One of the biggest things I've experienced with this kind of thing is that supposed 'true' left is constructed as those that focus solely on economic matters (class analysis, etc), which almost exclusively operates (at least in the ideal) as a (white) working class prioritisation.
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Look folks, this year we've got to support Jen and PATHA and make sure every political party you trust has a sound trans rights policy.
Josie Butler talks about engaging in "dildo target practice" around her flat
Though I try to stay humble, I'd say I'm probably the nation's top journalist when it comes to in-depth reporting on the Waitangi dildo strike. Even so, I hadn't picked up this piece of info until this week thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-...
ah fuck. accidentally cooked a animorph
The entire financial and social system we operate under makes us complicit in child sex trafficking. It is vitally important for the soul of humanity that all billionaires - especially those directly involved - are punished severely, and their names tarnished and spat upon for the rest of history.
"microtransactions in games started by cabal of pedophile elites for the purpose of indoctrinating kids into an economy"
Ok. Well, we all knew it was evil somehow but I really didn't expect Epstein to be responsible for why video games are bad now. That's just not what I would've thought.
Yet again, in almost any other NZ government a minister telling NZers to *eat less food* to save money would have them hounded by media and pushed out of politics.
Never forget the immensely important protective role that NZ media have played in protecting these fascists from public outrage.
I have never in my life been more confident in a product prediction than I am that Optimus robots will be a huge flop and I remember the NFT craze
The workplace relations minister refusing to back a bill to address the issue of modern day slavery doesn't bode well for workplace relations
The whole way Parliament works needs to modernise. Not being allowed to point out someone’s lying in the house is a joke. Having a partisan speaker is wrong. The system just allows shitheads like Seymour et al to behave hideously. This government have really shown how crap the system is.
it’s that time again
For weeks now, people across the country have been rightly outraged by the spectacle of masked ICE recruits and other federal agents acting with impunity and engaging in tactics that seem designed to intimidate, harass, provoke and endanger the residents of a major American city. These unprecedented tactics - which even the former top lawyer of the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration has characterized as embarrassing, lawless and cruel-have now resulted in the fatal shootings of two U.S citizens. And yet rather than trying to impose some semblance of discipline and accountability over the agents they've deployed, the President and current administration officials seem eager to escalate the situation, while offering public explanations for the shootings of Mr. Pretti and Renee Good that aren't informed by any serious investigation -and that appear to be directly contradicted by video
why the FUCK is even obama using phrases like "appear to"
you don't have to both-sides things like *the truth* and *reality*
it's on multiple videos - i feel like i am going insane
At this point it would be surprising if the Trump administration described something truthfully.
Their statements should all be treated with extreme scepticism by media (and everyone else)
even the accidental discharge seems pretty clear to me. But I will grant it is entirely possible ICE thugs just decided to open fire, completely unprompted, on a man they had already maced and beaten, and were holding down on the ground
The one and only "appears to show" I will allow is that one video appears to show an ICE thug take Pretti's handgun and accidentally discharge it into the ground. Everything except the accidental discharge is so obvious it's a case of trusting the white house or your lying eyes
If I see another news article say the videos (multiple! From almost every possible angle!) "appear to" contradict the insultingly obvious white house lies I think I will lose my entire mind
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content and media menu option circled
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to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app
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All I want is for the gallery and commentariat to grill Luxon and Hipkins about this dogshit with HALF the energy they give any time the Greens announce a reasonable, costed, popular policy
Daniel Craig introducting The Weekend on SNL, with the text: E rangatira mā... te mutunga wiki
buying a new computer only so i can delete copilot off of it
I have not - I considered it but honestly have so much Other Stuff going on I didn't consider it too hard lol. I would not begrudge you upgrading, it's important to be comfy! Wjat are the other benefits?
Remember the 38yo unexpectedly pregnant woman who had to deal with a terrorist massacre, a volcanic eruption and a global pandemic while raising a baby? Did anyone cut her one tenth of the slack this POS is getting?
I mean, we all know he can't talk, but his other issue is that he's a spineless suckup fundy weirdo, Henry #nzpol
File "Women are better at multitasking" and "Women are just naturally better at home management/child rearing/making doctors appointments" together under convenient beliefs that allow men to delegate basic life admin tasks to women in their lives
One thing that everyone "knows" and is completely untrue is that women are better at multitasking.
There have been multiple studies, some finding women are slightly better, some finding men are slightly better, but the one really consistent result is that everyone is very bad at multitasking.
Stuff headline for an article i won't read: "Five takeaways from Luxon's State of the Nation speech (including what turns him on)"
what i would say to you is, i am not aware of what turns on Christopher Luxon, and i am committed to keeping it that way.
#nzpol
Gals is it too spicy to point out that the major parties insisting Nothing Can Be Done So Why Bother is effectively voter suppression, and it's particularly dangerous because the far right *don't care and will still turn out for hate and bigotry* while the left are bullied to be more moderate?
why does everyone know so much about the pope
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
