Retire #5

Hipkins and Labour need to stop trying to placate those who will never vote for them and start trying to inspire those who might.

With the moves towards a social media ban for kids here in Aotearoa, and the imminent one in Australia, I'm still perplexed that this objection continues to be raised. Is it that there are now whole generations of internet users who weren't around for the age of common-interest forums? #NZpol

Why does this article include opinions from three other parties, but not give the party subject to criticism the chance to respond?

I was on stage at a event recently as part of a panel. A rep from a government agency tasked with awarding large grants said that they prefer to invest in "well-established businessmen" (sic & 🤮) because when things get tough "they have a well-established network to fall back on". #NZpol

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

What's in the mirror is pretty ugly

Considering starting a salon-style event with education, lectures and discussion around the political economy, accompanied by experimental electronic music. It will be called Techo Economics.

New term: "Idaho stop". Very good concept, and captures my internal monologue when I run red lights or stop signs - it's about safety, and clearing an intersection before my bike causes problems for cars.

AOC dethroning Chuck Schumer as Senator 2028... CNN has just gone full NSFW titillation - don't threaten us with a good time.

Veery good poast

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TIL battery standardization has been enshittified like everything else we thought we could trust. AA, AAA, C, D, 9V, all those are great and identical and trustworthy. 18650 rechargable? No way! They even come in different shapes that might not even fit the compartment. That's $50 down the drain!

I heard NZ Labour Economics Spokesperson Barbara Edmonds on the radio today, giving the excuse that they can't tax wealth too much because it would cause rich people to leave the country (and somehow take their factories with them???) #NZpol #CGT #wealthtax

For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.

Let them eat cake? LET THEM EAT CAKE?!

In which your faithful correspondent gets overly excited about seaweed: www.nzherald.co.nz/video/herald...

An almost impossibly beautiful piece of music

Okay, I'm outside the venue in my car. Can the Mariners just score so I can get on with my life?

Em Vee Pee

When?

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Pretty thirsty to have not just a DUMP 61 HERE shirt, but to have a DUMP 62 HERE shirt on under. I wonder how deep that stack of shirts is, and how skinny the man underneath is.

Oh jeepers here I was thinking this was a post about Aotearoa New Zealand

When ideology trumps reality. Looking tough with mean gestures to give the impression they will increase employment, but in fact incentivizing less work. MORONS

Bow down?

I've got chills

B A L L C L U B

Imaginary Spinal Tap film "But these go to 11i"

Devoured this today like I'd never heard anything before in my life. Just a singular, wild expression of voice and digital synthesis. Gratifying and startlingly out of the blue.

Very niche #NZpol x #NFL content but, today's the day for new and expensive Seahawks being disappointing

As a pescatatian celiac, this is frankly devastating. They make the only GF crumbled fish fillets on the shelves. Is this how neoliberalism was supposed to play out? I thought the promise to consumers was more competition leads to more, better and cheaper products. Hasn't worked out that way, huh?

Awesome mahi today checking out the installation of tī kōuka ikawai taura (cabbage tree leaf fish ropes) on the Kakariki Stream. This project is led by Ātiawa Kī Whakarongotai and Greater Wellington and is a great example of blending traditional and Western knowledge for a much better outcome. 🌏

It's almost as though we should have a set of coherent policies around energy and industry? Like... an Industrial Policy? Yet again, the numpties who have no ideas beyond ideology are wasting precious time, while the people with actual constructive ideas are framed as "the loonies". Maddening.

Don't have to be fast to be hard, don't have to quick to be sick

Bond 4 SecDef

I'd love for the IoD to have a strong opinion about this farce of an appointment. Governance in Aotearoa is in such a sorry state, with the cosyism of the old boys club holding back thew performance and lowering the standards of the profession. www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/...

Our media seem to have a high tolerance for being lied to and used. Where's their pride?

Whoa

Good sportsball poast

tautoko!

When

Brownlee vote of no confidence when?

Please please please for the love of everything good and sweet in this world, please put dates on the "news" items you publish on your company website.

Yes, and also, this violence should never have a profit motive, nor reside in a system whose ultimate goal is growth.

"Most destructively of all, they don’t know how to abandon neoliberalism for reality" DING DING DING

I hate it as a general concept, but do love that in my own little corner of "being with men on the internet" we are supportive, can talk about mental health, and mindfulness and journalling, and recovery and loss, and then crack a string of terribly juvenile toilet humour jokes.

i wanna try something. quote this post if you’re a man who hates the manosphere

3. When economists talk about an 'overheating' economy they are describing an economy in which businesses can't secure willing slaves to work split shifts at minimum wage. The kind of economy where young/old people and people with disabilities find work. Sounds horrific. (3/n)