As we head into summer, remember to keep combustion vehicles away from dry grass as they have a tendency to do this.🔥
This happened in NZ and 28 vehicles were damaged. Hopefully combustion cars won't cause too many forest fires this season.

'Most deteriorated' - NZ plummets in global tobacco control ranking An anti-vaping group calls the ranking an "international disgrace".

Just call it what it is: corruption. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

For me it’s the one that goes ‘Clang Clang. A nenenenene Clang Clang. NER NER-NER’. I think it’s called Rage. I also think the one where they used the cutlery drawer as percussion should be heard more often. Wasn’t it John Lennon’s cutlery drawer? Pretty sure it was. ‘Metal Gods’ I think that one is

Palmer asks Parliament: What's the rush? The overuse of urgency and insufficient scrutiny of new laws are hurting Parliament's public reputation, ex-PM says

Palmer asks Parliament: What’s the rush?
‘That is not a democratic process, that is a shambles,’ former PM says of truncated debates on vital legislation
#nzpol

I watched a clip of Brian Tamaki speaking at the Free Speech Unin AGM, some of the audience appaulded when he called for banning the burka, banning halal, and banning foreign religions.

At the Free Speech meeting. The meeting for people who support Free Speech.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

When you switch from fossil to clean you only use like 30-40% of the energy to do the same stuff, bc most energy from fossil fuels is lost as waste heat

What's I'm trying to say is that all climate action is degrowth

WELCOME TO DEGROWTH EVERYONE

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Guterres: "In 2024 investors put $800 billion more into clean energy than fossil fuels. The investment is there. What is still missing is political courage. Fossil fuels still command vast subsidies, taxpayers' money. Fossil fuel companies spend billions on lobbying and obstructing progress."

Aside from being a propaganda tool, flooding the biscuit tin with bullshit lessens the chance of more worthy bills being drawn. The NZ First party is a malignant cuckoo in the nest of democracy.

This is outrageous.

Foreshore and seabed: ‘Exhausted’ Sth Isl group sent back to court after customary rights win The Government says MACA changes were not a decision made lightly.

If this were a bunch of Pakeha farmers having to go back to court to relitigate an award of water rights because the government had changed allocation rules the media, business and legal establishments would be united in decrying it as the death of the rule of law.

I’m genuinely excited to try this

Finding hope and keeping joy under neoliberalism Despite (or perhaps because of) it all

Thanks @drbex.bsky.social for a dose of hope and thoughtfulness before I head into the rest of my day. #nzpol

Finding hope and keeping joy under neoliberalism
Despite (or perhaps because of) it all - DR BEX

Looking forward to Winston Peters doing the media rounds, publicly calling out his own ‘boiled cabbage’ voter base & his own executive branch of (fucked in the head) government over this pesky Measles thingie…🍿🙄 #nzpol #GetVaccinated #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NewZealand #Measles #NZpolitics

The minister of education prioritises business. The minister of health prioritises business. The minister of the environment prioritises business. The prime minister prioritises social media.
We're f?#ked, folks
#nzpol

On a "where to shelve this", changing a book from YA to adult creates a problem for libraries. If they have to replace an older copy with a new one that is now adult, do you buy both and move it out of the Teen section or do you add adult books into YA? Does that become unintended soft censorship?

Government announces new charter school for secondary students with autism The government has announced the Autism NZ Education Hub will start in Term 3 for neurodivergent secondary students who are struggling with traditional schooling.

Even if an "autism charter school" wasn't a garbage idea (which it is) you're really going to trust the government that couldn't manage a barely half-arsed school lunch programme to deliver it? #nzpol

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Ireland plans to make a $1,500 a month basic income for artists permanent Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts experiment has given creatives a weekly payment for three years. Now, a permanent program could be on the way.

In a win for the arts and universal basic income, Ireland plans to make permanent a $1,500-a-month pilot program for artists, citing benefits to creativity, mental health, and financial stability.

"A.i." is controlled by right wing billionaires who are channeling bullshit into your brains. Do not use it.

Billie Eilish Calls on Billionaires to Support People in Need: 'No Hate, But Give Your Money Away' Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million from 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' tour to charity and calls on billionaires to support people in need during hard times.

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD

Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?"

She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

Who even cares if people are "abusing" benefits system? The rich are abusing everything and no-one bats an eye.

'Battle lines drawn': Group behind attempted charter school takeover A trust behind a plan to change a public school to a charter school against its will says it is facing abuse.

A hostile takeover attempt against a fucking public school is insane looking-glass-world crap dystopia shit

Anyone who warned about this sort of carryon before the election would have been mocked, but here the fuck we are

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‘Resign or die’: Death threats sent to female student leader Threats against student leaders highlight rising harassment of women in public life

The more women and girls engage in public life, the more likely they are to be subjected to online gender based violence. There are few safety nets for women and girls in leadership. #nzpol

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'You know better than this' - boos and lectures for minister at music awards Culture Minister Paul Goldsmith says he enjoyed the prestigious event despite being the target of “predictable sniping”.

'You know better than this' - boos and lectures for culture minister at music awards
#nzpol
Link to read 👇

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The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

quotes by Musk and Hannah Arendt

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

Bid to turn Kelston Boys' High School into charter school not endorsed by principal Kelston Boys' High School has written to parents saying the bid from Bangerz Education and Wellbeing Trust was not supported by it.

far out, this is just EVIL entryist bullshit - ACT MP Karen Chhour directly implicated with the org sharing photos with her on their website btw

this is a test case for forced charterisation against the wishes of a school, it's ACT revealing their hand (again) that they're completely anti-democracy

No consultation on pig welfare regulation changes - SPCA The NZ Pork industry group were consulted by the government.

I mean why would the govt consult with #SPCA on pig welfare regulation changes? Of course they talked to pork industry businesses #NZpol

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