Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted

“To me it seems Hitler has won. He’s changed us J€w$ from being compassionate and caring…into this vicious, genocidal, nationalist nation,” —Miriam Margolyes, an 83-year-old Jewish Australian-British actor publicly condemns 1$rael's actions in Gaza

Oh snap.

The Washington Post has published the known names of the 18,500 children killed by Israel in Gaza since Oct. 7th. At every 500th child, the Post tells you how many names of dead children you've read. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

📍Let’s not mince words: Speaker Gerry Brownlee has shown glaring hypocrisy in singling out Chlöe Swarbrick for her sharp—but frankly, deserved—rebuke of the government, and booting her out of the House for the rest of the week. Her comments came at the end of a fiery speech

A long and difficult read, but anything written by Aaron Smale is worth the effort. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/18/the…

With Aratere now retired, just cannot believe we’re staring down the barrel of 4 years without a rail-enabled inter-island ferry. Barring temporary dry docks, pretty sure we’ve always had at least one operating for the past 63 years, since the Aramoana entered service in 1962.

Something not quite right about the phrases '1000 of NZ's wealthiest people' and 'folks from all walks of life' being applied to the same group of people... newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/26/a-p…

This is amazing

“We offer our soldiers socialism to go abroad and defend capitalism.”

Not-so-thoughtful gifts from FBI Director Kash Patel to senior NZ officials turn out to be illegal. No clear explanation of whether Patel himself was legally allowed to possess them in NZ though. apnews.com/article/kash-p…

Wow.

Governor Gavin Newsom failed to stand up to Silicon Valley and put our kids in harm’s way.

I wonder if this is being applied across the board to any visa holder who has wished death on any American? And what will they be scouring social media for next?

This is horrifying.

“No longer will history classes indoctrinate young people for political purposes.” Proceeds to indoctrinate young people for political purposes…

“You can’t have it both ways and say, ‘You’ve made a profit, give us some money’ or ‘You’ve made a loss, oh we aren’t going to give you any money’.” So if you're an investor and your investment makes a loss, the govt should give you money? oneroof.co.nz/news/capital-g…

Jack White just earned a new degree of respect from me. An exceptional response to Trump's little people! The White House melts down and attacks music legend Jack White after he insults Donald Trump's "disgusting" and "vulgar" redecoration of the White House “Jack White is a

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to

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