Chch hospital prefers patients to do home dialysis and will set up people to do so.This will effect those who can’t do it at home because of comorbidities,renting, poverty, youth!, mental health, or people wanting moral support from others or to minimise the impact on family. Absolutely horrible.
“Christchurch Hospital has started rationing dialysis to two sessions per week from three because of a Government-imposed sinking lid on spending to ensure Crown spending to GDP gets down below 30%, 1News reported last night” #nzpol
AoNZ is 8th on the list with a mean of USD 388,761. Above us are Switzerland, Luxembourg, US, Hong Kong, Iceland, Australia, and Denmark. Below us in the top 10 are Norway and Singapore. Canada is 11th.
Wikipedia, using UBS's Wealth Databook, places AoNZ as the 8th richest country in the world, and yet we need to reduce dialysis programmes for patients. #NZpol
"The only thing I am considering is the future of our children & grandchildren." #nzpol And let’s be clear, that’s only his children & grandchildren. He’s made the lives of 10s of 1000s of children & grandchildren infinitely worse.
Luxon believes he has skills.
Steve-O was on Joe Rogan's show trying to defend trans people and Rogan went off, he called trans people "fucking perverts" and "mass shooters" who have done the majority of school shootings.
Completely unhinged bigotry paid for by your Spotify subscriptions.
Since the Dow is under 50,000, can we talk about the Epstein files again?
"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"
counterpoint!
the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time
When people say National are good at managing "the economy" but trust Labour more on environment, housing, safety, taxes, education, inflation, poverty and health...exactly what part of "the economy" do they think National are good at managing?
Yes yes shocking poll result but still I think voters just really need to get to know the real Christopher Luxon. Then they'll vote him out for sure.
Markwayne. 🤭
Corey Lewandowski to begin affair with Markwayne Mullin
This is amazing; am watching on C-SPAN3. If she had a staff member who liked her, that person would've walked up to her 15 minutes ago to whisper in her ear to get out of there.
But no one is protecting her. Any one of these attendees can break the news to her on live tv.
So Louise Upston is going to ignore decades of evidence from women and children who lived at Glorivale based on a visit. Ffs, did she honestly think they’d be exhibiting abusive, coercive or inappropriate behaviour in front of her. #nzpol
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she is absolutely not.
Iannucci's Death of Stalin.
Go here for a reading guide to @pipadam.bsky.social's Audition! Plus an interview ("I think the most dangerous thing I see is when an author believes they're ‘giving a community a voice’ with complete disregard for the voices that already exist in that community" coffeehousepress.org/pages/readin...
NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED
🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL. kristi noem is doing a live speech right now and doesn't know she was fired. 🚨
My wife says I like The Pitt because "where else do you see competent people in positions of authority trying to help?"
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
*cries in New Zealandish*
Labour sure do make themselves hard to like. Supporting the bill 'so we can all just move on from this needless culture war' by voting in favour of the culture war. Fuck me.
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we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
Winston Peters born 1945
It's hardly a minty fresh insight, but isn't interesting how the politicians most horny for "work tests" on prolescum receiving any form of state assistance are the absolute fucking worse at doing the job they're paid for from the public purse? #nzpol
Chris Luxon, Shane Jones, Nicola Willis, David Seymour all want to make NZ dependent on volatile LNG imports instead of renewables. Paid for by a tax on electricity. They are crackers.
So freaking grim.
It's genuinely insane that our own Prime Minister doesn't know that it is literally part of his job to explain.
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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Oh look – the "look, I don't know how to be any clearer, guys" guy has discovered how to be clearer.
(Ironically, it involves not using the word "any"...) #nzpol
