‘Korean oil refiners have sharply scaled back jet fuel production, diverting much of the adjusted volume to domestic demand. As the world’s top jet fuel exporter, Korea is a critical lifeline for countries like the US, Australia & NZ.’ koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-04...
Told my wife to have dinner ready at 6 or I'll obliterate her entire civilization. So anyway, she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free, and I didn't get any dinner, but I'm pretty sure I won that exchange.
I lol'd at this.😆
I will give Democratic leadership credit for this much: they really do leave no stone unturned when it comes to searching for ways to do something other than their jobs
They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno
❌️ ongoing kiwisaver contributions + student loan repayments while on parental leave - if you take leave to raise babies, you are financially penalised via stagnant kiwisaver payments and paused student loan payments, leaving women in particular worse off financially.
❌️ reduced career opportunities
❌️ a dominant culture that LIKES and VALUES children (how many anti-kid posts do you see on social media? Too many posts are deemed completely acceptable but dunk on kids being kids, and/or wish for public spaces/third spaces to be child-free)
❌️ a dominant culture that supports women
Old white dude says
"There's been all these measures put in place to try and halt or reverse fertility decline and there are literally no examples of them succeeding"
I would say, unequivocally, that the measures are half-assed, inadequate, & fail to address the inequities women face.
For eg...
I don't know if Netanyahu *literally* told Trump to go f*ck himself in response to Trump begging Israel to reduce its ceasefire-killing attacks on Lebanon, but surely that's the *implicit* message behind Israel continuing to pound the sh*t out of that nation.
Weakest POTUS ever.
"In 24 hours, Trump seesawed from being prepared to enact a literal genocide on the Iranian people to deciding the Iranian govt was his business partner. This reversal makes sense in his head & nowhere else, but since there’s no guardrails, everyone has to treat this as rational behavior & move on."
I have encountered and engaged with many Trump supporters, hearing them patiently out each time: and every single one of them, whether beneath a veneer of politeness or not, exhibited a fundamental spite and meanness about their fellow human beings that I found horrifying.
These fucking guys are the stupidest people ever to have the potential to end the world.
Simple solution to low birth rates is to learn from history. The baby boom was founded on delivering a welfare state in a unionised society with taxes effective on the wealthy, preceded by five years killing fascists and their leaders.
God fucking dammit. Our government couldn't be more fucking stupid if stupid were the goal.
the bargain that put RFK Jr in charge of American health in exchange for putting Donald Trump back in the White House may go down as the single worst deal in all of human history
we have got to get it together, in like twenty-four hours the astronauts are back
Probably end of July
My friends and I are covering signups if you can't afford it! Just message me :)
What we do need is to get some good candidates for the two board seats to be filled!
Too early for voting instructions!
But the FSU is sending mailings out to their members trying to get them engaged again.
Just getting it on y'all's radar. :)
None of that is up yet - won't be for a while.
Is it time to tear into the #InternetNZ posting again, team?
@loosewheelnz.bsky.social
@cucumber.bsky.social
@kiwibrew.bsky.social
@oldmatecans.bsky.social
@barryhannah.bsky.social
@keithng.bsky.social
@amscraig.bsky.social
@jennykaynz.bsky.social
@kumararepublic.bsky.social
And don't forget to join as an #InternetNZ member to ensure you can vote for vacant board seats and in the AGM! If the timing is anything like last year this will kick off in July.
internetnz.nz/membership/
If you are already a member check your expiry!
members.internetnz.nz/user/login
#kikorangi
Heya #InternetNZ peeps!
It is coming up on that time of year again - another INZ AGM is looming and it looks like the FSU is utilising their scare tactics again to get another seat on the InternetNZ board.
Who is keen on helping to organise a grassroots opposition?
#kikorangi
High five to everyone who has suffered from anxiety, burnout, and depression without even once stealing 0-days from their employer and selling them to the Russians. www.zetter-zeroday.com/trenchant-ex...
“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”
*talking to teenage militant atheist self*
current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church
teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government
current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one
Yet.
Pretty cool! Didn't know you'd done the Edmonds art!
A Kiwi institution!
