Ken Sparks
@sparksedit.bsky.social
40 years in Tāmaki Makaurau editing docos and stuff, had to get out of a chair and get moving so now a builder in Whāingaroa.
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December 5, 2024 at 9:52 AM
I’m really not disappointed with the current government, they’re living up to every damaging policy they promised and more.
#nationalnotfittogovern
#nationalnotfittogovern
December 4, 2024 at 6:06 PM
I’m really not disappointed with the current government, they’re living up to every damaging policy they promised and more.
#nationalnotfittogovern
#nationalnotfittogovern
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Dear Judith Collins i have developmented in my lab a process for turning swamp kauri logs into dairy powder. Also if you turn the machine up to 11 it turns it straight into bitcoin. Please get your flunkies to set up an appointment at my earliest convenients.
December 4, 2024 at 6:00 AM
Dear Judith Collins i have developmented in my lab a process for turning swamp kauri logs into dairy powder. Also if you turn the machine up to 11 it turns it straight into bitcoin. Please get your flunkies to set up an appointment at my earliest convenients.
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The Government's entire strategy is built on the idea that spending cuts and Government debt reduction work to improve economic growth and reduce public indebtedness (debt-to-gdp). The trouble is the actual evidence from the IMF, OECD & World Bank shows that doesn't work. 1/3
December 3, 2024 at 7:28 PM
The Government's entire strategy is built on the idea that spending cuts and Government debt reduction work to improve economic growth and reduce public indebtedness (debt-to-gdp). The trouble is the actual evidence from the IMF, OECD & World Bank shows that doesn't work. 1/3
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And now we have the answer: the Auditor-General agrees. Redundancies and holiday back pay was counted in the year before they were incurred. Former CFO Rosalie Hughes is vindicated, and Lester Levy is left looking quite untrustworthy.
December 4, 2024 at 8:07 AM
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Fun fact: universal basic income was once such a broadly popular idea that *Richard Nixon* sponsored a bill in the 70s. It took a long time to die, and only for the stupidest reason possible.
November 27, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Fun fact: universal basic income was once such a broadly popular idea that *Richard Nixon* sponsored a bill in the 70s. It took a long time to die, and only for the stupidest reason possible.
Emmaline over on Twitter just posted a great photo of herself and asked others to post their own iconic photo. I came up with this one. Sadly the trees are all chopped down now or poisoned. It would have made such a beautiful park…
Post your own iconic photo.
www.stuff.co.nz/national/122...
Post your own iconic photo.
www.stuff.co.nz/national/122...
December 21, 2023 at 5:20 AM
Emmaline over on Twitter just posted a great photo of herself and asked others to post their own iconic photo. I came up with this one. Sadly the trees are all chopped down now or poisoned. It would have made such a beautiful park…
Post your own iconic photo.
www.stuff.co.nz/national/122...
Post your own iconic photo.
www.stuff.co.nz/national/122...
I’m going to get a Covid booster tomorrow and I’m pretty sure it won’t kill me.
December 3, 2023 at 7:37 AM
I’m going to get a Covid booster tomorrow and I’m pretty sure it won’t kill me.
This new government, supposedly led by Chris Luxon is an absolute disgrace. I knew they’d be chaotic but not this inhumane, untruthful and downright uncaring. Allowing kids to take up smoking tobacco to fund tax cuts defies every sensible evidence-based policy to phase it out.
November 29, 2023 at 8:31 AM
This new government, supposedly led by Chris Luxon is an absolute disgrace. I knew they’d be chaotic but not this inhumane, untruthful and downright uncaring. Allowing kids to take up smoking tobacco to fund tax cuts defies every sensible evidence-based policy to phase it out.
If we can’t have co-governance on a national level we can still have it (and need it) locally.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
November 28, 2023 at 12:58 AM
If we can’t have co-governance on a national level we can still have it (and need it) locally.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
‘The number of MPs inside and outside Cabinet has swollen to 30 members. Some 44% of the coalition’s MPs now belong to the Executive, with access to elevated salaries and to a myriad of perks… Forget the Christmas mini-Budget. For some, Christmas has already arrived.’
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL23...
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL23...
November 26, 2023 at 9:44 PM
‘The number of MPs inside and outside Cabinet has swollen to 30 members. Some 44% of the coalition’s MPs now belong to the Executive, with access to elevated salaries and to a myriad of perks… Forget the Christmas mini-Budget. For some, Christmas has already arrived.’
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL23...
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL23...
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November 21, 2023 at 8:33 AM
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November 21, 2023 at 6:20 PM
I’ve been using PEACE as my Wordle start word, it’s been working out okay…
November 21, 2023 at 6:29 PM
I’ve been using PEACE as my Wordle start word, it’s been working out okay…
Never apologize for advocating peace or freedom
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politic...
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politic...
Chlöe Swarbrick apologises to 'those who have felt' pro-Palestine chant 'offended them' | Newshub
She used the chant during a rally in Auckland at the weekend.
www.newshub.co.nz
November 8, 2023 at 7:32 PM
Never apologize for advocating peace or freedom
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politic...
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politic...
November 5, 2023 at 1:40 AM
I’ve been using peace as my Wordle start word lately.
Forever hopeful…
Forever hopeful…
October 25, 2023 at 9:21 PM
I’ve been using peace as my Wordle start word lately.
Forever hopeful…
Forever hopeful…
‘…even after this summer of undeniable climate crisis devastation, the Green message is one that still only resonates enough to count as a vote with one in ten of the voters.’
@DavidSlack open.substack.com/pub/subslack...
@DavidSlack open.substack.com/pub/subslack...
Not without our cranky grandad you don't
What I saw at the bloodbath
open.substack.com
October 14, 2023 at 11:36 PM
‘…even after this summer of undeniable climate crisis devastation, the Green message is one that still only resonates enough to count as a vote with one in ten of the voters.’
@DavidSlack open.substack.com/pub/subslack...
@DavidSlack open.substack.com/pub/subslack...
This song just popped up on my Spotify and remembered how much fun it was cutting this clip with the very talented Joe Lonie directing…
youtu.be/DNSF3LaN_6k?...
youtu.be/DNSF3LaN_6k?...
September 30, 2023 at 11:14 PM
This song just popped up on my Spotify and remembered how much fun it was cutting this clip with the very talented Joe Lonie directing…
youtu.be/DNSF3LaN_6k?...
youtu.be/DNSF3LaN_6k?...
Kia ora - got a code (thanks Paul) and hopped on here before X degenerates completely.
September 24, 2023 at 11:32 PM
Kia ora - got a code (thanks Paul) and hopped on here before X degenerates completely.