We can speculate on what this has to do with Muldoon and Rogernomics era blunders and corruption never having accountability; the “Bach-boat-Beamer” acquisitive aspirations of the managerial and business classes; and the tendency to reject expertise, research and criticism and learn from mistakes.
OMG
"The type of skills related to AI jobs included machine learning and large language models with the prevalence of terms related to Agentic AI and AI governance."
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
Genuinely just sitting here stunned, reading that thread over and over.
Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.
Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES
Happy National Library Week! 💙📚
How far must you have fallen in life to be making threats of violence against this actual national treasure, a man who, in his more whimsical moments, sings songs to ducks.
Wow, did you have a look at my little list of secret faves?
"It is akin to deciding that a tree’s roots no longer need to be watered because the fruit comes only from its branches."
In breaking news, incompetent sneering flaccid starch tuber remains leader of party of incompetent sneering flaccid starch tubers.
Here's Gerald with the weather.
Best communicators in the business.
Oh this would be a fun game of Cluedo. "Sam Uffindell, with a bed leg, in the Beehive Theatrette" #nzpol
One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.
The graves of multiple children have been defaced.
One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.
how is this literally happening in real life
Nearly 10 years on, we've gone backwards - and a lot of that has occured at pace the last 3 years under National:
#nzpol
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
NZ mentioned, or at least quite a few oligarchic NZ elites. In fact this whole thing is boggling and starts out with Russell Crowe punching out Eric Watson.
#nzpol
Two panel comic: 2022 Keir Starmer at the dispatch box holding newspaper saying PARTYGATE "His defence that he didn't realise is so ridiculous that it's actually offensive to the British public. Ministers who knowingly misled parliament should resign" | 2026 Keir Stramer at the dispatch box holding newspaper saying Mandelson, sweating and cringing as a ghostly Boris Johnson, with big red wine lips and party hat and wine glass, leers behind him and whispers "Oops"
Instant classic.
Palantir raises more red flags when you learn the CEO, Alex Karp is obsessed with speaking in German and describes himself as a socialist but doesn't believe in any leftist economic policies.
A reminder that Jesus condemned the Pharisees for being hypocrites who made a public show of their prayers.
Queenslanders in Brisbane have defied Premier David Crisafulli's speech criminalisation regime & tested John Farnham's Two Strong Hearts song in open protest. Queensland police monitored the rally but made no arrests on a variant of the banned phrase being sung. #qldpol
Friday, Brisbane protesters sing & dance to John Farnham’s Two Strong Hearts - ‘River to the Sea’
Saturday, 20 arrested for saying the exact same words in a chant.
So if you wear a wig & dance you won’t be arrested. The inconsistency is utterly humiliating for David Crisafulli.
Queenslanders in Brisbane defy Premier David Crisafulli with Two Strong Hearts. The song contains a variant of a phrase banned by the premier under his speech criminalisation regime. #qldpol
Pass it on-fancy a boogie Friday, King George Square, Brisbane, 5pm? Join the “Farnsey Flashmob for Palestine”, a swarm of folks dressed as John Farnham performing to “Two Strong Hearts” to protest the Latin American dictator banning the phrase “from the river to the sea”. videopress.com/v/D55ShYkn
Artist James Hillier (Nordacious) holds a protest sign depicting the mullet blonde hair of Australian singer John Farnham and the words "We're not gonna sit in silence! Free Palestine!"
Outstanding work by breathtakingly talented artist @nordacious.bsky.social.
🎶 "We're not gonna sit in silence!" 🎶
#EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine #JohnFarnham #auspol #qldpol
A grid photo of 16 different characters all played by the legend Tim Curry.
Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.
Tom Baker at 92
I've only just seen this photo of Tom Baker. Talk about timey-wimey. It looks like he's regenerating into an older incarnation of Peter Cushing's Doctor.
#DoctorWho
Whatever. Jerk.
Oh fuck off, I only said Christian in the sense of being non-relatable.
Non-voters are not watching Q&A.
