just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

“New Zealand lags behind other countries in clamping down on fake images of naked women and children, an organisation working to prevent child sexual exploitation says.” What a surprise, etc 🙄

I love this

How ironic 'Musk has accused the UK Government of being “fascist” and trying to curb free speech.'

Y'all they're trying to come onto bluesky, BLOCK ICE!!!!!!

"Like our tūpuna, many New Zealanders today don’t understand what’s truly happening with our data. If eight muskets once bought islands, what are we now trading for cloud convenience?"

New Study finds a significant reduction in suicidality after trans people receive gender-affirming hormone therapy. “Hormone therapy was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time…” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Good vs. ICE by the brilliant Jesse Welles...

Because caregiving & sick leave disproportionately fall on mothers, especially single mothers, making schools & daycares safer through clean air & normalized masking is an essential part of any serious gender equity agenda

In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material. You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. That's just part of the features its owner has advertised as one of the benefits of being a customer. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

Nazi forces frequently practiced collective punishment, which included massacring the inhabitants of entire towns and leveling villages in retaliation for partisan activity or the killing of German soldiers That’s what this sign on the podium means.

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m trying to tell my husband to stop arguing and talking any sense to these people. They have chosen their side. This guy sums it up pretty well too:

I need to buy plain soap and some jojoba oil for my eczema. I bought a big jar of coconut oil but that made it worse. it will cost about £11. if people could share this I would be really grateful, thank you ♥️ ko-fi.com/hanslabyrinth

Kudos to these experts urging the WHO to change their guidelines from surgical masks to respirators to prevent airborne viruses like Covid & the flu 👏🏼 But it really shouldn't take public pressure to align guidance with well-established aerosol science www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Or, in a Gary Larson drawing

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

If one password got you the records for 120000 users, the password is not your problem.

imagine a cheery BBC news report in 1938 breezily asking "which countries could be in Hitler's sights after the Sudetenland?"

Apparently the reason the government is so tight-fisted in the face of actual disaster is because they need to protect the Crown accounts in case there’s a disaster. Either that, or Treasury genuinely thinks that money is more important than people, hard to tell which

I keep thinking Aotearoa NZ has lost something precious & the world is worse if for it We were known as peacemakers & could pour balm on difficult world events. It was a hard won respect thru brave decisions Now this Govt remains silent or follows & just like that we merge into irrelevance #nzpol

If you are a trans person and you think you might need to leave the country, I implore you: start now. Not just thinking. Planning. Because it’s harder than you think. #transrightsarehumanrights #transgender #protecttranskids

Gender nonconforming gay guy uses the men's bathroom and it's confronted and threatened. It was never about the bathrooms, privacy, or safety, they simply don't want queer people to exist.

check me out, i’m a genius. oh wait, actually i suck

NZ HELLO. IF YOU HAVE A TENT THAT YOU DONT WANT ANY MORE PLEASE CONSIDER POSTING IT TO ME SO I CAN GIVE IT TO HOMELESS PEOPLE. NEED OTHER CAMPING GEAR AS WELL LIKE SOLAR SHOWERS ETC. #NZPOL PLEASE SHARE

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

People say it’s “wrong” to make your disability your identity. It’s “wrong” to put it in your bio. It’s “wrong” to make it a central part of who you are. They want us to hide. I think it’s wrong to force us to hide for the comfort of others. I hid for years.

Dr Hu 🥰✊👍✌️❤️ #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

Shameful #nzpol

Gandalf "I would not take the road through Moria unless I had no other choice" Gandalf in Moria "lets stop and read this old book"

Charity represents the failure of public policy. So one of the worst examples of political hypocrisy is politicians getting photo ops performing meal services for people who they have kept living in #poverty. #inequality #homelessness #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I know exactly three things about Bari Weiss, and this covers all of them

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

A key question RE #longCOVID is why public health and infection control leaders are so consistently AWOL on these issues. Doubling down on personal COIs obviously plays a big role, but why do they screw up so routinely in the first place? Dunning-Kruger plus poor science training is part of it.

"An independent public inquiry must go beyond operational misconduct to examine the culture that enabled McSkimming’s rise, assess compliance with the UN Convention Against Corruption and CEDAW, and measure police practices against global benchmarks."

This.👇 The ethics around data collection and fudging the metrics to get a desired outcome are a major problem in infection control. Infection control leaders who define how data is collected have obvious conflicts of interest around accurate recording and reporting of infection control failures.

This is the best piece I’ve read so far on why the Guinea-Bissau RCT, in which a proven life-saving vaccine will be deliberately WITHHELD, is unethical “When benefit is established, withholding an intervention is no longer neutral experimentation it becomes premeditated harm”

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

New Zealand's libertarian/ populist/ right wing coalition Government is trying to follow Wesley Streeting's lead in banning puberty blockers. This is what the New Zealand High Court has just decided (www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...).

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

surprise*! long covid is “not just a post-viral condition” but a kind of immunological doom spiral doesn’t mean it can’t be treated or even stopped but it is in fact a set of active, self-reinforcing feedback loops and not just “damage” or “remaining symptoms” *not surprised

Huge thanks to @mikehoney.bsky.social for all the valuable COVID data he tracks. His work has become incredibly important for scientists and health professionals, and with so little data available now, it really matters for people who want to stay safe and informed. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

all i'm saying is that there were better options

Scoop: A prospective offshore wind developer has announced it will shut its operations in New Zealand by the end of the year, making it the third firm to exit in the past 14 months. newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/12/o...

Look what RNZ is promoting - vomit inducing. Vote for Chlöe and the spineless 68. Others are good but she clinched the iconic quote of the year. 68 cowards. #nzpol

Family carers of disabled New Zealanders eligible for minimum wage, after another 7 years in court.

The I think original legal claim on this issue was sitting on the desk of the Human Rights Review Tribunal TWENTY (20) YEARS AGO when I was around at HRC - which they eventually won, and the govt legislated over the top of it. Damn, this victory took an undeniable grindset mentality.

Happy eradication of smallpox day to all who celebrate. Why not go book a vaccine you haven’t had yet or need topped up on this special day?