Ricky Sixpillows

text reading "The average New Zealand woman* loses $25.36 per week... ...just because this Govt. has not acted on pay gap reporting." small text reading "*earning the median wage" There is a graphic of a person with wavy hair holding a tax invoice for prime minister christopher luxon with the total of 7.8 billion, with overdue stamped on it.

text reading "It's this simple: If the Government made gender pay gap reporting compulsory for large businesses, the gender pay gap would shrink by 20–40 percent.* That's an extra $25.36 per week for women earning the median wage; an extra $58.40 for wahine Māori and $76.40 for Pacific women." small text reading "*based on international evidence."

text reading "What can we do to help close the pay gap? It only takes a minute. Visit the STILL Minding the Gap web site now to invoice the Prime Minister and let him know that closing the gender pay gap is STILL a priority for Kiwis: stillmindingthegap.nz"

If the Government enacted pay gap reporting, women in New Zealand who earn the median wage would get an 'extra' (or rather, not miss out on...) $25.36 per week. For wahine Māori it's $58.40 and $76.40 for Pacific women.

It's that simple. Let Luxon know it's OVERDUE: www.stillmindingthegap.nz

The worst strikes of this war are the ones on your wallet! I talk more about this over at my Substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/western-wo...

Let's talk about what happens when oil prices go through the roof and stay there - because it really isn't pretty, it's going to hit our economy incredibly hard, and it's only peripherally about how much it costs to fill the tank.

A short 🧵

#nzpol

They're doing amazingly well at coming to grips with meaningful productivity improvements in their data team, but also believe that empowering business units to rapid prototype their own semantic layers means that you don't need to govern. You just let each silo come up with their own reality.

They won the American Civil War

TOP is just a spoiler party to prevent people from considering joining a left wing party

<cough> #nzpol

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

If someone was walking laps for 1000 miles with the intent of falling down at my door I would call the police on the stalker

B/W photo of Alban William Housego Phillips

Plot of the rate of change of wage rates on the Y axis vs. unemployment. The inverse relation suggest a tradeoff

The cyclic relationship becomes clearer when the points are connected in time order

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
💀Mar 4, 1975 Alban William Housego Phillips died in Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿

1958: The "Phillips Curve,'' a scatterplot of inflation vs. unemployment over time shows a strong inverse relation, leading to important developments in macroeconomic theory

Pity she visited before the convicted child rapist cult leader won his appeal to leave prison and complete his sentence on home detention, in the same community that enabled his crimes. Or maybe that would not make a difference?

I guess hierarchical social beings might mean that it's the people with the most smarm held back by the fewest principles who ascend. That bit makes awful sense to me, but it doesn't explain why they're also all pedophiles.

Govt threatens to imprison homeless for 90 days at a cost of $49,680 per person Govt to empower Police to 'move on' homeless with threat of three months prison, costing taxpayer $552 per person per night; Govt adds 2,000 prison beds since election & delivers 420 new homes

FYI I’ve opened this one up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

Corey Johnson I’m stepping up with the March Mission to raise money so people in urgent need can access kai, safe housing and healthcare. I would love your support.

Let’s help fight the affects of homelessness. Donate if you can.

I’m stepping up with the March Mission to raise money so people in urgent need can access kai, safe housing and healthcare. I would love your support. donate.aucklandcitymission.org.nz/s/4160/4460/t

A weird coincidence that resonated deeply

the most seen I will feel today is an algorithm serving me a video containing the phrase 'self regulating political system within the Romulan overton window'

Why do all NZ policemen look like club fuckboys in costume now, when did this happen? Is the moustache and sleeve tattoo part of the uniform now?

[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

I unironically love this. Dilbert guy sacrificed his whole life to being a miserable shitcunt, died after begging the president for help, and his legacy amounts to a single clanker prompt to turn his "art" into a white house tweet that will be forgotten tomorrow.

Hope glinner is next.

"Don't worry. Boys are hard to find." Part 1 o2 Trump/Epstein and Associated Criminal Enterprises: Victim Interviews: SR

This Sascha Riley story is horrific. open.substack.com/pub/lisevold...

Cross Stitch portrait of woman with black hair, green eyes, a green knitted jumper & yellow knitted hat. Green background colours. 78.5cm x 70cm

Tip my Ko-Fi $25NZD or more before Mon 19th Jan at 10.00am & you’ll go in the draw to win my ‘Green Girl’ Cross Stitch (78.5cm x 70cm unframed). Almost a year of daily work to finish. Please share widely, I need as many supporters as possible.
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#CrossStitch

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Biker gang enforcer era

9/11 was when I was 16 and the perfect event for our edgy lefty angsty teen crew to rage against a machine. We made the American exchange student so mad by blaming the US hegemony she cried patriot tears. Good times.

Oh wait it's not actually an ad at all. It's just my current state is one where a POV of being dead while a nice ASMR voiced person cremates me elicits a "TAKE MY MONEY" feeling.

A tiktok ad for water cremations for fat people really resonated with me, like the ad algorithm really gets me in a way I don't get myself. You know what, maybe I will treat myself. It's been a hard year.

Fuck off new year, I'm 100% committed to staying in my bullshit

Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years The reforms are being brought in to tackle unprecedented delays in the Crown Court.

My prediction is that this will become verbatim ACT policy before the election. Could also be National but it doesn't feel very Finlayson.

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Google search link to "Find your phone" with the accusing text "You visit often" on a a grey pill-shape.

This is a microaggression

Seriously considering whether 'just knocked back a bottle of wine' is in fact the optimal condition to live life in. This is radical self acceptance btw, not alcoholism. No interventions pls.