Not only was she loudly right about everything and reviled for it, in 2017 O'Connor donated 30 years worth of clothes and makeup to trans girls in Ireland.

Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor

I hate all these fuckin people. peters, seymour, luxon, brownlee, all worthless, racist, fucking trash.

Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan grills Winston Peters on 'racist' comments that were directed at him

The Green MP who Winston Peters told to "go back to your own country" has challenged the Foreign Minister in Parliament over his comments.

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Christopher Luxon commits to flying commercial if elected

Opposition leader Christopher Luxon says he will not use Defence Force planes to travel internationally if elected as prime minister.

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A stock market is where shares in companies are bought and sold based on economic data such as “did the president say war words or peace words last night?” and “can you imagine a future where computers do all your work for you much better than you do would but you keep all the money?”

The weirdest thing about elections in NZ isn’t the level of political corruption, it’s how everyone thinks there isn’t any. If you regulated election spending the entire right wing of NZ politics would evaporate overnight.

Grab a friend. Go on an adventure. Be reminded that the world is so big and so beautiful and we are but very small parts of it.

At some point we — all of us — have to have a serious conversation about priorities. We can't just keep squeezing corporate profits out of everything and insisting everyone just make do somehow.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 24h ago

Older Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite

nationalise power companies now. invest in getting solar and batteries into as many homes as possible. the solutions and the money is there, we just need brave leaders to make positive change happen.

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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This is the Great Filter; we cannot accept that the perfect fusion pie lies in our past - it must lie in our future. We continue to strive.

André Brett@drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 11h ago

Truly, NZ's panoply of fusion pies is a practical everyday proof that migration is great and we need more migrants, not fewer, to unlock the full potential of the pie

Regular viewers will know that I had serious doubts about the 'recovery' well before Trump decided to cause global chaos (and trading opportunities for his buddies). Suffice to say, today's unemployment data is GRIM! Let's have a look... Unemployment rate vs the guesses of clueless ghouls. [🧵 1/n]

First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

A vote for National or NZ First means returning ACT to power again. ACT are gunning for workers, disabled people, and children. They will actively and intentionally make all our lives worse, except ofc for their wealthy donor class.

PERFECTLY NORMAL@nzpom.com · 16h ago

Today's chart after ACT got another $25k The system is rigged

Roderick Mulgan (Free Speech Union board member) lobbied Simeon Brown; Brown appointed him to the Medical Council. UK FSU founder Toby Young attended a private UCL eugenics conference in 2018. That's the 'free speech' movement's character reference. #nzpol

I'm a bear of little brain, but in my book taxpayers should not be picking up the bill for any MP to travel to and from party political events, like election fundraisers or party conferences. Either they do it at their own expense, or from party funds. End of line. #nzpol

kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · 17h ago

Not for *government duties* for his role as leader of the National Party for a party *fundraiser* for the *election* Surely this is outside the bounds of what the Air Force should be used for?? Seems like an enormous breach of his access to public assets! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

what is the most jankily developed type of mobile app and why is it the kind that schools pay for, with public money, to share identifiable data involving children

Today's chart after ACT got another $25k The system is rigged

The Public Service Commissioner is in one corner trying to tell the Public Service Association what they can and cannot say politically, and then we have Mr CEO of the country using public services to get to and from party political events like that’s just fine and ok

kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · 17h ago

Not for *government duties* for his role as leader of the National Party for a party *fundraiser* for the *election* Surely this is outside the bounds of what the Air Force should be used for?? Seems like an enormous breach of his access to public assets! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hey Siri, who was in power when unemployment was last this horrifically high? … The same people? But I thought they were good at the economy?

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 21h ago

National backs its policies as unemployment rises to 11-year high

I think this is going to be a thread bsky.app/profile/henr...

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 5d ago

The full comments the PM made at the Rotorua event, which the PM's office say Labour are mischaracterising as a "patronising lecture". www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Fundraising forn the National Partty is not his paid job right now and therefore Luxon has no excuse for using Defence Force resources to fly him around. Fuck I’m sick of this prick.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 18h ago

Christopher Luxon defends using Air Force flight to attend National Party fundraiser

When inequality is the point, poverty is… the point. 🤷‍♀️

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 21h ago

National backs its policies as unemployment rises to 11-year high

Gods, he’s embarrassing. If he had skerrick of self-awareness he would be mortified by his own haplessness, but he’s just truculent and aggrieved, and pissed off about being called to account by people he holds in contempt. #nzpol

Idiot/Savant@norightturnnz.bsky.social · 19h ago

Now squirming over which hat he was wearing when he attended the party fundraiser, because its not the hat which entitles him to military transport. #nzqt

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Socialism looking pretty good right about now. #nzpol

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 24h ago

Older Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite

Hmm, I wonder if there's any correlation between the government deeming schoolkids to be unworthy of proper food/care/resources and kids acting up in class (who Paul Henry pretends to be so concerned about)? #nzpol

BusinessDesk@businessdesknz.bsky.social · yesterday

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.

This fuckin’ guy Christopher Luxon defends using Air Force flight to attend National Party fundraiser #NZPol

D Jukic She/her@dejanajuk.bsky.social · 17h ago

Of course he is. He’s the king of entitlement, not the Prime Minister - he gives nothing of substance except cliches and jargon - Luxon is the Prime Taker. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

and when you consider how cameras and eyeballs work, how you look at a mirror is significantly different from how you look at a screen.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 19h ago

I was in a friend’s rental car and in place of a rear-view mirror there was a mirror-sized digital video feed of the back of the car. They replaced one of the most reliable & intuitive safety features in a car with a digital surrogate that could glitch at any moment. KEEP ANALOG SAFTEY FEATURES

I’d hate to think what the unemployment rate would be if National were bad at this economy stuff….oh wait. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

What the latest unemployment figures could mean for the election

The release of the second quarter unemployment figures has seen political parties come out and make their election pitches.

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