeois trivky

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2d ago

We can't solve a housing crisis without building more housing. Today we broke ground on the Casanova Residence, which will soon be nearly 100 affordable and supportive homes with on-site services for New Yorkers. Every new home is a step toward a City that everyone can afford.

Risible LARPing shit? From Bomber? It's more likely than you think. Still, if the FSU don't pile in to defend him - and they won't - it's a stick to beat that whole hypocritical set-up with.

Alex@shakingstick.bsky.social · 3d ago

Re Bomber Bradbury. I dont know anymore than anyone else but him signing off his announcement with language about the revolution continuing this, and comrades that, is risible larping shit.

People who refuse the class argument against AI would be cheering on Thatcher in 1985 because "we should move away from coal anyway". True, from a purely technological point of view. But the *way in which it is being done* is smashing a Left-wing section of the working class and serving fascism.

Remain In Hell Without Despair@daphnelawless.com · 4d ago

You want to turn professionals into precarious proletarians - or at best, coal miners, desperately defending their privileges in a world which has no use for them. Tell me, what effect do you think this will have on their politics? They're not right now radical/liberal out of inherent virtue

The deadline for a September 13 opening date for the CRL passed yesterday. Given that rosters are done fortnightly, and @haydendonnell.bsky.social 's calculation that September 27 is out because of daylight savings, the CRL won't open until after the election thespinoff.co.nz/society/02-0...

When will the CRL open? Here’s our back-of-the-timetable guesstimate

An earnest attempt to work out when the City Rail Link will open, with the help of maths, a calendar and the mayor.

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Frankly if old ladies can open their door somewhere in rural Cambodia, and find that the monk that has come round to beg for alms was the same young Khmer Rouge kid who gunned down her whole family, and still hand over that rice, I'm not sure that the parties to I/P are really, truly irreconcilable

Reality check required. I look at young socialists who dress like this and I immediately think: "nepo baby of millionaires who will be working a six-figure NGO job within ten years" Only if you come from a background of privilege can you expect to "dress down and act out" without consequences

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Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

Can't believe all the brain geniuses out there who knows that professionals and creatives are right now the vanguard of anti-fascist politics, and at the same time use LLMs, a technology which will eliminate that class by reducing its labor value to zero

"Seasaim taobh thiar duit, a dheartháir." "Ich stehe hinter dir, mein Bruder"

Walter Mondial@dabenner.bsky.social · 4d ago

The elites only fear one thing:

According to American fascists, Germans just lost their White Privilege

Nied@nied.bsky.social · 4d ago

That's right!

This is the platonic ideal of Left NIMBYism. Squalor is working-class and good, anything new is bourgeois.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

It is amazing that the Prime Minister is a walking political disaster, and the Foreign Minister is an out-and-proud racist, AND YET they're still going to win the election because Labour is coded "losers" and the Greens are coded "innumerate woke shoplifters". Opposition can't get any traction.

Ben Gracewood@ben.gracewood.nz · 5d ago

Luxon's "I was out there building a kick-arse business" just galls me so much. Bro you were employed by a couple of gigantic inefficient enterprises. You did not build a pie shop or a landscaping business. You did not build a tech startup.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair@daphnelawless.com · 6d ago

*insanely* THE PHILIPPINES COMES TO ME IN MY DREAMS I REVERE THE PHILLIPINES THE PHILIPPINES TODAY, THE PHILIPPINES TOMORROW, THE PHILIPPINES FOREVER MY JOB IS TO KEEP THE LEFT PRO THE PHILIPPINES please elect me to represent Louisiana

Thomas Jefferson on why he backtracked on condemning slavery in the Declaration of Independence