Alison Green

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

"Are you comfortable with the idea of an elderly lady, maybe in her 70s and 80s, going to prison for years for holding up a sign"

@alexdaviesjones.bsky.social : "No one is above the law here"

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I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

Our history is on life support. Don't pull the plug. Opinion from Victoria University: How can we make sense of the past – and the present – while the world is so volatile if knowledge of our history is destroyed?

Our history is on life support. Don't pull the plug. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/10/o...

Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

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I'm very fucking tired of Aotearoa NZ forgetting that it was happily living life as normal (excepting border restrictions), covid-free, whilst folk like my mum were isolated in their homes in the UK, hearing about 1000s of deaths, and growing cancers because they couldn't get to see a doctor.

"I don't care what you say about whether it [bootcamps] does or doesn't work. We can have that intellectual conversation all day long, but we are, dammit, going to try something different because we cannot carry on getting the results that we've been getting.” - Luxon in 2024

Quick video for the 'we saved too many lives, spent too much $, sent inflation to the moon, made interest rates go up, and now we have to pay for our sins 😢' crowd.
The idea that NZ could have 'opted out' of global inflation surge is daft. Almost as daft as NZ opting almost uniquely for a recession.

What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has an answer Modelling study based on almost 250,000 positive COVID-19 tests in the United Kingdom shows that universal masking could have cut transmission markedly.

UK: What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer:
"Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Watch: Winston Peters refused to wear high-viz in tense exchange with rail boss The Minister for Rail had a tense exchange with the CEO of Auckland’s City Rail Link over a request to wear a high-viz vest during a site visit and test train ride. He eventually put it on, but only a...

It’s incredibly depressing reading incident reports from accidents that involve highly experienced people who decide they can cut corners. It’s even worse when their decisions put other people at risk. Wear your vest when asked. It’s the law. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

‘Fair cop’: Chris Bishop publicly called out Tory Whanau. When she texted him, he took it back Bishop had posted that Tory Whanau said nothing about anti-Semitic graffiti in Wellington.

Bishop took down his tweet implying Whanau was an anti-semite saying 'fair cop' like he was busted pulling a cheeky prank.

Dude should post an apology. A deletion is just pretending you never did it. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Luxon wants to sell or exchange up to 67% of NZ's conservation lands National say they will "unleash growth". That may be by selling / exchanging 5 million hectares of conservation land, much of it with "high ecological value" - representing 2/3 of the entire estate.

It's true - Luxon & National want to sell or exchange up to 67% of NZ's conservation lands

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment states:

“This proposal would represent a major change to New Zealand conservation law...The vast majority of this land is of high ecological value.”

#nzpol

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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Hobsons Pledge having to use a stock image of a Māori wahine because no actual Māori would willingly put their face to their racist bullshit, and *then* immediately apologising and taking the billboard down because the image was stolen... just kinda sums up Hobsons Pledge really eh.

Billboard with an image of Don Brash and the text: Everyone deserves representation, Vote Yes to Māori Wards

Love the new billboards, Don.

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If you think A.I. will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems.

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Chris Bishop's interview was a real banger once you extricate the spin:

1. If National win a second term, they will privatise NZ without restriction
2. He admits voter suppression laws will help National
3. $64bn+ of their transport plan is unfunded
4. They don't care for business cases

#nzpol

GP fees rising towards $100 Ambulance fees up almost 30% We can't afford three more years of Luxon Authorised by Ayesha Verrall MP, Parliament Buildings Wellington Funded by Parliament Service.

Because of his government’s underfunding GP fees are heading towards $100. 🤧👎

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Bishop canned 1500 new home builds.

Potaka threw people out of emergency housing onto the street.

Chhour slashed funding to community services.

All of us are struggling, services are slashed to bare bones, families already overcrowded.

What did these out-of-touch Ministers think would happen?!

Not so sweet: Why ‘Tim Tams’ are testing drivers in this city Concrete cycleway separators, nicknamed after the biscuits, are being blamed for delays and accidents.

Incompetent drivers struggle with basic road safety infrastructure.

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The quiet campaign: Inside the freedom movement’s bid for council influence Voices for Freedom and like-minded groups are campaigning for council seats, changing their rhetoric from the pandemic to potholes.

Secrecy, spin, media training and blatant dishonesty - including passing themselves off under false identities - are hallmarks of "concerned citizens" groups spearheading a right wing push to grab council seats around New Zealand www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607... #nzpol