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a four-panel stick-figure cartoon panel one: three standing figures. from left to right, a guy wearing a necktie looking at his phone, an angry MAGA guy yelling FUCK YOUR FUCKIN POST FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU, and a rando just standing there like an NPC. panel two: the guy looking at his phone shows MAGA guy his hand, causing MAGA to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where fuckface once was. a green-bordered in-game message appears, reading "+2 Mental Health." now the rando is suddenly interested. panel three: as our man continues doom-scrolling, a sly grin on his face, the rando on the right puts on a punch-me face and snarls: "Typical lefty, blocking everyone who disagrees with-" panel four phone guy shows the hand to punch-me face, causing the rando to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where that dickhead was. a green-bordered in-game message appears again, reading "+2 Mental Health."

This is how to correctly use this website.

Please please please I don’t want Luxon to get rolled I need him to be a 1 term PM. I want him to be responsible for a LOSS. No rolling only losing.

Be interesting to see similar maths for Auckland - Wellington (or Picton - Christchurch)

Once again reminding everyone that the majority of people stranded in the UAE are not influencers or expats or tourists, but South Asian (and SE Asian and African) workers whose passports are often controlled by their employers and whose govts have made no attempts to repatriate.

Luxon said none of his Cabinet colleagues have told him to reconsider his future. He said "all of them" back him. He said the only polling he takes note of is his National's own internal polling which gets processed in the United Kingdom. "I would reassure you - if there was a problem, I would be doing something about it. But we are long way away from what we've seen published in a TPU poll today."

Oh really?

Thank you @maramadavidson.bsky.social and NZ Greens:

“Trump and Netanyahu’s unilateral attack on Iran must be condemned as an illegal and unprovoked act against the people of the region and any genuine pathway to peace.”

Full statement here:

I arrived on the shores of Aotearoa over 12 years ago. Every year there have been cuts to public research and redundancies of public researchers. I cannot overstate how dire this is and how much of our future we are losing.
Public research is one way we look after one another. It matters. #NZPOL

Without the AI buzzword his announcement is “we’ve deployed tech that enables doctors to see one extra patient per shift benefit”. That’s it. In the face of critical staff shortages and overwork that’s what he thinks is worth applause. We enabled our overworked frontline staff to work even harder.

Volunteer Today we need your help to take action on the biggest issues facing New Zealand.

The ground campaign won, and also in the New York mayoralty race.

The same efforts are needed here, which means volunteering in the thousands

Let's fucking go💚
#nzpol

Actually, despite all his increasingly insane post-election faults, Councillor Ong in Dunedin won his place by being the most visible candidate in all the city, literally on the streets every day.

No one had heard of him before. People want to see & meet the candidate/party they might vote for

ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Kansas Trans Drivers License Revocations, Bathroom Bounty Hunter Law The lawsuit was filed in state court on Friday.

1. Yesterday, we broke the story that Kansas drivers licenses for transgender people were being immediately revoked by the state.

This morning, the ACLU filed suit in state court to block that process.

Thousands of trans Kansans watch with horror and hope.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Young people understand how grotesque this is. vote.nz/ is the shortest url ever. I’m gonna set about recruiting voters.

Fuuuuuck Paul Goldsmith and his entire government and may they get wrapped in every shower curtain they encounter

This government needs to be voted out yesterday

Radical ideologues have been rampaging roughshod over the New Zealand economy and society for the last two years, delivering worse outcomes for everyone other than themselves and their rich mates.
#nzpol

-increase speed limits: kids getting hit by cars
-make school lunches cheaper: mouldy slop for kids
-cut IT jobs: hospital IT system failing
-cancel ferries: no new ferries
-ban gang patches: more gang members

Results!

GOOD NEWS! A UNIVERSAL sarbecovirus vaccine candidate has OFFICIALLY started clinical trials. GBP511 is the FIRST vaccine to reach human testing that is intended to protect against MULTIPLE strains of SARS-CoV-2 as well as other related coronaviruses with the potential to spark dangerous outbreaks.

I've just published a reference for anyone using git while trans, explaining how to hide or remove your deadname in git repositories

Please share ❤️

code.curly.kiwi/2026/02/27/u...

Umm, near 20% of the world's most populous country go on strike and barely a word about it in the press?

300 million on the streets in a historic national strike in India : Peoples Dispatch The strike was called jointly by the worker unions and farmers groups to demand the withdrawal of the anti-people policies, such as the four new labor codes and the recently signed trade deals with th...

300 million workers shut down India last week in the largest strike in history.

Blacked out by western media because this is the future the bosses all fear the most.

peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/12/3...

#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #strike #india #students #women #solidarity #classwar

"Benefit sanctions have not worked - probably largely because there are not enough jobs for beneficiaries to move into, one economist says."

Well, colour me surprised.

But beneficiary-sanctions were never about ✌️encouraging✌️ unemployed people back to work. The govt & that obnoxious Minister... (1)

Tax billionaires out of existence.

New police powers to ‘move on’ rough sleepers only mask NZ’s deeper homelessness problem Women make up half of the people experiencing homelessness in New Zealand. A study shows access to permanent housing improves their health and lifts their income.

NZ is an international outlier in that more than half of those experiencing homelessness are women, often with dependent children. A "housing first" approach makes a huge difference to their lives (and men's), writes @universityofotago.bsky.social's Brodie Fraser theconversation.com/new-police-p...

There is one word that explains how so many men can be in the Epstein files. So why is no one saying it? We talk endlessly about the factors that make rape easier, but never about the factors that cause rape in the first place.

"I’m interested in a world where men are raised from birth with such an unshakable understanding of women as living human beings that they’re incapable of being aroused by their exploitation.”

What we actually need to talk about in the Epstein Files.

open.substack.com/pub/celestem...

Graphic showing the icon for Trash Microsoft provided with its OS, starting in 1995. There are successive images for 1998, 2000, 2001, and 2015, all of which show a version of a trash bucket with trash in it. The second to last image, for 2025, is very different. It shows two blue figures with a white letter T to the left, which is the symbol for Microsoft Teams (which many of us really do think is utter trash). The symbol for 2026 is some amorphous curved shape in many colors, which is the symbol for Microsoft Copilot, another piece of utter garbage. This all references just how shitty those two Microsoft products, which they keep pushing on an unwilling public, are.

Someone posted this as "Evolution of the Microsoft Trash Icon," and I decided to repost it.

Yep. Accurate.

(for those unsure: last two icons are MS Teams and MS Copilot which are indeed complete trash)

Quick reminder that The Dawn Raids only targeted brown people at a time when our largest group of overstayers came from England.

Prepping for the new term. Telling the students they can use AI for assignments because that's our rule for 2026.

And that they should use it carefully -- you don't get a robot to lift your weights in the gym.

Asked Meta-AI for a picture of a gym robot.

And the first shot is a keeper.

It’s like you made this artwork just for me! 😂🤣 Wow! Ngā mihi nui! Such amazing design and detail and flare. Can’t wait to strut around in this t ☺️