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nicgaston.bsky.social
Where do we go from here? The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear There is, however, such a thing as society
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Completely tautoko @fredvh.bsky.social’s comments here. I did do my very best to write a mature and constructive statement too, but 😬 I did feel I should send the @smcnz.bsky.social something. I had said I would 🤷‍♀️

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Oh bravo Fox Meyer: “The total budget line for business, science and innovation was $813m. But nearly three quarters of this, $576m, was a rebate for international moviemakers. This left $236 million for science and innovation.“ 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Oooph. There’s a really useful level of detail in here — but pretty interactives don’t make it any bit less ugly 😭

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

By way of explanation … 😉

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

😭😭😭

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Remember: just because you pelican does not mean you peli-should. Photo by Mark Smith

submitted 99 days ago • 16 comments

How appropriate that the Trump administration wants to open the seafloor to mining on behalf of a company called Impossible Metals.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?

submitted 2 days ago • 1323 comments

But if you consider that eugenics is the point…

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Makes me wonder whether a PM has ever been suspended? Are they able to be?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Oh look: some reckons I prepared earlier (too early to use the research below but honestly the productivity gains are very well known…)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Playing with the Greens budget calculator, I really struggle to understand what @chrishipkins.bsky.social and others are worried about. I earn a shitload and own a freehold house in west Auckland. Happy to contribute a bit more a week for my kids to have free dental and stuff. 1/n

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

“New macro-empirical research finds that every dollar invested in non-defense public R&D yields $1.40–$2.10 in economic output, and since World War II, government funding has driven roughly 20% of U.S. productivity.” Ahem #nzpol #budget2025

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Yikes. Overweighted concerns about the vaccine are one thing, especially in a context of individual health (some ppl DO have more reason to worry etc). But this — a direct comparison between the virus & the vaccine, over all time and all populations? My goodness but it does show something 🫣

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Good God, vaccine hesitancy has gone from 12% to 26% among Republican parents in the last four years. www.kff.org/health-infor...

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

NPR published a story 5 days ago about three high ranking Trump officials with clear ties to Hitler-admiring antisemites and it barely made a ripple. These are the kind of stories that used to end political careers. Now the subjects of the stories just hold up a middle finger and keep plowing ahead.

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

Prosthetics are awesome, actually 🤷‍♀️

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment