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I am begging people to look up the actual history of the Luddite movement with it being bandied about everywhere. They weren't anti-tech, they were anti-exploitation, anti-Industrialist, pro-worker safety textile worker radicals who disabled factory machines that were maiming and killing workers.

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

I hate that journos keep using the phrase 'War on woke.' It gives the whole thing cover. It's a war on science, a war on human rights, a war on evidence and decency. It's a war on democracy and a habitable planet. Call it those things, call it what it is. #nzpol

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

Sobering chart of the day Should be a hey metric to judge the performance of our governments #nzpol. #ukpol

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

This massively outranks the largest legitimate petition response to anything. It's also more difficult to do this than sign a petition, and I think that ~276300 people telling David Seymour to jump in a lake is beautiful.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I need this article to go big-so pls REPOST and SHARE. It's a warning to the Minister of Health Hon Simeon Brown: Ban, or meaningfully restrict puberty blockers, and know that you will unleash a legal and community firestorm you cannot possibly control. universe-of-rights.ghost.io/a-line-in-th...

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

QUICK READ > Two NZs: The Table “The 10 [meals] represent wealth distribution in Aotearoa NZ… This dinner had been served every night for 100s of years …but voters can influence change… the 1st step is to get over the awkwardness & start acknowledging the problem”

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

It's submission time again! This time, it's part two of feedback on the Aotearoa New Zealand response to COVID-19. Would be awesome to have some covid competent people reply to this, add any thoughts on how to improve for future pandemics, etc. 💞💞💞 Thank you in advance!! covid19inquiry.cmail19.com

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

The Atlas Network is the kind of thing conspiracy theorist get obsessed over, except it's very real and not a secret.

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

Luxon’s Govt has just announced a TINY increase in NZ’s emissions reduction target, which with all that we face, is about as useful as a concrete life raft. What an absolute embarrassment. #nzpol #ClimateCrisis

submitted 101 days ago • 4 comments

#NZpol There's something about that smile of Mssr Seymour that comes across as utterly, completely forced. Like he's literally learned how to do it in an instruction manual (but still can't pull it off). This is the insult followup to the injury of foisting that hideousness on the right onto kids.

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

Chris (I shan’t use Mr Luxon because respect goes both ways mate): be the leader you constantly crow about. Or admit it’s all fakery and you re as incompetent as many of us know, incl you. Either way: grow up or get out. And NZ: could we please stop with failing upwards for terrible humans?

submitted 115 days ago • 3 comments

We went to the Festival of Lights in Pukekura Park last night. Magical. This free event is the sort of local body spending that the government wants to cut out as roads, drains and water are all that is important.

submitted 116 days ago • 5 comments

Sociopaths over at ACT are still mad that we didn’t all die at work during COVID. That’s what they wanted - so many dead they’d have to bring in refrigerated trucks for the dead. Now they want to use this enquiry to ensure we look after people less into the future

submitted 116 days ago • 3 comments

I agree with Webb.

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Stop speculating about cyber crime. The machinery of our democratic process was designed to function properly only if just a handful of us bother to participate. #nzpol

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

People actively participating in the democratic process in a representative democracy shouldn't be all it takes to cause the machinery of the democratic process to fail.🙄 #nzpol

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing as i have heard "Last Christmas" about a million times in the last few weeks. youtu.be/XU5mw-gBp1k?...

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

The remaining "wealthy & sorted" people who profited from purchasing our public assets in the 1980s (assets they then used against us to drain us of our remaining wealth) are dying out now. Is this THE perfect opportunity to reclaim public assets AND return stolen land?✊ Yes! Long overdue.✌️

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

Building a national EV charging network was basically National's only climate policy. So what's happened is that they've actually cut funding left by Labour for the same purpose and the whole thing is now hamstrung with a layer of red tape demanded by Act. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

submitted 147 days ago • 20 comments

This pohutukawa is a dwarf and guaranteed only to reach 3m in height. Currently it towers over my neighbours' house. It is beautiful.

submitted 149 days ago • 13 comments

Snapdragons are my favorite flower to grow. They do however produce seed pods that look like the screaming skulls of the damned.

submitted 150 days ago • 480 comments

You know, it's far from impossible to think that antisemitism is indefensible, and the actions of Israel is also indefensible. Conflation of criticising Israel's actions with antisemitism is a deliberate tactic.

submitted 149 days ago • 3 comments

kinda hard for NZers to be overdiagnosed ADHD when it's nearly impossible to get publicly funded access to a diagnosis for ADHD

submitted 172 days ago • 4 comments

Sending virtual hugs to everyone decent in the USA who tried to stop what’s happened. No one anywhere is going to be spared the repercussions. It’s simultaneously heartbreaking & enraging to know that over 71 million people preferred a racist rapist criminal to a highly accomplished black woman.

submitted 186 days ago • 4 comments

Meanwhile in NZ our government seems determined to bury the report from our Covid inquiry until it can find another one it likes better. Grossly irresponsible - we need to be preparing for the next pandemic now!

submitted 194 days ago • 6 comments

Call on the Luxon Government to reverse its decision to allow commercial fishing in new ‘highly protected’ areas of Tīkapa Moana Hauraki Gulf Marine Park community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/re...

submitted 210 days ago • 1 comment

Wasn't expecting to have to spend all day muting John Key on the internet, but that's what it takes for me to stay sane. You can all stop sharing it now. Thanks.

submitted 222 days ago • 0 comments

Please. The matriarchy is our only hope. I apologise for my misogyny. Need help.

submitted 430 days ago • 0 comments

He needs his corporate mates money to fund his alcohol bill. He must always be pissed.

submitted 430 days ago • 0 comments

Have not yet had Covid. Am vaccinated. Am being very cautious because I do not wish to get Covid. Long Covid (1 in 10 get it) sounds like the pits. This website is worth a visit. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...

submitted 448 days ago • 1 comment