@Robo105 @PKYo @benroyce

The problem is that this is not a civil disagreement. This bill had no business being debated in parliament, and zero - I repeat ZERO chance of getting a second reading, let alone being passed. How it got in front of parliament is a bit of a story, but its reading has given air to bad-faith racist arguments that most of us thought were dead and buried decades ago.

It had no chance of being passed and it wasn't, but it acted as a dog-whistle to the NZ equivalent of MAGA and the rest of us are fucking FURIOUS that it was allowed. The day after the Te Pāti Māori protest my workplaces were buzzing with admiration for them: we shared their outrage, and we still do.

@Robo105 @benroyce I see there have been plenty of comments about this point of view, and I'd like to add local context.

Parliament in NZ is still very eurocentric and te Pati Maori are staunchly anti colonial. They were elected by their constituents to do exactly what they have done here - employing tikanga (Maori cultural practice) to represent their disagreement to the racist Bill. The bill would remove rights and erode the status of Maori culture, further colonising the Parliament and the country generally.

So it was entirely culturally appropriate to peform this, it was also very much anticipated and when it happened widely applauded (by a majority of non Maori too), and as others have pointed out - you can't live in NZ without understanding this.

Arguments of 'civility' are being used as a weapon to silence dissent. The civility of those who put the bill forward is nothing but passive-aggresive violence. The haka as a war dance? Metaphorically correct in this instance.

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to use AI as friends.

When you invest your time with AI instead of creating genuine bonds with real people, you become completely isolated without even noticing it.

This all serves capitalism and authoritarian regimes.

When you are isolated, you can't find humans to help you financially (AI won't).

When you are isolated, you can't find humans to rise up with you against abuse (AI won't).

You become completely alone (with AI friends), and completely vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by the system implemented by those who control your AI "friends".

It seems obvious, I know. But how is Mark Zuckerberg able to market this insane idea at all then?

#Meta #MetaDystopia #Facebook

@IPXFong This might be a related product line: https://www.ebay.com/itm/187219187394

@IPXFong @davefischer Note, recently found this same trick works for BrotherWorks 98 (GeoWorks derivative)

On Archive: https://archive.org/details/BROWORKS

#geos #pcgeos #brotherworks #broworks98 #brotherworks98

@benroyce Haka across the nation

"#NewZealand MPs who performed #haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment

#TePātiMāori co-leaders and youngest member to be temporarily suspended from #parliament after performance protesting controversial bill"

The bill in question (the #TreatyPrinciplesBill) wanted to reinterpret the #TreatyOfWaitangi (1840), which upholds #Māori rights

The bill was defeated

I think the proper response to a bullshit punishment for protecting #MāoriRights is a lot more hakas

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/15/new-zealand-mps-haka-parliament-suspended

Conservative governments are FiScAlLy ReSpOnSiBlE 🙄

#ONpoli #ONterrible

"Doug Ford's new budget is awash in red ink, with a $14.6-billion deficit planned for the next fiscal year..."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-budget-deficit-1.7536110

NEW RULE: Anyone pushing for terraforming other planets has to first prove their sincerity and expertise by working to measurably restore Earth’s climate and ecosystems

@mms LOL

In a shocking twist, the conspiracy guy finally agrees with science—by telling us to ignore him.

Snowflakes. https://www.comicsands.com/maga-gop-spanish-tweet?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

He's certainly right about that. https://www.comicsands.com/rfk-jr-medical-advice?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

My bike has been off for a service and now it's back. I rode to the gym tonight and it feels smoooooth.
Wahooooooooooooo 😁
#ActiveTravel #BikeTooter

internet explorer 11 is failing at its sole purpose: to download firefox

@UnicycleSam @fluffykittycat @HeavenlyPossum Or if #anonymous reads this and decides to gather then publish a list of all ICE "agents"

@fluffykittycat @HeavenlyPossum personally, if I knew any I would make sure they knew I hated them, but unfortunately I think most probably live in very conservative neighborhoods.

All I know is it's going to take a lot of organizing.

The way ICE agents kit themselves out like they’re Seal Team Six raiding Mosul in 2016, all so they can kidnap unarmed and harmless suburban moms, suggests a number of things about them.

The most salient of which is how fucking cowardly they are. These are people who worship a particular and particularly violent masculine aesthetic but couldn’t or wouldn’t enlist in the military, who hide their faces behind masks, and who cover themselves more gear than it takes a Ukrainian conscript to assault and clear a Russian trench under fire.

They are cowards.

https://www.berkshireeagle.com/breaking/ice-arrests-great-barrington/article_ca8769f1-5b95-4bfe-8f75-9ef38ade0d77.html

@HeavenlyPossum this suggests they could break under pressure. How do we make being in ICE so miserable they quit in large enough quantities to disable the agency?

British “backpacking” videos are such a comfort watch. No fire bans, no wildlife. Just a random middle-aged dude trundling off into some wealthy family’s estate to cook a leftover banger on a Trangia stove. Chill AF.