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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 21m

There's a straight line of performative political cruelty from compulsory drug tests for beneficiaries to ... this. (How long that line is depends on how far we allow our political leaders to continue to mimic a failing state, the US.) #nzpol www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.com

Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you really want to get "more people off welfare and into work", consider not tanking the economy. That typically works better than performative cruelty.

The party also promised:
to provide "intensive, work-focused support" for 30,000 jobseekers who have been on Jobseeker for more than a year, with more funding for employment programmes that support young people into work.
lowering the rate of payment for those who had been on the benefit for two of the previous three years, from 1 April 2028. There would be a smaller reduction for households with dependent children.
those who repeatedly leave employment without good and sufficient reason would face a 26-week non-entitlement period, up from 13 weeks.
from 1 April 2028, the minimum residence period to qualify for main benefits will increase from two years to five years.
Upston said the party was focused on "getting more people off welfare and into work".

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The SPCA 2026 election priorities scorecard assesses where the different political parties stand on key animal welfare issues. Full background document is here: www.spca.nz/images/asset... #nzpol

The SPCA 2026 election priorities scorecard, assessing where the different political parties stand on key animal welfare issues. Top three parties for animals: Animal Justice Party, Greens, Opportunity. At the bottom: National worst, narrowly ACT next, then what looks like a tie between NZ First and Labour (many 'no position' or 'stance unclear' for these four.) Full background document is here: https://www.spca.nz/images/assets/1444103/1/2026%20Election%20Scorecard%20Background%20report%20FINAL.pdf

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've progressed to the 'next stage' in the quest for a part-time, fixed-term non-senior comms role. After two hour long interviews (Stages 1 and 2), Stage 3 (no offer doc yet!) involves: MoJ check ✅ Reference checks ✅ And ... two hours of psychømetric testing. Any tips/insights appreciated. 😱

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a wonderful man this was to work for when he was first an MP. As everyone has said, quite rightly - he was so well liked, so calm and dignified - and with a quiet, gentle sense of humour. No airs despite his impressive background. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

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Flags to be flown at half-mast after death of former Speaker Adrian Rurawhe

Rurawhe was Speaker in the last term of Government.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why are Max Harris and the fantastic Craig Renney so far down the Labour list? These are thinkers and leaders who bring much-needed buzz to politics. Unlike the current leadership lineup described by my partner today as 'lacklustre'. newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/24/a...

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A candidate of the Left turning heads in the Right places

Two conservative candidates are favoured in Auckland’s Tāmaki seat this election but Labour’s Max Harris is grabbing attention with his big brain and campaign messages

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Cath S @cathsheard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve been a librarian for 33 years this month. Part of my role is scanning the horizon for what’s coming our way, in every sense. i’ve been waiting for book challenges to become organised and more politicised. People, let me present likely instigators. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

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The new education group that wants to represent parents' voices

A new advocacy group has launched with the aim of giving parents a more organised voice in New Zealand's ongoing debates around education. The Parents' Alliance says it wants to be evidence-based and ...

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the cult of the superior machines is inherently a patriarchal cult (like nearly all cults in recorded history) its theology classifies “AI” systems as either wives (systems that exist to serve and empower Great Men) or Gods (theoretical future systems, male-coded, that become the Great Men)

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you want to pay less tax? chances are the most *self interested* way to vote is NZ Greens

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey Hawke’s Bay ppl who haven’t got hold of Dirty Work yet, I have a copy I have read and am happy to lend. Magnificent to have all the racist nastiness, greed, and collusion meticulously researched and so clearly laid out: thanks, Nicky Hagar. (@tvnz.bsky.social OFFER MAIKI SHERMAN HER JOB BACK).

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sent my female mayoral candidate this exchange when invite arrived to attend the local TPU mayoral 'debate', MC'ed by Jordan Williams in the absence of ... checks notes ... Stuart "T*ts & p*ssy' Nash. It was an all-male candidate line-up, vicious crowd, much manspreading, she won anyway. /

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NONE of these jubilant asshats will vote for you as a result of your cringing, weak-kneed about-turn, NZ Labour And many former loyal supporters won’t either. I lose hope :( #nzpol

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Public transport = left frame. Police/security = right frame. The point of this announcement by Nats is to get people scared about using public transport instead of joyful about it

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In happier news, there's an ACT hoarding in Hastings featuring David Seymour which has recently been contextualised with the word 'C*NT' and a swast!ka. (St Aubyn Street near Grays Road - will try and get a pic) #calloutfascism #weseeyouSeymour #resistthefarright #nzpol

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Paul Henry’s in Hastings this Sunday. Assuming I get in, what’s the question most would like asked? Eg: “Paul, do u see your personal political candidacy as catching the (global) far-right radicalisation wave? Or do u feel the NZ far-right is only now catching up with your own values?” #nzpol

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 24/06/2026

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The coalition parties, unable to attack Labour on the few, low-ambition policies they've announced, or draw them into making *any* principled, courageous, progressive stands against their own deliberate cruelty, incompetence, and economic vandalism / #nzpol

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

‘96% Green left’ - my result no surprise on whichparty.nz. Partner ‘Pragmatic centrist’ (with a leftwards lean … apparently translates to 88% alignment to OP!) #nzpol

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

as a big boobs and good morals haver i think i speak for all if us when i say we will miss our leader

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Quickest retraction of an interview offer ever. One (1) hour. 😆 I'd already told them all this in my cover letter and CV! #nzpol

Clarification of political background/interests in an an email to the electoral commission, which had invited me in for an interview in my local electorate. Worked for Greens - worked for Labour - Masters thesis in political communication examining rhetoric of current coalition govt.

Reply from Electoral Commission an hour later, declining my application (and presumably retracting their interview invitation!)

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Go figure, who knew working with nature rather than dominating nature which is Western Ideology would mean better resilience when a man-made disaster comes along www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 21/08/2026

I made this for a friend but it’s worth sharing, printing or saving to your phone so you can get the QR code in front of someone

THEY
WILL
VOTE.
C O U N T 0 1 O N T H E M :
YOUR LANDLORD + YOUR BOSS
0 2 DESTINY CHURCH + MAGA KIWIS
0 3 ANTI-ABORTION LOBBYISTS
0 4 BITCOIN BROS WHO THINK WOMEN ARE PROPERTY
0 5 YOUR RACIST UNCLE
WILL YOU?
ENROL / CHECK / UPDATE
DEADLINE / MIDNIGHT
SUN 25 OCT
2026 SCAN TO ENROL
NOT ENROLLED BY THEN? NO VOTE.
VOTE.NZ/ENROL ELECTION DAY / SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2026
REMIND YOUR FRIENDS

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Absolute horror. Reading an actual book (‘To catch a Fascist’ by Christopher Mathias). Tapped the right hand page to turn.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Join the march for nature! On 19 September 2026 we will March for Nature in a peaceful protest against this Government’s relentless attacks on environmental protection. community.greenpeace.org.nz/events/march...

community.greenpeace.org.nz

HANDS OFF CONSERVATION LAND: MARCH FOR NATURE

Join the march for nature! On 19 September 2026 we will March for Nature in a peaceful protest against this Government’s relentless attacks on environmental protection.

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Polarisation ... yeah nah. "Across advanced democracies, crisis is resulting not from *mutual divergence* but from the transformation of the political right: mainstreaming of authoritarian rhetoric, normalisation of hate as a political strategy + the dismantling of institutional guardrails" #nzpol

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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What's to stop eg Hooton contacting Penk and offering him the chance to tell all? A chance to revenge himself on the duplicitous slimy careerists who've abandoned him to the political wilderness (and the job queue)? Or has he been offered a 'departure incentive' to prevent exactly that? #nzpol

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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The magical river sprinting Capybara of awesomeness has graced your day. 💖

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Please Labour for the love of god just announce a policy" I said, and the monkey's paw curled

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/08/if-w...

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The TPU Curia poll reminds me of a local Mayoral candidate meeting which included poll results by same outfit. Jordan Williams MC. Surprise, surprise their preferred candidate was leading! (he came in 3rd). The woman who eventually won they put at 12%. No info on methodology, sampling etc. #nzpol

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Your bad art is better than AI slop.

four frame comic. first frame shows a typical AI poster that says : All chatgpt flyers look the same, especially with this font! the text above it reads : I won't go to your event if the poster was made by AI. second frame shows a still frame from a Hank Green youtube video. text above reads : I won't read your post or email and I won't watch your video if they were made with AI. third frame shows an AI restaurant poster of burgers and chicken in a window. text reads : I won't patronize your shop or restaurant if it is advertised with AI. last frame shows an MS paint window with badly written : Your bad art is better than AI slop. text reads : if you can't take the time or make the effort to interact with me yourself, then why should I do it?

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f*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

vote, you little shits. vote because - your landlord will vote - your boss will vote - every nasty little greedy bitcoin bro who thinks women should be assigned to men for sex will vote - anti abortionists will vote - evangelist christians will vote - your racist uncle will vote FUCKING VOTE

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Wild how you could use this card this side of the Tasman for NZ First candidates and barely have to change a thing

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Sidhe said @altnamackin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

No cheating, post your lock screen. Dave hamming it up for some reason at the cafe on the way to Wharariki Beach. Perhaps I said ‘we’ve earned a pint’ 😆

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Kate @knhannah.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In times like these, it’s important to pay attention to the grand unifying narratives ideas are hooking on to. Like that children are there to be controlled by adults, like babies and birth are commodities to be controlled by the state, like citizenship is a state more valuable than non-citizenship.

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

reuters:

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

After a joke of a process, select committee rubberstamps the bill Fonterra and Z energy bought from National and recommends it be passed. 93% of 623 submitters opposed it. 2.6% supported it. national calls this "democracy" Parliament does not represent Aotearoa.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The Green Party have released their full list of 2026 policies and like previous elections it's very comprehensive, I've only had time for a quick skim read but there's some good stuff in there www.greens.org.nz/policy#polic... Crossposted with @openvibe.social

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Complete Party Policy - Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand

We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

LinkedIn is the kind of space that if you took neoliberal late-stage capitalism, merged it with hustle & personal brand culture, and modern corporate managerialism & projectification, sans critical thought, and produced both a language and a social media form out of such, you'd end up with LinkedIn.

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