A better analysis thread than anything I've read so far from the political editors of our fair nation

Now I'm gonna cite you when I present the report at Tech Week 😂

I've been trying to match the original numbers in the 2024 report that is quoted to make more detailed commentary on it, but measuring the key graph in the Microsoft and Acceture report it has 'past' NZ GDPs of 357 billion for 2023 and 362 in 2024. And that matches no record I can find.

Yeah I had to cite the Accenture figure in a recent report kinda just to show how people were pulling ludicrous figures out their asses in 2023, before everyone realised that AI was lowering productivity due to ludicrous ass-pulling and that there was no sane revenue model.

5th May 2026 - Webinar: Rupturing the liberal grammar of ‘critical’ civil disobedience theories Come and hear 2025 NZCCL VUW Law Essay Prize winner Jessica Ye present her essay Rupturing the liberal grammar of ‘critical’ civil disobedience theories: Decolonial refusal of state recognition and af...

What does it mean when civil disobedience isn't a message to the political system but a rejection of it?

2025 NZCCL VUW Law essay prize winner Jessica Ye decolonises civil disobedience in the NZCCL webinar, 7:30pm Tuesday 5th May.

Details and sign-up here: nzccl.org.nz/5th-may-2026...

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Science-folks: If we run 100 experiments, we might find 1 or 2 of them may have results that can make many dollars.

NZ Govt: Excellent. We will fund those 1 or 2 experiments.

My friend who works in disarmament has long descended into absurdism and a year ago was expecting Japanese nukes to be the cutest, like deadly lil anime dildos

You & M are inspiring unicorns and examples of how trading in heteronormative household childcare responsibilities for electric motorcycles & cool witchy capes could possibly give you the extra brainjuice required to make it work

I have a literal Temu Le Creuset and it is the bomb

example after example of increasingly absurd lies by media in service of promoting NZF as a party for economic populism

this isnt just a trend anymore, folks

Peters is THE guy this election for media leadership and the gallery, ask yourselves why

I simply did not have it in me to get with the academic career grindset mentality

My MSc dissertation was published in JEMS, I got the top SocPol PhD at the LSE, & instead of publishing One Single Further Thing & starting yet another precarious career in my 40s, I went back to the civil service to die peacefully in my sleep no ragrats

i mean...

it's gonna be a sad day when winston peters dies. he's always just been there, you know? hasn't aged a day despite decades. handsome, charming, witty, intelligent desperately racis- ok yeah nah he's free to go

Break up supermarket duopoly and guarantee liveable incomes We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

"It is, on the surface, the boldest thing any political party has said about the grocery market in years."

A certain commentator on the NZ First announcement.

There's just one problem: the Greens announced a policy to break up the supermarket duopoly 4 years ago.

www.greens.org.nz/break_up_sup...

My poor mum has been on the phone to me twice so far for reassurance that she's not just being a boomer

Soylent Green is Raffle

"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/3634...

... buddy so could a car

Awww lil nasturtiums, they’ll be ok

Israel has an extensive history of violence against Jews throughout the region, both in the form of false-flag attacks to frighten wealthy Mizrahim into fleeing to Israel (most notably in Iraq and Egypt) and in the form of just straight-up bombing Jewish quarters (most notably in Beirut.)

What are we meant to do while the Evil Tech Overlords are monologuing again?

putting how useless Kezia is signalling she’s going to be in charge of Stonewall, it’s wild for The Guardian to describe the charity losing half its income for supporting trans rights as if it was something that happened organically and not as part of a massive hate campaign they took part in

Oh no, is this why my mum called me all confused about it

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Me putting the finishing touches on a Jiji the Cat soft toy, that is part of an elaborate Kiki's Delivery Service outfit I'm making for a toddler: "I don't do it for the 'gram, I do it for Compton"

Family of five cuts winter power bill to $100 by living 'eco-thrifty'

I loathe these articles, which always come with hidden privilege - an electric car, the ability to renovate. Same vibes as “we bought a home” (because we have generational wealth from our parents).

Media - the wealth distribution crisis isn’t about buying oats in bulk. Talk about taxing the rich.

It took almost exactly 3 years to go from, "check out these cool pictures of US presidents as wrestlers" to people throwing molotovs at Sam Altman's house

Bahahahahhahaaaa