The whole web is built on a primary grace: that the people visiting you are trustworthy. It costs a little something for me to serve my webpage to everyone who goes there. When the number of scrapers outnumbers the number of humans by an order of magnitude, this grace is fragile.

Paul Goldsmith, asked whether he accepts that te Tiriti is Aotearoa's founding document, says he accepts that it was the document that was signed at its founding. A careful pseudo-acceptance that is actually a refusal #racist

Again, imagine Greens co-leders Chlöe Swarbrick & Marama Davidson or any other woman on the left putting this kind of pout-and-flounce then the Press Pack NOT throwing it in their faces at every opportunity until the heat death of the universe.

You can't?

Sit with that for a minute.

#nzpol

Koro I thought these few days couldn't break my heart any more until I read the story of an elderly couple, both disabled. When the water came for them in the middle of last night, they never stood a chan...

He is to be cherished – not cold, afraid and crying in the dark.

the-end-is-naenae.ghost.io/koro/

Can we fucking talk about the fact that shitbag corporations like Amazon don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay fuckall for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.

WE Pay for ALL that shit.

The lesser-known Unanticipated Expectation of Service Attack.

Germany just activated its largest ever solar installation — one farm, 1.5 million homes, zero carbon. The #CottbusSolarPark covers 3,500 hectares and produces 2.1 tw-hours annually, replacing two coal plants that operated on this same land until 2022. #SolarPower #ActOnClimate #Renewables

I saw someone on here arguing the other day that you don’t own a book, you only own a license to the book and the book itself is a token of the license. I assure you, I own my books. I can lend them out. I can read them aloud to my child. I can sell them to other people. I can hit you with them

I don’t know what tax bracket you have to be in to care about govt spending or debt but I know I’m not in it. Literally could not give a shit. I’m in the tax bracket where I want kids to be fed, homeless people to be housed, people to be able to access and receive quality healthcare timely.

I'm not crying you're crying

Same, same.

Subsistence farming is no answer to food insecurity.

A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing an assembly of renewable energy solutions - solar panels, battery storage, high speed rail, electrified truck freight, EVs and charging infrastructure, wind turbines, and bicycles - put together in a shape that resembles a military tank. A different approach to a massive increase in military spending that would increase Australia's security and sovereignty in times of global unrest.

Best defence.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

IN ... NZ National Party @NZNational Party Apr 17 National is careful and responsible with taxpayers' money. Labour treats it like an endless ATM. We've stopped wasteful government spending while continuing to invest in the frontline services you rely on. 2023 NZ BA TRA National N ZBACK RACK MAORI 3/ We'll stop wasteful spending. 2026 We made $44b of savings in our first two Budgets. A Parigned by Parlatmary Service

Graeme Edgeler @GraemeEdgeler ... Total appropriations in Labour's last budget (2023/24) were $174.7b with estimated spending in 2025/26 of $167.8b. Total appropriations in your most recent budget (2025/26) were $188.0b. That's not $44b of savings. You're spending much more than they did. 1:48 PM Apr 17, 2026 2,737 Views

I love a good Edgling! #NZPol

Millions of voices crying out in anguish does indeed look like a DDOS attack if you’re a social media platform built on vibes.

Mastodon announced it will add five much-needed features and improvements
thanks to funding from the German government’s Sovereign Tech Agency.

The five deliverables include:

🔸Blocklist synchronisation
To improve moderation and safety, Mastodon servers will be able to subscribe to shared […]

'Why aren't we a proper country with proper infrastructure?,' moan the people who keep voting for tax cuts and austerity

Coins of Transition: Revolutions & Civil War - Funranium Labs [Editorial Note: This post has sat incomplete for almost three years because I was trying to stitch together some very big and complicated concepts spanning roughly 2600 years. Coming back to this and...

To once again celebrate the surrender of the Confederacy, let’s read again about how they completely failed to have money and one brave counterfeiter with a souvenir shop in Philadelphia sank their economy.

Someday I will give a talk praising “Honest” Sam Upham.

When you are a working parent that cooked chook at the supermarket is part of “the village”.

I dont do the traditional kiwi roll coleslaw dinner but I do get ~3 lunches for 2 adults and a toddler.

anyway, that's what the "a SHOE COMPANY is now an AI COMPANY??" story actually is. nothing allbirds owns is valuable anymore except the fact that it has publicly traded stock, and someone w/AI ambitions bought it for access to the ability to trade and issue stock. that's it! bsky.app/profile/sifu...

Not enough people are talking about how hard it is to provide a nutritious, home-cooked dinner at a consistent, reasonable hour when you work a full-time job.

I drive a car! I get that it's frustrating when a pedestrian doesn't look or a cyclist is sitting in the middle of the lane but GUESS WHAT it's still my moral obligation, as the person capable of the most damage while facing minimal risk, to be more careful and patient than them!

Yet from the article:
"...through the plan, MSD had engaged with about 650 people - 380 of whom were sleeping rough"

Even when they're claiming it's too difficult to "keep tabs of the numbers", the numbers don't look great.

Latest update

Long ago, being below minimum stocking requirements was seen as a reason to escalate to a higher Fuel Alert level. As of today's update not just one, but all indicators are below minimum stocking levels.

Only human home for the next 3 nights. Sad that the most exciting thing about this is absent usual demands* some very overdue cleaning might get done.

Instead I find myself allowing myself a little mental breakdown, as a treat.

* flip side: having to provide 100% daily attention quota to 3 cats.

For this one, there is the small matter of "regular, frequent intrusions into your home by someone whom you have an adversarial relationship with *at best* and who can leave you homeless if they choose". Renting would be OK if the rights of tenants were protected, but they just *aren't*.

Who controls the Tom Phillips story? With the family opposed and the Marokopa community silent, police are set to hold a remarkable amount of sway over a Netflix documentary about their own conduct.

Like sorry but it’s not some cops-and-robbers, Man Alone adventure yarn about the bush. It’s about our systemic failure to appropriately respond to family violence and the risk to children

thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...

The Tom Phillips doco is flawed journalism for many reasons but everyone keeps failing to mention the main issue: the permanent suppressions mean we will never be able to tell the full, actual story (particularly about the involvement of the Family Court) and therefore what’s the point?

zackeryatlas 12h The degradation of society: 1. Celebrating the k!lling of a CEO 2. Cheering on warehouse arsons 3. Making heroes out of people who attempt political violence You can be outraged at the system and still not glorify violence. These aren't wins. This is a society losing its moral compass. [Coming from a liberal btw]

I don’t know how people keep forgetting that workers rights were entirely written in blood and the capital class had to be threatened with violence before they agreed to things like 8 hour working days and 2 day weekends.

The Vimes Boots Theory has been running up hard against "are these boots $200 because they're built right, or is that purely a brand positioning thing and they're made of the same 1mm-thick fake leather as the $50 ones"