There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.

Baudrillard spinning in his grave so fast he torpedoes out of the hillside and remains airborne, lasers shooting out of his eyes with such force earth is cleanly cut in two

Klee 1915 Haile Selassie 1963: Everywhere is war.

Disappointing lack of German Paraguay jokes on the TL. Losing to your cousins is not entirely a disaster.

The Resistance isn’t about one person. It’s about millions of people refusing to give up on democracy, on decency, and on each other. We’re incredibly proud to stand beside all of you. Thank you for fighting and for proving, every day, that hope is stronger than fear. May the Force be with you. 💚

We could end male loneliness if we just had more third places in our cities for activities.

US DEMs having their Jeremy Corbyn moment, in same tragicomic self-inflicted manner. Corbyn may have lost Gen Election, he never stood a chance. Fact media felt he was more dangerous than the Boris Johnson premiership also laughable. Corbyn won *500,000 more* votes than Starmer's "landslide".

The New Zealand Institute of Physics has its AGM today. I have to write a president's report. This is part of it.

"Israel has deliberately and intentionally targeted Palestinian children during its military campaign in Gaza, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, a UN commission of inquiry has said." trib.al/DOiUmFG Crossposted with @openvibe.social

GDP figs, 4 yr trend more interesting than *this* quarter *Annual* growth at March quarter- MAR '22: 4.3% MAR '23: 3.3% MAR '24: 1.8% MAR '25: - 0.9% MAR '26: 0.8% Weakest growth for 3 decades over last three years (exc GFC!) Luxon didn't inherit a recession, he reversed economy into a wall.

Hanson said Austrlaia should be a monoculture and not one journalist thought to question that position #npc

OMG Messi hat trick in 6th world cup www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_FO...

doh, 6, six world cups. including 2 finals. 2006-2026. by eck.

Lionel Messi is 38. Thirty-eight. 4 world cups. Incredible. Can only recall Ryan Giggs keeping levels of fitness & talent til that age. Pele retired by his 30th, after 4 WC Thinking Bowie's classic might explain what separates Messi from the other legend, Maradona www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpIh...

Rupert Murdoch is buying Roku to help keep pace with Larry Ellison's recent purchases of TikTok, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Here's why media has an inherent left-wing bias.

Medical professionals giving medical opinions on how ethnicity and colonisation affects health = ideology. Right wing white supremacist minister removing them and installing new ones on medical council = impartial democracy. #nzpol

Have to say I’m a bit conflicted watching the World Cup. 1-1 NZ v Iran would satisfy. All whites looking cool in black strip.

He can write though. From a couple of months ago. He's probably swatted off more leaders of National, than this whole Labour Party. And, finally an honest admission that National only exists for one reason, has one simple philosophy — keep Labour out. The left could learn from that.

solid agree. but the fact the bank of media visible at every stand up, never, ever shout at him, "Obama had a deal, cost nothing, no nukes, 10 years ago, where's your deal?" is just as embarrassing. that's just a basic question.

Good take @bernardchickey.bsky.social Spoke to Joyce's comms guy that week, poked him, "c'mon you're not that bad at spreadsheets, where's the $11.7BN?" umming & ahhing, he pretty much said "pretty legal" to coin Joyce's phrasing. 2018 Robertson delivered $5.5BN+, then $7BN obegal surplus in '19.

The PM, our chief exec, can't get his numbers straight. @rnzrss.bsky.social morning report, PM claims the long delayed surplus (where?) is first in last ten years. Sorry, chief, pains you I know — Robertson's surplus in 2019 is 7 years ago. $7bn obegal, *without the x*, so much larger than yours.

Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.

Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:

Congratulations to Elon Musk, the fattest monkey on Earth.

ICE has now been dispatched to LA to round up half the US football team 😂🫣 US MEDIA you have one job today: Ask Trump who scored half the US goals today. See if he gets past one syllable of Folarin Balogun's name. 👊

So Folarin Balogun, USA striker scores 2 today, comes on the mic after the match. He is proper London, man. lol. The London accent of the 21st century, emerging among all the kids as I left in early 2000s, will be the new international English, and - this is for you Elon - it's a black thing.

Who knew. USA ranked 18th in FIFA world table. Just walloped Paraguay 4-1 in first game of Group D. Paraguay beat Argentina 6 months ago, but didn't really show up today. USA played some good football, genuinely surprised, lol

Counter protest against the far-right in Liverpool. Please share it. Even if you're not in Liverpool, you might have followers who are and help is gonna be needed

Simeon Brown just lies, continually. RNZ with Guyon, he puffed about funding AKL CRL, as proof of PT commitment. CRL is yrs late as, under Key, they delayed signing Govt portion. Only when Key was told in 2016 by biz sector that Commercial Bay needed CRL to go ahead, did they agree, reluctantly.

Al Green wrecks Markwayne Mullin: "Shut up!"

Only way to express it !

Just do a tiny bit of journalism. NOT demonstrators. East Belfast is proddy dog territory. Old paramilitaries, ultra right wing terrorists. In the 80s, UDA, UVF sourced arms from both apartheid states: Israel & South Africa, and the British Army nodded along with them. Straight up racist Unionists.

"I say to you again, this disregard for international law will not stop in Palestine. It is already unfolding from Lebanon to Iran, ... And if left unchecked, it will spread far beyond. What is lost in Palestine will be lost to us all." — Francesca Albanese #IsraeliTerrorism #FreePalestine

Ditto, Heather Roy on RNZ The Panel. "Whatabout us who don't use public transport?" Well, Heather, imagine 1 bus is 13.5m long, an SUV is 4.7m long. That's 3 cars in the space of a bus. Would you like fewer cars on the road? And is 1% of the transport budget worth it to reduce jams? Whatabouttery

“He earns $320,600 a year. He owns six properties. He was offered a free apartment inside Parliament. He said it wasn't comfortable enough. Then he billed you $237,000 to sleep in his own home - and threatened the journalists who found out.”… #nzpol

We live in the stupidest timeline.

Trump told me this a couple of hours before Bibi struck Iran. He has turned himself into a prisoner of other people's decisions.

I watched Petra Bagust interview Sir Ashley. Man, it was good/spending some time listening and being reminded that yes, there ARE some fantastic people doing good things in this shitty society. His comments about hubris (& leaders with hubris) confirm how bad our PM is youtu.be/H_RWRueDh0g?...

Had it confirmed by ‘someone on the Executive’ that bullying/harassment complaints are entirely useless, cos HR are not just agents, they’re the defence force and gatekeepers for management and Exec. Rebranding as People & Culture accelerated the doublethink. Employees need more than scepticism.

Level of vandalism and stupidity we’ve come to expect. Quite a test for the private sector tech bros to either say don’t do it, or we will automatically replace and continue to collect the data. …..Yeah,nah, wild optimism isn’t gonna save us.

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

Interesting way to avoid saying that an Israeli occupation soldier shot a 7 month old baby

Important moment if Democratic Party is prepared to take it. Chiselling his name off everything but the history books is the mission. A tiny taste in real time what the erasure of the Reconstruction Jim Crow era MAGA craves to resurrect feels like.

UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.

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!

Took a leaf from @publicaddress.bsky.social , diving into ill-informed - "that cycle way is so expensive" posts. No it isn't, those costs are for *something else*.....The murky, middle-class self-promotion - leakedin. Doin bad maths bout Te Ara Tupua. If you ever hear $77m per km, ofc it's bollox

So I assume the government will now remove the NZTA board? They’re unelected people making decisions for our transport network including overseeing $32B budget over 3 years. Also isn’t the Health NZ unelected? Wait… does ACC board have MPs on it or unelected people? Wait…

Billionaires pay about half as much in taxes as everyone else. Why? Better lobbyists. But history shows we can win this fight. Same arguments were made against income tax, democracy still prevailed. It can again. Excited to team up with @gabrielzucman.bsky.social to make sure it does.

This is not high-risk stuff when the curriculum will not have even been in play for five minutes, has been an absolute nightmare, and the teachers can just go back to normal and shake it off like the bad dream it has been.

This is how you SHIFT THE OVERTON WINDOW BACK like come on, you make it not worth their while to pass extreme antidemocratic unpopular nonsense because the public will dig in for a start, and then you will just switch it back the second they are out.