jem

thank you!!

academic paywalls are pants and serious... but I do love that my brain first thought you were trying to immediately access the "new chemicals"

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I'll vote for whoever sets a target to get youth unemployment back below 10% in one year. I can't do ten years of centrist, round the next corner drivel. Waiting for businesses to get desperate enough to give young, disengaged or disabled people a job is fkng stupid. There is loads that needs doing.

🚩🚨Abusers win with Winston! Removing content education & about healthy relationships that *GASP* includes our LGBTQIA whānau, only gives abusers an advantage! But the anti-choice movement, which includes NZ First & National, is inherently violent by trying to control women & girls 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #nzpol #RSE

62% of special votes disallowed in Kaipara's knife-edge council election Snow Tane, who placed second in the tight mayoral race, says a process that disenfranchises so many isn't fit for purpose.

This is the kind of result that the National government wants to see more of - disenfranchisement via policy

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

BREAKING:
Labour has announced a tax policy that includes a tight Capital Gains Tax:
- 28% on profit after 2027 for residential and commercial property
- Family home, KiwiSaver, farms, financial assets excluded
- Would pay for a medicard for three free GP visits a year

It’s a good start!
#nzpol

Solar is EU's biggest power source for first time

Solar booms that no one saw coming --Netherlands and Hungary --- are now over 40% solar, higher than Spain! Installation boomed once policy became supportive few years ago @palmapolyak.bsky.social @janfichtner.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/0894...

Bumble fumbles: A brutally honest anthology of modern dating 'I am of the generation of wāhine who were seen as manic pixie dream girls, only to discover we aren’t quirky, we are autistic.'

This is impeccable thespinoff.co.nz/society/25-1...

sooo good!!

New Zealand ‘mega strike’: 100,000 public sector workers demand better conditions Teachers, nurses and public service staff among those walking off job and pressing for more government investment in health and education

Thank you to everyone who came out to support our public service workers today ✊ #nzpol

'Devastating accident': Bus driver killed in fiery Auckland crash A key route into the CBD remains closed today.

"Investigations have confirmed that the fire originated from the car involved, and the bus batteries were undamaged and not a factor in the resulting fire." www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...

I couldn't get close enough to this, but clearly a labour of love: "Something stinks in parliament - it's a CODE BROWN talking crap wont fix our broken healthcare" with a pic of Simeon Brown talking crap.

Why did you give our funding to big tobacco and landlords??? [narrator voice: they ARE big tobacco and landlords]

You can't feed families on "thank you" teachers matter, nurses matter, firefighters matter, support staff

I couldn't get close enough to this, but clearly a labour of love: "Something stinks in parliament - it's a CODE BROWN talking crap wont fix our broken healthcare" with a pic of Simeon Brown talking crap.

Why did you give our funding to big tobacco and landlords??? [narrator voice: they ARE big tobacco and landlords]

You can't feed families on "thank you" teachers matter, nurses matter, firefighters matter, support staff

If you can read this, thank a teacher and pay ALL essential workers properly!

You cant put teachers & nurses in a corner [Extra points for Dirty Dancing reference]

Teaching isn't Charity, it's a PROFESSION. [nice and clear for the pupils at the back]

It's TIME TO USE OUR OUTSIDE VOICES [hehehe]

If you can read this, thank a teacher and pay ALL essential workers properly!

You cant put teachers & nurses in a corner [Extra points for Dirty Dancing reference]

Teaching isn't Charity, it's a PROFESSION. [nice and clear for the pupils at the back]

It's TIME TO USE OUR OUTSIDE VOICES [hehehe]

"Drink Flat Whites" with a green tick; "Only Teach Flat Whites" with a red X, showing Captain Cook, Shakespeare, Lt Hobson (?) and Voldermour. Does flat = square in this context? 10/10

We won't STANFORD this! we need more support! 10/10 teacher pun dad pun teacher dad pun

If I have to be highly qualified, why doesn't ERICA? [democracy debate not the point here ok guys]

Dire emergency - fighting for your fire service. I don't think it was this guy, but a firefighter spoke at the rally and said he was on duty and there to give us fire safety advice lol. Smoke alarms people! But also, the day of the Sky City fire, an appliance had to come up from Kirikiriroa? I didn't get the full story as on the other side of Aotea Square but did sound concerning

Signs & Symbols

"Drink Flat Whites" with a green tick; "Only Teach Flat Whites" with a red X, showing Captain Cook, Shakespeare, Lt Hobson (?) and Voldermour. Does flat = square in this context? 10/10

We won't STANFORD this! we need more support! 10/10 teacher pun dad pun teacher dad pun

If I have to be highly qualified, why doesn't ERICA? [democracy debate not the point here ok guys]

Dire emergency - fighting for your fire service. I don't think it was this guy, but a firefighter spoke at the rally and said he was on duty and there to give us fire safety advice lol. Smoke alarms people! But also, the day of the Sky City fire, an appliance had to come up from Kirikiriroa? I didn't get the full story as on the other side of Aotea Square but did sound concerning

Signs & Symbols

Up the wahs! Up the teacher aides!

Essential not expendable

Teaching more than a desk job

Crowd and signs against worker exploitation

"Chris you gotta learn" placard repurposed from last parliamentary term?

Protestors re govt exploiting workers

Auckland women's centre bag at the mega strike in Aotea Square

@akwomenscentre.bsky.social represent!

Aotea square filled w people

Aotea Square filling up ten min ago #megastrike

Te Ika a Maui... we really gotta stand up and march on this one as our comrades further south are hampered by extreme right-wing weather gods

1848 brooks no patience for that guy at the bar who refuses to consider you might wish he didn't exist

That's amazing!

Regulatory Standards Bill will expose the SPCA to penalty if they remove abused animals; it will expose taxpayers to compensate suspected criminals for confiscated assets; farmers can do as they want; Peter Thiels can build bunkers anywhere. A terrible bill with > 98% opposed. #nzpol

Votes for Māori wards

District and region roll of honour - from top to bottom

would have been nice to have a high profile left-leaning mayoral candidate in NZ's biggest city

Is it wrong that I get flashbacks to Miss Congeniality with Finlayson's on-point quote.
...She's beauty & she's grace, she's Miss United States...