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Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social · 17h

They could even program it into the terminals!

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 23h

What it really means is retailers will have to build the fee in to every transaction. That means if you’re paying with eftpos you will end up paying more than if you were charged a fee for using payWave.

Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 23h

www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Sigh.

Government determined to press on with card surcharge ban

But businesses are pleading for the government to pause the move.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Charlie @ichaber.bsky.social · 21h

It’s amazing to me that the Covid period was less damaging to jobs than the current economic policies.
#nzpol

Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the job ads online index - adjusted for working-age population. Good news is that we've stopped falling. Bad news: we're back to 2012 - a low point in the economic cycle. We are facing years of stagnation / slow recovery without some kind of large, strategic intervention. [2/3]

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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 2d

“The young woman soldier asked me what was dangling from a lanyard around my neck. I told her, ‘It’s my press pass, I am a journalist, and you have just kidnapped me at sea while doing my job.’”

Forty-Eight Hours in Israeli Captivity

A journalist captured on a flotilla mission recounts treatment at the hands of the Israeli navy, border police, and prison guards.

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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 2d

“Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is not the only one. There are 20 doctors still in detention.[...] The goal of the deal was to release all the hostages [...] but today, besides these doctors, thousands of Palestinians are still in detention without being charged.”

Video Some Palestinian medical workers are still in Israeli detention: PHR-I

Naji Abbas, director of the Prisoners and Detainees Department from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, joins ABC News Live to discuss Palestinians still in Israeli detention.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 2d

More waves crashing on the sandcastles of hopium. I'm famously pessimistic, but the data continues to surprise me to the downside. It's relentless. We've not seen anything like this for 45 years. Compounding, mutually reinforcing, job-killing dynamics. (1/2)

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Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition @ponekeantifa.bsky.social · 2d

Join us for the launch of Protect Protest, a coalition established to defend protest as a tool of democracy and liberation.

15 October 4:30pm - 7pm in Government Building Lecture Theatre 1 (GBLT1), Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka VUW

campaign launch + film screening "Operation 8"

protectprotest

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 2d

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 2d

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Kyle MacDonald @kylemacd.bsky.social · 3d

Lies, lies and damned statistics…

open.substack.com/pub/aecnz/p/...

When Phonics Isn’t Reading: Why Today’s ‘Literacy Breakthrough’ Doesn’t Add Up

This afternoon, the Minister of Education announced what she called a “transformational boost” in reading achievement, crediting the government’s mandated structured literacy programme and newly intro...

open.substack.com

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 3d

God it's so gross hearing reporters talk about Israeli "hostages" but then refer to Palestinian "prisoners held without charge" like what's the material difference between these two categories?

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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like I misunderstood what they meant by back on track

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Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social · 4d

I guess the government wants the EU to apply a carbon border adjustment to our exports.

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 5d

Israel has bombed Lebanon and/or murdered someone there every single day since the “ceasefire” there

Hours into the Gaza ceasefire, Israel launched heavy air strikes on Southern Lebanon

Peters wants us to accept the Trump “plan” as if we haven’t seen Israel’s record on keeping ceasefires

#NZPol

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 5d

The jury is in. @albomp.bsky.social hates transparency. Loathes it! #FOI #auspol

Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’

Labor’s reforms to freedom of information laws are opposed by every public submission made to the Senate, with the government’s record on secrecy worse than Scott Morrison’s.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 6d

No wonder they gotta clamp down on the teenagers what a
disaster govt

Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 6d

Latest benefits data is out. More detail later, but suffice to say that we are going to need some new forecasts.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 7d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 7d

British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK

Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK

Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK

www.thecanary.co

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NZ Council for Civil Liberties @nzccl.org.nz · 7d

Launch: Protect Protest Aotearoa.

We're joined up with other groups to resist attacks on the right to protest. protectprotest.nz

Join the launch event with a screening of Operation 8 at 4:30pm October 15th in Wellington. More details: nzccl.org.nz/launch-prote...

Protect Protest Aotearoa – Defend the right to political protest in Aotearoa!

protectprotest.nz

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 7d

Police finally charge one of their own over dangerous pursuits. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/pol...

Name suppression lifted: Officer charged over Angel Riley death

Keeve, who joined Northland Police in 2017, now lives and works overseas.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Kieran @nug.monster · 8d

i know no tech companies are good but man am i glad i don't use apple products, because fuck apple, and fuck tim cook.

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 8d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 18d

Looks like a good time in the news cycle to tackle three big myths 🧵
❌ NZ pension costs are an unsustainable burden ❌
Seriously, no, for lots of reasons.
1. Our current Govt spending on pensions is low compared to most other advanced economies. And... [1/n]

Graph of public pension costs as % of GDP for OECD countries in 2021 (latest data). NZ is lower quartile at around 5.1%. OECD average is 7.8%. Plenty of Euro countries are around 10% or above.

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Aotearoa Covid Action @covidactionnz.bsky.social · 8d

Wellingtonians - Are you interested?

An hour of unlimited play on the machines at Ye Olde Pinball Shoppe before regular opening hours on a Sunday from 10-11 am. N95 or better masks to be worn at all times and there is an air purifier. $20/person and we need 25 people to make the event happen.

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 9d

This Peter’s facial expression is his “I’m about to tell a big lie, and you know it, and I know you know it - but I also know you aren’t going to call me out on it…so here we are” expression

kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 9d

The media are on the side of escalating political violence on the rightwing, because there is no other reasonable explanation, in this day an age, to be amplifying this from Peters. They all know EXACTLY what they’re doing. And letting it happen so easily just proves they’re in on it.

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Pic: Winston peters

Headline: Peters says he has ‘no doubts’ Swarbrick’s rhetoric on Gaza incited vandalism on home as man charged

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