Completely Black
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#NZPol Just vote Green. This is such bullshit.
Things that Labour will say 'yes' to:
1. We need 120,000 people unemployed (at least) to stop wages going up by too much.
2. Banks can extract $8bn a year in profits, because that's the price we should pay.
3. The market will eventually deliver affordable energy / food / rent - be patient comrades.
1. We need 120,000 people unemployed (at least) to stop wages going up by too much.
2. Banks can extract $8bn a year in profits, because that's the price we should pay.
3. The market will eventually deliver affordable energy / food / rent - be patient comrades.
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
#NZPol Just vote Green. This is such bullshit.
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"It's perfectly legal to be a tobacco lobbyist" is an argument that was made with, apparently, a straight face
November 29, 2025 at 7:12 AM
"It's perfectly legal to be a tobacco lobbyist" is an argument that was made with, apparently, a straight face
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Boards Chair here - before our BOT passed a motion affirming our commitment to Te Tiriti, I received emails from parents and teachers urging the board on.
The union never said a word.
Amazing that reaffirming a commitment to Te Tiriti is viewed as "anti-govt" (his words)
The union never said a word.
Amazing that reaffirming a commitment to Te Tiriti is viewed as "anti-govt" (his words)
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Boards Chair here - before our BOT passed a motion affirming our commitment to Te Tiriti, I received emails from parents and teachers urging the board on.
The union never said a word.
Amazing that reaffirming a commitment to Te Tiriti is viewed as "anti-govt" (his words)
The union never said a word.
Amazing that reaffirming a commitment to Te Tiriti is viewed as "anti-govt" (his words)
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On top of everything, this plays *terribly* to National's base. Their politics is rooted in might-is-right, we-have-power-because-we're-better-than-you ideology and they've spent two years insisting that they are incredibly weak
Not just weak, getting-bossed-around-by-utter-git-David-Seymour weak
Not just weak, getting-bossed-around-by-utter-git-David-Seymour weak
Nicola Willis suggests National may join the Greens, Labour, TPM and NZ First campaigning to repeal Regulatory Standards Act
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
'It's not impossible': Willis says National may join other parties to repeal Regulatory Standards Act
The National deputy leader said her party may also campaign to get rid of the law.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
On top of everything, this plays *terribly* to National's base. Their politics is rooted in might-is-right, we-have-power-because-we're-better-than-you ideology and they've spent two years insisting that they are incredibly weak
Not just weak, getting-bossed-around-by-utter-git-David-Seymour weak
Not just weak, getting-bossed-around-by-utter-git-David-Seymour weak
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Useful ruling from the Ombudsman on an extension decision, which reinforces a number of points. Specifically:
* extensions cannot be used to cover staff absences. Organisations can't use their own administrative inefficiency to gain more time...
* extensions cannot be used to cover staff absences. Organisations can't use their own administrative inefficiency to gain more time...
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Useful ruling from the Ombudsman on an extension decision, which reinforces a number of points. Specifically:
* extensions cannot be used to cover staff absences. Organisations can't use their own administrative inefficiency to gain more time...
* extensions cannot be used to cover staff absences. Organisations can't use their own administrative inefficiency to gain more time...
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Anyway: everyone who feels pissed off at the regime for wasting our time by ignoring our submissions, they're now saying they wasted our time in a completely different way. Also that nothing they say can be trusted, ever.
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Anyway: everyone who feels pissed off at the regime for wasting our time by ignoring our submissions, they're now saying they wasted our time in a completely different way. Also that nothing they say can be trusted, ever.
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I can't think of any better way for a regime to completely destroy its own credibility than to announce that it will campaign against its own legislative program, and repeal a law it has just spent two years passing.
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I can't think of any better way for a regime to completely destroy its own credibility than to announce that it will campaign against its own legislative program, and repeal a law it has just spent two years passing.
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"We might campaign on repealing the law we just passed" is dumber and more flailingly chaotic than literally ANYTHING on the left (and I'm making the call that that includes losing an MP to kleptomania and the implosion of TPM)
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
"We might campaign on repealing the law we just passed" is dumber and more flailingly chaotic than literally ANYTHING on the left (and I'm making the call that that includes losing an MP to kleptomania and the implosion of TPM)
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swear to god
[1966]
JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM: I have created the chatbot ELIZA to demonstrate that a machine can produce a facsimile of human language without true understanding
EVERYONE: at last, we have invented a machine capable of true understanding that will replace humans
JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM: I have created the chatbot ELIZA to demonstrate that a machine can produce a facsimile of human language without true understanding
EVERYONE: at last, we have invented a machine capable of true understanding that will replace humans
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
swear to god
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"handheld meat pie" implies the existence of the vehicle-mounted vegetarian pie.
"handheld meat pies" is truly the most cursed phrase anyone has ever used to describe this part of our national cuisine
* New Zealand takes pies (namely, handheld meat pies) so seriously that there are National Pie Awards that get major media coverage. The New Zealand National Library has a whole dedicated category for “Pies — Competitions.”
Pie.
Pie.
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
"handheld meat pie" implies the existence of the vehicle-mounted vegetarian pie.
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Sweet hairy Jesus; so much to unpack here. Rant incoming. tl;dr Once again local govt is told by central govt to do more things without commensurate funding, while other people milk it. Typical Nats. Socialise losses. Privatise gains. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
No more regional councils - major shake-up of local government announced
The government says it is not a power grab, but about "making local government fit for purpose".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Sweet hairy Jesus; so much to unpack here. Rant incoming. tl;dr Once again local govt is told by central govt to do more things without commensurate funding, while other people milk it. Typical Nats. Socialise losses. Privatise gains. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Who cut the $1000 Kickstarter? National
Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National
Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National
Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National.
Don't believe National on Kiwisaver.
#nzpol
Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National
Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National
Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National.
Don't believe National on Kiwisaver.
#nzpol
November 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Who cut the $1000 Kickstarter? National
Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National
Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National
Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National.
Don't believe National on Kiwisaver.
#nzpol
Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National
Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National
Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National.
Don't believe National on Kiwisaver.
#nzpol
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new gmail update is 100% to force you to autogoobrain yourself and juke the slopstats because turning it off disables every single rule and dumps everything directly into the inbox, especially and particularly all of the spam it was supposed to be blocking.
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
new gmail update is 100% to force you to autogoobrain yourself and juke the slopstats because turning it off disables every single rule and dumps everything directly into the inbox, especially and particularly all of the spam it was supposed to be blocking.
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I think that reading every cyberpunk story I could get my hands on in the 90s has made me simultaneously very prepared for this time in history and also inexpressibly morbid about it.
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I think that reading every cyberpunk story I could get my hands on in the 90s has made me simultaneously very prepared for this time in history and also inexpressibly morbid about it.
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Exactly this. This is both an act of deliberate cruelty towards a marginalised, vulnerable community and a trial balloon to see how far they can push, and how fast.
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Exactly this. This is both an act of deliberate cruelty towards a marginalised, vulnerable community and a trial balloon to see how far they can push, and how fast.
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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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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Quite apart from the design, I'm genuinely more convinced by the bottom one
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Quite apart from the design, I'm genuinely more convinced by the bottom one
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Some of you point out that the big players have used various tricks to keep their own $ safe. True.
That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud.
Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.
That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud.
Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Some of you point out that the big players have used various tricks to keep their own $ safe. True.
That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud.
Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.
That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud.
Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.
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"um actually it's extremely normal for men to try to fuck younger women who are socially subordinate to them"
yeah man, we know. that's kind of the whole problem. the normalness of it
yeah man, we know. that's kind of the whole problem. the normalness of it
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"um actually it's extremely normal for men to try to fuck younger women who are socially subordinate to them"
yeah man, we know. that's kind of the whole problem. the normalness of it
yeah man, we know. that's kind of the whole problem. the normalness of it
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Nicely put.
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Nicely put.