Muelly
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NZ sucks so hard we could make diamonds with our unwillingness to join the 21st C
Australia has had solar subsidies for so long that some of my Aussie colleagues are eligible for a second round of upgrades because it's been ten years.
NZ meanwhile, we can't have nice things. It might upset the status quo.
NZ meanwhile, we can't have nice things. It might upset the status quo.
December 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
NZ sucks so hard we could make diamonds with our unwillingness to join the 21st C
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overnight, australia became the first idiotic country to ban social media for anyone under 16 years old, and new zealand's education minister has confirmed NZ intends to be the second idiotic country before the next election. @dylanreeve.com looks at why this is DUMB: www.webworm.co/socialmediaban/
Banning Social Media For Kids Is So F--king Dumb
David Farrier's Webworm: Australia becomes the first country to ban social media for under-16s, and New Zealand's Education Minister has confirmed that Aotearoa intends to be the second. Dylan Reeve r...
www.webworm.co
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
overnight, australia became the first idiotic country to ban social media for anyone under 16 years old, and new zealand's education minister has confirmed NZ intends to be the second idiotic country before the next election. @dylanreeve.com looks at why this is DUMB: www.webworm.co/socialmediaban/
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Okay but having Willis and Richardson debate "is the government not right-wing enough or just the right amount of right-wing?" is a trap, and it's a trap that's explicitly being run by the TPU. Y'all see that, right?
December 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Okay but having Willis and Richardson debate "is the government not right-wing enough or just the right amount of right-wing?" is a trap, and it's a trap that's explicitly being run by the TPU. Y'all see that, right?
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#NZPol
Kiwis: …
Stuff: Are holidays too long?
RNZ: Will GST go up?
Stuff: Ruth Richardson to debate Willis!
Fuck our shitass media. Just fucking go home you dickheads.
Kiwis: …
Stuff: Are holidays too long?
RNZ: Will GST go up?
Stuff: Ruth Richardson to debate Willis!
Fuck our shitass media. Just fucking go home you dickheads.
December 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
#NZPol
Kiwis: …
Stuff: Are holidays too long?
RNZ: Will GST go up?
Stuff: Ruth Richardson to debate Willis!
Fuck our shitass media. Just fucking go home you dickheads.
Kiwis: …
Stuff: Are holidays too long?
RNZ: Will GST go up?
Stuff: Ruth Richardson to debate Willis!
Fuck our shitass media. Just fucking go home you dickheads.
It’s a grift at this stage
Comment: In the face of an unaffordable infrastructure deficit, AI speeds decarbonisation, asset stewardship and climate adaptation, says Beca's Thomas Hyde.
AI could be the answer to NZ's infrastructure problem
newsroom.co.nz
December 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
It’s a grift at this stage
Expecting much the same when new medical products legislation is introduced.
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Expecting much the same when new medical products legislation is introduced.
RNZ can fuck right off with this bullshit
Why does New Zealand take such a long summer holiday break?
Why does New Zealand take such a long summer holiday break?
Explainer - Are our summer breaks too long - and how did they become a Kiwi institution?
www.rnz.co.nz
December 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
RNZ can fuck right off with this bullshit
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When the most toxic finance minister in a generation isn’t toxic enough for the most toxic finance minister ever.
Nicola Willis going thermonuclear on Ruth Richardson and TPU's upcoming campaign against her.
She says she wants Ruth Richardson to stop "lurking in the shadows with secretly funded ads in the paper" and debate her directly on her "tolerance for human misery".
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
She says she wants Ruth Richardson to stop "lurking in the shadows with secretly funded ads in the paper" and debate her directly on her "tolerance for human misery".
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Nicola Willis challenges Ruth Richardson to debate on ‘tolerance for human misery’
The Finance Minister hits back at her National Party predecessor - but Richardson is not interested in “pistols at dawn”.
www.thepost.co.nz
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
When the most toxic finance minister in a generation isn’t toxic enough for the most toxic finance minister ever.
Delete USA and replace with your own Anglosphere country of choice
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
December 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Delete USA and replace with your own Anglosphere country of choice
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It's weird how all the studies show that a 4-day week and UBI makes societies wealthier, more productive, and happier, but the RW govt types keep insisting on unemployment, austerity, longer hours, and shit labour rights
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
It's weird how all the studies show that a 4-day week and UBI makes societies wealthier, more productive, and happier, but the RW govt types keep insisting on unemployment, austerity, longer hours, and shit labour rights
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Remember when it was too much WFH that was the problem? This is just that again – finding something to point at and blame. The fact that the economy is full of seasonal businesses that make their money in summer is studiously ignored. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
‘Are we still in holiday mode until March?’ Simon Bridges also questions the long summer break
The summer shutdown is coming but should the Kiwi summer holiday still stay sacrosanct?
www.stuff.co.nz
December 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Remember when it was too much WFH that was the problem? This is just that again – finding something to point at and blame. The fact that the economy is full of seasonal businesses that make their money in summer is studiously ignored. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
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And the deputy PM from Snapchat?
If we are going to ban children from social media can we also ban the PM from TikTok?
December 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
And the deputy PM from Snapchat?
Mostly its useful idiots here in NZ
Banning children from social media really means a push for adult digital ID. Tech giants failed at their first generation ‘real names policies’. This time, they‘ve outsourced the work to corporate-supporting politicians and useful idiots.
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Mostly its useful idiots here in NZ
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This is terrible policy that likely forces all users to identify themselves to online services, and fails to recognise the reality of the world in which modern teenagers exist and communicate.
It is a knee jerk policy response to a poorly understood issue defined by people who don't talk to kids
It is a knee jerk policy response to a poorly understood issue defined by people who don't talk to kids
December 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is terrible policy that likely forces all users to identify themselves to online services, and fails to recognise the reality of the world in which modern teenagers exist and communicate.
It is a knee jerk policy response to a poorly understood issue defined by people who don't talk to kids
It is a knee jerk policy response to a poorly understood issue defined by people who don't talk to kids
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When Tasman flooded this year, with people trapped & millions of $ in damage, lost livehlihoods. Luxon flew to a Hawaii for holiday. He didn't tell anyone until he got back.
Now he tells NZ we don't deserve our Xmas holidays & we're not American enough. The man with NO portfolio is a tosser #nzpol
Now he tells NZ we don't deserve our Xmas holidays & we're not American enough. The man with NO portfolio is a tosser #nzpol
December 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
When Tasman flooded this year, with people trapped & millions of $ in damage, lost livehlihoods. Luxon flew to a Hawaii for holiday. He didn't tell anyone until he got back.
Now he tells NZ we don't deserve our Xmas holidays & we're not American enough. The man with NO portfolio is a tosser #nzpol
Now he tells NZ we don't deserve our Xmas holidays & we're not American enough. The man with NO portfolio is a tosser #nzpol
Finally!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Wellington region to ditch Snapper public transport cards
Public transport users will be able to tag on with their phones and debit cards, as a councillors says locals are "sick of waiting" for a national system.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Finally!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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This is the case for a majority of people in New Zealand due to the response in 2020 and 2021 which could explain why our excess mortality continue to be lower than other countries. Lockdown gets proven to be the right decision (at the time).
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
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December 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This is the case for a majority of people in New Zealand due to the response in 2020 and 2021 which could explain why our excess mortality continue to be lower than other countries. Lockdown gets proven to be the right decision (at the time).
I wonder what someone looking back in 50 years from now will say about some of the decisions of the Luxon government... www.stuff.co.nz/money/360910...
The ‘enormous bribe’ 50 years ago that cost New Zealand $625 billion. And the price we will pay for decades
Changes made today will still take decades to make up for the shortfall of a decision made in 1975. Damien Venuto looks into how a fiery politician changed the course of New Zealand’s history.
www.stuff.co.nz
December 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I wonder what someone looking back in 50 years from now will say about some of the decisions of the Luxon government... www.stuff.co.nz/money/360910...
Not entirely sure why people are suddenly finding Andrew Coster so believable.
December 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Not entirely sure why people are suddenly finding Andrew Coster so believable.
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Informal briefings are used to stay off the radar. If you intend anything to done by an organisation, you make it a formal briefing/communication. So even if Coster is telling the truth, he didn't want anything to happen.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Andrew Coster alleges Hipkins, Mitchell knew more about McSkimming than they admitted
The former police commissioner claims he told Hipkins about McSkimming’s affair during a car trip.
www.stuff.co.nz
December 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Informal briefings are used to stay off the radar. If you intend anything to done by an organisation, you make it a formal briefing/communication. So even if Coster is telling the truth, he didn't want anything to happen.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
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One of the obvious impacts of Govt not investing into a downturn is tanking taxes (= higher deficits). Countless examples across the world, but sadly most of our reckonomics commentariat are small island caveman monetarists, so, prices going up? Ug. Throw kiwis on the dole, ug, crash economy. [🧵1/n]
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One of the obvious impacts of Govt not investing into a downturn is tanking taxes (= higher deficits). Countless examples across the world, but sadly most of our reckonomics commentariat are small island caveman monetarists, so, prices going up? Ug. Throw kiwis on the dole, ug, crash economy. [🧵1/n]
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DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
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Weekly jobs data update. The grind back to standstill continues. It still looks like it will be February 2026 before we see annual job growth increase to, errrm, zero.
NB The 34 days series is more complete / stable than the 20 days series. [🧵1/n]
NB The 34 days series is more complete / stable than the 20 days series. [🧵1/n]
December 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Weekly jobs data update. The grind back to standstill continues. It still looks like it will be February 2026 before we see annual job growth increase to, errrm, zero.
NB The 34 days series is more complete / stable than the 20 days series. [🧵1/n]
NB The 34 days series is more complete / stable than the 20 days series. [🧵1/n]