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giving myself a gold star for this

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From Auckland University - Opinion: National positions itself as a party committed to strengthening our economy. Is compensating women less than men for the same and/or comparable work a way to do that?

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

NZ media headline of the year. @newsroom.co.nz newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/06/l...

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lmao owned

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These are the pay equity claims that the government wiped out in just two days to make its budget balance. It's appalling that tax breaks for tobacco companies are being funded by cutting women's pay rises and backpay. (Also listed in alt text)

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Why are the Americans so obsessed with the pope thing. Half my timeline is americans talking about the pope for some reason

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Every man in the witcher books sees a dude whose job is killing like, werewolves and wyverns and shit, and is like. I could take him.

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This rang more clearheaded and true than many similar attempts I’ve read at analysis

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Because one was designed to foment racism over a period of time and the other is designed to fuck over women immediately. #nzpol

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"Use AI or get left behind" ok, leave me behind, I'll be here in the library, doing actual research, citing real publications, writing my own words, not being replaceable by a bullshit artist algorithm that's destroying the environment.

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BREAKING Luxon Government to pass law TONIGHT that legalises killing kiwi www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #WarOnNature

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Paying women less could save billions!

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As I said I might, I wrote a guide to the streaming services you can get in Aotrearoa New Zealand that both Flicks and The Spinoff left out of their recent guides (and I admit this probably isn't even all of them) www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/the-forgot...

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🚨 Just in: German authorities have formally designated the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a “right-wing extremist organisation” that poses a threat to democracy and the constitutional order.

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

One of the weirder polarizations of this polarized moment: programmers who think they invented God v. users telling them they invented clippy

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I have entered the stage of needing-to-travel-by-flying which I like to call Airport Madness

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ngā mihi nui @tepaatimaori.bsky.social 🙏❤️ Petition to Parliament by @Tu_Chapman (Chair Intersex Aotearoa) #StopTheGenderBill #nzpol SIGN HERE ➡️ petitions.parliament.nz/cc70b2c2-cfd...

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I am never buying another smartphone ever again

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this shit needs to be banned and the people making it should be prosecuted the way Republicans go after drug dealers

submitted 9 days ago • 76 comments

Māori scholar Mākereti Papakura formally matriculated to Oxford University in 1927 to read Anthropology at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Tragically, Mākereti died in 1930, just weeks before she was due to present her thesis.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

All those “oh no echo chambers!!!” people are so annoying. The whole thing of conservatism is that those ideas are old and basic. We’ve already heard every iteration! There’s not one nugget of a new idea in there!

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

'We are a little worried about our landlord.' John Philips, 1986 Ref E.169-2011, V & A Museum.

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Discovering you can't download files from Google drive on your phone and it feels like I've just been told cellphone internet only works with an ethernet cable plugged in

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#nzpol It's worth responding to this supposed 'consultation' questionnaire by calling out its blatant attempt to manipulate 'agreement' with positive sounding but false statements

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This is good stuff. archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

I am still salty about pretty much all the decisions made (excluding casting) in the production of Netflix The Witcher

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🎶 I would walk five hundred miles, and I would walk five hundred more, just to be part of a movement crashing Tesla stock down through the floor DALABA BAAA 🎶

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This would go some way to explaining the $3,600 a month on candles

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

My favourite thing about the current Elon Musk situation is how he thinks stopping now will fix things for him, as if putting the matches away after starting a forest fire means people will forget who lit it.

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