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So all the Labour people were like "just wait until the party conference, you'll be surprised at our policy energy"
And the headline announcement is "loans for GP practices"!?
This makes "GST off fruit" look ambitious...
And the headline announcement is "loans for GP practices"!?
This makes "GST off fruit" look ambitious...
November 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
So all the Labour people were like "just wait until the party conference, you'll be surprised at our policy energy"
And the headline announcement is "loans for GP practices"!?
This makes "GST off fruit" look ambitious...
And the headline announcement is "loans for GP practices"!?
This makes "GST off fruit" look ambitious...
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I expect that as the chance of the Nats being in govt next year keeps going down they are gonna pass more and more extreme legislations knowing that Labour won’t reverse them all (or any in a meaningful way).
November 30, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I expect that as the chance of the Nats being in govt next year keeps going down they are gonna pass more and more extreme legislations knowing that Labour won’t reverse them all (or any in a meaningful way).
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There's a clue in the name: public health system.
Labour: lets give concessional loans of tax payers' money to the private sector to provide services on a for-profit basis.
National in disguise? No. The false glasses and moustache fell off years ago.
Vote green
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Labour: lets give concessional loans of tax payers' money to the private sector to provide services on a for-profit basis.
National in disguise? No. The false glasses and moustache fell off years ago.
Vote green
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Labour announces low-interest loans for family GP practices
If elected, the Labour Party would prioritise areas with no GPs, or practices with closed or partially closed books.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
There's a clue in the name: public health system.
Labour: lets give concessional loans of tax payers' money to the private sector to provide services on a for-profit basis.
National in disguise? No. The false glasses and moustache fell off years ago.
Vote green
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Labour: lets give concessional loans of tax payers' money to the private sector to provide services on a for-profit basis.
National in disguise? No. The false glasses and moustache fell off years ago.
Vote green
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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This is a hate crime.
November 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is a hate crime.
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If you can’t teach without a genAI cheat sheet, then you can’t teach. And if you’re judgement is so bad that you trust genAI for basic facts, you should not be teaching children.
"Silvia says she uses the glasses in her job as a schoolteacher. She was so keen for hands-free access to AI during classroom lessons that she bought her Displays at a huge markup on eBay-spending $1,200-after they sold out at stores” Paging @hypervisible.blacksky.app
www.reuters.com/business/big...
www.reuters.com/business/big...
November 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM
If you can’t teach without a genAI cheat sheet, then you can’t teach. And if you’re judgement is so bad that you trust genAI for basic facts, you should not be teaching children.
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Yeah, I cannot believe how eroded our biosecurity infrastructure has become, does no one remember Mothra versus the Pajero people? or when you couldn't leave Avondale with so much as an apple core?
I'm not that old, I'm not even a boomer.
#nzpol
I'm not that old, I'm not even a boomer.
#nzpol
If you're Aotearoa New Zealand-based, please sign and share. 27 queens found at last count by a biosecurity department that's been battered by public service cuts. We have to eradicate this threat. c.org/bkt2N7cxFh
Sign the Petition
Urgent Action Required on Yellow-Legged Asian Hornet Incursion.
c.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Yeah, I cannot believe how eroded our biosecurity infrastructure has become, does no one remember Mothra versus the Pajero people? or when you couldn't leave Avondale with so much as an apple core?
I'm not that old, I'm not even a boomer.
#nzpol
I'm not that old, I'm not even a boomer.
#nzpol
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"Truckers waiting for hours due to storm damage or while fatal road crashes are investigated are asking if there is a better way."
Yeah there is, trains 🙄
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Yeah there is, trains 🙄
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Storms, accidents, road closures hurt trucking industry
Police insist they have a responsibility to victims and their families to thoroughly investigate road crashes.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
"Truckers waiting for hours due to storm damage or while fatal road crashes are investigated are asking if there is a better way."
Yeah there is, trains 🙄
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Yeah there is, trains 🙄
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Trying to make him likeable? Gross.
Roll him roll him roll him, keep them doggies moving…..
Roll him roll him roll him, keep them doggies moving…..
Chris Bishop getting a puff profile in Newsroom 👀 #nzpol
November 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Trying to make him likeable? Gross.
Roll him roll him roll him, keep them doggies moving…..
Roll him roll him roll him, keep them doggies moving…..
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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Every year I complain that a summer Christmas makes no sense cause you can’t have lights because it doesn’t get dark and you can’t have a roast cause it’s too hot and none of the decorations make sense and then every year I go through the motions anyway 😒
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Every year I complain that a summer Christmas makes no sense cause you can’t have lights because it doesn’t get dark and you can’t have a roast cause it’s too hot and none of the decorations make sense and then every year I go through the motions anyway 😒
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These fucking gutter dwelling criminal hacks. At least in the old days they used to pretend.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
These fucking gutter dwelling criminal hacks. At least in the old days they used to pretend.
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"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
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Happy Thanksgiving.
Bird flu virus could risk pandemic worse than COVID if it mutates, France's Institut Pasteur says
The bird flu virus that has been spreading among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead to a pandemic worse than COVID-19 if it mutates to transmit between humans, the head of France's Institut Pa...
www.reuters.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Happy Thanksgiving.
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"In July, Attorney-General Judith Collins found the bill to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act, and indicated 100,000 or more people could be directly or indirectly disenfranchised by the rules banning enrolment in the final 13 days before an election."
Justice Committee recommends passing Electoral Amendment Bill with some amendments - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/580237/justice-committee-recommends-passing-electoral-amendment-bill-with-some-amendments - Details and more news at: https://nzccl.org.nz/news
Justice Committee recommends passing Electoral Amendment Bill with some amendments
The bill would prevent same-day enrolments, ban prisoners from voting, and tighten up the rules around treating.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
"In July, Attorney-General Judith Collins found the bill to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act, and indicated 100,000 or more people could be directly or indirectly disenfranchised by the rules banning enrolment in the final 13 days before an election."
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This Bill could invalidate the votes of enough people to swing the next election in favour of the current government for no reason other than that they failed to fill out the correct piece of paper by the "proper" time (as defined by the people who benefit from the rule change).
Justice Committee recommends passing Electoral Amendment Bill with some amendments
The bill would prevent same-day enrolments, ban prisoners from voting, and tighten up the rules around treating.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This Bill could invalidate the votes of enough people to swing the next election in favour of the current government for no reason other than that they failed to fill out the correct piece of paper by the "proper" time (as defined by the people who benefit from the rule change).
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it’s wild that the government plan has been to make things SO bad economically that they can slightly improve only RELATIVE to the disaster and plan for media to ignore their previous destructive actions and promo the improvement as “national needs more time” or “turns it around”
There are enough emergent economic "green shoots" that Opposition parties need to realise now that running a "We're not Them" campaign won't be enough next year.
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
it’s wild that the government plan has been to make things SO bad economically that they can slightly improve only RELATIVE to the disaster and plan for media to ignore their previous destructive actions and promo the improvement as “national needs more time” or “turns it around”
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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perfect column on Nigel Farage's racist, schoolboy past, by @hugorifkind.bsky.social. "The boy haunts the man." www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Was Nigel Farage a bit of a Nazi? Only he knows
The Reform leader was a teenager when he made crass remarks but we’re entitled to ask a would-be prime minister what lay behind them
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
perfect column on Nigel Farage's racist, schoolboy past, by @hugorifkind.bsky.social. "The boy haunts the man." www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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I'm just going to say that my work-life balance is awful .. I know this, my friends know this. Trust me, I'm chronically bad at it.
But given that, I am still SO much more than my job. The idea that we need to make work even MORE centric to our lives via "integration" is a toxic US cultural import.
But given that, I am still SO much more than my job. The idea that we need to make work even MORE centric to our lives via "integration" is a toxic US cultural import.
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I'm just going to say that my work-life balance is awful .. I know this, my friends know this. Trust me, I'm chronically bad at it.
But given that, I am still SO much more than my job. The idea that we need to make work even MORE centric to our lives via "integration" is a toxic US cultural import.
But given that, I am still SO much more than my job. The idea that we need to make work even MORE centric to our lives via "integration" is a toxic US cultural import.
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On Thanksgiving, Donald Trump is on his way to his Florida country club to play golf on our taxpayers dime while the two members of the National Guard are in the hospital fighting for their lives because of his orders that sent them to Washington DC!
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
On Thanksgiving, Donald Trump is on his way to his Florida country club to play golf on our taxpayers dime while the two members of the National Guard are in the hospital fighting for their lives because of his orders that sent them to Washington DC!
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Sooty and Sweep as angels… an A3 pastel drawing from I’m guessing 2014
November 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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New Zealand's Minister of Education can't tell the difference between Mathematics and Social Studies.
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
New Zealand's Minister of Education can't tell the difference between Mathematics and Social Studies.