Is there anything more 2025 than replacing a competent woman with a mediocre man

"BVV shocked to discover people doing their job competently" says a lot about the way she does her job

One broken window (which is not great) at the home of one govt politician and people have entirely lost their minds, as if nothing like this has ever happened before. Do we not remember the violence and threats and abuse directed at left leaning politicians and public figures? #nzpol

History repeats.

I don't know about kids outside the covid conscious community that will make it vaccination age without 2+ infections It's heartbreaking

Didn't think I needed a reminder of how deeply messed up the misogynists that shape narratives are And yet, here we are #AI

"Here in Aotearoa we could have <very sensible and nice thing> But the Luxon Government..." Evergreen post

Reminder: National has always taken the side of Apartheid regimes.

Never afraid to tackle the big issues

Powerful and heartbreaking speech from Violet Affleck

She's making sure it's the most tanked

Imagine being a studio executive and finding out that the next time you try to push some AI BS clauses into contracts you're going to have to try and convince people that Samwise is the bad guy www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-me...

And when, not if, trans people are murdered as a direct consequence of this swill, watch the WSJ and The Guardian (and everyone else) do the Accountability Dodging Shuffle and move on to their next victims. Because that's what they always do.

Chaos is the price we pay for having leaders that ignore risks #CleanTheAir #MaskUp 7news.com.au/news/covid-o...

"but Amy, he was a public figure!" Okay, please show me the BBC's wall to wall coverage of the assassination of a Minnesota politician just a couple of months ago? If "political violence" is bad (and I put that in quotes because we don't actually know what happened with Kirk yet), it's bad, no?

What happened to the "NZ mentioned" strategy that regularly drags multiple stories to the front page across every NZ outlet - it has apparently been completely forgotten when it comes to Gaza Once again, there are very few conclusions we can reach other than that NZ media are actively pro-genocide

Every week RNZ sends me the most horrible headlines about crime This has been happening for so long, it feels normal Can we finally agree that #national and #luxon vibes based "tough on crime" policies are an abject failure and that we need an in evidence based approach to community safety?

"Buffy the COVID Slayer: Sarah Michelle Gellar posts masked selfie on set of reboot." "I will wear a mask in my shower if that means I don't get this again" said Sarah Michelle Gellar after recovering from COVID-19. Source: archive.md/iTPlt

Damnit, it's bad enough that I have a resting judgement face, but turns out I've been doing it with emojis too

So many people go to the gym and do other things to care for their health, but then get covid over and over again and shrug and say "what can you do?"

"Community organizing is both a science and an art — a science because it is grounded in a systematic understanding of power and oppression, an art because it demands creativity, empathy, and adaptability in order to build relationships and trust." - James Forman

I've seen ABC refer to the Nazi rallies as "anti mass immigration rallies" over and over, exactly what Nazis want labelled as, legitimising them. In contrast, not once have I heard the Palestine rallies called anti-genocide or anti-colonial. I wonder what that's about 🙄

My Mum's care worker helps her shower & get dressed every morning. She works 0700 to 8.45pm, 3 hrs off during day. Has every second weekend off, but that's still 12 days in a row. Staff shortages have meant she missed her weekend off: is working 26 days straight. No overtime No pay equity #nzpol

Literally selling out the country under urgency EVERYTHING. MUST. GO.

Haven’t posted much lately about my Coshop.nz community food project in Wellington but it’s going well! Over 1000 orders since the 1st of June and revenue doing the hockey stick thing. Now doing about $3k/week of food as local as I can find for about 30% cheaper than most places 👀

Normalise assuming people with "business backgrounds" are massively incompetent and their decision making ability should be scrutinised There are exceptions, but thats the rule

This is genocidal rhetoric calling people cockroaches. This is exactly the language used in the Rwandan genocide.

Our latest power bill is $704.00. Ffs. My pension arrives next week and that’s most of it gone. That’s the largest power bill we have ever had. Renationalise the fuckers. The system should be designed to keep people warm not make excess profits and pay dividends to s/holders & execs millions. #nzpol

This is how we treat the village that raises our children, it's so sad So many teachers are being pushed out by how little care is taken for their well-being Many of those that stay are unlikely to make it to retirement without chronic illness

*Sigh* the inevitable conclusion of quietly dropping "don't be evil"

Cut women's pay Defund education Prevent teachers from fighting for something better Gee, I wonder why so many kiwi's aren't having kids and are moving to Australia 🤷

Someone on here said I’m paranoid and sure I also ask this question every day “am I just being paranoid?” But how else am I meant to react to these headlines? I want my kid to turn 40 and I want to live to see it. What would you have me do?

It's a mystery 🤷‍♂️ www.rnz.co.nz/news/alert-n...

Excellent thread, but misses the original statement "I do guess a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time". THAT is the plan these motherfuckers are already putting in motion. We don't need the paperclip-making AI for this to be the death of all we love.

Do parliament house next

In a serious media landscape every politician in this government would be hounded to their political graves and actual for running on a platform of "fiscal responsibility" and then blowing two-thirds of a billion dollars for literally nothing

Such an interesting listen. The kids were with me when this came on and it prompted some great discussions

How will Trump’s attacks affect higher education? Let’s look to history Germany's universities were the world's premier research institutions Hitler destroyed them How long did they take to recover? They haven’t

Damn this is so true Trouble is most people think it's the other way round and think I listen to cranks

Minister describes failure as success

This is the camera footage Shane Jones and his industry donors want to keep hidden from the public with their proposed changes to fishing laws. They don't want you to see all the dolphins, seals and albatrosses they kill and fish dumping. You can see it at 28.25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkgX...

Was in a Zoom meeting for something non-Covid related & one person on the call was wearing a mask. So I put on a mask too, even though I was alone at home. Just for solidarity 👊🏼

This is your regular reminder that unemployment is deliberately engineered by those in charge for the benefit of big business and home owners

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

They got intelligent planning, we got Simeon

“The decision by the NZ government to allow a foreign country's police force to operate here is terrifying. This is particularly true given the authoritarian regime in power in the US and the FBI's behaviour since Trump's election.” Weird one of the biggest angles here isn’t being pursued by media🤔

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If July is Ardern reflection month let’s also reflect on how many men in the media consistently target women in power and are not stopped by editors because misogyny sells, which culturally impacts our stats from health to politics & has real life implications for anyone who is not a cis white man.