Decided to make this a proper linocut #art #furryart

A big problem with the way that we view inflation in society is that we have been taught quite aggressively to tie it in our minds to the hyperinflation experienced by a couple of collapsing historical economies which is kind of like tying the concept of waves to a tsunami.

I tell you what though, spending weeks in a small townish environment has reminded me that if I were in government I would invest so much money in libraries.

I think this is the first time in my life that I have experienced home sickness.

Very interesting to read these statistics and conclude that our millionaires are too poor (which is a thing but a much smaller thing than what this article implies) and not instead conclude that we have rampant terrifying levels of inequality

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Bit weird to hold the Declaration on Independence in high esteem but then shit on He Whakaputanga every day of your life.

Interesting reflection, I think when someone says the kind of shit this man said we should give members of the impacted community the opportunity for in person dialogue and that the person should have to undertake some labour to benefit that community. Consequences but not life ruining ones.

My math is bad and my assumptions are untested and there are incentives and costs I’m not taking into account some other incentives or rates but this would mean the residential landlord industry would have an effective tax rate (taking into account the accomm supplement) of around 13% which is wild.

It is worth noting that majority of rental households are supported by the accomodation supplement. A $2 billion annual government investment in rental accommodation market where investors walk away with $9 billion after they pay the mortgage.

I guess if you’re these people a national economic strategy might be less appealing but eventually if we don’t have a functional economy people will struggle to pay the rent even with Nationals proposed $100 million a year in landlord top ups.

Regardless of if you’re a socialist or a capitalist we should all be able to quite easily agree that we need a national economic strategy far more than we need a government fiscal strategy. A government fiscal strategy should be a component in an economic strategy which deals with these problems.

I think it is very very important for ombudsmen and for that matter diplomats to use words carefully and intentionally and it terrifies me that the Chief Ombudsman used the term torture.

At Auckland Libraries it’ll cost you $3 for a movie and $6 for a tv show which is very competitive with video ezy when inflation adjusted

It’s a bit unfair generally that people who are over 2m tall can play basketball with the rest of us but the tallest player in the WNBA is the same height as Lebron. That would be the main physical advantage he would maintain if he medically transitioned… although he’d probs end up a little shorter

The submission deadline has now passed, but if you want to make a change you stall can: at the polling booth. Remember this moment when you chose your MP and your party. Also: consider talking to younger ones in your life, see if they are enrolled to vote, offer to give them a ride on election day.

Someone should do a true crime style doc about all of the shit Elizabeth Rata has been up to.

How does Elizabeth Rata have the time to be involved in every single fucked up thing that a New Zealand academic could possibly be involved in. Interesting that she at least shows her distinctly and obviously paakehaa face these days.

Just ran into what I think is my first encounter with undisguised transphobia on Bluesky. Not a bad run, given how consistently awful things used to be on Twitter Looks like there is another anti-trans hate group in NZ I hadn't heard of, called "UoA SEEN" A list of bigots working for my old uni

One of my least favourite aspects of my concussion now that I’m through it is that I now have to relate to Adam Sandler’s character in the movie Click. One of the worst movies I have ever seen.

Our apartment has like 10,000 board games we do not have room for a blueray collection

You know while holding ministers and public servants accountable for excessive travel spending it’s important I do also think that often these numbers just illustrate that it’s way too expensive to travel domestically in AoNZ

If you’re a cis person and you give me a record of your submission against the Definitions of Man and Woman Bill you have my permission to DM me with any uncomfortable or weird questions you have about trans people and I promise that I won’t cancel you if you get then into me before 2nd reading.

I did once convince an actual NAZI to vote for TOP over the act party so you know… I do stand by all my many many many TOP criticisms and I don’t think anyone sane or good should vote for them but if anyone should it’s actually evil people.

Be cool if someone who had a better knowledge than me of how home electrics work could submit on solar options for renters though. May as well try to use this stupid thing for something useful.

I’m a Labour hater but this is a good reminder that that Labour has candidates who are principled democratic socialists and progressives as well other people involved in the party who are working hard to to do what they can to drag Labour back toward the left

Is Auntie Helen back with more ‘well we do need to do the good things, but not in any way that is effective or helpful’?

UBI trials prove two things essentially: 1) giving money to poor people and working class people helps them live better lives 2) Pushing risk free liquidity into a developing economy assists with economic development. None of them say much about a UBI. Except I guess what Iran did in 2010 but 😬

I don’t really like publicly identifying as a transsexual because it feels more personal and specific. Even though I’ve pretty much always been on the gender=sex train. To be transgender still feels more vague and also like accessible while identifying as transsexual feels like it summons a ‘how?’

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I liked these pickles when I was in America, I’m glad I can eat them still when I go back. Particularly enjoyed their pickled okra.

AI be like "I see you've searched for something, how would you like *waggles eyebrows* a ghoulish facsimile"

We are chronically unemployed, underemployed and underpaid which is fantastic for some people because pretty much all of us will at least consider sex work at some point and many of us will get stuck in really messed up relationships due to financial dependency. It’s what Epstien wanted.

Oh thank fuck finally I have hormones

I believe that an Aotearoa Hou is a framework where we can engage not only in the production of conditions from which justice, fairness and beauty can spring forward but where the movement is supported and reinforced by reproduction, where reproductive labour supports the world struggling to be born

I think the concept of an Aotearoa Hou is such a valuable contribution. A country that exists but which is not yet fully embodied. A country we can be proud of and which we can bring forward both in our grand political efforts and in our daily life interactions.

I see that Manchester has finally taken revenge for the Harrying of the North and has conquered London.

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I miss her fam

This should now be a central election issue. If National/Act are elected again then health and safety standards will be reduced and workers will die. A vote for National and Act is to put your loved ones at risk in their work places. Your spouse, your parent, your kid.

Please NZPost send my parcel to me this is pretty dismal

The fact that 95,000 of these things seem to have been eaten is more concerning than the 20,000 not at this point

I feel like CCP infiltration is probably a step up for Act in terms of candidates quality

I’m a critic of these mass submission campaigns generally but this one is one that really matters because it isn’t a government bill and because it’s a test for the appetite of people in this country for transphobia as a wedge issue.

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When the New Zealand government takes someone’s gun but your donors are American

I don’t think that trans people should engage with Will Stancil. That shit is bait. I don’t know or care why he is posting bait but I don’t think that he matters. The whole community would do better to stop using this site to pile on these people, not for their sakes but because it’s toxic for you

I would be ever grateful if you could all sign this petition for me. If they could get this through into law it would be life changing for me. #Kikorangi petitions.parliament.nz/0e32836b-625...

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But our government wants us to pay more money to buy international tech services and also seems uninterested in even taxing that revenue. Anyway I’m sure it’s fine if the super rich keep getting richer and selling there immense stockpiles of NZ dollars for luxury goods and services.