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J from 3 Minute board games
about 5 hours ago
Gaming is totally a niche thing for nerds. That's why a new store in Palmy has lines around the block on opening day right? Love to see this, even if it is mostly CCG focused they do carry board games. Just neat to see a games store being treated like a big deal when it opens.
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George Monbiot
about 15 hours ago
Labour front benchers scratch their heads and wonder why their base has collapsed, why so many people are disillusioned, frustrated, furious. I mean, what is it about pissing on every value and principle your party once upheld that alienates the electorate? Beats me. 🤔
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George Monbiot
about 16 hours ago
Nearly 3,000 peaceful people have been arrested under this outrageous ban. It was brought in after lobbying by arms companies and Netanyahu's government. It has been condemned by UN rapporteurs and many other experts. All the while, our government has been collaborating in real state terrorism.
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So, will the thousand plus people the English regime has unlawfully arrested and persecuted under their unlawful proscription be compensated?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule
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Ron Davis
1 day ago
Seattle’s millionaire tax is a huge success. Here is how grassroots groups beat big money and are now raising tons of money for mixed income, rent stabilized housing. (We call it “social housing.”)
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
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Seattle’s millionaire tax is a wild success. #taxtherich @House Our Neighbors: Yes on 1A @Tech 4 Housing
TikTok video by Ron Davis
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
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🐝 Rappaccini
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Finally, the rain.
about 24 hours ago
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Robert McLachlan
1 day ago
The Clean Car Standard review has started already but it appears that only a select and secret group have been invited to provide input.
driveelectric.org.nz/policy-submi...
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DRIVE ELECTRIC SUBMISSION: Review of the Clean Car Standard (Stage One). - Drive Electric
In November 2025, Transport Minister Chris Bishop announced significant amendments to the Clean Car Standard (CCS), marking a major shift in Aotearoa New Zealand’s effort to cutting transport emission...
https://driveelectric.org.nz/policy-submissions/drive-electric-submission-review-of-the-clean-car-standard-stage-one/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_5Y_i32idhIZQKN7EQmUmYEe_4Pnz1PXPMXbULMOpX6Gea8SLq_whomDIgy-MaqzRLPLcX83ANcER74-stXrIz_fNyVw&_hsmi=21650625
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Robert McLachlan
1 day ago
Rod Carr: "The government’s levy-funded foreign gas proposal for an LNG terminal shows New Zealand’s politicians being outmanoeuvred yet again by the multi-trillion dollar energy industry."
www.carbonnews.co.nz/news/36547/n...
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Carbon News
Carbon News NZ Climate Policy Carbon Markets
https://www.carbonnews.co.nz/news/36547/nz-still-lacking-coherent-energy-strategy
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Kay in the End Times 🏳️🌈 💗💜💙📚
1 day ago
NZers can still vote from overseas. Friends and family should encourage them to vote for parties that would support a country they'd want to return to.
#NZpol
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Dodgy deabed mining company is dodgy
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
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The Post
https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/360948229/asx-grills-manuka-resources-over-share-slump-draft-seabed-mining-rejection
1 day ago
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
1 day ago
Wikipedia meetups are on in the North and South Islands this weekend! All are welcome. Wellington is meeting on Saturday 14 February: ⏰ 10am–12pm 📍 Te Kupenga room, National Library 🔗
w.wiki/HXrA
Christchurch is meeting on Sunday 15 February: ⏰ 10am–12pm 📍 Scoundrel eatery 🔗
w.wiki/HXrH
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Anyway: in actual news, the select committee has removed the clause allowing NZDF and SIS to just not keep records when they're collaborating in US torture and war crimes overseas. But will the Minister simply put it back in?
www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...
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Regulatory Systems (Internal Affairs) Amendment Bill 188-2 (2025), Government Bill 162 New section 60A inserted (Overseas exemptions) – New Zealand Legislation
https://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2025/0188/latest/LMS1438278.html
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Something I hadn't noticed: amendments to the Public Records Act in the Regulatory Systems (Internal Affairs) Amendment Bill would allow the Chief archivist to destroy records which pose a risk to public safety, if it is the only way to mitigate the risk...
www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...
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Regulatory Systems (Internal Affairs) Amendment Bill 188-2 (2025), Government Bill 158 New sections 20A and 20B and cross-heading inserted – New Zealand Legislation
https://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2025/0188/latest/LMS1438270.html
1 day ago
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The cat has spoken!
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Kent Duston
1 day ago
The only reason there's an 'affordability' issue as the population ages is because the government refuses to tax rich people. The richest 350 families only pay 8% tax, and if Nicola Willis changed that, then the affordability problem goes away
#nzpol
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
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The Post
https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360947874/nz-economic-forum-warnings-silver-tsunami-coming-govt-spending
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Good news after all! We're degasifying, whether National likes it or not!
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People have talked about solar + batteries letting NZ keep water in the lakes - our big batteries. But by smoothing evening peaks they reduce gas use - saving that for later too. But National would rather import LNG.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷
1 day ago
Anyone talking about making people work longer for retirement & not mentioning taxing billionaires isn't worth listening to, indeed is worthy of ridicule.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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Retirement age will rise to cover superannuation cost, investment company predicts
Milford Investments CEO Blair Turnbull said unless the retirement age rises to 72 or 73, New Zealand can't afford to pay superannuation.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/586737/retirement-age-will-rise-to-cover-superannuation-cost-investment-company-predicts
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Stu Fleming
2 days ago
Petition: "That ownership of property, residential or commercial, or direct interest in same, or indirect interests through any arrangement of trusts, connected to a person, other than the primary family home, makes that person ineligible to be elected as an MP, or selected as a List MP in Aotearoa"
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Slow News Dave
2 days ago
Every time a Government MP gives a speech at first (or any!) reading that lasts five seconds and consists of "this is a good bill and I commend it to the House", they're spitting in your face. It's their job to thoroughly explore every bill and explain why it is necessary to change the law.
#NZPOL
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Janet Hoek
2 days ago
Astonishing how Costello recalls events from an evening nearly 15 months ago (
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
), yet still can't recall the source of the tobacco industry friendly "mystery document" she passed on to the MOH to inform tobacco policy.
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Judge called Winston’s speech ‘disgusting’ during disruption at club event, minister recalls
NZ First Minister Casey Costello told the panel Judge Ema Aitken yelled “he’s lying” during Winston Peters speech.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360937348/judge-called-winston-peters-speech-disgusting-during-disruption-club-event-minister-recalls
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"Only following orders", say collaborators in ethnic clensing
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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The secretive, destructive work of an ICE attorney: ‘My job is to do what I’m told’
ICE lawyers in New York City earn more than $100,000 a year, enjoy generous benefits and post about rich social lives. Their work is vital to Trump’s deportation agenda
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/11/ice-lawyers-immigration-court
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On NRT: Rot at the top -
norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/02/rot-...
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Rot at the top
"Our" Parliament is full of rich people, with inherent conflicts of interest around wealth, gifts, and property ownership. In an effort to m...
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/02/rot-at-top.html
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Sacha
2 days ago
Mayor shows whose backs he has got.
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Wellington mayor Andrew Little promises to cut commercial rates
However, even a modest reduction in commercial rates could push residential rates up by around 4 percent.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/586671/wellington-mayor-andrew-little-promises-to-cut-commercial-rates
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Winston now lying to the House about whether Wellington City Council minutes are publicly available.
#nzqt
2 days ago
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And now National is trying to blame the Moa Point shitshow on cycleways. Fucking culture war bullshit when there's a major disaster in our capital city. But I guess they just fly over it when flying in and out every week.
#nzqt
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Sacha
2 days ago
“Should LNG imports proceed, domestic gas pricing would increasingly be influenced by international energy markets as existing long-term contracts expire. This has the potential to place upward pressure on gas prices over time.” - LNG supplier.
@dileepafonseka.bsky.social
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Bidder’s message: Build LNG, expect upward pressure on gas prices
A Turkish company that participated in the Government’s hunt for Liquefied Natural Gas options says New Zealand faces “upward pressure” on gas...
https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/politics/bidders-message-build-lng-expect-upward-pressure-on-gas-prices
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On NRT: Pure Muldoonism -
norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/02/pure...
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Pure Muldoonism
Back in the early 1980's, Robert Muldoon was thinking big . He wanted a giant dam on the Clutha River , which would flood half a town. But t...
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/02/pure-muldoonism.html
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National and NZ First now worrying about "sovereign risk" for their LNG project - that is, the "risk" of democracy, that we might vote them out and cancel their bullshit.
#nzqt
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Ryan CrawCour
2 days ago
i am not hiding anything, just "made multiple repeated mistakes for 20 years" on something that's pretty damn hard to be mistaken about. i mean when you own as many properties as these poor fuckers do it must be hard remembering all of them when it comes time to declare and register them.
#nzpol
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Russel Norman
2 days ago
Luxon's taxpayer subsidised LNG import terminal expected to increase NZ domestic gas prices.
businessdesk.co.nz/article/poli...
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Bidder’s message: Build LNG, expect upward pressure on gas prices
A Turkish company that participated in the Government’s hunt for Liquefied Natural Gas options says New Zealand faces “upward pressure” on gas...
https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/politics/bidders-message-build-lng-expect-upward-pressure-on-gas-prices
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Marc Daalder
2 days ago
New from me: Big industrials are slated to close or switch off gas whether the proposed LNG terminal goes ahead or not, new modelling has found.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/12/m...
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Most economic damage from gas crisis 'locked in', officials warn
Big industrials are slated to close or switch off gas whether or not the proposed LNG terminal goes ahead, new modelling has found
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/12/most-economic-damage-from-gas-crisis-locked-in-officials-warn/
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Glyn Moody
3 days ago
#Epstein
details scrubbed from
#Mandelson’s
#Wikipedia
page by shady paid editor -
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
"As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein"
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Epstein details removed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by paid editor
As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-02-11/epstein-details-scrubbed-from-mandelsons-wikipedia-page-by-shady-paid-editor
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Christina Hood
3 days ago
Thought 6 - Who should pay the levy? (assuming the govt bloody-mindedly pushes it through). I don't buy the argument that electricity consumers should pay. It's gas infrastructure. The government's proposal seems like a smokescreen to get others to pay for the gas industry's needs. 14/-
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Dave
4 days ago
FFS Hipkins, just say you'll cancel the gas project no matter what. Don't use IRex to take some illusory moral high ground. Just take a strong 'we'll cancel it' position now, and no company will sign a contract until after the election. Yet again he snatches defeat from the jaws of victory
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Lew
3 days ago
In all seriousness, this is why he is building a secret police force: because nobody governed by the actual laws of the country, even as much as he has mutilated them and stacked the benches with his cronies, will do the kind of shit that he wants except a secret police force
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Zooey Neumann
3 days ago
We should do this! I wonder how many people that would be.
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On NRT: The cost of National -
norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
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The cost of National
Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index yesterday, showing that Aotearoa had dropped two places to four...
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-cost-of-national.html
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Jolisa Gracewood
3 days ago
Indeed. How about putting the *other* guys' policies on the bonfire this time? Also, this one happens to be super-flimsy (you might even say flammable) - seize the moment, win the day!
#nzpol
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Luxon, having repealed all climate change policy, now wants a "bipartisan" approach. Fuck that and fuck him. He's shown he can't be trusted.
#nzqt
3 days ago
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Winsto complaining about "pinko communist" "anti-americans" in
#nzqt
. Like its 1984 or something. And if people aren't opposed to the present US government, there is something fucking wrong with them.
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This is good news
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ahmed-zao...
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Ahmed Zaoui freed from Algerian prison after 28 months behind bars
The NZ refugee was jailed for hosting a political meeting at his home.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ahmed-zaoui-released-from-algerian-prison-after-28-months-behind-bars/QAB2OLJURBD2PEISPMN3IYC4UU/
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Andrew
3 days ago
Oh look! Public money being spent to provide National and ACT with a *completely neutral* report with which to beat Labour in the run up to the election.
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Giovanni Tiso
3 days ago
Kind of weird to illustrate this using a hacker-like figure as opposed to, say, a photo of Shane Jones
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Brent Toderian
3 days ago
Another reminder that no nation should make any deal with Trump’s United States. None. You can’t make any deal with a corrupt crook that will break every deal. Simple as that.
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Trump says Gordie Howe bridge won't open without Canadian concessions
Canada has footed the entire cost of the $5.7-billion Gordie Howe bridge construction project, aiming to recover costs through toll collections.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/09/trump-says-gordie-howe-bridge-wont-open-without-canadian-concessions/88597735007/
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PERFECTLY NORMAL
3 days ago
FAFO
#nzpol
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Explain your climate policies to us, UK ministers asked NZ counterparts
New Zealand’s trade minister initially downplayed global interest in New Zealand’s new climate policies.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360936567/high-level-interest-uk-ministers-questioned-kiwis-climate
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Evil Hat
3 days ago
It's 968 AC. An artificial sun shines down upon Doskvol. Autopods cruise down rows of peaceful, prosperous houses. Beneath it all, strange actors and twisted conspiracies work their shadowy agendas. Blades '68. The future is now. Don't miss it:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
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Blades '68 Crowdfunding Trailer
YouTube video by Evil Hat Productions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRlhKBRU8VU
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷
3 days ago
Max fucking 'the market will force prices down' Bradford
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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉
3 days ago
Interaction? 𝘐𝘕𝘛𝘌𝘙𝘈𝘊𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕? The woman was assaulted by the Police,
@australia.theguardian.com
. There were witnesses on the ground. Stop the whitewashing.
#auspol
#nswpol
#PoliceViolence
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