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Contrary to popular belief, more time on social media doesn't make kids anxious or depressed: kids who are already anxious or depressed spend more time on social media, because it's where they find support, community, and help from their peers.
December 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Contrary to popular belief, more time on social media doesn't make kids anxious or depressed: kids who are already anxious or depressed spend more time on social media, because it's where they find support, community, and help from their peers.
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Banning under 16s from social media will not stop kids accessing social media, but it will make kids less likely to tell an adult when they run into trouble online.
Young people, parents and others dealing with teens need education and support to learn how to navigate social media safely.
Young people, parents and others dealing with teens need education and support to learn how to navigate social media safely.
December 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Banning under 16s from social media will not stop kids accessing social media, but it will make kids less likely to tell an adult when they run into trouble online.
Young people, parents and others dealing with teens need education and support to learn how to navigate social media safely.
Young people, parents and others dealing with teens need education and support to learn how to navigate social media safely.
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I spoke to Midday Report at RNZ - you can listen to the interview here: www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Government blocks puberty blockers for new patients
The coalition government has announced a ban on new patients accessing gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues - also known as puberty blockers - from next month. Professional Association for Transge...
www.rnz.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I spoke to Midday Report at RNZ - you can listen to the interview here: www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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We (the world at large) are making enough fucking babies. We're cool on the babies. We need to start FEEDING the babies and VACCINATING the babies and WELCOMING the babies to various places, but we have babies out the wazoo. They just might have different melanin levels
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We (the world at large) are making enough fucking babies. We're cool on the babies. We need to start FEEDING the babies and VACCINATING the babies and WELCOMING the babies to various places, but we have babies out the wazoo. They just might have different melanin levels
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
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This is clearly a sign of us all being poisoned by business-brain, where we are all soaking in this endless propaganda about how rich and powerful people MUST be clever because how else would they be rich and powerful?
It is not brains. It is luck. Luck, hereditary wealth and rat cunning, mostly
It is not brains. It is luck. Luck, hereditary wealth and rat cunning, mostly
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM
This is clearly a sign of us all being poisoned by business-brain, where we are all soaking in this endless propaganda about how rich and powerful people MUST be clever because how else would they be rich and powerful?
It is not brains. It is luck. Luck, hereditary wealth and rat cunning, mostly
It is not brains. It is luck. Luck, hereditary wealth and rat cunning, mostly
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This is an extremely popular move. This was very well lobbied for. But, there is no interest in wider online safety measures. Those harmful spaces will just be waiting for you at 17.
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This is an extremely popular move. This was very well lobbied for. But, there is no interest in wider online safety measures. Those harmful spaces will just be waiting for you at 17.
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It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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It’s all gender, folks.
one thing you see in the discourse here is an effort to equate a recognition of the diversity of the working class with “neoliberal identity politics,” so as to make one of those options the only acceptable one
October 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
It’s all gender, folks.
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Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
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Vanuatu & a core group of States are moving UNGA resolution to operationalize ICJ’s climate opinion to increase pressure to keep climate finance promises.
Court ruled climate protection is binding legal obligation owed by every State to all humankind, regardless of political views.
Court ruled climate protection is binding legal obligation owed by every State to all humankind, regardless of political views.
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Vanuatu & a core group of States are moving UNGA resolution to operationalize ICJ’s climate opinion to increase pressure to keep climate finance promises.
Court ruled climate protection is binding legal obligation owed by every State to all humankind, regardless of political views.
Court ruled climate protection is binding legal obligation owed by every State to all humankind, regardless of political views.
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A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home
Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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It’s incredibly disheartening to read this. Negative attitudes that are increasing contribute to behaviours, that contribute to violence against women, children & marginalised people.
thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-0... thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-0... thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-0...
The bleakest findings from a new survey about gender attitudes in Aotearoa
The lowlights include one in three young men in Aotearoa believing that gender equality has gone too far.
thespinoff.co.nz
September 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It’s incredibly disheartening to read this. Negative attitudes that are increasing contribute to behaviours, that contribute to violence against women, children & marginalised people.
thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-0... thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-0... thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-0...
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wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
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I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
September 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
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A reminder that NZ increase in Govt spending during 2020 - 2022 was middle of the pack by any sensible measure you choose. Treasury for *some reason* are still using a rushed together, inconsistently measured, and hopelessly out of date IMF report from 2021.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A reminder that NZ increase in Govt spending during 2020 - 2022 was middle of the pack by any sensible measure you choose. Treasury for *some reason* are still using a rushed together, inconsistently measured, and hopelessly out of date IMF report from 2021.
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Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵
April 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵
Anyone who grew up in Chch in the before times, here is an incredible walk down memory lane! Pretty sure you used to be able to buy single ciggies at Java, or maybe that was Caffiends? Back when smoking indoors was both a thing and 'cool'
Here a wee thread for Ōtautahi people or people who grew up here before the quakes. It’s from an exhibition of miniature buildings by an artist called Ghostcat and it was held in the quakestruck Christ Church Cathedral and I was literally moved to tears. This is the old police kiosk in the Square.
March 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Anyone who grew up in Chch in the before times, here is an incredible walk down memory lane! Pretty sure you used to be able to buy single ciggies at Java, or maybe that was Caffiends? Back when smoking indoors was both a thing and 'cool'
Blast from the past! When did Rainbow Brite make a comeback?!
November 29, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Blast from the past! When did Rainbow Brite make a comeback?!
Spotted on SH2 (zoom in, IYKYK). I guess it ran out of juice before its owner *ahem* finished 👀
November 29, 2024 at 4:27 AM
Spotted on SH2 (zoom in, IYKYK). I guess it ran out of juice before its owner *ahem* finished 👀