Now the English is an official language of New Zealand I expect all posts to use your, you're, there, their and they're correctly.

Thirty years to the month since a highschool friend wrapped himself around a power pole, the year after graduation I thouhht about that guy every day forba year and a half after he died. Still think about him all the goodamn time Incandescently angry with my charming, clever, funny baby boy

Gotta take the good with the bad? So 17 is gonna get a surprise visit from the local cop with the gift off demerits and a fine because him and his mates were racing home from school and someone *555 his stupid fucking ass. Confident, cocky, lazy, dead.

Let them eat sauce. No, wait, that’s too expensive. #nzpol

BusinessDesk@businessdesknz.bsky.social · 22h ago

As schools reported throwing out nearly one in three Compass lunches late last year, the Ministry of Education looked into adding sauce to make the meals more appealing but shelved the idea over cost.

Imagine being so dense you don’t understand Vimes’ Boot Theory of Economic Injustice, and dismissing it as a dumb idea chucked out by a mere fantasy writer for a joke.

I saw these guys at the Troubadour before they got big

Shit if Juan Browne is weighing in on this its bad bad.

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · yesterday

So the US military killed everyone on a medevac plane by testing a GPS weapon. futurism.com/science-ener...

IMO it’d help to call 'AI' centres *compute* farms, not data centres. It better conveys the issues with them. Using the older, generic term ‘data centre’ hides that there are different kinds of these things, and the 'AI' service kind has very different demands. 1/n

Explainer: What is a data centre and why is everyone freaking out now?

Explainer - Data centres have existed for decades, so what's the big deal now?

rnz.co.nz

Back in the day, when we built stuff, RBNZ gave Govt special accounts so Govt could spend millions building houses etc without selling bonds to investors. RBNZ basically just gave Govt an overdraft. The ghouls hate this shit - where's the rent in RBNZ financing state houses for public use? [Ends]

Australia Institute's research went viral: 69% of post-COVID inflation above RBA target came from excess corporate profits, not wages. Yet monetary policy ignores this, sparking fury over regulatory capture. 🧵2/3

Early COVID mitigations showed us the power of collective action. The environment began to heal. People with disabilities were accommodated. An entire flu strain was eradicated. Folks reconnected with their local communities. We worked together & saved lives.

The fuck you say two slices of brown bread with hummus is over a quarter of my recommended daily sodium intake. What is even the point?

Blech

Winter eh?

...that is the least-surprising haircut I have ever seen.

Poor old 14 is in that state of permanantly hungry and obsessed with food rn (he is small and skinny lad, nevertheless). He was in the kitchen in his uniform with his school bag packed at 0630 this morning because he wanted to make pannenkoeken.

Wow actual honest-to-god pig-ignorant, entitled, business cunt in the wild Waaah I didnt make the money I thought I would because <local politics> Waaah

'Dumb and dumber': Company boss says Labour destroyed economy, National hasn't fixed it

The manufacturing boss has voted National all his life. He won't be doing so this time.

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92% of terror arrests in Britain are now for alleged Palestine Action supporters The cohort has an average age of 59 and an even gender split between men and women, but outside of Palestine Action-related arrests, the vast majority of terror suspects are male with an average age of 31

Enjoy the Richmond Folk Fest posters over the years: www.richmondfolkfestival.org/poster

Official Folk Festival Poster l Richmond Folk Festival

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That the orientation of Unilever management is callow, visionless, shareholder-supremacist template neoliberal capitalism will come as no surprise to NZers whose current PM climbed the ranks there.

The Syllabus@the-syllabus.bsky.social · 3d ago

Using Ben & Jerry's to trace how shareholder-driven restructuring can strip a values-based company of its social mission, this piece contrasts the brand's early pay limits and political activism with Unilever's 2000 acquisition. By Rickey Gard Diamond in @msmagazine.com buff.ly/N5jnTkX

Naur! Pre-baking for 4's birthday.

Yikes felt that

$96 a week to wreck your body, career, sleep, to raise kids who will be little servants to 4 billionaires who want to infect them AI psychosis in a dying planet with increasing severe weather events and dwindling drinking water and disrupted food supplies and no birds. LESH GO LETS DO IT!

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 4d ago

Winston Peters wants to pay people up to $45k, tax free, to have three kids. It’s a policy with a very nativist bent that will naturally draw comparisons to the “great replacement theory” conspiracy. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Every time we get a shock, the oil companies cash in. Remember that those companies are just intermediaries between us plebs and the richest 1% who pockets 50% of those profits. Credit to Isabella M Weber on the other place.

Its real estate agents and land lords down here, innit

Jason Sclar@jasonsclar.bsky.social · 4d ago

This @patrickwyman.bsky.social essay is not explicitly about car dealerships but it includes them and their politics. It has lived in my head since 2021 as one of the better essays explaining how we got here www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It's one child, Michael. What could it cost? $15,000?

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 4d ago

Winston Peters wants to pay people up to $45k, tax free, to have three kids. It’s a policy with a very nativist bent that will naturally draw comparisons to the “great replacement theory” conspiracy. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

He is Risen! My baby tamarillo has recovered from frost/wind burn a week ago, by trimming the dead leaves and cosying up at night next to the hot water cylinder. Green Thumb: Unlocked.

I think people believe what they see in movies. Modern data centers bring the lowest number of employees to an area of any kind of business

Listen kids Your value as a knowledge producer is *not* that you can shit things out quickly It's not that you can whatever program to check a bajillion things and make a graph It is that folks can trust that you know what you're talking about and checked the tape You give that up, you're fucked

Dr. Holly Walters@manigarm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?