This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

Yup. Also no mention of ProdComm 2022 report "Immigration - Fit for the Future". I can guarantee that that did have (some) Asian input, and also (some) Tangata Whenua input. Perhaps that's why it remains sitting on a shelf somewhere🤔. Sigh☹️💔😢.

If NZ First can learn from Northern Hemisphere counterparts to carry on their decades-long grift for electoral success, the least our media could do is learn how not play into the grifters’ hands like their Northern Hemisphere counterparts

If you're being told by a blowhard that immigrants are coming to destroy your culture, nothing says 'the NZ media is out of its depth' when it just goes to demographers to ask 'are immigrants going to destroy our culture?' and not to anti-extremism researchers.

New Zealand how did we get to the point where the media discourse is dominated by non-Asian people discussing with each other how racist you are allowed to be about Asians.

In this incredibly long media roundup of 'immigration' views about Asian migrants, not a single Asian migrant opinion cited, man I thought we did all this work already in the 2000s i'm tired

20 years later, Councillor Goldsmith (now Minister) finally got his wish, he gets to see homeless people arrested. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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I'm sorry but it's absolutely wild to get to 2026 after a whole decade of this, being roared along by the press, and suddenly discover that it was a bad idea.

Once upon a time, in a city different from this one but in the same place, a woman's friend took her photo just after a massive fucking earthquake. It's now a 15 year art project. (This is the first time I haven't been able to fit the skirt but, you know, I'm in my 50s now)

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

I have a cut/graze right on the chopstick-leaning part of my finger, seems racist

We gotta study the Disgrasian trajectory, like, someone needs to do a full longitudinal cohort study in the context of the global far-right shift, whose PhD is this

Some nourishing information: A friend who took her teens to the Rainbow Parade yesterday said she saw Chris Bishop looking miserable, and getting booed and heckled by the crowd for just, like, existing. Last night I also walked passed Nicola Willis as I left a hotel, and she also looked miserable.

Shortly after my friend took this Jarvis pic I was grabbed by the neck & arm & thrown to the floor by a munted angry bullet-headed guy annoyed that I'd bumped into him, then he tried to do the same to my friend but I somehow couldn't take it seriously cos he was wearing a Belle & Sebastian tshirt?

I do not swear (at least not in public), but $%#@*. This defies all the values that NZers used to hold dear. 😢😭💔 Know the bar isn't that high, but this ranks as one of most heartless & gutless of recent policy moves. ☹️😠😡. BTW it makes little economic sense either. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

There is something to be said for how the absence of mainstream pro-Palestine voices in US politics has allowed antisemitic cranks like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens to claim the issue. But the solution to that is to elevate better voices, not start praising neo-fascists for being anti-Israel.

rice discourse bluesky is best bluesky

My rice discourse contribution: I spotted a sale on Zojirushi rice cookers in Singapore and asked my aunty to get one for me as a belated wedding present, but she made the executive Boomer decision instore to get a Tiger one instead, what could I say. Heartbroken & the cooker also broke 2yrs in

europe loves an environmentalist feminist political group called Génération Filles backed by Situationalist auteur Jacques-Henri Molesteur and animal rights activist Edith Petain and then it turns out they are Nazis

Aaaah going to Pulp, and accidentally dressed as Jarvis Cocker

Update @taramcallister.bsky.social : 1/2 tsp yeast and a few stretch & folds with wet hands in the first hour or two yielded a nice bulk rise overnight. I bundled it shokupan style for the tin-rise, for more evenness in height. Might go into regular circulation for packed lunch sandwiches.

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

The three journalists who helped ruin Ava Cordero's life when she tried to stop Epstein in 2006 *currently* work at NBC News, New York Magazine, and News Corp Australia. The one at NBC News is covering... Epstein.

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

"Would it not be wondrous for this whole nation to be destroyed like a beautiful flower?" - Tariff Otaku

Came out of the fugue state enough to write about it. What a fucked up time in the movie theatre that was. LOVED IT. the-opinionist.ghost.io/marama-the-h...

If you are wondering why the right wing keeps polling at the levels they do, it’s because people like the white supremacy.

'Fitzsimons said Peters had "all the time in the world" between the PSA's first meeting with New Zealand First and the passing of the Bill this week. "It's as simple as this - the party lacked the guts to stand up to the ACT party despite expressing concerns in speeches about the Bill."' #NzPol

I can't speak to the industrial scammer, but I have worked on cases with.. artisinal scammers, and it made me think about their trade a bit differently. Specifically, I worked on two cases involving scammers pretending to be hackers for hire...

Where is a news story that clearly points out that Winston again indicated that immigrant MPs don't have the same rights in parliament as NZ-born MPs, except the guy he was targeting was NZ born and also indigenous.

If there is a special club for MPs that Winston Peters has been openly racist about in Parliament with no consequences for him, it is mainly my favourite Green MPs and I wanna hang out there

the GenX urge to hate everything Gwen Stefani has ever done

5 years ago on the 19th of February, Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing died after being shot in the head by Junta security forces in Myanmar at a peaceful protest. She was the 1st of many whose lives have been taken since coup.

The central premise of my master’s dissertation was that tech law and policy are currently driven by not one but two apocalyptic eschatologies - this, and Christian Nationalism - both of which want to destroy everything that exists to bring on their respective Raptures. We are all in their way.

The government is changing the law so they can penalise people on ACC and keep them in debt to Work and Income ~ lawfully. It’s a cruel approach that punches down on some of our most vulnerable citizens. Submissions on the Bill close midnight tonight. More info: open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

1/4 In September last year we sought a meeting with Winston Peters and New Zealand First to talk about the Employment Relations Amendment Bill and what could be done to protect workers in New Zealand. We met with them in October and again shortly before the Bill was passed. #nzpol

The FSU in here promoting forced speech on their preferred platform and also making a basic legal error in doing so tells you all you need to know about the sincerity and quality of their free speech advocacy.

democratic institutions can't survive on the social media equivalent of billionaire pedo island

Good news coming out of the NZ parliament, finally leaving X.

What is going awwwn what is happening

The GenX urge to break my rusty cage and run

So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas. Again, coming so to a "university" near you, in another state controlled by the far right authoritarian party.

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

Although there's a high risk that the next friendly president just pardons him (as OP mentions further down) I like that the judge has implied that 'the guy in charge of the next well-planned insurrection that ends up in loss of life, is gonna dance on a rope'. I look around & you know some days...

Because I genuinely didn't know who Janan Ganesh was or why someone would be surprised he might write something facile about 'commentators' that shows no understanding of historical fascism, I looked it up and he is a professor of comparative regi- no sorry, he's a 'commentator'.

Better than a kick in the pants, for sure

Yoon Suk-yeol has been sentenced to life imprisonment.