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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 8h

Just trying out a way of showing Don't knows/Didn't answers.
Calculating the percents of Trust level and Party, then multiplying the don't know by -1 and using geom_col()
#rstats

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 11h

One month out from the under-16s ban and almost all of the users caught up in the Discord data breach caused by age assurance appeals were based in Australia, OAIC has finally confirmed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Discord age-assurance data breach includes 68,000 Australian users
Almost all of the users of video game chat platform Discord who were caught up in October’s data breach are located in Australia, making up 68,122 of the disclosed 70,000 users, Guardian Australia has confirmed.

Discord informed in October that a third-party customer service provider that the company was using for age verification had been compromised, with approximately 70,000 users affected, and usernames, email, billing information, IP addresses, and a small number of government ID images.

Discord began using facial age assurance to check the age for users in the UK and Australia earlier this year. The company said facial images and ID images “are deleted directly after” ages are confirmed, but Discord’s website noted that if verification fails, users can contact the trust and safety team for a manual review.

Ahead of the introduction of age assurance measures on social media in Australia as part of the under-16s social media ban, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner confirmed 68,122 Australians were affected by the breach.

Discord had previously refused to break down the number of Australians caught up in the breach, when asked by Guardian Australia.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 10h

Husband came home from his after school meeting saying the new social studies curriculum isn't a curriculum, it's just a list of subjects to be covered with no broader themes, guaranteed to make kids find the humanities pointless. "I've never felt more like my job doesn't matter"

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

bro biologists won't even agree on the definition of "alive" you think you can get them to back you on "two genders" lmao

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 15h

Fascist operative Bari Weiss gets the seal of approval from her mentor, a tyrant who has galvanized the greatest explosion of Nazi activism in modern American history. This is why she was recruited to decimate CBS News:
variety.com/2025/tv/news...

” ’60 Minutes’ paid me a lotta money. And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t wanna embarrass you, and I’m sure you’re not– you have a great– I think you have a great, new leader, frankly, who’s the young woman that’s leading your whole enterprise is a great– from what I know,” Trump said, referring to the appointment last month of Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News.

“I don’t know her, but I hear she’s a great person. But ’60 Minutes’ was forced to pay me– a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can’t have fake news. You’ve gotta have legit news. And I think that it’s happening. I see …I see good things happening in the news. I really do. And I think one of the best things to happen is this show and new ownership, CBS and new ownership. I think it’s the greatest thing that’s happened in a long time to a free and open and good press,” Trump said.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

Wait, did they edit an interview? Did they not air every second?

I heard that’s grounds for a multimillion lawsuit

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

O'DONNELL: What does that mean -- 'send more than the National Guard?'

TRUMP: Well, if you had to send in the Army or the Marines, I'd do that in a heartbeat. We have a thing called the Insurrection Act. I could use that immediately & no judge can even challenge you on that. If I wanted to I could

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 14h

Your wife should never "look for a job." As a man it's your duty to start a business and hire your wife

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𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™ @dallasbarnett.com · 14h

They were playing All I Want for Christmas is You at fucking Woolies today.

MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 1d

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 4d

"both the left and the right are mad at me, so i must be doing something right" is a really stupid way to be a politician, whose goal it is to have a constituency that supports you

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d

Democrats have this idea that you can carve out razor-thin positions on the ideological spectrum and that will come through to voters. No!

The right is going to call you pro-trans if you oppose bathroom bills. The left is going to call you anti-trans if you say trans women are men.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 20h

Awkward for Seymour.

All Black firefighter challenges David Seymour over his false fire truck comment
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... #nzpol

All Black turned firefighter challenges David Seymour over fire truck comment

Former All Black Steve Devine says at least one fire truck each day breaks down in New Zealand.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 1d

The Republican healthcare plan is as tightly under wraps as the Epstein files.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 22h

‘Experts’ on saving for retirement in New Zealand never talk about low wages or extortionate rents and childcare costs. Telling people to save, while supporting the status quo that makes it impossible really grinds my gears. #nzpol

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Matt Whitehead @mjwhitehead.bsky.social · 21h

that's like 50% of "it'll never work" criticisms lol

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 1d

In 2017, the fourth & final year of #NZ #charterschools, the success rates of students gaining Level 2 or higher was only 59.7%
For public schools, that number was 80.3%
Educational Institute president Lynda Stuart said the money would be better spent on those with learning needs #nzpol

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 1d

#nzpol Ahem!
Pay attention, Aotearoa New Zealand, because Federated Farmers, Fonterra, and the National Party/ACT/NZ First coalition government sure as hell aren't. 🤬

Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 2d

If climate policy had a “best buy,” it might be methane cuts

Global methane mitigation has a benefit–cost ratio >6:1, even before accounting for near-term climate feedbacks

A strong case: it’s among the most efficient levers in climate policy

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Global methane action pays for itself at least six times over

We provide a comprehensive assessment of the economic benefits and costs of global methane emissions abatement, anchored on the Global Methane Pledge. We use an integrated assessment model to estimate...

www.science.org

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Ko Ess Ahau ☀️😷 @occasio.bsky.social · 1d

“When you cut nearly 400 jobs in MPI, it's going to make a big, big impact, & the Luxon Govt needs to just admit that it was wrong, step up & fund them properly, & just throw everything at it that they can to eliminate these hornets, before next summer." #nzpol

Conservationist Brad Windust slams Biosecurity NZ over hornet response

Former Far North beekeeper and pest trapper Brad Windust is sounding the alarm over a lack of urgency shown by authorities over eradicating the pest.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Good C**t @c-u-next-time.bsky.social · 1d

Caught lying again 😆😆😆 "The person in charge of the test was perfectly happy with the media and me being there." Except: "RNZ's reporter at the press conference said testing staff approached the media and were annoyed that reporters had arrived close to where testing was taking place." #NZPol

Labour say David Seymour's media event where people getting measles test showed poor judgement

Some people being tested onsite were understood to be considered close contacts and were in quarantine.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 21h

Hey, guess what makes kids miss out on quite a lot of school?

Having fucking measles.

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 2d

Funny old piece, parts of it almost as if Coughlan's saying Labour already won the C.G.T argument this time, or at least this round. He suggests that it's Christopher Luxon who has to kill it. Then neglects to mention Hipkin's going for Luxon's CGT jugular, Luxon's squeak "It's not about me!" #NZPol

Thomas Coughlan: It's a Nat leader's job to kill CGTs – is Christopher Luxon up to it?

There's more riding on Labour's CGT for Luxon than Labour's Chris Hipkins.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Matt Whitehead @mjwhitehead.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah NZME was always this, it definitely feels very depressing that Stuff has joined them. I'm not certain that means the rest are complicit, corporate media has always been a bubble.

The hard bit is how much National have succeeded in ruining RNZ as an alternative, and how much Labour let them.

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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 3d

Also has the NZ media even reported on the OIA by NZATE (I think it was) that returned evidence that David Seymour logged in to a Google Doc of the English curriculum rewrite and started making his own edits to it, completely outside the chain of responsibility and Ministry procedures?

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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 3d

Our economic catastrophe of the last three years in chart form.

Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 4d

Here's the change from 'peak jobs' for each industry. Clear that public sector spending has prevented total labour market meltdown. Seymour will be furious. [3/3]

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 3d

'Resisting AI' foreshadowed much of our technofascist moment, but a lot has happened since publication. Why does a broken tech attract such huge commitments? How can it burn so much energy yet claim to save the planet? And can decomputing offer an escape from AI-drive nihilism?

Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 4d

On Monday, I'll be talking with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia of The Philosopher magazine about why it's more important than ever to resist AI, and how we can develop a convivial technopolitics. Register for free at www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...

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Matt Whitehead @mjwhitehead.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, there are definitely true believers at Stuff, that's fair. I don't think the rest of the industry is all in exactly the same boat though

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