Reposted by RedSassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It’s cool that NZF candidates are essentially running CHCH shooter talking points but they are legitimized as “kingmakers” and not ruled out by everyone *before* the election. Nice country we live in. 317845
Reposted by RedD Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026TOP happy for people forced into unemployment and/or homelessness by Government policies/actions to starve and/or die on the streets because that it what a 60% cut to MSD would mean. #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...nzherald.co.nzOpportunity forced to update tax policy to make spending cuts clearerThe party plans to make $3.8 billion of savings a year, with about half coming from cuts. 137136
Reposted by RedDr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026TOPs policies about automation and cutting admin at MSD (and elsewhere) is just "let's do AI everywhere". They don't have a clue about risk, about bias, about error rates, about the balck box, about how getting it wrong can lead to people experiencing homelessness, starvation, or death #nzpol 913944
Reposted by Redjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026i generally agree with this take but there's absolutely a subset of people who go out of their way to make it known that they *don't* like using their proprietary software but will act like you just told them to hack into the pentagon when you say that the FOSS alternative addresses their complaints 2041539
Reposted by Redkyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026any labour supporters who keep telling critics that WE are the ones who need to work together want to have a quick word with Hipkins yet? how about the people who keep telling us it's the voters choice, so Greens shouldn't try and push Hipkins to accept their policies? This IS Starmer/DNC shit btw 3307
Reposted by Redkyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 23/03/2026i don't care if he's the government or not - this is the approach of a loser, and it's why Hipkins' personal polling has been in *steady decline* even while Labour is resurgent. GIVE PEOPLE SOME HOPE FFS! 107113
Reposted by RedAsher @asherwilsongoldman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Headlines like this should worry us all. As AI and chatbots are pushed by bosses as a way to restructure people out of our jobs and cut costs, we need to be asking questions about how much we can really trust these human-free systems. 14521
Reposted by Redkyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 20/03/2026but yet to condemn the illegal US/Israel war, the many war crimes the US/Israel have committed, or the murder of civilians including 150 school girls in the first attacks 35718
Reposted by Redkyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 05/02/2026nz outlets are now CONSTANTLY giving Peters free positive media - they've picked a side and it's VERY obvious It's outright boosterism at this stage 3237
Reposted by Redkyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 03/02/2026people are drastically unprepared for what the media & discourse environment is going to turn into this year, I think consider the smears on Green & TPM MPs last year, the months long coordinated campaigns between muckrakers, politicians & media that led to death threats 2026 will likely be worse 69337
Reposted by Redkyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 11/01/2026what the fuck are Peter Beck and Rocket Lab up to and why tf are they hosting Hegseth and selling him on their build capacity? Beck seems hellbent on bringing military integration to NZ at a far greater magnitude than RocketLab already provides via their military launches He is making NZ a target 1310537
Reposted by RedRobert @gurblegooch.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Was definitely upsetting to see not one but two "vibecoding" bundles being offered on Humble Bundle. 0121
Reposted by Redonion person @junlper.beer · 05/01/2026i think the worst new word of 2025 i started seeing used everywhere was “vibecoding”. please stay on linkedin with language like that 812693162
Reposted by Redkyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 04/01/2026i think what's FUCKING FUNNY is that this is almost indistinguishable from most Stuff/NZME, even RNZ articles where the current government is asked for comment EXCEPT that it doesn't have 3 paragraphs verbatim from David Seymour 02410
Reposted by Redkyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The top 'article' thumbnail on the Stuff Politics homepage what 'brand' you wonder? oh, just the NZ National Party We are now past the point where corporate media commentary and embedded advertising are justifiable. This is going to get MUCH worse over 2026 unless there are consequences 119333
Reposted by Redonion person @junlper.beer · 16/12/2025is there a way to avoid the scourge of ai being forced on us? like is there a single consumer facing good that will actually stand up for its users, i’m just so sick of this 953509665
Reposted by Redkyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 14/12/2025why the fuck isn't the government pouring money into and emergency response to this?? 95620
Reposted by RedBianca Michelle Parker 🏳️⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 13/12/2025It beggars belief that, even with this milquetoast centrist nonsense so incredibly unpopular and ineffective in the US and UK, Labour are still committed to running on it. Read the room guys. Read any of the rooms. 23910
Reposted by RedKylie @styla73.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Keir Starmer is a neoliberal piece of shit and it's evident every time Hipkins opens his mouth that he definitely thinks he's a Cool Guy with Good Ideas. The homework copying is so transparent. He's got a boner for austerity we need to be VERY aware of. 173
Reposted by RedKaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 14/12/2025People be like "If Labour don't move further right National will win" If Labour moves further right, then National has already won by proxy. 1368
Reposted by RedStephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 09/12/2025If the project is really to move politics left by presenting a moderate message to get people on board THEN do progressive things (something I have literally been told by multiple Labour strategists), why would you keep drawing angry lines through any idea even *slightly* more radical than your own? 27214
Reposted by RedStephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 09/12/2025You NEVER see National's leaders leaping to denounce ACT policies. They don't have to endorse them; they just brush off the question. Then when they get into power, they form a coalition and suddenly a whole bunch of stuff which didn't fit National's ~responsible manager~ brand gets done on day one 1648
Reposted by RedCEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 08/12/20252026 is going to be Winston screaming about trans people and immigrants, Seymour advocating we sell off everything and National going "let us finish all of these reforms" and tbh if you think Labour have the leader or the ideological mettle for this, nah sorry it's going to be 2023 again. 1152
Reposted by RedStephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Children are not born knowing how to pick on people for being different or how to ostracize newcomers or that social relations should be based on dominance and aggression Children are taught these things by THE REST OF US 1368
Reposted by RedJennifer @jennifilm.nz · 06/12/2025Tbh I think we’re justified in no longer sharing any bbc articles about trans people (please), not least because the link preview text invariably includes their fun new alternative to the phrase “trans woman” 💀 0212
Reposted by Reddiane >:3 @plzstayherewme.northsky.social · 04/12/2025once you've started transitioning you'll never stop wanting to beat medical "professionals" to death with your bare hands 59516
Reposted by RedMeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 05/12/2025All the Lab stans saying individual members have made statements against the puberty blockers ban. Yep, they have. The leader hasn’t. The Party hasn’t. winnie the anti-trans piece of shit is a possibility for a Lab coalition. I don’t know what else to say. 33412
Reposted by RedJennifer @jennifilm.nz · 05/12/2025It’s insane that I have to say this, actually. We have the benefit of witnessing exactly what has happened overseas. If you believe we can’t get that bad, you’re wrong - especially if we don’t fight it. 2323
Reposted by Redhorse shoe crab programmer @myrrlyn.net · 26/11/2025as a software engineer, ai coding makes my life measurably worse by polluting the information environment and vastly increasing the scale of incorrect bullshit my peers can and do create that i then have to clean up, or worse, guard against and NOT clean up. it actively makes people around me dumber 78419
Reposted by RedMara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 19/11/2025#rustlang hot take: We should rename .unwrap() to .or_panic(). (And .expect() to .or_panic_with().) "Unwrap" is a terrible name for the panicking function, especially since we also have things like .unwrap_or() and .unwrap_or_default() which never panic. 3647667
Reposted by RedJennifer @jennifilm.nz · 19/11/2025PATHA's statement has been published: patha.nz/news 010275
Reposted by Redkyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 19/11/2025we need people to call this what it is - social murder no one except a very small group of virulent extremists wants this policy any politician who treats this otherwise is complicit in providing cover for them, if not an extremist themselves 312050
Reposted by RedEternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 16/11/2025Yeah people really don't understand that actually typing code is like, the least important part of writing code 161
Reposted by RedEternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 16/11/2025Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand. Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on. Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all. 2242981
Reposted by Redselfcaregamer @selfcaregamer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025stop telling your neurodivergent child that in "the real world" people won't accommodate them, so they should suck it up. this is the real world and you shouldn't be your child's first bully 13428144
Reposted by RedFae’rynn is Writing @faerynnistired.itch.io · 28/10/2025also i’m really sick of people who talk about non-binary people like we don’t also take hrt or get surgeries. it’s genuinely maddening 2414
Reposted by RedShard - Non-Local Muscle Femme @shardcollective.bsky.social · 05/11/2025With people like this in our communities who needs bad allies, we out here working things back to conservative points all on our own 161
Reposted by RedCochu @cochu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025When you sit neatly in the gender binary it's easy to be like "ugh I am clearly wearing a dress just call me she/her because this is what women are supposed to look like!!" and forget about literally every queer person that does not work like that. You're continuing to enforce binary as the standard 161
Reposted by RedCochu @cochu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Guys what does an it/its look like. Or do I have to get misgendered forever. God forbid you dress femininely but don't use she/her pronouns 291
Reposted by RedMillennial PC Gaming Aesthetics @millennialpcaest.bsky.social · 12/10/2025'Freelancer' - 2003 3487
Reposted by Redemma (toys) @freeuse.toys · 11/10/2025ngl i wouldn't wish arfid upon my worst enemy being unable to get past the mental block of trying new foods absolutely wreaks havoc on so many parts of your life that aren't obvious 3221
Reposted by RedJennifer @jennifilm.nz · 07/10/2025After my interview with Bridge about women’s sport I heard from a LOT of women who’d had similar experiences. Many of them had complained. NZME are well aware Bridge is a raging misogynist and are happy to let him continue. 26822
Reposted by Redkyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 07/10/2025There is *literally* only one side inciting & escalating political violence & almost all NZ msm are claiming it's the other way around This is the fascist turn happening in real time. Sorry to break it to you - a bunch of propagandists & decision makers across media & business have chosen sides 47926
Reposted by RedHell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 03/10/2025crazy to think a userbase of 38 year old goons and trans puppygirl shitposters is gonna blink first 339740
Reposted by Redalyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 24/09/2025remember how politicians and journos just lied and lied and lied about trans healthcare and created the space for doubt by talking constantly about the need for clarity as if the science weren’t settled already 111509431
Reposted by Redamos @fasterthanli.me · 23/09/2025oh right, the ladybird dev thinks gender-neutral language is "pushing personal politics", I missed that github.com/SerenityOS/s...github.comGender neutral language within build instructions by Tunas1337 · Pull Request #6814 · SerenityOS/serenityIt's a minor nitpick, but I think it's important; assuming the user and/or developer of the operating system is male isn't exactly the best. 5527
Reposted by RedMara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Happy 10 year anniversary to this tweet! Has memory safety in C++ been solved yet? x.com/CppCon/statu... 920634
Reposted by RedBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Oh yeah if there’s one problem with this website it’s that there’s not enough politically engaged people over 30 2565632
Reposted by Redonion person @junlper.beer · 14/09/2025they literally want to round us up man. can democrats please get a fucking spine and stand the fuck up for us now? we literally cannot counter this ourselves when they want our voices and rights taken away. please do fucking something 15295942131
