Wrote something a bit longer - is still rather unfiltered and ranty - about the proposed changes to the Total Mobility scheme for disabled persons.

It's still a sh*tty proposal and now I go into this in more detail in the post:

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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

"Turnover of doctors who achieve medical registration is very high with 60% of these doctors leaving New Zealand within two years. Retention is the substantive problem, not registration."

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The poem 'Dangerous Coats' by contemporary Irish writer Sharon Owens #womensart
Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914
#WomensArt

Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol

"AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor."

The One Piece pirate flag, first used in Indonesian protests, is spreading across Asia and beyond as a symbol of youth resistance against injustice and authoritarianism.

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This RBNZ story is really huge - it should also put Quigley's role at University of Waikato in question

This week NZ First pulled its support for Marama Davidson’s Consumer Guarantees (Right To Repair) Amendment Bill.
Maybe repairing stuff is a bit too woke for NZ First.
My Stuff #NZpol #cartoon #RightToRepair #ConsumerGuarantees

Sick again? This month, in some New Zealand schools, there have been days when more than 50% of students have been absent due to illness. Let’s get clean air happening in all schools and early childhood settings.

Fonterra rejects the idea of two-tiered butter prices to give NZers a discount – but there are already two price tiers.

We pay high butter prices PLUS the price of polluted rivers, massive climate emissions and contaminated drinking water.
#TooManyCows
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*Liberation theology has entered the chat*

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers.

AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

On 6th anniversary of terror attack on mosques in Ōtautahi Christchurch. We will never forget March 15, the shuhada, those injured and their families, but forever hold to the response inspired by peace, love, compassion and unity. I wrote this last year newsroom.co.nz/2024/03/13/m...

The new Local Government (Water Services) Bill seeks to take precedent over Treaty settlements - a hugely problematic direction for the government to be taking.

Here's the excerpt from Hamilton City Council's draft submission which talks about how it effects the Waikato-Tainui settlement.

Ōtautahi peeps, check out the JazzUp Jazz Jam. We have some amazing local talent.

We're into our 4th year. This Tuesday 4 Feb 7pm, we kick off 2025.

No cover charge, get a drink at the bar, be surprised and often dazzled. At Good Times Comedy Club, 224 St Asaph Street.

More than 50 years after becoming the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer continues to make history – and for the first time, in New Zealand.

I’m seeing a lot of people shocked and not used to this tone coming out of society’s leaders, whether political or business leaders, when they address Trump. Those of us who’ve lived in and reported from Moscow and Beijing though. We’ve seen this.