The funny part is he's now handed to anyone who wants it a guaranteed way to get a session of parliament suspended #nzpol

I wish I was surprised by this but as a country we've shown we dgaf about disabled people #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Been getting ads for Blond Low Vision NZ in my podcasts and I get the point is guilting people into donating But FUCK ME they feel so fucking condescending and demeaning as someone the money is theoretically being collected to help #lowvision #disabiliry #nz

@realmsunknown.bsky.social is there a way to give you money for the audiobook without giving Amazon money or do they do their usual thing of banning it's sale elsewhere under threat of taking ownership of the souls of everyone involved 😂

Just got sent this from an article by Bryce Edwards. This is completely false, and he never once fact-checked it with me. My campaign was run by me and my small volunteer team. Comments like this reflect a tired mindset that assumes women can’t succeed in politics without a man pulling the strings.

OCR drop to 2.5% while effective mortgage rate (average weighted rate) is about 5.25%. By my calcs, effective mortgage rate needs to be around 4.25% to be stimulatory. That would require an OCR of below 2%. Remember, we have much more mortgage debt now, thanks to RBNZ being idiots in 2020/21.

Just for clarity, the unemployment numbers under this government may look terrible, but keep in mind, Luxon has driven tens of thousands of Kiwis overseas as well, so its actually far worse. These numbers are just the ones that couldnt leave.

This part in particular makes me want to scream #nzpol

Good of Deloitte to demonstrate why the current push by National to integrate LLMs into government departments and things like select committees is a terrible idea. Especially since it was in Australia not here #nzpol www.afr.com/companies/pr...

"we can save so much money by automating away the job of consultants!", says the very smart business consultancy

1. It's an idiom, not a metaphor 2. We know it's an idiom 3. The issue is that YOU, a RW govt minister, directly linked an act of individual vandalism to a LW political party without any direct evidence. 4. When have the Greens ever advocated political violence? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

When the PM says ‘we don’t owe them a living’, we should be clear that this is not a metaphor. A living is life. And I want to live in a society in which it is clear that this is the least we owe each other, and are owed. 💞 I’d like us to aim for lives lived in dignity and with joy, personally 🤷‍♀️

Just leaving this here. www.emilywrites.co.nz/dogs/

I wish I was surprised by this but as a country we've shown we dgaf about disabled people #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#nzpol The Reserve Bank has cut the official cash rate by 0.5%. That sounds great. But banks only cut interest rates that much when the economy is in trouble - and not when things are going well. This cut is a sign of economic weakness, not strength. A 😄🧵

Ah I see, the Swarbrick should call off the abstract notion of the brutality of war.

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Creating an AI game means he can also create an AI to pretend to be him being the best player in the world at it. Cut out the middle man

Would he prefer limited military engagement? Minor spat? Genocide is what it is, and what it should be called. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Another reason to regard monetary policy with great disdain: the 'long and variable lags'. Folks are begging for cuts to interest rates tomorrow, but changes take 12 - 18 months to flow through. The damage was done two years ago when the ghouls were advising 'higher for longer'.

Good of Deloitte to demonstrate why the current push by National to integrate LLMs into government departments and things like select committees is a terrible idea. Especially since it was in Australia not here #nzpol www.afr.com/companies/pr...

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Oh, you are SO full of shit. Where were you when Peters played a starring role in a co-ordinated campaign against Benjamin Doyle? Where were you when Seymour joked about blowing up government departments, or mounted another online attack at yet another critic? #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

the bill banning protestors at politicians homes doesn’t go far enough, we must all mobilise to ban politicians entirely to make our nation safe again

Today’s the last day to mail your vote to be certain it will get counted. Get it in today.

Seems like the KiwiBank app is down Good thing it's not basically the only way to interact with them now 🙄

Kind of wild that RNZ published Willis's "Call off the dogs" statement - sending out the impression they want of protestors. RNZ didn't publish a lot of what Winston said e.g. calling left wing activists "retards" "unhinged left wing losers" "hate filled behaviour....from the radical left" #nzpol

Calling people attack dogs is not at attempt to deescalate and maintain civility, it's a attempt to escalate to distract from a failing economy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Was just talking about this RW meme policy turned actual ministry the other day. Seems like it's going great for them #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

this feels like an insanely wild abuse of power by an elected official on a private citizen

Nice of RNZ to call out their bullshit with the actual facts #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Worth noting that we only see decent job growth for young kiwis when the economy is running hot - that's when employers give less experienced people a chance. RBNZ respond to hotness by hiking interest rates to slow the economy down. Youth unemployment is a feature of our economic model, not a bug.

Civility and decorum are cudgels crafted in order to make demonstrably bad ideas easier to defend

The fact that it's considered indefensible to say things like "That doesn't make any goddamn sense" or "That's some fake shit you read on the internet and you're a jackass" in a professional setting is imo a major contributing factor in the current mess. We're Emperor's New Clothes-ing right to hell

What I'd say to the 65,000 unemployed young people in NZ is... move, and compete harder against the other 340,000 people wanting work or more work. Hell, there are 20,000 job vacancies out there! Nevermind that most of them are wholly unsuited to you. Try harder, bottom-feeders.

Just move bro. Sure you'll have to pay for expensive short-term accommodation, transport and food costs while you compete with hundreds of other applicants for even entry-level work but you'll just have to figure it out. We're back on track BTW.

We should ship 18 year olds to random farms and also they need to be financially taken care of by their parents. Make it make sense.

It's 2025 and our economic model is still reliant on maintaining a decent bufferstock of unemployed people. This model was *designed* to ensure that employers have the upper hand (and labour could be uberised). Govt distract us from this reality by bashing beneficiaries and abdicating responsibility

What I'd just say to you is, there's so many jobs available right now offering amazing prospects for young people. In Dargaville there are (zero) careers in kumara picking if only these lazy buggers would uproot their lives & move there. #LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #CoalitionofCruelCunts #NZpol

Wonder what Mister "The world doesn't owe you a living" Luxon would be doing if the Fifth Labour Government had said that to Air New Zealand in 2001 instead of writing a $900m bail-out cheque. Oh, I keep forgetting - Market Forces for Thee and Thine, Corporate Welfare for Me and Mine! #nzpol

This is rich coming from a bone spur guy.

Not sure that the UK govt should be taking lessons from a govt that explicitly pandered to NIMBYs to get elected and slashed the number of social housing projects being built while giving a massive tax cut to property speculators and private landlords Could just be me though

Not sure that the UK govt should be taking lessons from a govt that explicitly pandered to NIMBYs to get elected and slashed the number of social housing projects being built while giving a massive tax cut to property speculators and private landlords Could just be me though

“AI is not invited into schools through a process of adoption, like buying a desktop computer or smartboard – it crashes the party and then starts rearranging the furniture.”

Some job-search “highlights” from an 18yo of my acquaintance: - applied for f/t retail job, was “interviewed” via AI/video 🤯, didn’t get job - applied for p/t retail job, was one of 3000, didn’t get job - got short-term gig shilling vapes in malls (required own transport + lots of driving) Grim.

wake up babe* new EMTR cliff just dropped * Dr Eric Crampton

#nzpol The government has announced that 18/19 year olds, who live in a household where the parents earn $65,529 or more, can't claim jobseekers support. If both parents work 27 hours on the minimum wage - $634 a week - they will be expected to now financially support their adult offspring. A 🧵

@willsmith.fun Thanks now I'm worried about humanoid robots to go along with everything else 😂

You can't fit thousands of job seekers into tens of jobs. And while Luxon might call himself sorted, the country isn't, even if he doesn't want to do anything about it.

What I'd just say to you bottomfeeders is, I'm entitled to my entitlements but these are your kids, you had them. Get them off the couch & out of the garage & into a non-existent job because they're getting nothing from us. #LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #CoalitionOfCruelCunts #NZpol