Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Yeah, may be a bit nerdy for some, but when the marginal productivity theory (which is the core foundation of our current economic model) is blown out of the water by evidence (as Stiglitz does here), then is little left of that model that can be robustly defended. 🙏🏾 evonomics.com/joseph-stigl...

Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics Is Wrong. Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - Evonomics

The rules of the game can be changed to reverse inequality

evonomics.com

Pay attention Aotearoa #nzpol

This is unconscionable.

Andrew Dickson@andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 3d ago

In December 2023 the Secretary of Education emailed the Director-General of Health asking her to "soften" the stay-home-if-sick messaging. Not a doctor. Acting for a Minister who is also not a doctor. I have the email, via OIA. #nzpol 🧵 1/

By Gautami Reddy, link in first comment 💞

Audacious Ness@audaciousness.bsky.social · 3d ago

He karere pai katoa!! Koia kai a koutou!!

TOROA: SKYCALL OUT NOW 🌊☁️@atawhaigames.bsky.social · 5d ago

WHAAAAT TOROA: SKYCALL WON BEST PRODUCTION AT THIS YEAR’S SIR JULIUS VOGEL AWARDS!!! 🥳🤯😭

Timeline cleanse 💖

Owls in Towels@owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 6d ago

A Ruru luckily sustained no major injuries after hitting a window, and began flight training after just 10 days of rehab. To donate to Wildbase Hospital click foundation.massey.ac.nz/donate-online and select Wildbase Research Fund under Designation. Source: fb.com/151915092357... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

I couldn't agree more. Over 322 million books. Uniforms. Disaster relief. Vaccines. Not just allyship but accomplicetaka.

Garry@thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · last wk.

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

"Across 3 studies spanning 7 datasets in different domains and over 880,000 texts, we show that the widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) as writing assistants is linked to declines in linguistic diversity, interfering with the societal and psychological insights language provides."

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · last wk.

The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of large language models

"Sometimes privilege looks like being able to ignore a crisis that others are dying from.” - Blair Imani

Deaths confirmed amid worst winter illness hospitalisations in a decade

Deaths in aged care as flu levels surge - why is this winter so bad?

stuff.co.nz

This looks useful. | Social Media Ban for Kids - What the Evidence Shows socialmediaban.lisboncouncil.net @legallyfeminist.bsky.social @openpolicy.bsky.social

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Timeline cleanse 🫰🏾

Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 2w ago

I can only picture these derps 📸Eduard Solà

Unexpected

Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Love MARLON BRANDO’s reply to Connie Chung when she says “Don’t you realise that you’re thought of as the greatest Actor ever?”

A missive from the orange golem arrives. The time draws near. He knows where I live, even if others do not. Soon, the declarations shall need to be made. Soon.

I made this for a friend but it’s worth sharing, printing or saving to your phone so you can get the QR code in front of someone

My 50c: partnering with an entity that will still be located here in 50 years, in 100 years, would seem a smart choice.

Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · 2w ago

Iwi’s regional proposal offers cost savings, shares expertise across the South Island, and provides for disaster response – worryingly omitted from ministers’ Head Start model

Today NZCCSS released the Older Persons Poverty Monitor. Women over 65 face poverty at higher rates than men across all of the measures.

Timeline cleanse.

Deborah Russell MP@beefaerie.bsky.social · 3w ago

Seen at the Kumeū market.

Tautoko. The role is too important.

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿@notjustdna.bsky.social · 3w ago

#NZpol I’d prefer the Speaker role be a professional position, an independent lawyer selected to 'rule the law' in the House. Chosen by senior lawyers. Potential candidates with previous political roles disallowed. The appointee denied future political roles. Lianne Dalziel ⬇️

If you want a break from the relentless aaarrrggghhh of our politics right now ❣️

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wow. Just wow.

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

Okay Clacton. Let’s go.

#nzpol Out from behind paywall ... Taking a sledgehammer to the neo-liberal structures keeping us in their straitjacket 🙏 newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/11/t...

Taking a righteous sledgehammer to the primacy of private property rights

Comment: Nicola Willis has this week unveiled her proposed ‘Budget responsibility Rules’ – but her former Productivity Commission chair Dr Ganesh Ahirao argues she’d be better to smash up the existing...

newsroom.co.nz

#BHN When you think about who will best provide for NZ in the health system just remember that the last 12 months of the last government Labour hired 10 FTE nurses a day, under this government National hired 1 FTE nurse every 2 weeks over 2 years #nzpol #nzpolitics

Whatever you do, don’t follow this link and for all that is holy don’t share it with the rest of the country…🇳🇿 ghostchips.nz