But please! Protect and cherish our multimillionaires, it would be so mean to ask them to support the services and infrastructure their businesses thrive on, let alone the less well-off members of their communities.
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 22h agoOlder Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite
Dear Govt: 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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They can say summers have always been hot and we’ve always had wildfires and they can tell themselves all day that everything is the same as it always was but you know better They can gaslight themselves but not you. #ExtremeHeat #Wildfires #Smoke #ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli
There is so much wealth in the world, we could all do fine. The hoarding is sociopathic. And the hoarders & their cronies have literally set the planet on fire. Many of our societies vote for this shit so I guess we’re pretty fucking stupid in spite of our advances.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2d agoThe effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
This is where Winston and Shane get their inspo. Seriously; not nearly enough scrutiny on NZF links with Reform/Restore (UK’s far right conjoined twins)
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · yesterdayI just can’t believe we’re seeing this sort of stuff from a sitting MP Just want to say to British Somalis that you are loved and I’m so, sorry this is happening.
But please! Protect and cherish our multimillionaires, it would be so mean to ask them to support the services and infrastructure their businesses thrive on, let alone the less well-off members of their communities.
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 22h agoOlder Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite
Raybon is a national treasure, perhaps even a New Zealand first treasure: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ive...
Raybon Kan: I've never talked about it, but Winston Peters also told me to go back to my own country
OPINION: Could it be a Chinese thing not to want to cry racism? To be stoic?
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Now it's using the cash pile to buy foreign currency assets - mostly foreign govt bonds. IE Our Govt is using tens of billions in spare cash to help the US, UK, Japan, Australia etc pay for their infrastructure and wars, rather than building houses and hospitals here. 2/2
“There is at least one important section of society where little shittery is rampant, destructive and harmful to the environment of the workplace. It’s actively impeding the ability of well-behaved people to perform well & limiting productivity. I’m talking, of course, about parliament.” No notes🙌
The little shits are coming from inside the House
Act wants to deal with the little shits in the classroom. Perhaps they should clean up the ones on their own turf first.
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Sauce. This was the solution considered. Give me strength.
BusinessDesk@businessdesknz.bsky.social · 24h agoAs 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 is why we can't trust the seabed miners. They're not giving up - and neither are we - we need to get a BAN ON SEABED MINING in place as soon as possible. Sign our petition, ask questions at candidate meetings... www.kasm.org.nz/ban-seabed-m... #nzpol
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Who does Winston Peters inspire, and instigate? White supremacists, and those on the far-right who regularly promote the Christchurch killer's violent extremism - almost verbatim, week after week. #nzpol
It’s cool that NZF candidates are essentially running CHCH shooter talking points but they are legitimized as “kingmakers” and not ruled out by everyone *before* the election. Nice country we live in.
Question in final part of sentence answered by the first part. The middle bit…short notice, reinforces it.
Ms Hooper@mshooper.bsky.social · 4d agoDeparting children's commissioner Claire Achmad has called rising child poverty "inexcusable" as she leaves a role she wanted to keep, saying she was given five weeks' notice and never told why she was not reappointed. #nzpol
In times like these, it’s important to pay attention to the grand unifying narratives ideas are hooking on to. Like that children are there to be controlled by adults, like babies and birth are commodities to be controlled by the state, like citizenship is a state more valuable than non-citizenship.
Survivors of abuse in care hand-delivered flowers to Parliament. The flowers were picked from the grounds of hospitals and care residences that were sites of abuse, and marked 2 years since the damning findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry. My #cartoon today #NZpol #AbuseInCare #ChildWelfare
There is no denting the self-belief of this man www.davidslack.net/there-is-no-...
There is no denting the self-belief of this man
It’s pure reflex now. I see our Prime Minister and I think, You are just so full of it. Polling suggests I’m not alone. But there is no denting the self-belief of this man who imagines himself a her...
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This poast that I stole from twitter is the best shit. Why the fuckin racists will never win: little guys kicking around with their mates saying shit like "wahgwan alaykum" and "O Allah that's spicy"
If I could say one thing to Winston Peters, it would be: please don’t use mean words
If I could say one thing to Winston Peters, it would be: please don’t use mean words
My older brother and I have an intellectual disability. It can be quite hard. When I heard someone that powerful use that word, I felt disgusted and upset....
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A Māori MP has drawn praise for defending New Zealand’s native language in a heated parliamentary debate - citing Wales as an example of a nation valuing its indigenous language and identity
‘English is a bastard language’: Māori MP praises Wales' bilingualism in passionate speech
Stephen Price A Māori MP has drawn praise for defending New Zealand’s native language in a heated parliamentary debate – citing Wales as an example of a nation valuing its indigenous language and iden...
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Nice to have another close up look at the new stunning mahi toi on Te Hā Noa. This is Wāhine who easily holds her own amongst the surrounding buildings.The presence and detail is really something. Lucky residents who get to look out on these everyday/night. 🌃🌇 #citycentre
For the next few months, every single decision about Government spending priorities, in the form of "Rather than spending x on y, the government would rather spend x on z metres of road" where one million dollars is 7.22 metres of road.
Michael Plank@michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 6d agoThe bargain price of $138 million per km. Or one postdoc per metre.
It worries me that the good guys don't pay enough heed to how very deeply the bad guys hate women...and how much deeper that hatred is than, say, ten years ago
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 6d agoBen Shapiro spends his entire show mocking the WNBA and its players. Including a montage his team put together of missed shots at the All-Star game which he laughs at. It's incredible how much transphobia can just let you be an open misogynist.
one road, not even long enough to run a marathon on, for the low low price of 42 times the entire 2027 budget for scientific research in new zealand #nzpol
Biggest-ever PPP: $3.6b Northland expressway deal signed
The 26km expressway will include twin tunnels through the Dome Valley.
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Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander Hurst
Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander Hurst
The White House seems committed to ecocide. The EU should harness the power of the single market to force it to change course, says Guardian Europe writer Alexander Hurst
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