Technically, they’re Remains now.

One of today's political prisoners. Cartoonist & zine maker Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada wasn't even at the ICE protest. He was accused of "moving" a box of anti-Trump zines THE NEXT DAY. A rightwing judge sentenced him to 30 years! Just for possessing zines. The darkness is descending.

Today this was installed at Sandymount, Otago Peninsula. Love you, dearest bro. #TheChills

Add a word, ruin a musician Johnny Cash Patel

A stunning photo of the crescent Moon. And above it, a point of light. The only other large rocky world we will ever visit: Venus. Image credit and copyright: Debra Ceravolo

Oh FFS A24 is one of the few studios left that makes genuinely exciting and interesting films, it does not need to use AI

Just watched this interview with Chloe Swarbrick. She is just so impressive. Do yourself a favour and watch it if you need a shot of hope #nzpol

"Decades of economic research show that billionaire “flight” is rare, exaggerated, and often confused with tax avoidance through accounting maneuvers rather than physical relocation. Policymakers who mistake avoidance for exit risk misdesign taxes and leave substantial revenue on the table."

@stuff.co.nz doing the usual and closing the comments section as soon as it starts to critique the government 21 comments and they hit the switch #nzpol

This one had over 230 comments, majority in favour of the Green Party tax policy, section has been removed entirely

✅ BURNHAM IN Makerfield by-election result: LAB: 54.8% (+9.6) REF: 34.5% (+2.7) RST: 6.8% (+6.8) CON: 2.2% (-8.7) GRN: 0.7% (-3.7) LDEM: 0.4% (-6.4)

Today's Yeo in the ODT

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Genius

And if you like this Green shift, let's keep it going!! 💚💚💚 Price match on donations now so your donation does twice the work, for more info look at this post: bsky.app/profile/getc...

Gordon Campbell wrote a brilliant piece on the media's enduring self-sabotage. "For the past 60 years at least, the accepted wisdom in media circles – which dictates so much of the selected content and tone of media discourse – has been flatly and consistently wrong..."

“Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries.” | Current Affairs www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...

Any left-of-centre government that wants to be serious about strengthening democracy needs to have a plan to move urgently on overhauling (democratising) media ownership and regulation of quality standards. This and the shutdown of the BSA should make it glaringly obvious. #nzpol

You can expect further attacks on RNZ and TVNZ, both directly and via sympathetic coverage of attacks from hard right politicians.

Wow, if I had known Hooten was eligible I would have applied to be Post editor as a sitting MP.

It's the men’s football World Cup 2026, not the football World Cup 2026

I have been working on societal impacts of language technology since late 2016, and my nightmare example since pretty early on has been using automatic transcription in emergency services systems. And today I learn it's happening *in my own city* www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Short 🧵>>

Beam Pipe xkcd.com/3257/

I love NY ♥️ I love Times Square ♥️

Whale necropolis discovered: • 745 miles long • Dates back 5.3 million years • Teeming with life that “may be new to science”

A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This brings "AI" slop in line with all other products: "AI" is basically the only product where a provider can deliver unchecked garbage and put all liability on the consumer.

Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

If this isn't a red line for FIFA I don't know what is. An absolute disgrace.

SMRs don't exist. We just went through this in Oz - see link in my pinned post. A fossil fuel-mining funded #AtlasNetwork disinfo operation to distract from far superior, non-polluting & far cheaper ACTUALLY EXISTING solar/wind/battery/EV solutions that will end oil, gas, coal nukes forever.

AI is a con you fucking morons

We now know that within the Prime Ministers Office there was a political lobbying pathway operating via the PM's Chief Policy Advisor's private email. Fonterra says it was told to send the lobbying docs via this pathway. It may still be operating via other staffers private email addresses.

The FSU's vision of free speech is that free speech *prevents* a gay man from speaking out against anti queer bigotry. This is 'insitutional neutrality' operating as its architects intend.

This week’s #budget has been framed around ‘securing New Zealand’s future’. But there is little investment in our people of the future. The promises of longer-term growth fall flat for under 30s. As I say, we’re being robbed of our future. #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/alex-mart...

'"People died in Australia because of automated systems that ruined people's lives and made mistakes, put people into debt," [Greens MP Ricardo] Menéndez March said. It was "extremely concerning" that the bill was being passed without consultation or scrutiny, he said.' #NzPol

'Heavenly Pop Hit' - The Chills www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd0Y...

Arts, Culture and Heritage must save $36.4m over the next 4 years. HOW? How can we save any more in an industry that is already bled dry, with artists themselves providing the biggest subsidies so that kiwis can experience our own stories, participate in the arts and make great new works?

“About 400 University of Otago students marched from Campus to the Octagon this morning, to protest against the government’s moves in the Budget along with the ‘‘neoliberal’’ management of universities in general.”

BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”

It’s useful to remember that the cognitive tests he’s taking are aimed at detecting illness the way an STI test might look for venereal disease.

CHIEF. POLICY. ADVISOR.

So, the Atlas Network affiliated NZ Initiative had their person on the inside, providing the conduit from NZ Initiative member companies to the Prime Minister. #revolvingdoors #lobbying #nzpol

"The Ombudsman confirmed to RNZ it had received the complaint, & an investigation was underway. "An investigator has been assigned to the case, and an investigation is now underway. "The Ombudsman is required by law to conduct his enquiries in private, so we can't make any further comment..." #nzpol

Bong Joon Ho on AI 👀 deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Wrote a Listener column about the coalition's reckless, arrogant decision to scrap the Broadcasting Standards Authority without bothering to engage the people it's there for: the public. Fuck-knuckles indeed. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

We don’t understand this technology, we can’t cite meaningful use cases and we’re basically saying “AI” as a magic placeholder. But it’s okay, because we’re not going to spend any time thinking about it. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/22/a...

Our bestsellers this week! Find out more here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/ou... We are open today from 10am to 6.30pm. The bookshop is nice and cool, perfect day for a bit of browsing!

I’m sure I must be remembering, but I think in olden times it was considered a sackable offence to have meetings with lobbyists that weren’t in a Minister’s diary.

Nice radio gig you've got here. Shame if something were to happen to it under the new board my ministers are about to appoint www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

All of this is totally fine and normal in a transparent and functioning democracy right? Asking for a friend