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Alternative headline "Poor people are being taxed at a rate rich people would not tolerate" www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

Apropos of nothing - health privatisation does not work and causes clear, demonstrable harm.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Ināianei, kei te waiata hoki ia, ka āhei e au he huawhenua nui ake...? Now he's singing along, can I have a bigger vegetable?

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

hell yeah

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

It’s only a Ram Raid if it’s during a left wing government. Otherwise it’s just sparkling breaking-in-with-a-car.

submitted 84 days ago • 8 comments

Again, any media that repeats government spin that Health NZ / Te Whatu Ora has a ‘deficit’ isn’t undertaking journalism but performing public relations/marketing on behalf of the government.

submitted 90 days ago • 5 comments

#nzpol offered to them is a paycut and stopping the system that helps calculate clinical need for nursing hours for respective areas … www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Whakamīharo!! He poho kererū ahau ki te tū i te taha o ngā tini mano. He hōnore hoki ki te mahi hei kaihauora. E kore ngā kupu!! Toitū te tiriti!! 🖤🤍🤎

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

#ToitūTeTiriti HANA ✊ by Michel Mulipola @bloodysamoan

submitted 109 days ago • 5 comments

Being racist against Māori looks like such a fucking drag imagine going 'buh what about parliamentary process' over literally the coolest thing ever.

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

Yep still just replaying this to keep myself alive and keep spotting lil details like @teanau.bsky.social going hard from the Green benches

submitted 110 days ago • 5 comments

Um. On the list of side effects of the shockingly ill advised Treaty Principles Bill, I did not pick creating a rapprochement between Ngati Toa and the Anglican Church - dating back to the Wi Parata saga which started in 1848 - as one of them. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3604...

submitted 110 days ago • 4 comments

Your reminder that I am regretfully selling this beautiful painting of mine on TradeMe but that, far more than bids, I crave your intelligent, insightful, very serious questions, so I may “answer” them www.trademe.co.nz/marketplace/...

submitted 153 days ago • 8 comments

Awesome colleagues in NZMJ today. *Ethnicity is an EVIDENCE-BASED marker of NEED. NZMJ Vol 137 no. 1603 27 Sept 2024

submitted 158 days ago • 2 comments

"some people 'working from home' are taking advantage of the arrangement" says government lead by man who claimed to be working in Te Puke, when found to be holidaying in Hawai'i.

submitted 161 days ago • 12 comments

AI is 'accelerating the climate crisis,' warns AI expert Sasha Luccioni. In her latest study, the researcher demonstrated that producing a high-definition image using artificial intelligence consumes as much energy as fully recharging the battery of your cell phone😱: techxplore.com/news/2024-09... 🧪

submitted 169 days ago • 1 comment

anyone who complains that Te Reo Māori is being “rammed down our throats” has woefully misapprehended how language works. we are trying to ram it into your EARS and EYES.

submitted 182 days ago • 2 comments

Me every time I take the bus: Ko au pēnei ina e haere ana mā runga pahi:

submitted 182 days ago • 1 comment

In New Zealand we have to take the slice of toast given to a mother who has just given birth in order that the savings can be passed to landlords, the government's corporate donors and party loyalists. That's how shit we've become. #NZPol

submitted 185 days ago • 2 comments

excellent sociolinguistic research on LLMs: "we found substantial evidence for the existence of covert raciolinguistic stereotypes in language models" -->

submitted 187 days ago • 1 comment

#nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 187 days ago • 0 comments

Again, for those in the back. Any ‘monthly losses’ are a political fabrication: they are FUNDING SHORTFALLS, and are largely made up of wage increases that were legislated for in order to achieve pay equity for nurses, allied health and admin staff www.1news.co.nz/2024/08/17/p...

submitted 199 days ago • 3 comments

#Equity adjuster dropped - back to special privileges for Pākehā in hospitals. #nzpol The chart on the right shows the chance of getting surgery at Auckland City Hospital by ethnicity over 13 years, before the equity adjuster. It’s from this article: jech.bmj.com/content/jech...

submitted 215 days ago • 1 comment

Many of us heard that COVID moves like cigarette smoke. That's a great analogy. And like smoke, while it's true that you can still be affected at longer distances, especially if you are in rooms with poor ventilation, it's going to be much worse the closer you are to the source.

submitted 272 days ago • 6 comments

The Department of Conservation has issued a reminder for dog owners after four kororā / little penguins were killed in Wellington in the last month. www.1news.co.nz/2024/05/15/f...

submitted 293 days ago • 2 comments

Ko tēnei te rā nēhi o te ao! Kāore he "kai utukore" i waiho mō mātou; i kainga kē e ētahi atu kaimahi. I ruaki tētahi ki runga i tōku ringa. Ka wehe atu tōmuri ahau, e 2.5 ngā haora i muri i taku oti. Heoi, he nui tāku mihi ki ōku hoa mahi, he tino waimarie ahau ki te mahi i ā rātou taha ❤️

submitted 295 days ago • 0 comments

Please boost this everywhere, Kikorangi, this is a heartbreaking experience that no child should have.

submitted 317 days ago • 0 comments

A moth rises like a phoenix from the dead. An #iNaturalist observation of a species thought possibly to be extinct. That is until a tourist on Stewart Island got his uv light out for an evening & observed it. NZ #moth enthusiasts are beside themselves with joy. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

submitted 344 days ago • 2 comments

Last day to contribute to this - I only wrote a few sentences for each question, but it's good to share our views, make sure we drown out the disingenuous misinformation campaigners haveyoursay.covid19lessons.royalcommission.nz

submitted 345 days ago • 0 comments

11,000signatures and counting - scroll way down to sign docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 349 days ago • 1 comment

“If you are worried cuts to lunches in schools will result in drops in school attendance and learning as children get distracted by their hungry tummies please sign the petition.” #Kikorangi our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/sa...

submitted 362 days ago • 1 comment

Rings very true for my dad's closed adoption in the 50s. We're still working to trace his Māori whakapapa after it was redacted in the process.

submitted 364 days ago • 0 comments

How long are you contagious with COVID-19? Here's what the science says: ➡️ Most people are infectious for ~10 days ➡️ ~80% of people test positive for 5 days after symptom onset ➡️ Only ~30% of people who test positive have a fever ➡️ Presence of symptoms is an unreliable indicator of infectiousness

submitted 366 days ago • 21 comments

New CDC guidelines say it's ok to hide your zombie bite from the other survivors.

submitted 367 days ago • 13 comments

the fucking wurst case scenario

submitted 379 days ago • 23 comments

Did some other site's owner try to monetize the Holocaust and you finally GTFO? Are you feeling a bit lost in this new website? Here are some tips for you. Share widely for all the newcomers.

submitted 406 days ago • 66 comments

In light of measles outbreaks popping up, I must repost this article about how getting measles wipes out any immunity you had to anything else. That’s a really bad thing in the age of pandemics so get your measles booster/vaccine to protect your immune system.❤️😷

submitted 413 days ago • 7 comments

That one spatula that gets stuck in the drawer when you try to open it

submitted 430 days ago • 3 comments

Christmas eels

submitted 438 days ago • 12 comments

you: (just gave birth in a bed of straw, husband doesn’t know who the dad is, bunch of weird old dudes showed up to gift stinky cologne) well it can’t get worse me: (the little drummer boy) and-a one and-a two and-a one-two-three-four

submitted 441 days ago • 33 comments

Simply put: the landlord tax cuts are around 12 times the cost of the Interislander project.

submitted 442 days ago • 4 comments

A few coalition MPs might find this helpful.

submitted 453 days ago • 8 comments