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YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Embarassed to be a New Zealander this morning. Same on this spineless government #FreePalestine

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵

Te Reo words are increasingly part of the standard New Zealand English lexicon. If we’re not teaching kids to recognise and decode Māori words then our reading program is lacking.

Oral submission times slashed Regulatory Standards Bill Graph: Oral submission hours for fast-track Bill: 100 hours Oral submission hours for Treaty Principles Bill: 80 Oral submission hours for Regulatory Standards Bill: 30 Your voice is being silenced Authorised by Duncan Webb MP, Parliament Buildings Wellington

Oral submission times for the Regulatory Standards Bill have been slashed. This Government doesn't want to hear from you.

Still from the 1968 movie Chitty Chitty Bamg Bang of the character The Child Catcher

Watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with Mr 11 and genuinely perplexed as to why The Child Catcher was so terrifying to me as a kid. Mr 11 has has sarcastically declared this film 'Peak Cinema'

Statement from Te Mana Raraunga Māori Data Sovereignty Network on cancellation of the NZ #census

Marilyn Waring: Why I convened the people’s select committee on pay equity The government chose ideology over evidence. We'll uncover what should have been considered – and make it available to all.

Very much looking forward to seeing the outcomesnfrom this people's committee. Go Marilyn! thespinoff.co.nz/politics/12-...

More cuts proposed at Ministry for Culture and Heritage The axe is hovering over historians and staff who create digital content used by schools and the public.

If we don't tell our own stories, we forget who we are. These fresh cuts save relatively little fiscally, but will cost us so much. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Nicola Willis's Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government Current & planned debt will surpass Labour's full term debt in less years. Willis also admitted Budget 2024 had a higher deficit than all of Grant Robertson's bar Covid.

One of Mountsin Tui's best - and most damning - blogposts yet. This is the kind of insight and analysis missing from msm.

open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

Former MPs unite for ‘people’s select committee’ into pay equity Women who served for the National, Labour, NZ First and Green parties will form a committee to analyse the Government’s pay equity changes.

Unpaid women doing the work that governing MPs wouldn't do before deciding that women should remain underpaid for doing women's work ...

Appalling and sadly not unexpected.

6th grader's science experiment answers, 'Do cat buttholes touch every surface they sit on?' ​A question no one knew they needed answered.

Quality research. Though the method did give me pause. I need more information about how many human injuries were incurred during the application of the lipstick👀 www.upworthy.com/cats-butthol...

A productive start to Easter weekend. Haven't even left the house today, which feels like a treat

Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.

This is the literal destruction of knowledge.

Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

🙋‍♀️ Yep, me too. The more I learn...

Don’t change your subject headings. There is no library jail. Keep using the real names not these fake ones.

Obeying in advance is worse than those doing the change because when you obey with soenthing that is clearly wrong you are putting false information into official “fact” places.

ALA response to White House assault on IMLS To dismiss the mission of an agency that advances opportunity and learning is to dismiss the aspirations and everyday needs of millions of Americans. And those who will feel that loss most keenly live in rural communities.  As seedbeds of literacy and innovation, our nation’s 125,000 public, school, academic and special libraries deserve more, not less support. Libraries translate 0.003% of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 billion people every year. Show Up for Our Libraries, ALA American Library Association, #ForOurLibraries

President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders.

Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

This is so shortsighted. Libraries are more than books - they are safe spaces for students to study, the community to access computers, and for families to visit. They are community hubs, and a book clickncollect for 2 years is no substitute.

We're currently advertising for our second UC Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence for 2025, co-funded by Creative NZ. 6 months, late July 25 - late Jan 26, $82Kpa pro-rated, a nice office up with me with some of the best views in the city. Happy to answer qs. jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

Enraging😡

Please note there is an active petition on Parliament’s website to remove Destiny Church’s charitable status. It was started last year and closes Feb 28th – great timing! Go sign. And write to your MP. petitions.parliament.nz/a22e0d59-7da...

"He said healthcare in New Zealand was costing New Zealanders $6000 per person, suggesting people could get better value for their healthcare if that money went to individuals' own health insurance."

David Seymour is suggesting that people could get better private healthcare for $6000 per person per annum. It only takes cursory familiarity with healthcare costs to understand what a farce that statement is. 🧵

NZ IS A SAFE PLACE TO GROW UP...Lets keep it that way! Show your support for our submission on the review of the Arms Act to ensure a safe future for our children.

www.guncontrol.nz/submission?b...

* for Duck Duck Go, I should add. Have found some for Chrome and Edge

I would like a browser extension that expunges any mention of Trump. I saw 3 headlines just today that made me want to scream, and I don't want 4 more years of that.

Our little family has started a Christmas Eve tradition of exchanging books and spending the night reading, and I'm super excited about my summer reading pile. #bookmas