With the list out today, for Aotearoa New Zealand to get get it's first Palestinian Member of Parliament the Green Party would need to get 14.4% of the vote
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The comments from both senior ministers on RNZ's Morning Report signalled the election campaign has well and truly begun, with Willis also saying Peters was "mischief-making". She went on to say that Labour was "choosing to get into bed with the party that referred to Indians choosing to come to New Zealand as a 'butter chicken tsunami'". Willis' comments were on the weekly Morning Report political panel alongside Labour's Tangi Utikere, who she accused of being in a party that was "courting exactly the same concerns that New Zealand First are trying to whip up" in regards to the New Zealand-India free trade agreement.
Nicola Willis, in coalition with NZ First, accusing Labour of jumping into bed with NZ First and using racist comments made by her coalition partner, NZ First.
Ihab, one of the people in Gaza I've known the longest, needs someone to start a new GoFundMe campaign, if anyone in a country where this is possible (it's not in mine) would be available to help send me a message and I'll put you in touch with him
"Over 371,888 housing units have been destroyed or damaged, more than 50 per cent of hospitals are non-functional, and nearly all schools have been destroyed or damaged. The economy has contracted by 84 per cent."
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It's now thermal underwear season in Ōtautahi, at least for those of us who leave the house before dawn 🥶
The traditional ways of knowing prove true yet again (with replacement Winston).
Every Facebook post about about a Green Party policy announcement is like
[Policy throughly researched by a bunch of wonks, fully costed with economic impact forecasted]
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Barry: And I guess without cars we'll ride unicorns to work 🤣 🦄
Gary: Chole flys business class
BREAKING: New Study Finds A Robot Holding A Knife Running At You Screaming Causes Fear. Scientists Hope This Will Lead to New Therapeutic Devices In The Future
Video: ‘Homophobic’ 6-Week-Old Baby Cries After Gay Dad Tells Him ‘There Is No Mama’
Maybe we'll keep some InfoWars content up.
passed a beat up pickup truck with a bumper sticker that said "my other truck is a tiny penis"
The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.
Get excited.
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Comic. I’m at my desk, leaning over to the doorway, saying “Hey! Foghorn! Foghorn Leghorn! Get in here!” Foghorn Leghorn is walking past the doorway, “Boy, I tell ya, I tell ya, not so loud, boy. What, I say, I say, what d’ya want?” Next panel, I’m gesturing to my computer. “How do I find that really good manga you recommended? It’s an anime now? I keep getting Halloween costumes.” Foghorn leans over my chair, “well, boy, I say, I say, you ain’t typin the entire title.” Last panel, I turn around- “you said ‘witch hat.’ Foghorn gets in my face- “open your ears, boy!! ‘Witch Hat Atelier, I tell ya! I tell ya ‘Atelier,’ I tell ya’”
How I’ve Been Pronouncing It (Feat. Foghorn Leghorn, my… roommate?)
NYT article: 15 Dead After Comedian's Subway Take That "Everyone Should Carry Around a Grenade" Jeremy Kaplowitz's "explosive" Subway Take joke was not well-received by everyone who heard it — especially considering many of them have died gruesomely.
i still think this is true but i "100% disagree" with how it went down. really really sorry about that!
An in-person colloquium in French, entitled “Planifier la transformation économique et sociale” (Planning for Social and Ecological Transformation), will be held at the University of Lausanne on Thursday April 23rd from 8:45AM-5PM UTC+2. www.indep.network/event/colloq...
We have a guide to making a submission on our blog that you can find here: bsky.app/profile/papa...
The Government is quietly legalising the mass photographing of rangatahi Māori by police. Submissions on this Bill close at 2pm on Wednesday 22nd April. www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...
Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Reduce Rate Limits Edward Zitron Apr 20, 2026 4 min read Executive Summary: Internal documents reveal that Microsoft plans to temporarily suspend individual account signups to Github Copilot, as it transitions from requests (single interactions with Copilot) towards token-based billing. The documents reveal that the weekly cost of running Github Copilot has doubled since the start of the year. Microsoft also intends to reduce the rate limits on its individual and business accounts, and to remove access to certain models for those with the cheapest subscriptions.
Exclusive: Microsoft is reducing rate limits on GitHub Copilot, removing Opus from $10-a-month subscriptions, and plans to move users to token/API-based billing some time later in 2026 in a sign that it's looking for way to cut costs for its AI services.
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A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"
ghoulish
leftists are my greatest adversary because they are destroying america destroying america or being rude to you online? being rude to me online
liberals on this microblogging website
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
Becoming an anarchist I think has irreversibly changed the way I interact with stories. I get irrationally infuriated when light & trashy stories introduce characters like police, soldiers, nobility, kings, etc. as main characters & romantic interests
Just as the impacts of climate change are really starting to bite, AoNZ as a nation is busy 'deprioritising' research funding into it. You can probably tell from some of the quotes how chill I'm feeling about this.
"butter chicken tsunami"
Echos of "taco trucks on every corner" xenophobic, no doubt, but also sounds like a delicious outcome we should be bringing about, not avoiding
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Shane Jones is spouting some of the most vile racism I have heard in #nzpol and it's barely being reported on. Left bloc MPs have lost careers for far less.
NZ media has this strange presumption of evil that ultimately empowers our worst politicians.
We turned rivers into road and wetlands into suburbs.
Extreme weather turns them back to rivers and wetlands.
This is what the #ClimateCrisis looks like.
The govt has weakened workers rights, cancelled perfectly good ferries, taken money from women, focused on gang patches, created more unemployment, and constantly is trying to dismantle the Treaty. They’ll literally do anything but fix cost the living crisis WHICH WAS THEIR ONE JOB.
bless Scaachi
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