One of the biggest things I've experienced with this kind of thing is that supposed 'true' left is constructed as those that focus solely on economic matters (class analysis, etc), which almost exclusively operates (at least in the ideal) as a (white) working class prioritisation. The moment ...

Look folks, this year we've got to support Jen and PATHA and make sure every political party you trust has a sound trans rights policy.

Though I try to stay humble, I'd say I'm probably the nation's top journalist when it comes to in-depth reporting on the Waitangi dildo strike. Even so, I hadn't picked up this piece of info until this week thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-...

ah fuck. accidentally cooked a animorph

The entire financial and social system we operate under makes us complicit in child sex trafficking. It is vitally important for the soul of humanity that all billionaires - especially those directly involved - are punished severely, and their names tarnished and spat upon for the rest of history.

"microtransactions in games started by cabal of pedophile elites for the purpose of indoctrinating kids into an economy" Ok. Well, we all knew it was evil somehow but I really didn't expect Epstein to be responsible for why video games are bad now. That's just not what I would've thought.

Yet again, in almost any other NZ government a minister telling NZers to *eat less food* to save money would have them hounded by media and pushed out of politics. Never forget the immensely important protective role that NZ media have played in protecting these fascists from public outrage.

I have never in my life been more confident in a product prediction than I am that Optimus robots will be a huge flop and I remember the NFT craze

The workplace relations minister refusing to back a bill to address the issue of modern day slavery doesn't bode well for workplace relations

The whole way Parliament works needs to modernise. Not being allowed to point out someone’s lying in the house is a joke. Having a partisan speaker is wrong. The system just allows shitheads like Seymour et al to behave hideously. This government have really shown how crap the system is.

it’s that time again

why the FUCK is even obama using phrases like "appear to" you don't have to both-sides things like *the truth* and *reality* it's on multiple videos - i feel like i am going insane

At this point it would be surprising if the Trump administration described something truthfully. Their statements should all be treated with extreme scepticism by media (and everyone else)

If I see another news article say the videos (multiple! From almost every possible angle!) "appear to" contradict the insultingly obvious white house lies I think I will lose my entire mind

to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app select the icon in the top left corner go to settings go to content and media make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off

All I want is for the gallery and commentariat to grill Luxon and Hipkins about this dogshit with HALF the energy they give any time the Greens announce a reasonable, costed, popular policy

buying a new computer only so i can delete copilot off of it

Remember the 38yo unexpectedly pregnant woman who had to deal with a terrorist massacre, a volcanic eruption and a global pandemic while raising a baby? Did anyone cut her one tenth of the slack this POS is getting?

I mean, we all know he can't talk, but his other issue is that he's a spineless suckup fundy weirdo, Henry #nzpol

File "Women are better at multitasking" and "Women are just naturally better at home management/child rearing/making doctors appointments" together under convenient beliefs that allow men to delegate basic life admin tasks to women in their lives

One thing that everyone "knows" and is completely untrue is that women are better at multitasking. There have been multiple studies, some finding women are slightly better, some finding men are slightly better, but the one really consistent result is that everyone is very bad at multitasking.

what i would say to you is, i am not aware of what turns on Christopher Luxon, and i am committed to keeping it that way. #nzpol

Gals is it too spicy to point out that the major parties insisting Nothing Can Be Done So Why Bother is effectively voter suppression, and it's particularly dangerous because the far right *don't care and will still turn out for hate and bigotry* while the left are bullied to be more moderate?

why does everyone know so much about the pope

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

eat this pancake for it is my body, the syrup my blood. the butter is uhhh cerebrospinal fluid

People don't want to hear this but too much baby talk can hinder your cat's language development

People in books are always nobly turning down offers of huge sums of money from their wealthy suitors. I simply wouldn’t

Everybody loves it when I put double-sided tape on my hands and feet and skitter about on the ceiling like a lizard

I have to pack my whole house and so far mostly against my will I have been doing so using the "pinball method". Bouncing around the house at varying speeds, picking up items in whatever location I hit, depositing them into one of three open boxes, occasionally dropping off the map (doomscrolling)

Feeling more and more true by the day. Also, season 5 of Fargo was cooking something fierce with this.

It's a beautiful day to cancel Spotify and move to Qobuz, or Apple, or Tidal.

Two legends the sun can’t defeat 🌞 there’s a print of this up on my store too! danielvernon.bigcartel.com

Where "delete your account" is valid and legit. #nzpol Love your work @marcdaalder.bsky.social newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/14/p...

I appreciate people exploring womens perspectives on things but sometimes it feels..... Like idk I'm seeing a bunch of articles and discussions about why women like Heated Rivalry and I have never once seen anything close to an equal discussion on why men like lesbian content

@edzitron.com Another excellent article from the Times, “the only problem with AI is there might not be enough money in the world to make it good”

Quite a few comments from people saying they'd like to write more. Since Renee Good's death, I've been thinking about all the people out there who are good writers. It's a bit like singing, in that I think many people have a basically good voice. It's weird to think about how talented people are

Joe Rogan calling ICE the gestapo is probably a sign of what other morons are starting to figure out. It only took a guy shooting a woman in the face on video and calling her a fucking bitch

People hate women so much they read a story about women being cattoonishly evil in an elaborate story with many highly improbable (and falsifiable!) details that literally ends with "and then everyone clapped" and didn't even blink twice before fully believing it

The curiosity was killing me. The guy said he found the ad on Instagram and that, as of today, the post is still up. So I spent an hour or so on a spreadsheet of every single bar, pub, or club I could find in Salt Lake City, almost 100. None of them posted it docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I wouldn't spend any amount of time on this at all if it was Just a fake story. Fake stories go viral all the time (UberEats, Jamaican Masterpiece), whatev. But this one was also leading people to specific conclusions about what women in fandom are like, based on something that didn't happen

That affects people's mental models about women, y'know? It gets referenced in future talks. "Remember that guy who got kicked out" becomes shorthand that speaks to how real groups of people are thought of. Also it comes from a guy who calls men men but women feeeeeemales. That speaks to motivation

He refers to women as "females." He constructed a viral story designed to make women look bad, and when a queer woman questioned it he endorsed calling her a bitch. I think this man doesn't like women, and made up a story about them, and is now enjoying watching one get called a bitch for noticing.

a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.

I'm not posting every single of the day because quite frankly no one wants that but I was just completely struck by how today's one, Song For Cleomenes, about a brutish and corrupt leader who died pre BCE, is so... Familiar. Gaius Verres lived and died and lives again

How embarrassing for us. How terrifying for women and girls. ##nzpol

"It shouldn't be difficult to act swiftly and without hesitation when the question posed is "Is it OK to work with the child sexual abuse material factory?" But the bar is assuredly in that hole."