For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

This is just to say I am ignoring the polls that are so bad and so low and which you were probably going to use as an excuse for the spull I’m not sorry I can’t be rolled I will have my entitlements and I won’t be told.

Robin Hood, set in a realistic world of economic and political threats, so he gives to the poor, not because he is a kind hero, but because it is high risk for them to hide him, he has to make it worth their while or they'll turn him in

Welp. The internet had a nice run. Some outlets have lost over 90% of their traffic since the "AI" summaries rolled out. "...the four worst-hit publications [now] get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own."

Rivers are living beings.

Just a reminder for those of you who still, for some reason, think Winston Churchill was somehow not a corpulent piece of garbage. The UK and US deposed the democratically elected Mosaddegh in 1953, because he was impacting BP’s profits. The PM who initiated this was Churchill.

So if we want to know why dialysis is being rationed, there's a clear answer: it's so the 311 richest families in the country can enjoy one of the lowest effective tax rates in the world. We're killing people in order to make the ultra-rich ultra-richer

4:56 am today "The only thing I am considering is the future of our children and grandchildren." #nzpol

For Thomas Coughlan's article: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her

New modelling shows renewable electricity can meet NZ’s future demand – without importing gas theconversation.com/new-modellin...

Wait so if they're trying to force armageddon, that means we're at the end of the tribulations, which means the rapture already happened, so anyone know anyone that got scooped by JC?

Guess which politician

Don't come back

Funny, the things people like

Parked in the free 1/2 "Wait Zone" at the airport, bustong for the loo. Got to hike to the domestic terminal. Lots of cars. No people. Can I make it to the toilet in time, or should I piss on this Tesla?

Even the Saudis realised a long time ago that they’d have to diversify away from hydrocarbons. They’re installing solar and batteries at a rapid rate now!

Rumblesquawk (that's the moa)

The facts of the matter… #nzpol #TaxWealthMore #OneTermGovernment

I had a can in the park and wrote a poem about my feelings and stuff (ew, puke) and started talking to this lady who got too close and then just *kept talking* and got vulnerable and stuff so I read the poem and she seemed to really like it so I u let her take a photo and I hope she's not a psycho

Michael Palmer

We've all seen the policies he promotes, and his lack of understanding or even the tools to take in and assess new information. Today's parents want better than the education that gave us Andrew Hoggard.

Joanna needs to read a few blog posts by Ed Zitron where he lays out the economics of the AI industry... pointing out that not 1 AI company is in profit & data centers ( that are also required for NFT) are money pits that might just destroy the AI industry. I guess inconvenient facts wreck her buzz.

Pay attention to the verbs. Pay attention to who gets named. Pay attention to who “says” and who “did.” That’s how perception is shaped - not with blatant lies, but with careful framing.

Did Nicola Willis promise to reduce food prices? Yes. Have they? No. But, y'know, we gotta appear neutral I guess so fuck what's true, let's make it "he said, she said" and continue to wonder why no one trusts the media anymore.

Reminds me of the 90s when, as a young wine waiter at the amazing Mongolia exhibition opening, at the Auckland museum, I heard a NZ MP say (re: Chinese officials) "I had to tell them we can't do that, we don't control the media here." Simpler times

maybe im getting old(ish) but books being promoted/announced with a list of tropes they contain is... 😬😬😬

I had to look up the Stanisland question, this was the top result, followed by a whole lot of TERFery. But this article is great for people like me who want to learn (not sharing that gross image of the Q tho) Answering The Staniland Question by Rebecca Gellman | share.google/xK0x1Cqm3oFn...

My adhd is so bad ive forgot to overnight soak black beans every day for 4 months

Hi hello just QRPing some info abt this coming in from the other site. This news is fake, it was a hallucination.

#NZ: If poverty is a leading cause of crime, what does tough on crime look like? #nzpol #poverty #beneficiaries #jobcuts #sanctions thespinoff.co.nz/politics/17-...?

If they don't want us to call them "Pervert Glasses", why is Mr. Zuckerberg doing a Woody Allen impression here?

Plenty of talent but not much booze.

Remember back in 2018 when seniror RNZ manager Carol Hirschfeld lost her job after it was revealed she'd had a secret meeting with Broadcasting Minister Claire Curran. Who was later sacked from Cabinet by PM Jacinda Ardern after a second downlow meeting was revealed.

Talking to another anxious dad at Starship hospital, he said how amazing it was that all this is done for us, so we don't have to stress about the cost. That's when I said "It makes me think those guys were right when they said tax is love." We are feeling the love. Thanks, everybody who pays tax.

If anything, NZ media as a whole is implicitly favourable towards the propertied elite. There needs to be a Royal Commission that revisits and updates the 1986 one on Broadcasting & Related Telcos, especially when legacy media overseas is getting snapped up & influenced by billionair broligarchs.

In light of possible oil price shocks and disruptions to supply, here is a snapshot of the 7.2 million tonnes of oil burned in NZ in 2024. The good news is that half of it is easy to do without and another quarter is more challenging but also known to be doable.

Are we any closer to "getting back on track"? Not if rail ferries are anything to go by.

National Party selection committee members waking in the night and checking their notes to discover he'd in fact told them he was "good at crises"

How I arrived on bluesky

When I see this I think *oh no what did I say, who did I anger*

Right, so the only smart way out of this was to kill all of them. I was going to have to take the dumb way out of this.

Chlöe Swarbrick here being accurate yet still quite kind? "He simply does not seem to understand the weight of the things that he is talking about, or the substance or logic that sits behind them".

Then VOTE GREEN ✅ 👇

Trying to give IRD some money but the "myIR" website is not designed for ADHD people

Staggering that Willis is *still* claiming LNG is an option for long-term firming given recent events. Renewables and GW storage is the answer. #NZPol bsky.app/profile/chad...

Crusade "US commanders from every arm of the military have told their units that the war on Iran is 'anointed by Jesus' and would bring about his return to Earth as part of the Armageddon, resulting in scores of complaints from serving members of the military." www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-troo...