Katya
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Woke socialist, stray cat magnet, Tūī feeder, she/her/ia. Living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.
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Grumpy
about 5 hours ago
You'd think that, with this many weather warnings across the country, there might be some kind of useful govt advice about whether we ought to be sending our kids out to school in the morning, but that would require a govt that values human life and limb
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Froggie24
about 9 hours ago
Tragically I think 11 people have already died in Aotearoa this year because of extreme weather. We need to reduce our emissions and invest in climate adaptation with urgency. But naturally, this government is instead pursuing coal mines and an LNG terminal.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/weather-l...
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'Threat to life': State of emergency declared across entire region as low rapidly deepens
People are strongly urged to take this seriously and prepare now.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/weather-live-updates-new-deluge-expected-in-already-sodden-regions/QFFMZWE3BVD6NO7DCYQG6ATSQM/
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pöst-scött
about 14 hours ago
So, we've a boil-water notice in Christchurch. Sewerage being blown inland from the South Wellington coastline, and deadly floods in the King Country? These must be the three waters they warned us about.
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Tax Wealth not Wages
about 13 hours ago
They have replaced three waters with three poos: in our streets, in our water and in the air that we breathe. Just like racists have always made everything shit.
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Dylan Reeve
about 14 hours ago
Huge cheer at the Big Gay Out main stage when it's announced that ACT and NZ First aren't in attendance for the politicians event.
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David Slack
about 14 hours ago
It was only when Luxon poked his shiny round head inside the Moa Point pipe to see for himself that everyone realised: Why yes! There was, in fact, one single thing the gormless prick could do to make himself useful.
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明
about 12 hours ago
This is not a ‘game not the stakes’ post, these are some out-there stakes man
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Somewhat astonished that National have redacted some of the official advice they received about the trade deal with India but still expect Labour to support it. "Just trust us" really doesn't cut it with this government.
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Free Trade Agreement with India must protect migrant workers - Labour
Labour leader has written a letter to the Prime Minister outlining the conditions National must meet before the party will consider supporting the deal.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/586912/free-trade-agreement-with-india-must-protect-migrant-workers-labour
about 11 hours ago
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Bad Guitar Player
about 18 hours ago
This is a really good analysis of Luxon’s Waitangi speech. This Government is going out of its way to reshape public opinion on Te Tiriti
#nzpol
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This ⬇️ from Kim Workman is particularly apposite in election year. In the 1990s, Finland went from having one of the highest prison rates in Europe to one of the lowest, without any increase in crime rates. The Nats prefer the US prison system
#nzpol
e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/...
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Kim Workman: My life in the criminal justice system | E-Tangata
“My first response to going inside Kohitere was one of anger and disbelief… Anger that no one understood that the offenders of today were almost always the victims of yesterday.” — Tā Kim Workman refl...
https://e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/kim-workman-my-life-in-the-criminal-justice-system/
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D Jukic She/her
about 21 hours ago
“Equity in healthcare doesn’t mean treating everyone the same. It means recognising when people are carrying more medical, social, and economic burdens, and responding with more care, not less.”
#nzpol
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
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Lighter paperwork, or better care? | E-Tangata
“The trouble is, medicines sit inside real lives. And for many whānau, those lives include multiple conditions, inconsistent access to care, and long gaps between clinical reviews.” — Brandi Hudson.
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/lighter-paperwork-or-better-care/
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Theta Salmon
about 18 hours ago
NACT: We need to cut services and have austerity for you bottomfeeders to SAVE money. We also need to SPEND billions giving tax breaks to landlords, buying military toys and building a LPG boondoggle for my rich mates that will be outdated and too expensive to run before it’s even built. ???
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Marc Daalder
7 days ago
I found the NZ fairy tern / tara-iti! There are only about 50 adult fairy terns in New Zealand, making them the rarest bird that breeds here by far. It took a lot of trial and error (and some dumb luck) but yesterday, I succeeded! 🪶
www.instagram.com/reel/DUeIROk...
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Bruce Buckman
about 19 hours ago
Masterful understatement from Waikato man.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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D Jukic She/her
about 20 hours ago
“When the prime minister, Christopher Luxon, spoke at Waitangi last week, he set out a terribly distorted view of the country’s founding document, Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Here are some of the things he got wrong.”
#nzpol
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
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What the PM said at Waitangi was wrong | E-Tangata
“When the prime minister spoke at Waitangi he set out a terribly distorted view of the country’s founding document.” — Carwyn Jones.
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/the-pm-is-wrong-about-te-tiriti/
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Julie Blommaert
about 20 hours ago
It’s a good thing we cancelled Three Waters isn’t it
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Bill Bennett
about 18 hours ago
Often when I read about US politics today I think back with nostalgia to that scene where the Blues Brothers drive the Nazis off the bridge.
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Mark Chadbourn
1 day ago
Zelenskyy: “Putin hopes to repeat Munich — not Munich 2007, when they only spoke about dividing Europe, but Munich 1938, when the previous Putin began dividing Europe in reality.”
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Greg Jackson NZ
1 day ago
The deliberate purging of institutional memory from the public service via managerialism has been incredibly destructive.
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The thread in response to this post by
@alexip718.com
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Julie Anne Genter
1 day ago
If we can’t afford to have the expertise in our councils to operate critical infrastructure, how can we pay someone else to do it?
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
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Moa Point shows why critical infrastructure shouldn’t be outsourced
OPINION: Rongotai MP Julie Anne Genter argues Wellington’s sewage collapse is the predictable result of decades‑old privatisation models.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360947669/moa-point-shows-why-critical-infrastructure-shouldnt-be-outsourced
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Musical Chairs
1 day ago
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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Robert Reich
2 days ago
For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder why so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system. AOC is right.
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Te Pūnaha Matatini
1 day ago
"Nothing like this has existed before, and we don't quite know what it does to people."
@carlbergstrom.com
spoke to Mihingarangi Forbes about living with AI on Saturday Morning this morning →
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
#cccss26
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Professor Carl Bergstrom: Living with AI
Internationally acclaimed scientist Carl Bergstrom on why humans are so psychologically wired for online and whether we are living with "modern-day oracles or bullsh*t machines."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2019023013/professor-carl-bergstrom-living-with-ai
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Richard Easther
3 days ago
A physics professor -- namely me -- on the new launch cap. The biggest question is whether we trust the New Zealand Space Agency to do their job when no-one can see...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Government increases New Zealand space launch limit to 1000
But a physics professor says he does not trust the New Zealand Space Agency to make good decisions about a likely host of new space launches.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/586696/government-increases-new-zealand-space-launch-limit-to-1000
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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝
2 days ago
wow we’re just saying the quiet part out loud now huh
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Dr Bex
1 day ago
May every academic professor who genuflected in front of Epstein and his band of sickos for paltry sums of money, may everyone who turned their eyes away from the exploitation and suffering of young girls be fired into the sun and suffer a thousand deaths.
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sallyp
2 days ago
Cost pressures from *who*, motherfucker?
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Kiwi shoppers turning to supermarket own brands as cost pressures persist
Foodstuffs and Woolworths New Zealand say many Kiwi shoppers are choosing home-brand supermarket products to cut grocery costs.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/02/14/kiwi-shoppers-turning-to-supermarket-own-brands-as-cost-pressures-persist/
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flyingrodent
2 days ago
My thoughts are that my basic political requests were always 1) less deliberately horrible, cruel and vicious political/media culture 2) more and better public services and 3) far less complicity in America’s horrifying wars. I note this has been regarded as insanely extreme ideological lunacy.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
2 days ago
I love Arundhati Roy's courage, integrity, intelligence, and her artistry as a writer of fiction & nonfiction. Wim Wenders, the jury chair, on being questioned about Gaza, said filmmakers have to stay out of politics. Roy said a genocide demands a response from everyone, artists included. I agree.
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Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival over ‘stay out of politics’ comment
Author says she is ‘disgusted’ by claim from jury president Wim Wenders that film-makers should remain apolitical
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/13/arundhati-roy-quits-berlin-film-festival-over-stay-out-of-politics-comment
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Sassy Little Hobbit
3 days ago
I hope David Seymour is renaming school lunches to SLOP so it’s completely clear exactly what we are giving to the kids.
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D Jukic She/her
2 days ago
You don't need to be a party member to volunteer with phone banking and/or leaflet delivery, data entry/admin. We win when we work together: Green Party:
www.greens.org.nz/volunteer
Labour Party :
www.labour.org.nz/volunteer/
Te Pati Maaori:
www.maoriparty.org.nz/volunteer
#nzpol
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Volunteer
Today we need your help to take action on the biggest issues facing New Zealand.
https://www.greens.org.nz/volunteer
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Brian Merchant
2 days ago
100+ more Google employees have signed since yesterday
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CindyBax
2 days ago
Someone shld tell Luxon et al
#nzpol
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I am used to seeing Pōhutukawa growing out of the side of cliffs but this was the first one I have seen growing out of a stone wall
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Johnny Cans
3 days ago
Just bookmark this for the next three years if one of the Interislander hulks breaks down: "I encourage them to read the detailed business case, which makes it clear that the costs of an emergency response capability are large and outweigh the benefits."
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Relying on tug boat from Australia risks lives, council leaders say
Leaders on both sides of Cook Strait say lives could be put at risk due to its emergency tug being off-contract from this month.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/586770/relying-on-tug-boat-from-australia-risks-lives-council-leaders-say
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Garth Biggs
2 days ago
National cancels: 3 Waters Ferries Smokefree Wage equality EV incentives etc, etc National "For the good of the country we need more bipartisan policies....."
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Gaijin Mommy
3 days ago
This is bathrobe girl. She is outside in the frigid AF midwestern winter sporting nothing but a comfy robe, fuzzy slippers and a thirst for justice. Be like bathrobe girl.
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Kent Duston
3 days 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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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
3 days ago
trying to think of a reason to do this that isn't a personal desire to be in kissing distance of a toilet seat
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Marc Daalder
3 days ago
Paywall now lifted: 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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Janet Hoek
3 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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ɔıN
3 days ago
$50b is necessary for roads, but an extra $300m for ferries was just too fukn much.
#nzpol
#punchablefacebishop
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Alison Fisk
4 days ago
A little blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️ Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Jessica de Heij
3 days ago
Parents just send me this link. Headline is something else lol 😂 “A fat parrot that can’t fly is laying an egg live on camera and is making New Zealanders super excited”
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Een dikke papegaai die niet kan vliegen legt live een ei en maakt Nieuw-Zeeland ‘dolenthousiast’
Biologie: Na vier jaar is de kakapo, een iconische Nieuw-Zeelandse loopvogel, eindelijk weer aan het broeden. Natuurbeschermers zijn uitgelaten, want de zwaarste papegaai ter wereld wordt ernstig bedr...
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/02/11/een-dikke-papegaai-die-niet-kan-vliegen-legt-live-een-ei-en-maakt-nieuw-zeeland-dolenthousiast-a4919511?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share&utm_term=share-modal
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Russel Norman
4 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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Benjamin A. Engel
4 days ago
As someone who straddles the US and Korea and studies their relationship, this is my attempt to make sense of what is happening in the US right now and draw attention to the fact that a changed America necessarily means rethinking the US-South Korea alliance 1/
m.koreaherald.com/article/1067...
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[Benjamin A. Engel] Korea needs to reevaluate relationship with a changed US
To say that the America of today is not the America of the late 20th century is not a bold statement. The relative power decline of the US has been noted by man
https://m.koreaherald.com/article/10674911
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Clint Fern
4 days ago
Simple solution to poor Gerry's memory issues. Forfeit the property (ies) he can't remember which are turned into state housing.
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D Jukic She/her
4 days ago
“Wellington's sewage spill is just one of many examples of public service and infrastructure enshittification, begun by Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson, and continued by neoliberal factions across government, business, media, finance, and the public.” - Josh Drummond A must read folks
#nzpol
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Time to end the enshittification of New Zealand
I live in the great green heartland of New Zealand; a biologically ruined grassy waste created to serve cows. And when out in this countryside – dead rivers rich with brown foam, man-made fountains of...
https://www.emilywrites.co.nz/time-to-end-the-enshittification-of-new-zealand-2/
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If the Labour Party had tried to do anything even remotely like this every news editor would be labeling it as undemocratic and demanding an early election
#nzpol
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