Another day, another stupid Excel chart.
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Another day, another stupid Excel chart.
The "Is This A Pigeon" meme where, original, a character gestures toward a butterfly and asks "is this a pigeon?" Here the butterfly has been replaced with a new headline screenshot reading "Heinz Wattie's plans to shut three factories, 350 jobs at risk" and the caption text reads: Is this "getting New Zealand back on track"?
A meme with four images and advice for resetting them for Daylight Savings Time. Image 1 -- "A Smartphone: Leave it alone, it does its magic." Image 2 -- "Sundial: Move one house to the left." Image 3 -- "Oven: You'll need a Masters in Electronic Engineering or a hammer." Image 4 -- "Car Radio: Not worth it, wait six months."
hea'ds up
Puppet changed the game. 🙌
Photo of an unopened white cat food bag with a happy tabby cat on it sitting on a gray carpet. Next to the bag is an adorable chonky grey and white tabby cat near the cat on the bag, they look similar, including the same color eyes. The tabby cat, Sam, is looking to the side like he's about to remember something.
TFW you remember you did some stock photo work during high school for catnip money
The sector with 17,000 more full-time jobs 3:33 pm on 5 February 2026 Susan Edmunds Susan Edmunds, Money Correspondent susan.edmunds@rnz.co.nz Image of cooks in a restaurant kitchen. Accommodation and food services saw the largest increase in jobs over the last year, up just over 25,000, with around 17,000 more full-time and 8000 more part-time roles. Photo: 123rf Unemployment has hit its highest level in a decade, but beneath the headline numbers some sectors are faring much better than others.
This week's lies, damn lies, and green shoots award goes to Brad Olsen (via Susan Edmunds). This is a particularly disgusting use of data - like so bad that the article should be removed. Let's have a look... [🧵 1/n]
I wrote a thing for Herald! The main point is that, between the injunction and statements by the company itself, we have a pretty good idea what happened now - and it's a pretty basic failure of access control. It's low hanging fruit for hackers.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/why-manag...
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
This is embarrassing and we are fucking doomed.
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
How 2026 was depicted in the sci-fi classic 'Metropolis' (1927)
This Neighbourly data breach is dated 25 December 2025. Has anyone received any notifications about this?
Are there any articles about this?
Stuff & Trademe deal says "excludes Neighbourly, Stuff Events and the group’s Masthead Publishing business."
1/n
#Aotearoa #NewZealand #NZ
This is spectacular, on quantum cryptography - www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa4O... #programming cc: @jdoyleoss.bsky.social
I hope an infosec reporter here is digging into this one like a fat ham because it's juicy. So tempting. www.reddit.com/r/newzealand...
Wanna re-live the ✨kawaii ✨ magic? Well lucky ducks, guess what we have prepared!
All of the Kawaiicon 3 talks are up on YouTube! Check em out!
youtube.com/@kawaiiconnz
To my Minister, the honorable Brooke Van Velden. I sat watching our Deputy National Commander on TV friday morning, yet again spinning things to make FENZ sound squeaky clean. She would make a great Politician. I guess I expect a bit of honesty from people who claim to have been a career firefighter, a profession New Zealanders trust. It seems my expectations were too high. Hopefully as a firefighter myself, I can try to clear up a few things FENZ keeps saying publicly — because a lot of it simply isn’t true. First — FENZ claims our bargaining proposal is three times their offer. That is factually wrong. A lie if you like. Our proposal was no where near that. I was in the room, I know that and they know that. Next — trucks. FENZ keeps talking about ‘delivering new trucks’. They brag about ‘317 new firetrucks delivered since 2017'. What they don’t say is the vast majority were smaller, cheaper volunteer units used in provincial/rural NZ
For our career crews, that need a larger, stronger firetruck to service New Zealand's cities, not one new frontline firetruck since 2018. Not one. This year from September, we were told 23 new trucks were finally scheduled to arrive. Not a single one has turned up. Not One. And the "new" old trucks, bought 5 years ago, now out of warranty, were sent back to Europe to have new pumps and new lockers added (FENZ hurry to point out the pumps and lockers have warranty... duh)— those trucks are now sitting around rusting because the gear doesn’t even fit. That’s the level of planning we’re dealing with. These new old trucks are the same ones that firefighters refused to ride back in 2017 because of chassis cracks, doors that fell off, and intercoolers that have failed, in every single truck, confirmed by FENZ in an OIA FENZ's solution. Buy more of the same FENZ also keeps throwing around firefighters’ pay proposal as if asking to be kept up with inflation is evil.
The irony of someone on close to $350,000 who sits behind a desk, insinuating 85,000 is alot for a senior firefighter (who actually goes into fires) is not lost on me. Of course I am the unreasonable one for expecting my employer would try their best to keep me moving alongside inflation. Let’s clear this one up: overtime is paid for hours worked above the 42-hour week. Is FENZ suggesting we don't pay firefighters for working extra hours? It is true a firefighter might reach $90,000 — after years of training, exams, leadership responsibilities, and a job where you literally run into burning buildings and try to bring dead people back to life. However, a recruit firefighter earns just $2.35 above minimum wage. Once they graduate, they move to $1.25 below the living wage That’s what you get for entering one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. And yes — in 2005, $90,000 was a solid wage. Today, most people are paying $40-50,000 a year in rent alone — after tax. FENZ knows this. They just hope you don’t think about it.
Meanwhile, You (Hon Minister) and FENZ agreed to cut the levy that funds the entire organisation by more than 30% — and to strip out another $240 million in savings on top of that. And based on the offer they’ve put on the table, it sure doesn’t look like the savings are coming from the executives earning half a million a year. It’s frontline firefighters who are going to foot the lions share of that bill— those at the bottom who can’t afford a kilo of mince and who are struggling to pay rent. I am sure the reason for the savings and the cuts seem noble, what isn't noble is giving us a 7% effective paycut to achieve it. So when they talk about ‘investment’ and ‘new trucks’ and ‘supporting firefighters’ — remember this: The numbers don’t lie. The facts don’t lie. We’re not striking for fun. We’re striking because FENZ has been failing firefighters — and the public — for years. Please help. Regards David Phillips Station Officer
NZPFU Letter to Van Velden
Pass it on
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Target Now Offering Snipers To Take Out Other Shoppers For Black Friday
Cartoon. Title: “Industry Consultation” Image of MP Shane Jones holding a copy of the “Oil and Gas Ban” document in each hand, and a red pen. To either side of him is one man labelled “Oil” and one labelled “Gas”. Jones is saying, “Here…run my red pen through this, will you?”
‘Fossil fuel companies were given privileged, insider access to confidential drafts of legislation during a two-year campaign to weaken oil and gas regulation and overturn the offshore exploration ban’ - RNZ
My Stuff #cartoon today #nzpol #FossilFuels
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
At New Zealand's Kawaiican cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived. www.wired.com/story/this-h...
This is an amazing fact
Hey uh bc I keep getting asked by Kawaiicon attendees: it’s pepperraccoon.com and yes you can buy cool things there x
She's fucking lying
Tuckered as, bro
The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!
The team formerly behind RubyGems has come together to launch a new gem server for the Ruby community!
gem.coop
I am *super* excited about this!
The decision of the Luxon Govt to cancel the NZ Battery Project, which would have underpinned security of the nz electricity network, sure looks short sited as we watch the wave of industrial closures driven, in part, by security of supply and high prices of electricity.
The 2023 IRD wealth study found that the richest 300 people in NZ pay tax on income of 9.4%, versus 28% for someone earning $80k. Luxon Govt is removing the clauses of the tax law that allowed IRD to collect the study data. They don’t want you to know. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
