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I like your policy to fix inequality, but I also like the other guy's policy to make billionaires richer. I like your policies protecting the environment, but I also like the other lot's policies allowing businesses to do whatever they want. I really think the two sides should work together!

So why are profs of law, science & politics & on strike today? We’re here for colleagues. HALF of NZ university staff are now on temporary contracts! 54% Research has become like the hunger games as some of our brightest minds compete for temp work - they can’t live like this #INVESTinResearch

I heard they want to make HO-scale trains run on N-scale tracks, all paid for by your tax dollars.

Trains, dude ... the people want trains. Give the people what they want.

“LANDLORD IS NOT A JOB” Auckland, New Zealand, 2026 @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social

Fuck this "not commercially viable" bullshit. I haven't yet seen a road that turned a profit.

Giant men with big biceps & manly voices come to me with tears in their eyes, saying: “Sir, this is the greatest podcast anyone has ever done. It’s tremendous.” I’ve never seen anything like it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autocratic-despair-the-podcast/id1890210459

The Autocratic Despair podcast might be my new favourite podcast. @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social @nickmortensen.com

Please do not spread misinformation. (Sorry, no alt text, but no sources anyway)

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

this video of Chlöe Swarbrick, who leads the Greens in New Zealand's parliament, is worth your five minutes' time

That, I think, is why some of the attacks on Swarbrick feel oddly objectless. The danger isn’t just what she might do as Finance Minister. It’s what she might reveal about the people who have spent 40 years telling us the money is all gone. andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/chloe-swar...

wHy WonT THE GrEeNS go InTo cOaLitIOn wITn natIOnAL

No surprises

I've had it with all these motherfucking capulets here in motherfucking spain

"that every single leftist online is responsible for message discipline and not being annoying, while no Republican is ever responsible for their words or deeds" "inconvenient truths: easier for well-paid strategists and pundits to advise stop saying Latinx (a non-issue)" bsky.app/profile/mbkp...

The question is who should you put your effort into convincing? A random poster on Bluesky with 300 followers, who is angry about being thrown under the bus, or the people with/seeking actual power who are doing the throwing.

Watched the Raygun documentary. I really wanted more of a focus on how vicious the backlash was. It reminds me a lot of the Jason Arday situation. Too many people get a kick out of being cruel. Rachael managed to weather the storm, but it could so easily have ended the same.

Support the journalists

I'm severely disappointed by the lack of memes featuring Nora from Furious. I might need to remedy that.

So... quick reminder.... executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAWS. guides.library.umass.edu/govinfo/exec...

Ok, I checked out My Brilliant Career because it was highly rated on Rotten Tomatoes, and I couldn't make it more than 10 minutes because the main character spoke like a time traveller from the present. Anyway, I can't review the bits I haven't seen, but it certainly didn't reel me in.

Or perhaps labelling it a genocide has an actual function in international law that puts specific responsibilities on governments: to act to prevent it, and to not be complicit in it.

Today I turn a year old for every week in the year.

The absurdity of saying "everyone knows everyone" in a town of tens of thousands of people... What they really mean is "everyone *important* knows one another". The important class in this small city is at most a couple of hundred people.

RIP Tim Curry Gone to the one place still untouched by capitalism

We will always love you.

Stumbled on the r/rickygervais subreddit and it's just people dunking on Ricky Gervais. If only he were alive today he'd love to see it.

He was suspended because he was promoting racism instead of doing the job he was hired for.

I really hate that to even admit that I find LLMs personally useful is a risky thing to say on this website no matter how many caveats I put on it.

Me hanging with my fellow Russians: "Hey, we should speak English - I need to practice. Plus no-one likes reading subtitles!"

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/democratic-socialism-myth-vs-fact/

Sooo, is this cancel culture? He made some incredibly poor choices, but he didn't need to die!

Bin Day cometh.

There are almost infinite proofs that the Earth is not flat, but one of my favourites is "on a flat Earth, how can clouds be lit from below?"

The ending might be the most frightening part: "The only solution to the dangerous autonomous hacking agents we accidentally created is to give our totally trustworthy defensive agents commit access to your repos"

And another thing! Why are teaspoons so tiny these days? They're no good for scooping!

Quality cat, made in New Zealand

Odysseus, he's a complicated man, and no-one understands him but his woman. I'm talkin bout Odysseus.

Maybe I'm just an old fogey, but does every Discord need 50 channels? Most servers would be fine with 1. When that gets too busy *then* you split into a few more.

No matter how much the Democrats actively work against their left flank, then eat shit at the next election, the solution is always to reject the Left even more. Just admit you don't like progressive policies. Your predictions of doom are just wishcasting.

The Count Binface stuff reminds me that the US doesn't seem to have a tradition of joke/satirical candidates the way the UK does. I'm sure there are reasons related to how primaries work over there, but you really ought to consider bringing them in.