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I listened to that. How can anyone who wishes to be seen as having any integrity be so disingenuous?

Try any online course except that.

Get your local election votes in by noon on Saturday! Why? To ensure a great future for your city, of course. And also, to help make politics civil again. We owe it to each other to lift the standard of discourse, keep it evidence-based, and avoid falling for conspiracy and abuse. Here’s the thing🧵

What makes biz go delusional about the economy? Oh yeah, their party in power.
How great is the gap between reality + generally agreed right-wing public policy? Dead wrong about public finances + society, no matter how good they are at running own businesses? Via @bernardchickey.bsky.social

Can't say its the same one 100%, but preeeetttty sure this hoarding I found dumped on Williamson Ave might be the one someone stole when they vandalised our hoarding (it also looked like it had been run over)

Change the constitution to a parliamentary democracy like Germany’s.

When the right-wing says “Free speech” what it really means is listen to us and shut up or else.

Treasury warnings over medical school ignored The government ignored repeated warnings from Treasury not to approve the new Waikato Medical School amid concerns about cost overruns. The...

www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin... Treasury repeatedly criticised Waikato Medical School proposal, but those complaints fell on deaf ears. @publicaddress.bsky.social

🎵"There is no cancel-culture in New Zealand ..."🎵

Cleared out my office after a massive 3 years. The busiest 3 of my life, some tough times & lots of successes too. A lot of it spent working in this building.

I hope everyone’s getting their votes back so I can get back to the office on Monday to continue the hard work for our community & our city.

What happened to the wigs!

Willis/Trumplet

The difference between a parliamentary system which forces coalitions & a presidential one which is designed to produce deadlock?

It's a truly awful piece. It's like someone prompted an AI to pen a defensive piece that pins our current economic woes on the last govt. It's full of wild leaps in logic and ideology masked by the language of reckonomics.

But RNZ published it - that's what's most shocking here. Our state broadcaster is cooked

Its Monday, and the last week of the Auckland Local Election.

Please vote if you haven't already! And vote City Vision if you want positive action in central Auckland!

City is made of council Please vote. I do not know how else to say this.

'So many of your daily problems are caused by council. They get away with it because everyone thinks they’re boring and irrelevant.'

Vote!

@haydendonnell.bsky.social

Since the election, there are 37,243 fewer 15-19 year olds in filled jobs. The jobs market for young people is as bad - if not worse - than the GFC. So adding 6% to the cost of tuition fees and halving apprenticeship boost support makes life even harder. Brilliant work National.

Such as the busway, Onewa Rd and the Devonport Ferry, but we need to do more and we need the government to step up as well.

* based on the average occupancy of vehicles in Auckland. The average dedicated bus lane actually moves around 5-7 times the number of people than a car lane.

Unemployment has increased by 50,000 since he’s been Prime Minister. That’s 50,000 families affected.

Luxon is just giving up his responsibility as Prime Minister for his citizens - to look tough against people who are trying their best.

Where are the jobs?

Same trend for the country as a whole… 😔

bsky.app/profile/musi... #NZpol

What’s this PhD you can get that blinds you to factual evidence?

‘Not sound economics’: 20 economists slam government’s economic strategy The signatories – including former Productivity Commission chair Ganesh Nana and economist Susan St John – say the Government’s fiscal approach has worsened the recession, weakened public services, an...

The data in this article is absolutely damning. In the face of this, Nicola Willis’ response is idiotic.

It’s a long article. If you don’t have time for all the words, the graphs tell the story.

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Luxon is the kind of man who claims every entitlement he qualifies for whether he needs it or not.

Luxon is the kind of man that takes benefit entitlements away from 18 and 19 year olds, saying that "the world doesn't owe them a living."

Luxon has created an economy where they can't find jobs.

The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple Users The Financial Times reports that the U.K. is once again demanding that Apple create a backdoor into its encrypted backup services. The only change since the last time they demanded this is that the

Apple must continue to refuse the demand to create a backdoor into iCloud. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Lots of violence too. 😩

It doesn't seem to have garnered much attention, but Apple's Chief of War, which dramatizes the 18th century unification of Hawaii, is a compelling, sumptuous historical melodrama with a great cast and gorgeous setting. Perfect for anyone experiencing Game of Thrones/Shogun withdrawal.

Did this guy even look at the new plan? Can he point to where St Mary’s Bay is zoned for 15 storey towers?

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian

A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life.

Inflation on New Zealand is driven largely by the price of oil. The sooner we become an electrostate and get the price of oil out of the bottom lines of food production and freight, the better. We also need to bust the gen-tailer influence on the NZ electricity market and energy policy.