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“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

And in the end, the house became something less than a number.
A dot, gathering with many others to be expressed as a percentage
the percentage of destruction in Gaza City, buried within one forgotten report.
No one realizes that it was me that it was all of me.

What's being done to capture all the asbestos I wonder? 🤔

Ran Out of Time! Ran Out of Time!

Past tense.

Think that these ICE scum will get theirs when it’s all over?

Please keep in mind that of the roughly 7,000 SS personnel who served at the Auschwitz complex, only 63 were tried in post-war trials in Poland and Germany.

Of course we'd arranged it a couple of weeks ago when there wasn't a storm in sight... 🤔

Seems pretty minor compared to tearing down American democracy.

Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚

And yet im told by fascist fanatics that under greens we'd be completely broke 🙃

$5b-plus blowout for eight Roads of National Significance The Government's 17 Roads of National Significance will cost it at least $44 billion – enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over. Marc Daalder reports.

"The new costings for the Government’s key roading projects are up to $14 billion higher than National had anticipated in its pre-election policy documents"

Gosh how many nurses, doctors, teachers and ferries would that get us?

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...

Dinosaurs were thriving until asteroid struck, research suggests Dating of rock formation in New Mexico casts doubt on theory that species was already in decline

"Dinosaurs would not have become extinct had it not been for a catastrophic asteroid strike, researchers have said, challenging the idea the animals were already in decline."

It's true, they're still thriving. One has even become deputy leader of NZ First.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The pay offer is obviously terrible but it's important to note too that the working conditions of the offers are also significantly worse than the existing contract

Friday's Early Bird & Dawn Chorus: Choosing $30b of motorways instead of real wage increases 100,000 protest against Government's 1% pay offers to teachers, doctors & nurses in biggest marches in 40 years; Mega-strike against real wage cut offers set against $14 billion blowout in RONs costs

Hot off the virtual presses…100,000 protest against Government's 1% pay offers to teachers, doctors & nurses in biggest marches in 40 years; Mega-strike against real wage cut offers set against $14 billion blowout in RONs costs to ~$30 billion #nzpol
thekaka.substack.com/p/fridays-ea...

Thank goodness for Bernard Hickey. RNZ managed to drop the biggest strikes in 40 years and the pushback against govt policies from its headlines after just one day.

We were staying in a BnB in Company Bay yesterday, ironically because there was a planned power outage on our road in Kenmure. The planned outage didn't happen but the one on the peninsula did (did I mention irony?) Anyway we drove back yesterday, avoiding trees that had come down the cliff. Phew..!

Differentiator between upper and lower 50% is basically owning a house then?

Also that mean is getting dragged down a lot which paints a bleak picture

Happy Friday to the super wealthy country where 150,000 children live in poverty. That's about 1-in-8 young kiwis. Obviously, there is simply nothing to be done about this.

Tighter rules may be needed to stem flow of public submissions, says MP 'Coordinated, largely online campaigns' make it harder for politicians to consider good-faith submissions on laws

This is arguing about what equipment to kit the ambulance with at the bottom of the cliff. Stop unnecessary urgency, stop accepting rubbish bills that don't clear the quality bar, and you won't end up with a firehose of outrage from a disrespected public. 🤷‍♀️

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/t...

a blue dumpster with the word rescue on it is floating in the water Alt: a blue dumpster on fire is floating in floodwaters

Considering the absolute mess this government has made of the economy, imagine how bad it would have been if they were in power during Covid. #nzpol

October planet imagery showing the east wing demolished

September planet imagery showing the east wing before work took place

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

Please show your support 🙏🏻 #MegaStrikeNZ #nzpol

100% PURE HATE
AotearoaNZ.

Shove that on your ads. Cunts. 🙄
#nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NewZealand

Image depicts a raised red clenched fist. Text underneath it says: I support the strikers.

#nzpol 💪👏❤️ #Oct23Strike #NZMegaStrike I support everyone striking today!
Kia kaha! Aotearoa Steadfast.

‘Quiet as a whisper’: German firm launches ad campaign after lift used in Louvre heist After watching the news about the Paris robbery, managers at Böcker decided to make the most of the publicity

Who says the Germans have no sense of humour?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

NZ is in the middle of an extreme weather event.

Climate change makes these winds, storms, fires and floods more frequent and intense.

Right now, the Luxon Govt is actively undermining global efforts to reduce climate pollution.

Hold them accountable.

Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline - Greenpeace Aotearoa It has been nearly 2 years since the formation of the Luxon-led Government. It has been two years of a war on nature.

This government is favouring profits for the dairy industry, the oil industry, the mining industry and leaving the rest of us to pay the price.

A timeline of Luxon’s War on Nature, via @russelnorman.bsky.social

www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Poe's Law 😳 sorry!

I should have started with “What I would say to you is…” I was meaning to imagine what the PM might advise others who haven’t had the foresight to get their $10 million holiday home revalued to get domestically rates reduction. Ironically.

A lot of stupid things have come out of Brian Roche’s mouth recently. But this feigning ignorance about what workers want must the dumbest thing yet.