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Georgia Carson @thebibliophile.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very difficult, start now!

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Georgia Carson @thebibliophile.bsky.social · 1d

You don't say www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Shrinking job market forces scientists to pursue careers offshore

After 13 years studying for a biology degree, Ian has had to apply - unsuccessfully - for labouring jobs.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Georgia Carson @thebibliophile.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to work out if this happening at an Integrity Institute is ironic

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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 3d

We'd love to have a huge turn out for Nic's talk. Please help spread the word. There are downloadable pdf adverts in the link below. They can be emailed or printed. If you work in a public space (e.g. Library) you could help by printing and posting one of the flyers. Ngā mihi nui!

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 4d

One of the things I've talked about here is the nature of "performative public policy" or policy initiatives that superficially exist within accepted policy narratives, but in reality aren't about achieving policy goals. Instead, the announcement of the policy is a political end, not a policy one.

Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 4d

#nzpol Sometimes a policy is so stupid it makes you question the very fabric of reality. Decisions so fabulously, almost wantonly dumb, you wonder if we actually live in a simulation. Welcome to the world of removing Jobseeker Support for 18 & 19-year-olds. craigrenney.substack.com/p/a-small-wr...

A small wrinkle in the Jobseeker policy

The government’s recent changes to benefits feel like this: the house is on fire, and this policy is them turning off the smoke alarm and saying it’s fixed

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Georgia Carson @thebibliophile.bsky.social · 4d

Or work on giving us more reasons to stay

Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 5d

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?

Footnote from Treasury's 2025 He Tirohanga Mokopuna

"See Hughes, (2025a) and Hughes & Crichton (2025). 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. Student loan holders living overseas commonly cease repayments, and these loans are sometimes written off as a result. Ministry of Education (2023)."

He Tirohanga Mokopuna is Treasury's long-term fiscal statement and it's full of woe about the funding of NZ Super. Not enough about maybe trying a LOT harder to keep people here.

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Siân Munson @sweetpeas4evea.bsky.social · 6d

Can we also discuss the fact that these clowns are also dumping ridiculous work on GPs + NPs who will now be expected to write letters to WINZ about family breakdown? This is literally NOT MY JOB

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 6d

"The world doesn't owe you..." suggests entitlement, this is coming from the man who said "I'm entitled to my entitlements"
#nzpol

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 10d

Our international news is so tied into US and UK networks that it never made any sense either regionally or ethically, even more so now that both these countries are busy dismantling their liberal democratic norms

kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 10d

Israel is about to do war crimes, including against NZ nationals, and I haven't seen a single NZ outlet livestreaming this. If they can somehow do a Charlie Kirk livestream, on multiple occasions, you'd think this would garner some journalistic attention

text on gaza flotilla livestream on al jazeera:

"Israeli media reports that Israeli navy, commandos preparing to intercept Sumud
Israeli public broadcaster Kan is reporting that Israel is planning to “take control” of the Global Sumud Flotilla, using navy commandoes as well as the Israeli navy, given “the large number of vessels” sailing with the fleet to break the blockade of Gaza.

“According to the plan, hundreds of activists will be gathered on large navy ships, and brought for questioning and deportation from Israel through the port of Ashdod,” Kan reported.

“The fact that there are about 50 vessels will not allow them all to be towed, so some of the vessels will be sunk at sea,” the report added.

It also noted that the flotilla is different to previous missions, as it includes “dozens of vessels and is accompanied by warships”, the broadcaster said."

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 10d

Was surprised to learn on Waatea News recently that the deputy PM doesn’t think politicians should change election rules without a public vote, and am expecting that Act will withdraw its support for restrictions on voter registration any day now thespinoff.co.nz/politics/01-...

But if you don’t live by your principles, they start to look less like principles, and more like self-interest. On Waatea, Seymour left no room for doubt: he believes meaningful election changes should be put to a public vote before they’re enacted. Surely what’s good for the lefty goose is good for the libertarian gander. The Electoral Amendment Bill will have its second reading in the coming months. There’s still time for the deputy prime minister – and the government – to have a change of heart, and show some consistency.

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Georgia Carson @thebibliophile.bsky.social · 10d

Ok it wasn't Too bad, they had heaps of security, volunteers with signs and crowd control barriers

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Georgia Carson @thebibliophile.bsky.social · 11d

Pray for us, @mrxdentith.com and I about to try and catch a train on the eve of China's Golden Week

a large crowd of people are gathered in a mall .

ALT: a large crowd of people are gathered in a mall .

media.tenor.com

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xkcd Bot @xkcd-bot.bsky.social · 11d

100% All Achievements
https://xkcd.com/3148/

I'm trying to share my footage of the full run to prove it's not tool-assisted, but the uploader has problems with video lengths of more than a decade.

Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3148

I'm trying to share my footage of the full run to prove it's not tool-assisted, but the uploader has problems with video lengths of more than a decade.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12d

"I don't get to draw the line" — you are a wildly influential journalist with an audience of millions, you absolutely do get to draw the line!

John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 12d

IMO, the most revealing part is Klein wrestling with the question of where "the line" is (between acceptable and unacceptable politics). Realizing that what he considered past the line is now the GOP mainstream doesn't make him commit harder to fighting it. He wonders if he needs to move the line.

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 12d

🎶 Guess what's back
Back again
History's back
Tell a friend 🎶

Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 13d

Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’

english.elpais.com/culture/2022...

Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’

The political scientist, who at the beginning of the 1990s declared ‘the end of history,’ returns with a new book where he identifies the threats to classical liberalism: runaway capitalism and too mu...

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Georgia Carson @thebibliophile.bsky.social · 12d

I know right? I sent her a long email after offering to connect you

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Georgia Carson @thebibliophile.bsky.social · 14d

Ngā mihi!

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Georgia Carson @thebibliophile.bsky.social · 14d

I would love to know where this is

Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 15d

Did you know Mao was gifted a kahu huruhuru (Māori feather cloak) in 1957 by Māori King Koroki? Ramai Te Miha Hayward, on his behalf, said “We are the smallest nation in the world, giving this gift to the largest nation in the world.” & Mao replied, “The smallest is as great as the largest.” #nzpol

Mao Zedong in a kahu huruhuru gifted to him by Māori king Koroki

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 15d

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 15d

Brutal new MRP poll out today showing Reform at 311 and Labour support collapsing.

Worth reading steaming @financialtimes.com column on Starmer by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social

“Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode”

on.ft.com/3VxxCaR

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 15d

I once had an argument with our accountant at a govt agency who didn’t understand why we paid to have a website when it didn’t make us any money. “Because we are a public SERVICE” I may have said multiple times

divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 15d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14d

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.

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Georgia Carson @thebibliophile.bsky.social · 15d

Ok he's our friend but not the watching naked Jason Momoa level friend

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Georgia Carson @thebibliophile.bsky.social · 15d

My only other Kiwi friend (apart from M obviously) here and I finished watching Chief of War today. Can recommend, especially if you like buttocks there's heaps of that

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