SteveH
@stevehnz.bsky.social
It's one thing to not want to discuss cases in public, but if the affected user is not being informed it's an unfair system open to abuse. Without transparency you will lose the trust of your users. Please do not go down the road of secret decisions with no recourse from your users.
Our policy has been not to comment on individual accounts. You end up having to litigate every case in public, and we don’t have the capacity for infinite debates in public.
Then there’s also the consequences such as the increased litigation and bad actors gaming your systems.
Then there’s also the consequences such as the increased litigation and bad actors gaming your systems.
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
It's one thing to not want to discuss cases in public, but if the affected user is not being informed it's an unfair system open to abuse. Without transparency you will lose the trust of your users. Please do not go down the road of secret decisions with no recourse from your users.
They didn't give it to the guy threatening to invade Canada and Greenland? Huh.
Breaking news: María Corina Machado has been awarded the prize for ‘keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness’ . The win dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump. on.ft.com/4ocHAKY
October 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
They didn't give it to the guy threatening to invade Canada and Greenland? Huh.
Not only are we not doing enough to reduce emissions, we haven't even managed to stabilise them.
About *a third* of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions emitted during the Industrial age have occurred in roughly the last 17 years. The previous third was emitted over a period of roughly 26 years. The first third was emitted over a period of about 131 years.
October 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Not only are we not doing enough to reduce emissions, we haven't even managed to stabilise them.
And now we know what is behind the government's surge in defence funding.
Exclusive: The Government has avoided questions about whether it’s joining preparations for a US confrontation with China. Until now, the public has had no insight.
Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop
newsroom.co.nz
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
And now we know what is behind the government's surge in defence funding.
And because our society has chosen an economic model that requires some people to be unemployed, our society has a moral responsibility to support those people.
It's 2025 and our economic model is still reliant on maintaining a decent bufferstock of unemployed people. This model was *designed* to ensure that employers have the upper hand (and labour could be uberised). Govt distract us from this reality by bashing beneficiaries and abdicating responsibility
October 6, 2025 at 5:22 AM
And because our society has chosen an economic model that requires some people to be unemployed, our society has a moral responsibility to support those people.
And the government is going to force rich parents to support their 18-19 year olds rather than just hanging them out to dry, right? Right?
Jobseeker: Parents earning more than $65k must support 18-19yo children
Jobseeker: Parents earning more than $65k must support 18-19yo children
First announced at the Budget, the government had not decided where to draw the line at the time.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
And the government is going to force rich parents to support their 18-19 year olds rather than just hanging them out to dry, right? Right?
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It is offensive for the person supposedly in charge of the government and its economic levers to suggest that youths, and their playstationing ways, are responsible for the most rapid surge in unemployment since the Great Financial Crash
October 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
It is offensive for the person supposedly in charge of the government and its economic levers to suggest that youths, and their playstationing ways, are responsible for the most rapid surge in unemployment since the Great Financial Crash
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I will reiterate as someone with field and specific knowledge of New Zealand’s oil and gas sector, there is no giant untapped field out there. Even if Labour agrees to this, not a single drop of oil or gas will be produced in the next decade because it’s not there. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon asks Labour leader Chris Hipkins to support offshore gas exploration
The Prime Minister wants a bipartisan approach to offshore exploration for natural gas.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I will reiterate as someone with field and specific knowledge of New Zealand’s oil and gas sector, there is no giant untapped field out there. Even if Labour agrees to this, not a single drop of oil or gas will be produced in the next decade because it’s not there. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Obviously Trump thinks "rare earth" means "rare earth magnet". He's had people talking to him about China's dominance of rare earth mineral supply and thought it was all about making rare earth magnets.
Trump: "China intelligently went in and they sort of took a monopoly of the world's magnets. Nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20 years ago, 'let's all do magnets.' There were many other ways that the world could have gone ... we're heavily into the world of magnets now."
August 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Obviously Trump thinks "rare earth" means "rare earth magnet". He's had people talking to him about China's dominance of rare earth mineral supply and thought it was all about making rare earth magnets.
National have been awfully quiet about "brain drain" since the election.
New Zealand's population exodus hits 13-year high as economy worsens reut.rs/46ZCVH2
New Zealand's population exodus hits 13-year high as economy worsens
New Zealand citizens leaving the country have hit the highest levels in 13 years, with more than a third of those emigrating aged under 30 years as unemployment rises and economic growth remains soft.
reut.rs
August 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
National have been awfully quiet about "brain drain" since the election.
Labour should be loudly promising they're reinstate the ban on day one with no compensation for companies that try to take advantage of this government's climate vandalism.
Coalition parties call for opposition not to re-ban oil and gas exploration
Coalition parties call for opposition not to re-ban oil and gas exploration
The government's repeal of the 2018 ban passed through Parliament on Thursday night.
www.rnz.co.nz
July 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Labour should be loudly promising they're reinstate the ban on day one with no compensation for companies that try to take advantage of this government's climate vandalism.
Convicted felon cheats at golf. Also, sky is blue.
Trump’s Caddie magically drops a ball for him not in the deep stuff ⛳️
July 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Convicted felon cheats at golf. Also, sky is blue.
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If you're an #InternetNZ member planning to participate in the upcoming AGM, you, like me, might have been finding it difficult to get your head around the changes to the Constitution that would be effectuated by the MANY proposed motions.
I've created a tracked-changes style guide:
I've created a tracked-changes style guide:
INZ Constitution.pdf
drive.google.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:46 AM
If you're an #InternetNZ member planning to participate in the upcoming AGM, you, like me, might have been finding it difficult to get your head around the changes to the Constitution that would be effectuated by the MANY proposed motions.
I've created a tracked-changes style guide:
I've created a tracked-changes style guide:
I struggle with this too. Even the Epstein stuff isn't news. I'm glad it seems to be getting some traction at last, but mystified as to why so many people have turned a blind eye until now.
MAGA gets their panties in a twist about Epstein and Trump and the possibilities Trump was on "the plane".....and yet 27 women come forward and say Trump assaulted them,
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July 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I struggle with this too. Even the Epstein stuff isn't news. I'm glad it seems to be getting some traction at last, but mystified as to why so many people have turned a blind eye until now.
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My thoughts on InternetNZ voting e te whānau
July 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
My thoughts on InternetNZ voting e te whānau
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Seymour rejected the advice of his own officials, the views of the vast majority of expert submitters, the view of civil society orgs. He will not or cannot offer a justification for this, and instead resorts to insulting the competence or motivations of people who disagree with him.
June 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Seymour rejected the advice of his own officials, the views of the vast majority of expert submitters, the view of civil society orgs. He will not or cannot offer a justification for this, and instead resorts to insulting the competence or motivations of people who disagree with him.
Great thread
Productivity won't improve when you ensure half the population is locked out of pay equity claims, Nicola Willis.
#nzqanda
#nzqanda
May 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Great thread
This constant abuse of urgency has to end. The rules need to be changed.
Out from behind the paywall: David Seymour's high-profile Regulatory Standards Bill is expected to pass under urgency this week.
Regulatory Standards Bill will be debated under urgency
newsroom.co.nz
May 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This constant abuse of urgency has to end. The rules need to be changed.
Show me a cover version better than the original
"I Love Rock N' Roll" - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4cF...
"I Love Rock N' Roll" - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4cF...
May 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Show me a cover version better than the original
"I Love Rock N' Roll" - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4cF...
"I Love Rock N' Roll" - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4cF...
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Hey feckless press gallery, it'd be nice if you pushed back on the Coalition calling the Green plans a 'soviet manifesto' when that's patently ridiculous. Like if people are saying utterly stupid shit, you're allowed to point out that it's stupid
Coalition deride Green budget as 'Marxist' and 'left-wing Trumpism'
Coalition deride Green budget as 'Marxist' and 'left-wing Trumpism'
Coalition leaders have blasted the Greens' proposal for wealth taxes, free GP visits and childcare, calling it "clown show economics".
www.rnz.co.nz
May 14, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Hey feckless press gallery, it'd be nice if you pushed back on the Coalition calling the Green plans a 'soviet manifesto' when that's patently ridiculous. Like if people are saying utterly stupid shit, you're allowed to point out that it's stupid
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We endured six months of submissions and process for the Treaty Principles Bill, a bill cabinet knew would never pass.
Yet the Govt gives just 12 hours for radical changes to pay equity laws that directly impact hundreds of thousands of workers, mostly women, & their families.
Yet the Govt gives just 12 hours for radical changes to pay equity laws that directly impact hundreds of thousands of workers, mostly women, & their families.
May 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We endured six months of submissions and process for the Treaty Principles Bill, a bill cabinet knew would never pass.
Yet the Govt gives just 12 hours for radical changes to pay equity laws that directly impact hundreds of thousands of workers, mostly women, & their families.
Yet the Govt gives just 12 hours for radical changes to pay equity laws that directly impact hundreds of thousands of workers, mostly women, & their families.
The govt of "fix the cost of living crisis" and "we need to protect women" is cutting the pay of thousands of women. All to preserve tax cuts for landlords. Vicious, sadistic class-warfare.
This government has cut the minimum wage in real terms - twice. We are cutting living wage protections. Cutting sick leave. Child poverty is rising. Is this seriously the only plan for the economy? How many people need to be impoverished for this government to feel wealthy?
May 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The govt of "fix the cost of living crisis" and "we need to protect women" is cutting the pay of thousands of women. All to preserve tax cuts for landlords. Vicious, sadistic class-warfare.
