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(Gemini AI is on by default and it explicity scans and "shares" or "uses" your info and activity across Google products)

WorkSafe board no longer has any worker representative - CTU Removing the voice of the worker from the actual governance of WorkSafe is "deeply concerning", says the CTU.

WorkSafe board no longer has any worker representative - CTU

Community Scoop » New Curriculum Takes Politics Out Of History

Don't see the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum online yet. But Act are already crowing about having gutted it.

community.scoop.co.nz/2025/10/new-...

The full Southerner train ready to depart for Dunedin at the Christchurch railway station platform, May 21st 2025

The beautiful historic Dunedin Railway Station lit up at night, 23rd May 2025

Kiwirail are bringing back the ChCh- - Dunedin Southerner Train for the Labour weekend 🚞

I hope the Southerner does well and is made a permanent fixture, I got to take it in May and it was an amazing trip!

Extraordinary weather events forecast for much of AoNZ tomorrow. NOT usual spring winds, but MEGA RED ALERT WARNING winds. This is climate change. This is climate change HERE NOW. This is why we MUST meet our agreed greenhouse gas emission reductions. It’s not politics - it’s SURVIVAL Mr. Luxon.

Our useless govt is buying up houses…to bulldoze. In a housing crisis. Those bastards, I’ve got no words. #NZPol

RNZ : Have Your Say

I’ve just signed up because I believe in public and national broadcasting. As well as posting moans about it I’m going to be part of the research audience to give my views and feedback!

www.rnz.co.nz/haveyoursay

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

Cambridge University Library project Future Nostalgia is archiving information forgotten on floppy disks. However, legacy data storage devices like floppy disks present serious complications for archivists. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Watch: Christopher Luxon on $515m spend-up for new roads The government will spend more than half a billion dollars buying properties for its Roads of National Significance.

So no money for teachers,nurses,doctors,new hospitals...

...here,have a road.

Their priorities are sh*t.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

A monumentally large swirling lenticular cloud glowing most of the colours of the rainbow from the setting sun in the west. Stinking hot late summer evening that was about to crap itself. High country grass plains with a range of mountains in the background

Possibly the most epic sunset I've ever captured. A mothership lenticular cloud above the Māniatoto plains looking at Pātearoa Rock & Pillar Range, Central Otago New Zealand

#Nikon #GreatNZRoadie #Weather #NZ

paullecomtephoto.nz
(available on my site)

I love whatever is wrong with them 🙂‍↕️

Once branded the world's unluckiest city, Christchurch is now the 'capital of cool' Our second biggest city is experiencing the type of revival that should make the rest of New Zealand envious.

Every "Christchurch is cool now" article is illustrated with a photo of a pedestrianised street with a tram, meanwhile every local election the discourse is like "rip out the cycle lanes, then turn the botantic gardens into a car park? It's worth a least considering"

www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...

Dead-eyed young woman poses on the cover of Metropol magazine wearing a short baggy red gingham dress and orchid earrings. (I don't blame her; she's probably rethinking all the life choices that led to her wearing this monstrosity.) The cover's main heading is 'All bets are on' with the subheading '18 pages of Cup Week glamour'.

Metropol magazine is a blight on the Waitaha | Canterbury region. A free - forgive me - *complimentary* waste of good trees. I just don't get who the audience is supposed to be. Wankers would be my first guess

It had been long enough that it came as a shock.

Just a tiny one (2.8), but it was close and very noisy

So thrown I added an extra asterisk 😁

Motherf****** #eqnz

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Time running out to vote in local elections Time is running out for the 69 per cent of eligible voters in Christchurch and Banks Peninsula who have yet to complete and return their voting papers for the local elections.

Ōtautahi / Chch procrastinators, join me in voting in the local body elections before midday tomorrow - drop off locations listed in the link www.newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/t... #kikorangi

How many job hunters are there for each job ad? Finding work may not be as easy as "getting off the PlayStation", data on jobs and job hunters shows.

Actual journalism being done to contradict stupid vibes-based dickhead www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #nzpol

Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor The Meta CEO fumbled a demo of his AI Ray-Bans, giving us hope that the robots might be too dumb to take over

Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor

Huntington’s disease treated successfully for first time in UK gene therapy trial Surgical procedure to treat devastating illness slowed progress of disease by 75% in patients after three years

🧠 First treatment for Huntington’s

A UK trial of gene therapy slowed Huntington’s disease by 75% over three years, offering real hope for families facing this fatal condition.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#SciComm 🧪 #Genetics #Huntingtons

Cartoon. Title: “Local Bird Elections” Image shows a Kākā upside down on a branch giving the thumbs up, and saying, “Bwark!” The words to the right of the bird say, “Vote Kākā For Mayor” The For Mayor part is crossed out, and it says “For Bird of the Year” Underneath it says, “BirdOfTheYear.org.nz”

Local Bird Elections are on. Do your avian duty and vote for the Kākā. Just joking. Vote for whoever you like. But the Kākā really is best. Voting closes today.
My Stuff #cartoon today #BirdOfTheYear

MMC in a romance novel gets a text from the FMC: "What should I wear?". MMC thinks "Five. Fucking. Words."

Serves me right for reading a romance titled"Stretched By A Billionaire" (which is way less perverted than you might assume from the title):

Overseas New Zealanders Policy This policy covers: Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Aotearoa New Zealand Diaspora; Services, Support and Human Rights; Meaningful Connections; and Participation in Society.

I'm big mad about the media coverage of the citizenship pathways for tangata whenua born overseas story not asking the Green Party who ARE THE PARTY THAT HAVE AN ACTUAL, SPECIFIC POLICY ABOUT THIS.

www.greens.org.nz/overseas_new...

Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.

Cheap(er) butter alert! The Warehouse has 500g blocks at $7.99 each, meaning the Duopoly *should* drop theirs soon. But it's 2 for $15 til the end of the month!

The thing that fucks me off most about this is we were studying nitrates and overallocation in the Canterbury plains at university 20 FUCKING YEARS AGO.

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

New Māori queen brings hope for New Zealand in first speech: ‘Being Māori is forever’ In her first public address, Nga wai hono i te po spoke of unity and said Māori must ‘walk a new path’

Once again, better reporting in international press #nzpol

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...