The US committed genocide in Korea, leaving the country devastated. This is vile shit from US "progressives" who are angry because Trump trolled them about not doing a dangerous provocative military exercise (held during an armistice) that should never happen in the first place.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump pissed on the graves of a lot of Korean War vets today.
Private debt in NZ is 4x larger & costs 4x more to service than public debt. We've been underfunding health, emergency services, education, conservation, transport, research, state housing & infrastructure for a GENERATION. ... & establishment media attack Nats for not doing more austerity
yeah, oops all my concerns about progressive institutions failing to build narrative, let alone pressure, is becoming far too stark as we approach an election date while people die in the cold
Hayley@writagal.bsky.social · 2w agoRage-inducing that orgs, advocates, experts who said people would die due to multiple spheres from health to housing to cost of living being inadequately resourced, funded, regulated were absolutely right months ago when they said it, and now, when people are dying - and politicians still won’t act.
MMP but the votes are counted using moon logic so the seats can't be revealed until you call the tolled hint line
Mark@maetl.bsky.social · 2w agoMMP but the election is replaced with a MMO idle clicker game where a sub exponential curve unlocks more list MPs and policy bundles.
this is an intentional step towards enabling fascist militias and you can't convince me otherwise www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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Why address issues of workplace weight discrimination when you can just tell fatties to medicate themselves? What next? Telling people to be less female, less brown, less disabled, less queer? It's all about making a good first impression eh. www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
Weight loss drugs could boost chances of getting a job
International research suggests losing weight may help people get a job - and their New Zealand counterparts say it can't be ruled out here, either.
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Interesting when the Party knew the Post article was inbound…
Kieran@nugmonster.cryptoanarchy.network · 2w agoAt 3:20 in this interview, Ron Mark (Who is not a political newcomer, so his comments can hardly be brushed aside) says "Young New Zealand First are essentially running the party"
'40% of NZers are taking on debt to cover increased living costs' Meanwhile these are our front pages:
LIP@l11p.bsky.social · 4w agoPrivate debt is the real debt crisis. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Paul Henry left TVNZ in disgrace after being racist, but was allowed to crawl back after failing overseas thanks to friendly media stories (including The Spinoff basically doing an ad for his gin) and hosting gigs, and that's why he can now waltz into being an MP with zero work. What a charmed life.
i hope that a few people are waking up about the way western chauvinism operates given the UK's shocking move to proscribe the IRGC this is a policy that the *NZ Greens* were pushing for in part in NZ - incredibly naive at best given how "allied" atrocities are treated. it only ever goes one way
Victoria, our lawyer, started this morning with words from the people who most often don't get to speak about these decisions - trans rangatahi and their whānau. There's some incredibly brave and proud rakatahi across Aotearoa who have lent their voices to this case and I'm eternally grateful.
The claims in the article are all based on western intel propaganda (incl. NZ). And if you read carefully, you'll find that the the racist 'China-watching' industry is all a grift: "The event [was] convened by an insurance industry cybersecurity organization"
If you're looking for solid evidence to back the article's claims, you're out of luck. In fact, as the article notes, its' all an "exercise in imagination."
You know you're reading complete hogwash when an article contains the following: "Imagined scenario" "China-watchers in the cybersecurity world agree" And my favourite: "China has effectively strapped the digital equivalent of explosives to the backbone of American society" 🤡🤣 🧵
What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
Burst water mains. Evacuated hospitals. In a closed-door simulation, insurers played out their response to a mass disruption by China’s Volt Typhoon hackers—and found a nightmare scenario.
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wild to me that one of the most evidentially bigoted astroturfs breaking into NZ mainstream at the moment - Pillar NZ - is getting laundered by the likes of RNZ as a “civil liberties group” simply because they are rabidly anti-china our newsrooms are incredibly co-opted and audiences arent prepared
utter and pathetic subservience there are numerous MPs within NZ's government who would give EVERYTHING to the USA we're beyond just embarrassing, this has reached the level that we should worry sovereignty and foreign interference
calling on NZ Labour and @greens.org.nz to get a press release to media TONIGHT immediately ruling this out actually absurd that reporters here have asked ZERO current politicians & parties what their stance is before releasing a story - especially during election year. It's discourse manipulation
kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · 2mo agodo NZ journos think there might be useful context & subtext that is relevant to NZers when they decide to treat far right US fascists in the same way that they treat local politicians? this is a wall of verbatim PR with a kindly framed headline essentially being gamed by the incoming US ambassador
This has to be one of the largest non-nuclear bomb attacks in history. By Israel. On Lebanon. Yesterday. In the middle of a “ceasefire” The world must remove and try this demented regime aje.news/o2p070
Israel triggers huge explosion in southern Lebanon
A massive explosion triggered by the Israeli military shook the southern Lebanese village of Majdal Zoun.
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on a page full of AI slop and again their whole agenda is based on defining Muskism as the global gold standard for democracy, hollow out the public sector and put everything in the hands of American oligarchs www.nzpillar.com/foreign-inte...
Foreign Interference Campaign Page | Take Action for Democracy — PILLAR.
Learn about protecting New Zealand's democracy from foreign interference and influence. Discover our campaigns, legislation efforts, and how you can support sovereignty and transparency.
nzpillar.com
While we’re rightfully outraged about the danger posed by extremists like Brian Tamaki, it would pay to note that NZ's military & govt openly talk of acquiring lethal weapons & celebrate training with Trump’s military to kill foreign ‘enemies’ who might ‘threaten our shared values’ ... #nzpol
Little thing I am putting together for the CGDA June Meetup: Retrofantasy UI: Remixing the past in the future Join me on a tour through the weird and wild world of remixing legacy UI patterns and visions of computing in other worlds. www.meetup.com/christchurch...
June CGDA Meetup - Mark Rickerby, Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Welcome to the June 2026 Christchurch Game Developers' Meetup! **Location:** EPIC Innovation, 106 Manchester St, Christchurch 8011 **The meetup will also be streamed onli
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Someone close to me, like they're more than a friend, we're extremely close, do everything together etc, soulmates I suppose, they just told me they wanted to sign a TPU petition about MP expenses... I had to ask them straight up, what's more important to you, really? Signing this stupid petition or
The fact that NZME is out here arguing their broadcasters should be allowed to call a non-binary person "it" because they're not protected under the Human Rights Act tells you all you need to know about that company and the people who run it.
![Excerpt from BSA decision: "[14] In later submissions, responding to the Authority’s provisional decision upholding the complaint under the discrimination and denigration standard, NZME argued the Authority’s reasoning was ‘fundamentally flawed’:
a) The Authority considered gender non-binary people constitute a ‘section of the community’ under the discrimination and denigration standard on account of ‘sex’ – but this reasoning is ‘wrong’. ‘Sex and gender are distinct and separate concepts.’
i) In reaching this conclusion, the Authority relied on the Te Kāhui Tika Tangata I Human Rights Commission (HRC) and Crown Law Office’s ‘interpretation of the relevant section of the Human Rights Act 1993’. (NZME’s emphasis)
ii) This interpretation has never been confirmed by a New Zealand court. By extension, the United Kingdom Supreme Court determined ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 – the UK’s equivalent to the Human Rights Act (HRA) – ‘refers to biological sex’.
iii) In the 2025 Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission report Ia Tangata1, the Law Commission recommended amending the HRA ‘to provide “clearer protection to people who are transgender or non-binary or have an innate variation of sex characteristics (sometimes known as intersex)”’. The Government considered this amendment was not a legislative priority. NZME submitted: ‘It is clear that the legislation as currently drafted does not capture gender identity.’"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qww25tudku2ftgzkp2hxzvjl/bafkreicx6qtuzrptv3ideae74rkukpni5oo2grjtmtd6goiyosayhgteq4)
every new article about top is like : (heroically) i would like to be in power
actually omg though they went a step FURTHER to launder this extremist. wild
kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · 2mo agothe fact that even Newsroom are now doing puff pieces on NZF, let alone that it’s for an *extremist* with zero real questioning about his worst views, should be ample evidence that media in NZ are captured, and now coordinating, to inauthentically boost the far right and NZF in particular
Western tech companies run by Dr Evil clones are currently hoovering up govt cash to run key parts of security, surveillance, data, health, military and policing systems. The call is coming from inside the house. bsky.app/profile/scot...
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 3mo agoPalantir has been awarded a £9 million contract to manage the software behind licensing for firearms, explosives and poison in the UK
The $1.5 trillion pentagon budget will be used as a massive bail out program for the Israeli state as it faces global isolation. I never thought it could be so brazen. open.substack.com/pub/weareund...
Israel moves to embed military tech in US defense partnership
Legislation inserted into the annual military spending bill would guarantee long-term funding and material support for Israel's genocidal settler-colonial project without accountability to the public
open.substack.com
