Chris Jensen

Oh i was ready to accept it from day one. His appearance in politics greatly lessened my opinion of AirNZ

Common Sense - 07/03/2026 — 1/200 Unless you’ve been living under a rock, the main story this week has been the US-Israel war on Iran and the subsequent Iranian strikes on Israel and US assets in the region. The domestic response from...

Common Sense - 07/03/2026

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I am thinking that the decrepit sack of dog mince Winston Peters went on radio yesterday and said the 2023 election results stopped NZ becoming a "Venezuela or Myanmar" and we're RATIONING DIALYSIS to hit an arbitrary spend target.

So let me get this straight: Albo was given an easy out because Trump wanted to ditch AUKUS, and could've avoided pissing away billions of dollars for an alliance with a cannon so loose it would shoot its own foot if its shoes were made in Mexico, and he went "nah, lets lock it in with a bribe"

Every accusation is a confession

Aotearoa faces surplus of rich people in need of being taxed while kids go hungry

I don't think that entirely explains why the only people with a significant "never heard of" are from the Greens and TPM

And, exhibit B, the other co-leader of the Greens isn't even in the poll.

Wow. Was seriously considering Matrix and now, am not

This work comes off the back of speaking to a number of people who want to make the move to Bluesky/Atmosphere, but needed more privacy for safety against stalking.

Hopeful that this will allow more people to enjoy this platform and get away from the abusive bigtech platforms

Middle East 2003 reboot - Now with less credible lies!

Thrilled to announce the release of private profiles on Speakeasy.

If you're looking for more privacy, you can now restrict your profile details to only those people you trust.

In honour of Long Covid Awareness Month, here are 2 asks for fellow Blueskyers

1. Wear an N95 in public to reduce transmission & in solidarity with the millions living with Long Covid

2. Please stand up to large accounts that minimize this illness & who dunk on disabled folks

🙏

Nothing says strength like being dragged into war by an ally that forces your hand

Can we talk about the fact that Chloe Schwarbrick and Chris Luxon have identical favourability, but one of them is defacto treated as if their capacity to lead is a given, and the other has an uphill battle to even get coverage, resulting in 15% having never heard of them.

It's terrifying to know that we are surrounded by people that when they say they would kill for a coffee, they're telling the truth.

"Luxon was out of his depth,and it showed."
evergreen quote

It's all just "i don't want to think about it" dressed up in polite words

“The assault on it has come not only from the United States obviously, but also from Russia with its totally unjustified, uh, invasions, two of them of, of Ukraine.”

Omg Stuff did an AOC-quote-style thing on Helen Clark. Those fuckers #nzpol

Freedom from fossil fuels is a step towards a peaceful world.

That's why the warmongering sociopath class hate renewables

I regularly come back to Sarah Kendzior’s expert advice that the Trump administration is a “transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government” and cannot shake the thought that on multiple fronts New Zealand is behaving as if we would like in on that racket.

Screenshot of a social media post by a verified account named David Seymour reading, “Our dinner for Persian freedom fighters was well timed. Let freedom reign this time.” Below the text is a photo of a dining table set with plates, glasses, and a vase of flowers beside large glass doors. Outside the doors hang several green-white-red flags with lion-and-sun emblems. A folded cloth sits on a countertop in the foreground.

Let's not forget that Seymour called New Zealand's first Iranian born member of parliament, a woman whose parents fled the regime as dissidents, a "menace to freedom" resulting in her needing extra security as threats increased

He directed contributed to her being hounded out of public life

Dean Ball wrote Trump's AI plan. 👀

You know the one all the AI bros were so excited about and for which they thought it was so important to back Trump to get.

Anthropic employees just learned the hard way that when a company makes a promise, it's worthless if the workers don't have the power to fire the CEO when they break the promise

Corporations will always choose profit over safety unless the workers use their power to keep them accountable

hey so this is being delivered in the context of ICE

we’re seeing that narrative play out across the west. and cabinet ministers, like Peters, have been specifically attacking immigrants

this needs to be treated incredibly seriously as a human rights & civil liberties breach

She probably watches Andor and thinks Dedra is the hero of the story

or if they're tech pilled, an app that provides step by step guidance in written and audio form ... ?

Anyway, the solution is worker co-ops but nobody wants to hear that because it doesn't have a $50B valuation and a guy in a Patagonia vest doing a TED talk about it

Corporations when they launch: 🥺 we just want to help people

Corporations 18 months later: lol, don't you know what a fiduciary obligation is?

Lol, The cycle continues...

OpenAI: "we will save humanity" → humanity are lame robots

Facebook: "connecting people 🥰" → ... to radicalising AI slop!

Google: "don't be evil" → ok but what if evil was REALLY profitable tho

Anthropic: "we're the *safe* ones 🥺👉👈" → lmao sike

LMAOOOOO NO WAY 😱😱😱 WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING