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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 27m

Mike is indeed minute.

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 2d

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

What do you think?

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 17h

Is this an adhd thing?

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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 17h

Is she halloweening as a bratz doll?

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Peter Kelly @thepeterkelly.bsky.social · May 24

Dear Mr. Clegg

I have started a business, selling the contents of your house

I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house

Without this access my company will not be profitable

Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree

Please advise how I should proceed

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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 17h

So reliably wrong on just about everything.

Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 20h

Well exactly

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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 20h

Wondering also about young people estranged from their parents?

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 20h

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 20h

I did wonder how it might affect young people estranged from abusive parents.

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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 1d

You can't beat Wellington on a strike day
#nzpol

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 1d

Downplaying an act of violence might have been the appropriate response from him, and might not be the appropriate in our current moment - I don't know - but the complete refusal to make political hay out of it is night and day from the current Government.

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 1d

Then Green Party co-leader James Shaw was attacked while walking to work. He suffered a fractured eye ball and black eye, but said he still felt safe.

That's what de-escalation and kindness looks like #nzpol

Shaw back with black eye

James Shaw walked to work a day after he was assaulted while heading to the office, and plans to keep doing so.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 1d

You may have heard Peters trying to make the situation with the abducted NZers all about him

They’ve been released and their flights home paid for by the people who love them

Unlike Peters, who has all his flights paid for by taxpayers

#NZPol

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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 1d

He's fucking rude too. He'd never speak to a NACT politician like that.

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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, he's completely out of touch with how hard it is out there. People know how hard the kids are finding it. And not just the kids.

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 1d

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Luxon just can't catch a break, gotta be the first time in history that bene-bashing is this unpopular! Of course there was that one time when Simon Bridges tried right at the start of Covid but that only cost him his job #NZPol

Question: Should the Jobseeker benefit for teens depend on their parents' income?
Results:
Yes: 19%
No: 74%
Not sure: 7%
Source: Stuff

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 2d

Calling people attack dogs is not at attempt to deescalate and maintain civility, it's a attempt to escalate to distract from a failing economy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 2d

But seriously: journalists, please ask govt if this policy includes the 18 & 19 year olds who are unable to work for health & disability reasons* (as indicated in May www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-an...)

* across all age groups that’s ~44% of jobseeker support recipients
www.msd.govt.nz/documents/ab...

A screenshot of the June 2025 Benefit Facts Snapshot, showing the number of people receiving Jobseeker Support by benefit type at the end of the last six June quarters. The latest stats show around 44% of people on Jobseeker support are in the health condition or disability category. They literally can’t currently work, but would if they could, if and when they get better. (There’s a separate Supported Living payment for those not expected to get better. None of this is as fair, sensible or dignified as it should be.)

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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Not even surprising. But awful.

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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Shame the TV went out the window too.

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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 3d

Unemployment has increased by 50,000 since he’s been Prime Minister. That’s 50,000 families affected.

Luxon is just giving up his responsibility as Prime Minister for his citizens - to look tough against people who are trying their best.

Where are the jobs?

David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 3d

god help me. this is just cruelty. these are human beings, you monsters.

'The world doesn’t owe you a living’: PM says 4300 teens will lose Jobseeker benefit next year

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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 3d

#ghostjobs

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 3d

It is completely unconscionable to require job losses for the economy to function (supposedly) and then to blame them for their own unemployment that they DID NOT CHOOSE.

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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 3d

$300 per week is awfully under par anyway by my calculations, or anybody who's had to buy a school uniform or shoes.

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