David Peetz

@davidpeetz.bsky.social

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Researcher, FASSA. Employment relations; labour markets; economics; pol science; gender; climate & finance; science; birdies. Carmichael Fellow at Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute, but views mine. Meanjin (Brisbane) & Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland). .. more

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 48m

"Based on individual loyalty and connections, and on rewarding friends and punishing enemies (real or perceived), [patrimonialism] can be found not just in states but also among tribes, street gangs, and criminal organizations.'

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 3h

"One Word Describes Trump" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.

Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.

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One Word Describes Trump

A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

www.theatlantic.com

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 1h

"Based on a four-year rolling average, [Victorian] pedestrian deaths have increased 27% since 2015, while driver and vehicle passenger deaths have fallen 10%%…
[In] the United States, pedestrian deaths hit an all-time low in 2009 but then grew 77% to hit a 40-year-high in 2022."

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 2h

SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Pedestrian fatalities reach 17-year-high. This trend could be why

Fifty-one pedestrians had been killed on the state’s roads this year as of Saturday – the most in any calendar year since 2008.

www.theage.com.au

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 2h

SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Pedestrian fatalities reach 17-year-high. This trend could be why

Fifty-one pedestrians had been killed on the state’s roads this year as of Saturday – the most in any calendar year since 2008.

www.theage.com.au

Reposted by David Peetz, Christian E. Weller, Greg Linden

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 3h

One Word Describes Trump

A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

www.theatlantic.com

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 14h

It turns out that the only *specific* works that AT mentions in its 15/12 media release justifying the network-wide shutdown are all happening at Henderson station, 3 from the end of the Western line, almost as far as you can get from CRL. Hardly grounds for closing the network for a month.

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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 15h

I have been an active member of the ALP since the early 70’s. The description of the ALP by a group calling themselves “Labor Israel Action Committee” and reported in the Murdoch press makes no sense to me or thousands of ALP members. It’s straight out of the Starmer play book!

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 16h

and yes, that includes no trains on New Year’s Eve.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 16h

Like the apocryphal health administrators in ‘Yes Minister’ who thought the hospitals run so much better without patients, Auckland Transport thinks the city’s entire rail network runs most efficiently if it’s without trains for a month.

The *entire* network.

For a *month*.

Again!

#nzpol

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 16h

Having lived most of my life in Australia but also a bit of time living in North America and Europe (and NZ), this never ceases to astonish me.

Not only is Auckland’s the poorest public transport infrastructure of any city this size in the ‘West’, it is also soooo incompetently run.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 16h

Someone in the DoE card meme chain is trolling.

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 1d

I asked ChatGTP to write an original classic pop song, so sit back have a listen to I Wanna Hold Your Third Hand

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 1d

S Morrison - “I don’t hold a ho-ho-hos"

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 2d

'Secret Santa' for adults, individual gifts for children.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 2d

Mine did that, and also (later) would instead wrap the decimal coins in aluminium foil.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 2d

good luck

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 2d

Sir, would you like hot custard with that?

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 4d

“Today, only 3% of bank activity consists of 'lending to firms and individuals engaged in the production of goods and services.'

The other 97% of finance is gambling."

pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/s...

Pluralistic: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance (18 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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NK JJB @neiljrm.bsky.social · 6d

Can highly recommend on audio book 'A Different Kind of power' by Ms Ardern and narrated by her. Absolutely superb.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 6d

If you get a chance to see “Prime Minister”, about Jacinda Ardern, take it. I saw it tonight. You’ll never see another political bio documentary like it.

Two features of its production make it more like a revealing diary. Very rare with living political figures.

www.flicks.co.nz/movie/prime-...

Prime Minister | Movie session times & tickets in New Zealand cinemas | Flicks

Find where to watch Prime Minister in New Zealand cinemas + release dates, reviews and trailers. Sundance audience award-winning documentary chronicling Jacinda Ardern's tenure as New Zealand PM, navi...

www.flicks.co.nz

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 7d

"And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?
And why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet?
And what's this rash that comes and goes?
Can you tell me what it means?
God help me
I was only nineteen"

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 10d

Name your fav song lyric.

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 10d

Name your fav song lyric.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 12d

It’s important to accept that most people who have dementia don’t behave like this.

That’s because they’re mostly otherwise ordinary, decent people for whom dementia is an illness & personal tragedy.

But when you combine dementia with extremely undesirable personality, this is what it looks like.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12d

utterly incapable of grace

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12d

utterly incapable of grace

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 12d

They said it.

They’re winning.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge

There are now more than 4m guns in the community – almost double the number recorded in the years after the Port Arthur massacre that prompted a national crackdown

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by David Peetz, Stephen J. Ware