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Auckland-based strategy consulting and training. Opinions not my own.
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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

lmfao

Just watched @mihiforbes.bsky.social "crackpot conspiracy" doco on Seymour. It's nice to see the Atlas Network "conspiracy" brought into the mainstream. Vindication! The doco seemed like only the beginning of something bigger though... Is there more cooking behind the curtain, Mihi? #nzpol #bhn

He gave us the iconic Windows 95 chime and so much more. Now Brian Eno — artist, activist and DiEM25 founding member — returns with a new sound: a call for Microsoft to stop enabling surveillance and violence in Gaza. Read the open letter🔗

So nice to have the penguins back under the house.

what the ever living fuck is wrong with you people

Though I still think the wealth tax threshold should be anchored to 25 times the minimum wage income.

Greens tax plan seems fine to me. I'm happy to pay a few hundred more each month to get the things they'd spend it on.

Laughing a bit imagining Republicans in 1992 being like "we need a conservative Arsenio Hall"

"British Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced Tuesday that the United Kingdom is suspending free trade agreement negotiations with Israel and taking other punitive measures, including the imposition of sanctions on West Bank settlers, in response to Israel’s wartime policies."

WIZARDS OF SPACE

Every life, a universe www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

One of my strongest memories of Cheers is when Frasier says he has a splitting headache and Norm asks what a headache feels like. This tone of awe goes across the characters. "You, Norm, have never had a headache?" Frasier starts to explain the science behind headaches and Norm is staring blankly.

Paul Rudd once the spell wears off

RIP George Wendt.

Hahhaaha

how do you deal with the fact that the united states has about 20% of the overall population that lives in an entirely different fake reality

#capitalism #nzpol

"I refuse to be complicit in this genocide." A Microsoft employee and an ex-Google worker disrupted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote speech, accusing the tech company of enabling Israel’s war on Gaza.