Not only did the coalition government dump all the work done towards safer online spaces (partly in response to the Inquiry), it gutted funding to disinformation research and cut staff that oversaw online threats, like these. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

THEY ASKED THE "WOULD YOU RATHER FIGHT A HORSE SIZED DUCK OR 100 DUCK SIZED HORSES" QUESTION www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Here’s how our economy actually works.

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This is what Labour should have been saying from the first Royal Commission Report onwards.

@clrenney.bsky.social giving a PERFECT answer. One Labour should have been giving for over a year.

Relevant to #NZpol

How many businesses that survived covid thanks to that govt spending are now dead or dying thanks to this govt cutting?

Yeah. Our own country with our own political problems (and strengths). I'm quite confident this can be defeated (given it's not a government Bill), but it's a disgraceful reflection of the current state of our politics that this bill has even made its way to committee.

Trickle-Down/UP 1975: UK labour's share of gross value added (GVA), 71.9% 2025: After 50 yrs of economic growth, it declined to 59.3%. Huge wealth transfer to capital. Can't build a sustainable economy without increasing workers' share of GVA. No party has any plan to increase workers' share.

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

Robert Prediction: the unpopularity of Joe Rogan and all that he represents will be as meaningful a factor in the 2028 election as his popularity was in 2024

I wish I could remember where, but I saw a quote somewhere recently that was effectively: "Would you let random commenters on Reddit make your company's key business decisions? Because that's what is happening when you outsource core work to LLMs"

I keep meeting extremely awesome people who do amazing stuff and have come to AoNZ. We are so privileged to have them.

@mayor.nyc.gov: “I have thought often of the "Margeret Thatcher quote: ‘the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.’ If anything, my friends, it seems that you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess."

Confidential to the folks who think "Golden Age" SF/F writers would be sad about current SF/F writers' lack of excitement over "AI": Why would you think the generation of writers who founded SFWA to defend the rights of working SF/F writers would somehow be cool with the plagiarism machine?

Corrupt to the CORE! #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

really interesting, because it contains elements about the media/pol environment we've been trying to elucidate for *years* without electoral parties accepting it, or changing how they organise & communicate here, McAnulty reveals they ABSOLUTELY know - yet Labour comms/campaign hasn't responded??

Māori-owned data storage network hailed as significant step towards data sovereignty

The oil docs simply disappeared into the same void those tobacco talking points emerged from

Israeli army has killed 10 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours, with continuous attacks across various areas of the Gaza Strip, while it demolishes homes and expands what is known as "the yellow line." Almost 900 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the start of the ceasefire in October

Tonight I've published a reference document on the inspiration and history of NZ First's transphobic definitions bill. If you plan to make a submission, as I do, I hope this background can help you plan and write your submission curly.kiwi/articles/202...

Holy moly. Luxon on tv tonight denying his office ever saw the draft climate law given to his office by Fonterra & Z Energy; the companies confirm they handed them over. Language of our draft legislation almost identical. Banger of a story www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361... #nzpol

It goes back to the 1990s, when the Bolger government imposed market rents on social housing, which required the expansion of the accommodation supplement. We were confidently informed the cost would not blow out. It blew out *massively*. publicaddress.net/hardnews/hou...

Again. They're doing this again. The accommodation supplement is a subsidy to landlords that already costs us $2 billion annually. There's a sorry history here ...

Hey Bluesky peeps, I'm looking to speak to astronomers that are looking for alien life in unusual ways - think Ceres, weird technosignatures, unexpected exoplanets, etc - for a story in the BBC. If that's you, or you know someone, do let me know. jdaoca[at]gmail[dot]com Thanks!

The one and only thing I'll give UK transphobic movements: they're absolutely shameless in their love of complaining to the manager. We have to be a bigger annoyance than them. Embrace it. It's a beautiful thing.

'Could you explain why?' 'Could you explain why in writing?' 'But how does this align with [contradictory thing]?' 'But how does that align with my right to privacy?' 'But how would that work?' 'But why is that necessary?' 'Are you really asking about my genitals?'

Counterpoint: No it fucking isn’t Both their products and their services (Starlink) are the definition of state corporate capture. HE LITERALLY EXTORTED THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE USING THE WAR IN UKRAINE TO MAKE STARLINK SOLVENT

Nicola Willis is directing billions in subsidies to fossil fuel companies. They can’t compete with cheaper renewables anymore so she is helping them out. Now that isn’t like winning the lotto because it’s not luck, it’s rigged.

The one airline and the one route where demand is rising. From NZers flying away for work. Must be the most expensive commute on the planet.

This would be completely unsurvivable if it was a real product being delivered in a real market, not the Potemkin market of lowest bid wins neoliberal public service contracting. Corporate business models are not fit for purpose here. The old system worked. businessdesk.co.nz/article/poli...

I've heard that some of the property buying and development he's undertaking is quite fuckin' weird too, btw

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

Actually, let's not just repost this, let's quote post it so I can say I found this a really good, engaging, read.

Why does it feel like Labour genuinely doesn’t know how defend their Covid era decisions and they are almost embarrassed and regret it? They literally got a majority off the back of those decisions under MMP own it man.

This is something that someone who doesn’t want to pay his fair share in taxes would say. Tax the rich.

More low income renters are vulnerable in the private market, partly because public housing stock is decreasing, & because govt constrained funded places with other providers. Making the poorest fund a tiny reprieve for other poor people, while landlords got a tax cut. It’s vile.

As it is, Lab offering only a small target makes NZF and ACT the main threats to the Nat vote and they politic accordingly, hence, all of this shit. And committing to a small target during, all of this shit, well. Look where it gets you.

I find it both chilling and obscene that David Seymour is the person fronting media to explain Pharmac’s decision to stop priority access to Type 2 diabetes treatment for Māori.

why are they so weird and defensive amanpour didn’t impugn the reporting she’s just reacting with the level of surprise that a reasonable person with knowledge of the parties would experience at reading such a story

This is literally bigotry. "I'm uncomfortable with people who look like that" without further reason is just bigotry. And it's in official human rights guidance in the UK. This is really the path National wants to send NZ down? (It clearly IS the path NZF wants to send us down)

This is an insane paragraph. Gender-critical attitudes are *by definition* negative towards trans people. It's not stereotyping to identify prima facie negative attitudes as negative attitudes.

#nzpol Landlords are the only ones winning lotto under this govt and as a fair few of cabinet ministers are landlords they’re serving themselves lotto too. #nzpol