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I couldn't agree more: "You do have to marvel at a political class and media ecosystem that reacts more viscerally to a four-letter word than to the actual structural inequality " www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

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Ok, again critical support to Andrea Vance for refusing to back down and highlighting exactly how hypocritical MPs are: archive.is/1yTpo

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"War(s) on terror" @RaphaelErba 16 May 2025

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Anyone know where I can stream Strange New Worlds season 1 in NZ? TVNZ only has season 2 now and I want to rewatch. #kikorangi

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This week has too many weeks in it. Soo tired

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Yesterday, I immersed myself in the Standing Orders. Today, I emerge to share the knowledge that next week the Opposition, if sufficiently motivated and coordinated, has the opportunity to do the funniest thing. newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/16/h...

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Had thought I was all outta tears today, but stumbled upon this... @rawiriwaititimp.bsky.social @tepaatimaori.bsky.social speaking in Parliament today at the 3rd reading of Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui Settlement Bill #NeverFinal Note the successful truncation of his whakaaro, before he's even begun...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

So let me get this straight, under the Greens' alternative Budget I would have to pay a little bit more tax... and every child in my neighbourhood could go to kindy for free? offstage muttering AND free dental! 😲 Will no one stop these Marxist monsters??

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

what's wild about the Marsden Fund (NZ's primary grant for basic science) is that after a two-step review, the payline is ~10% this is a comparable success rate at NIH for the R01, the standard biomedical 'large grant' in the states....except an R01 is ~5-10 times larger than a Marsden

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This is the big point, right? The tribunal has essentially only soft power. What NZF and ACT object to is not being overruled, but criticised. And their complaints should be assessed with the actual extent of the Tribunal's power in mind.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

This, so much this. Tech salaries really do warp the expectation a lot, and then it's shocking how little Nurses, Teachers, are paid. It is hard work and we all know the reason the pay rates are lower is because they professions dominated by women.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

this account brings me SO. MUCH. JOY.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

New mug arrived

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Wrote this column 2 years ago to the week, under a different government. Think it was holds up pretty well. And a different government is hiding from scrutiny in multiple different ways. www.thepost.co.nz/a/politics/3...

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"A lot of survivors are telling me what's happening is like a serious crime has been committed by the govt so the govt goes into a room with the victim and tells them this is what the penalty will be and no correspondence will be entered into. "That's not justice. So we're challenging it." #nzpol

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The #HīkoiForHealth doctors will compile 100s of submissions they've received into themes, then create a report outlining practical solutions based on what communities want & need = a public blueprint for change for voters to use "to hold politicians accountable" easternbayapp.co.nz/news/article...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

I’m pretty disappointed by the @wikimediafoundation.org plans for AI. Rather than take a principled stand against LLM article generation, they want AI to help with research/translation and mentor new editors. Chatbot mentors aren’t the solution! meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strateg...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Here's a thing ... when you set a mandatory requirement to reduce the workforce by an arbitrary amount in the public sector, this doesn't mean the workload of those public sector employees that you've laid off doesn't still need doing. They were employed to fulfil a need, and that need will remain.