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If you must use Al (don't) or know someone who does and blindly believes whatever it says, before asking it a question, ask it why you shouldn't trust what it will tell you.
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Cutting dialysis just to save a couple of dollars is truly toxic behaviour. But let's ask ourselves the question: where did the money that used to be available to keep people alive actually go?

A short thread.

#nzpol

As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.

THREAD.

3 & 1/4 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he'd been living, in rural Cornwall, & decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st 2022

This is what happens when Christian Nationalism infiltrates the government YouTube video by Congressman Jared Huffman

Our troops are being told that war with Iran is part of a biblical prophecy for Armageddon that Trump was anointed by God to carry out.

This is what happens when Christian Nationalism infiltrates the government. And people are dying because of it.

New Zealanders support more taxes on ultra-rich, new poll shows Half of New Zealanders also agreed that billionaires shouldn't exist while people still struggled with basic necessities like housing, food and healthcare.

Begging @barbedmonds.bsky.social to revisit the taxation policy and the diluted, weak sauce, everything is exempt CGT that Labour have proposed

People want stronger action, the country (world) needs it. Be like Nike and JUST DO IT

It's not a "cost of living crisis", it's an inequity crisis
#nzpol

This is becoming a panic point for so many people I know. Their thermostats are set at 55. They are wearing multiple layers. Blankets at their doorstops. These are not wasteful people. $600 electric bills. Insane. Unsustainable for my neighbors

AI BOOSTER BINGO The squares read: I might get attacked for saying this Imagine what it'll do in 5 years Al critics are just afraid Al is better than you Everyone is doing it "Levels the playing Field" Your time will be spent on work that MATTERS Your time will be spent correcting the Al's errors MORE VOLUME!! Shit outputs? Switch to [alternate LLM] Yes jobs will be cut... Humans aren't perfect either It's FUN!!! No practical advice "Sorry bluesky" Solution to chronic underfunding What if it could cure cancer??? I made something that appears passable No need for pesky underlings Is it accurate? No. But... Framing human work as "bespoke, hand-crafted" Get with it or get left behind!!! Al critics are luddites This was actually written by AI For more free printables please visit www.timvandevall.com, created by Tim van de Vall, copyright 2013 Dutch Renaissance Press LLC

I made a bingo card

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”

We should be getting ready to press go on our mechanism to insulate the economy from an oil price shock. It's not like we don't know that all our episodes of inflation have been powered by oil and warmongering. But, why have a plan when we can increase debt costs and throw more people on the dole?

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

#nzpol Please amplify the fact this is being considered, with very little pushback.

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Our alarming rates of child poverty are entirely avoidable And yet we continue not to avoid them.

Child poverty aka as family poverty is a policy choice on New Zealand by successive governments #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...

New Zealand women are under-represented in property ownership New Zealand women are under-represented in property ownership, despite a desire to own, according to new data released by Cotality. Financial journalist and creator of the Making Cents podcast, France...

This outcome is totally connected with the pay equity issue reported over the past few days, and NZ's intractable child poverty rates. Women's work (paid and unpaid) is still largely undervalued - a systemic issue, which impacts through generations.

This is totally unacceptable! 🤬 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

#nzpol Child poverty data from Stats NZ out today. All political parties except Act agreed to the Child Poverty Reduction Act 2018, creating legally mandated targets for child poverty reduction. Right now, we are missing even the looser targets the government has set. A 🧵

The reporting on this is so lifeless - no significant change from 2018, blah blah. It feels like the media are over poverty, a bit bored by a story that never changes. The stats are centred, while the actual kids - doing it tough every day - are out of sight and out of mind.

One in seven New Zealand children living in hardship, new data shows Children only get one chance at childhood - and action to reduce child poverty is needed now, the Children's Commissioner says.

😢 One in seven New Zealand children living in hardship, new data shows | RNZ News share.google/18l06axBOtPZ...

Is it fair that prices rise as power companies bank profits? Consumer NZ is asking how it is fair that power prices are rising at the same time as power companies are reporting large profits.

“almost one in five people cut back on food or other essentials to pay their power bills last winter and 21 percent went to bed earlier to keep warm.”
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Ahahaha what do they think happened to all those horses that used to pull carriages? Did they all go to live on a farm upstate? 😂

Editing a novel is just reading your own words and thinking, “Who wrote this?”

(Answer: unfortunately, me.)

#amediting #writerlife #authorlife #booksky #writingcommunity

This was how NACT funded their tax cuts for the wealthy and tax breaks for tobacco - off the backs of working women

Please tell me, and everyone else, you don’t support the ‘move on’ orders. Poll near the bottom of the article.

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

How Finland’s giant sand battery is storing clean energy (and cutting emissions by 70 percent) | The Optimist Daily Finland's sand battery stores renewable energy as heat using crushed soapstone, helping one town slash emissions and eliminate oil from its heating system.

Adding the world's largest sand battery to the local heating network is set to reduce heating emissions by 70% in the town of Pornainen, Finland. The battery holds up to 100 MWh of heat energy from solar and wind energy. #goodnews #renewableenergy

Four Big Tech Companies Avoid $51 Billion in Taxes in Wake of One Big Beautiful Bill Act Four of the corporations whose CEOs flanked President Trump at his 2025 inauguration ceremony have now disclosed that they collectively received $51 billion in federal tax breaks in 2025, much of that...

New reporting shows Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla collectively received $51 billion in tax breaks following last year’s corporate tax cuts — paying an effective federal tax rate of just 4.9%.

TAX THE RICH FAIRLY! https://seiu.co/4qRJulh

Watch: 'It needs to stop' - Police given new powers to clear beggars and rough sleepers Breaching a move-on order may lead to a $2,000 fine or three months in jail.

I knew it would be bad but this is draconian - note it is for anyone 14 years and over and it will be a $2k fine for people with no money so instead they will go to prison. It thus becomes move on to prison. This is not a solution to homelessness. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/governmen...

feminist discourse is so interesting when it's between women and about who u can really trust

Queen!!!!!