Well Kimmel's indefinite suspension didn't last long

We are not gonna improve our society by throwing Māori and Pasifika under the bus and it’s not because colonialism came home to roost. You abused people for generations and now they are more sick. It’s bloody maths. Actions have consequences sorry your parents didn’t reach you that.

On RNZ, about 40 minutes ago - www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... Not the top headline, but placed amongst the top 5-6.

All the positive and warm vibes to the 5500 doctors on the picket lines this morning getting wet as. Please do NOT let them all get sick. That would really be injury on insult. #nzpol

This may be the year where I'm on board with rapturing all the people who truly believe in the Rapture. Just suck up into space and off the planet and leave the rest of us to get on with it. This feels like an increasingly good idea. Off you toddle.

I think is the mostly likely reason why we are all completely fskd

As always, a brief respite for all of this

And here we are. DrC going to the lines later this morning. This isn't on the front page of Stuff or RNZ or the NZ Herald. You wouldn't even know it was happening if you didn't have a doctor in the family, an appointment today, or Toast in your skyline. F* these people. All of them.

😂 #NZLabour #nzpol

Rather than pretend $20m is going to make any difference (it represents 0.06% of health funding), the Minister could recognise the government underfunded health to begin with. He could pay nurses and doctors properly - rather than fight them.

Pay your medical people, NZ, and they will take care of you in the most literal sense of the phrase possible.

NZ friends, there will be a doctor strike tomorrow and Wednesday unless a miracle happens today (narrator: there will be no miracle because this govt is incompetent). This is a union action. Do not assume because 'doctors are rich' that this doesn't bite or it 'isn't a real labour action'.

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

Well, you can appreciate the form at least:

My most dual citizen take on this is Yeah nah

The hard truth that we have to fix this ourselves, that it's a collective effort and it'll take many approaches and sacrifices to build a better world, isn't attractive. It doesn't cause an adrenaline rush or make for a good YouTube video.

Last one. I promise. I've got Sunday to have. Mildly amused by this "U.S. population growth is now almost entirely driven by immigration, as births alone are no longer enough to offset the nation’s below-replacement fertility rate." www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-sink...

Yes, I'm angry that Meta is using pictures of teenage girls to target men in advertising. I'm wondering if the news services are using the same picture or if they just got ANOTHER picture of teenage girl legs in school uniforms and if so in what way is that morally better.

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

If there were a Tax the Rich party in NZ, would you vote for them?

If you cancelled your Disney account and would also like to have all of your personal information deleted, complete this webform: privacyportal-de.onetrust.com/webform/64f0... #kdrama @drmicrochem.bsky.social Hulu has a separate from that is linked below 👇

Disney I think forgot how many people live outside the US with subscriptions who also have access to news that isn't being suppressed by the US govt and Sinclair. Oops. You are a global company. First rule of a global company is not to do stupid shit that will make your intl customers drop you.

There will be no way to recover from where Ezra Klein and his ilk are going, I'm afraid. Apologists never fair well. The side that they want to appease never embraces them; the side they are abandoning understands that they are putting an intellectual veneer on being a quisling.

I have a bunch of broken LEGO from a move a while back and I got a wild hair yesterday and cannibalized them to make myself some flowers I ran out of the white decorative pebbles 🤣 I’m not happy with the blue gravel in the last one so I will prob just do them all white? Input? 🙌 Fun! Do recommend

And his legacy, such as it is, is a lot of people degrading free speech in the US by making talking negatively about him actionable by both the state and employers. If there's an anti-hero for free speech, this would be the top candidate.

Here is more evidence that a Universal Basic Income tends to *increase* rates of employment. TOP will bring a UBI to Aotearoa because #KiwisDeserveBetter #NZpol www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12...

"known to be [Kirk's] favourite drink order" Who knows this shit unless except a complete sasaeng? Waltz is forever correct on this. These people are weird. Dangerously weird.

These people are genuinely mad. This quote. It's like there haven't been dozens of school shootings this year alone. What sort of head up your ass thinking do you have to have to say this. www.al.com/educationlab...

Sunrise, Saturday, 20 September, from Makorori Headlands, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

Dutch late night TV has its take

get yourself a congressional candidate who can kill charybdis *and* prioritize direct action

Takahē is in the top ten mix! Vote vote vote and let's finally get the roundest borb onto the winner's podium as Bird of the Year: www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

This is me right now... listen to this and then read the translation: Get Your Shit DONE And <deep breath> |Vote For Me Now Now Now #BOTY Team Takahē

These XP Timed research tasks are infinite. No way anyone gets all 7M points. #pokemongo

We'll see how much I get into this versus just gradually reposting all of them from the old timeline. But got motivated this morning to take @wheresnz.bsky.social out of the cupboard, dust it off, and get it going again. If you like maps, making fun of maps, and weird NZ facts, this is for you.

Now that Terrible Maps is here, is it time for me to light up wheresnz?

No one person can occupy every lane at all times, at least not in the ways that matter. So find and fill yours.

I wondered why I was feeling guilty about not being super responsive to some causes. Intellectually, I had the desire but motivationally not the energy. And that's because life is a lot. I think this outstanding advice. Pick one to throw yourself on to and that's it. Let someone else pick another.

All right, it's Axios, so take this story with a boulder of salt ... But if there actually are some House Democrats worried about this non-issue, I hope they remember that centrist pundits will never vote for them but the folks Charlie Kirk spent his whole career marginalizing and demonizing might.

Pre-sunrise, Thursday, 18 September, from Okitu beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

Which reminds me of this

Copilot is TRYING to piss me off this morning. What are you saying, you tin plated monster? Hmm?

Stick to whale riding? asshole racist says what?

#1 better be comparing us to 'normal people' like we are mutants

This is such a good way of putting it.

Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.

#nzpol What the poster says.