Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
mostly in my own life, tech innovation tends to mean "moving the buttons to a different place so you have to re-learn how to use the app"
Remember when Andrew Little was general counsel of the Engineers' Union, and elected leader of its successor the EMPU - when it was the largest private sector trade union in the country? I'm not sure he does - because this is exactly the kind of boss class fuckery he used to rail against. #nzpol
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
i actually think there is a wide open lane in american politics right now for “get the US out of israel.” the challenge is having the steel to weather the inevitable attacks from the right. but “israel has forfeited american aid because of its behavior” plays.
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This is so damn frustrating. No it absolutely shouldn’t be up to a new council. This decision, amongst others like the Golden Mile and Begonia House, were made months ago. Respect the democratic process. They must proceed otherwise we end up with unfinished projects and escalated costs. #nzpol
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
The International Association of Genocide Scholars has made a decision according to which Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip meet the legal criteria for genocide. 86% of the body voted for it
My sources are telling me that Rudy Giuliani is dead too and his gizzard and giblets are already on the black market for around $1000 apiece. Honestly not a bad price.
A lot of people very close to Trump would do very poorly under a Vance administration and vice versa so it would probably result in them tearing his corpse apart while fighting over it or something bsky.app/profile/mark...
as funny as it is to imagine a scenario where Trump just randomly keels over and dies because he is an unhealthy senile 80 year old, it's important to keep in mind that the scenario where he has a stroke or heart attack and is merely severely incapicitated but remains alive is MUCH FUNNIER
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
$24,000+ from every one of the 330 million people living in America, if true.
Good news for all the people worried and having sleepless nights over whether or not sinema would be able to make it in this cruel post senate world
Trump looks like the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future visited him over the weekend and when he asked if it could be changed they laughed and beat him with a stick.
I was already pretty done with the news media but seeing clips yesterday from the Sunday shows where an anchor is like “but what if living in a Police State does reduce car jackings? Why would you be against that?” probably was the end
some white racists mad as hell today
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Vote Leave founder and former MP. The fascists are telling us who they are and what they want. Any attempts to persuade us otherwise is either delusional or complicit or both. They want ethnic cleansing in the UK.
They’re not going… great. But grading on the anglosphere curve, we’re doing fine
Minister for Homelessness, Chris Bishop, said he didn’t want kids growing up in emergency housing in motels. So he dramatically cut emergency housing grant approvals, pushed the families out into the streets. And now they are growing up on the street.
Jewish Artists for Palestine protesters interrupted a performance by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in London, accusing the organisation of silencing artists who have criticised Israel’s war on Gaza.
The body of a child was pulled from the rubble as families searched for loved ones trapped under the remains of their homes, following overnight Israeli air attacks on multiple buildings across Gaza City.
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86% of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution declaring that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Everyone Paris Paloma has a new song coming out and the intro is my loser headline and it’s spoken by EMMA THOMPSON 🚨🚨🚨 and she knows who I am
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
danielle smith, one of david seymour’s buddies and current leader of Alberta, just banned ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ in Alberta schools, and this is the reply from Atwood. #nzpol
OK, we're talking a LOT about Donald Trump's cognitive acuity but surely we can spare a minute to talk about Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer determining policy and strategy in close consultation with his imaginary friends - The Baileys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijM...
The absolute state of this pissweak flog
![PM says some good people marched on Sunday, blames exploitation by neo-Nazis ByPaul Sakkal and Nick Newling September 1, 2025 — 6.59pm Good people attended Sunday’s fiery anti-immigration protests, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared, warning that neo-Nazis were exploiting people’s grievances to spread hatred. Parliament erupted on Monday with Labor, the Coalition and the Greens blaming one another for fuelling the hostility displayed by far-right extremists on Sunday and those waving terror group insignia at pro-Palestine rallies. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during question time on Monday. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during question time on Monday.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen But after Labor ministers spent the day decrying the weekend’s anti-immigration demonstrations as racist, Albanese took a more measured tone on Monday afternoon, acknowledging the anxieties of disaffected Australians while calling out extremism. “Multiculturalism is a part of who we are as a modern nation,” Albanese said on ABC’s Afternoon Briefing. “I’d just say to people, and I have no doubt that there would have been good people who went along, heard about a rally, concerned [about social problems] … have a look at who you were with on Sunday.” “The motivation that they have, which isn’t actually about housing or our economy or anything else, it’s about sowing division. Neo-Nazis have no role.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xdnipexki6uc22sii2tb56zt/bafkreihflf7phyotnjooz2n27yv36dbphhcmc2wo4clf56s6krf22uqtbm@jpeg "Click to view full size")
hammer them on child marriage, pedocon shit dismiss their concerns over The Trans (sports) Question with utter contempt
The State of Israel had already been occupying East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza for approximately 20 years prior to the founding of Hamas in 1987. In that time, over 250,000 Israeli Jewish settlers were embedded in the occupied territories. Why would it be any different if Hamas dissolved?
"as a state with equal rights for all" seems to still make a lot of people mad.
remembering all the journalists in Australia who kept insisting we should having polite cups of tea with racists and hearing them out www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
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It would be a massive mistake for progressive folk to convince themselves the March for Australia was a bust, or can safely be ridiculed. It was an alarming escalation of far-right action, and we need to reckon with it. More thoughts (un-paywalled) here: www.lamestream.com.au/how-mainstre...
Numbers are needed at Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne overnight, neo-Nazis were spotted lurking around earlier today. Bring your own gear for camping and warm clothes.
"The first thing that stood out to me was the number of attendees. For nearly 30 minutes, Australian-flag clad protestors streamed up the road. It was already quite clear this protest was significantly larger than the counter-demonstration" @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social on the nazi rallies in Aus:
The ever-more radcalised Elon Musk regularly shares content from Steve Laws. Laws leads breakaway faction quitting Homeland for its leader only supporting the voluntary, not forced repatriation of British-born minorities "I don't care if they were born here, every single one must go" i
Israel murders journalists. Keep their voices alive. #JournalismIsNotACrime
Has Jillian Segal said anything about yesterday’s marches?
Israel Murders Journalists www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
Yeah it's not exactly subtle what's going on here
If he's saying that he's never felt better, than I believe that death is imminent because he's a pathological liar. Don't trust and always verify.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
Agree w this thread 100% And well-intentioned calls for progressives to empathize or offer advice and support to these guys miss this key point. They aren't looking for advice on finding a connection, getting women to like them. They're looking for someone to hand them sex mommy...
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
woath cnn is reporting trump died sometime late in the evening “CNN has received a copy of president trump will, he is set to be cremated and returned to his home country of Kenya. Out of respect for the family CNN will not be releasing the will in its entirety at this time”
They hit her once, they hit her again, breaking her nose and they hit her a third time, all while she was backing away. Then they grabbed her and broke her arm. For speaking. This are not the actions of a liberal democracy.
Katter is not an “eccentric” and the media really needs to stop soft soaping him.
Israeli airstrikes and gunfire kill 18 in and around Gaza City, Gaza officials say
Bouie ends the “real or a show?” debate by explaining that it’s both at once. It’s real, a show, and their vision for the future, one that isn’t in place though possibly could be if it keeps going. Don’t fall for the show and take the reality seriously, resisting the vision. All simultaneously.
I think when it happens we should call it “congestive heart success”
They’re saying he was hit by a car this time. Unbelievable
Always kind of amazing to read how much good faith America’s “enemies” treated it with in the post war years. Ho Chi Minh was legit convinced America would help it decolonize. Mossadegh wrote a letter to Eisenhower praising him and expecting the US to stand against the British blockade of Iran.
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
I spent ~8 months on the Gaza humanitarian response at USAID. My job and my career were destroyed by Trump and DOGE. At no point while attempting to pivot careers, getting LinkedIn Pro, and hoping Elon doesn't post my address on Twitter have I wished I could be part of the genocide apparatus again.
Labour, turn up at the empty plots left by the socially irresponsible Chris Bishop, talk to the people impacted, do it every week. Turn up and give voice - and when Luxon tries to argue with it reply these are the voices of those suffering
Well that explains it.
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
These continued actions by Israel, & lack of consequences, are doing more, by orders of magnitude, than any other actor to utterly & irrevocably destroy whatever people are yapping about when invoking 'western values' or 'rules based international order' www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
ANALYSIS: “the Nazi rally was organised by Nazis”
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
He has no constitutional authority to do this and it's not remotely a close call.
there is a very narrow and very limited way in which this is true, and it’s that if you present as white and straight, you are being recruited, and it is not very subtle
I'm going to this Labor Day rally in downtown San Diego, are any of you planning to go?
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
New Zealanders electricity bills are already high. When Luxon blocks offshore wind, by fast tracking seabed mining in the same place, he is driving electricity prices higher, while blocking new low emissions generation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
One thing this moment makes clear is how easy it is for some to justify insanely horrible acts. “They’re illegal.” “We need law & order.” “The president can do what he wants.” “They’re the children of Hamas.” Scary thing: those willing to tolerate these bad acts don’t seem to have a red line.
Please donate to support the work of the brave volunteers helping our immigrant community in NJ. They need money for gas, food, vests, to print flyers and to cover basic needs of families facing abduction and deportation. Anything helps. Please donate.
Who's the next mayor of NYC? Wrong answers only.
When it does happen, make sure your memes have alt text and your hashtags are pascal cased. I want to be able to like and share everything.
With apologies, I read a #JesseSingal piece. The usual stuff. Our boy combs through trans rights writing to find brief paraphrases which, in indulgent long paragraphs, he attempts to portray as grave mistakes that compel him to assert the authors have no clue what they're talking about! 1/
This is a depressingly clueless take.Trump and RFK Jr. In fascist regimes science is subverted to serve ideology, and the ideology being served is quite recognizably fascist.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
All the racists, fascists, white supremacists and sovereign citizens will be out marching today. I am so grateful to live in such a diverse country, and marches like today are a national disgrace.
Worth thinking about how Chris Van Hollen, hardly a ultra left-wing firebrand, has accumulated a ton of credit over the last few years from the growing pro-Palestine constituency of the DP by simply 1) Demanding that there be justice for Shireen Abu Akleh, 2) Demanding that US law is adhered to.
The president has once again shit his pants and died
👇🎯 University presidents, take note & start getting in front of microphones, en masse, now:
hi, cis folks! this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love. hi, cis americans! this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
Netanyahu is restricting aid trucks into Gaza—the best way to get food to starving people there—so Jordan is delivering some with air drops. The Jordanians said @merkley.senate.gov & I could join one of those flights to see the devastation, but Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight.
Hi Minister @tonyburkemp.bsky.social, why is the govt appointed Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism (on a 6-figure taxpayer-funded salary no less) missing in action in the face of mass antisemitic activity in our cities & towns❓ Surely this is Envoy Segal's time to step up & speak out❓
A Senator of the United States of America says that he was refused the ability to see Gaza for himself as part of a Jordanian aerial mission over the occupied territory.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Haven’t posted much lately about my Coshop.nz community food project in Wellington but it’s going well! Over 1000 orders since the 1st of June and revenue doing the hockey stick thing. Now doing about $3k/week of food as local as I can find for about 30% cheaper than most places 👀
trump has trapped america's leading evangelical theologians in a room with top officials at the SEC until they come up with an interpretation of the gospels that exempts cryptocurrency from jesus' idea of what makes a man rich
trump is urgently redirecting all scientific funding to a manhattan project scale endeavor focused on making a microscopic camel 🪡
repeatedly emailing tens of millions of people that he is thinking a lot about what will happen when he dies is definitely helping, he should send more of these. i've only gotten like four of these in the last few days, keep it up, sir.
is he dead? of course not, we aren't that lucky. is it fun to imagine something beautiful? yes, obviously. but more than that, he's notoriously thin skinned and hopefully this will push him to prove his health & vitality in a way that is very damaging to his 80 year old heart.
the haters and losers will say it's foolish to indulge in wild speculation but you can't deny it's extremely funny that they have to write headlines like this
you really couldn't make many movies from 40-50 years ago today. this is due to the unavailability of certain discontinued film stocks and the deaths of many principal actors, directors, and other various crew members
Well that was a fun morning
