What a total shit show. Surety you would have a payment system up and running and meters rolled out so it's fair before you send out threatening bills?

RNZ News (Unofficial)@radionz.nzcow.com · 2d ago

📢 Wellington region residents say they've been handed "ridiculous" and "unreasonable" water bills for basement car parks and granny flats.

There’s a lot of little shits in politics too. Can we remove those pls www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

ACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use 'reasonable force' on students

ACT wants to give teachers the legal power to remove "seriously or persistently disruptive" students from a classroom.

rnz.co.nz

I'll be willing to buy the desirability of data centers once they locate one in Beverly Hills and one next to Mar-A-Lago.

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Well fuck me. That Tiaki Wai bill is huge. I have no idea how families struggling right now can afford this. #Poneke #nzpol

⚡BREAKING: Barclays has made £6.1 BILLION in profits in just the first six months of this year! So, what's the bank doing with that money? 🧵

the current NZ govt is so anti-science that they've changed eligibility for the Prime Minister's Science Prizes to rule out awards to people doing basic science eg from 2026 the MacDiarmid is for work with "potential to generate econ, health, social, or env benefits for New Zealand" #nzpol

Under Jacinda it was so frustrating because everything felt possible but comparatively nothing happened, under Luxon and under Hipkins the struggle is to maintain the belief in the possible.

One thing you can absolutely guarantee in life. When Labour ministers talk about difficult choices, it's never the rich and powerful that will be taking a hit.

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

Norway’s football federation is making a formal complaint to FIFA over political interference in the Word Cup. Well done to them. Now for the FA? *drums fingers*

the US are illegally waging war on Iran, and then using the FACT THEYRE IN IRAN as justification for attacks on civilian infrastructure including desalination plants and NZ media report it like below utterly outrageous

Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling

Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.

bbc.co.uk

Cutting funding for science has a very nasty habit of being a really big problem in both expected and unexpected ways. This may not be relevant to last nights problems, but I can assure you that cutting funding for geohazard monitoring is - of concern.

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This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

People are wondering how Folarin Balogu was reinstated by FIFA after a red card. We all know how. 😂😅

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

the brits are screaming wonderwall in the azteca. god is dead

England red card.. So does the king call fifa now? Is that how this works?

RESPECT Every politician should be doing this. Mayor Coffman has spent every Friday night since February sleeping at Aurora, Colorado’s homeless center, serving breakfast in the morning, and learning firsthand what works and what doesn’t.

This is what the Socialist Campaign Group are calling on the next Labour leader to do

The Socialist Campaign Group of MPs releases list of demands for next Labour leader

The Socialist Campaign Group (SCG) of left-wing Labour MPs has set out a list of demands for the next Labour leader, warning that unless the party changes course and reconnects with Labour voters, not...

leftfootforward.org

Wtf...do we all have to bend the knee and pledge allegiance to King Winnie to vote now? This coalition gets more and more unhinged by the day

1News NZ (Unofficial)@1newsnz.nzcow.com · last mo.

📢 Leader Winston Peters said voting "should be a privilege of those who have sworn allegiance to New Zealand".

My good pal @ojutel.bsky.social on AI fundamentalists silencing any critique as denying an inevitable future

Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸@ojutel.bsky.social · last mo.

I wrote about "Line Go Up Teleology" that deals with METR, Mythos and Rutger Bregman's claims of left AI-denialism acmesmokescreen.substack.com/p/left-bashi...