I dont object to people being wealthy, owning a $10m holiday home I object top them abusing their wealth so they contribute less I object to them abusing their power so they get an ever larger slice rather than helping everyone else The rest of us dont pull this kind of bs #nzpol

don't forget that David Seymour is the only MP in the last decade who has openly implied he wanted a Ministry bombed

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

I've been reading the govt guidance docs for AI use in public and private sectors and like...some of this content... I have questions about the level of "human oversight" these docs had 👀

The funniest thing about this was the guy from the Employers & Manufacturers Association on Morning Report saying they weren't focused on removing existing entitlements, and while sick leave entitlements have doubled, actual use has only risen from just under 5 to just over 6 days per year

Tapping the sign wearily

Folks I just witnessed someone in a bar hitch down her skirt and hike up the sides of her thong...WHAT YEAR IS IT

On one hand I'd love to see Aucklanders gather to protest outside Destiny Church about their hateful shit. On the other hand those assholes are clearly just waiting for the opportunity to get into a fight. There's clearly many there who'd love nothing more.

Destiny Church know full well that they're terrorising a room full of children. They don't care. Can we finally start calling it what it is? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

When whānau and tamariki are having to hide behind locked doors while a crowd tries to break them down you have to stop calling it a difference of opinion you shouldn't do anything about.

"You're not my surreal Dad!"

Two attacks, using force (people were injured at the library, "breaking through" police barricades here), against the queer community of Auckland in one day by Destiny. We are owed an explanation as to why there are thus far zero arrests. There may BE a good explanation, but if so we are owed it.

Me reading the unrelenting trauma of A Little Life: 😟😥🧐🙄😮‍💨😴 Me reading the unrelenting trauma of Manacled: 😥😩😭😱😍😭🫠🫣😭😭😭😭

Democracy dies in darkness. National are shoving Bill's through under urgency, limiting select committee input, and as we saw over the summer, limiting the opportunity for public submissions. They've also fired science advisors and not filled the PM's science advisor role. #nzpol

The reveal that Auror provides police with direct access to their customer data without warrants or review procedures shows how supermarkets and big box retailers are leading a shift towards monitoring every customer as a potential criminal. theconversation.com/supermarket-...

knowledge is power. anti-intellectualism everywhere and always feeds the flames of fascism.

Absolutely no one should come to the US for the next four years if they can help it, for anything. Cons, weddings, vacations, etc. The danger is in the wild unpredictability of the federal government and getting in when federal agencies at our borders have been given the all clear for bigotry.

A pox on canned food companies whose cans don't stack on top of one another.

The EO defines biological male and female by the size of the reproductive cell each produces. But the fetus is asexual at conception. Bipotential (sexually indeterminate) gonads start to form the 5th week after fertilization, and both male and female ducts form, regardless of X or Y chromosomes.

I've seen some people bitching about the colour gradient in Wicked, comparing it to the technicolour of the original film. I haven't seen whether John Chu or anyone else involved has addressed it but the colour choice seems so obvious???

Overheard a colleague on a call: "Here's how it works - you're David's bitch is how it works." 👀👀

id say an easy way to identify a nazi salute is when the person routinely believes, does and says nazi shit in order to impress other nazis

Getting real tired of *certain people* whining to *me* about how they want to riot, why aren't we roiting, etc etc. And I get it, I do, we're all mad, and when it kicks off I'll be there. In the meantime, what tangible steps are you taking to protect the people who need/will need it most?

Great news for the twilight fandom ✨🐀

Me running errands before I eat lunch: maybe I'll stop for a sweet treat at Belen Me after resisting the sweet treat and eating the healthy lunch I planned: I am full

Partner throwing up on the Interislander while a PA recording describes the conditions in the straight as "less than ideal" 😂😂😂

I'm at Fisher and people keep telling my partner he looks like Fisher you'd think these people have only ever seen one white man in a bucket hat and sunnies before 🧐

What a day for fb to actually give me a decent memory

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking thehardtimes.net/culture/mark...

#wicked #spoiler Took my mum to see Wicked yesterday and she immediately clocked the relationship between Elphaba and the wizard...but at the end, turned to me and asked, "So when do they go to different schools to learn good and evil? Is that in part 2?"

The Post has Taxpayers Union communications officers writing for them. So unfortunately The Post's behaviour towards Tory Whanau is unsurprising. Also note the Canadian university he went to, Saskatchewan is the same area David Seymour lived when working for his Atlas Canadian think tanks #Nzpol

The energy I’m taking into 2025

Just went to open my windows and turn the fan on in my room and it's 26° in there 🫠

Once upon a time, not the entire internet was 4chan. Only 4chan was 4chan, because everywhere else would kick you out for Doing 4chan in their spaces. It sounds utopian, but it is true.

“Individually or together, these bills would entrench libertarian preferences in New Zealand’s constitutional framework. They would also obstruct the consideration of Te Tiriti in future lawmaking, interpretation and the delivery of public services.” “The ‘dangerous’ bill flying under the radar”

If someone wishes you "happy holidays," it doesn't mean they hate Christmas. They're simply acknowledging that there are *many* sacred observances that take place this month, including the anniversary of Muntadhar al-Zaidi throwing a shoe at George W Bush on this date in 2008.

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Great news everyone, I've decided that this summer I'll be returning to my old ways of wearing slutty sundresses at every opportunity 💅🏼

But it's people not coming into the office who are at fault for Wellington CBD rattling a death wheeze, right??

this is eligible for various awards btw, and is probably the best piece of short fiction I wrote this year – check it out and consider throwing it a nomination

Media covering Candace Owens' potential visit to New Zealand should make clear she is a Holocaust denier, not merely "controversial".

This is open to anyone. I urge any Māori living overseas to PLEASE submit something. This can be the longest kōrero you’ve ever written, or just a few sentences, in Māori or English. This closes on 7th January at 11:59pm (NZST). Please don’t swear, copy a template or use AI. This will get rejected.

None of the media covering Candace Owen's visa approval has mentioned that the Christchurch terrorist's manifesto cites her as his main inspiration before he killed 51 New Zealanders. When she was confronted about whether she felt complicit in their deaths, she responded, "LOL".