According to Luxon it’s up to the US and Israel to decide if the war they’re waging is legal. So if I go and steal something I can decide if I’m guilty or not?

The US killing one and hundred fifty school children in a single attack on Iran has apparently been universally decided to be a non story by the Western press. Not front page news, not in the highlights, instantly memory holed. Profession and institutions worse than worthless.

Let me guess, wealthy people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying taxes now want the countries they moved from to protect them?

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.

I arrived on the shores of Aotearoa over 12 years ago. Every year there have been cuts to public research and redundancies of public researchers. I cannot overstate how dire this is and how much of our future we are losing. Public research is one way we look after one another. It matters. #NZPOL

You will work until you die and you will like it

Totally not of this government's making... #nzpol

Activists frame and display Andrew photo in the Louvre www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2GL...

State of the nation? State of centrist third way politics more like Chris. You cannot be against cost of living by partnering with businesses. Big business is causing the cost of living crisis. Grow some balls hipkins and pick a side

I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws. You know, like a democracy.

This one hits hard.

A mild over-simplification, but economic 'growth' *as we measure it* relies on an expansion of the domestic balance sheet - private and/or public. What is an 'expansion'? An increase in debt, which creates assets, and a 'surplus'. The surplus is what we measure as 'growth'. [🧵 1/n]

We don’t need AGI to decide humans are less valuable than machines when we already have tech bros www.instagram.com/reel/DVCFKv0...

Just back from Rio, Brasília & Salvador launching @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Carnival Economics project w Brazil's Ministry of Culture. Carnival isn’t a one-off event—it’s a year-round production economy. A case study on how culture, identity & joy sit at the centre of what a creative economy should be.

And the right lectures about wasting taxpayers money...

Well. Everyone in his circle will be rushing to distance themselves

The Meaning of Peter Mandelson. Me & @profafinlayson.bsky.social on the fall of Mandelson and why he ever mattered. Is the Long '90s finally totally over? Would we rather be ruled by the actual Sith than guys who hang around with Steven Pinker? It's all here: culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/02/17/t...

FIFA and UEFA have had every imaginable opportunity to do the right thing by censuring Israel. They have refused. Now, it's time for President Infantino and President Ceferin to be held accountable for their participation in war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Stop the enablers if we can’t stop Netanyahu. At least it’s something. We should arrest Netanyahu and his entire government. End the Genocide.

💷 NatWest made £7.7 billon in 2025 💷 ...the same year the government sold off its last shares after bailing the bank out 17 years ago. The very least Rachel Reeves could do is claw back some of these billions by taxing their windfall profits. ✍️ Sign to #TaxTheBanks 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks#TaxTheBanks

via Dublin supporting Palestine

While Wellingtonians are being sprayed with shit our firefighters are breaking down while trying to help people. This is the result of 40 years of neoliberalism

This is the template for the response to fascism by the way. Getting in trouble to punch fascists is, as this hero would say, "Okay."

screenshots in the replies are shut grim reading. don’t just shut down GOT4o, but put much stricter rules on the rest of the chatbots, if not just shut them down too.

How do we engage voters in Aotearoa? Hononga - connection! Where are the relatable politicians? Those who care that folx are struggling, that hospitals, schools, universities are underfunded; that Te Tiriti is a toanga and Aotearoa embraces diversity and doesn’t discriminate! #NZWiL

Check out Spider Hoof's video! Re Trans Tasman Resources mining of NZ & NZ Govt corruption #AtlasNetwork #minerals #fossilfuels #resources #nzpol #TikTok vt.tiktok.com/ZSaKYUmua/

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Too often, scandals fade while systems that allowed them to take place remain Mandelson must be a watershed moment. MPs should match their justified outrage over this case with meaningful action to break the link between wealth, power, and access writes Transparency International's Duncan Hames

I think I’ve failed to appreciate the importance in politics of the fact that many people aren’t simply greedy but are truly awestruck by wealth; they take favours from it (suits, dresses, dinners & so many parties) as blessings, proof that they are the right people to hold office.

It really irks me that a Labour Minister had to resign an off the book meeting because the press wouldn’t let it go & yet MPs in the current govt have them all the time, flout the cabinet manual, misinform, get abusive at public events, let corps write policy & virtual crickets from the media.

This pretty much nails what underlies all the hype about sentient AIs.

All lobbying correspondence, emails, texts etc and transcripts of conversations should have to be posted on a publicly accessible website promptly along with the replies. Nothing should be redacted and no lobbying should happen in secret. Democracy dies in darkness.

The thing the Epstein case keeps emphasising is that Trump's central political virtue is impunity. The person who deserves to be punished possibly more than any other name in the files, is currently the person least likely to be. The entire moral economy of guilt & retribution gets upended by this.

Exactly. Paywalls have reduced the amount of well-researched and documented essays & articles to reach the public. It’s created a less well-informed and more homogenized base of info from which to form one’s own opinions. Then what is out there becomes copied without credit on revenue platforms.

Ghislaine Maxwell sold a girl into sexual slavery and torture. Prince Andrew was an accessory to her death.

Florida Introduces ‘Sanitized’ Sociology Textbook The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education courses from teaching about systemic inequality. So far, at least two universities have adopted it. https://bit.ly/49MPWVd

Liking this ‘convenience criticism’ framing. Books that link AI to fascism becoming a cottage industry: www.structural-integrity.eu/convenience-... @sean-phelan.bsky.social @ojutel.bsky.social @rosieoverell.bsky.social

MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40,000 Music Videos & Commercials from the Golden Age of MTV

Maybe if we called them ‘climate bombs’ more ppl would click on what’s happening to our weather?

The 'board of peace' sure has a lot of war criminals on it

Microsoft CEO says AI “risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.” Brother you’re the one building this dogshit, we’re three years and hundreds of billions in, how have you not worked it out? www.ft.com/content/2a29...

I'm still thinking of the fact that Zohran Mamdani went on The View, said "abolish ICE" and then got a round of applause

Sunday 25 October is the date to focus on, being the mandatory enrollment deadline. Stuff reported over 200,000 people enrolled or updated their details in the final 12 days before the last election, who would miss out this time. Make sure all your friends & whanau are enrolled to vote: vote.nz

It’s crazy how it’s suddenly “wow we live in a police state” when it happens to white people

"Students and parents have certainly noticed the rot. Enrollments and retention rates are plunging, especially in public systems like the CSU. Students are reasoning, rightly, that it makes little sense to take on crushing debt for degrees that may soon be obsolete." #TeacherSky #HigherEdSky #Edusky

Saw the Libby AI statement (spoiler alert: it sucks) and so I'm back on my Incandescent With Rage Over AI Wagon (I've never been off it) and I just want to point out--what I thought--were some glaringly obvious things for these companies making these BS statements over their AI use. (1/9)