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"It's not like I have a big money bazooka," laments the Minister of Finance who managed to find $9 billion of new spending on bazookas

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

NZ Labour take note.

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Add a letter and ruin a movie: Dunne

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

overheard: i think that creep is listening to us

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Due to some unexpected setbacks in the initial Manhattan campaign, we regret to advise that Berlin will be delayed.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Hot off the presses. My picks 'n' mixes today. New benefit sanctions; Police dump emergency call line target; 1,500 patients wait in hallways in Auckland hospitals; US dollar slides after Trump plans 50% tariffs on Europe & 25% on Apple thekaka.substack.com/p/bernards-p...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

/opens curtains /looks at the Wellington weather /shuts curtains again

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

✅ Slept continously until after 5am

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submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Ahhh The Emergency Alert. The would one that you dismiss as soon as it pops up, in order to stop the godawful noise. Good luck, in a real emergency, finding the alert to read what it said. UX failure. Why isn't the default action to silence/stop the flashing, then allow you to read the text?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

TIL you can tell an ant's gender by putting it in water. If it sinks, girl ant. If it floats, buoyant.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Bluesky friends! I don't come here often, but I've got a folklore-related survey for my dissertation that I need your help with. Do you have a memory from a pub that sounds too wild to be true? Ever been to a pub where a true local legend resides? Take my survey! tinyurl.com/5ytwucxh

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

The Green budget has great stuff in it and it frustrates me no end that they get treated like "tree-hugging weirdos" while National, who were told that their landlord tax cuts didn't add up before the election, get to throw women under the bus and still are somehow "safe hands" for the economy.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Double Kereru!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Steve, please....

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Carbon Capture and Storage has always been fossil fuel industry bullshit. Designed to try to stop policies that cut fossil fuel use: Carbon capture: Pivotal project for cutting greenhouse gas emissions looks shaky www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

we only have Vampire Weekend thanks to vampire unions

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

Years ago I remember reading a quote along the lines that "every software enterprise agreement expands until it has a replacement for money" but I can't find the source. Anyone else remember reading that?

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TFW you and the kiddo bake a cake for Mother's Day and it results in four separate annotations on the recipe

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

@jordanriversnz.bsky.social Thanks for the accurate content.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Delighted that "transmogrify" includes turning into a cat Disappointed that "transmogrify" isn't exclusively turning into a cat

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.

submitted 19 days ago • 351 comments

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up

submitted 18 days ago • 33 comments

If kidnapped, what would you post that would alarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help? "And then you should add exactly the amount of garlic stated in the recipe."

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

You can _just do things_. You don’t have to wait to be told what to do. Most of the time, you don’t even need to ask permission.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The sheer number of people on Petone beach who don't think the "No Dog" areas don't apply to them 🙄 It'd be super to see Hutt City Council enforcing their rules.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Bernard Hickey: The Govt’s retrospective law wrecks 33 pay equity deals. $17 billion in wages & back-pay will not now go to over 150,000 workers. That means the $14 billion of tax cuts going mostly to landlords & highest earners are being paid for by wage cuts for the poorest NZers, mostly women.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

The toolkit they're talking about looks genuinely useful but I can't wait for the day we stop having the "helping women deal with it" conversation and start having the "addressing the root causes of this abuse" conversation

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

sometimes it's about sending a message

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier

submitted 21 days ago • 166 comments

If Hipkins' Labour don't spend the next 12 months making snarky comments about personal emails, ferry fuck ups, the 8% of ACT leading the govt, equal pay etc etc, then they are absolutely unfit for the role of Opposition. These are open goals.

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

Fuck me, but Brooke Van Velden is just out there gaslighting with nary a care in the world, isn't she? Let's do a wee thread to check out her scoffing remarks, shall we.

submitted 22 days ago • 15 comments

We endured six months of submissions and process for the Treaty Principles Bill, a bill cabinet knew would never pass. Yet the Govt gives just 12 hours for radical changes to pay equity laws that directly impact hundreds of thousands of workers, mostly women, & their families.

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

Thanks to all our paying subscribers for pushing this one over 100 likes. I've now opened it up for full public reading, listening and sharing. Chur! NZ economy sliding into wintry deep freeze thekaka.substack.com/p/bernards-c...

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Found it. 'The Impact of Equal Pay on Poverty and the Economy', a report put out by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which shows that "Providing equal pay to women… would cut [family] poverty in half, falling from 8.0 percent to 3.8 percent". iwpr.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Tiny duck says hi, wonders if you might have some snacks? #tinyduck #ducklings

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments