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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Right whinge reactionaries are scared witless by socialism, so they call it communism -- because they don't know what that word means, either

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I think it's probably easier -- or at least simpler -- for most people to recognise the wrongs in the world *without* the distractions of Jesus and Muhammad

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"… Kiwis somehow haven’t registered how good National is and how good it’s been for them …" 🤣 On which planet?

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I get the distinct impression that you are either a moron or a sociopath Maybe both Get the professional help you so desperately need

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"… I think these need to be conversations across the Parliament about whether somebody who is still working fulltime, earning a six-figure salary should be claiming superannuation …" Which part of that do you disagree with so vehemently that you advocate killing him?

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Oh dear How sad Never mind, Shame… you'll be dead soon

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A compendium of books is still a book In colloquial English, the bible is known as 'the good book' (irony is rife in colloquial English)

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Not only just one book Just one ridiculously silly book

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

To be fair, it's not like National -- in the run up to the 2023 election -- campaigned on a platform of integrity, accountability, or competence

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

March 2 and 3 or 3 and 4 depending on time zone 🙂 Aotearoa New Zealand from 2026-03-03-20:11 to 2026-03-04-03:23

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Y'learn something every year! ✅️ 2026 😎 Thank you

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I get the impression you're trying to use reason to decipher irrational beliefs If so, that will never work P.S. There's no such thing as 'objective morality'

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

If not for being born into wealth, Musk would today be wearing a straightjacket

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

All of that is surely nothing more than a function of the (natural) brain, though… right? I still don't understand why we should make a distinction

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I'm intrigued by your distinction between human nature and the human condition (I think fear etc are just as natural as hunger)

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

As long as Luxon et al continue to refuse to listen to teachers, nurses, geologists, engineers, immunologists, oncologists, chemists, biologists, human rights lawyers, etcetera, etcetera, etbloodycetera, it's highly unlikely they'll be in any rush to heed advice on a subject they wrote the book on

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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 04/10/2025

𝐿𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝐽𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝐵𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝐿𝑒 𝑅𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒, 1765.

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"… The national day of solidarity, Rā Whakamana, will take place on the 28 October, to "reaffirm the tino rangatiratanga of Tangata Whenua and protect the rights and wellbeing of all workers". …" www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

rnz.co.nz

National Iwi Chairs Forum and Council of Trade Unions announce day of solidarity

The day, Rā Whakamana, is aimed to "reaffirm the tino rangatiratanga of Tangata Whenua and protect the rights and wellbeing of all workers".

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

PETITION: We call for the New Zealand Government to fulfil its international legal obligations, and to demonstrate moral leadership to the rest of the world by supporting Palestinian human rights and denouncing Israeli war crimes. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ge...

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Genocide in Gaza: Call for New Zealand to live up to its international legal obligations

Israel’s long running siege of the Palestinian territories and its current destruction of Gaza are illegal under international law. This has been well documented in UN Security Council and General As...

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Violence is only the answer when we are asking the wrong questions

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

John Britten New Zealand Engineering Legend 1 August, 1950 ~ 5 September 1995

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

You have no reason to think that I am antisemitic Good luck fooling yourself

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Eighty years ago today at 11:15 NZST (08:15 JST) on.the 6th of August, 1945: 'Little Boy', the first nuclear weapon used in war, was detonated by the Americans 600m above Hiroshima Fighting for peace is like praying for an end to superstition

Nuclear bomb mushroom cloud over Hiroshima

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Here's the year-on-year change in filled jobs. The yellow line is partial data but it is a bit more up-to-date. While those lines stay below the white zero line, we will continue to lose jobs. Fewer jobs = less demand = fewer jobs. It's uncomplicated. [2/n]

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Magenta Kaos of Bright Hairy News @xkaosmagex.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Judy C out here being the only real politician from this caucus is wild. Who knew old Talofa Collins would be the voice of reason in this govt. #nzpol

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

She knows that, if she's going to roll Luxon anytime soon, shes going to need a plentiful supply of media oxygen

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

13 : 0 Ratio of men to women at the Last Supper 27 : 0 Ratio of male to female authored books in the New Testament

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Not just dozens, but dozens of dozens of loyal tRumpanzees lined the streets of Washington DC Not sure if the bleachers were needed, though

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

When LA *is* burning, Trump watches Fox News and threatens to pull emergency funding for existing fires in California. When LA *isn't* burning, Trump goes on Fox News to announce he is spending MILLIONS on people in uniforms to pretend to stop nonexistent fires in California.

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Since 1791, Americans have touted their 2nd Amendment as essential for maintaining a well-regulated militia and ensuring the security of a free state Yet now in 2025, when the need finally arises… where the fuck are they?

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Lest we forget: on this day in 1989, the Chinese government massacred hundreds -- if not thousands -- of its people in Tiananmen Square en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Ti...

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I suspect that the most significant issue afflicting your brother-in-law is that he's allergic to critical thinking

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Peterson is nothing more than a charlatan,unscrupulously exploiting the gullible to boost his ego and his bank account

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

DNA died today in 2001 😕 Douglas Noel Adams 11 March, 1952 ~ 11 May, 2001 #h2g2

"… You know, said Arthur, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young

Why, what did she tell you?

I don't know, I didn't listen …"
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

$2.6B in 26 weeks That's $100M per week That's obscene We don't have a cost of living crisis We have a cost of corruption, greed, exploitation, and oppression crisis

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Brian Sapient @briansapient.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Proof that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is in MS13.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A parent: You're letting your child get the flu vaccine? Me: Yes. Parent: But [insert the most ignorant pseudoscientific shit I've ever heard] Me: Don't take this the wrong way, but I didn't ask you. Parent: But [continues]. Me: What I said before? It means shut the fuck up. Peace at last.

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

30 minute interview Kirsten Hillman, Ambassador of Canada to the United States, joins The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in a discussion about the past, present, and future of the relationship between the United States and Canada youtu.be/WbwxQFuh3zQ?...

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What’s Next for the U.S.-Canada Relationship? | The Atlantic Festival 2025

YouTube video by The Atlantic

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Left, centre, and right depends on perspective For über conservatives, anything to the left of hunting the poor for sport is socialism

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

(2 of 2) Corporate power protected Labour power suppressed Disdain for intellectuals and the arts Obsession with crime and punishment Rampant cronyism and corruption

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF FASCISM Powerful and continuing nationalism Disdain for human rights Identification of enemies as a unifying cause Rampant sexism Controlled mass media Obsession with national security Religion and government intertwined (1 of 2)

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andy_aotearoa ~ Toitū te Tiriti @a4andy42.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Alas, tRump isn't the problem Nor is 2nd in the queue, Vance They are merely symptoms of the underlying problem -- which is phenomenally complex There's another 77 million in the queue

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