leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 19hBoth candidates refusing to answer if it's moral to be a billionaire just sums the situation up perfectly. Also shows how stupid it is under MMP to have a Just Chris debate, the other parties would answer differently. 000
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The positioning of foreign aid as the direct obstacle to increased health investment is a very Trumpian worldview, and one I hoped we had put to bed after the Judith Collins election failure. I hope the public rejects it now as they did then. 000
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026South American elections are always so intense because the candidates will be Jesus Christ and Satan and the polls will be on a knife edge. Also lol at Brazilians in Israel voting 74.40% for Satan 000
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026John Oliver is going to talk about the sheep isn't he 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The word "community" and "communities" has become political babble with no meaning any more to me. 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Seems like a decent principle of market competitiveness would be that wholesalers must not favour any particular retailer (especially not any retailer they own). Is this not a simple rule that would help fix our current list of expensive things? Groceries, electricity, digital streaming etc 011
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think if a cruise missile hit Unity Books right now about 80% of NZ X users and 100% of blue sky users would perish 240
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Listening to old Ministry of Sound mixes from 2000 at work so I can larp as a Gen X himbo raver on the mitsubishis 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026AI companies trying their hardest to find the worst possible places to build factories for their resource intensive product that nobody wants www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auAnthropic inks Queensland data centre deal worth five times Olympics budgetA $32 billion data centre proposed for a site west of Brisbane will be used by AI giant Anthropic. 020
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The Māori party are attempting to subvert our democracy by asking for electorate votes only to purposely create an overhang!! Us patriots can stop this ploy by increasing the Māori party vote! That's why I'm encouraging all my ACT and National voting friends to party vote Te Pāti Māori!! 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Australia mogs us everyday with how cool their unions like the CFMEU are www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaqG...youtube.comDebunking Australia's $15 Billion Lie | In Defence Of The CFMEUYouTube video by adu 000
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 16/08/2026All these Reddit posts about TOP make me want to TOP myself 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Starting a new job is like "oh! Sorry! I didn't realise I was supposed to do it that way because that makes no fucking sense! 🙇" 020
Reposted by @leisurevictim.bsky.socialheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 13/07/2026is we are charlie kirk the only piece of ai art to have genuinely widespread cultural impact 3377472
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I will vote for whichever party pledges to end Closer Economic Relations with Australia to stop all my friends moving to Melbourne 031
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 21/06/2026One of the qualities of a bubble that investor Jeremy Grantham identifies is that people start to believe that "the market *can't* go down". Retail investors believe that the US will intervene so that AI stocks can only go up, which rephrases Grantham's other warning phrase "This time is different" 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Feeling in touch with nature, as I drop my pie crumbs on the ground and whisper "back to the whenua" 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 13/06/2026We should ostracise this rogue state www.reuters.com/world/israel...reuters.comIsraeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes, France saysIsraeli firm BlackCore, suspected of interfering in France's local elections in March, is also suspected of meddling in elections in New York City and Scotland, and operating in Angola and Togo, Fra... 000
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Aesthetic preference is NOT absolutely relative/subjective. The people who complain that wind turbines spoil their view of farm land are objectively morons. If you confuse industrial pasture with nature, you are stupid. Imagine looking at a horizon of bare grass and thinking it beautiful. Dullards. 000
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Streaming sucks now. 80 years ago the US Supreme Court ruled that companies making movies as well as distributing them was anti-competitive. We should back that rule and ban streaming exclusivity. Alternatively (and preferably), abolish intellectual property 000
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 06/06/2026We shouldn't cut super eligibility. But I do agree it's going to be a huge budget burden and increase inequality when we go from 5 workers supporting superannuants to 2. Fairest fix would be to tax inheritance. Wealth accumulated in housing inaccessible to the younger generation can pay for the old 120
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Millennials should be banned from self-deprecation for the next 30 years. Smol bean time is long over 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Glad to see Comrade Willis is taxing the banks in this year's budget. National are truly the vanguard of the revolution !!! 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 25/05/2026John Campbell is pure and good of soul, so he has all his hair and a lovely smile. Luxon has a rotten and sick soul, which is why he looks like a thumb 020
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Te Ara Tupua cycleway to Petone is great and much needed, but at $10,000 per metre (by my rough estimate for the cycleway itself, not the resiliency cost) it shows there is something wrong with how we build in NZ. Our privatised, market-sourced infrastructure is not cost efficient! 100
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 21/05/2026A lot of environmental damage that people blame on capitalism is actually due to industrialisation generally. A socialist economy might be required to address these issues, but it's not guaranteed to on its own. Add a bit of nuance and deeper thought to your criticism than just 'end capitalism' 110
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The push back from some of the Aussie public against charging Ben Roberts-Smith shows how war requires dehumanisation so that the taboo against killing can be lifted. For these people, there is no difference between civilian and combatant because the whole nationality has been dehumanised. 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Another home grown Kiwi business we can be ashamed of to join the rest of our egomaniacs and sex pests. Has this one been knighted yet? 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 05/05/2026NZ farmers shoot themselves in the foot because they see conspiracies everywhere. They are NZ's strongest culture warriors. They don't just want to profit from business, they want to be worshipped for it by the public as well, which implies disrespect for anyone else newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/05/h...newsroom.co.nz'Hit job' v 'personal attacks': Competing claims as high-profile farmer quitsPressure claims a high-profile scalp from the 'Fair for Farmers' campaign aimed at improving animal welfare standards. David Williams reports. 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 03/05/2026"Roads of National Party Significance" is another great Brownism, the man has some hits 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The PM has no critical thinking. He is barely political at all. His world view comes solely and only from being both a corporate businessman and Christian evangelical, both of which lead to uncritical support for the US no matter what, including when they are illegally bombing school children 000
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Palestine has been steadily gaining public support. Stories like this reveal the true nature of western states and institutions as hostile to regular mainstream people, and technology is making that hostility even more frightening www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...aljazeera.comBritish universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine studentsInvestigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement. 000
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 20/04/2026How can deflation ever be a problem? Like bro, just print more money. And if that doesn't work, just print even more money. This economics shit is easy, it was just a skill issue for Japan 030
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Xero also has a business it acquired last year in Israel, and still maintains an office there www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...stuff.co.nzNew Zealander of the Year Sir Rod Drury faced misconduct complaint investigationA complaint made during the tech titan’s time as Xero CEO led to an investigation – now a former employee is speaking publicly. 000
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Mamdani in this interview talks about the 100k potholes filled and how people won't buy your progressive politics if they can't see you doing the basics. Contrasts with the last Green led Wellington council, who despite effort and investment, couldn't fix the leaks www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz-h...youtube.comZohran Mamdani on Trump, Iran war and the future of the Democratic Party | Talk to Al JazeeraYouTube video by Al Jazeera English 110
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Scrolling through letterboxd reviews until I find one I disagree with so I can get really pissed off 000
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 04/04/2026People thought that voting for Luxon would get them a PM like John Key, but what they've now learned is that business guy (currency trader) = smart but business guy (CEO) = not smart 010
Reposted by @leisurevictim.bsky.socialMike (beep boop era) @latimeriidae.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild 100139812620
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Winston holding up the clock he was asked to draw 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 16/03/2026One of my favourite places on the internet is the political notes on www.stallman.org/archives/. 26 years of un-yielding principles and unrelenting pedantic crankery. Top link right now is in support of authors wanting AI labels on books, but calls them selfish because they enforce copyright lolstallman.orgPolitical Notes Archives - Richard Stallman 010
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 15/03/2026What a scandal. ACC has funding to sit outside people's houses and watch them??? 111
Reposted by @leisurevictim.bsky.socialAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026MISSION ACCOMPLISHED 637451
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 03/03/2026There's a lot of wasteful faff involved in trying to make the market for a homogeneous product fair and competitive. Imagine how much process and inefficiency would be removed from the private sector if there was only one power company, run by the government www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...stuff.co.nzStuff 000
leisurevictim.bsky.social @leisurevictim.bsky.social · 02/03/2026The exemplary CEO mind, completely bamboozled by any question about any long term consequences or moral considerations 010
