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Never meet your heroes

submitted 11 hours ago • 31 comments

Worrying stuff. If we allow competition to push down the price of housing, what's next? Grocery prices? Power prices? It hurts to even think about

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Popes are chosen by God, making them the ultimate Dei hire

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

An illustrator's happy accident: "Spilled Ink Kittens" by Japanese artist Avagadoo #caturday #art #illustration

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

"He went to the bathroom, this is our chance" is extremely normal Government

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

The best description of what the US is undergoing right now

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

>poll British gay people >ask them if they like trans people >get results >lesbians 84% positive >trans people 80% positive >lesbians like trans people more than trans people like trans people 😂

submitted 5 days ago • 81 comments

If your God identifies as god, human, holy spirit and mysteriously also bread, do you really get to complain about other people’s gender identity 🤔

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

On Tuesday, the Cannes Film Festival announced it would screen a documentary featuring Fatima Hassouna, a Palestinian photographer in Gaza who has been steadily documenting the genocide since Oct 2023. Israel assasinated her after the announcement, with her entire family.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

sources say caldwell wasn't even given the opportunity to pack up his crayons and toy trucks before being removed from the building

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

You know yes it's STV and Andrew Little standing is good and yes it is patronising to suggest Tory Whanau needs a free ride etc. But also like one of the best mayors in my 17 years in Te Whanganui a Tara and somehow treated as the worst by so many people. Some feels about that are ok!

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

All of these spoke to me, deeply.

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

The loss of will to live is a clinical symptom of cancer as a disease, not a psychological failure of personal stoicism theconversation.com/cancer-hijac...

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

new york times article a year from now, probably

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

'They think they can shut me up, but they can't' - India critic facing ban in homeland www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Spot on from Judith Butler. The threat to young people's wellbeing doesn't come from trans people - it comes from parents and politicians who won't accept LGBTQ children for who they are.

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Bird names continue to be completely unregulated

submitted 14 days ago • 27 comments

The framing from legacy media on the Ms Rachel stuff is insane. Nowhere do they say that these are baseless claims, or that what she said (every child's life is precious and worthy) is not "Hamas propaganda." If u didn't know the background to this story and saw this post, you'd believe their smear

submitted 14 days ago • 59 comments

Is anyone flying from London to NZ in the next week or two & has space for a hoodie?

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

maybe for every 5 think pieces about the effect of social media on the youths we should get 1 on what is happening with the olds who are feeding like hogs on deranged conspiracies, AI slop they don't recognise as fake, and algorithm spoonfed bigotry they think is old time front page news of the day

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

So has Chippy made any statements saying that Winston Peters should apologize for his incitement of hate at all? Or is it just wāhine that he asks to apologize when they make a true statement that white men decide they don't like? (I haven't forgotten he made Marama publicly apologize)

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Wellington City councillor Rebecca Matthews is one of New Zealand’s most effective advocates for housing reform. But it appears the Labour Party doesn’t want her any more. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/01-...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

being a game dev is knowing sometimes 10/10 is too much but 11/10 is just right

submitted 16 days ago • 36 comments

I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

submitted 16 days ago • 74 comments

You cannot make this shit up

submitted 16 days ago • 38 comments

I was told there would be a handbasket for this stage of the journey

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments

It's terrible what those buffoons have done to the financial markets and it will cause a lot of suffering. But editors, could we skip the term "bloodbath"? There's something just too sick about all the lamentation for a metaphorical bloodbath while literal ones are ignored by the same publications.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

This is just to say I have shot out of the old timey circus cannon David Seymour and which you were probably wanting to do yourself Forgive me he was so annoying so bouncy and so racist

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Seriously, Hades is an excellent game - I put many hours into it and I’m happy I did. Amazing gameplay, paired with fantastic writing and voice performances and a beautiful art style. If you haven’t tried it yet, now’s the time!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

They joke but …. we did. It seems like years since the allegations of sexual assault by Russell Brand came out. What were the police doing all that time??

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Mainstream news hasn't really picked this up yet. Need the info to spread for it to be an effective boycott, obviously

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Israel Claims Slain Palestinian Rescue Workers Didn’t Properly Identify Selves As Human Beings

submitted 20 days ago • 63 comments

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

submitted 21 days ago • 265 comments

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

submitted 21 days ago • 59 comments

everyone please give a warm welcome to NEW SET

submitted 21 days ago • 51 comments

"That Paul’s reasonable comments received widespread critical media coverage for over a week is a concerning reaffirmation of how working-class Māori women expressing their lived realities is seen as scandalous and is met with hostility and vilification." www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Casual dating continued~ we were FULLY locked in the entire evening lol

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

A group of Civil Defense and Palestinian Red Crescent crews in Gaza disappeared when they went to Rafah on a rescue mission. A week later, the bodies of 14 first responders were found dead and buried in the sand by the Israeli army. mondoweiss.net/2025/03/the-... #Palestine #Israel

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

Still amazed that the govt is just going to throw a bunch of select committee submissions from the public away. 'Let's just not bother with them' is a hell of a response to a record number of submissions. Makes you think about their electoral reform proposals eh. 4 year terms can get fucked

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments