Peter Ashford
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Software engineer. Dad. Ex game-dev. I like talking to nice people. No unsolicited DMs, please
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about 20 hours ago
Priorities???
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Grifters in government
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Jennifer
about 16 hours ago
Boy if you think our health system is stretched now, just wait til Serco “known for abusing prisoners” get their hands on it
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Prisons operator Serco eyes NZ's public health infrastructure needs
The outsourcing firm tells the Government it is uniquely positioned, and its services could be of great value
https://newsroom.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e0ae259e8f9472b9c54037c25&id=70cb3a737c&e=7771467d4b
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Russel Norman
about 8 hours ago
Just your regular reminder of the profound conflict of interest at the heart of the Luxon fast track: Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on business donations, and as Infrastructure Minister decides which businesses get access to the fast track.
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Eddie Clark
about 14 hours ago
Again a systemic story that's bigger than the individual bits: a govt which ran into power in large part based on banging the localism drum about water has accelerated the pace of centralised - and personal Ministerial - decision-making. This is a big story about this govt. Someone should tell it.
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Bruno Dias
about 17 hours ago
the level of wishcasting is astonishing, they really believe they have a magic fairy dust they can sprinkle over a game production and it'll make huge chunks of the workforce redundant
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Russel Norman
1 day ago
Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.
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karasocial relationship 💜
8 months ago
it's time for
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉
1 day ago
It just hit me that Hakeem Jeffries looks exactly like the bald elf from DRAGON AGE
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AFNarratives #Stan Moros
1 day ago
I'm sadly obsessed with new yorker cover art now. AI could never create such beauty and whimsy
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PERFECTLY NORMAL
1 day ago
Piss poor infrastructure, that we pay over the odds for.
#taxtherich
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Far North plunged into massive power cut, more than 23,000 without electricity
The power went out just after 5.20pm.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/578070/far-north-plunged-into-massive-power-cut-more-than-23-000-without-electricity
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📗Dildo Baggins 🍏 (he / him)
1 day ago
New Zealand has the highest youth suicide rate of all the 38 countries in the OECD
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Char
1 day ago
I’ll just leave this here… 😂
#nzpol
#OneTermGovernment
#Aotearoa
#NewZealand
#NZpolitics
#CoalitionOfCorruption
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Clarkisha Kent
1 day ago
You see how many of these politicians CARRIED in their election races WITHOUT throwing trans people under the bus? Exactly, exactly.
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine
1 day ago
The Detail on RNZ apparently deciding it needs to only interview a guy from the NZ Initiative about the school curriculum. Fucksake
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Musical Chairs
1 day ago
RBNZ to the Waitangi Tribunal...
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Nick Young
1 day ago
The Luxon Government's surprise move to gut the Zero Carbon Act has upended six years of cross-partisan consensus on climate change. They are unfit to govern in 2025.
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Fireworks last night couldn't be drowned out by playing loud noise in the house. Sounded like gunfire. My dogs were upset and howling. Some prick started up again at 2am. Dogs howling, everyone woken up. I could hear dogs around the neighbourhood being set off. I Really hate fireworks
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Foxy
2 days ago
It doesn't get said enough that Nats have built just 45 State houses since coming into government, no one is being housed in your ghost houses Bishop and now you want to hunt people off the streets? Where worse can you send them, the sewers where you slither?
#NZPol
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Richard Hills
3 days ago
Love how National proudly opposed the Treaty Principles Bill, and wore it like a badge of honour. Then basically rolled it out anyways. They’re dismantling and removing anything that honours the treaty, and undermining Māori. Without consultation too like yesterday. Depressing.
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Kirsty Johnston
2 days ago
When I wrote this just two-ish months ago, the premise was that the architecture of the CCRA (zero carbon act) remained, but the policies that sustained it had been hollowed out. With the CCRA changes today, I feel like that no longer holds
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
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How Jacinda Ardern’s ‘groundbreaking’ climate law has become ‘a shell’
The Zero Carbon Act promised to lock climate ambition into law. But with key policies repealed, delayed or watered down, the once 'world-leading' legislation has become a husk of its former self.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/570336/how-jacinda-ardern-s-groundbreaking-climate-law-has-become-a-shell
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Sara
2 days ago
Re Nationalising public services in one of my red lines. I am not interested in voting for anyone not committed to doing so. Working class people can no longer sustain private profits for essential services.
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Hari Kunzru
3 days ago
Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.
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This is a point the media should really be making
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Kaimataara
3 days ago
What happens when a Wāhine Toa does mahi? Whaea works.
#Māori
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100% Not gunna lie, I was surprised when I read an insightful article from them, but it wasn't a fluke - they keep coming
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Alan
4 days ago
Centrism is the belief that society achieved perfection around the same time as you became a homeowner
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
4 days ago
Journalist friends, please, banish "scientists are baffled" from your vocabulary. In this article, the scientists clearly explain what happened. No one is baffled. It's sad but not the slighest bit baffling.
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Katya
4 days ago
My support for the Green Party validated by this chart
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NinjaKittyELF 忍者キティ🥷🐈⬛🎄
4 days ago
Yeah, I think I’ll rely on the researchers findings and not Bishit’s reckons
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nzjanette
4 days ago
THIS is the kind of robot I want in my life. Along with a robot vacuum and a robot window cleaner. I want robots to do repetitive cleaning tasks, not replace thinking and creativity with auto complete hallucinations.
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D Jukic She/her
5 days ago
‘Experts’ on saving for retirement in New Zealand never talk about low wages or extortionate rents and childcare costs. Telling people to save, while supporting the status quo that makes it impossible really grinds my gears.
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Noah Berlatsky
4 days ago
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
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Dan Slevin
4 days ago
It’s a beautiful sunny afternoon in the suburbs so, of course, someone is setting off loud firecrackers and you can hear the stressed out neighbourhood dogs barking in response.
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MFCarter
5 days ago
Busy, cold night at Stonehenge as we move the stones backwards an hour...
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This is very very sad and very very accurate
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Vincent O'Malley
5 days ago
"The curriculum is dishonest and it's regressive because it's not an honest reflection of our past"
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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School curriculum 'will perpetuate racism and ongoing inequity in our schools'
The new school curriculum makes Māori people, knowledge and culture invisible and prioritises European knowledge, say Māori education leaders.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/577587/school-curriculum-will-perpetuate-racism-and-ongoing-inequity-in-our-schools
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Clara Jeffery
5 days ago
Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones."
cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
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Mandatory Installation of Solar Panels in Public Parking Lots to Apply Retroactively to Existing Facilities
Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. ...
https://cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2025081311085933266
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Potato enthusiast
5 days ago
Is it some kind of emotional thing that makes people decide they need their workers in the office.. Not just for meetings and collab but all the time? Change is scary?
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Abbie Jury 🌱
5 days ago
Weasel words Luxon wittering on, blaming Labour for the fall in vaccination rates. No, Klutz, the decline is due to the rise of anti-vaxxers, actively encouraged by NZFirst, your party and ACT, in your quest for power no matter the cost.
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✨ LINA لينا ✨
5 days ago
Just a reminder that the Biden regime watered down a report that confirmed that Israel had purposefully killed Shireen Abu Akleh
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Nick Young
6 days ago
New Zealand, we need to talk about dairy. A few people are making a lot of money, but the rest of us are paying a very high price now and in the future for them to do that. 🧵
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial)
6 days ago
Israel blocks majority of Gaza aid despite ceasefire deal -
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-blocks-majority-gaza-aid-despite-ceasefire-deal
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Israel blocks majority of Gaza aid despite ceasefire deal
<article data-history-node-id="430948" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-blocks-majority-gaza-aid-despite-ceasefire-deal" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-blocks-majority-gaza-aid-despite-ceasefire-deal" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel blocks majority of Gaza aid despite ceasefire deal</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="75" data-start="0">Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) says Israel continues to choke the flow of aid into the besieged enclave, accusing it of breaching the ceasefire agreement.</p> <p data-end="630" data-start="274">Since the truce took effect on 10 October, an average of just 145 commercial and aid trucks have entered Gaza daily, only 24 percent of the 600 trucks agreed upon in the deal. Between 10 and 31 October, a total of 3,203 trucks crossed into Gaza, including 639 commercial vehicles, 2,564 carrying aid, 84 loaded with diesel fuel, and 31 with cooking gas.</p> <p data-end="992" data-start="632">“We strongly condemn the Israeli occupation’s obstruction of aid and commercial trucks and hold it fully responsible for the worsening and deteriorating humanitarian situation faced by more than 2.4 million people in the Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing siege and arbitrary measures that impede the flow of essential goods,” the GMO said in a statement.</p> <p data-end="1348" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="994">It urged US President Donald Trump, the guarantor states, and mediators “to take immediate action to compel the Israeli occupation to implement what was signed, particularly the clause regarding the entry of humanitarian and relief aid without restrictions or conditions, in order to alleviate the escalating suffering of our people in the Gaza Strip.”</p> </div> </div> </article>
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-blocks-majority-gaza-aid-despite-ceasefire-deal
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Kent Duston
6 days ago
Back on track
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Mark Hamill
6 days ago
What he said: 💯 🎯
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Tim
6 days ago
Erica Stanford to NZ History teachers: Kia wareware tātou
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MeatMechSuit
6 days ago
RNZ article about people on super or benefit always being short money every week, saying a single person on super is short $17 - utter bullshit. Rent eats 100% of my mum’s super.
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Chris Hipkins dealing pretty well with Tame's gotcha questions on CGT. Better than any other previous Labour leader has
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