This gutted me.
“That’s why herd immunity is so important. If there hadn’t been an outbreak when Renae was a baby, I don’t think she would have contracted it. She was eligible for the vaccine just seven months later”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
"It is, on the surface, the boldest thing any political party has said about the grocery market in years."
A certain commentator on the NZ First announcement.
There's just one problem: the Greens announced a policy to break up the supermarket duopoly 4 years ago.
www.greens.org.nz/break_up_sup...
Sounds like my brothers and their friends when they used to have farting and belching competitions!
There are no words that adequately describe how much I miss being able to go line dancing, to festivals, spending hours a day at two gyms, power walking, and just having a basic normal social life.
Long Covid took all that from me, and it could take it from anyone.
I wish this article had linked to the 'Leaving MAGA' community that Rich Logis created to help others break free. Because people need a safe place to land. leavingmaga.org
Chinese researchers have developed a new gravity-based detector that could be used to find #submarines and render the proposed #AUKUS submarine redundant. #auspol #nzpol #China #US #Israel #Peace not #War 🕊️
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PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY CONTINUES:
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What does a blackmailing operation of a cabal of child rapists have to do with Climate News?
Well, these blackmailers are heavily and extensively involved and invested in the fossil fuel industry, all across the world.
Well I, for one, am very happy you're still here. We may not know each other IRL, but you are valued. This planet is a much better place with you on it.
And I DO mean it, because I'm an empathetic sop. ☺️
The kind of AI that techbros and governments are pushing is not the internet, or cell phones, or personal computers, or heavier than air flying machines, or the wheel.
It's the digital equivalent of asbestos, plastics, teflon, and lead.
The only time I knowingly shared a bathroom with a trans woman at a work do, it was just the usual girly cameraderie of women washing hands, touching up lipstick, and admiring one another's outfit / purse / lippy colour, etc.
Absolutely never. I think about whether there will be a queue, hope the toilet is not too revolting, and that there's toilet paper.
I noticed on several of the 'Stuff' video clips, they were desperately trying to get people to say there hadn't been enough warning.
Just a reminder that @maramadavidson.bsky.social tried to get this across the line here, but it got killed by NZF
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Online abuse of politicians is a profitable business Senator Eileen Flynn's comments on far-right use of the tricolour have made her a lightning rod for online abuse - because viral hatred is highly profitable
In the space of a few weeks in 2025, Simon Harris required armed gardaí at his family home due to multiple bomb threats, while former taoiseach Leo Varadkar was subjected to a homophobic tirade by a self-styled citizen journalist who filmed the confrontation for social media. A man is due before the courts in July in connection with an alleged assault on Mary Lou McDonald and two canvassers the day before the presidential election last year. The incident was filmed and went viral online. So, last week when a video of Senator Eileen Flynn speaking about racism and nationalist propaganda went viral, a predictable and inevitable online pile on began, with posts attacking Flynn's "patriotism" or perceived
Much of the abuse directed at Ms Flynn came from Irish accounts run by people who benefit from algorithmically amplification (so called blue tick accounts), and content monetisation. Monetisation is now a commonplace feature on social media platforms like X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, that allows the company to "share" revenue. The more attention (likes, shares, comments etc) a post gets, the more revenue a user earns. Influencers also often have accounts on three or four platforms and post dozens of times a day, and can also benefit from tips, and paid subscribers so it is difficult to gauge how much they earn, but a single viral post on X can generate over €300 for an influencer, so this can become a quite lucrative activity for not a lot of work. Power
The abuse directed at Ms Flynn did not only come from Irish accounts; international social media influencers whose attention was already on Ireland since the fuel protests latched onto it too. Defiant Ls, an account run by a Macedonian influencer who promotes Maga content shared the video, as did the account LibsofTikTok, with the caption, 'Irish Senator Eileen Flynn says that she is "terrified" to see her nation's flag and thinks it's "disgraceful" to fly it', received more than 250,000 views and over 1,300 comments, mostly abusive. LibsOfTikTok has nearly five million fans and the account is run by Chaya Raichik, a right wing influencer who has previously targeted schools, hospitals and libraries across the United States. Victims of her attention have gone to be inundated with threats of violence.
I have a piece in the Examiner today on how content monetisation is fuelling a new wave of online harassment
Irish influencers with monetised accounts are mimicking the behaviour of people like Chaya Raichik, the owner of LibsOfTikTok, who has turned online abuse & harassment into a business model.
Unfortunately, I expect the CoC will believe it wholeheartedly, and want to throw money at MS / mandate everyone uses AI, etc.
Microsoft talking out of their arseholes with this AI hallucination. Unbelievable mountains of cow shit went into producing this.
Oh, I JUST read this. Long, but well worth the read, in terms of the actual facts:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Government is quietly legalising the mass photographing of rangatahi Māori by police. Submissions on this Bill close at 2pm on Wednesday 22nd April. www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...
There won’t be a coup attempt on Luxon for one simple reason: despite Trump’s assertion the Strait isn’t open yet.
No one will want to take on the leadership and then have to go up a fuel alert level.
We will need to go up a level towards the end of May in all likelihood.
Let Luxon take the blame
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Science-folks: If we run 100 experiments, we might find 1 or 2 of them may have results that can make many dollars.
NZ Govt: Excellent. We will fund those 1 or 2 experiments.
fillin up at heonie
The crucial thing to understand about Peter Thiel is that he adores "The Lord of the Rings" and no one in human history has ever so utterly completely missed all the salient points of what a book is about.
📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.
*TOE the line.
Eric is a fucking moron. I look forward to seeing him perp-walked along with his siblings and the rotting carcass who sired him.
That's so annoying! I've found the same with those 'Corinthians' choc-filled wafer straw thingies. Ditto only being able to get marshmallow eggs around Easter.
I'd like to think some of the Israel-supporting christians of the world would be appalled at this image, even if they're not horrified by all the other far worse shit the IDF has done... but I'm not at all optimistic. As someone else said recently, those aren't christians, they're heretics.