IF YOU SEE THIS CLOSE THE TAB IMMEDIATELY this is a trick to install malware on your machine. it is not a real captcha system.

IMO Auckland's third harbour crossing should be a bridge, built along side the current Harbour Bridge, have 6 car lanes + 2 Bus lanes + dedicated walking & cycling lanes, to then *replace* the current Harbour Bridge which needs be demolished because it is too old #nzpol

These are DOA for being too expensive. This is not "consumer" pricing at all.

I do not say this lightly but the Deputy Prime Minister should be removed from Parliament altogether for this repeated pattern in behaviour of berating victims of sexual violence. We should not have a society that continues to allow this behaviour as acceptable #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Another good Labour policy, I say as someone who first experienced the cost of these scans a few years ago 😅🥹 Radiology is one of the most heavily privatised things in healthcare so really this is just subsidising more for-profit private healthcare providers but it is what it is I guess 🫩🥴 #nzpol

Holy fuck. Rest in peace Oliver Tree. Genuinely one of my favourite musicians ever. From seeing his character for the first time on the former YouTube channel Super Deluxe to all the music he put out, he was so talented. Glad I got to see him live a few years ago. I genuinely can’t believe it 😭

I’ve been blocked by several National MPs over the years for the slightest push back against their 💩, hell, my local MP Dan Bidois blocked me for “emoji use in a serious conversation” ffs. Labour MPs let anyone & everyone have at it in their comments which stops people from positively engaging

Another VR Game Developer calls it quits with Mighty Eyes announcing they will no longer be able to support Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate and the sequel has been cancelled 😓 Not too surprising to have the news confirmed but still sucks, especially with them being a NZ company

Genuinely good policy from Labour, that's a very affordable cap that would encourage people to use public transport more. Should eventually go all out on the "public" transport bit and nationalise the private companies that operate all of it but this is a good start www.labour.org.nz/news/release...

There's a very funny meme (conspiracy?) going around that the pedo-in-chief is gonna die on 6/7 because the 6/7 meme is manifestation and that's why it's become so popular around the world and if that happens I definitely will believe we're on some alternative timeline bs because that's too funny

Catching up on #WWDC26. Siri AI stuff is meh, at least it looks like they've got working versions of what they're promising. Agentic AI features in Safari is slightly concerning, feel like it's just going to make websites be even less "compatible" with Safari from the constant querying/scraping

The NZ Labour Party list is a laugh. A cop straight to 13 and will be list only? Renney at 51? Payinda at 49? At least Harris is at 29 but holy fuck what an uninspiring bunch of centrists.

Big week for internet drama with KSI leaving Sidemen (I saw a comment that said “Knowledge, Strength & I want to be like Mr Beast” lolololol) and Ethan Klein losing one of his lawsuits where a judge used Ethan’s own precedent setting fair use legal case from 2017. Their downfalls need to studied 😆

"it's difficult to find the money to be able to reverse stuff." okay... so Labour can't commit to reversing the billions in tax cuts to landlords, billions in pay equity cuts for women, billions in cuts to the public sector (and their workers), because it's difficult? bullshit #nzpol

Don't argue that automated systems "won't work" to determine who deserves benefits. Point out that the government making this decision wants poor people starving, desperate and dead, if that means wages stay down and big business profits stay up

Steam Deck getting a price increase of 40% for hardware that is more than 4 years old is craaazy, holy sheeeeit 🫪

I want this in NZ so badly. Make it illegal to own more than 3 properties, if you want to own more you go onto a government housing register, have to have insanely high building standards (retrofit them with double glazing, home ventilation systems & so on) and give the tennancy tribunal this power

So lemme get this straight #nzpol. High school students who follow the rules of NCEA to best suit their learning are “gaming the system”, which must be thrown out. But MPs taking taxpayer money as a living allowance for properties they own outright is an entitlement they’re comfortable with. 🤔

We haven't solved the power issue. Or the cooling issue. Or the chip availability issue. Everyone's power bills are going up. We created a new mental illness called Ai psychosis responsible for actual suicides. And our model is just wrong 9% of the time. But you're just not evolved enough to get it

I've seen the media repeat Nicola Willis' comparison of the number of ministries & public service here vs other countries and not one of them has pushed back on that narrative more than... two random people in the letters of the Herald. Why are the paid journalists doing less work than the public?

I do like the concept of lumemusic.com but I struggle to see how in a cost of living crisis, asking people to pay more for something that is (pretty much) free, will generate any meaningful income for artists or be better for listeners. It just adds friction and cost. Good luck though.

People with low income, in stressful situations like emergency housing, will be charged 5% extra of their income because that’s “restoring fairness & providing financial incentives” 🤬 This is fucking insane behaviour from a government clearly intent on kicking poor people while they’re down

I went through the benefit application process in April last year but ended up staying in work. I’ve just had to go and apply again (online). I do not remember being asked so many questions declaring that I am an NZ Citizen, that I am not entitled to any assistance outside NZ & I plan to stay here🥴🫣

Scrolling here, seeing all the terrible shit governments all over the world want to do (mostly NZ & USA tho) genuinely makes me feel like there’s no hope. In a bit of a despair tbh. There’s no relief coming any time soon, even with elections coming. It’s all just… fucked.

Auckland FC A-League Grand Final should be hosted at Eden Park and the fact it isn’t is honestly a national shame. Why is it not? I don’t buy the excuse being shared online that it’s because of the OFC Pro League final the next day

I am SO OVER lefties making out like the Bish is "one of the good guys" when he is quite happy to sell our vulnerable communities down the river. The Bish values his career, his paycheck, and his wealthy mates over ordinary NZers. Folk need to stop pretending that Tories care about us #nzpol

The Transport Minister has confirmed that the Total Mobility subsidy is being cut - disabled ppl use the subsidy to do ordinary things like meet-ups with friends, shopping for groceries, and attending health appointments. #savetotalmobility open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

Hipkins offering to work with National on infrastructure projects is why New Zealand is crumbling. Labour always asks for approval, National just go out and do shit even if it’s terrible. Need a bit of “just get on with it” rather than non existent “cross party consensus” bullshit.

Who is causing social instability, immigrants or global far right networked disinformation campaigns and the breakdown of the information environment?

It is genuinley insane that this isnt bigger news. I don't recognise this country anymore.

Nintendo Switch 2 is getting a *$170* (NZD) price increase, basically making it $1k 🤯🥴 Australia is only getting a $70 (AUD) price increase so not sure what that’s about www.nintendo.com/au/news-and-...

The more I see of these conversations, the more I realise they are designed to seem real to men who believe that a perfect conversation is one where they drive it, and their companion finds additional reasons to believe they are right.

And that really is the context here. This is an extremely abnormal time in American politics, and the Press Corp in particular believes that their duty is to do their jobs in the normal way, and in doing so, is a part of normalising and legitimising this regime.

The Press Corp themselves were saying (originally) that normal programming will continue. *They* were insisting that the appropriate response was to pick up exactly where we left off, just as they were insisting that this president should be treated like all the others with this event...

I’m not quite sure I’ve got this right but the “Welcome to Country” thing in Australia is basically a less formal equivalent to a Pōwhiri here? And there’s people in Australia who openly boo during it because they think it’s racist? Big yikes 😬😓

With Tim Cook transitioning from CEO to Executive Chair of the Board (or as Nilay at The Verge puts it "the guy politicians yell at") and John Ternus becoming CEO from September 1st does get me a little excited about what Apple will be announcing in September (I just hope it's not only the foldable)

So now what will the press gallery do that Luxon survived this round? Will they keep pushing? Or start to knock on the doors of Labour? They all go a bit rabid when there's blood in the water so I'm expecting more crap to come from them #nzpol

I've just had a nightmare that Simeon Brown is going to be the next leader of the National Party of New Zealand, therefore our next Prime Minister

Have had to take myself to an urgent care clinic because my tonsils are so swollen, finding it hard to breath and in a lot of pain/discomfort. Its *$200* for an appointment or $59 for CSC holders. Jeeeepers.

I'm wearing my tinfoil hat as I type this but Luxon was always going to have to resign before the election so he can get the one thing he entered politics for but can't give himself: A knighthood. Imo where he miscalculated is who would replace him.

TIL Synth Riders is on Nintendo Switch. Looks like a really fun music pack tho.

Pissed off a bunch of chronically online Gen X'ers by lumping them in with boomers who vote for NZF. Obviously Gen X people who frequent reddit are not the ones voting for NZF, it's the rest of them who only remember the super gold card becoming a thing *20 years ago* therefore Winston good

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

When I was out earlier this afternoon, there was a queue of cars to get into my local New World. I haven’t seen that since covid but why are people doing cyclone shopping prep at the last minute 🤦‍♂️ This has been in the media all week

Insurance companies have better coms about weather events than our government agencies do

After seeing dozens of posts online today about a video posted with the wrong meta data from big YouTubers Ludwig & Michael Reeves, it's clear people call 180/360 video "VR video" even if it's not stereoscopic. I've been crucified on that hill but glad to know I came out on the side of the people 🤣

Yeah, well it's not so great down here either, ABC News.

So when booking or asking in-person for a booster, you have to admit you are "not heathy". That's gonna stop *most* people from ever getting a booster because one of the first questions ever asked when getting something like this is "are you healthy?". Who's being misleading now? 🙃