Hamish Smith

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Compassion for one fellow human beings over profits. It'll never catch on

Reminder #nzpol

Just how gullible and credulous does Costello think the public are?

National? Ethics? You said a funny!

Absolutely a special class of looney

Decent crop of loonies in the Ōtautahi mayoral candidates.
I expect nutters but Phil fecken' Arps? #nzpol

Green Budget We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

I went straight to the Govts Child Poverty Report that assesses their Budget.
This cruel govt has CHOSEN to put throw more children & whānau into poverty!
It doesn't have to be this way! We can decide to have an Aotearoa that looks after all of us and our planet.
www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...

#funny #memes #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky #humor #writinghumor #writershumor

Idle — The Wealth Race Can your hard work beat The Rich? Play and find out!

We need to tax wealth not work.

Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.

Someone made a game to show this:

therichdont.work

Cloud providers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google etc.) allow you to pick where in the world your imaginery computers are
"region" is indicating that the server racks themselves are attached to network infrastructure located in NZ.
The NZ AWS "region" is some servers in a pre-existing data centre in NZ.

You must do this!

A threat: If this gets 10k views or 100 comments on any platform I will read the entire Communist Manifesto as an audiobook bedtime/sleep podcast

If you don’t want this, don’t share it

#politics #nzpol #soci

The story so far:
#nzpol @nzgreenparty.bsky.social

Nicole: We're going to cut off-license trading hours
Alcohol industry: You don't seem to understand. You are bought and paid for.

Christopher Luxon - Stop growing homelessness!

#nzpol

action.greens.org.nz/stop_homeles...

Photo of the book Careless People by NZer Sarah Wynn-Williams. Fluro orange cover with Barbie legs of someone diving into a rounded corner cobalt blue square. Very easy read. Full of funny anecdotes about the author's time at Facebook. It gives you insight into the uncountable wealth of these people. What's important and what's not. What would make Facebook change and what won't. How to regulate them and how they're shaping elections. Also how little they care

Apparently very rereadable. I love how Sheryl is such a baddie (not the good young person version). I also love that Mark didn't know people let him win at board games.
#nzpol #facebook #carelesspeople #book #pukapuka
@jay.bsky.team you should read this if you haven't already 🙂

If he is, can he stay there?

We Did It. Commodore Is Home.
With the final payment locking in the deal CEO Peri Fractic signed the final contracts in The Netherlands, officially acquiring all 47 original Commodore trademarks. After decades adrift, the brand is finally where it belongs - with fans.
#WeAreCommodore
commodore.net

#177 Epic Plans, Low Impact / Edwin & Pete

#177 Epic Plans, Low Impact 🏡💤🧘‍♂️😎❤️🤣

Visit EdwinAndPete.com for more 😂😅

#comic #cartoons #funny #comedy #webtoon #Art #EdwinAndPete #porch #love #freedom #peace #kindness #smile #zen #metal #rock #flair #pizzazz #TGIF

It's Luxons policies that are causing this much damage.
He needs to stop the bullshit and own it.

This is the problem with Luxon and the National Party since dot.
Be honest Luxon and say we fucked up instead of blaming everyone else.
#kingofblame
#nzpol

The headline is interesting. The question isn’t if Luxon is going to do something real and substantive to make our lives better. Instead it’s about optics, about whether Luxon can convince us to believe him instead of our lying eyes.
#nzpol

'World's largest': Scottish Government grants consent for huge 4.1GW offshore wind farm Green light for Berwick Bank project puts UK 'in touching distance' of securing enough consented offshore wind capacity to support the government’s 2030 clean power mission

While our stupid, backwards, government are reopening oil and gas fields the rest of the world is electrifying

We're lucky that we're already accidentally ahead of the curve because of hydro and geothermal. It would be so easy to be 100% energy self sufficient, and immune from global shocks
#nzpol

If you can't guarantee 100% of people 100% of the time, then you must have a backup option, which in this case is same day enrollment.

#nzpol

Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans | Robert Reich Working with the Trump administration, the data company could be used to target the president’s opponents

Send the FBI home. Their jurisdiction is INSIDE USA-not NZ!
Check Palantir isn’t used here while we are at it -Thiel’s #Palantir poses a grave threat- Robert Reich:
Working with the Trump administration the data co could be used to target Trump’s opponents: #nzpol
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Motherfucking wind farms…

Incidentally, how does Te Tiriti fit with this? How does our unique individualism as a nation fit with this? How does our independence full stop, fit with this? 🤷‍♀️ #NZpolitics #Aotearoa #nzpol #ToitūTeTiriti #WhoAreWeBecoming

I do not think this government campaigned on "being a suckup vassal country to an authoritarian child rapist" and I think if they did they would have had fewer votes #nzpol