As @captcaffiend.bsky.social pointed out recently, when psychological abuse is factored in, our violence stats increase to one in two women (55%). We should be noting this stat in every story like the below. This isn’t a one-off, it’s a demonstrable cultural norm - we need to write about that, too.

So the cops just got caught massively falsifying alcohol test results and have held no one accountable. Seems like a great time to roll out poorly-thought-out roadside drug testing...

This person has been doing Trust and Safety work since web 1.5ish. She knows what she is talking about in a very deep sense. People who have just been paying attention for a while say the same thing. #NZPOL

Supposedly you'll be able to appeal as a medical user, but only *after* a fine is issued. 130,000 legal users (soon to skyrocket I'm sure), 4mil drivers, 50,000 quota, that's at least 1600 people a year who will have to go through the stress of this. Cracked decisionmaking, embarrassing government.

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

You would stop approximately a hundred times more child sex abuse by passing a law saying kids aren't allowed to go to church, be around cops, or play sports than you would with a social media ban. Weird how you're not supporting that! Why do you hate children and want them to be sexually abused?

Sorry, let me be more constructive, here's a comprehensive guide on why age verification not only _does not_ work, but cannot work — and harms everyone, of all ages, on the internet: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks. You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.

Two things: First, cleanup of Stockton Mine has cost the govt $260m (The Press). Second: at their highest, coal royalties were $3.6m a year. So at best, Bathurst & Talley's would have to mine Denniston coal for 71 years for the government to break even #nzpol www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

E.g. a place that can sell me these without too much drama

"Move to Ukraine and Russia: every time you trace one of these 'peace plans' or 'negotiation frameworks,' you hit the same network — Russian oligarch money, Gulf sovereign funds, Trumpworld intermediaries, and Kushner hovering in the middle, turning human lives and national borders into deal terms."

‘Collapse is boring. It’s ordinary. It looks like people standing next to a log splitter on a Saturday.. because the safety net dissolved and no one replaced it. Collapse isn’t a single moment. It’s what happens when the systems people rely on keep existing on paper but stop functioning in practice’

Anything that causes the greatest harm, they will make law. #nzpol

"As far as Donald Trump is concerned, global security is a protection racket and everyone is going to have to pay more." Stunning interview with Europe security expert, formerly at the State Dept and NATO, Dr Terra. Clearest explanation of Trump's (very confused) new global manifesto.

1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...

The @nionwomen.bsky.social petition has now zoomed past 70,000 signatures! These are cis women who support trans people’s human rights. The transphobes can get nowhere near this figure. “Gender-critical” transphobes do not speak for women. notinourname.org.uk

Here’s a poem which has become trapped in a vicious circus (and other phrases of a similar elk).

I keep having to justify why I want to go to conferences outside the USA and the simple answer is "Many of the people it would be helpful to talk to are no longer able to enter the USA"

No public input, not even any people in the public gallery in parliament, while the government pushes through hugely consequential and damaging climate legislation. #nzpol

3 warmest years on record are 2023, 2024 and 2025 FOR CHRIST'S SAKE WAKE UP🤦🏻‍♂️ #climatechange

Super hubby-proud of @alanwendt.bsky.social who stars in “Soro” — a short film imagining a future apology and further redress for the Dawn Raids by an unnamed prime minister, viewed through the medium of their NZSL interpreter. At the Ngutu Kākā gallery until 13.03.2026, alongside “Whakamoemoeā”.

Street art Nativity scene 🔥

Western Australia Bushfire Emergency Warning 16:35 local LEAVE NOW - FITZGERALD and WEST RIVER For people bounded by West River Road, Hamersley Drive, Old Ongerup Road and Fitzgerald Road in FITZGERALD and WEST RIVER in the SHIRE OF RAVENSTHORPE.

There is so much bs about the RMA, I thought it would help to look at actual case study so people can really understand what is at stake. It involves the MP with the wealthiest property portfolio in Parliament, Suze Redmayne, and irrigation for dairy on sand dunes www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

If all you do is bang on about how awful trans people are, you’re not championing women’s rights, you just hate trans people.

If you battle with mental health, as many of us do, I sincerely recommend following Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Her photographs & drawings are not only truly beautiful, they act as a calming balm for an overactive brain. She has also written some stunning books incl The Wild Remedy.

There simply are no words for the fucking cowards they are. Yella bellied cowards.

Ban cis white men from social media and I guarantee that 90% of abuse online would disappear overnight.

Through world-first science and iwi-led partnerships, we are learning how to restore an entire marine ecosystem

We're so close to $1000, our halfway mark! Which of you wants to take us over the line?? itch.io/b/3421/ban-t... #fundraiser #ttrpg #transrights

#nzpol I despise BvV's lack of humanity and blind peddling of neoliberal Atlas ideology. She and the rest of the Act party are fanatics who are rapidly undermining our democracy and handing AoNZ over to corporates whose only driver is profit maximization

Reminder, the guy who runs ChatGPT is being sued by his little sister for sexually abusing her for a decade: www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/b...

Trans kids won't disappear. Just like restricting abortions doesn't stop unwanted pregnancies. All it does is drive people to less safe care and ruin lives. Never, ever fall for the line that transphobia is about protecting women. It is only about hate, it only ever has been about hate.

Remove them from UK Govt contracts

Luxon & Seymour's new laws are a trap. Hidden in the fine print: ratepayers must compensate landowners with cash if environmental rules stop them from developing. It’s your hard-earned money going straight to the wealthy. A kick in the guts. #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/09-...

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

If we're copying policies from Australia how about capital gains tax, collective bargaining agreement/stronger unions, stronger competition watch guards. Just saying.

This is true and if it comes down to it, our family will handle it is as follows: come and talk to me about whatever service you want We have a good enough relationship with our kids to make this work Not everyone does, and the kids most at risk under the status quo will be much MORE at risk now

Europe must stand together. "If Europe is to survive a future attack by Russia — and that is the kind of language being used — its big players must behave in a way they haven’t done before. They must be joined at the hip." https://politi.co/4iIsk6W

[tracker kneels and examines spoor] - A herd of twits has passed this way but an hour ago. - How can you tell? - Look. Fresh nincompoop.

Okay but having Willis and Richardson debate "is the government not right-wing enough or just the right amount of right-wing?" is a trap, and it's a trap that's explicitly being run by the TPU. Y'all see that, right?

⚡ Britain is edging closer to losing control of the Atlantic for the first time since the end of World War II, the head of the Royal Navy warns. 🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...

Not only do I not want to use your new A.I. mode, I want you to stop telling me about your new A.I. mode, this is like the waiter trying to tell me the specials, but what makes them special is that the chef is blindfolded and we've started keeping roach poison in salt shakers

Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis. They coined the term “useless eaters”. They tested the gas chambers on us. They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives. That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous. We’re not expendable

pals you gotta quit spotify

buying into AI