I thought things would be different after shaw left but the Greens really are sticking with the "everything the same but 2% better" policy platform

Ok maybe they were onto something when they cracked jokes about the left being too wordy lmao

Kinda insane that the MMH breach has been public knowledge since halfway through last year and mainstream reporting is only just catching up on it

Trying to save money and someone posted the Discworld boardgame for sale

I'd never support an extraterritorial extraction of a leader to justify regime change so an exile population can return home, imagine if we kidnapped the president of South Africa and all ... Ok hold up

you don’t actually have to tow the line on foreign policy out of some immensely misguided respect for ‘national unity’ or whatever. this is a coalition government that is actively supporting genocide and US state terrorism. give people a fucking alternative asap please

Its kinda ironic that the US is accusing Maduro of Narco terrorism when they've just bombed civilian infrastructure through coked up helicopter pilots

Curtis Sliwa here beating every single half assed chat gpt political commentator by pointing out that Mamdani has been around for a while, and 100k volunteers and solid retail politics - not tiktok - won the Mayoralty.

Incroyable song, tho I prefer the one about Necrophilia (which is not a comment I want to make often or ever)

They're so bad at doing politics it makes my teeth hurt

People complain about the idea of like a centrally run product design and delivery system in favour of some kind of private alternative but everyone in NZ with new things seems to just own shit from Kmart and Temu these days anyway like the only difference is some fuckwit is profiting lmao.

Western excess is going to end voluntarily or as a result of polycrisis. There's no political or cultural power strong enough to keep the gravy train flowing and it'd be nice to see more politicians begin to get serious about redistributive degrowth.

A scroll through Bishops posting history is enough to void him as any ally of anyone who even pretends at moderate social or economic centrism, let alone leftism. He is, at best, an ecological fascist.

sorry but if Hipkins knew about the original mcskimming allegations then his leadership is actually untenable. he HAS to go

i guess the other thing to note about this, is it reveals somewhat the extent to which powerful people avoid paper trails so that there is less transparency and accountability. what else gets treated in this way?

Like no shade against the woman herself, she's earned it and more! But her politics are fucked.

One of the greatest indictments of Ardern's political project is how she's distanced herself from NZ politics despite leveraging her time as prime minister for increasingly vast personal gain and to grow recognition abroad. Sort of a political version of startups in NZ that just aim to be bought out

Emergency services respond to incident at Christchurch daycare RNZ understands that five children and one adult have been transported to hospital after suffering chemical burns.

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This needs to be directly linked with the reduction in trained staff and health and safety requirements in early childhood education. The sloughed off skin is on Seymour's hands

People will say magic doesn't exist and then refuse to explain how the HMS New Zealand avoided all damage during WW1 while the captain wore a piupiu and hei tiki.

By my estimates Hamilton can reopen/offer new services 2 more times before they run out of room

Goes against the spirit of the 1990s privatizations. If Fay Richwhite can get out of it scot free everyone else should be able to as well

When people talk about what they liked about Mamdani's campaign they talk about the promise to make community supermarkets or how he made a genuine effort to engage with voters. No one except for wonks picked up on the fucking fonts and signs lmao

They stacked the dishwasher, loaded up the finish and fucking heavy cycled my goat, she's washed dawg 😭

I do love (hate) that the 90s have been so totally memory holed beyond Ruthanasia in NZ. The misery inflicted on people was terrible sure but there are like a dozen people with names and address who made dozens of millions from that misery who live happy lives lmao.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Photoplayer Unusual Instrument Used In Silent Films YouTube video by DeanScottPresents

Never heard of a Photoplayer?

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The reason techbroes are scared of AGI is it'll completely invalidate them as a class, there's no need for tech billionaires if we have general intelligences that can make impartial decisions. This is why they want to develop and control any potential for singularity, so it can be slaved to them

Once you understand the history of the Waikato river you'll want to beat dairy farmers to death with your bare hands

How the oil and gas industry helped rewrite New Zealand’s drilling rules A paper trail shows just how far ministers went to accommodate the industry's wishlist, including giving it access to draft laws.

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This is actually deranged, there's no universe where this style of legislation, complete caving to the industry that privately benefits at the taxpayer expense, is a fair and just process!