It's so utterly typical that companies like YouTube will censor people like @commandersterling.bsky.social for USING the word "gambling" while happily PUSHING gambling, hate speech and slop into people's faces, and god I wish regulators and elected reps understood this and demanded accountability

People make it seem like the 8 hour working day 5 days a week is like some kind of law of the nature rather than a hard fought result of unions that you could change again. There are so many professions that already do more than 8 hours and not during 8-5. It’s made up!!

"I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other" I'm sorry, it's so trite to not-a-real-fan these guys, but ... how many Star Trek stories are actually about the Romulans and the Federation SHOOTING each other?

FWIW I am doing a lot of emailing RNZ Morning Report today

Guys I'm worried, @3mbg.bsky.social just showed me his latest Cities Skylines game and it doesn't have a lot of traffic backing up everywhere? He's using this weird "bike paths" system and built something called "public transport" and I think it's broken??????

"Why don't they just take the bus?" Because if a cleaner misses a 5:30 a.m. connection, they don't just "log on late." They lose a shift. They might lose a client. They lose a day's wages. A "Ghost Bus" is a minor annoyance for some; for others, it's a disciplinary risk.

Social media age bans, like sugar taxes, are a great litmus test of whether someone who brands themselves as progressive actually has a decent political analysis The "logic" is just "big companies do bad thing! But cannot fix companies. So punish humans! For own good!" It's embarrassing

Hey, treat sex workers with respect or gtfo my feed.

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

I love when the Google Alert I have set up for my name delivers me other badass Stephanie Rodgers-es in the world being badass

Fired Up Stilettos Expects Better From Would-be Allies ✒️ When party strategy gets in the way of progress, what options are there for recourse? We have the privilege to platform this article from Fired Up Stilettos detailing some worrying interactions with the Green Party.

best No Kings sign I’ve seen today

Y'all know I have many a criticism of Labour and Hipkins, but it can't be denied: even a straightforward majority Labour government would have put us in a *significantly* better position for *all* the current crises we're facing

This is a nationwide phenomenon. The centrists and normies are more viciously angry than the socialists and anarchists, who gave up long ago on the illusion of a working system. Would encourage leftists of all stripes to take it seriously, welcome them in while they’re receptive.

A reminder that the clocks change next week, check your pronouns and swap out if the battery is low.

If I ran my practice the way some people post I'd never defend any eviction or criminal cases because it won't bring down the entire system, and I'd never sue slumlords because it wouldn't stop evictions, and instead I'd sit around waiting for the Perfect Case (TM) and accomplish nothing at all.

Growing up in Queensland the right wing Govt banned street marches, gerrymandered the electoral system, and operated a political branch of the police to target progressives. We had to defeat all of those things. But rust never sleeps…..

The clean car discount was making New Zealand’s vehicle fleet cleaner, cheaper to run, and helping us to be more resilient in an unstable world. Its cancellation was a massive own goal by the Luxon Government and is now seriously costing New Zealand.

Back from a family getaway in Tāmaki Makaurau and naturally @3mbg.bsky.social got "oh I know you, I'm a fan of your videos" by a dude from AvSec

The man who threw an absolute toddler tantrum over being asked to wear high-vis on an active work site does not give a single damn about "hard-working, blue-collar workers"

@davidfarrier.com got the Project 32 grifters so rarked up they've literally highlighted the words "New Zealand" - and only those words - on the back of their Air NZ snack packets

Requesting that they officially drop the proposals for Petone-Grenada please. Not funded, not needed - got OIA confirmation yesterday that neither GWRC nor NZTA have even modelled public transport between Porirua and Lower Hutt (and places in between).

There is not a single cell in my body that cares what a cis man has to say about trans women competing in women’s sports.

Christopher Luxon: "I would March in the streets against modern slavery." Christopher Luxon's government: historic slavery was fine tho

Only 2 WEEKS left to vote in the #Papatoetoe ward for the hard-fought Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board by-election and only 11% of registered voters have cast their haunted postal ballots!! If you have whānau and friends in the Papatoetoe area, please support them to vote NOW!!

It's almost as if sustained policymaking with this aim could have steadily reduced our reliance on fossil fuels over the past couple of decades www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

The reason Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt get treated as heroes but any woman - cis or trans! - who's too good at sports gets subjected to degrading and dehumanizing "tests" of her gender is extremely simple, It has zero to do with fairness and everything to do with upholding male supremacy

No one wants to hear my hot take about how wealth gives you a bigger sports advantage than genetics.

Transphobia is a religion and its clergy are billionaire child rapists. That’s it. That’s the tweet. Pass it on.

They want to police our genitalia and run tests on our bodies to “prove” we are women, at which point they will still deny it. This is why the only feminism is trans-inclusive and why transphobia and anti-trans discrimination should be a top political priority.

How are businesses doing if we run out of petrol, yak boy

Makes me reflect on the COVID response. I've always associated the irreparable cracks in our social unity (minus the real cookers) with the shift from Ardern's "team of five million" framing to the "personal responsibility" messaging of... some other guy www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Today The Girl met The Boy

I think the problem I have right now is that I don't believe the Coalition government would tell us if things were more dire than they appear. They seem to prioritize "don't spook the normies" over actually preparing for the shit to hit the fan.

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Here @theguardian.com hides the fact that IOC is mandating sex testing of all women athletes. This policy is not a trans ban: it is a ban against sex variance in women's sports. Nothing like this is done to men. Sex testing normalizes medical abuse. It's not just unfair. It is evil.

This intersects with one of my favourite rants, the devaluing of admin/clerical skills. So many organisations have slashed admin roles over the decades because it's largely women's work and therefore invisible and that's why all your documents look like shit now and paperwork takes a million years

that is what we mean when we say 'all you fascists bound to lose'

I put all my HP merch energy into Pokémon merch instead. Which like...no one does capitalism better than adorable little Japanese mascots, but at least they are little guys and they haven't mounted their slaves' heads, ya know?? And then there's James just doin a lil drag here & there nbd nbd

If the problem for adult Harry Potter fans is really "but I want the thing with lots of lore where I can Buzzfeed quiz myself into an ingroup" the FRIENDS, Star Trek, and Malcolm In The Middle fandoms are all right there, or you could listen to @killjamesbond.bsky.social for real guilty pleasure

okay. children should read a song of ice and fire.

An absolute betrayal from ACTs Brooke van Velden. The H&S Bill should not progress. We must kill the bill in honour of the 29 men killed at Pike River and the estimated 10,000 people in NZ who have died from work-related diseases or workplace fatalities since the Pike explosion in 2010. #nzpols

Good thread within a thread

Easiest resolution to the headline - because neither of them actually care about public health, and each is appealing to a slightly different set of voters with crank conspiracy takes

You do not need to cling to the hateful wizard author when the works of wonderful souls like Ursula K LeGuin and Tamora Pierce are right there (and many many others and many more recent! but I'm trying to reach my fellow elder white millennials here)

Like if you're out there asserting that the only thing that brings you even a sliver of joy is a book you read at ten about Magical Apartheid Boarding School then maybe you need to go and have a think about if that's true, or if you just don't like the fact your choices have consequences.

I can't tell you how aggravating it is to see Yet Another Fucking Wizard Thing every six months, along with the endless Takes on "Oooh I'm so CONFLICTED I enjoy this even though it directly supports fascism" You're thirty eight for fucks sake.

So what do we think is in Trump's supposed #15pointplan peace deal for Iran? I think "I'm not mad. Please don't tell the paper I'm mad" has to be towards the top

just know that if you engage with harry potter in any form i'm judging you