#ACT Party

[rupertbbare]

23 October 2024: NZ Government cuts funding for research on preventing White Supremacist terrorism.

30 October 2024: NZ Government says they don't think Swastikas are as intimidating as gang patches and don't need the same restrictions.

I think we need to ask why our government does not percieve White Supremacists and Neo Nazis as a threat

[mucking-faori]

Me when I definitely don't have a history of adding underage girls I meet while visiting schools on social media and sending them personal dms

[sapphia]

i’m so fucking keen for bora to sink its teeth into whatever transphobic bill nzact manage to pass, if they even get it through parliament. like god i hope it gets stopped before then but i’ve been defending bora from right wing assholes trying to undermine it and how fucking amazing it is.

the beauty of it is that it makes it so nzact will have to consider precisely the intention of every way the bill can play out on the floor, in hansard (written record admissible in courts). if they don’t, the courts will find it inconsistent with bora and send it back to parliament, or nullify the application of it entirely.

nzact can’t do squat without hanging themselves from the political noose. the media have business bias but they have a left wing interest too and they will not let this go. the only chance this gets through is if this gets drowned out in the noise.

[mel-rhodes-place]

EUROPE PREPARES FOR WWIII

(Europe is planning for WW3 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSnu52Oy_gw) European nations are gearing up for an all-out war on the continent as Ukraine launched US-made missiles into Russia for the first time and Vladimir Putin officially lowered the threshold for Moscow to consider a nuclear strike. Germany’s foreign minister yesterday vowed her country ‘will not be intimidated’ by Putin,…

[timelessnewsnow]

In a powerful and emotional demonstration, Māori lawmakers in New Zealand used the traditional haka to protest a proposed bill that could significantly alter the interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, the country’s founding document. The protest disrupted proceedings in Parliament on Thursday, as opposition MPs voiced their outrage over the bill, which they believe threatens the rights of Māori people and undermines decades of efforts to address historical injustices.

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[rupertbbare]

Also, write to your nearest National Party MP!

The arseholes from "Hobson's Pledge" have vowed to pressure National Party MPs to support the bill.

Hobson's pledge know that National are fighting ACT for the far-right vote & hope to use that.

But National are also fighting Labour for the far more numerous centre vote.

Write to your National MP (list or electorate)! If you dont jave a list MPvor an Electorate MP from National, write to the PM! Tell them you'll vote for someone else if they support the Bill.

They don't need to know if you weren't going to vote for them anyway. They don't need to know you voted Green the last five elections. If they think the Median Voter™️ hates the bill, they will kill it.

Submissions on the treaty principles bill are now open, so if you're a kiwi you really should make one to help keep the fight against the bill going.

The green party have created a guide on what to put in your submission: https://action.greens.org.nz/tp_subsguide

[ruporas]

your love returns in tragedy (ID in alt)

[destiny-islanders]

i get it now

[lucabyte]

"So what's the weirdest possible first (second) impression Loop could make on the party in postcanon?" "Yeah, that, probably."

+ Bonus

theyre just standing there in direct party order while this happens. normal tuesday.

[wotchernewt]

seriously though nothing can stop me from interpreting Real Life as canon just for how it progresses the canary curse situation. i'm obsessed with it. the curse gets broken in secret life and then in the very next "series", as much of a joke as it is, you get a situation like THAT. jimmy enters a mineshaft and everyone but him dies. not just his team, though obviously it's more significant because they were all red, but ren/martyn/skizz all get a mineshaft-death apiece. that canary's not doing his job anymore. he escaped his cage and made a break for the surface and everyone else is paying the price for it, and i for one could not be more proud of that little bird.

[bet-on-me-13]

Danny holds an Intervention for Brucie Wayne.

So! Danny is the head of R&D at WayneTech, and he often works closely with Bruce and Lucius when they want him to make "Proof of Concept" Gadgets and Vehicles. He doesn't question the absurdity of some of the stuff he builds, he was raised by Mad Scientists after all, all of it seems perfectly normal to him!

But he has noticed something concerning about his Boss.

He really needs to get his Partying in control. Every time he comes into work he has eyebags covered by makeup, some bruises from tripping while drunk, and he is always super cagey about what he did last night. Danny asked some of his coworkers about it, and they noticed it too.

They also bring up that he sometimes comes into work with a really foggy mind, which is probably the aftereffects of doing some kind of drugs at whatever party he was at the previous night.

Even his Hangovers seem really bad! Worse than usual, but he powers through them and keeps acting like his normal Himbo self! Danny realizes that Bruce needs to calm down. He has Kids to take care of, and Alfred needs less work on his plate

So he contacts a bunch if Bruce's Friends, his Family, and even a few coworkers who brought up their concerns to him, and he stages an Intervention.

...

Bruce didn't know what to expect when he walked into the conference room at Wayne Enterprises. He had been called in by Danny, his head of R&D, for a Meeting earlier that day, but Danny had failed to explain the purpose of the Meeting.

He had barely made it on time. He had spent the entire night chasing down Scarecrow, and a slip up had caused him to get hit by some Fear Toxin, which took forever to work its way out of his system. It didn't help that the Antidote gave him a splitting headache.

Bruce opened the door to the Conference Room, and was met with a mishmash of faces. Clark was sitting close to the head of the Table, with Lois at his right, and Diana to hers. In the crowed he could also see Dick and Steph holding in barely contained laughter, with Tim looking a little lost to the side. Damian looked as if he would rather be anywhere else, Duke was looking as list as Tim, and Cass was just smirking at him with a look of amusement.

He could also see the faces of various employees of Wayne Enterprises, among them being Lucius and Tam.

What was going on?

The door closed behind him, and he turned to see Danny standing behind him.

"Bruce, this is an Intervention."

[captain-krow-drozdov]

Everyone Except For Siffrin Is Looping Au Except Someone Wishes That Siffrin Knew Everything There Was To Know About The Loops And Subsequently Accidently Replaces Their Non-Looping Siffrin With Post Game Canon Siffrin And They Only Find Out Cause Siffrin Gets The Memory Of Back In The Fucking Building Again.

[iicaru2]

gale is just like me in the sense that he’s a chronic yapper who loves deeply and has a somewhat unreliable moral compass and some kind of poorly concealed god complex but also because at the first minor inconvenience he can and will threaten to kill himself

[buttercupshands]

So.

Act 5, huh?

Oh, and that.

"You can start breakdown now."

Finished the game couple of days ago and had some thoughts I needed to process a little. Like. Yes.

So anyway I actually didn't plan this and just wanted to redraw some sprites to just make sure I understand how to draw Siffrin correctly (still working on that!)

What did I learn from this? How fun it it to draw on a canvas that literally doesn't let you draw with colors without some layer cheating when necessary. Never tried it.

The beans. Sleeping beans.

Basically what happens when you want to sleep AND draw. Draw characters sleeping on your behalf.

Doesn't help, but at least it's cute.

I have no idea what was going on in my mind as I drew this. Feels like a fever dream of 'I want to sleep' at 4 am and 'Hm...' of thinking random things

Also that phone craft sign. Still too funny to imagine. I had to.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

we let the ocean drown out our voices/enjoying the bitterness/in the chaotic light, I close my eyes and see