People who can barely afford food or rent are stuck paying a trillionaires bills. Fuck that.

A petition is calling for the community services card, disability allowance and supported living payment to be assessed on an individual basis, not including a partner's income. #nzpol

I worked really hard on this and it just sucks to see people I like and respect on here shitting on it. Everyone talks a big game about supporting artists but then they all pile on just to score a few points on the internet. Try creating your own stuff instead of making fun of someone else’s.

Sign This Parliamentary Petition Today: petitions.parliament.nz/0e32836b-625... For ppl living with a lifelong disability or chronic illness, this petition asks MSD to remove joint-income testing measures from: ✅️ COMMUNITY SERVICES CARD ✅️ DISABILITY ALLOWANCE ✅️ SUPPORTED LIVING PAYMENT

I read this again and cried this morning. So of course, I now share it with you.

Also not the biggest concern, but the situation Josh is accurately describing is a compound nightmare because the lack of employers means young creatives aren't learning anything about the craft from veterans of their industries. It's all atomized. And knowledge loss is thus massive :(

one of the best discussions of AI I've heard, very good stuff

My nana is so fucking affordable, the Mowbrays are unaffordable.

A lot of people might say that the Nats have extraordinary audacity to announce a headline policy about KiwiSaver that largely just reverses changes they made when last in government

Nope, not by a long shot. Child poverty, hunger, defunding food banks and sexual assault support orgs, underfunding healthcare so people die from preventable causes … just a few of the cruel things the state under your governance is imposing. #nzpol

A thread of my favourite books on the craft of writing. Notice the subjectivity in the word "my" and "favourite". I have not used the word "best" or its synonyms. I may add to the thread daily or several times a day. Also, FAO: @glenatron.bsky.social @izom-chisom.bsky.social

Happy Winter Solstice Kiwis @ today (Sunday) at 8:24 pm! 📍 Scott Base 0.00.00 📍 Auckland Island 7:57:13 📍 Invercargill 8.35.00 📍 Dunedin 8.39.12 📍 Christchurch 8.56.22 📍 Wellington 9.11.23 📍 Nelson 9.11.30 📍 Hamilton 9.32.36 📍 Tauranga 9.33.12 📍 Auckland 9.37.54 📍 Kerikeri 9.46.43 c/- NIWA

The Minister of Education and the Smart Tool. My #cartoon today #NZpol #Education

‘Cos. that raced to put AI tools in the hands of their workers are starting to rein in their use as the cost of deploying the tech at scale tests budgets. Amazon, Walmart, Cisco, Uber and Meta are now discouraging wasteful use or pushing employees to cheaper models.‘ www.ft.com/content/1d37...

Today's Yeo in the ODT

As we watch Elon Musk's estimated wealth fluctuate up and down between 1 trillion, 1.1 trillion, and 1.2 trillion, it's staggering to remember that .1 represents $100 billion.

This. It’s a lot of money … that is deliberately not being paid to women. Everyone saying ‘oh its too expensive’ should also be saying men should take an $11B pay cut to save money. #nzpol

Even if it cost twice what Labour estimated (it won't) it would still be a good policy. It helps with the cost of living and will reduce carbon emissions #nzpol

If I look tired IT’S BECAUSE I AM. Listening to women at the latest Turning Point USA conference talk about giving their husbands their right to vote took five years off my life at least 💀🪦🕊️

A handy set of visualisations for anyone who cares.

I think Barb Edmonds committing to Pay Equity legislation being reinstated under Labour should have every woman at the polling booth in support #nzpol

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🚨Elon Musk is set to become the world's first TRILLIONAIRE today. Immigrants are not the reason you can’t afford groceries 📍near Tesla’s flagship London store, Tottenham

“Not all of us want new cars. Some of us want trains and buses that come every 5 minutes.” - @myvoicemychoice.bsky.social

two telephone translations by Dick Higgins

Wiping $140m from Warmer Kiwi Homes is not 'savings', it's stupidity and mean. #nzpol "A 2022 study found every dollar invested in the programme brought more than $4 in social, economic and wellbeing benefits and $1.89 in health benefits."

“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Warning: language. But it’s worth it.

"The technology can get rid of the problems that wouldn't exist if the technology didn't exist" really sums up the insanity of the times.

That jump in unemployment in 1991 was employment contracts act snd mother of all budgets #nzpol

Awful truth, unknown to 99% of the population... NZ Govt adopted an economic management model in the 1980s that MAKES SURE: 1. We always have tens of thousands of kiwis on the dole. 2. People with work / little work live in abject poverty that keeps them desperate for crap jobs. Why? [🧵 1/n]

The idea that technology companies can just infinitely grow data centres and we can just infinitely build wind and solar to cover it has already been disproven. The industry itself opposes this! The only good outcome here is slow, controlled, regulated growth that doesn't worsen fossil fuel use

Aside from the whole breaking the rules deelio, I'm pretty sure kids just want govt parties to provide decent school lunches, not god awful National-branded merch that can't even be re-gifted because it's so tacky 🤢 #nzpol

why is this all boyfriends at the poetry reading

This has gone more viral than anything I have ever written or recorded, the "AI has no ROI" story has fully caught on and there's an anxiety in the AI industry that nobody can seem to calm down. Things are going to get interesting in the next few weeks!

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

I don’t know how to tell people that the only way to win, to truly win, is to have principles and bring people along to rally behind advancing those principles. Electoral politics is no exception to this truth. If you elect someone who does not adhere to, or advance, your principles, you cannot win.

And the AI companies have hidden the true price of that usage based cost for as long as they possibly can. Here's what happened on day 1 of microsoft charging something like its actual costs for Github Copilot. bsky.app/profile/edzi...

NZ’s finance minister says that yes, we COULD get rid of child poverty but would that really be for the best, don’t these children need the dignity of work in the long term What kind of insane comment is that Record homelessness and child poverty in Aotearoa and this government is just “ehh”

Utterly confounding that this person, the finance minister for Aotearoa, is a parent, yet espouses poverty for children ahead of ensuring welfare is enough to live on… www.instagram.com/reel/DZHNOEI...

data centers will drink all the water on Earth and we need water to live

Completely this.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside. You will find the all-important captions to each photo in the alt text.

Eco chamber From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Gov austerity triggered a deep recession and they're acting all 'concerned' like it's not of their making... #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Hugely pleased to receive such a thorough and thoughtful review.