Gerrard
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Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.
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Yes that is entirely the point.
Force user-pays on everybody so that the wealthy can have a nice society that the poor aren't able to participate in but have to prop up.
Force user-pays on everybody so that the wealthy can have a nice society that the poor aren't able to participate in but have to prop up.
Rates caps may mean more expensive parking, libraries and pools, mayors say
Councils might consider raising fees for things like pools, recreation centres and other community facilities, Wellington mayor Andrew Little says.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Yes that is entirely the point.
Force user-pays on everybody so that the wealthy can have a nice society that the poor aren't able to participate in but have to prop up.
Force user-pays on everybody so that the wealthy can have a nice society that the poor aren't able to participate in but have to prop up.
18 November 1982. www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-ma...
The Maintenance of Silence | Short Film | NZ On Screen
The Maintenance of Silence - Just after midnight on November 18, 1982, Neil Roberts, a 22-year old anarchist, exploded a bag of gelignite outside the Whanganui police computer centre, killing himself ...
www.nzonscreen.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
18 November 1982. www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-ma...
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I don't know why Grokipedia exists, but it does have something Wikipedia doesn't - a 2500-word essay about Jacinda Ardern's dead cat, which clarifies it did not have any influence on government policy grokipedia.com/page/Paddles...
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I don't know why Grokipedia exists, but it does have something Wikipedia doesn't - a 2500-word essay about Jacinda Ardern's dead cat, which clarifies it did not have any influence on government policy grokipedia.com/page/Paddles...
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This is from Grokipedia's woeful AI-generated article on New Zealand. Yes, it really is citing Hobson's Pledge as a factual source.
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This is from Grokipedia's woeful AI-generated article on New Zealand. Yes, it really is citing Hobson's Pledge as a factual source.
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Because a bunch of paranoid Facebook-addicted parents are worried about their teens seeing anorexia/sui bait and have no mental model of platform regulation, we're gonna end up with a worse form of internet censorship and digital ID than the cookers were claiming about contact tracing apps.
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Because a bunch of paranoid Facebook-addicted parents are worried about their teens seeing anorexia/sui bait and have no mental model of platform regulation, we're gonna end up with a worse form of internet censorship and digital ID than the cookers were claiming about contact tracing apps.
Of course they chose a Sousa march for Trump's exit (very Gilded Age). The name of the march is The Washington Post. www.youtube.com/live/a-akQl0...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Of course they chose a Sousa march for Trump's exit (very Gilded Age). The name of the march is The Washington Post. www.youtube.com/live/a-akQl0...
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Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.
October 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.
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Stephen Colbert, the Newest Zealander
October 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Stephen Colbert, the Newest Zealander
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We aren't going to recognise Palestine because Israel has invaded it and so Palestine doesn't control its own territory ...
September 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
We aren't going to recognise Palestine because Israel has invaded it and so Palestine doesn't control its own territory ...
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In an excellent secondhand bookshop
September 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
In an excellent secondhand bookshop
Hunter S. Thompson called it in 2003. Only the name of the ruling dynasty has changed.
September 16, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Hunter S. Thompson called it in 2003. Only the name of the ruling dynasty has changed.
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me on the North&South homepage
September 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
me on the North&South homepage
Journalists stop rooting through Tom Phillips's literal midden heap challenge. It's prurient now.
September 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Journalists stop rooting through Tom Phillips's literal midden heap challenge. It's prurient now.
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The Prime Minister shows a foreign buyer a house for sale
The secret diary of .. Luxon's last days
newsroom.co.nz
September 6, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The Prime Minister shows a foreign buyer a house for sale
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A horrifying but extremely important read: melanienelson.substack.com/p/new-zealan...
New Zealand’s Epstein Files
New Zealand’s Regulatory Standards Bill looks like tidy lawmaking. But OIA documents reveal decades of foreign influence — embedding Richard Epstein’s radical “regulatory takings” theory into our laws...
melanienelson.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A horrifying but extremely important read: melanienelson.substack.com/p/new-zealan...
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It is not just the USA- stop censorship and the global spread of idiocy and fascism!
Faaaaaaaark
This video is waaay too long, given what it’s documenting—books to be removed from all Edmonton Public Schools.
Alberta, please don’t go the way of the U.S. and start banning books.
🎬@non_toxic_masculinity
Alberta, please don’t go the way of the U.S. and start banning books.
🎬@non_toxic_masculinity
September 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It is not just the USA- stop censorship and the global spread of idiocy and fascism!
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I'm sorry, but genetic engineering is getting out of hand.
September 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I'm sorry, but genetic engineering is getting out of hand.
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New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate
August 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM
New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate
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Omg hobsons pledge are so embarrassing
Hobson’s Pledge repeat their arrogance and use somebody’s image without permission AGAIN FFS #nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
'Truly shocked': Rotorua mayor criticises Hobson's Pledge for using her image
Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell has criticised Hobson’s Pledge for using her image without permission in a social media post critical of Māori wards.
www.stuff.co.nz
August 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Omg hobsons pledge are so embarrassing
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New: The Sovereign Files 📂
I recently started posting some case profiles as an online archive: It’s a living project, documenting how sovereignist ideas have played out in NZ since the 90's. 👨⚖️⚖️
www.unmaskingextremism.com/media-hub/th...
I recently started posting some case profiles as an online archive: It’s a living project, documenting how sovereignist ideas have played out in NZ since the 90's. 👨⚖️⚖️
www.unmaskingextremism.com/media-hub/th...
The Sovereign Files — Unmasking Extremism
www.unmaskingextremism.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
New: The Sovereign Files 📂
I recently started posting some case profiles as an online archive: It’s a living project, documenting how sovereignist ideas have played out in NZ since the 90's. 👨⚖️⚖️
www.unmaskingextremism.com/media-hub/th...
I recently started posting some case profiles as an online archive: It’s a living project, documenting how sovereignist ideas have played out in NZ since the 90's. 👨⚖️⚖️
www.unmaskingextremism.com/media-hub/th...
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The thing that fucks me off the most is that National, Fonterra, AND ECONOMISTS all talk about wealthy farmers being good for the economy because they can spend (though the smart ones will just be paying debt down if they have any) and yet PAY EQUITY WAS SOMETHING THE ECONOMY COULDN'T AFFORD.
Fonterra farmers got $3.2billion cash in hand from the sale of Anchor etc. Luxon says they now have cash to spend. National have also allowed farmers/businesses to claim back 20% of cost of new assets against tax. What about the rest of us that still can't afford butter? Where's our incentives?
August 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The thing that fucks me off the most is that National, Fonterra, AND ECONOMISTS all talk about wealthy farmers being good for the economy because they can spend (though the smart ones will just be paying debt down if they have any) and yet PAY EQUITY WAS SOMETHING THE ECONOMY COULDN'T AFFORD.
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i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good
August 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good
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This is a piece to file alongside @andrewmale.bsky.social’s timeless “Eric Clapton’s bookshelves” essay.
Please enjoy: Sam Altman’s kitchen of shit.
Character revealed through detail. Pure environmental storytelling.
www.ft.com/content/b180...
Please enjoy: Sam Altman’s kitchen of shit.
Character revealed through detail. Pure environmental storytelling.
www.ft.com/content/b180...
Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen
All Drizzle, no sizzle
www.ft.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is a piece to file alongside @andrewmale.bsky.social’s timeless “Eric Clapton’s bookshelves” essay.
Please enjoy: Sam Altman’s kitchen of shit.
Character revealed through detail. Pure environmental storytelling.
www.ft.com/content/b180...
Please enjoy: Sam Altman’s kitchen of shit.
Character revealed through detail. Pure environmental storytelling.
www.ft.com/content/b180...
I really miss the wholesome eccentricity of the earnest website period.
August 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I really miss the wholesome eccentricity of the earnest website period.
Public submissions on the 2026 review of Standing Orders close on 25 September. www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...
Radware Page
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www.parliament.nz
August 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Public submissions on the 2026 review of Standing Orders close on 25 September. www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...