Lew

Just realised he's Charles III of Australia even though it never had a Charles I or II. Furious

Some MPs might wish to check the functions — and thus authority — of the Clerk of the House as set out in the Parliament Act 2025 etc…

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

No doubt true. And the culture has become so deranged that even being born here isn't enough to prevent attacks from xenophobes who don't care about the truth.

MPs shouldn't need to be squeaky clean & bulletproof, but the party has a duty to not make the enemy's job too easy

But leaving aside the rhetorical flourishes, what do you assess the chances of that actually happening, given that a co-leader has stated explicitly that it will not be the case? 10%? 1%?

If the Greens come out with a candidate list composed predominantly of cishet white men you can count on me to be extremely vocal in deriding it

And maybe there are good reasons even to do the latter! It seems unlikely but only those inside the circle will know that. But I can only really base my views on what is known in public

I suppose there's a choice to be made: work on improving the institution and culture in good faith even if you don't like them (which I assume is what you are doing), or go and brief Henry Cooke about it and potentially kick off another round of political news about the Greens' internal dysfunction

Well I'm terribly sorry that I hurt your feelings (about which I knew nothing until you identified yourself as one of those in turmoil) with my flippant post welcoming an early sign of sanity from the Greens

Sure I guess? Who cares.

Just a reckon based on a news report from an idiot on the internet who is not inside the Green Party clique but nonetheless wants them to stop sucking

I know nothing about it that has not been reported publicly

But it is correct for the Greens to reflect on the institutional failures of this term and seec to do better for next term, and this is the first clear sign we have of that
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Do you think it's anyone's only criterion, or are you just making up a guy to get mad at

2023 list was I believe only about 30 candidates long. I have no knowledge of who the people involved are, and there are good people ranked in that 20-30 range who I would like to see ranked again

But as a general matter, the party needed to do much much better on this, and doing so is a good thing

Right. One must succeed in the politics that is in order to create the politics that ought to be

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

Hah ok I was just going to post Meets His Maker in support of you even though I disagree on balance

Shots fired

And ultimately, if the membership doesn't like this candidate pool, they will change the rules so it doesn't happen next time and/or downvote the people responsible. That's what a democratic party can do.

Correct

“The focus here was making sure that our candidates were ready to be members of Parliament ready to contribute in a Green government,” Swarbrick said. Candidates needed to be ready not just to serve as ministers, but to have support networks in place for what would inevitably be a huge amount of online hate and the “awful workplace” of Parliament. “It is really important to us that people are supported and ready to go in every sense of the word. The environment of politics is gruelling and full noise. ...We have seen immense pressure placed on individual people. It’s an incredibly toxic and awful workplace.”

The Green Party is finally taking its job of candidate selection, vetting, and pastoral care seriously and it is causing turmoil among the people who saw nothing wrong with the previous status quo that resulted in the party losing three MPs in two years thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

There's a link b/w this and @fasterandworse.com's observation that all software is now productivity software: because the industry killed its ability to frame problems, everyone is just copying each other's features forever. Bosses see something in Jira or Excel and want it in their own product.

Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology.

Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"

A screenshot of my blueski timeline with three response QTs to the same tree reporting the sentence of Yoon Suk-yeol

An event has occurred

Probably need the medium-sized one at least

We have made our way through most of it just with cheese and on toast and such like, but tonight I am making saltimbocca with it, instead of using bacon like a basic Anglochud

Score of the week: in the vacuum-sealed meat-ends remainder fridge was one single solitary package labelled "pancetta" and I bought it even though it looked a bit sus and ... it seems to be the real deal (only probably technically fake-prosciutto since it is ham, not belly)

1kg for $13

He had a reputation, including among some notable left-wing MPs, for being a patient and thoughtful colleague when not in a role that requires him to just steamroll partisan bullshit through

And Speaker is not supposed to be such a role

Te Pāti Māori suspended for doing a haka. Chlöe Swarbrick ejected for *implying* Government MPs don't have spines, and not allowed back the next day until she apologised.

But Winston openly and *VERY AUDIBLY, GERRY* demeaning a Green MP's heritage is fine, dandy, and how dare you suggest otherwise

Bugs is shrimps

someone on IG commented “coke back mountain” under this pic. we can shut down the internet now. you guys did great.