Fantastic win for Uber drivers and Workers First Union. This has been a long time coming (way too long - in the courts since 2022), but common sense has prevailed. Let's hope Van Velden doesn't pull the rug out underneath them with new contractor legislation... www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/17/s....

📢 Anita Hart was last seen on CCTV along Gillespies Road heading towards Akatarawa Road, and her vehicle was found on Gillespies Road.

KICK PETER THIEL AND HIS DODGY MATES OUT OF NEW ZEALAND #nzpol

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

appropos of going outside daily, I have to note that drivers have just absolutely and completely lost their minds. I'm amazed that it has, somehow, gotten continually worse why do drivers do this to themselves. just in full psychopathic rage all the time, everywhere

we’re about to start seeing a lot of “here’s a cost effective meal your grandparents made during the great depression”

“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance.” anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

the only "solution" in education is refuse and reject www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Siouxsie took on an institution that failed to protect her and other academics from death threats, whilst doing fantastic #scicomm for the common good. She won against UOA. And is left with a house-size debt even after being awarded costs. Give a little back if you can 💚 🚨

Having seen the very moving film last night with a Q&A from Anna and Sonya, I'm very aware of the impact of lax H&S rules on families and communities. #StandWithPike www.together.org.nz/stand_with_p...

Attended v good online hui on how to take advantage of early researcher opportunities. Few +reducing opportunities in Aotearoa; main take-out for me was we should prob all be looking overseas. 🤔 @islates.bsky.social called out academic precarity - time to stand together or fall apart #joinyourunion

“Climate change isn’t suddenly going to slow down and ‘match our speed’; it isn’t going to wait for us, it is so far ahead of us and lapping us like a kid in bike shorts setting a new record at cross-country.” Read more: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/breaking-l...

When the heroes at Stats NZ are screaming at the world to take notice. A clear separation between the cost of living for the wealthy and sorted folks who are seeing a rapid easing, and the bottom-feeders who are getting properly screwed.

Why the hell are financial assets like shares excluded from Labour’s capital gains tax? Isn’t the majority of the super rich’s wealth held in shares? #nzpol

"People will leave the country" scream National To where, fuckers? Australia that already has CGT? Where 90k kiwi's have already left because of your policies and mismanagement? #nzpol

Labour just went for CGT-lite. It won't raise much money & won’t change the incentives in our housing-market-with-bits-tacked-on economy. It’s focus-group-hugging performative politics. It tells low wage renters flying to Australia: not much will ever change. It says; ‘Fly my pretties. Fly’. #nzpol

TEU online hui on AI on the 31 October (Halloween - appropriate for the topic!). I'm on the first panel - Mana Mahi - keeping decent work at the centre. The conference is free and open to all, attendees do not need to be TEU members. Registration link: teu.ac.nz/news/teu-art...

Calls for free education are growing

Reposting with Alt-text:

SWEDEN: The striking Swedish workers taking on carmaker Tesla www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anyone can become disabled. Anyone can lose their job. Anyone can become homeless. Anyone can go hungry. These are not moral failings. They can happen in an instant. Most people are far closer to living in poverty than they realize. We must fight for one another & for the most vulnerable.

Just got a notice from my daughter's school - there was a student with measles at school for half a day a couple of weeks ago. Oh yay. My daughter is fully vaccinated and isn't a close contact. But even so. Measles is in the community in Wellington.

Decided that rather than put in a whole bunch of effort finding out if I ever had a measles vaccine, I’d just get it done. Easy peasy at the pharmacy, and fully funded too! If you have any doubts about your immunity at all, this is a great time to get yourself sorted.

Sir Keir Starmer has been specifically named in a UN report for complicity in Israel's genocide. The report states that the UK government played "a key role in military collaboration with Israel... a collective crime... with detailed knowledge and cooperation in the destruction of Gaza." 🧵

oh great: "This is a funding change which everyone other than this government actively hates and everyone in the sector knows will harm universities and their students, both domestic and international."

We have just rejected our first submission where the use of Gen-AI to rewrite the article was acknowledged. Given the way that they commandeer public water resources and contribute to climate collapse, we do not think that there is an ethical way to use such tools.

#NZpol Was reviewing footage from coverage of the protests today by our State broadcaster... Their (very brief) coverage ended with a whining Simeon Brown, and Stanford (apparently a Minister of Education) fueling outright, emotive BS, YET AGAIN. It's basically openly laundering RW propaganda...

My man 💪

#nzpol #nzstrike

The people have spoken

Getting ready for the big public sector strike tomorrow while teaching the next generation the value of protest

Pressure is mounting on Reform's Kent County Council leader to resign leftfootforward.org/2025/10/mps-...

We really have to stop being shocked. These people we call hunter/gatherers were just as smart, innovative and creative as we are: their societies were sophisticated and complex. We need to take on prejudiced ideas of "progress" and "development" phys.org/news/2025-10...

“Politically motivated strikes” gotta be the funniest phrase I’ve ever read. WHAT LED TO PEOPLE NOT GETTING PAID ENOUGH AND WORKING CONDITIONS BEING SHIT EH? Was it fairies? Gnomes perhaps. Everything is fucking politics. They think we are stupid.

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

🚫 NO KINGS… 🚫

Broadcasting Standards Authority finally takes steps to regulate lies, hate, and disinformation on online news platforms. Old man, cooker media and Atlas-funded astroturf complain. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

University teaching very soon www.instagram.com/reel/DPeshTA...

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

Portland: The reality v. the Trump regime's manufactured propaganda youtube.com/shorts/BSkDJ...

Portland 🔥

The solutions proposed for New Zealand's (and virtually every other country's) problems are always like: "We need to make people work for more years" "We have to cut back on services, I'm sorry, there is just no other way" "We have to cut benefits for young people" never: "We need to tax the rich"

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters. And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

We live in a Māori nation. Our Parliament should reflect that more. The haka from the public gallery is an appropriate response to a maiden speech. Suspended Parliament only reminds Māori that they are not welcome to be authentically themselves there. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Gen AI may look flash at first, but when the complexity rises and it can’t extrapolate from data it falls flat. “anybody who thinks LLMs are a direct route to the sort of AGI that could fundamentally transform society for the good is kidding themselves.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Out of the approximately 200 open job adverts I browsed yesterday, one of them was a viable job. A few weeks ago I was told 'thank you for applying, *if* a job becomes available we will review your application". The job market is fundamentally broken by a stagnant economy.

TEU Secure Work hui November 7. We're focusing on structural causes, iniquitous impacts and most importantly, what can be done. Speakers include Craig Rennie and Brian Roper. Registrations close 31 October. Register here: teu.ac.nz/campaigns/se...