Kim Walbridge

Anne Salmond: Victim of the Day Dame Anne Salmond on a lame but personally intimidating campaign launched by Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour against academic critics of his Regulatory Standards Bill

"At a time like this, it is extraordinary that a Deputy Prime Minister here should initiate an online campaign of intimidation against university scholars, using Trumpian rhetoric and tactics to harass them for exercising their academic freedom."

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Let’s all jump to a parallel universe where the US and UK didn’t back the successful coup which overthrew the democratically elected govt in Iran. Because of… access to oil.

The four reasons Trump has banned Harvard from accepting foreign students:

1: Harvard accepted Barack Obama.

2: Harvard REJECTED Donald Trump.

3: Harvard accepted Malia Obama.

4: Harvard REJECTED Barron Trump.

If only

Remote control.

Why does he wear orange make-up in the first place? Can anyone explain it?!

First time at one of these, it’s mayhem, in a super polite way

Feeling like a very young 54 year old at Auckland Writers Festival

I have a cold at the moment

Possibly the only good thing this govt has done was bringing back proper Night & Day tablets

Late to the party but calling it: this country is being run by a cabal of nasty vampires (the extra nasty kind not the cool Cullen family type)

Am I missing something, is there a way to opt out of PNs for marketing, versus why I have the app?

Opted in for Uber notifications, yeah want to see when my car is arriving:

Uber app: only 2 min wait!
Always: 6+ minute wait

Pineapple Shingles

Yesterday’s call to cancel the Easter trip to the Coromandel makes me normally sensible.

Why are only hearing these criticisms now?

These opening paras are utterly damning of a Press Gallery which apparently couldn't be arsed doing any form of due diligence on Luxon.

Trust in media in AoNZ is at record lows & here's a big fucking reason why.

What’s up with FB changing its Messenger app logo. Don’t like it.

Oh, man, not Gene Hackman.

2025 can just fuck right off.

Okay. Let me tell you a little bit about Gene Hackman...

Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest

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Shane Jones used to stand for something but now he’s just a fat bellied grifter with his snout in the trough #nzpol #TeTiriti

Mean-spirited And Graceless Assholes

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

Yes. Plus distraction tactics much

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

Absolutely correct. Every day that the beast Elon Musk walks free is an obscenity.

The USA has had two major plane crashes in the last 4 days.

The USA had previously not suffered a major plane crash for 16 years.

‘DEI’ programs have existed for decades.

So what was it that changed in the last 14 days or so to suddenly cause so many crashes?

This would be beautiful

Too confronting to accept they support a pack of monsters. Easier to accept the lies.