Kera O’Regan

"calling parents to accountability" sounds like we're all a bunch of wastrels because we can't feed four adults (or more) on two adults' shitty wages. Infuriating #nzpol

When they signalled this in the budget we @dpanz.bsky.social raised concern because of the dangerous & detrimental position this also puts disabled, queer, and young adults experiencing abuse in.

Absolutely wild that young *adults* are now forced to be financially tied to parents at 18 & 19yo.

Spotted this gem in a footnote on page 62 of Treasury's He Tirohanga Mokopuna

"Between 25% and 30% of everyone born in New Zealand is living overseas by age 30, and emigration rates are even higher among those with tertiary qualifications"

Radical idea here - how about stop shitting on our young?

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

And during all of this, we have fewer disability reporters at national publications than when we started the year.

DuoLingo graphic that reads “I’m on a 900 day learning streak!”

Finally! 900 days of Arabic, with a little Japanese, Spanish, and French thrown in.

I completed the Arabic course about a month ago but am actually finding the revision lessons better than the main course!

#LeanArabic #DuoLingo

Oh damn it’s frustrating huh. Luckily I’m finding a few and able to work backwards from there but it’s been such a while profile pics and names have changed so it’s not always easy to find people!

Oh wicked kia ora Raine!

And that's assuming that the technology can do the work of a junior at the quality of a junior.

If it can't, that only speeds up the destruction because now seniors have to babysit the sabotage machine, reducing the amount of senior-level work getting done.

Gen AI can't do junior work.

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.

There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

I know I’m super late to the party but I’m so enjoying finding old Twitter mutuals on here ☺️

When I first joined it was with an awesome group but there were still a lot of folks and the vibe missing.

Now it’s like a nice nostalgic treasure hunt seeing people pop up whose yarns I have missed!

What the actual… okay this is maybe showing how out of touch I am since moving South but I was thinking at $4mill surely it must have been like Ponsonby or Herne Bay type of situation. That’s absolutely wild 🤯

That’s an insultingly pathetic offer.

Pay equity claims have been dismissed so there’s no path to a more reasonable pay scale, and now they’re being offered three years of effective pay cuts because inflation will significantly outstrip the rises.
#nzpol

Also, I’m sorry you had to go to ED, I hope you / loved ones are okay. And a 10 hour wait is horrific

JFC. I love me some early 2000s era George Clarke and architecture shows, but I didn’t realise this was a thing on NZ Tv let alone $4mill????

I’ve only been gone from Akl for 4 years but that’s wild. Where TF are they trying to buy??

Agreed - this is also why I hated the whole declaring a state of “climate emergency” push because we know what shitty govts like to do under urgency 🙃

Pretty sure for the ENT one that I waited almost as long (since I had to keep rescheduling on account of not having the money) as I would have had to under public too.

my appt come up I ended up with a ~$1k bill for imaging and a literally 10 min appt where the specialist barely let me say what I was concerned about.

It’s bad enough that we have such expensive dental, we absolutely cannot afford as a country to make this switch to private. It will be fuuuucked.

It’s so worrying. Never before did I think I would have medical debt in this country, but my GP kept referring me private for a couple of things because there were no options here in public… it was crap but manageable when I had some well paying projects on but the second those finished and I had

Oh interesting, may I ask what your PhD was on?

At this stage I also need help narrowing down as I have several things I’ve thought in the past could be interesting research, but I wonder if a Ma would help me figure out what I do actually like after so long away

Totally! I think that’s also what makes me a bit nervous, I have a few relationships in the field I’d go (back) to but I’ve been out of the Pol Sci / Law adjacent space academically since like 2013 lol

And Medschool scarred me soooo much worse than I thought even though I had awesome mentors

Ooh that’s a good point!

I’m apprehensive to go back to uni as my most recent study was literally ghosting my medical degree (health etc) and just never going back or converting it into a BMedSci or anything.

But I’ve always wanted to do a PhD at some point so maybe starting small could be good

Just remembering that scandal episode where the president was incapacitated but they kept it from the public.

I know exactly the episode you mean. Love me some Kerry Washington lip quivering badassery to get me going on an unmotivated day, but it would be nice if real life politics didn’t take such direct inspiration from that Show eh

My favourite dish! If I had the skills to actually make this I would make it every day. Looks delicious and very impressive!

But I feel like a one year masters / 3 year part time - even online only - could be doable.

I have many PhDs in my friend and family group and I think the average has been 6yrs FT which is more of a commitment than I think I could manage, though I could be convinced!

I had a proposal to do this a few years ago and am kicking myself. The thought has crossed my mind (a lot) but I am chronically ill and also need to keep working so I suspect a PhD may be a bit much for me at this phase in life!

Te Pāti Māori will introduce: Wealth Tax. Foreign Companies Tax.
Land Banking Tax. Vacant House Tax. GST off Kai

Someone de-influence me from getting a Masters please 🙏🏽

I am pretty sure I have no EFTs (student loan capacity) left & the majority of the papers are topics I already have “real world experience” in.

OTOH: Institution ticks box & gives me paper to verify I know the things?
Es bueno no?

Yeah I tried initially when leaving Twitter to make this my main platform but many of my less chronically online friends were staying with Instagram which I don’t love but made more of an effort to use. So I’ve just been lurking on in insta & missing all the deeper social justice conversations