One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

The government’s stance on Palestine echoes Arendt’s “banality of evil”: officials turning genocide into paperwork and an administrative task; treating a moral abyss as mere policy risk.

probably a greater deterrent to foreign investment is a government minister preemptively threatening to legislate over the top of judicial decisions rather than the emerging role of tikanga within those decisions

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Feel like our priorities on what's urgent may be a bit skewed

New Zealand failed to protect refugee European Jews at the Èvian conference in 1938 … New Zealand failed to stand up against apartheid in the 1970’s … New Zealand repeated the mistake today in New York by not recognising Palestine.

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

People are making Rapture jokes like there's no tomorrow

This is great. Do please watch it.

I do think about this a lot

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I gotta give them props, the opening to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was pretty good. 👇

My piece on how this moment calls for a broad-based movement for Māori liberation, based on solidarity with other indigenous peoples, oppressed minorities, and the working class.

Post on LinkedIn from the CE of BSA about Māori language week. Absolutely nailed the proactive comms! One reply from an idiot and a mike drop response that’s just beautiful to see #TeWikiOTeReoMaori

Remember when computers and software were fun and no one knew anything about you or was making decisions on data you didn’t know you provided? Those were the days. #privacy #eshittification

Women councillors are experiencing a staggering level of online abuse

The Republican Party Chose Hungary's Playbook. Here's How That Movie Ends. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

Passage (2007) by land artist Cornelia Konrads #WomensArt #Monday

if your takeaway from korean news this week is a crowd of five koreans mourning charlie kirk and not ‘entire korean government going ham plotting the downfall of the US government’ you’re on the bad and brain rotted part of the internet i fear

Nay. It is the turn of the Midnight Murder Bird. #teamRuru #birdoftheyear #boty

Big news: I found one jurisdiction that has a covid-19 infection survey along with a complete time series of wastewater covid-19 RNA concentration. Comparing the two gives a lot of insight! (Unfortunately the only two people who might enjoy this thread have blocked me) 1/

Can I avoid paying any money to Meta this year for advertising? Our #BeerAdventCalendar Early Bird Pre-Sale is well underway and I've sold half our supply. Use the coupon code of WHOOSH25 through 18 September to save 20% on your pre-orders from us. www.kererubrewing.co.nz/shop/beer/be...

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

don't forget that David Seymour is the only MP in the last decade who has openly implied he wanted a Ministry bombed

You can condemn murder and political violence without whitewashing Charlie Kirk's shameful history of hate, racism, white nationalism and promotion of dangerous conspiracies that radicalized Trump supporters to violence. You can do both.

Let’s go inside Bryn Celli Ddu Neolithic passage tomb! Built about 5,000 years ago to align with the rising sun on the Summer Solstice! 🌅 Look for the stone pillar inside the burial chamber, like a tomb guardian keeping watch from the shadows! Anglesey, Wales 🎥 by me #Archaeology

Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob consisting of 30 musicians and singers on a street in Paris. I reckon Freddie Mercury would have loved this. [Sorry ... had to choose the lowest quality and cut into two for BlueSky. Hopefully the audio survived.] 🧵 1/2

This is the 3rd year @jcuofficial.bsky.social has had period products in all bathrooms- yes, all. The sky has not fallen, students are not 'taking advantage' (how would they? Magicking up more periods?) and no-one has 'gone trans' who wasn't already. But #PeriodPoverty has eased. 👏👏👏

I can't with the timeline today. I'm not normally one to say this, but salt the ground, pour kerosene over it, and burn all of it to the ground. All of them. No exceptions.

media have played a significant role in the degradation of our political environment & democracy ask yourself this - why was it Ben Doyle having to resign last week & not Winston Peters. Because I can tell you for a fact, that Peters could *absolutely* be hounded out of a job if media wanted to

I really do hope the next Labour caucus meeting largely consists of its women MPs delivering variations of "did I or did I not fuckn TELL you" to the men who spent years insisting Stuart Nash was Just A Good Bloke, Bit Rough Around The Edges But We Must Be A Broad Tent

Nobody who uses dehumanising and objectifying language about anyone deserves a public platform or the privilege of representing the public. Full stop, end of story.

Quelle surprised NZF attracts another foul mouthed misogynist to its ranks. No respect for women in evidence. Nash criticises ‘woke’ Labour Party members & says a woman is “a person with “a p...y and a pair of t..s”. BRING ON WOKE POLITICIANS and put these foul unwoke men out to pasture. #NZpol

Such a good afternoon door knocking in Ngaio with this crew. Voting papers out next week 💚

NZ journalists could easily hound Peters for this. Instead they harassed Doyle. And 2/3s of the coverage I've seen of Doyle resigning frames the resignation up as being another scandal for the Greens NZ media is a direct platform for abuse against diversity - the evidence is clear

Once again, for the anti-trans activists: Why are you so terrified of trans people being included in the Human Rights Act? Just come out and say it. You think we aren't human and therefore don't deserve Human Rights. Otherwise why are you objecting?

Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.

This Danish ad made the best use of Vikings and comedy to share an important safety message. www.thepoke.com/2025/09/01/d...

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Somewhere in Iceland.

Awww, something in my eye lads... Memories that'll last a lifetime ✨ #WRWC2025 #RWC2025 #WRUGBY #RUGBY

Amazing. I can't run for 22 minutes, let alone 22 hours straight! www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/5...

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary

I had no idea things were so bad - three preventable overdoses a week. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Some reading for those who may be interested in how fascism has historically used the medical system to kill the most vulnerable people: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...