An edited version of the XKCD comic #2347 titled "Dependencies" It shows a large stack of irregularly sized blocked stacked on one another. They are labelled "The Global Economy" In the lower right there is a single small block that is clearly supporting the entire tower above it. It is labelled "A Very Narrow Strip Of Water Between Iran And Gulf States"
With apologies to XKCD (xkcd.com/2347/)
Can't see it happening.
If Luxon wants to 'build the future' he must reverse his R&D cuts newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/06/i...
it's a book about the coolest guy in the entire fucking world. he just starts cool and gets cooler. polar explorer. giant with a pegleg. golden age of hollywood writer. nazi resister in denmark. won the $64,000 question
Latest attacks in Lebanon leave nearly 400 dead as two Israeli soldiers killed
Maybe the most impressive headline distortionism I've ever seen
They say dumb shit like “the draft is on the table” so liberals spend endless days dragging bots and making memes instead dealing with the substantive issue of the illegal bombing of civilians including children.
“This is really about trying to create that predicate for actions that will put more control in the hands of his administration and the federal government,” said Joanna Lydgate, chief executive of the States United Democracy Center, a nonprofit dedicated to fair elections.
This is what ecocide looks like.
This is why History and Historians Matter! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Clearly Meager brought 20 kg of onions to the Beehive because Luxon doesn’t know his.
It’s almost like the Herald didn’t need to use generative ‘AI’ slop instead of a photo.
The Labour mayor and deputy mayor seem to have adopted their ‘strategy’ from Starmer and McSweeney in the UK, believing that progressive voters will have to lump their rightward shift.
But it’s not even good economics to cut investment in a recession. Still neoliberal rather than Keynesian.
Soon.
KiwiRail board chair, Suzanne Tindal reported as saying O'Donnell's conflicts of interest affected the board's capability and efficiency.
Corruption - appointment after making a donation to NZ First - very frequently undermines capability and efficiency.
Time wasted managing this conflict.
And there’s this: Brent oil at $109 and West Texas Intermediate at $110. If these prices persist for more than a week, a global (and AoNZ) recession is guaranteed
#nzpol
But sure... US law enforcement (or any other country's, for that matter) would be a perfectly safe custodian of (i) a back door to encrypted communications, (ii) escrowed keys, (iii) pre-emptive, consentless client-side scanning.
Do Not Legislate Systemic Vulnerabilities Into Consumer Products!
Pedro Sánchez has taken a strong position in refusing the US demand to use Spanish bases to strike Iran. Europe should show solidarity with Spain in the face of Donald Trump’s threats. https://bit.ly/4l7IYhs
@paullecomtephoto.nz @paulbernal.bsky.social
Me standing at the front of a room with a graphic on screen highlighting what kids have sacrificed for drivers
This is from last week at a talk I gave desperately trying to tell whoever is willing to listen (thanks queens university in this case) what our kids have given up for drivers and our car first culture
Labour councillors told us climate change demands urgent action. Now that bike lanes are at risk, we must remind them of that promise.
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In all, six Palestinian civilians have been killed in the West Bank since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran just over a week ago, in what appears to be an intensification of settler violence while worldwide attention is focused elsewhere.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...
wearing my women in stem t-shirt on international women’s day to celebrate the fact that i was given that and a reusable water bottle instead of equal pay
I filmed this at 5 PM whilst swearing at the stupid vape/bong/tartan tourist tat shop where the fire started, now look below, and you know what folks I want to see every stupid vape/bong/tartan tourist tat shop in this country shut down by lunch tomorrow. 😡🤬🖕
The cost-of-living crisis is different from rising inflation.
Starting with food, power, & rentals, an incoming progressive government must signal that it has finished playing nicely with supermarkets, electricity gentailers, and landlords.
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The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
Remember when the IDF had a squad dress up as medical personnel to enter a hospital and execute an injured man in his hospital bed
Update:
• Israel bombed oil refineries, causing black rain that burns skin & lungs to cover Iran’s capital
• Trump & Israel bombed fresh water supplies in Iran
• Trump justified this by calling Iranians “among the most evil people on earth”
• Israel massacred 400 in Lebanon, including 83 children
He didn't run on not being Cuomo, while highlighting his faults. He ran a campaign based on fixing the problems of his city.
He did it in a completely hostile environment as an "on-paper" candidate that seemed like he couldn't win the campaign - a young Muslim self-proclaimed socialist.
A few more seconds closer to midnight on the Doomsday Clock, thanks to Macron.
They murdered 41 civilians, including several children, to try to recover a body that had been buried 40 years ago. The barbarism of the Israeli state has few historical parallels. www.bbc.com/news/article...
