Congratulations to the residents of 1920s Wellington for having the foresight to construct Thorndon Pool.

Today’s show will feature another metric ton of new 🎵 by Bar Italia (London, England, @BarItaliaA),The Bats (Christchurch, NZ, @TheBatsNZ), Lathe of Heaven (New York, NY, @Lathe.of.Heaven.NYC)...

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In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

With readings in Old Persian and Ancient Greek, find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.

The benefactor. Perhaps literally.

He had one job.

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It's also adding legitimacy to a platform that needs to be shunned.

Looks like charging in any way will be outlawed.

On the other hand, it doesn't say anything about discounts.

Time for retailers to put prices up and offer discounts for cash/eftpos.

That's the problem - those paying with cash will still be subsidising the credit card users.

And yet at least 3,500 residents of the western suburbs somehow didn’t make him last choice on their ballots.

*Properly* regulating the fees would damage Air New Zealand's share price. Goverment owns 51%. So yes, that hard.

Theory, in case it hasn't already been said: Disney might have expected the Kimmel thing to blow over. Trouble is they now have international streaming customers so the boycott was much worse than they bargained for.

ahem..

Good of them to invite cancelling users to provide a reason. Maybe they'll get an AI to read them all and summarise.

If only they'd actually watched Andor.

What the?

So taxpayers will subsidise overseas acts to come here, scoop up local consumers' scarce discretionary spending and fly off with it. A handful of local operators might get a small windfall while the rest are left trying to sell to a public with even less spending money. How does this help?

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Air Play for the Week Ending 9/6/25
Top 10 albums by spins

1-@TheBeths
2-@WaterFromYourEyes
3-@SeesOhThee
4-@SheppartonAirplane
5-@Ceylon.Sailor
6-@PileMusic
7-@WetLeg
8-@CassMcCombs
9-@TheBugClubBand
10-@Civic___World

Full charts: bagelradio.com/blog/2025/01/bagel-radio-air-play-charts-250906

and his word soup on RNZ a few minutes ago was nauseating.

Even a greengrocer would be ashamed.

Can endorse this.

Many highlights, including the band (without Prince?) playing some Charlie Parker.

For Wellingtonians, definitely worth the trip to Lower Hutt. Looks like there's another screening on Wednesday night, then who knows?

thanks for the tip-off. Turns out there's a screening tonight here in Wellington.

It doesn’t get discussed because a big and influential portion of the population believe they benefit from it. I.e. those who consciously use credit cards for their spending so they can collect points.

"We can't increase the minimum wage because small businesses can't absorb it. The price of my latte will increase!"

"Small businesses just need to absorb transaction fees charged by the big banks"

Trying to spot the difference here. 🤔

#nzpol

the proposed ban on card payment surcharges will be a boon to Air New Zealand. Any former employees of theirs in Cabinet?

It’s as if people haven’t even seen The Wire. (I.e. follow the money!)

These things aren’t secrets but never get mentioned in discussions about paywave and surcharges. Please share, reply or, ahem, do your own research. 5/5

cc @musicalchairs.bsky.social

Secondly the ultimate beneficiaries are airlines. It’s well known that frequent flier schemes account for a lot, maybe most, of the current value of the world’s airlines, including Air New Zealand. www.atlys.com/blog/frequen... Those payment terminals are where the airlines collect their profits.4/n

This was well documented by MBIE. www.mbie.govt.nz/dmsdocument/...