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It is I, Hamish Mack. Break your back To earn your pay And don't forget To grovel. -The Clash
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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️⚧️ 🇳🇿
about 8 hours ago
Soldier On, amirite?
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Marc Daalder
about 11 hours ago
At every turn, the Government has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Government’s other priorities. The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
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Govt's climate strategy: Let it burn
Comment: The Government has relentlessly pursued policies that boost climate pollution – even if they cost more or jeopardise NZ's reputation, Marc Daalder writes
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/govts-climate-strategy-let-it-burn/
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sophie malice
1 day ago
typical MSM news Crossing live now to our Prime Minister. "squeal, squawk, hoot, hoot, scream, growl" And there you have it, all our questions have been answered, remember to vote for National.
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MeatMechSuit
2 days ago
lol lmao I hope rimmer, winnie, and flakes are having that uneasy upset tummy feeling that comes when you know you might be a bit fucked.
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Tengrain
2 days ago
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Craig Renney
about 1 month ago
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20 Economists have penned an open letter to the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance - asking for change. The contents and signatories to the letter are at:
craigrenney.substack.com/p/open-lette...
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Open Letter to Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Our current economic approach is causing real harm. We need to change track
https://craigrenney.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-prime-minister-and
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Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
2 days ago
💻Online hui about #measles for Deaf and disabled people, their whānau, carers, support services, about the measles outbreak. Link to event details:
facebook.com/share/1CJX5y15DT/
NZSL interpreters will be provided. 👍 Info on measles in alternate formats/NZSL:
info.health.nz/measles
#measles
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Except that these 1/2 wits couldn't spell doctrinaire.
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Alex
3 days ago
Just out there throwing decades of progress and goodwill onto a trash pile and setting fire to it. Absolutely the worst of us on display from the Beehive.
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David Mohring
2 days ago
▪️Trumpist ignoring expert advice; ▪️Trumpist circumvention of checks& balances; ▪️Trumpist blind cost cutting; ▪️Trumpist erosion of legal rights; ▪️Trumpist unfunding legitimate research; ▪️Trumpist unwinded environmental protections; ▪️Trumpist denial of reality; ▪️Trumpist pardoning terrorists...
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Idiot/Savant
3 days ago
So if the state has a duty, but it repeals every law requiring its components to give effect to that duty, that kindof suggests it doesn't think it has a duty at all, right? It's treating te Tiriti like it treated climate change targets pre-Zero Carbon Act.
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RNZ Concert’s soothing Guy Fawkes pet sounds
Pets and their owners can tune in and chill out to RNZ's annual Concert for Animals tonight.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/rnz-concert-s-soothing-guy-fawkes-pet-sounds
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Brother to another mother of Luxon.
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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway
3 days ago
"We should also look at the fact that New Zealand teachers are the third most stressed in the world, work the second longest hours in the world. If we're going to look at the TALIS data, let's look at all of it, not just cherry pick it like this minister is doing."
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Phil Saunders
4 days ago
After 25 years employment in the environment & education sector, today is my 1st day working as a freelance ecologist, facilitator, & educator! I'm really excited at the start of this new journey - please do drop me a line if you have any bird survey, facilitation, or environmental education needs.
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Pip Adam
4 days ago
i know this is too long a headline but it would be so cool to highlight that this school *followed* ministry advice which led to 900 close contacts of student with measles. Our government is not serious people.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Wellington Girls' College ignoring ministry advice by telling some students to stay home after measles cases
The school have put classes online for years 9, 10 and 11.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/577600/wellington-girls-college-ignoring-ministry-advice-by-telling-some-students-to-stay-home-after-measles-cases
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Tim
5 days ago
Simeon:
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According to Forbes magazine, Jeff Bezos is $24 Billion richer. If I could give away 23 Billion and still be a billionaire, I would. That's a lot of people's healthcare bills, eh.
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"The Prime Minister reported good progress in putting words together. 'I used nimble, agile and flexibility in one sentence' he said. Adding that meeting Homer Simpson was a big surprise and that he thought Mr. Simpson wouldn't be as tall as he was."
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon warns NZ should advance national interests now more than ever
Christopher Luxon reflects on his week in South East Asia, where he met with the presidents of USA and China.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/577511/prime-minister-christopher-luxon-warns-nz-should-advance-national-interests-now-more-than-ever
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nzjanette
6 days ago
Yes, please and thank you. This would seem entirely sensible, but we've gone for minimising and denialism instead.
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Morgan Avery 🍔
6 days ago
If it requires speed they dawdle and trudge, conversely anything needing careful planning and design - like say a curriculum - is done headlong at a full sprint. Many examples: fair-pay agreements; ferries; school lunches; cancel KO builds; public sector cuts; smoking unban; yellow-legged hornets.
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Now we know how National would have handled the Covid pandemic. The 20,000 we saved would be dead.
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🐶⛵️Capt. Caffiend☕️😷
6 days ago
Does anyone know of any car boot sales (or similar) happening in the Wellington (NZ) Region in the next couple of months?
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The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️
6 days ago
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Marc Elias
6 days ago
It's 2025 and my law firm is still beating Trump's voter suppression in court. We fight hard and we usually win.
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David Clegg
7 days ago
Wait. What?
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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway
7 days ago
Emily (Emily Writes) and I drafted a letter to Andrew Little about his decision to appoint Ray Chung as chair of the CCO Review & Appointments subcommittee. We think this is unacceptable given his past behaviour. Here's a template for a letter if you agree:
sites.google.com/view/really-...
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Really, Andrew Little?
Andrew Little has appointed Ray Chung to head an important Wellington City Council committee. We don't think he should be doing that. If you agree, please tell him so. Here's how.
https://sites.google.com/view/really-andrew/home?fbclid=PAT01DUANw1p1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABp0r2CU3olNR4hg9a7nnV3-1kGGrMjKFJpRKvw3fuSElvs8W3Nx25zVPeVC2q_aem_gaxEbVic931DNpIPmG69EA
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Western civilisation school is jumping the gun a bit, eh. Also Socrates himself is particularly missed.
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The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️
7 days ago
I usually to a bonsai forest Friday but may as well do a Fill your feed with Fundraiser Friday this time Not close to my trees today but maybe later Meanwhile have a look at the long list of wonderful ways to help raise funds for Dr Siouxsie in the quoted post below. Cheers 🇳🇿🌱
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The Cat's Whiskers
7 days ago
"Keep rates affordable" means not keeping them affordable. Someone else always pays for the penny pinching. The ratepayers pay in reduced/cancelled services; constant restructuring at their councils reduces customer service; less spent on the things that make a community like parks, culture
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David Hood
7 days ago
Those 30+ general population here who've been rigorous about 6 monthly covid vaccines and never had covid will be due sometime now or soon. This post brought to you by checking my dates after a Tuesday exposure event that (based on daily testing) doesn't seem (at least yet) to have infected me.
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Bean Crusty
7 days ago
Tautoko
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www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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Shifty Cow
8 days ago
What's even more wrong is the other countries that want to emulate the US privatised healthcare system - Britain and New Zealand, for example. We can all see how broken and unaffordable it is, why the hell do our governments seem hell-bent on copying other countries' failures?!
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Fucking lunatic old men are going to incinerate the world to prove their fucking manliness and white males over 35 think that feminism is to blame for the world's problems.
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Allan Moyle
8 days ago
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Huia Sue
8 days ago
It is NOT ok to test
#NuclearWeapons
in the Pacific. It is NOT ok to test
#Nuclear
#Weapons
at all. It is not ok to make or use Nuclear Weapons! 🕊️ 🕊️🕊️ Fight
#ClimateChange
NOT each other!
#nzpol
#NuclearFree
#NZ
www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...
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Trump threatens to resume US military’s testing of nuclear weapons
US President Donald Trump has threatened to resume the US military’s testing of nuclear weapons.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360870781/trump-says-us-will-resume-its-testing-nuclear-weapons
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David Clegg
8 days ago
Looking forward to our government strongly condemning this. <tui_ad.gif>
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NinjaKittyELF 忍者キティ🥷🐈⬛🎄
8 days ago
Letter to Stanford from The NZ History Teachers’ Association about that complete fuck up of a social sciences curriculum
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NZHTA Special Pānui 29 October
https://mailchi.mp/2461acd5e469/nzhta-pnui-week-1-term-14184067?e=8b5a6e7e8c&fbclid=IwdGRleANvR-FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHk-9bdxJR2evhynZ3LgyZz5WWbmkDPR51-LP8xKrxDkd4Xm_B8lduUA6Ehf-_aem_nuJ68vYhjCXPwI2-WvrRtQ
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Two ghouls in a fountain.
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Melanie D.
9 days ago
This is blatant political interference in rge New Zealand Curriculum that shouldn't be tolerated. Education professionals should be deciding what is in the NZ Curriculum, not politicians from 8% parties pandering to the worst of NZ society to the detriment of our students.
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nzjanette
9 days ago
And here was I thinking it was a cockamamie idea designed to line the pockets of various high paid condultants and wouldn’t ever be made real. 🤦♀️
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Peter Ashford
10 days ago
I think "Marxist" is like Woke and Politically Correct and Pinko and Commie and Hippie: yet another in a long series of buzzwords the RW like to stamp on shit they don't understand, don't like and desperately need to disparrage somehow without ever having to resort to thinking
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Jolisa Gracewood
10 days ago
“A message built on fairness, community and national purpose resonated with voters, and a comfortable majority voted for it. That matters not just for us in Wales, but for progressives everywhere. The populist right can be beaten when people are offered hope and a vision of a fairer future.”
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How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth
Welsh voters have rejected Labour and Starmerite managerialism. By offering hope and not division we showed the populist right can be beaten, says Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/25/plaid-cymru-caerphilly-labour-reform
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LostArcNZ
10 days ago
The vision that has to be sold is that wealth will inevitably concentrate in the hands of the already rich unless we do something drastic to alter that. Not the mildly well off - that category of people is rapidly disappearing anyway. The megawealthy are getting megawealthier.
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Russell Brown
10 days ago
"The New Zealand government is now basically a road-building authority with bits tacked on."
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...
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We’re spending all our money on roads that suck
At this point, the New Zealand government is basically just a road-building authority with bits tacked on. And not even a very good one.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-10-2025/were-spending-all-our-money-on-roads-that-suck
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
10 days ago
I will say that due to the NZ Herald's reporting, there will be a non-zero number of people who will still believe an electric bus caught on fire and it was a toxic & dangerous result, potentially causing them to be concerned about EVs. For the record: ICE vehicles are more likely to catch on fire.
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Led By Donkeys
11 days ago
Farage: epic grifter
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Newsroom NZ
11 days ago
Week in Review: Opinion: Despite a pre-election promise of devolution and a commitment to subsidiarity, the Government has done nothing but dump on local government since taking office
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Don't look here, look over there! Govt paints councils as clowns
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/22/when-govts-focus-on-councils-it-is-a-diversionary-tactic/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1761542436-2
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Sue Tyler
11 days ago
Aotearoa , new Zealand - MMR vaccine is free for anyone aged under 18, and for people over 18 eligible for free healthcare. please visit your local chemist that offers vaccinations & see if you had 2 doses. If not please get vaccinated. Protect yourself and people who can’t get vaccinated
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