HAPPENING NOW 🇮🇹 Italian workers, led by the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), are taking nationwide strike action today against European rearmament and their government’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. Together, they say: “Stop work. Stop the war.”

I know she seems like a saint compared to the current crowd of cretins but this uncritical Ardern worship contributed to us getting into this mess newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/18/a...

Lots of (often very good) pieces about this weekend lamenting Britain being ungovernable/too fast turnover of PMs. I think “why do we keep getting ineffective/bad PMs?” is a better question than “why do we get rid of them?”

Two things should be true in a democracy: 1. Being rich should not help you get elected. 2. Getting elected should not help you get rich. How’s your country doing on these criteria?

Look at this fucking classist bullshit, exactly what you get from a Tory government #NZPol

Labour and the Greens have had 3 years to rally together and attack neoliberalism and the oligopoly and instead they've handed enormous free electoral wins to NZF Labour in particular has utterly, utterly failed it's base, and Aotearoa, by allowing that space for Peters to operate

The people who say, “Food is expensive, just garden” have perhaps not been to a garden store.

NCEA Connect The Dots Game: 1. John Key & Beaton are business partners in Crimson, a National Party business donor 3. Beaton criticises NCEA on Q&A 9 months ago 3. Very next day, Erica Stanford announces an NCEA overhaul 4. Crimson Education also spin up the ads at same time to sell the vision

They delayed the new curriculum because teachers are unionised enough to say "this is fucked" without fear of individual repercussions. That's why unions rule

Rachel Reeves says growth proves her strategy is working. But GDP growth that leaves people insecure and households exposed to higher prices proves very little. An economy is not working because an aggregate number rises. It works when people’s lives improve. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

noticed a couple of signals and thought it would be worth checking, and turns out that the National Party has increased ad buy on Meta by more than 10x what theyd spent over the last 90 days $15,971 in the last 90 and $14,569 is from the LAST MONTH alone

A pretty demonstrably bad democracy when the kidnapping of a NZ citizen by the US inspires zero concern - across the board. If this had happened during Jacinda Ardern’s term NZ media would have followed her every move until this was resolved. The silence - and the complicity - is very loud. #nzpol

Fantastic announcement from Greens to draw attention and demand a response to winter energy prices clear material need and outcomes for nzers

I’m not saying the person on the right deserves the same fate as the person on the left, but maybe you are?

“.. most months it’s the No. 1 consumer of water in the county.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

First BSA, then RNZ now Sherman, who has obviously been punished for pursuing National's chief whip Stuart Smith www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-t...

oh they really can just go after anyone - in the most insanely dirty politics constructed ways - and leadership will roll the fuck over anyone still out there who thinks our media structures and wider institutions aren't part of the problem? www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-t...

And here I was wondering how GenAI use in schools could be any worse, & … “Schools serving low-income students are often under the most pressure to show that they’re embracing innovative technology & preparing students for the working world, where it may soon be standard to rely on generative AI.”

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

Complaints to NZ Media Council require you waive your rights to take any other proceedings against the publisher. If the BSA is scrapped, broadcasters should expect some of the complaints that would've gone to the BSA to instead go to court. It will be costlier to everyone including broadcasters.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

🧵My take here is that the coalition government has decided to abolish the BSA because it has advice that the authority's assertion that the Broadcasting Act gives it jurisdiction over online broadcasting is well-founded and would prevail in a court. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This BSA scrapping bears out the arguments myself and @ojutel.bsky.social made in this article (shameless plug). The problem is not social media misinformation, its "existing right-wing media/political networks and the corporate degradation of journalism". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Labour should have taken the chance to scrap TVNZ, merging it with RNZ into a proper public broadcaster. Instead we get another corporate rip off merchant www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360973...

Wow 🤩 The Weather Channel posted this.

They kindly provide a list of all things to boycott on their website. It's not just toys, you'd be surprised

Please stop buying Zuru toys for your children (or yourself). Aside from the awful environmental impact they have, you’re also indirectly supporting the ACT Party. #zuru #mowbray #nzpol #act #aonz Via Tee To.

Thousands showed up in Berlin, Germany to protest against fascism. #3E #EndImpunity #MayDay

The back on track and fixing something, but definitely not the basics Luxon, Peters and Seymour gave us in 2025. Fixing? I’d say rigging. #nzpol From Oxfam Aotearoa Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DXx6j1g...

yesterday i sat through a 45 minute presentation about how to develop students 'ai fluency' in order to *ethically* make students 'career ready' 10 minutes before a discussion about how we're probably going to lay people off, then asked us to share some joys. nobody had any if you were wondering!!!

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

It is not IF. It is MUST. We cannot have single individuals controlling massive companies, filled only with robots, deciding just how vast their profits for doing nothing should be. They need to go, like slavery did.

Loving the giant inflatable rat for the fireman strike at Tamaki today #mayday

Also, if you say anything about the inevitability of AI, even from a place of cynicism, I'll block. Nothing is inevitable except death.

Oh FFS. Once again for those at the back - and sorry, must SHOUT 'cos obviously didn't hear last ... few hundred times ... it has been said ... THE GOVT DOES NOT HAVE HIGH DEBT. WE DON'T NEED TO SELL ASSETS. IS FICTION USED TO NARROW ARGUMENT TOWARDS "GOVT IS BAD, SO SMALLER GOVT IS BETTER".

The system is rigged. An illegal war hikes bills for stuggling families - meanwhile energy giants rake in profits. We don't have to live like this any more. Vote Green on May 7th.

For a country obsessed with guns they sure are useless shots

BOOM! Health researchers at the University of Auckland have suggested a tax on utes in response to high emissions and more deadly accidents. Totally agree. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Of course they now automate the typo imagine if this was true for anything else like... power steering but it sometimes conks out in the middle of driving so you understeer and crash! Realistic chaotic driving. Even worse than without power steering! Deadly, but cool! Only 3 orphans sacrificed.

Universities captured by corporate boards drunk on ideologies of growth & expansion trying to turn institutions of learning into “real estate empires”—it’s pathetic + ruinous + ignores the fact that universities don’t need to “grow” they need to attain steady state & persist durably into the future

Our car-dependent status quo is the result of political choices that have steered decades of financial-, spatial- and design decisions. It is time to repoliticize these decisions and reshape our public spaces.

Oh yes - so glad research is being done on this with sensible recommendations www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Cogitation: A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Tank Museum medialens.substack.com/p/a-lefty-pr...

I see Shane Jones appears on far-right network that regularly platforms, & promotes Christchurch terrorist's violent extremist ideology (rebranded as 'remigration'), & amplifies the same anti-Indian racism, & xenophobia through his "butter chicken tsunami" framing. Dangerous, & disgusting. #nzpol

NZ @greens.org.nz Co-leader, Chlöe Swarbrick 19 April 2026

Kia ora Marama and Chloe! Getting really excited about this coming Greens election campaign. Chloe nailed it: "how about some joy, care, compassion, happiness"? Shit we need that atm: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwoa...

This is the question I constantly ask of pro-AI people, like I know someone who constantly talks about how integrated it is into his work now, and I ask them, "what are you going to do when the tools are no longer available because Anthropic goes bankrupt?"

You've seen the signs, now join the call for safe, separated, connected cycling infrastructure! Sign our open letter at the link below. www.can.org.nz/open-letter-...