Firehorsemia
@firehorsemia.bsky.social
Ōtautahi resident
Graphic design, mental health, bicycles and bullbreed dogs
Ms Hawthorn on Twitter
Graphic design, mental health, bicycles and bullbreed dogs
Ms Hawthorn on Twitter
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Those NZ Initiative statue avatar twitter pricks claiming Switzerland's referendum model is compatible with high development. Swiss women got the vote in 1971, after failed referenda in the past. It was 1990 when the last Canton gave women voting rights. In 2009 they banned minarets by referendum.
May 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Those NZ Initiative statue avatar twitter pricks claiming Switzerland's referendum model is compatible with high development. Swiss women got the vote in 1971, after failed referenda in the past. It was 1990 when the last Canton gave women voting rights. In 2009 they banned minarets by referendum.
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Are cats editing the SST now?
May 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Are cats editing the SST now?
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“There was still a minimum wage and additional payments such as Working for Families and the accommodation supplement that could be used to top up workers' wages.”
So they’re trying to prop up private companies by topping up poverty wages with taxpayer dollars?
#nzpol
So they’re trying to prop up private companies by topping up poverty wages with taxpayer dollars?
#nzpol
I trust a cleaner to tell the truth, but not the Minister of Finance.
Cleaner hits out at Willis' plan to scrap Living Wage for new contracts www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Cleaner hits out at Willis' plan to scrap Living Wage for new contracts www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Cleaner hits out at Willis' plan to scrap Living Wage for new contracts
The proposal sends a message that people like him don't matter, Liam Shaw says.
www.rnz.co.nz
March 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“There was still a minimum wage and additional payments such as Working for Families and the accommodation supplement that could be used to top up workers' wages.”
So they’re trying to prop up private companies by topping up poverty wages with taxpayer dollars?
#nzpol
So they’re trying to prop up private companies by topping up poverty wages with taxpayer dollars?
#nzpol
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One presumes no one involved in UK Labour did a quick search for "Robotdebt".
Because that should tell you exactly where this is going to go, both in terms of the human misery it resulted in and the fate of the government which introduced it.
Because that should tell you exactly where this is going to go, both in terms of the human misery it resulted in and the fate of the government which introduced it.
AI should replace some work of civil servants under new rules, Keir Starmer to announce
AI should replace some work of civil servants under new rules, Keir Starmer to announce
The new digital ‘mantra’, which aims to save the government £45bn, prompts unions to warn PM to stop blaming problems on Whitehall officials
AI should replace the work of government officials where it can be done to the same standard under new rules that…
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
One presumes no one involved in UK Labour did a quick search for "Robotdebt".
Because that should tell you exactly where this is going to go, both in terms of the human misery it resulted in and the fate of the government which introduced it.
Because that should tell you exactly where this is going to go, both in terms of the human misery it resulted in and the fate of the government which introduced it.
This certainly applies to all reporting on Seymour & ACT
the media's circular but default programming is to insist that anything that's said, regardless of its empirical weight, has the benefit of being valid because it was said
The funniest part of this is the lady at the end going “well we can talk about insanity as a strategy” because no one can just say what’s going on without someone trying to tell everyone it’s normal. A year from now it’ll be like well maybe peeing your pants is normal, maybe it makes your legs cool
March 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This certainly applies to all reporting on Seymour & ACT
These guys!
music.apple.com/nz/album/dia...
music.apple.com/nz/album/dia...
Diamond Street Players by Diamond Street Players on Apple Music
Album · 2019 · 10 Songs
music.apple.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
These guys!
music.apple.com/nz/album/dia...
music.apple.com/nz/album/dia...
Why?!
Is this ‘popular with friends’?
Why am I seeing this!
Is this ‘popular with friends’?
Why am I seeing this!
March 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Why?!
Is this ‘popular with friends’?
Why am I seeing this!
Is this ‘popular with friends’?
Why am I seeing this!
A spectacular premise.
This thread full of people going 'fuck centrists' but would they lift a finger to shoot their apolitical neighbour lady who didn't vote hard enough in the head when they find themselves in a failed state and she comes over to see if they need any lemons, I don't think so, smdh.
February 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A spectacular premise.
This is a hard compromise
I’ve always been proper left & have despaired as the Overton Window has cleaved to the right over the years.
The left needs a reboot to remember who they really are
I’ve always been proper left & have despaired as the Overton Window has cleaved to the right over the years.
The left needs a reboot to remember who they really are
The Left needs to find some middle ground between "we must embody what self-identifying centerists told us they wanted in a focus group three years ago" and "fuck the centre we're better off without them".
February 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
This is a hard compromise
I’ve always been proper left & have despaired as the Overton Window has cleaved to the right over the years.
The left needs a reboot to remember who they really are
I’ve always been proper left & have despaired as the Overton Window has cleaved to the right over the years.
The left needs a reboot to remember who they really are
February 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I’m assuming there’s a reason this land hasn’t been built on before now - is it the fact that it was a lagoon before the earthquake?
January 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I’m assuming there’s a reason this land hasn’t been built on before now - is it the fact that it was a lagoon before the earthquake?
Recognise these techniques?
I wrote something based on @andycraig.bsky.social's oped about the new "free speech crisis" specifically calling out how the biggest attackers of free speech use the language of free speech to suppress the speech of others. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/t...
The Faux Free Speech Warriors Attacking Free Speech
There’s a particularly insidious and cynical form of censorship gaining prominence in America: the weaponization of “free speech” rhetoric, combined with abuses of the judicial sy…
www.techdirt.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Recognise these techniques?
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Whenever someone tries to run the government like a business they do the same stupid bullshit every useless upper management asshole does. Slash staffing and hours and try and make it run with the bare minimum. They tank the business severely , and everyone is unhappy. Rinse repeat
January 31, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Whenever someone tries to run the government like a business they do the same stupid bullshit every useless upper management asshole does. Slash staffing and hours and try and make it run with the bare minimum. They tank the business severely , and everyone is unhappy. Rinse repeat
Citizen Thiel is at again with his own brand of conspiracism.
“Critics of Thiel’s column call it “beyond nuts,” like an “edited version of one of those lunatic emails journalists get sometimes with 8 different fonts in 9 different colors,” a piece “that perfectly replicates the experience of being cornered by a sweaty cokehead”
newrepublic.com/article/1901...
newrepublic.com/article/1901...
Peter Thiel’s Twisted Vision for the Trump Presidency
The tech billionaire believes Trump will help to reveal hidden truths—like how Jeffrey Epstein actually died. But beneath his conspiracism lies a very real, very dangerous political theory.
newrepublic.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Citizen Thiel is at again with his own brand of conspiracism.
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This is actually fucked. A NZ based company is essentially empowering large retailers to create, hold, and share a massive facial recognition crowdsourced database of everyone who ever goes into a big box retailer. Wtf.
January 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This is actually fucked. A NZ based company is essentially empowering large retailers to create, hold, and share a massive facial recognition crowdsourced database of everyone who ever goes into a big box retailer. Wtf.
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Big week for me legally releasing some of the hate in my heart ☺️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Big week for me legally releasing some of the hate in my heart ☺️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is why Americans are so tiresome.
Normal elections last a month or so whereas Americans campaign all the fucken time.
The democrats in the senate & house need to do their jobs as the opposition and actually oppose
Normal elections last a month or so whereas Americans campaign all the fucken time.
The democrats in the senate & house need to do their jobs as the opposition and actually oppose
January 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This is why Americans are so tiresome.
Normal elections last a month or so whereas Americans campaign all the fucken time.
The democrats in the senate & house need to do their jobs as the opposition and actually oppose
Normal elections last a month or so whereas Americans campaign all the fucken time.
The democrats in the senate & house need to do their jobs as the opposition and actually oppose
Oops, I forgot Julian Clary’s Sticky Moments too.
Such a great night for appointment TV back then
Such a great night for appointment TV back then
Back in the late 80s in Aotearoa/NZ, my friends & I used to rush home on a Friday to the nearest of our houses to watch Red Dwarf & Who’s Line.
Loved Tony Slattery. Maybe had a wee crush.
Vail Tony 😭🥰
Loved Tony Slattery. Maybe had a wee crush.
Vail Tony 😭🥰
January 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Oops, I forgot Julian Clary’s Sticky Moments too.
Such a great night for appointment TV back then
Such a great night for appointment TV back then
Back in the late 80s in Aotearoa/NZ, my friends & I used to rush home on a Friday to the nearest of our houses to watch Red Dwarf & Who’s Line.
Loved Tony Slattery. Maybe had a wee crush.
Vail Tony 😭🥰
Loved Tony Slattery. Maybe had a wee crush.
Vail Tony 😭🥰
January 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Back in the late 80s in Aotearoa/NZ, my friends & I used to rush home on a Friday to the nearest of our houses to watch Red Dwarf & Who’s Line.
Loved Tony Slattery. Maybe had a wee crush.
Vail Tony 😭🥰
Loved Tony Slattery. Maybe had a wee crush.
Vail Tony 😭🥰
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January 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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2/ Freedom of speech does not extend to disinformation. We need to criminalize such conduct and bring anyone who engages in such conduct to justice.
January 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
2/ Freedom of speech does not extend to disinformation. We need to criminalize such conduct and bring anyone who engages in such conduct to justice.