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Katie

@anarkaytie.bsky.social
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Mild-mannered semi-retired greenie, interests include history, policy, sub editing. Easily shocked by poor manners. Hand hovers over block button.

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Too Long Covid 💚 @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 7h
Someone tell Luxon this
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Aotearoa Greens Global @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social · 7h
Overseas NZers! Chlöe joins other party leaders for a global town hall tonight/tomorrow morning depending where in the world you are. Watch the stream ↘️ partiful.com/e/bemg06mKHG...
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RSVP to NZ Election Overseas Kiwi Town Hall | Partiful
Flat White is teaming up with Every Kiwi Vote Counts to bring representatives from New Zealand's political parties together - live by video from NZ - for a conversation focused specifically on Kiwi li...
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 8h
Two charts (ftpoo). First shows Govts actual financial position. Yep, we are one of the few countries where Govt has a positive financial worth. Graph two, related to the first, Govt interest payments, net. These two charts should be force fed to the commentariat. Scarcity mindset is killing NZ.
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 8h
This is due for another go-round. Suggesting that our rich, first-world country can’t afford to support the elderly is a far-right trope. (The corollary is support for disabled & unemployed, but let’s stick to one fight per post, hmmm? )
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 8h
Tldr: @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social are the only party with a fully ratified arts policy. Here, I looked it up for you: www.greens.org.nz/arts_culture...
greens.org.nz
Arts, Culture and Heritage Policy
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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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 9h
This is how MMP was supposed to work, allowing greater representation than just ‘the rich guys’ vs ‘the workers’. Mature MMP politics means more collaborative work, & coalitions of more equal partners. Explainer: What is the 'purple vote' and why is it shrinking? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Explainer: What is the 'purple vote' and why is it shrinking?
Explainer - You'll see a lot of red and blue, pink and green signs leading up to Election Day - but purple might be the colour to keep a close eye on.
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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 16h
Remember when Paula Benefit went hard on this and the results were so negligible that they tried to hide the results #NZPol
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The picture Hager’s trilogy paints of the last 20 years is not of democracy corrupted by a few bad apples, but of the brutal conflict between the interests of ordinary people and those of the rich and powerful.” #nzpol
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How New Zealand’s right turned culture war into political strategy
Nicky Hager’s latest book argues the tactics of New Zealand’s organised right have changed, but the interests behind them have not.
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 14h
This 🧵 🔥 ‘Cos obviously lack of jobs isn’t the problem, it’s recreational drug use. I call for mandatory alcohol breath testing in Parliament. Can’t vote these losers out fast enough 🙄
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 14h
IF you build a system that requires a certain number of *employable people* to not have jobs How do you justify treating those people as scum? Let's make THAT the topic of debate, if we really simply unavoidably must continue to pretend ~the economy~ is all that matters
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is why I get so annoyed at people posting garbage like "don't cover our farmland with solar panels! grow food instead!" as if that's the tradeoff
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New paper: Long COVID exposes a huge blind spot in how governments define “security.” We respond quickly to sudden, visible crises, but seem to accept mass disability as normal, even while it puts growing pressure on healthcare, the workforce, the economy and society. Published: 28 September 2026
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The securitization of global slow-onset risks/threats: long COVID, a case study - Globalization and Health
This paper investigates why Long Covid, despite affecting millions globally and posing a serious threat to public health and economic stability, remains largely absent from contemporary security agend...
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Burning Down The House #NZPol
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Aliya D @alinasu33.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every NZer needs to read this thread.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Prof. Denim: "COVID can fundamentally alter how your immune system works. It can turn it against you, exhaust it, or leave it unable to keep dormant viruses in check" Source: x.com/DenimFarmer/...
A screenshot of a social media post on X (formerly Twitter) by user Prof. Denim with the handle @DenimFarmer. The post is dated 6:56 PM · Sep 28, 2026 and shows 4,144 Views.
The main text of the post reads:
"COVID can fundamentally alter how your immune system works. It can turn it against you, exhaust it, or leave it unable to keep dormant viruses in check."
In the top left, the profile picture displays a circular, black-and-white portrait of a man smiling. To the right of the display name is a small icon of a microscope. In the top right corner of the post, there are standard platform icons, including a crossed-out circle and a three-dot menu icon.
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We bloody told you so #nzpol
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just designed the perfect plaque, to install at the Pentagon, & every Military Command HQ outside the USA. For the eventuality that (rogue?) A.I. gains control of weapons control systems.
A suggested text for installing at Military Command institutions, to explain where all the humans went - after AI cleaned up the planet; which humans were too stupid (greedy) to stop happening.
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s chocolate giveaway time again! HB Whittaker’s , with gifts for everyone 🎂🍫 whittakers.shortstack.page/2rFgQ1
whittakers.shortstack.page
Win Whittaker's
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Journalists are crowing 'what's new?!' because they have forgotten that there is a second draft of history, and don't seem to recognise that a book like this, is it. This govt has literally forced the TPU into the *school curriculum* in its ideological vandalism, well here's the primary reference.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 26/09/2026
Ok bonus day for our Exhibition. I went in this morning to take it down & the gallery was sad - so it's up till late this afternoon. I'll also take my laptop in & give a Astro Photo processing 101 session if anyone is interested. Dunedin Railway Station, Ōtepoti Dunedin
Rangi Takō Winterstellar astrophotography Exhibition
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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I trained 300 wolves to eat humans and put them hungry in my poorly-fenced back garden, and they escaped and ate your grandma! Please wake up to the existential risks of wolves before we put them in charge of driving buses!
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seconding these points, well-raised @drbex.bsky.social drbex.substack.com/p/further-re...
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Further reflections after reading Dirty Work
Outsized influence, racism, and what we can do in response
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well done Nicky! Reprint required after one day on sale 👏
Screenshot of Whitcoulls webpage, showing the book is out of stock for online orders.
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The dumbass Govt has finally conceded it can't build an LNG import terminal and its dreams of a revival of fossil gas are dead. NZ wasted 3 years while this Govt delayed the transition off fossil gas, while telling the country a dangerous fossil gas fairy tale. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
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Simeon Brown's disastrous decision to cancel the Gas Transition Plan (and buy a lotto ticket instead) - Greenpeace Aotearoa
New Zealand is in the middle of an energy transition
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In case you thought there was a trivial level of racism in Luxon’s Government , Emily compiled a list. It’s worse than I thought, & my thoughts about this issue were uncharitable to begin with… www.emilywrites.co.nz/te-tiriti/
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You can help protect Te Waikoropupū Springs, the largest cold-water springs in the Southern Hemisphere and have some of the clearest water ever measured on Earth. community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/ex...
community.greenpeace.org.nz
Be Bold and Expand Kahurangi National Park
You can help protect Te Waikoropupū Springs, the largest cold-water springs in the Southern Hemisphere and have some of the clearest water ever measured on Earth.
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If AI *didn't* suck our electricity grids dry and hadn't caused a financial bubble and hadn't made key computer components unaffordable it'd *still be based on mass theft of the labour of others* and the people running these companies know that. Staggers me just how many people dismissed that.
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In April 2014 we celebrated the launch of electric trains in Auckland, a necessary step to the CRL. And, finally tomorrow the CRL GOES LIVE! It took a lot of campaigning by a lot of people (overcoming a lot of opposition!). And a lot of work by those who built it! Congrats to all the visionaries.
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Max Rashbrooke’s latest, tldr: no, it wouldn’t & Biz NZ is not only self-interested, but out of date. There’s a sub paywall, but you can have a free look. goodideasnz.substack.com/p/would-supe...
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Would supermarket reform really have a “chilling” effect on investment?
PLUS: IDEA’s Superannuation Forum is on next Monday
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Picked this up in my local library on a whim. Turns out it is very good - funny, but also informative about how disinfo in social media happens. www.penguin.co.nz/books/somebo...
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Somebody Told Me by Danny Wallace - Penguin Books New Zealand
The million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me immerses himself in the contagious, dangerous world of disinformation, everyday lies, trolls, conspiracy theories and those trying to fight b...
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Annikakes @annikakes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Amen
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semantic nomad @semantic-nomad.net · 13/09/2026
#nzpol
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
NZ pays the price of ACT/National/NZF cutting funding for free vaccines for 500,000 children. The price: “Warning deaths from flu could reach historical high” #nzpol RNZ once again fails to give context to how we got here. The flu isn’t this bad by itself. It was heralded in by policy.
rnz.co.nz
Warning deaths from flu could reach historical high
Deaths from influenza could reach historically high levels this year.
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 13/09/2026
Today from The Detail: MSD's made a litany of mistakes over botched benefit decisions and more, but apologies in contrast are thin on the ground.
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At MSD, it's one failure after another
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Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
National Library + Archives NZ: 47 more jobs on the block. 12% of workforce. With 2025's cuts, both will be 15% smaller in two years. You can't run a national archive at a discount. The past doesn't get cheaper because you understaffed it. #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Almost 50 jobs could go at National Library and Archives, PSA warns
A proposal to cut 12 percent of the workforce at the National Library and Archives NZ will decimate both organisations and have a significant impact on service levels, says the Public Service Association (PSA).
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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ata marie, e hoa mā. Ko tēnei te wiki o te reo Māori! (Morning friends. It's Māori language week!) We have a heap of resources to help you improve your reo including a new online learning tool called Languagenut. my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/about_langua... ^MT
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com
Languagenut
Learn over 30 languages including Te Reo Māori, and Pasifika Languages with Languagenut.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
No, this is not a joke. UK Lawyers for Israel are trying to proscribe *Médecins Sans Frontières*. That’d mean they’d be treated as terrorists. On the same legal footing as ISIS. Membership would mean 14 years in prison. This is what we’re dealing with
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Too Long Covid 💚 @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Where is our public health? Masks and clean air now. Seymour out, sick kids stay home. www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
rnz.co.nz
Warning deaths from flu could reach historical high
Deaths from influenza could reach historically high levels this year.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Agriculture lobbyists handed ministers a detailed list of changes they wanted made to the Government’s replacement for the Resource Management Act – and several of their proposals were subsequently adopted."
thepost.co.nz
How Big Farm lobbyists helped rewrite new RMA laws
Documents show Federated Farmers, DairyNZ, Beef + Lamb NZ, Fonterra and Horticulture NZ using a private meeting with ministers to push specific changes to the Natural Environment Bill.
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The Walking Blind @walkingblind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“In May, hundreds of sexual abuse survivors were told they could soon lose access to counselling. This came just a few months after MSD published online the names of five people making compensation claims for sexual abuse in state care.” #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
MSD's one failure after another on payments
MSD has made a litany of mistakes over botched benefit decisions and more - but apologies in contrast are thin on the ground.
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Ben Allan @benallan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The timing on this
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thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!
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Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand @greens.org.nz · 13/09/2026
Ake, Ake, Ake: A Forever Language. For our forever language to flourish, it must be properly funded to do so. A Green Party in Government will proudly fund te reo Māori to thrive for generations to come.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Destroying life-supporting capacity!!The absolute venal stupidity of these people. “Industry groups - Fonterra, Federated Farmers, HorticultureNZ - …argued that protecting the “life-supporting capacity” of ecosystems could give environmental protection too much weight in decision-making” #nzpol
thepost.co.nz
How Big Farm lobbyists helped rewrite new RMA laws
Documents show Federated Farmers, DairyNZ, Beef + Lamb NZ, Fonterra and Horticulture NZ using a private meeting with ministers to push specific changes to the Natural Environment Bill.
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My critique of govt social policy, but with more sarcasm & a big dose of calling-out. Emily says it better! www.emilywrites.co.nz/do-you-want-...
emilywrites.co.nz
Do you want to hurt people?
Whenever I see a new policy announced by ACT, NZ First, or National, I genuinely wonder who they're targeting. Call me a drooling woke snowflake, but I can't figure out how people go through life exci...
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Claiming that some forms showed ‘coding error’ doesn’t mitigate the fact that benefits are inadequate , and that more generally assistance for those living in poverty is needed. MSD needs a retrofit, starting with the Minister. www.1news.co.nz/2026/09/07/m...
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MSD told thousands food was 'not an essential need'
The Ministry of Social Development declined Special Needs Grant applications on that basis on more than 8000 occasions.
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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Our country produces enough food to feed 40 million people. There is no shortage of food in Aotearoa, but it's somehow becoming too expensive for too many New Zealanders." - Chlöe Swarbrick End the supermarket duopoly. Cheaper groceries For All Of Us #nzpol
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wear a mask to use the facilities. Eat outside. Live, laugh, limit the spread of airborne viruses.
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Big policy announcement - directly addressing one of the key drivers of the cost-of-living crisis. This may include detail not referred to in various media articles that have already been published. www.greens.org.nz/affordable_f...
greens.org.nz
For people and planet
Affordable food for all of us
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