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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you Glenn. Will be interested to hear more about each regional hub as they form up.

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Glenn McConnell @glennmccnz.bsky.social · 4h

The loss of Te Kāea last year was a big blow. Now the future of both Te Karere and The Hui is uncertain, as Te Māngai Pāho looks to amalgamate Māori news and current affairs.

What does that mean for debate and plurality of voices in our democracy?

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Future in doubt for flagship Māori news shows Te Karere and The Hui

Stuff understands funding for both Te Karere and The Hui is on the line, following funding reductions for Te Māngai Pāho.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Thomas Carpentier @thocarp.bsky.social · 21h

The best part of processing space telescopes' data is to discover new regions that I didn't even know existed in the first place! 🔭

This is G054.093+01.748, a star forming region in our galaxy, as seen by the JWST recently, located in the Outer Scutum–Centaurus spiral arm.

HD: flic.kr/p/2rxLQyT

A big gas cloud where new stars are being born seen in infrared light. The gas cloud itself appears in red, orange, and violet colours, occupying almost the entire image. Hundreds of dots are spread across the picture, as they are stars in our own galaxy.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 8h

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...

www.rnz.co.nz

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Kevin Prince @mr45144.bsky.social · 8h

Utterly evil. Totally careless of the consequences every time they legislate.

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 7h

It’s giving prosperity gospel/faith healing. Just try/believe harder and you will be well and able to work, good things come to good people, bad things come to bad people.

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QP (not worth following!) @quellesurprisenz.bsky.social · 7h

I doubt it even has good political mileage, this time. In times when people's top issue is cost of living, is bene bashing our youth going to appeal? I can't see it, myself.

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Oli - ultracrepidarian @olimnz.bsky.social · 7h

Probably a deliberate "mistake" so we can't see that Chloe is out-polling Winston.

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Kieran @nug.monster · 8h

I don't *think* I'm colour blind but I'm pretty sure some fucking moron (david farrar) used the same colour for a line on a graph

Preferred prime minister poll from david farrar, national party hack, showing david seymour is still a fucking loser who remains much less popular than Chloe Swarbrick

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 5h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4h

viable thesis 🤷

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4h

But I have not read enough detail really

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4h

The investment behaviour is on the basis that it's fundamental. Overvalued enough for a crash before true value emerges.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4h

'Upston expected those with a permanent disability to be on the Supported Living Payment.'

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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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 6h

There are MPs in parliament who have the personal lived experience of being part of the John Key administration that combined the sickness and jobseeker benefits. It ain't ignorance. Even if they aren't listening to advice, they were there on the day in the past.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4h

Did you read the whole thing?

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4h

Electrification before the Depression.

Today’s AI hype has echoes of a devastating technology boom and bust 100 years ago

AI is showing some of the hallmarks of another technology’s rapid rise and fall back in the 1920s. These are the lessons we could learn.

theconversation.com

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4h

And from what I saw, the whiners had been told about it last year

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 11h

We should be using fiscal policy to help manage the economic cycle - instead the government is determined to force the Reserve Bank to do all the work. That hinders our recovery and leads to unnecessary misery. Real people will suffer in communities around Aotearoa for this.

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 11h

That in turn means that it is likely to be a year before this cut creates any real new economic activity. So there is no relief for NZ in the short run. Job losses and ‘spare capacity’ will continue for some time. We should have cut earlier, as called for by the CTU

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 11h

#nzpol The Reserve Bank has cut the official cash rate by 0.5%. That sounds great. But banks only cut interest rates that much when the economy is in trouble - and not when things are going well. This cut is a sign of economic weakness, not strength. A 😄🧵

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 6h

In light of recent events, we have taken the difficult decision to ban spectres in the dining room.

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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 7h

Just for clarity, the unemployment numbers under this government may look terrible, but keep in mind, Luxon has driven tens of thousands of Kiwis overseas as well, so its actually far worse. These numbers are just the ones that couldnt leave.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 6h

OIAs in 4 weeks about advice..

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 9h

That's right search 'Historians' in this Manatu Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage document and its returns no results because after 80+ years they're going! Historians matter but not to this government. #HistoryMatters #DontWantToPickYourGhostKumara www.mch.govt.nz/sites/defaul...

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