Things that make me want to yell at my laptop because most of the reasons why we don't have the nice things that other people do? Consistent under-resourcing of the initiatives that would help to bring maturity and productivity you want. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

New Substack post today: the case for voting Green.

Closes 30 June petitions.parliament.nz/0e32836b-625...

The only reason I am remotely functional today is Bob from Maintenance. Not only have all my executives quit so have any other layers of management. And why not? The only things on the horizon are chores, work and demands. These three aren't helping. #TripleCat #CatsOfBlueSky #ExecutiveDysfunction

I wrote to both supermarket chains about the decline in options in these new apps that had made them useful. They deleted the shopping list, link to recipes & weekly mailer. I got a bland 'thank you for contacting us' reply. Clearly, the new apps exist to track us not to provide a useful service.

I know we all know this, but just to reiterate, when a company lays off workforce *without itself closing* what the executives are actually doing is stealing the future wages of their workers - wealth that the workers themselves generated - to line their own cash-stuffed pockets.

You may have wondered about exactly who was behind this week's spectacular GiveALittle appeal to save Neck of the Woods. This excellent Rolling Stone NZ story has all you need to know. au.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

I especially love this diagram.

Dating is always a fraught issue for dragons. There is, of course, the question of hoard compatibility, but even that takes second place if both have a princess. "I do hope they get along," one dragon said. "Are they talking?" said the other. "Heads close togeth- Oh!" "They get along well!"

www.consumer.org.nz/shopping/sup... #Aotearoa #FoodStuffs #LoyaltyScheme

"All the major banks offer favourable loan terms for things like solar power systems and electric vehicles. They either charge no interest or 1 percent for three or five-year terms. So what's National proposing that's any different, and why do we need it?" #NZPol www.rnz.co.nz/news/persona...

I am not allowed to just hand this post to frightened people. I have to be very understanding, use a piece of apparatus to demonstrate small numbers, and discuss the regulation. A warning sign exists for people doing work on the antennas, not for you sitting at a desk 200' and 4 thick walls away.

Can I just say how fucking wild it is that a man travelled to Montreal, booked a hotel room across from the Pornhub offices, fired BULLETS INTO THE WINDOWS OF PORNHUB, killed two bystanders and the Guardian does not mention Pornhub or WHY HE WAS THERE. Even as they warn against "copycat attacks."

Tina is one of the hundreds of people who has used Turanga’s Media Conversion Station to scan images and safely save them to a memory stick. www.newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/l... More about the media conversion station: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/media-conver...

I mean sure, I'd like a UBI. Is a UBI their bottom line for going into a coalition? Is reversing all the Tiriti-stripping legislation a bottom line for going into a coalition? 'We won't compromise on our values' they say, meaningless if you have no real bottom lines.

A thing that has been true for me and helpful to me is: “Your trauma is real. The conclusions your trauma draws are not.” (Pattern recognition around your experiences is important and true, but the trauma caused by those experiences will lie to you) Perhaps this can also be helpful to you.

Same! Despite what the current NZ govt claims, my family is not getting free money shoveled at us. We have a bunch of forms we can fill out, attach receipts to, and submit, and at most we get coverage for a few hours care and some chewable pendants.

Thought some of you Wellingtonians might like this ... Wellington in 1966: pre-Beehive, pre-urban motorway (see how lovely Thorndon looks without that slicing through it), pre-port expansion (this was also just before my mother arrived there from the Netherlands by ship) youtu.be/-3jQSiKDhLk?...

homelessness in Kirikiriroa Hamilton rose by more than 300% in 2025. "Worst is yet to come." Te Whare Korowai Taangata o Kirikiriroa's shelter interacted with 187 single adults in May alone. it always enrages me that they're just down the road from Tama💀Potaka's office. www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...

the Transition Research Fund, which replaces New Zealand's storied Marsden Fund, allocates just $6.2 million for science research relating to 'healthy people and a thriving society' that's less than my one single lab has spent in the last few years, but for all NZ basic science about humans #nzpol

I'm pragmatic enough to understand there may well be opportunities to reinvest in better quality conservation land but when your government track record is abolishing the environment ministry, watering down freshwater policy etc. the problem becomes no-one trusts you to do it.

“Although “non-critical risks” may not sound serious, they actually make up the bulk of workplace harms. They include musculoskeletal injuries from trips, slips & falls, & psychosocial risks that include mental stress, excessive workload & burnout.” ACT putting profits before NZ lives again #nzpol

This description of ACT party policy is fairly accurate. #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/23-...

Hey, Google. Remember how you treated me like a farm animal and I took my business elsewhere? Sending me emails about changes to my privacy settings for a service I no longer use without any way to opt out of said emails is a breach of New Zealand unsolicited email legislation. Bad, Google. Bad.

One of the rarely commented aspects of National's incompetence is how much the NZD has fallen over the last year If you want to buy anything from overseas, if you go travelling, purchase online, get a product that was imported etc, that is hitting you by at least 15% more

Some of us are old enough to remember when we had an inheritance tax here. And limits on how much could be gifted before becoming taxable.

I've often wondered why this is. Would be far better for first time buyers if they didn't have to save ridiculous sums while also paying ridiculous sums in rent.

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

But also, if they do, good riddance. A billion dollars is the sociopolitical equivalent of a looose nuke. Billionaires are Bond villains. We don't want them living here, wrecking our society.

A truly incredible analysis of the small details of handling user input and the rules that are so thoroughly ingrained in human brains that you absolutely can't fuck with them as a UX designer: aresluna.org/show-your-ha...

Hi, I'm the friend. Questions and feedback welcome

Eternally unpopular yet accurate opinion, Kiwisaver is a scheme to prop up the stock market while entrenching inequality Forcing people who can't afford rent to ~Be Responsible and save (invest) for retirement~ so government can dodge its duty to provide for our elders has always been shit policy

Seen lot of people on other sites criticizing this policy because the Greens might alienate the top 5% richest NZers ... be serious, anyone close to being affected by the Super Rich Tax was never voting Greens in the first place.

Our tamariki deserve better.

They way I would describe phishing back when I ran security sessions is "It is not you now you should be thinking in terms of, it is you having been up all night with a sick child, and opening your email with the intent of notifying others you won't be in, then seeing the phishing email"

IF YOU SEE THIS CLOSE THE TAB IMMEDIATELY this is a trick to install malware on your machine. it is not a real captcha system.

Sarah Pellett did not take the seat of Ilam from Gerry Brownlee. I did. Although tbh the kiwi accent means that’s auditorily correct in AoNZ. #nzpol

A pāpango (New Zealand scaup) making its way through a reflection on the water in the early morning light at Western Springs today. 🪶🇳🇿

It is an unseasonably hot #Caturday around #Ōtautahi. Here is how our three are handling it.... #CatsOfBlueSky #TabbyCats #BlackAndWhiteCats #Pets

Local New Zealand supermarket has plastered their store advertising that you can now get your groceries on Afterpay. If affording food is such a problem, maybe the people setting the prices should lower them instead of suggesting customers trap themselves in a debt spiral. Fucking disgusting.

Alongside our daily period posts for #MenstrualHealthAwarenessMonth we were also crowdfunding to study the safety of menstrual cups/discs. Now I can tell you we raised over NZ$150,000! That will fund us for a year 🥳 Huge thanks to all our supporters. We'll keep you posted. support.auckland.ac.nz/mcr

everlee wihongi's first feed as a free woman, after being kidnapped by ICE 70 days ago. the details of how it went down are here on webworm: www.webworm.co/everleeisfree/

The thing about universal free prescriptions is that yes people who can afford to pay get their script free to but the salient point is that those who can’t afford to pay for their script never miss out on medicine #NZPol

An excellent expert thread on how they screwed this up.

The other design I did for Artiss’ Pride collection 🏳️‍🌈

School app always asks "Are you sure you want to submit this absence report?" which is bugging me because no, I don't /want/ to be submitting an absence report, I /want/ the young person in my care to be well and at school. But they are not, so here we are. #UI #language

And it's why the biggest internet safety advice I give parents of teenagers is to make crystal clear that they will never blame their kid for being the victim, because that is the ONLY way they will ever know there's a problem. bsky.app/profile/raha...

15 _thousnad_ submissions on a supposedly technical fishing bill, because people could smell the corruption like a rotting fish and hated it. Eventually, other politicians recognise that Jones' schemes are a threat to their re-election...

The big GDP day... is nothing to get excited about. Why? Lots of reasons. First, that little pick-up might be exciting for some, but we have just had three years of economic sabotage. A permanently scarring event. Also it is *really* important to know what is happening under the headlines. [🧵 1/n]