Sigh
There ARE options.
How about spending AND taxing?
And, once again for those at the back ... less spending = austerity = old boats = no boats = productivity down = lower tax take = credit dowgrade = call for more austerity = ...
we've been here before ... it hasnt worked.
must do different🙏
Quick weekly jobs update to remind you that the promised recovery never came, the pace of worsening just slowed down a bit.
Hey, since @why.bsky.team unblocked me, I'd like to say that so-called "AI" is a venture capital scam that's gonna fuck the economy sideways when the bubble bursts and that Claude specifically is for chumps
It would be interesting, if only to see what effect it has on your behaviour reports!
Also in today’s NZ Herald
Unfortunately, doing the numbers would require a government that is guided by evidence and experts. We've got a government driving by donor dollars and climate-change denial fanatics. Simon Watts is determined to build his LNG terminal come hell or high water (probably the latter at this point).
Luxon and Willis seem extremely rattled by the events of the week so far!
As a side note, my ECE teacher wife who works at a for-profit centre can't even get the centre to pay for soap to make soap bubbles in her class. And they won't let her bring her own soap, because of the risk it might harm the kids.
Kudos to Newsroom NZ for identifying the Early Childhood Council as a lobby group for private ECE owners - a point often glossed over when they're quoted in the media.
Of course Seymour is dismissive of concerns, and the EC Council boss says the profit motive has no effect on ECE quality! 😂
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Watching the speed and opaqueness at which the India FTA is moving. Noticing the anti-Māori rhetoric is being used today to smooth that path. These things are rarely unconnected.
Much strong economic management. So stability.
Add a couple of zeros, and this describes scuba diving perfectly!
Mini penne With a photo of a mall miniature penne pasta
*Sean Connery voice
Some classic Trumpian-weird use of quote marks there from Winnie.
bAcK oN tRaCk
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Robots doing sport is about as exciting as robots doing art. There's no need for any of it.
Just blocked someone for using the phrase “transitional disemployment”
(About the impact of AI)
When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene. By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks. One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance. The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.
Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics.
Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Sex offenders must face full consequences of their actions. No 'good character' reduction. It's evident they do not have good character they just think they won't get caught. No exceptions for privilege or 'lost potential'. Do you know whose potential is fucked by rapists? The victims'.
If Luxon had one ounce of introspection or the ability to recognise that he is a political noob, and not some sort of politico-business savant, maybe he would have quietly sought Winnie's counsel before conducting the 'who likes me' vote. Winnie is nothing if not a seasoned political operator #nzpol
Nah, he’s going to milk this for all it’s worth. Luxon cut his own legs off yesterday, and Winnie will use Luxon’s new levels of political weakness to maximise his power within the coalition.
I had to double check that this wasn’t from The Onion! Of course he’s turning Republican, it’s the party most committed to protecting Epstein Pedos. The only surprise to me is that he was still a registered Dem
In today’s NZ Herald
As long as Aussie is integrating with the USA via AUKUS, we should be dis-integrating from Australian forces. To do otherwise is pissing away our historical independent foreign policy stance, and supporting a regime engaged in illegal wars, piracy, extra-judicial murder, and war crimes. #nzpol
Keep pressing him, media folk; keep pressing him.
Matters of confidence are as much fair game as the government’s priorities, proposals and actions — as confidence is the essential precondition of stewardship of government and the prerogative to pursue those priorities etc.
Hence, questioning the PM on matters which speak to the maintenance of confidence is an essential aspect of our system of responsible government. And it goes without saying that it is part of the accountability expected of the PM and other ministers.
Luxon’s attempt to refocus the media is constitutionally misplaced. Confidence is the lifeblood of government. And the media have a legitimate interest in interrogating changing dynamics in confidence.
Cartoon. Title: “Levels” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon in the foreground, hugging a petrol drum, with his eyeball to the spout, and petrol fumes coming up around his face. Finance Minister Nicola Willis is in the background, her hands clamped to her face, exclaiming, “OMG, Christopher! Huffing the fumes! This is next level!” PM Luxon is saying, “Sniff! No, Nicola, It’s still Level One, and I’m feeling VERY relaxed about it…’
Between the fuel crisis and the leadership vote PM Christopher Luxon has been doing some deep breathing.
My Stuff #Cartoon today #NZpol
