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“Over the last year with budget constraints, they’ve not hired new nurses. Anytime a nurse left, they weren’t replaced.” - Starship children's hospital whistleblower. (paywalled) #NzPol

nzherald.co.nz

'Horrified and appalled': Starship suspends child cancer treatments amid staff crisis

A hospital nurse said the move increases the risk of complications or death from cancers.

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 20h

I don't know if it'd work but I wonder if the FIA etc. could place minimum age and/or experience requirements on various classes in order to give the kids a better chance of being physically and mentally capable of competing at higher levels.

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 20h

I worry the physical strain of heavy training and the mental strain of having to perform, secure funding etc. might be bad for their developing bodies. And it must be unfair to drivers whose abilities developed a little later than their peers. Sry for the mini rant! 😬

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 20h

Re training from a very young age (for any sex), I get what you mean but as much as I love motorsport I dislike how it demands so much from so many increasingly young up & coming drivers (with so little chance of reward) in order to satisfy its own desire to find & sign the next kid wonder.

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 21h

Kind of ironic given 'flat, white' is an accurate description of Luxon himself.

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 23h

From memory she and the male ex-F3 driver co-host agreed the steering on F3-F2 types cars is stupid heavy and not representative of F1 steering, and that woman are quite able to have the neck & leg strength for F1.

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 23h

Related to this, a while ago I saw an interview with Bianca Bustamante and part of it was a discussion about upper-body strength re racing.

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Toni Snark @withaniplease.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Have y'all seen this? So well done.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Reminder that all the best planes want to be boats

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Good grief, they're really putting the ACT in ACTually A Pack Of Bastards!

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

hey cool that's awesome

Harriet Williamson • @harriepw
NEW: Home Office stats released today reveal that arrests for "terrorist-related activity" in the year ending June 2026 were up 1,553% on last year and 94% of the arrests (3,630 of 3,867) were linked to showing support for Palestine Action.
Figure 1.1: Arrests for terrorist-related activity, by legislation, years ending June 2002 to June 2026, Great Britain
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3,500-
3,000
2,500 |
Number of arrests
2,000
1,5001
1,000
500
Arrested for peacefully holding signs
- Median
Section 41/
Terrorism Act 2000
Year to 30 June
Other legislation
(not linked to supporting
Palestine Action)
Other legislation (linked to supporting
Palestine Action)

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Green for the Party vote, Lab for the electorate to keep the Nat candidate out... which is a pity as I don't respect the Lab candidate while my opinion of the Greeny has increased over the years.

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

TBH 'Big(gg) Pounamu' would be a pretty sick moniker for a successful politician.

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The headline buries the lede: ❌️ Cutting benefit rates after 2yrs ❌️ Incr stand down to 26wks (up from 13wks) ❌️ Incr minimum residence period to qualify benefits from 2yrs to 5yrs These are awful, horrifying policies that will drive povery and misery #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

rnz.co.nz

National promises random drug testing for jobseeker beneficiaries

National is promising to introduce random drug testing for those on the jobseeker benefit to ensure they're "ready for work".

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Aliya D @alinasu33.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Let everyone know about this gem 👇

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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Don’t be left standing in the rain after October 25th begging for a second chance, enrol to vote now! If you like this comic, and want to support, grabs pre-order of my new comic book: danielvernon.bigcartel.com

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It does feel like it. Tangential but does F1A use the same cameras & directing as F1? I noticed that 2024 had great coverage but '25 and '26 are blander and bad with replays.

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#F1 #BahrainGP #Malaysia Despite the steward's best attempts at sucking the fun out of it that was a great GP. GOAT drive from Fernando, rock-solid from LiLaw and amazing energy from the crowd, could feel/hear it through the tv! Alpine must be spewing right now.

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Same here, and they certainly spend too much time watching the leaders while ignoring the mid-field.

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Off topic but Luxon sure likes eating healthy, as evidenced by his word-salad in the second screen shot.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 01/10/2026

this video of Chlöe Swarbrick, who leads the Greens in New Zealand's parliament, is worth your five minutes' time

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Where are our Orcas when we need them?

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

www.instagram.com/reel/Dd23gOr... #nzpol

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#NZpol Saw this excellent quote-reply to Simeon Brown’s latest attack on Labour. Worth sharing.

David Peez @RebelEkonomista

"The truck driver in Pakuranga helps pay off a lawyer's loan." No, Simeon. He doesn't. Not a cent.

When the government lends a student money, it creates the dollars and credits their account. No tradie's tax was collected and posted to a law degree. When the graduate repays, those dollars are deleted, drained back out like tax. They don't land in the truck driver's pocket either.

So nobody foots the bill. The worker and the graduate aren't on opposite sides of a ledger. Setting them against each other is the trick, and it runs on the same myth as "add it to the tab", that the government is a household counting coins. It issues the currency. The real limits are real resources and inflation, not a truck driver's tax bill.

"Someone always pays." Sure. Just never the person you keep pointing at.

Read more: http://therebeleconomist.substack.com

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They fuck with us for their sport.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ooof, sounds like a real gent 😬

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“you get those photos for the weed communion wafers ad?” “sure did, boss. real sexy, just like you asked.”

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

opb.org

Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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The MAJC Man @themajcman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Damn this mf out here putting the glute in gluten

Delicious looking loaf of bread that resembles a buttocks and two thick thighs

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

PM Christopher Luxon, Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick, and the groceries. My SST #cartoon today #NZpol #CostOfLiving #Supermarkets

Cartoon. Title: “Work it!” The Dancing Cossacks from the 1970s National Party ad, with PM Christopher Luxon as one of them, carrying two supermarket bags, labelled Pak’NSave and New World. Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick in the background, clapping and saying, “Dah! Dah! Dah! Go, Comrade Luxon!”

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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A slightly misleading headline – the bills are now before select committee. They won't pass this term. Urgency in this case reduced time between intro and first reading and was otherwise used similarly to extended sitting. Fair to critique this but don't conflate with skipping select committee.

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#nz If you enjoy the sensation of having your blood pressure spike so hard it blows your brain out of your nose then boy, will you enjoy this article.

static.klipy.com

Alien Guy Giorgio Tsoukalos: Ancient Aliens

ALT: Alien Guy Giorgio Tsoukalos: Ancient Aliens

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh the irony of a guy who calls for "world-class education" when he himself struggles to shit out a barely comprehensible sentence!

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NGL but this is reminding me of a certain scene from The Boys.

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ahhhhh hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Malpass must've been crying/screaming/throwing up when he had to type that one out.

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 06/05/2025

Here's a sentiment analysis of the most versatile word in the Australian vocabulary. Hope this is helpful to our international friends.

A scientific sentiment analysis chart mapping Australian uses of the word 'cunt' across valence (positive to negative) and intensity axes. The diagram plots 16 variations including 'sick cunt', 'mad cunt', (very positive, high intensity) 'hard cunt', 'top cunt' and 'lucky cunt' (positive, high intensity), 'good cunt', 'clever cunt', 'funny cunt' (positive, lower intensity), 'soft cunt', 'lazy cunt', 'dumb cunt' (slightly negative, low intensity), 'dodgy cunt, gronk cunt, shit cunt and dead cunt', (negative, high intensity) and 'dog cunt' (very negative, high intensity). The neutral form 'CUNT' sits at the origin.

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Emz of Big Hairy News @iamprettyawesome.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"CRY ME A RIVER"??? He actually said "cry me a river" on record?? Labour just got their next billboard - use it. Show the people who this man really is. Mask off, out-of-touch MILLIONAIRE running our country into the ground. Motherfucker.

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