I was neither surprised nor disappointed that the GP chose not to squander their limited resources on contesting an unwinnable by-election. Tauranga not only doesn't represent Aotearoa as a whole, the 19,403 people who were registered and chose to cast a ...
Even Ōtautahi didn't have the Rhodesian Services Association holding ANZAC day ceremonies as the RSA! That's some next level assholery that I had forgotten about till looking at the NRT piece linked on the right (though not on mobile): Homophobic ...
A good way to express your condemnation (if it's not just "hopes and prayers"), is to chip in for a temporary drop-in center during the rebuild. All money from this fundraiser will be donated to Rainbow Youth. Rainbow Youth does have a form of insurance ...
A lot of us have been scared that this was coming; I Feel Love. Bullies always do prefer to pick on those less likely to fight back. This from twitter seems to encapsulate the dread that has been building this last year or so: https://twitter.com/...
You don't have to go to the USA to see the actions of those who think that the cleansing fire is an appropriate response to those who are seen as unpeople. Some in Tauranga are apparently far enough gone along that path already. A fire broke out at Rainbow...
In the senate (which is important for any government to have a workable majority in Australia), it stands at: 25 Labor, 12 Green, with 6 too close to call & 39% counted. The senate uses a staggered double term system, so that; of each of the six States' 12...
$235,000 / 5,000,000 = 5 cents per Aotearoan. While I do think that the selection sample is likely less than than the entire population, these 150 (58 + 92, or "nearly 100" as this NZH reprint would have it) analyses of views; already in the public arena ...
Re: your first reply Molly. The research on; the positive benefits of matching blood by sex, though intriguing, isn't that recent - nor is it that convincing: The risk of dying was about the same after getting blood from a man or a never-pregnant women, ...
I was reading this in the Spinoff (having seen the Canadian story elsewhere): Just last month, Canada lifted its own “gay blood ban”, prompting the question: is Aotearoa now out of step internationally? Aotearoa has historically been a leader in the field ...
We have STV down in Ōtepoti , though it being noncompulsory means we can bail out after the first ranking without ballots being rendered invalid. Personally I find the first and last half dozen rankings easy enough for the DCC, but remaining dozen odd mid-...
I am reminded of this Kurzgesagt video from a month ago (from 12:30 mark, but the whole is worth a watch if you have the time): The results of fighting a steep uphill battle are now clearly visible. The pressure needs to keep increasing, to make sure that ...
This relates to the Olson et al (2022) preprint paper for the American Academy of Pediatrics official journal (rather directly, but that's scientists for you) called Pediatrics entitled: Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition. I have no idea if ...
Thanks for the link there Poisson. I should have said so yesterday, but got busy with other things after I clicked away.
The bus subsidy is nice in principle, but the way that the ORC is implementing it is, well; orcish! Look at this nonsense (once you press the: Bus Alerts, button; it didn't come over with the link) - the simple method (for bus passengers) would be to have ...
Nice to have some longitudinal (rather than cross-sectional) research for a change. Though certainly some caveats regarding (the decent, but could be bigger) sample population size of 317, and USAn population demographics generalizability. It will be ...
Luxon has his only friend take photo of himself with Nat's Tauranga candidate.
A major cost in installing PV solar is that you really need to run it through batteries and inverties unless you want to fry your old electrical gear. Did that to a keyboard up in a commune about a decade back - never did get another with quite the same ...
I guess the GP might have crunched the numbers and found that the cost benefit analysis didn't stack up. I think it was more Hughes who was pushing for it, so with him out of Parliament these days, it has languished a bit. It was certainly an ambitious ...
The Onslow project does look like it has potential Pat. But it is going to take time. With the lack if rainfall down South this year, we could really have done with this now: Dry year storage—we are specifically investigating Lake Onslow given its ability ...
Tabletennis - that is evidently not the opinion of some cis feminists and midwives: Fear over the erasure of the language of female biology, especially in maternity services, has become central to the gender-critical discussion of trans versus women’s sex-...
This has fascinating graphical representations of the likely results of overturning Roe v Wade on abortion access in the USA: But traveling to another state for an abortion may not even be an option. People who seek abortions are disproportionately likely ...
What Ross? There are only 3 female Supreme Court judges to 6 male at this time, with 2 of those appointed by Obama, 1 by Trump. But in any case, the draft majority opinion was authored by Samuel Alito, and of those 3 only Barrett has (allegedly) put her ...
Not that bold Populuxe1 - I have been commenting on TS (on and off, under various pseudonyms that evolved over time) for over a decade now. I was here before the Gender Essentialists started up their hate fests in the past few years, and will likely ...
I would express solidarity with those people who might be affected by a law limiting abortion before a time when the foetus would reasonably be able to survive outside its parents body. And; if they were (temporarily) willing, to share the space without ...
AB - this fascist attack on modernity has been looming for a while now, but at least it is now somewhat out in the open. From September last year (by Tannehill, author of: American Fascism: How the GOP is Subverting Democracy): When the Supreme Court first...
No Rosemary, pregnant trans men remain men - adjectives modify nouns. That you are unable to understand this says more about your capacity to understand new information than it does about the facts of the matter. Actually the future of the species likely ...
I was just riffing on James Finn's phrasing there Ad (but thanks for the +100 anyway). The piece is worth reading in full, though it is a bit longer than my quote, which is long enough itself!
You have expressed support for SUFW before; Molly, so I assumed you knew that their (former?) spokesperson Ani O'Brien became press secretary for Judith Collins sometime last year before scurrying off that sinking ship. I think she has something to do with...
The link was from RL above (@ 6.1), I was quoting from it mainly because they hadn't. I was going to trim and tie the quote to the comment more, but then my number got called in the waiting room and I pushed publish without properly proofreading. I have no...
My point was more about the need; to pursue solidarity, and to eschew division in the pursuit of the common goal of retaining abortion rights. But I admit that that may have been lost with the length of my quotes. I do think Finn's language is rather ...
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