The utter losing bastards! www.nzherald.co.nz/world/russia...

Listening to Chris Bishop, it's obvious their new policies are about a transfer of wealth from public hands to private landlords. Bishop was key driver in giving $3b of tax cuts to landlords but this is bigger - it's about privatisation as Bishop stops & sells state land/houses

Wow so the Democrats report highlighted that they lost because they didn't attack Trump enough for being a weird loser and that being silent on trans issues when they were attacked in it also didn't work. Hope NZ Labour are listening.

do not fall for this attempt to socially engineer Your Horrible Racist Uncle back into polite society!

Great chats on this week’s ‘Hoon’ with Peter Bale, Cathrine Dyer PhD, Robert Patman Jonathan Lyons and Tex Edwards from Monopoly Watch NZ (MWNZ) on Government spending & job cuts; Iran vs the rest; Limitarianism; and bank competition in NZ. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

This is how the Amazon-X War began.

Whatever your thoughts about The Boys' finale, it made Elon Musk mad, which the show's creator and cast think is hilarious.

Preview of upcoming Pokémon Center plushies for Mega Raichu X and Mega Raichu Y! ⚡

shrek would do fine in the warhammer 40k universe

It's wrong for Simeon Brown to make decisions on puberty blockers. He's clearly never experienced puberty, so how can he decide whether trans or cis kids can access medication.

✍️: @babsdraws.bsky.social, Miquel Muerto, & Xanthe Bouma (Sirens: Love Hurts #4)

David is doing great work. Well worth subscribing to.

Thanks to Nicola Willis and Brian Roche, I now get that I’m just human capital

“I sound so old,” said the 34-year-old man

“Ten years of support for a game like Destiny 2 feels like a miracle. That Bungie gets to wind down support for this game instead of having it abruptly pulled feels like a blessing to me, as a player. I’m glad Bungie got to complete that story and the game isn’t going to leave it on a cliffhanger.”

Last week, this chap came calling for Zongoloni. He was one of four enormous bulls that came courting. Mercurial as ever, she acted all aloof. Do you think she'll come around? We'll be reporting back in our Keepers' Diaries: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/keepers-diar...

square enix has had this policy for over a year

The Woz is certainly one of the best old white nerds

Just a quick FYI - I know that cycleway construction is often a by-product of a larger infrastructure project, I know that cycleways benefit everyone including those who don't use them, and I thought that was implicit in my posts...but obviously not

i have many justifications for hating AI but ultimately don't think i need any besides "they stole the book it was my life's dream to write without compensation, and did not get punished." their hands are literally in my pocket and they can fuck off

new vid! how far can we push pinball until it's no longer pinball? there's only one way to find out... youtu.be/VOUY40UtE6g

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 ...

"In many of the cases, the chatbots returned biased or inaccurate information with a confidence that was even more misleading, the study found." Normal and cool 👍 www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/c...

Construction sites are some of the most diverse workplaces with some of the most interesting people with all kinds of backgrounds and languages and yet construction management is dominated by assholes like this who can't even get down with basic respect for people who have been here for centuries

Seymour is going to cause unnecessary deaths for the sake of his personal ideology.

It’s bad to be in social housing cause you are poor but completely fine to charge the taxpayer $52,000 to rent the house you already own. National party MPs are disgusting people and people who vote for them are disgusting too.

Since the govt has rooted the economy and house prices are stagnant, more overt forms of subsidising the rentier class have to be taken.

Nvidia stocks not rallying after they announced record performance above estimates and intentions to continue to grow their existing business and expand the product they’re offering datacentres to include 10% of global CPU production

We saw it with the Treaty Principles Bill, where we were constantly told it wasn't actually going to pass but let's have the public service work it up anyway Of course the public service needs culling back when you get them to waste all their time on culture wars dressed up as legislative priority

As a former public servant, there's something particularly despicable about the precedent set this term to jumping through the legislative hoops only to say "of course we were never going to make it actually law, we just wanted to punch down on communities through public discourse"

Louise Upston pushing down hard on state housing while claiming $1000/week to stay in her own apartment: #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

I have a theory. Ruth Richardson went down in history for Ruthanasia, the budget that scoured out NZ and created a permanent underclass while setting the stage for massive transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich. So Nichola need significant evil for RW street cred. #nzpol

Mark Knoff-Thomas (CEO Newmarket Business Assoc.) on Breakfast saying the grass isn't greener in Aus, "it's singed". He felt for the first time that "it's really expensive" and people were talking about moving to HK, Singapore, even Auckland because "it's the tax, 47% top tax bracket". #NZPol

Upston claims $1k a week in parliamentary accommodation allowance – $52k a year on top of her $320k salary – while jointly owning a Wellington apartment with no recorded mortgage debt. She declined to answer whether she would meet the 40% threshold she is seeking to enforce for other NZers. #nzpol

Every day, my rage at this government gets larger. November can't come soon enough. #nzpol

Its like a lotto ticket in a container, if a lotto ticket was inedible slops #nzpol businessdesk.co.nz/article/poli...

That thing where underneath the monster disguise is another terrible policy #NZpol

Still not quit #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2023/09/15/n...

Received another Fuel surcharge Levy letter from a supplier. It is what it is. But boy oh boy I continually think of all that GST on the fuel at the moment. Isn't it like 50% Luxon, Willis and Co you are still a pack of arseholes. Now wheres my voodoo dolls #nzpol

PAUL GOLDSMITH IS RACIST AF WRIT LARGE. [FOR THOSE AT THE BACK] #nzpol

Watching everyone getting on the bus is quite sad. Yep the government has sucked the life out of wellington and it shows in the wonderful peoples faces that work day and night in this beautiful city Luxon, Willis and all those within the National Party, you are a pack of arseholes #nzpol

Does he mean 'fairer' as in catering more to people with fair/white skin? #nzpol

Notice how any time National talks about “targeted support” it really looks like “reduced support” with a more neutral name. #nzpol

These evil bastards. Robbing from the poor to give to the rich, again. They’ve built barely more than 200 social homes, told councils it’s not a core function to provide housing… it forces people into private rentals. Now this. They have to go in November. #nzpol #ditchthepricksin26

"I can't think of another scenario where we say ... here's a group who are really doing it tough, so let's make the 'kind of okay' people suffer more." - Upper Hutt financial mentor. ('Critic', RNZ?) #NzPol

Oh, she will. #nzpol

Finance Minister Nicola Willis and one of her plans for saving her Budget. My #cartoon today #NZpol #PublicService