Youse need to understand that KiwiSaver is a tax which does two things. 1) Funds retirements in a way that perpetuates and amplifies inequality. 2) Creates a well of capital which bolsters and stabilises the stock market for rich people.

No idea what to do for swp today tbh Everything is sore :c

National reduced govt Kiwisaver contributions in half & created a loophole for employers to not pay their part Hardship withdrawals have also doubled while they changed the rules to allow farmers to use Kiwisaver to buy homes Luxon now campaigns on a mandatory Kiwisaver policy

It's time for the super-rich and big corporations to pay their fair share. Visit greens.org.nz to learn how "A Tax System for All of Us" can build a fairer country for everyone 💚✊

LOVE this name-drop

Feeling kinda deflated tbh

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In today’s HeraldOnSunday

😎 catfishing.net #727 - 9/10 🎉 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐟 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

My hot take is rather than get the foreign office, Starmer should be put on trial for war crimes for facilitating Israel’s genocide in Gaza. But then I’m just a craaaazy guy.

DON'T SHARE THIS, IT'S AI FABRICATED It's fake - the media outlet almost certainly used generative AI to write this and it pulled from a "parody" acct (www.instagram.com/p/DZu8trmR89Y/) The more you share this, the more you help the pro-AI bros say this is all fake www.youtube.com/live/ho_Zmwg...

Twenty years today since my Poppa died of cancer. I was fourteen. I miss you, and I hope that you'd be proud of who I've become. Thank you for always encouraging me to wonder, for indulging and rewarding my curiosity, for loving us unconditionally & embracing us as your own. 💜

hey y'all happy Juneteenth, if you'd like to support a Black queer person in need this month I'm collecting funds for a friend who is fighting homelessness right now. Just $20 from a few people will help immensely. They don't want their info shared, so please DM me for more details, and thank you!

Reminder that the rally has been moved to tomorrow: Sunday 21 June! Jas is out there doing the good work, updating posters 🙏

My bad, if I ever accidentally share misinfo like that again please tell me 🙏🏼 Regardless, claims of impending AGI/Superintelligence & the TESCREAL bundle of ideologies that encourage them are a problem. With Moore's law & Recursive Self Improvement as good as dead, the singularity is not imminent.

I hate this guy but you can't just make up things he said even if you're pretty sure he says shit like it

I suck so bad at taking selfies when tired 😭 Helped out a little with community wetland planting. Google fit is full of shit with that heart points number, I suppose tree planting is not quite the same as gardening though. ✌🏻🍃 Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 19/30 [1/2]

🚨 HAMILTON’S FRONTLINE COLLAPSE: A City Left Unprotected This map shows the terrifying reality on the ground in Hamilton today. This is a rapid, systemic collapse of fire and emergency coverage across NZ's fastest-growing city.

i think if you dress like this, you deserve to do a little corruption

CAN'T STOP. WON'T STOP. DON'T LIKE IT? CALL THE COPS. SMUT PEDDLER IS BACK. Follow the preview page. www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

We're proud to endorse @greenpeacenz.bsky.social and Anti-War Aotearoa's March For Peace on Saturday 20th June from 12PM at Aotea Square that's calling on the Government to delink from American capitalist imperialism and adopt a Te-Tiriti grounded independent foreign policy. marchforpeace.nz

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Handed in my last assignment for the semester today - I'm free! (for, like, 3 weeks anyway)

The GPU is not your enemy. The GPU was intended to channel magic smoke into the drawing of triangles, the virtuous shape. Evil men devised wicked shapes that should never have been drawn, and have used their influence to hoard the GPUs and twist the magic smoke toward the shape of their perversions.

The bit where my phone fell out of my pocket and I didn't notice until at the bottom of the hill where my headphones cut out was sadly not counted. 😔 Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 18/30 📍 Till’s Lookout/Taitua Arboretum 👟 5.53km ⏳ 66min, T: 1276/1800 💰 $800/1050 [1/2]

Please note the change to the event date in Ōtepoti, due to inclement weather

From the level of superstition that the Destiny Church/NZ First crowd show towards flags, you'd almost think they were magical or something. It's just a piece of cloth, bro.

We need to bully them harder.

*average sized cylinder

I did alright on this one! Best score for me so far. catfishing.net #725 - 6/10 🐈🐈🐟🐈🐟 🐈🐈🐈🐟🐟

InternetNZ: the Free Speech Union and Hobson’s Pledge are once again attempting to take over. They will be running candidates in the election and bringing motions forward to remove Māori representation from InternetNZ's constitution. Join or renew to vote - AGM August. #nzpol

Regular reminder that you don't have to donate financially, your mahi can help too The ground campaign is vital this year✊🏻

Ancient nzpol grudge incoming: maybe Lianne Dalziel isn't the right person to grandstand about the safety of children, given how she had to resign as Minister for Immigration in 2004 after leaking to the media to discredit a 16yo abuse survivor she was deporting web.archive.org/web/20130426...

People keep comparing this stuff to being carded but the guy that glances at your ID before you walk into the club doesn't keep a permanent record of your card, time of entry, and everything you do and say while inside, that is then passed over to the government and a billion data brokers

Uh. Peter Thiels goons are now directly. I mean DIRECTLY interfering with nz politics by putting their own people in to it. #nzpol @kyledchurch.bsky.social

Sweater (with pride) arrived, so ofc I went walking in it. Thanks Kylie for your donation! Only $250 away from my goal!! Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 17/30 📍 Waiwhakareke Natural Heritage Park 👟 5.54km ⏳ 60min, T: 1210/1800 💰 $800/1050 [1/2]

crueler heads prevail

If the Knicks can win a championship, maybe NZ *can* finally form a government without Winston Peters.

The cruelty is the point

still beyond me why no opposition party has run funding FENZ and emergency response services a BACKBONE policy I just can't see it losing votes in any environment, let alone one where funding for critical services has been stripped to such a destructive degree

25,000 signatures, from cis women!!! The Family First petition was 23,000 signatures, hosted on their own website, and likely signed by children in church as well as men and women. WOMEN SAY NO, BOB AND WINSTON! But you're probably used to hearing that from women, eh?

Weeklyish swp roundup: https://www.sweatwithpride.com/profile/shareblog/75bd6cf84f9a83243a14d18710774250 #fundraising #sweatwithpride #boost4reach #transJoy

The cops murdered a 1yo child over a box of diapers…

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

Another pb, quick someone think of a Linkin Park pun. Also ig that was a short album, so also BABYMETAL! Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 16/30 📍 Unirec 🚲 28.88km ⏳ 65min, T: 1145/1800 💰 $775/1050 🔗 https://www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/erinchurch/swp/ 🎧 [1/2]

Not sophistry at all. If you look at the numbers on how many rapists are incarcerated, I just don't get where people are coming from. "What about the rapists?" is a question to be leveled at the current system, and as you correctly pointed out, sexual violence is rampant among those who work forces.

One of the reasons I don't take the "what about the rapists?" objection to abolition seriously is because after 250 years of the current system, an allegation of shoplifting is met with deadly force and a rape conviction gets probation. And the punishment for shoplifting is way, WAY more common.