leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 23hIf you want to understand contemporary journalism, graph the average salary of working journos vs comms professionals over the last three decades. Media won’t save us, because the thing we used to call “media” is mostly gone. 000
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialSol Feggio @wtdore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm really enjoying this, I recommend to all the Machiavellains out there. 1176
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I expect our government’s plan to replace the people who actually implement their policies with AI will go great though #nzpol 030
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is playing out much the way climate change is: a foreseen disaster unfolds precisely as the people who could have avoided it were warned it would, and their response is to lie, scapegoat, resist necessary change, and refuse all responsibility. We desperately need grownups in government. #nzpol 0112
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialBenjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 30/09/2026Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict 9564143
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialBrett @brettcd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm from Nuzlind and I endorse this ad. #NZPol youtube.com/shorts/bRP1k...youtube.comNZ Election 2026 | 100% Pure S*itF@^keryYouTube video by thejuicemedia 24020
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialDr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026anyone who understands how buffered systems work is petrified by this 0196
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialCrawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comAntarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses 06539
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialWill Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Daily bunny no.3455 prefers the classics 132748535
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialFreyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026You ever notice how if leftists have a majority presence online it's treated as a problem to be solved, but if right wingers have a majority online presence it's treated as inclusive 923572
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Hard same. And likewise, Mondays should be forbidden by both custom and law. 010
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialTara @taracomics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026taracomics.substack.com/p/friends?ut... More of a situationship. #birdoftheyeartaracomics.substack.comFriends?Last day for Bird of the Year voting 012
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Well, 1) I’d only need a few hours a day, and 2) I have the unfair advantage of being 60. It wouldn’t have quite as long to scale. 010
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Remember the pocket universe question on that recent After Dark? Catching up on sleep is 100% how I’d use my one. 110
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialSassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Well I sure am glad that every day New Zealanders will never find out about this. 76722
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Today our prime minister was told a major cost of living crisis is harming the people he governs, and he responded, “Cry me a river”. Aotearoa, please show this man that trying to sound like America’s all-time worst president isn’t how you win elections here. #nzpol 18133
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Luxon will announce them, Willis will hastily issue a correction. "What the Prime Minister meant to say is that we will certainly consider bribing the electorate, should the fiscal position permit". 020
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialDork Knight Forever @dorkknightrises.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It's very funny to me that Americans represent more illegal immigrants in Aotearoa than any other group. It's an incredibly American statistic. #nzpolrnz.co.nzMore than 900 Americans have overstayed their visa in last three yearsAmericans top the list of people who have overstayed their visa in the last three years. 3226
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Though not if it isn’t a pet horse, note 000
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If we have to have a massive crisis, one timed for the election run-up would be first choice. 000
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Either the “classics” are so good you’d want to read them anyway, in which case making this a purity test is entirely redundant, or else this is just a purity test, in which case you’re dealing with a gatekeeper bro who doesn’t know reading is a thing we do for fun. 020
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Love you guys, but pretty disappointed you breezed past POWER FANTASY with a 20 second “yeah it’s great”. Original characters, amazing story, panel after panel of transformative art… it’s only the best thing happening in the superhero space right now! (And yeah, Absolute is as good as you say). 190
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“Only with the support of voters who think hospital waiting room deaths are a fair exchange for marginal debt reduction can we save the soul of our country”, said no one in Aotearoa except Chris Hipkins. 010
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 11/09/2026And not to be naive about this -- we've never had a government that wouldn't lie for its own advantage. But the negative consequences seem to be dwindling to, "We corrode the public discourse to the point where batshit crazy parties steal our vote, but not this election so it's all good". #nzpol 000
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's remarkable and alarming how willing our current government is to straight-up lie, and how rarely they're getting called on it in places their voters will notice. #nzpol 1169
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialBrad Company @waeherebro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026For those in the back: The total amount the New Zealand government has spent on all historical Waitangi Tribunal settlements over the last 30+ years is less than the cost of a single year of the 2024 tax cuts for Landlords. 1180105
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialBernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This ok? Or more important the NZ Govt bond yield is a fraction of a basis point lower than it otherwise would be? That's the choice. 37725
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If you were wondering why people are being left to die in toilets in our hospitals currently, a quick glance at this graph of health workforce numbers under the last two governments tells you which one stopped hiring nurses and has been lying about it. #nzpol 18957
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialNick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Get this! Cleaning up pollution caused by the dairy industry’s nitrogen fertiliser costs NZ ten times more than farmers spend buying the fertiliser in the first place. One of the many ways we subsidise the dairy industry. #TooManyCows newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/01/t...newsroom.co.nzCostly, harmful and addictive – the huge hidden cost of our synthetic fertiliser habitComment: Cleaning up nitrogen pollution costs 10 times more than buying the fertiliser in the first place, freshwater ecologist Dr Simon Stewart argues. 411054
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 07/09/2026In which we discover the secret sauce of the Hoiho's multiple wins. (Spoiler: it's Dunedin). #BOTYtaracomics.substack.comA third timeHow did the hoiho win twice? 000
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Are Yellow-Eyed Penguin's really that smelly, though? Let's find out. #BOTY taracomics.substack.com/p/you-got-thistaracomics.substack.comYou got thisTitipounamu is the bravest bird 100
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Bird of the Year voting is now open, and obviously you've already voted for Takahe. Why not celebrate by reading some TAKAHE FOR BIRD OF THE YEAR comics? Here we begin the saga of Titipounamu's terrifying encounter with the competition's smelliest previous winner. taracomics.substack.com/p/hoihotaracomics.substack.comHoihoOpinions on yellow-eyed penguins 110
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Vaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement. 534299791
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/09/2026Here's the thing about statistics: there are statistics you do BEFORE you have information and statistics you do AFTER you have information. 1850977
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Genuinely can't tell to what degree it's surging vs briefly more visible due to an uptick in media paying attention. The same difficulty I have assessing trends in the NZFirst vote -- the people involved are so far outside my definition of sane I can't guess what will play with them. 070
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialestarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Most local people are concerned that data centers use up a lot of resources but are unlikely to be good neighbors. 1167
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialmanuwai.bsky.social @manuwai.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Message to all Kiwis! Especially to those living in the South Island See this! Hear this! Tell your politicians NO DATA CENTRES!! #NZPol 3139
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 02/09/2026How it's going under #NZworstgovernment #nzpol 150
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 01/09/2026Good choice. Great read. 6523
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialRyan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/09/2026$9,000,000,000 to save some drivers 5-10 mins When we have a healthcare system that is crumbling and costing 1000s of people FIFTY HOURS in an ED, or MONTHS for surgeries. "We're not a poor country. We make poor decisions" - Craig Renney, the "should be" Labour shadow finance minister. #nzpol 1116
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“We will reverse every racist or socially regressive thing this government did. The right needs to learn that we will not allow normalising the rollback of decades of hard won progress to be normalised”. Or you can keep grubbing for the same handful of centrist votes, you do you, Hipkins. 000
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 01/09/2026(Ironic though appropriate that Rakesfall won the Le Guin prize. She was never a Lowest Common Denominator thinker). 010
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Which speaks to the Hugos' LCD nature as a fan-voted award I guess. It's always nice when something I admire wins a category. But this is the award of "we can all agree on Le Guin", not the award of "If someone writes a Rakesfall we'll take the time to read it". 110
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea is one of the greatest fantasy creations, but the Wizard of Earthsea graphic adaptation getting the graphic novel Hugo while Tongues and Drome didn’t get shortlisted tells you that Hugo voters mostly don’t read comics. 120
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍 1024200934775
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialScotty - I’m the CEO - NZ @scotty-nz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This is my new mantra 042
leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The next swing right here won't just undo what the incoming government does, it will arrive harder, tear out everything that government builds, and it will come hard for Te Tiriti. So, my friends, that only leaves us with extraordinary legislation, aka constitutional protection of Te Tiritipatreon.comThe Price of *Not* Entrenching Te Tiriti | Tina NgataWe are living under the most right-wing government this country has seen in over five decades. In three short years, we have seen decades o 010
Reposted by @leaflemming.bsky.socialDylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 30/08/2026One of the things I find most frustrating about modern politics, after the neoliberal reforms of the 1980s, is that it's not as if we've forgotten what came before. We can literally see what Government was able to achieve previously. It's still visible all around us! 713436