Byron C Clark

*I know they're not calling themselves TOP anymore but I was short on characters

Former MP Jackie Blue quits National to join Opportunity party | RNZ News Jackie Blue says she can't stand by what the government has done to low-paid workers.

I imagine TOP* could fill a niche for people who want a National government without the baggage of NZ First's culture wars or ACTs racism-baiting (or possibly people who want Labour but not Greens and/or TPM) but that's a small niche, not >5% of the population

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I see NZ has supplied the latest edition of "American posters on Bsky don't realise other countries exist and have elections"

Real energy security would be investing in renewable electricity generation and building electrified intercity rail

The idea that New Zealand should be drilling for oil for "energy security" seems to forget we live in a globalised world and any oil drilled in the EEZ will be shipped to somewhere it can get the global market price, just like we pay approximately the same for NZ produced meat and milk as the UK

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Little Shop of Horrors

Also Robin Williams didn't return for the Aladdin series or straight to video sequels, so the Genie is Dan Castlaneta (Homer Simpson) doing a Robin Williams impression

He also voiced Earthworm Jim with a voice somewhere between Homer Simpson and the Genie

both of these two are brilliant actors who didn't look the part of heros or romantic leads, so we got their talents in sitcoms and animation

(Avery also voiced Shredder in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Alexander was the voice of Duckman)

A TV screen shows two characters from Aladdin the Animated Series

Watching an episode of Aladdin the Animated Series (because Saturday mornings are for cartoons) and realised that the voice actors behind these two are

James Avery (Uncle Phil on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
Jason Alexander (George on Seinfeld)

Does the fascist Israeli regime support the U.S. war on Iran? Obviously. Did they "puppet master" it? If you're tempted toward that conspiracy theory you're giving into the undertow of a very old fascist bait-and-switch. You're not fighting fascism. You're slipping rightward.

Antizionism isn't antisemitism. The very old notion that Israel secretly controls the U.S. *is.* White supremacists call it "ZOG," "Zionist Occupation Gov't." It's *not* antizionism. Such tired bigotry is most useful to the fascist Israeli regime, which uses it to deflect from its real crimes.

Khalil and Noreen Suffering in Gaza Please join us in defending Khalil and Noreen's kids from the brutality of war, winter, hunger and illness. Noreen suffers from damaged cartilege. She can't move easily. She also needs a corneal trans...

Khalil needs another $70 to hit his immediate goals.

A small standalone public toilet building in a grassy park at sunrise, with long warm light casting shadows. The cream-coloured block structure has a dark metal roof and an open doorway. Graffiti on the door reads “Have a nice shit” with a large heart drawn underneath. Trees and a paved path are visible in the background.

The golden hour (or "magic hour") is the period shortly after sunrise and before sunset when the sun is low, producing soft, warm, diffused light with long shadows. It is favored by photographers for creating a, flattering, romantic, and "golden" glow.

Is it not more likely that voters shifting to Green are ex-Labour voters rather than ex-Conservative?

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

Violent Islamophobe Tommy Robinson Allowed Entry Into the United States Anti-Muslim extremist Tommy Robinson has been granted entry into the United States despite a record of violence, fraud, and past immigration violations that previously barred him. The founder of the E...

Anti-Muslim extremist Tommy Robinson has been allowed into the U.S. despite past assault convictions and a record of rhetoric tied to real-world violence. The former English Defence League leader is now meeting with figures close to Trump while amplifying rhetoric linked to deadly attacks.

Pressure mounts on Christopher Luxon with bad poll due | RNZ News "It is not good, is it?" Winston Peters says about the results, while Nicola Willis says it's "not a good number".

I'd suggest not getting excited about National polling at ~28% without seeing what other parties are polling

In the UK and Australia center right parties are losing support, but that support is shifting to much worse options (Reform and One Nation)

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I'm a little out of dare it seems, feels like not long ago the problem was shortages

I'm a little out of dare it seems, feels like not long ago the problem was shortages

I'm a little out of dare it seems, feels like not long ago the problem was shortages

I don't think it's the way it should be, but it's the way it is. New Zealand is a very hard country to immigrate to unless you have a skill in high demand or enough money to buy a business

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot

VPNs have been so heavily marketed as tools for privacy or accessing the larger libraries of overseas streaming services that some politicians have forgotten that their primary use is remote workers accessing resources on corporate networks

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Book cover for *Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America* by James Poniewozik. The title “AUDIENCE OF ONE” appears in large pale-blue letters against a dark background. Below it, the subtitle reads “Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America.” At the center is a vintage television set displaying a black-and-white image of Donald Trump raising his hand. The author’s name, “JAMES PONIEWOZIK,” appears at the bottom.

Listening to this audiobook on my commute. A memorable line was (paraphrasing) that in 1980 a show like 'The Apprentice', where a wealthly businessman fires his employees from a guilded boardroom could only have worked as a kind of dystopian satire

Maybe it's futile to ask conservatives to think a little harder, but the answer to "why are we bringing in immigrants when youth unemployment is at 15%?" Is actually pretty simple

Those unemployed 19 year olds are not qualified nurses, software developers, or engineers

NZ spy chiefs warn of extremism risk as teenage boys dominate investigations Our national security agencies are worried about New Zealand’s young men.

In 2022 a group of us (experts) tried to explain to the joint security group that extreme misogyny was the fastest growing form of violent extremism www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

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