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Move-on orders 'not welcome here', Wellington leaders say An open letter decrying the introduction of powers to enable police to relocate people from certain areas has been sent to the Prime Minister.

Genuine kudos for this from my region's civic leaders.

Speaking with one voice against this immoral law change.

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exactly - I think another reason why AI enthusiasts piss a lot of people off is because they often excitedly speak about these technologies as if they exist in a context-free vacuum,

while for non-enthusiasts, the often-terrifying *context* in which AI exists is of way more importance and interest.

Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters Follow I don't wish we could abolish gender, I just wish it were less an identity and more of a hobby. So you'd get people who are like "Oh yeah, l'm a woman when I have the time," or "I'm a man but I'm not very good at it yet" along with the CrossFit gender types who are SUPER INTO IT

A friend just saw this in the wild and you know what? I stand by it

like to think I lead complex emotional life but then the sun comes out and i am happy. i am functionally no different from a big leaf

I think about this a lot

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This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

it's a book about the coolest guy in the entire fucking world. he just starts cool and gets cooler. polar explorer. giant with a pegleg. golden age of hollywood writer. nazi resister in denmark. won the $64,000 question

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

I would just like to remind everyone that the slimy Atlas operative cancelled the network of community organisation supply good lunch (apparently “woke” to have nice food for kids) in favour of a global corporate to serve up disgusting and occasionally dangerous slop to our tamariki.

Yeah me too, weirdly!

Meeeeeeee!!

Oh there's a poll that's bad for National coming out? Paid for by the right wing lobby group the Taxpayers Union. Conducted by Curia, the poll company that left the Research Association of NZ because they were going to be censured for push polling for right wing lobby group Family First? Alright.

BAN THE INTERNET.

Somehow they're not tired of crimes against humanity, and want to do a Gaza on Lebanon. I guess it's like 'well, if we're going to The Hague anyway may as well stack that docket'

Can’t emphasise this enough. I once did a media interview where the interviewee said he was “tired” of hearing about the benefits of online communities and this post helps show why his exhaustion doesn’t matter.

Officer accused of kidnapping ex-wife avoids disciplinary action, keeps job The police watchdog has criticised police for not disciplining the officer.

At this point it looks like we need an Independent Independent Police Conduct Authority Conduct Authority to independently assess the conduct of the IPCA www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Awards poetry longlist: a review and Emma Barnes picks a poem If We Knew How to We Would, Emma BarnesAuckland University Press, 2025 Poetry Shelf review Emma Barne’s new collection comes with an advisory note as some parts deal with suicide, depression …

and this extraordinary book nzpoetryshelf.com/2026/03/02/p...

Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Awards poetry longlist: a review and Emma Barnes picks a poem If We Knew How to We Would, Emma BarnesAuckland University Press, 2025 Poetry Shelf review Emma Barne’s new collection comes with an advisory note as some parts deal with suicide, depression …

The wonderful @paulajoygreen.bsky.social has done a lovely review of my book on NZ Poetry Shelf. As always, lovely to be seen by reviewers and writers. nzpoetryshelf.com/2026/03/02/p...

I made two loaves of banana bread and about 35 vegan chocolate chunk cookies.

OK great glad you liked it!!

Absolutely the fuck not what the actual fuck

"Do you use AI tools at work?"
"No, I'd get written up for gambling" pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/g... (h/t @davidgerard.co.uk)

chat should we absorb our citizenry's most intimate data into a foreign country's widescale-human-rights-abusing extrajudicially-executing concentration-camp-running racial-pogrom street-abduction security apparatus

Electricity is an essential service that requires massive infrastructure and maintenance. It is wild that the assets were ever sold. Neoliberalism has failed. Expropriate that shit.

Any future NZ government who respects its citizens and wants to bring down the cost of living should nationalise all these ghoulish power companies.

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