Amy

www.stats.govt.nz/assets/Metho... Goes over it in detail, it's a slowly rotating sample of households basically. See page 13

"no take only throw" but it's "no reverse, only criticise" with Hipkins.

Unemployment stats are not based on receiving a benefit or not. It's done via the Household Labour Force Survey.

Why is everything always a video tutorial. I hate video tutorials. Please just give me text + images. PLEASE

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

2 more days of work for the year...

Warehouse say max shelf weight is 5kg. Ikea say 30kg. That's a pretty big functional difference (if you stick to it of course).

Always forget those two since I haven't been to them as of yet

Kmart for the warehouse. Myers for farmers. Dymocks for whitcoulls maybe?

Are there enough non-executive NZ first members to get this to skip the ballot (assuming TPM, Greens, Lab all sign on)?

I should play Hollow Knight...

I should finish hades...

An image stolen from the Something Awful Simpsons Meme Thread, posted by Uncle Wemus: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3846107&pagenumber=1330#post548002120 Abe Simpson stands in front of a young Homer and Barney Panel 1: I used to "goon" but then they changed what "goon" was Panel 2: Now What I'm doing isn't "gooning" and what's "gooning" seems weird and scary to me Panel 3: *Abe pointing* It'll happen to you

Something Awful posters in 2025

Oh btw @selkeh.bsky.social and I are moving to Australia. Gonna join that brain drain

New Rimworld DLC coming out when I have a ton of cleaning and organizing work to do is just not fair.

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jfc I just can't with this insane bullshit

Nothing says "time for peace" like bombing another country, amirite

This is incredible

Dystopian nightmare stuff imo

jfc @ stuff's budgetbot

It's already bullshit that age impacts how much you receive - testing parents income as well is just complete trash.

Well that budget is somehow worse than I expected

Quote from article about the budget: Last week Finance Minister Nicola Willis cut the operating allowance by half to $1.3b. Christopher Luxon told the business audience the smaller operating allowance was the "right call because keeping our word matters".

Quote from article about abuse compensation scheme: The government has opted against setting up a new compensation scheme for survivors of abuse in state care - in favour of putting more money in the current system. That's despite it being the key recommendation of both the Royal Commission and the Redress Design Group. During November's apology to survivors the Prime Minister committed to a new system that would be more responsive to survivors' needs. "But I want to assure you it is our intention to have a new single redress system operating next year," Christopher Luxon said. The Minister-in-charge, Erica Stanford, has announced this month's Budget will commit $774 million to improve the current redress system and make changes that will endeavour to "prevent, identify, and respond to abuse in the future".

Luxon last week vs government today

Watch live: No new compensation scheme for abuse survivors, more funds for current system But $774 million will be put into the current system instead, minister-in-charge Erica Stanford has announced.

Another broken promise

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

There are so many damning things in this bit of reporting I don't even know where to start

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

Screencap of ABC saying Dutton is projected to lose his seat

My god this is great

A screencapture from Baldur's Gate 3. A topless Gale is posing in the center, with a lovestruck Astaron and Wyll blowing a kiss stickers on either side

Our BG3 playthrough has been derailed by @selkeh.bsky.social discovering photo mode and using it to torment me