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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
There are about 15,000 jobs advertised today and... - 174,000 people officially unemployed - Another 144,000 people who want more hours - A further 80,000 potential jobseekers (underestimate) This is a failure of laissez-faire economic management on an absolutely tragic scale.
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michael oshea @osheafoto.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is a hell of a piece of writing from an essay by German Philosopher Jurgen Habermas,
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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Chart summary This chart shows the quarterly profit after tax for New Zealand’s banking system. #nzpol
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This chart shows the quarterly profit after tax for New Zealand’s banking system.
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/statistics/series/registered-banks/banks-summary-income-statement-and-related-ratios
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Groan. Labour productivity is just (salaries + profits) / (hours worked). So, if your economy is increasingly low-wage, low-tech and service-focused (hi, work visas), and profits are siphoned offshore... voila, low productivity. [3/n]
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Stu Fox @stufox.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The easy answer is that there are no actual leaders in this government. There are managers, social media trolls and grifters.
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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 24/04/2026
The thing that frustrates me most about cloud isn't the pricing. It's that we've forgotten how hard this is. Easy became the assumption. That assumption is where expensive surprises live. duckbillhq.com
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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 22/04/2026
"Cloud is too expensive, let's build a data center." If your engineering team hears this and doesn't immediately look ill, they haven't done this before. An AZ is a data center. You're not simplifying. duckbillhq.com
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
So, next time you hear someone say the Govt needs to run a surplus. Remember that this is ONLY possible if the private sector runs a deficit that more than overpowers the rest of the world's surplus. Any sensible debate on surpluses and deficits has to include all the sectors below. [Ends]
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I think the first party to De-Chris wins the election by a mile.
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
No, I haven't got this egg out of my head yet. What gets me is the focus on the Govt fiscal balance vs the actual economy, and the ridiculous notion that Govt can simply decide what deficit / surplus to run in its budget (and don't even get me started on future years). Take two 🎬 [🧵 1/n]
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Govt *share* of consumption tells you about the proportion of a country's real resources (workers, materials, imports, energy etc) that are appropriated by the Government and used to deliver public services like free healthcare, dental, education etc. Quick comparison to last week's happiness data.
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
An opportune moment to remind ourselves that countries with central banks that went full macho on rate hikes to 'tame inflation' (caused by a supply shock) did no better than those that didn't. But, boooy, it felt good to make poor people unemployed.
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This is the noise that keeps me awake @morefasterer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Operation Epstein Fury
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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
NZ has normalised inequality. As the cost of living rises, Govt has to expand into every corner of life so people don't starve and end up homeless. We need to reduce inequality and rampant rentierism so that people and communities have the resources they need to look after themselves.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
1. I think most liberals are probably familiar with one part of what has become known as Wilhoit’s Law – that the true goals of the right are inequality, injustice, repression and control. This is how composer Frank Wilhoit put it in 2018: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.”
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Tony Hafoka Ao NZ TON @ahafoka.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Darren Shields (aka the "weekend spearfisherman" as Shane Jones called him) has replied. This reply illustrates how much Shane Jones is disconnected from the New Zealand voter in general. #nzpol
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This is the noise that keeps me awake @morefasterer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Gotta side with members of your own party though... I wonder if Kaushal will stand for Papakura this year, now that Crusher is retiring?
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This is the noise that keeps me awake @morefasterer.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Meanwhile, NZ's coalition of cuts stifles innovation by putting its boot on the financial throat of our research centres.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 17/12/2025
It is unclear whether humanity as a species could possibly survive a full-scale nuclear war with the current stockpiles. A nuclear war might well be humanity’s final war. Read more in @maxroser.bsky.social's article on why reducing the risk of nuclear war should be a key concern of our generation:
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Nuclear weapons: Why reducing the risk of nuclear war should be a key concern of our generation
The consequences of nuclear war would be devastating. Much more should – and can – be done to reduce the risk that humanity will ever fight such a war
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I've seen protecting kids used as an excuse to demonise; Muslims, trans and queer folks, cycle lanes for some reason, sexual and relationships education, healthcare provision, informed consent and each time it comes from people who want to exercise weird control of their kids or hate minorities.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Social media is bad, but it's because the companies trying to extract data to sell from you who run them have made them bad. Banning kids from using it won't stop social media still being bad. It won't stop the boiling of boomer and gen x brains in algorithmic toxic waste. So what are we doing here?
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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Banning children from social media really means a push for adult digital ID. Tech giants failed at their first generation ‘real names policies’. This time, they‘ve outsourced the work to corporate-supporting politicians and useful idiots.
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Has the National Party contemplated the bold step of them improving productivity by not being in power. There is more evidence for that than the justifications I am seeing in the media about worker holiday rights.
Grumpy chart of NZ productivity. It is more complicated than that, but if National want to reduce it to stupid levels, then they should look in the mirror.
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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 28/11/2025
Every right-wing “grassroots”organisation in New Zealand is just Jordan Williams, David Farrar, and one randomly-selected Atlas Network apparatchik in a trenchcoat
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This is the noise that keeps me awake @morefasterer.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Being a computer mechanic earns a better income than being a car mechanic.
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Should be going all in on this line - unearned income is a drain on our economy.
'Not about me': Luxon fires back at Hipkins for 'attack' on his finances
RNZ Website 12:43 pm today
"Why should he be able to make more than $600,000 in one year from flipping properties, whilst the people who ... work hard every day for a living pay tax?" Hipkins asked.
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
When the heroes at Stats NZ are screaming at the world to take notice. A clear separation between the cost of living for the wealthy and sorted folks who are seeing a rapid easing, and the bottom-feeders who are getting properly screwed.
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Ana Visneski @oceanbound.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This article by @quinnypig.com nails it www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...
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Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
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This is the noise that keeps me awake @morefasterer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
A timely reminder.
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Yes, of course. Here's our spending on education as a % of NZ GDP. It's a useful case in point. Let's say that we decided to spend as much on education - relative to our economy - as Denmark and Finland. We would be spending about $4bn per year extra. [10/n]
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This is the noise that keeps me awake @morefasterer.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Handy to know that now Hate Speech includes "the consequences of my own actions"
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Jabberwokiwi🦎 @jabberwokiwi.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Yep, it's the same old "bash a beneficiary" or "lazy youf" rhetoric to gain a couple of votes. Lazy Luxon chasing 4000 kids to save approx $1.3M year but won't chase Destiny church charitable trust or Gloriavale, with charities estimated to be avoiding $2.0B year in tax avoidance.
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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 28/09/2025
Me reading half the internet lately:
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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Totally out of touch with reality. This "report" from Treasury omits any form of wealth or capital gains tax. As usual, workers would be targetted and the wealthy untouched. It should be binned. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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GST at 32 percent, pension age of 72 among Treasury solutions to financial crunch
Someone is going to have to pay to keep the country's finances in order while the population ages, but who and how need to be decided soon.
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The hypocrisy as an expression of power is a thing, so the contradictions don't actually matter, but if David Seymour really wants to commemorate people killed for free speech in parliament, there have been over 270 journalists killed in Gaza. But I understand David Seymour might object to that.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 26/08/2025
How much income would it take from the richest 10% of people in the world to match that of the poorest 10%? As the chart shows, it takes less than 2 cents out of every dollar. That's less than *one-fiftieth* of their income, or one week of income in a year.
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Damn, the banks are getting absolutely buried by the recession.... Just kidding, another all time high 🫡
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This is the noise that keeps me awake @morefasterer.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Snap.
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This is the noise that keeps me awake @morefasterer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
At the risk of starting the obvious, if you're hitting concrete barriers with your car then perhaps you shouldn't be operating a motor vehicle. Fortunately, cycling is now a safer way to travel in NP... www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
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Not so sweet: Why ‘Tim Tams’ are testing drivers in this city
Concrete cycleway separators, nicknamed after the biscuits, are being blamed for delays and accidents.
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This is the noise that keeps me awake @morefasterer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Legitimate question: is the 10% inflation of dairy and egg prices translating into greater profitability for farmers? Is the agriculture sector seeing growth that bucks the trend of the wider economy's performance?
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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
#nzpol Data released by Statistics New Zealand today shows that the Consumer Price Index rose to 2.7%. This marks the 3rd straight quarter in which annual inflation increased, up from 2.2% in December 2024. The data underneath this figure suggests some troubles ahead. A🧵
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Business decision makers believe the Government will deliver on its ‘growth, growth, growth’ mantra, but every quarter they keep being disappointed by the actual results. And that ‘delusion'‘ gap has widened to its widest level ever. thekaka.substack.com/p/behold-ano...
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Behold, another Quarterly Survey of Business Delusion
NZIER survey finds gap between business' awful experienced activity & still-hopeful expectations widens again to record-high -35%; Lack of demand fears at 11-year high; Architects' confidence slumps
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Here’s what a housing market with bits tacked on looks like. The bits are getting smaller and smaller.
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