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poetryisnotaluxury.bsky.social @poetryisnotaluxury.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

GOOD GRIEF by Andrea Gibson From You Better Be Lightning Button Poetry, 2021.

GOOD GRIEF by Andrea Gibson

Let your heart
break

so your spirit
doesn't.

From You Better Be Lightning
Button Poetry, 2021.

Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Not all heroes wear capes. Some are brave rangatahi with strong morals and no fear of heights or war criminals. Dig deep and help them out, every little bit will really help. @patbrittenden.bsky.social, @chewienz.bsky.social please give this a boost! #nzpol #kikorangi

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

What's that? The dim light of hope on the horizon?? Brilliant work, PSNA. Well done. #nzpol #kikorangi

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

This is an incredible concept, thank you for sharing. Now I'm off to check in with all my species....

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

New political slur just dropped... (60 years ago but I just found it and I think it's perfect) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propert... #nzpol #kikorangi #propertarians #classwar #generalstrike

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Propertarianism - Wikipedia

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Labour has proven they can’t - or won’t - rise to any of the challenges of our times. Those deeply seated within the party are well ingratiated into the private industries that need to be regulated. They won’t offer any real political alternatives because they’re National (red edition). #nzpol

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Marc, this feels dangerously close to gaslighting. TPM have dealt with way more shit in that house of snakes than anyone else. They weren't absent today, they were using their time strategically to get the real work done - holding the line against this bullshit "govt". Pull your head in, buddy.

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

www.instagram.com/reel/DJlN_W4... #nzpol

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Never forget: NZ Govts for 50 years have bought into an economic management model that relies on keeping a bufferstock of kiwis unemployed & desperate. Jobs are kept scarce, so that kiwis sell their labour at poverty-wage prices. If unemployment is too low, Govt's henchmen at RBNZ crash the economy.

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The alt text is perfection. And yes, that is a bald head with a hairnet and then a hood and then another hairnet. Something something efficiency metaphor...

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Not to get all Marxist Feminist on you (she says disingenuously as I am totally doing that): all the unpaid household caring labour we do drags down the wages for the external caring labour we do. If you pay nothing for household labour you can justify paying nearly nothing for outsourced care work

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Particularly those who were silent about the “defining a woman” bill. This govt wants to define women only to systemically oppress them - if women are considered people first and women second, it’s harder to legally disadvantage them. Systemic pay inequity was always the next repeal. #nzpol

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It was also International Midwives Day on Monday this week.

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The formula industry is worth billions globally. The breast milk industry doesn't exist. Instead, there is a community of people who produce breastmilk and then find ways to make it freely available to babies that need it. From each according to their means, to each according to their needs.

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Breast milk is an amazing example. If a lactating person hears someone else's baby crying, generally, their first thought is "gimme that baby and I'll feed them." It's never "I bet I could get them to pay heaps for a bottle of breast milk"

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Does Matriarcho-Communism exist yet? Because it should. #nzpol

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Moya NZ @captivesteel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Vote be buggered. We no longer have the time OR the money! We need to have a general strike & force the Gov. Gen. to call a snap election. It should've been done months ago. Now is the time or we'll end up with the same living conditions as UK/ US. The 'haves' are fine, the 'have-nots' are fucked!

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I'm going to keep repeating this until the media actually picks up on it. David Seymour wrote a literal book on how much he dislikes democracy called "Birth of a Boom Saskatchewan's Dawning Golden Age" where a chapter is literally called "Democracy, too much of a good thing" #nzpol

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I'm happy to strike for a many unions as will have me.

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Kelly Whyte @kellywhyte.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Some huge news for Aotearoa's trans/non-binary community: a new grant has been announced to cover costs of name changes! If you need this, check it out, and if you don't, spread the word! rainbownzcharitabletrust.org.nz/cpg/ #nz #rainbow

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Confirmation of Payee Grant – Rainbow New Zealand Charitable Trust

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/520... South Wairarapa have it even worse - a dummy mayor on a pension as well getting a good wage, whilst the deputy mayor keeps the council running and gets peanuts.

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'Ludicrous': Martin Bosley hits out at councillor pay

Celebrity chef and councillor Martin Bosley says he personally worked between 20 and 35 hours a week, which means his pay is less than $10 an hour.

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I feel relieved that, whoever you are, you're paying attention, can see this shit for what it is, and you're articulating it beautifully in a way that's easy to follow and understand. Personally, I'm just getting angrier and alienating people... it's not effective but feels appropriately reactive.

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Agreed, this is not something that has popped up overnight. And sure, I think eventually the people will start to revolt and push back... but it will be too late. These weapons are powered AI, that's why Peter Thiel is here- Palantir will drive the extinction event here. Thiel is a seasteadder.

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

We are in absolute lock-step with Project 2025. It's horrifying. I think they're preparing NZ to be a seasteading fortress. Why are they spending so much on military tech and American weaponry? So they can wipe us out and take the country. Seems crazy? Look at Gaza.

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Dame Cindy Kiro is a public-health academic and advocate. She is also wāhine Māori. I hope and hope and hope that the day comes soon when she stands up and uses that power and casts this corrupt and evil government. I hope she at least tries.

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

#nzpol #kikorangi ##hopeissayingstop Dame Cindy Kiro, the Governor-general of NZ, represents the British monarch and has the authority to carry out his constitutional duties. One of these duties includes having the power to dismiss the prime minister. Another one is to dissolve parliament. 🧵

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Te Pāti Māori @tepaatimaori.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

That moment gave us hope but we can’t rest yet. They’re coming for Te Tiriti in 3 waves. #ToitūTeTiriti #OneTermGovt #NZPol Strike 1: The Treaty Principles Bill loud, ugly, and upfront. You see it in the distance.

Coloured photo:

The Beehive rises behind tangled branches and native leaves…still, silent, watching. From Bowen Street, a Parliament wrapped in grey.

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Te Pāti Māori have policies that have arisen directly from their ethics. Those other ones fit their ethics around whatever policies line their pockets. TPM -> ethics first and final. Other team -> money first, ethics schmethics. Blindingly obvious.

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Probs shoulda been born an old white boomer dude - you could have just done fuck all this whole time and been admired by everyone. Too bad that you have the nerve to be great at your job whilst being a Māori woman. Shame.

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Yet Sth Wairarapa mayor lost the confidence of his entire council, never got it back, sucks heaps at his job, & gets crickets from media. At best, he's woefully absent. At worst? A disruptive & manipulative liar. Barely a whisper about him. But Tory? Pointed at every fucking week. Crushingly unfair.

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

#hopeissayingstop Thank you, Tu Chapman. I have signed it, and wish I could sign it twice.

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My child came out as trans when they were 12. I loved them before, and I love them still. They are 23 now, a student & a peace activist. At a time when the world threatens their safety, they still stand up for the rights of others to live in peace & dignity. They are so brave. I am so proud.

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Game changing. Let's explore why a jobs guarantee is fabulous social *and* economic policy. Quick reminder that making sure kiwis have jobs is not that radical. NZ Govt thru the mid-20th century was scared witless if a few folks (well, white men) were unemployed. See image 2 (1960 Stats NZ) [🧵 1/n]

The Green Party has marked May Day with a pre-budget announcement in Tokoroa, detailing the party’s plan for a Green Jobs Guarantee.

READ THE FULL POLICY DOC

“New Zealanders should be in control of our economy, our jobs and our future. We don’t need to leave our fate to be decided by international shareholders,” says Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick.

“From the West Coast of the South Island, to Ohakune, to Tokoroa, in the last year alone, we’ve heard the same devastation driven by the same political decisions to let offshore companies decide the fate of regional communities.

“No more.

“Today, we launch our Green Jobs Guarantee, which will directly create at least 40,000 jobs across this country to rebuild our infrastructure, plant native trees and restore biodiversity, build homes and an economy that we, New Zealanders, own - and can genuinely be proud of.

“We’ve done it before and we can do it again. Before politicians took their hands off the wheel of the economy 40 years ago and sold off the assets we all used to own, we had a Ministry of Works. Our Ministry of Green Works builds on that proud tradition but is future fit for the climate transition.

“Our Future Workforce Agency, Mahi Anamata, will actively plan for the skills we need. We’ll revitalise and supercharge the roaring success of Jobs for Nature, and we’ll ensure everyone in this country who wants a good, decent, living-wage paying job will get one.

“In a time of global volatility, after a forty-year economic experiment that’s failed regular people and is currently seeing record numbers leave the country, it’s time to take back control and build our resilience.

“A better world is possible, and this is how we build it,” says Chlöe Swarbrick.

Excerpt from 1960 Stats NZ Yearbook:
Of recent years special attention has been directed to the problem of Maori employment. Outstanding features of the Maori population are its rate of growth and the fact that the Maori people are largely resident in localities remote from the main centres of industrial activity. Practical measures for ensuring the continuing absorption of the Maori race into full employment have included the fostering of Maori apprenticeships and the establishment of Maori youth hostels.

In the post-war years the labour situation was characterized by overfull employment and a high number of vacancies in industry. Over the last two years, however, the employment situation has not been quite so buoyant; the number of notified vacancies dropped to 5,300 in October 1959. During the winter months of 1959 there was insufficient work for seasonal workers during the off-season and it was necessary to accelerate scheduled Government works and to arrange limited subsidized employment with local authorities to provide work for men who could not be placed in normal avenues of employment. The peak figure for disengaged workers was reached in August 1959 (1,526 males and 130 females).

One employment promotion measure which has been in operation for some years is Scheme 13, under which 57 men were employed at 31 March 1960, compared with 52 on 31 March 1959. Most of these men are fit for light work only and are located in districts where employment opportunities are limited. Everything possible is done to place them in suitable private employment when the opportunity arises. They are allocated to local authorities and their wages are subsidized to an extent which brings their earnings up to the award rate for the type of work performed.

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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#AoNZ #NZpol You know what to do, blow this up Aoteoroa! Hana's haka and David Atlas Seymour get a feature. Please help us ward of a fossil fuel Atlas/Dutton LNP government at #AusPol election on saturday.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecqD...

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What is the Atlas network?

YouTube video by Regenerators

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Wouldn't it be SO SURPRISING if we found out that the #UoC security guards put their hands on (?assaulted) and injured these students, who were accessing an *open* building during *open hours*, and SO UNUSUAL if we discovered the #police just laughed off their reports of assault...

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

If you want to know where hope is, look to the students. #SJP is peacefully protesting against #UoC investing in armaments. The weather is shit & the economy is fucked, but the students are there standing up for justice. Hope is our brave young people saying stop. #Kikorangi #AoNZ #NZpol

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Bec @areallygoodbook.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I'd never heard of him, thanks for the recommendation! Listening to him now on #qobuz and enjoying the heck out of it. Perfect tunes for a shitty day :)

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