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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 44m

"The Government’s policy change to make many 18- and 19-year-olds ineligible for the Jobseeker benefit will go a significant way to helping it meet its target of reducing the number of people on Jobseeker by 50,000."

Stalin: "Death solves all problems, no man, no problem."

Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 52m

My analysis: The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/08/g...

Govt to meet 9% of Jobseeker target by taking teens off benefit

The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit.

newsroom.co.nz

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 39m

Members bills are approved by caucus, so this is absolutely the National caucus attacking NZ First's chosen direction on vaping policy.

Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 42m

Coation at war with itself watch: Casey Cancer is trying to boost vaping. Meanwhile, National MP Carlos Cheung has got an anti-vaping bill in the ballot. bills.parliament.nz/v/1/307a2d9d...

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 13h

Completely normal thing to say.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 14h

So, issued at lawyer-point then www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Chocolate Fish owners apologise for blaming café's closure on Sir Peter Jackson

They apologised for blaming the closure on filmmakers Sir Peter Jackson and Dame Fran Walsh.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Tina Makereti @tinamakereti.bsky.social · 16h

I wrote a thing that is set in an imagined near-future where there is a tent city in Te Aro park. I would very much like sci-fi/speculative fiction/dystopic fiction to remain in any way fictional. I would like it if I imagined an awful thing and it didn't turn out to be not as awful as reality.

Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 17h

A kaupapa Māori youth homelessness group says benefit changes will increase whānau stress and push more rangatahi onto the streets.

If they're living on street and beg for food, cops will move them along for vagrancy. NZ Govt is OK w poor 18 - 19YOs dying off.
#NZpol
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Government benefit changes could leave more rangatahi homeless, advocate warns

A kaupapa Māori youth homelessness group says benefit changes will increase whānau stress and push more rangatahi onto the streets.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 17h

In 2022, protestors hurled bricks, faeces at police & lit fires. Winston Peters said those protestors just wanted to be "heard" & shook their hands.

This week Peters called the mostly peaceful, law abiding Kiwis outside his home "gutless, spineless, [the] worst" protestors #nzpol

Faeces thrown at police at Parliament protest

Poo was pelted at officers during an early morning operation today to contain the protest at Parliament. The 3.30am operation caught the occupiers off guard with attempts to thwart the plan, resulting...

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 17h

And is it enough to put an Austrian on Mars?

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TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 18h

Auckland Council should do what GWRC, WCC, PNCC do and license their photography on their websites under Creative Commons licenses

#nzpol #creativecommons

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Public Service Association @nzpsa.bsky.social · 19h

📢 1,700 Policy, Advisory, Knowledge and Specialist health workers have voted to join strike action on 23 October. The strike follows the failure of Health NZ Te Whatu Ora to provide an offer during bargaining that fairly reflects their value to the public health system.

A graphic tile that says Breaking news 17,00 Policy, Advisory, Knowledge & Specialist health workers to strike on Thursday October 23. The Stand Together For Health and PSA logos are in the corners.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 20h

RBNZ: "Shit's fucked" www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Reserve Bank slashes Official Cash Rate by 50 basis points

The central bank has opted for boldness over caution, and has left the door open for another drop.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 20h

Chloe Swarbrick: "New Zealanders can't work your ghost jobs".

Ouch

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 22h

Thread, which illustrates nicely why I'm having that "hey uhhhh did the dissolution of the Union just kind of happen just now" feeling the last few days

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22h

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 21h

On NRT: Custodes se ipsos non custodient - norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/10/cust...

Custodes se ipsos non custodient

We give our police significant powers in order to (supposedly) protect the public. But these powers are meant to come with oversight to prev...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 21h

On NRT: Member's Day - norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/10/memb...

Member's Day

Today is a Member's Day. First up is the second reading of the Auckland Council (Auckland Future Fund) Bill . Following this is the committe...

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 21h

In theory. But the police also have conveniently shity record-keeping, so they can claim to have no idea what they're doing or what information they hold.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 21h

And now spewing puritanism. Fuck that.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 21h

Regime claiming credit for the "independent" decisions of the Reserve bank. So are they not actually independent then? #nzqt

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 21h

Luxon explicitly promising that "growth will come". So that's something we can throw back at him when it doesn't #nzqt

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 21h

Luxon is full corporate CEO blame his predecessors and accept no responsibility for hsi failures mode today #nzqt

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 23h

There's a lot of stuff from the US about ICE and other nasty TLAs buying this stuff, so I would not be surprised if our local cops are also into using capitalism to sidestep legislated safeguards on search and surveillance. (that's what Auror is about, after all)

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 23h

In fact, there's someone asking about that sort of thing right here: fyi.org.nz/request/3201...

Use of data brokers - a Official Information Act request to New Zealand Police

Under the OIA, I request the following information 1. Confirmation of whether Police has ever, for any purpose, directly or indirectly purchased, licensed, or otherwise acquired data about people fr...

fyi.org.nz

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