Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are experiencing the highest rates of settler and state violence in recent history, as the Israeli government enacts new policies to accelerate the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and apartheid.

If you're seeing more desperate pleas from people in Gaza today, it's easy to understand why. Bombing has resumed, flooding has destroyed makeshift camps, children are dying from the cold and 37 aid agencies have been denied entry to the strip We are hearing the dying gasp of Gaza aje.io/iisqw4

THREAD: The ceasefire isn’t stopping Israel from committing genocide in Gaza. Here’s how Israel is still killing Palestinians.

Pretty textbook on how not to do crisis communication for this type of attack. So here’s a little thread on what to do instead. 🧵 If you don’t know, I’m Hadyn Green, Principal Communications advisor at @first.org and my job is to go around the world teaching people how to do to cybersecurity comms

The same Republican state legislatures that passed age verification laws for porn are silent on Grok creating and publishing CSAM. It was never about the children.

Patients aren't MMH's customers; GPs are. If your practice uses MMH I encourage you to ask if they will move to something else. (Business is about money. Revenue loss - or even a total business failure - is the clearest message that can be sent to a sector that privacy and security matter.)

It sure is nice to simply choose not to join the discourse.

words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian

This is just not how computers work.

For our country’s official position on international breaking news, please refer to X, the Paedophilia App

reading Guards! Guards! to the kids and this bit, oof

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

Im so angry that they fall for this. It didnt apologize! It generated a statistically plausible apology.

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

It can be difficult to find true cybersecurity experts to comment on specific incidents at any time, but moreso this time of year. Be cautious with anything popping up in reporting.

Before Thatcherism ruined the benefits system, Britain produced some of the greatest bands of all time thanks partly to many making music in their spare time - while "unemployed." Could a Universal Basic Income also create unexpected culture for society?

I love this website

Of course, we are also quite capable of crashing our economy without the help of global conflicts or the coke-fuelled lunacy of finance bros. The late 1980s followed by a Ruth kicker inflicted permanent scarring on the NZ economy, and, well, it looks like we are doing the same now. [3/n]

wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French

White anti-Zionists have a responsibility to root out the antisemitism that uses the anti-Zionist movement as a cover for their bigotry which is designed to undermine the movement and further the goals of empire.

Unfortunately, the government has already agreed to fuck us over: the NZ-EU FTA requires us to extend the copyright term to 70 years by May 2028. Which will lock all works by people who died in 1978 or later behind a paywall for another 20 years...

somebody is doing a public service here github.com/zoicware/Rem...

READ: Palestinian Christians released a powerful new document calling Zionism "a theology of racism and ethnic supremacy" that has produced genocide. The document demands churches worldwide repudiate Zionist theology. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/what...

I park 150m from my apartment - 30 seconds in the car. For a year, road closures and the one-way system has made it 1.5km and 10 minutes drive. They're just about to close another street for a month - making it 2km and 12-13 minutes.

Beautiful words by Justine and Nadia here, highly recommend reading it. thespinoff.co.nz/society/22-1...

A key reason that cutting spending into a downturn is a shit strategy is that it contributes to a tanking tax take - creating a doom loop of spending cuts and revised targets as Govt tries to hit it's operating balance target. [7/n]

What the 2024 and 2025 data shows is that Govts pulled around $10bn of investment in an obvious recessionary period. Even the ghouls would predict that this would cause a prolonged downturn - particularly given how high and long RBNZ held interest rates up. [6/n]

Remember when the NZ media went through its archives deleting racist outrage bait targeting Muslim immigrants? Remember what the ‘emotional junior staffer’ thing was in relation to? Actual things that happened. We have learned zero lessons about racism and violence and it’s disgraceful.

A reminder for Wellingtonians that @bookhavennz.bsky.social has an amazing selection, is cheap, and owned by very good people. This is my haul today for the last Christmas presents (I hope but sure to have forgotten someone …🤷🏼‍♀️)

When Josh Frydenberg talks about "daily protests of hate" he's talking about people opposing genocide. Just so we're clear.

At last, a judge getting serious about Corrections ignoring the law. I hope more public CEs who ignore the law face the risk of contempt of court proceedings. Well done Amanda Hill.

Some of you have probably noticed that, despite being made available to us over a week ago and being referenced in today's judgement, the regulatory impact statement remains unavailable to the general public. Yes, that's real strange.

Pak'nSave Royal Oak had no written contact with its security provider. The lack of enforceable terms meant the store had no way to make the provider comply with privacy obligations. There was also no clarity around escalating procedures, and no way to compel cooperation in privacy investigations.

The Stats NZ consultation paper is at the link below. You don't have to fill in their response form - you can email them, like we have. Censuses relying on administrative data are only conducted in countries with population registers and ID cards. www.stats.govt.nz/consultation...

[0012032] Diplomacy button no longer does anything when clicked.

Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night

All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names…

Climate protesters win groundbreaking class action against Victoria police over use of pepper spray

Boy am I glad the first replacements for these ferries will be arriving in Feb 2026, with port upgrades at Picton and Wellington nearing completion after two and a half years of work. Oh wait, hold on a second, just hearing that ferries won't be here until 2029. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

"the House has spent 30.4 percent of this Parliament sitting under urgency, compared to 15.7 percent of the previous Parliament" And the previous Parliament was passing life-saving legislation during a pandemic! That was necessary legislation! What is all this bullshit #nzpol

The public will not have their say on the Govt's weakening of the methane target, even though it could raise household bills by $270 a year.

Fabergé Egg Recovered After Being Swallowed By Thief https://theonion.com/faberge-egg-recovered-after-being-swallowed-by-thief/

The Police helicopters are an obscene waste of money and a net negative for society: most of the noise and disruption is in pursuit of petty things like "someone saw a light turn on in a house" (a real example). Flight hours are pre-purchased use-it-or-lose-it. So they use them for dumb shit.

Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire". www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

A new CNN report uncovers that the IDF knowingly: •Shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour •Bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves •Left them to decompose, scavenged by dogs •Never documented these murders & tried to hide them This is what genocide looks like. Horrific.