It’s the end of March and it’s uncomfortably warm in my house. Bonkers.

Hearing Luxon say “we mustn’t repeat the mistakes of covid” made me feel sick to my guts - what a fucking nerve - compared to what he’s doing I WISH we’d repeat the mistakes of covid

Remarkable watching Govt inch slowly towards understanding magnitude of the fuel situation, so obviously blinded by optimism bias & ideological aversion to intervention... constantly a week or so behind those that have, errm, read the briefings. Some sense of what 2020 would have looked like I guess

The IOC can say this ban does not impact grassroots sports but so much grassroots, masters and amateur sports take cues from IOC policy. The U.S. and Britain have already banned trans women from grassroots sports. Granted political leaders drove that but the IOC didn’t push back. It stood by.

I cannot believe that a) this stuff isn't constantly leading mainstream and business news reports; and b) that he's able to be the CEO of a huge publicly traded company, and his privately owned space/AI/social media company has multiple government contracts.

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

Imagine paying 10k for a checkmark and access to a chatbot that denies the holocaust.

I have no interest in this man’s problems

Just got out of Project Hail Mary 😭😭😭

You could call this a teachable moment as regards 'welfare dependency' but, the thing is, in this case I'm not sure it's a learnable moment

it’s not hyperbole, JKR literally said support for HP is support for her transphobia and she uses the money she makes from it to TRY TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY if you watch that show please don’t ever speak to me again trans lives are more important than your fandom of a terrible human’s IP

If you're a content creator and want to grab a key of THE LONG DARK in preparation for Episode Five's launch next week, you can request one through Keymailer: www.keymailer.co/g/games/3a47...

she's literally funneling the cash from all her various media ventures into a money gun and pointing it directly at whichever institution promises to hurt trans people the most. she's not even lying about it. she's just telling you that's what she's going to do if you give her more money

if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

Receiving this all the way to New Zealand is one of my life’s great joys.

Important 🧵 about the reality of who receives benefits and what their lives are like. The cost of living spike is going to cause huge hardship to people already struggling. Yet Nicola Willis casually and callously discounted all these people today. #nzpol

Nicola Willis has some gall saying she makes no apologies for helping working people only when her government has actively destroyed the labour market. She should hang her head in shame. There’s hardly any fucking jobs in this country and most of the jobs pay shit.

It's always nice to have a reminder that as a diabled person, you should just stay inside, out of sight. You have no need to be out of the house. Your existence does not create profit for the rich, so you don't matter.

When Nicola Wilis says "Beneficiaries don't need to drive to work" I assume they'll be dropping all the appointments you need to make to qualify for a benefit? #nzpol

There are approximately 2.02M h/holds in NZ - just under 7% of NZ h/holds will receive an in work tax credit of $50/week to assist with rising fuel costs. Not our most impoverished h/holds tho, not h/holds without children, and not most two-income h/holds. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method 'cheating'

Thanks National, I guess we’re rich cause we don’t qualify for WFF and oh well, everyone in our bracket will just continue with our “disappointing” contributions into the economy so that we can pay for food, power, fuel and public transport.

Ah it's Labour's fault for... *Checks notes* borrowing less during the pandemic than Nicola Willis has since 2023.

BVV's legacy: -screwing over workers -cancelling Fair Pay Agreements -brought back 90-day trials -stopped Uber drivers from being decently paid -hurt working women by canning pay equity -rolled back worker protections -creating low-wage, low-protection labour market www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

"The Justice Department is increasingly telling judges it can’t defend ICE’s actions..." www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers. (video shared directly with me)

The problem is, you killed all the leaders who could actually agree to this, or murdered the entire families of the remaining leaders who could. Because we couldn't think past Step 1.

I would encourage travelers who come across ICE agents at airports tomorrow to make sure those agents know they're as welcome at airports as they are on the streets of our cities.

Please!

I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this. The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all! Games don't need VO to be good! By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!

When ZB and NZME back a Greens Idea then yeah then we know that 1) we have a problem (National with heads in the sand) and 2) The Greens policy gets most of us immediate relief until Long term measures are built. www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/kerre...

My husband got recommended $26,000 of dental work today. Vote Green, y’all.

Meridian Energy made $227 million in profit last year. Genesis, who majority own Chargenet, made $337 million in profit last year. The government are giving money to millionaires, I thought that was bad? Govt should be creating customers for Meridian and Chargenet, to encourage investment.

The equivalent of this $50 million in clean car discounts for a used EV would put 14,255 electric vehicles on the road, or 7,127 brand new EVs. So imagine the entire of Oamaru all in used electric cars, or the whole of Warkworth in brand new EVs.

Yay now I can charge my imaginary EV - that I can totally afford without discounts and RUC - in more places!

someday this mewling pile of crybaby shit will also die and when he does there will be scolds who try to shame participants in the global celebration and when that happens i want you to remember and repeat these four words: “oh DO fuck off”

Yes! The main reason I don’t own/use a bike, other than the cost outlay, is that I know I have absolutely no confidence riding one.

Ruling out working with NZF gets you my vote this year.

They’re going to need to bury Trump somewhere very secure because there is going to be a LONG line of people wanting to desecrate this asshole’s grave.

That's right folks, the economy is sliding sideways because people are 'reluctant to spend'. This is such an infuriating narrative - Liam needs to replace 'reluctant' with 'unable'... how many households have gone from two earners to one? How many have seen costs rise by more than earnings?

A++, 10/10

In that case, after you, sir. The ship boards in an hour.

My husband has been told they need to return to 5 days in the office, unless you claim an exception, and even then you can only get 1-2 WFH. Never mind us planning out our entire childcare arrangements and me taking a job with a commute again because we knew he had his WFH days.

Wow I wonder why people don’t want to come to the US????

This is hilarious actually. ‘Can you believe it? People have more kids if they are allowed to be somewhere they want to be with someone they like?!’

as if the heat wave wasn't bad enough they just issued a Bahamut advisory

Luxon doesn’t know what he is talking about on the economy or anything else for that matter. The man is a fool and so is any journalist that pretends otherwise #nzpol

The degree to which I don’t feel in any way sorry for these people troubles me. I should be better than that. I’m not. I feel it was on them to be better in the first place.

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