1. They don’t care about souring relations they are white supremacists. 2. $20mil is pocket change to a govt, so this is pretty cheap for a nice racist outcome. #nzpol

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

It’s incredibly disheartening to read this. Negative attitudes that are increasing contribute to behaviours, that contribute to violence against women, children & marginalised people. thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-0... thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-0...

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

No PBTech stores sell SodaStream products anymore While there are alternative products available, particularly Oh Bubbles which is made in Aotearoa, there’s really no need for any company to sell a product that supports a genocide

Bit of a lunch time birthday treat for me - getting a submission in on this. Do it. The world may be on fire but you get to participate in the democratic process while directing some of that heat.

Pinball No. 4 (1977), dir. Jeff Hale, Imagination Inc.

With alt:

Absolute comedy gold. I burst into laughter.

We need to tax wealth not work. Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets. Someone made a game to show this: therichdont.work

Thank you, Tania Waikato. 💜 #nzpol #donotvoteforAct

Hot take: if you abuse and coerce the women around you, there should be consequences. Other hot take: a man's career is not more important than the safety of the women he meets.

truly a senior dev level in intelligence your pocket ("off by one whatever let the testers sort it out")

Hat trick for Braxton Sorensen-McGee and what a try! #RWC2025

6 individuals scoring tries in the first half! Incredible team are the Black Ferns! #RWC2025

Hot water bottle & cup of tea filled and enjoying the Black Ferns’ second game. Another beautiful try from Jorja Miller & great to see Portia Woodman Wickliffw get her 50th test try! Japan playing well and got in quickly with the first try of the match. #RWC2025

I have been saying this for something like 15 years and I am so tired, folks: the tactics. Of the right. Don't work. For the left. Because their politics are divisive and anti-community. Ours aren't. They win when politics is toxic and vicious. We win by building solidarity.

Today's mood:

The world has changed so much since I wrote this, but at the end of the day it's still an essay I had a breakdown writing, an essay that took days because I couldn't stop crying long enough to write strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

For the past year we’ve had to drive from Stokes Valley to Brooklyn & back to Wgtn CBD for childcare arrangements. Every day. This morning I cruised along the harbour on the train, past the cars that we would queue with. The smugness that comes with Public Transport use cannot be overstated.

Up early, jug hot and volume down low on the Black Ferns vs Spain. Managed to keep my voice down too as Georgia Miller danced through the defence 🎉 #RugbyWorldCup2025

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

I wrote this for you so you can get up to speed real, real quick. thespinoff.co.nz/society/22-0...

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

And now a thought from a wise frog:

I don't see much point in getting spinny about changing kiddie books and passports because that is just ragebait for the sake of a signal to their voter base, when the real crisis affecting Māori is homelessness and has been passed between successive governments since Key with no real remedy

if you raise a young man to have empathy & respect for others & to treat people of all genders as his peers & equals he’ll probably be able handle the occasional person saying “men are shit”. who knows he might even agree with the sentiment after learning a little bit of history

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Just now, RNZ reporter Ruth Hill referred to nurses winning a “sex based” pay equity claim against the government, when it’s referred to as “gender equity” everywhere except for in deeply transphobic circles. I’m unsure why today’s strike was viewed as an appropriate place to make that statement.

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

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This is great, and I hope it spurs a broader conversation about how the impact of this behaviour shows up in every statistic from pay equity to DV, and informs a spectrum of violence that’s not isolated to a few “weird men” but is deeply embedded in our psyche - including our media and our politics.

“So no, it turns out politicians won’t work together on the big issues. Not when the issue is: Should a brown woman be allowed to lead without being torn apart? Not when the issue is: Should we believe misogynist rumours, or challenge them?” Stellar and vital commentary as always from Emily Writes.

Tory Whanau and Tamatha Paul were in the closet making cycle lanes and I saw one of the cycle lanes and the cycle lane looked at me.

Observation. Been writing all week with Parliament in the background. The volume and diversity of anger at/in Select Committees right now, not just RSB, is wild. Sure, it's an unpopular government, but it's also a sign the policy advisory system isn't working.

Dr Morse Tattoo Studio in Wellington Aotearoa are offering to do coverups of Harry Potter tattoos. They will donate 20% of the costs to Gender Minorities Aotearoa. www.instagram.com/p/DL3ps1qTm3w/

A story in 4 parts

I’m just going to periodically re-post a variation of this even though no-one ever learns: If you are boosting the bad takes, you guarantee the production of more bad takes If you do this *knowing that you’re doing it* then the only possible conclusion is you *like the bad takes*

Hey Bluesky and @nzpom.com guess what?

between this and www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/t... indicating 75% of the power for that new datacentre being from burning natural gas...

Submission opposing the Regulatory Standards Bill completed and submitted with no hitches, a full 20 hours ahead of the 1pm closing time tomorrow 🎉 ✊

And also produced by Melanie, a handy explainer and submission guide: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

As Bluesky sort of reduces the quality of photos, here are some close ups!

Mānawatia a Matariki mā Puanga! Ngā mihi o te tau hou! Hail, Matariki and Puanga! Happy Māori New Year! To celebrate the new lunar year I created this piece of Te Whānau o Matariki and Puanga, who both form part of the great constellation, Te Waka o Rangi. ✨✨✨🌙✨