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Just another reason to demand universal basic income. No one should have to live in a constant state of anxiety about their job, nor should anyone without a job suffer poverty as punishment.
I wrote about the stomach clenching reality of work now -- where rolling layoffs are the norm and no one feels secure in their job. Happy Monday! www.axios.com/2025/11/16/r...
It's a rolling layoff world
These silent layoffs are now just a part of doing business.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Just another reason to demand universal basic income. No one should have to live in a constant state of anxiety about their job, nor should anyone without a job suffer poverty as punishment.
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One of the few good things about living in New Zealand is that you can look at the Labour Party and if you are like “wow I’m way more progressive than/left of them”, then you simply don’t have to give your party vote to them and move on with your life guilt free and vote for Greens 🤷🏽♀️
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
One of the few good things about living in New Zealand is that you can look at the Labour Party and if you are like “wow I’m way more progressive than/left of them”, then you simply don’t have to give your party vote to them and move on with your life guilt free and vote for Greens 🤷🏽♀️
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Coming up on another election where these are your options if you vote for either of the major parties
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Coming up on another election where these are your options if you vote for either of the major parties
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Labour will repeal the Regulatory Standards bill.
November 13, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Labour will repeal the Regulatory Standards bill.
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In case Alex's post is too subtle APOLOGISE TO TAMATHA PAUL THIS INSTANT YOU COWARDS
Just seems a little short while ago that various government politicians, and people acting as their media surrogates, were outraged and scandalized by, and poured scorn on, comments from younger women politicians for suggesting many people don't trust cops.
Highest levels of the force - filth.
Highest levels of the force - filth.
Well, this story just got a lot fucking worse. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
In case Alex's post is too subtle APOLOGISE TO TAMATHA PAUL THIS INSTANT YOU COWARDS
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PhD student looks at the lie behind the political line: ‘NZ can’t afford it’
#nzpol
Link to read 👇
archive.today/D8Uyf
#nzpol
Link to read 👇
archive.today/D8Uyf
PhD student looks at the lie behind the political line: ‘NZ can’t afford it’
University of Otago student Morgan Edwards believes Kiwis need to understand more about our monetary system and push back harder against public service cuts and other government spending decisions.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
PhD student looks at the lie behind the political line: ‘NZ can’t afford it’
#nzpol
Link to read 👇
archive.today/D8Uyf
#nzpol
Link to read 👇
archive.today/D8Uyf
Soooo many benefits.
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
November 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Soooo many benefits.
'...introducing a proposal for an “individual basic amount” for every adult citizen. This plan... aims to replace the current complex web of benefits and allowances with a single, more direct form of income support'
October 31, 2025 at 9:45 PM
'...introducing a proposal for an “individual basic amount” for every adult citizen. This plan... aims to replace the current complex web of benefits and allowances with a single, more direct form of income support'
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NEVER NOT FURIOUS ABOUT THIS. #nzpol
I guess we're also supposed to forget that the media defending the fiscal honour of Triple-Dipper Luxon weren't quite so fastidious eight year aso, when it came to Metiria Turei's trial by media for benefit fraud almost thirty years before. She was fair game. #nzpol
What a bell end. The "attack" highlights the unfairness of someone uber-wealthy realising $600,000 in untaxed gains.
It's not diverting attention at all, but highlighting precisely why we need this policy.
Chippy should respond with "Rate dodger says what?"
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
It's not diverting attention at all, but highlighting precisely why we need this policy.
Chippy should respond with "Rate dodger says what?"
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
October 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
NEVER NOT FURIOUS ABOUT THIS. #nzpol
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Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚
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October 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
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Well, this is just delightful. It has everything: data, survey, charts, stories, videos, scrollytelling, animations, 3D modelling, interviews... 📊
Inside the confusing world of women’s clothing sizes
Why does shopping for clothes feel like a guessing game? We looked at the numbers to find out.
www.straitstimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Well, this is just delightful. It has everything: data, survey, charts, stories, videos, scrollytelling, animations, 3D modelling, interviews... 📊
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You know what to do.
Condemn NZ's Thatcher to the festering history books.
Vote, vote hard, & vote often.
Condemn NZ's Thatcher to the festering history books.
Vote, vote hard, & vote often.
Don't let them rewrite history on Ruth Richardson's Mothe of All Budgets, it's remembered as "Ruthanasia" for a reason! #NZpol
Link in thread
1/2
Link in thread
1/2
October 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
You know what to do.
Condemn NZ's Thatcher to the festering history books.
Vote, vote hard, & vote often.
Condemn NZ's Thatcher to the festering history books.
Vote, vote hard, & vote often.
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Protip
Don't scroll down this thread there's a monster at the end of these skeets
Don't scroll down this thread there's a monster at the end of these skeets
October 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Protip
Don't scroll down this thread there's a monster at the end of these skeets
Don't scroll down this thread there's a monster at the end of these skeets
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Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on.
These philistines need to hear from you all.
Thank you
petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...
These philistines need to hear from you all.
Thank you
petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...
October 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on.
These philistines need to hear from you all.
Thank you
petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...
These philistines need to hear from you all.
Thank you
petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...
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I am so done with this bullshit.
NZ First mingled with a crowd who set fire to the grounds of parliament.
The Greens marched with a hīkoi that did not leave a scrap of litter on those same grounds.
NZ First mingled with a crowd who set fire to the grounds of parliament.
The Greens marched with a hīkoi that did not leave a scrap of litter on those same grounds.
October 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I am so done with this bullshit.
NZ First mingled with a crowd who set fire to the grounds of parliament.
The Greens marched with a hīkoi that did not leave a scrap of litter on those same grounds.
NZ First mingled with a crowd who set fire to the grounds of parliament.
The Greens marched with a hīkoi that did not leave a scrap of litter on those same grounds.
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#nzpol Attention: Chris Luxon, Winston Peters, and David Seymour.
1. Aotearoa New Zealand is NOT proud of your decision. You have shamed us terribly.
2. It is not a conflict. It's a f*ckin genocide. You have sided with Israel when it is committing GENOCIDE. 🧵
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
1. Aotearoa New Zealand is NOT proud of your decision. You have shamed us terribly.
2. It is not a conflict. It's a f*ckin genocide. You have sided with Israel when it is committing GENOCIDE. 🧵
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
Kiwis 'can be proud' NZ isn't recognising Palestine yet - PM Christopher Luxon
New Zealand was among only a handful of countries - including the US, Japan and South Korea - which had not formally recognised Palestinian statehood.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
#nzpol Attention: Chris Luxon, Winston Peters, and David Seymour.
1. Aotearoa New Zealand is NOT proud of your decision. You have shamed us terribly.
2. It is not a conflict. It's a f*ckin genocide. You have sided with Israel when it is committing GENOCIDE. 🧵
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
1. Aotearoa New Zealand is NOT proud of your decision. You have shamed us terribly.
2. It is not a conflict. It's a f*ckin genocide. You have sided with Israel when it is committing GENOCIDE. 🧵
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
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There's nothing wrong with you.
There's something wrong with the world.
Keep being weird.
Keep howling against the storm.
Keep writing erotic stories about moon ghosts.
Keep being a spark in the darkness, and hope for a better tomorrow.
There's something wrong with the world.
Keep being weird.
Keep howling against the storm.
Keep writing erotic stories about moon ghosts.
Keep being a spark in the darkness, and hope for a better tomorrow.
September 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
There's nothing wrong with you.
There's something wrong with the world.
Keep being weird.
Keep howling against the storm.
Keep writing erotic stories about moon ghosts.
Keep being a spark in the darkness, and hope for a better tomorrow.
There's something wrong with the world.
Keep being weird.
Keep howling against the storm.
Keep writing erotic stories about moon ghosts.
Keep being a spark in the darkness, and hope for a better tomorrow.
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The absolute state of these men. They have no respect for anyone. They should not be serving the public.
Quelle surprised NZF attracts another foul mouthed misogynist to its ranks. No respect for women in evidence.
Nash criticises ‘woke’ Labour Party members & says a woman is
“a person with “a p...y and a pair of t..s”.
BRING ON WOKE POLITICIANS and put these foul unwoke men out to pasture. #NZpol
Nash criticises ‘woke’ Labour Party members & says a woman is
“a person with “a p...y and a pair of t..s”.
BRING ON WOKE POLITICIANS and put these foul unwoke men out to pasture. #NZpol
September 9, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The absolute state of these men. They have no respect for anyone. They should not be serving the public.
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i enjoyed one columnist’s “takedown” of ubi that said “why would anyone clean toilets?” and never quite got around to the thought that maybe cleaners would have to be valued more than they are to entice them to work, whereas columnists such as them could stand to take a pay cut to pay for that
There’s a pervasive (classist) view among people that someone working in the manual trades should never earn as much as an office worker. Which is why you get people aghast like “how can a tube driver earn more than me, a mid level marketing executive???”
September 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
i enjoyed one columnist’s “takedown” of ubi that said “why would anyone clean toilets?” and never quite got around to the thought that maybe cleaners would have to be valued more than they are to entice them to work, whereas columnists such as them could stand to take a pay cut to pay for that
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“Every time we buy a $10 block of butter or a $20 slab of cheese, we’re reminded of the cost-of-living crisis. Less obvious is the extent to which our bills are being inflated by this Government.”
“How this Government is adding fuel to the inflationary fire - Max Rashbrooke”
#nzpol
“How this Government is adding fuel to the inflationary fire - Max Rashbrooke”
#nzpol
The Post: How this Government is adding fuel to the inflationary fire — Max Rashbrooke
Administered inflation, in the form of rising government fees, is a real embarrassment.
www.maxrashbrooke.net
September 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
“Every time we buy a $10 block of butter or a $20 slab of cheese, we’re reminded of the cost-of-living crisis. Less obvious is the extent to which our bills are being inflated by this Government.”
“How this Government is adding fuel to the inflationary fire - Max Rashbrooke”
#nzpol
“How this Government is adding fuel to the inflationary fire - Max Rashbrooke”
#nzpol