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Screencap from Taito NES video game Bubble Bobble. Text reads: "The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born! Now is the time of monsters! Good luck!"

"In Te reo Māori, ADHD is referred to as “Aroreretini,” meaning ‘attention goes to many things’."

Takiwātanga: The Māori Phrase Used To Describe Autism - Applied ABC What Is Autism? Autism is defined as a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition of variable severity that is characterized by difficulties with social interaction and communication and by restricted or r...

"1In 2017, autism was added to the Māori te reo language as ‘Takiwātanga’ (“tōku anō takiwā”), which translates to “my own time and space.”
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Needs another category:

States that have not recognised Palestine (embarrassing)

Cartoon depicts "PUT IT ALL ON BLUE!" Says Nicola Willis at a giant roulette table representing the economy. ( Blue square is labelled TAX CUTS. The croupier puts all her chips on to blue ) Other squares without chips are labelled WAGES FERRIES HOSPITALS SCHOOLS BENEFITS 3 WATERS ENVIRONMENT MAORI A.T. RAIL SMOKE FREE

Bad bet. #nzpol Listener cartoon from early 2024

Sir Brian Roche saying that teachers should have held their strike in the school holidays to cause less disruption

My dude, the whole point of striking is to cause disruption, this is the power the workers hold - withholding labour!
#NZPol

Excerpt from RNZ article on 17/09/25: "I'm not going to recognise a state that's currently weaponising hostages, holding people for years on end in absolutely inhumane conditions. I mean, who would recognise that?" he replied.

👇 Seymour said this yesterday when asked about recognising Palestine, and I really wish the media had followed up with:
"You realise you just described Israel, right?"

#nzpol

Hospitals short an average of 587 nurses every shift last year - report Some mental health wards were short-staffed overnight almost all of the time, a new report has found.

They thought they could bullshit their way out of being short HUNDREDS of nurses, they sent in Wonderboy to sell they lie, but it hasn't worked

"Hospitals were short an average of 587 nurses every shift last year, according to a new report by Infometrics for the nurses' union."

#NZPol

What I'd just say to you is, #NicolaMustResign might not be aware of much, but she does know a joke when she's working under one.
#LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #NZpol

Reality hidden by headline: Kiwis must accept lower quality public services to pay for the $2 billion the government gave to their friends, the landlords, while also factoring in corporate hand outs for tobacco and fossil fuel, and the money pissed up the wall for no ferries.

Great time to be a hater, many things suck and many people are stupid

Idle — The Wealth Race Can your hard work beat The Rich? Play and find out!

We need to tax wealth not work.

Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.

Someone made a game to show this:

therichdont.work

This is so damn frustrating. No it absolutely shouldn’t be up to a new council. This decision, amongst others like the Golden Mile and Begonia House, were made months ago. Respect the democratic process. They must proceed otherwise we end up with unfinished projects and escalated costs. #nzpol

My Bangers: Feed that displays your most liked posts.

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OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis) Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%) Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis) New mothers extend their maternity leaves Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%) Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%) Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%) Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people) Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%) Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%) Savings go up, debts go down Source: scottsantens

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.

This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

Owls are: dumb ✅, kind ✅, and (not pictured) strong ✅

Owls are himbos confirmed

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Lmao, imagine complaining about eroding NZers' trust in public servants when your party leader is David Seymour

Fun fact: adding alt text to your image makes your post more discoverable than any hashtags you pile in. Because when people search for posts - search includes alt text.

Holy. Shit.

How Jacinda Ardern’s ‘groundbreaking’ climate law has become ‘a shell’ The Zero Carbon Act promised to lock climate ambition into law. But with key policies repealed, delayed or watered down, the once 'world-leading' legislation has become a husk of its former self.

The Zero Carbon Act in 2019 represented then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's promise to tackle her generation's "nuclear-free moment" head on.

Six years on, analysis (by me) suggests the law has been hollowed out to little more than a husk.

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They fronted up every day, answered Qs whilst making decisions giving us more day 2 day freedom than most countries & keeping 10 of 1000s of us alive

Nats largely supported at the time but wanted to build a MIQ instead of using hotels

If we'd followed Seymour we'd all know someone who died #NZPol

"people are just not built for modern times, that's why everyone's sick and nuts" DID IT EVER OCCUR TO U THAT MODERN TIMES SHOULD BE BUILT FOR US

Half of heart attack patients not treated within accepted timeframes, study finds The report commissioned by Kia Manawanui Trust suggests half of heart attack patients are not treated within accepted timeframes.

Everywhere you look, social services and assets are being decayed - health, water.
The root cause of every single one is that somewhere in the last 40 years somebody looked at it and said "wonder if we can save some money here?"

The triumph of cost over value.
#nzpol
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She was the last: Penguin starvation crisis sparks call for emergency fishing ban The fate of the hoiho - among the world’s rarest penguin species - rests with two ministers.

Pulled lifeless from a commercial fishing net off the Otago coast, the adult female yellow-eyed penguin had drowned in a silent, unseen death.

She was the last known breeding-age female Hoiho from the Sandfly Bay colony.

#NZOverFishing

It honestly keeps reshocking me that the bloke who had a row with the Holocaust museum about his dogshit Holocaust book, the bloke who went TERF after being criticised for writing a similarly awful novel about trans kids, and the bloke who plagiarised Zelda by mistake, are all the same bloke.

At what point does NZ realize it don't matter if we bite our tongues & hush our mouths & suck up real good to Trump. He's gonna Trump us anyway. We should call bullshit on Gaza, illegal detentions, offshore prisons etc. Why piss away any small-power cred we have when he does this stuff? #nzpol

*cries in Chris*

Not-so-Kiwibank? Finance minister opens door to partial sale “Kiwibank. It’s Ours” or so the advertisements go. But possibly not “ours” entirely for much longer with Finance Minister Nicola Willis open to floating part of the state-owned company

Willis pushing partial privatisation of Kiwibank just so it can access $500m of new capital. $500m also happens to be the combined subsidy she is giving to Phillip Morris tobacco ($300m) and fossil fuel cos ($200m). Let’s redirect that cash to Kiwibank and keep it. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

‘Incredibly tough’: Nearly 6000 jobs lost in capital over past year Grim stories are emerging of mortgagee sales and relentless, fruitless job hunts as former public servants struggle to find work.

Relentless public service cuts have had a massive impact on our city. This government, particularly the MPs who live in and represent Wellington, have a lot to answer for.

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3607... #nzpol