Grim Unemployment Figures today.

Musical Chairs@musicalchairs.bsky.social · 10h ago

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]

This is important. Thanks @tobymanhire.bsky.social and Bernard Hickey. So well explained. youtu.be/2bO1eCmk_-o?...

Unemployment hits 11-year high – with Bernard Hickey | At Large with Toby Manhire

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NZ Pie Awards of NZ Google Map It is almost just an Auckland thing now! www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...

2026 NZ Pie Awards - Google My Maps

A bacon and egg pie made to a 40-year-old family recipe has been declared the best in New Zealand. "It was a pure delight to taste with its smoky slices and petite core of bacon, the generous amount ...

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We welcome and cherish our Cambodian bakers that have made NZ home. #Pies

NZ Pie Awards…… more like Auckland Pie Awards

Bacon & Egg pies should not be allowed to win the supreme pie award. They are not really proper pies but only poorly made quiches. Fruit pies are also banned.

In today’s NZ Herald

Going to be a very cold day today. Free heating in the office sounds very appealing today. 🥶❄️

There’s been a lot of talk about children this past week - how to punish them, how to breed them, and how business people are like them - but none of it about child welfare. My #cartoon today #NZpol

Micah Nielsen, 21, arrived at the polls wearing an “I hate AI” shirt and looking for a candidate who puts people over corporate profits. Nielsen lives in an area where data center development is a concern. “I’m trying to find ways to boycott AI,” he said. virginiamercury.com/2026/08/04/l...

Luxon: So, Winston they're saying you really should apologize. Peters: Nah. Luxon: This is putting me in an awkward position. Peters: Get fucked. Luxon: OK then. And that sums up the conversation. #nzpol youtu.be/H_AOu9nTilQ?...

Winston Peters won’t apologise for his ‘racist’ comments - so could he be sacked? | Stuff.co.nz

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Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Aliens

Alt: Aliens

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Annikakes@annikakes.bsky.social · 2d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

I can see snow on Wharite Peak. Just a dusting - like icing sugar over a cake.

I love the use of bonkers in a sentence. And the use here is absolutely appropriate.

John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@thinkorswim.bsky.social · 3d ago

There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.

Have called in sick. First time in 3 years. Gah. Head like concrete.

No child deserves getting a smack. NO to violence.

Parkrun this morning in Ohakune. A mere 0 degrees and then there was windchill. I found it quite cold. Friendly little parkrun and there was cake at the finish!!

Oh sweet blessed relief via pseudoephedrine!!!!!! Thankful that past me bought a packet last year.

Comment from Auckland University: ith power prices climbing, New Zealand’s sluggish adoption of rooftop solar highlights a costly gap in government incentives.

NZ has the sunshine, the tech and the expertise for solar – but not the political will

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Whether you buy a toaster or a car, Julie Blommaert says the Consumer Guarantees Act has been pretty much toothless – until she finally took her problems with her faulty EV to court. Alice Peacock reports.

Precedent-setting ruling in ‘legal chicken’ with car dealer

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I running the Cambridge New Zealand Parkrun this Saturday. #parkrun

I won my conflicted domain name battle that I have been waging since 2014!!! … is the only remaining eligible third-level domain within the conflicted set. As the current Domain Name Holder …. you can register the domain. Got email today from Internet NZ Woop woop

I had a reporter ask me if there was any connection between the fires in Canada and the flooding in Texas. I said: of course there is a connection. The connection is increasing temperatures.

Got to respect the use of bonkers in this article. Cause it is true … we all know it…. The politicians continue to deny it.

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 3w ago

Your 'moment of doom' for July 18, 2026 ~ Bonkers alert! "Civilization is currently living through break-neck climate change. It’s reflected in erratic climate system behavior. The entire global system has gone bonkers, unpredictable, ecosystems threatened everywhere."

An Absolute Outrage!! “Let them eat cake”

Ira@ira.bailey.nz · 3w ago

The NZ Government spent $8M to bring the Michelin Guide here. $8M is the entire yearly government funding to all food banks, who feed 500k people a month. newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/17/s... #NZPol

Well doing a bit of Parkrun tourist session. Headed over to the Palmerston North Parkrun to give that a whirl for the first time. An easy out and back along the River. Trying out a new running aid - so fingers crossed that it is comfortable. #parkrun

The Datsuns Moonstruck Man New Track New album released on Nov 13 Woop woop open.spotify.com/track/2ogb4c...

Those fucking billionaires.. What rejects of humanity they truly are..

Watch an animation of 100 years of average June temperature anomalies over global land areas through 2026... Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.1.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

Crikey- our spinners did the job on the WINDIES.