🐶⛵️Capt. Caffiend☕️😷

"I have tried really, really hard to work constructively with this Government on climate mitigation and adaptation, because, ultimately, nobody wins as politicians bicker and the planet burns. But I have no words for you about how much New Zealand has been screwed around by this" Swarbrick #nzpol

Among the reasons I’m burned out and inimical to tech now is in my last job I watched social media companies fund meaningful outside research into halting the use of their platforms by terrorists and violent extremists at a platform design level and then ignore it all or do the exact opposite.

Dark day for working New Zealanders as the Employment Relations Amendment Bill passes - NZCTU The passing of the Employment Relations Amendment Bill is a dark day for working New Zealanders, says New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi President Sandra Grey.

#nzpol The Employment Relations Amendment Bill has passed. This is a dark day for working New Zealanders.

Our Government has let Uber and the ACT Party set the agenda for employment law in this country. They need to grow a backbone and stand up for the interests of New Zealand workers.

Honestly if NZ parties don’t front up about their plans for climate & basic infrastructure we should be deeply ashamed -NZ has a sewerage crisis in all our major cities, we have flooding & landslides causing loss of life & critical failure s- thinking we can cap rates & manage this, is crazy

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No longer with us, But remains on my phone… #Goldie

I love this idea because *even though generative AI doesn't work* I don't think they'd go for it.

I don't think they could make themselves push the button.

We'd be playing billionaire-aneurysm bingo, where everyone's a winner!

This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back.

there is a straight line from the torture of autistic and queer children to developing and training LLMs. the cognitive revolution largely amounted to the laundering of behaviourism but now for mental behaviours too. discrete trials training, reinforcement and punishment.

Dysautonomia NZ Foundation

Great to see the establishment of Dysautonomia NZ, a charitable org to support people with the debilitating range of conditions classed as dysautonomia 👏

www.dysautonomianz.co.nz

Yet another day of me screaming into a pillow.

For those outside #NZ, we've already had several "1 in a 100 years" weather events / States of Emergency declared THIS MONTH.

Who needs a Ministry for the Environment, eh?

So sick of this shit.

The important thing to remember is that feijoa season will be upon us soon

Toll: a fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.

lol.

#NZPol

To everyone’s surprise the north shore of Auckland turned a violent shade of red at the 2026 election.

#nzpol

😂🤣

I started on 25mg patches and had to stay on that for a few years, as when I increased to 50mg I had increase TMJ pain (went from 1 or 2 times a year to every month), have only recently increase to 50mg successfully. It's helped with PMS type mood stuff.

Why mass execute when you can just own the media and develop/encourage a culture that ignores disease, is sceptical of vaccines, where no one masks, and clean air is not important?

* Some blood tests are relevant for specific things/ruling out options, but there's not a generic 'perimenopause' blood test because hormones fluctuate so much that one test on one day has very limited use.

My GP was happy for me to try it based on symptoms, and as a way of figuring out what were perimenopause and what were long covid symptoms. Beware the GPs that want to test your hormones before letting you try - there's not a valid blood test for perimenopause*

A dengue death in the Cook Islands is a reminder that community cooperation is the most vital tool in transmission reduction, AUT's Dr Hammed Fatoyinbo tells the Science Media centre @smcnz.bsky.social

Please follow the link and sign this.

AI has its (limited) place but is not a toy. It uses a disproportionate amount of resources eg water and power for little positve contribution to society.

Abuse in environments like Xitter also contribute to the debasement of women and minority groups.

Also. People. YOU MAY NOT BE AT HOME WHEN AN EMERGENCY HITS!!

A lot of advice (a) individualises the problem and (b) assumes people will be at home.

Fun fact: NZers travel!

We holiday, visit family/friends, work, go on retreats, etc etc

We need better advice+support than "err make go bag". Gah

hey NZ data people - does any one know where you can get realtime/near realtime weather observations on the web?? looking for things like current temp, rainfall etc - I dont want forecast info

Article about flooding with ad for new subdivisions being build on a floodplain

apps.canterburymaps.govt.nz/FloodModelRe...

Huh my Garmin watch shows very clearly today the impact of going and peopling….stress score is much higher than the times I’m working at home, doing chores, or even running errands 😩

🥰 she is very cute

If any of you have direct contact information for reporters at the Manawatū Standard, would you please DM me?
Ngā mihi nui.

#Kikorangi

Sounds like a job for....

MINISTRY OF GODDAMN WORKS.

and unadulterated orgy of building we havent seen for over half a century. Hospitals, wind and solar generation, rail and housing

Given the use of GenAI among political parties and all that entails, your periodic reminder that we have an Open Letter signed by over 20 AI experts calling on AI regulation. So far only the Green Party has committed to this. Please share among your networks and sign if you haven't already #nzpol

And they are exclusively the only ones who are allowed to do it. Any time anyone not aligned with their political beliefs even so much as confronts someone politely, the left is immediately asked to “turn down the heat” and “stop being divisive”

Must be an election year here comes the not so casual xenophobia and othering from our illustrious 4th estate. Love to be a brown person living in this so called progressive country that American liberals salivate over 🙄🙄