Iconic, for practically every member of the 5 eyes for a start Every "great idea"™️ crashing and burning

Timeline cleanse

From today's SMH home page. Aussie is having a serious cognitive dissonance moment

The government yesterday passed a law that basically makes it possible for every NZ employee to be reclassified as a specified contractor, so they don’t get minimum wage, holidays, rights to fairness etc. Not only Uber Drivers. NZ First supported btw.

Once again I must ask: what the fuck is this shit?

I love that Kieran got ejected for demanding an apology for quite racist comment. If you gotta go, that is what you can proudly stand beside

This is completely uncontroversial as long as you have the right frame IF you were creating a globalised, fascist, dictatorship, dedicated to absolute control over your own population and the undermining and destruction of agency among other nations, it would make perfect sense Ergo...

The fact that this is almost exactly accurate is so fucking infuriating.

My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.

Aus: By the end of 2025, 12.18 GW of renewable generation was either being built, or had reached financial commitment.. For batteries, that rises to a whopping 13 GW and 34.7 GWh NZ: The Nangs Government huffs on, "MORE GAS!!!"

Sometimes you see ripples in a pond that tell the tale of something unseen having happened and what is unseen here is some polling that said 'eat shit'

#nzpol If you don't already follow Lucy Hamilton as she tracks the pernicious infection of the Aussie Political and Economic landscape by the Atlas Network, do it today Looking forward to someone with the time and stomach also cross-referencing them with the Epstein Files

Record heat again in INDONESIA Minimum of 27.0C at Manokwari ,West Papua Hottest February night in history. Indonesia has been breaking records for over 1000 consecutive days,every single day,now concentrated in the Eastern Provinces (West Papua,Sulawesi,Molukkas).

Peters is increasingly a cramped desiccated, nasty, vicious, suppurating boil on the arsehole of the government But that his party of similar minded camp followers may have reached double figures is a fucking indictment on our polity

"The Reserve Bank's chief economist, Paul Conway, said urged households to stop being so cautious" Man on HOW much per annum says "the economy" needs people who can't afford shoes for the kids to behave recklessly Yeah Right WHEN we have UBI and Living Wage laws, THEN Till then Fuck off

There's a lot of rightful & righteous anger about the revelations of child abuse in the Epstein files, no argument. Now, talk to me about this, "24 tamariki had been killed by someone who was supposed to be caring for them, since Malachi's death" 24 Since 2021 Since 2021 Show me where the hope is

If the Labour Party can't commit to repealing these anti-workers rights reforms it should change its name.

No one is saying you have to think AOC would be a good presidential candidate or, worse still, that she's the exact same kind of leftist as you but the tone of coverage is really laying bare how much of the media is run by men who hate younger women they perceive as having notions of themselves

NEW: The Infra Commission just released its official plan, and it's a massive challenge to the Govt and NZ to: - Trim transport spending - Double spending on renewal/maintenance - Spend twice as much on hospitals

Got myself a Pillowfort account for musings Just in case you have a mo

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It's quite something that if you come out with the phrase "He is a bubbling cauldron of loathsome traits" most of the planet know who you're talking about.

They’ve overturned Roe. They’ve criminalized pregnancy in some states. Arrested women for miscarrying. They’re making it harder for women to vote. They shout “repeal the 19th!” The punishment for abortion is greater than the punishment for rape. It’s a war on women.

pretty wild how quickly we've moved from the individualised 'structural' response of "just recycle" to "its your responsibility to have a go bag" political leadership has UTTERLY failed humanity, and we're seeing it happen in NZ at this very moment www.rnz.co.nz/life/relatio...

China - installs 5GW renewable every week UK - cues up 1.3GW new wind before 2029 Ukraine - installs 1.3GW solar in a year during war New Zealand - Installs 45% profit margins for gas addicted cash cow gentailers #nzpol

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Why does he lie about EVERYTHING

The Epstein Class is really taking off the veils now Just sign here and shutup, you don't need to know what the consequences are until it's too late

The snake eating its own tail effect of AI agents isn’t so much a problem of training data model collapse as the collapse of the social epistemic foundations by which human sense-making can be carried out at all—and which AI agents *also* rely on for whatever facsimile of sense-making they conduct.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This one has more than a whiff of SovCit about her, with spurious references to legislation, irrelevant documentation and citation, and "theories" about places far away, couched in "academic" postulations supposed to lay a veneer over her implicit racism The cookers are everywhere

This is a critical part of what getting it looks like for a genuine public <checks notes> SERVANT

Self dealing Over-priced Luxurious Expensive Pointless And Against Ministerial advice So of friggin COURSE they did it

Not just shitposting apparently I'd love to hear the conversations inside the Pentagon

Masterful understatement from Waikato man. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Build it Lean intro collaboration Have stroppy users who call out administrative futzing Block enthusiastically and they will come

Very slow immolation under way Maybe Europe didn’t lose the game. Maybe it optimized for: Collective health Social stability Leisure Environmental restraint Institutional trust Instead of maximum quarterly acceleration One caveat Europe is not yet symbiotic with nature.

The graphic pretty much sums it up Now, noses back to the grindstone, there are assholes to sew up

Opus Bannoni eh? No wonder the fascists want to buy up CNN (which is hardly the shining light of information practice) and do a CBS on it Even so, a few more acts of journalism are floating to the surface Change may be a foot, preferably in the right's arses

Breakfast muffin-making day We use our own dried fruit Linda is on a dried persimmon jag We take a few strips straight up OMG NomNomNomNomNomNomNomNomNomNomNom

Someone ask Stanford/Seymour when they will do this in Aotearoa "Professor Donna Cross found “zero tolerance” policies ... to be ineffective and potentially harmful. ..students who reported being bullied in the year before NAPLAN lost up to eight months of learning in literacy and numeracy" 🤯

"Finland is struggling to meet it's targets" That's what it takes Struggle But unless you "try", there is no struggle My govt has decided not to try It has chosen to accelerate the damage AND chosen to ignore the damage as well Oh, and Finland needs to cut it's logging Hmm, no "shame" emoji for us

No, the wealthy have not baled from NY, nor from Maine, and neither have they deserted Seattle "Experts" estimated maybe $50m, as high as $65m, but, clearly showing how little we know about how MUCH the wealthy are sucking from the system, $115m turned out to be a nice surprise

Can I draw your attention to the fact that he apparently objects violently, to the addition of DC & Puerto Rico as states "with all the baggage thereto" while blithely asserting that adding Canada & Greenland will be a piece of piss The brakes on the crazy are gone, we are in the hands of a mad man

A sitting member of Congress just publicly said: “I am not suicidal.” That alone tells you how far this country has fallen. The fact that Thomas Massie felt compelled to say this is not drama—it’s a WARNING. This is not normal. This is not healthy. This is not how a functioning democracy behaves.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

The levees in the zeitgeist are starting to leak

Hi attorneys! Want to not be able to get to sleep tonight? Here's Judge Rakoff (probably the single most well-respected judge in SDNY) saying that the use of AI destroys both attorney-client privilege and work-product privilege.

BIG thread

Suddenly we seem to have passed through a climate gateway, people are paying WAY more public attention to actual preparedness and planning for actual events with high probabilities "Key roads" eh? Pity they aren't ROADS OF NATIONAL PARTY SIGNIFICANCE!!!