As typical for the FSU, the speakers are a mix of transphobes, Christian Nationalists, and other unpleasant people www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Are Americans calling Mamdani a hypocrite for being such a fine dresser or is it a particularly New Zealand thing to expect any self identified socialist to dress like they spend 12 hours a day down a mine?

“We’re seeing a velocity of killing that can only be compared to the Rwandan genocide,” Yale lab executive director Nathaniel Raymond told CNN this week, saying sources had told his lab that thousands of people were dead. www.smh.com.au/world/africa...

We're having our next @darktimesacademy.bsky.social Reading Room discussion group this weekend! Friday evening if you're in the USA. The registration form is in the link in the quoted thread. It's a safe third space for people to talk about what we're reading! More info on the time and date here:

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Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

NBC are calling the New York City Mayoral election for Mandami. 60% of the vote counted, question now is will be manage to get over 50% and have a decisive victory showing a majority of NYC voters are backing him

Stuck some live coverage of today's US elections on in the background and I'd somehow forgotten just how much of a spectacle politics is in that country

People are very right that there is no contemporary equivalent in the US of the Sturmabteilung or the Blackshirts - in physical terms, anyway. There is, however, an *information-space* paramilitary force upon which the Trump regime increasingly relies. Techno-fascism.

The actual number of unemployed was 160,000 - the highest since early 1994" I suspect I'm not yet captured in these figures since I was still in work last week, but I've joined that group having not been able to secure a new contract somewhere www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...

The Collins Childrens World Map recognizes an independent Kosovo (Hard to see in this photo but it also shows the occupied Palestinian territories)

Oh — the situation has escalated. Pope Leo has spoken out: says "spiritual rights" of detainees should be respected and calls on the "authorities" to allow "pastoral workers" in. "Jesus says very clearly … we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCi...

Seems an endorsement from Trump actually harms your electoral chances In this country, Labour's campaign next year could just be a photo from when Luxon met Trump captioned "I like your man from New Zealand" - Donald Trump aje.io/xqrx5v

I feel like I spent years being told "you call everyone you disagree with far-right!" only to see mainstream American politicians calling their opponents communist jihadists who hate America

Fellow Millennials and Gen Xers in Aotearoa; you have may seen comms from Heath NZ that we probably only had one MMR shot as children, I'm off to get a second one now. Talk to your GP or their nurse to see if you need one

Texleigh "Tex" Richman has endorsed Andrew Cuomo. Maniacal laugh. Maniacal laugh. Maniacal laugh.

turns out the revolution was televised, just at an ungodly hour of the morning so most of us missed it

Dick Cheney got George W. Bush to break his promise to regulate carbon emissions, and began turning climate into a strictly partisan issue. He was always loyal to fossil fuels and that’s a huge part of his legacy.

"The civil war in Syria is over. There are now no longer any grounds for asylum in Germany." - Merz Not only does this ignore the devastation of the war as a core reason Syrians cannot go back en masse, but it also ignores the nature of asylum as an individual determination.

The Vice President from the 'War on Terror' era dying the same day New York City elects it's first Muslim mayor is the kind of think that would look like hack writing if not for the fact that it's real www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Mr Robot is one of the most accurate depictions of hacking on television, but it does make infosec look more exciting than it is

It's my BD but it doesn’t feel like a celebration. Another year passes as I keep trying to hold my family together after what we’ve lost.💔 I don’t wish for gift only for little hope to keep us going 🎁 Your donation or sharing would be the greatest gift I could ever receive. Help us to live again.🤍

Avante garde director: "my next feature was shot entirely with the elephant dung camera" 🐘 💩 www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim...

Nobody show Alan Moore the KFC commercial that parodies V for Vendetta, I don't think his heart could take it

‘Experts’ on saving for retirement in New Zealand never talk about low wages or extortionate rents and childcare costs. Telling people to save, while supporting the status quo that makes it impossible really grinds my gears. #nzpol

Saw Phantom Menace themed Coca-Cola at the supermarket and thought I'd time tracelled

I've been watching 'Mussolini Son of the Century' a biographical drama on the Italian fascist leader and his rise to power. Just got to the episode where Mussolini opens his fascist party to others to people from other parties to ensure electoral victory, and a number of them do switch. Topical.

Finally reading The Three Body Problem, can anyone tell me if this is a line Liu Cixin came up with or a common ideom in China? "I'm a simple man...you can look down my throat and out my arse"

A fitting enough epitaph for the human project.

Begging entertainment reporters writers to learn an verb other than 'stuns'

The more women and girls engage in public life, the more likely they are to be subjected to online gender based violence. There are few safety nets for women and girls in leadership. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Happy Halloween!!! 🎃

If you're wondering why the roads are always full, we now have more cars per person that the USA. We sit behind a few tax havens and principalities. All research on this tells us more roads just brings more cars. #NZpol

silly of bugbear of mine; you shouldn't complain about today being an 'American' holiday. Halloween has been celebrated in Celtic countries for centuries and Irish and Scottish migrants brought traditions with them to diaspora populations, which includes the US but also includes Australia & Aotearoa

Tonight's spooky season watch is Vault of Horror (1973)

Former National MP Simon O'Conner celebrating the launch of Elon Musks far-right alternative to Wikipedia

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Thr aggressive anti-migrant policies of the Trump administration have led to negative net migration, soon the population of the United States will begin a slow decline www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Tonight's spooky season watch is Twins of Evil (1971)

As difficult as my job hunt is, I do really feel for those looking for so-called "unskilled" work. The IT jobs I'm applying for usually have between 100 and 200 applicants, but other work has many times that number www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...

Total number of rejection emails reached double digits today, but the jobs I've been applying for recently have less than 200 applicants so maybe the job market is improving?

Labour's new capital gains tax policy appears good if a little weak- I'm all for excluding the family home but farm land is a business asset and there's no reason someone making a gain on selling a farm should avoid tax that someone selling a warehouse or a shop building has to pay

‘Open hostility has become normalised’: Dutch Muslims fear rise of far right as general election looms

Facebook memories reminding me how much food I used to grow from seed

Christopher Lee was alive at the same time as H.G Wells and Sabrina Carpenter

Omg. 8 years of this mess.

Tonight's spooky season watch is 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child' (1989)

After New Zealand announced it would not recognise a Palestinian state, Israeli deputy foreign minister Sharren Haskell visited the country. While here she met with Christian Zionist leaders Brian Tamaki (Destiny Church) Alfred Ngaro (leader of the NewZeal party) Nigel Woodley (Flaxmere Fellowship)

The last copies of 'Occupy Christchurch: In Our Own Words' the oral history project I did on the local Occupy movement, have been snapped up (did a speaking event where I gave a free copy to anyone who purchased 'Fear') Only 100 copies were printed so if you have one, I guess you have a rare book