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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 5h
Got invited to an election night party so need to ask, is anyone selling packs of "I voted" stickers were the electoral commission mascot looks ridiculously sexy? (Foreign readers please understand this is a normal part of democracy in my country and not weird) Crossposted with @openvibe.social
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Asher @asherwilsongoldman.bsky.social · 19h
Polling booths and their opening hours have been published so now I know when I'm voting (my local marae on the first morning, coz I'm a giant nerd). vote.nz/2026-general...
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Tahetoka | Ómar @amscraig.bsky.social · 15h
Anyone live in or near Rotorua that could host us for a few nights next weekend (Friday & Sat)? Also could anyone loan me money for petrol to drive up and back? Can pay back over the next month or so.
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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One day we will talk about these guys in the past tense. And one day, we won't talk about them at all.
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1/200 Media @1of200.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
'Relitigating' the conversion practices ban is an anti-trans dogwhistle New article up from @jennifilm.nz following the extremist rhetoric being platformed by Winston Peters and NZ First this week
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'Relitigating' the conversion practices ban is an anti-trans dogwhistle — 1/200
In 2022, an overwhelming majority of MPs in the New Zealand Government voted to prohibit conversion practices - that is, practices that aim to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation, gender i...
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The computer belongs in a room then internet cannot escape from and every time you log on it should scream at you
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What do you call a seafaring mathematician? A πrate
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I teach statutory interpretation. For part of the course we look at how to translate policy ideas into final legislation - identifying the need to legislate, crafting wording, advice from officials, select committees, SOPs etc etc. The eg we use is conversion practices: a short piece of topical law.
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Peters keen to revisit conversion-practices law, likens abortion to murder
The NZ First leader aired his views but stopped short of announcing new policy.
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Anyway. While 95% of the country was having a good faith debate about a hard issue on where to draw the line, 5% were mourning their loss of capacity to act abusively. Bob McCoskrie and, apparently, Winston Peters are speaking for that 5%. And they want to impose their views on everyone else. No.
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✧°・:* izzie *:・°✧ @winterwhe.at · 07/10/2026
"become hundreds of thousands in debt to us and continue to work as a contractor forfeiting all your existing rights to sick leave, guaranteed hours, and collective agreements or lose your job!"
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✧°・:* izzie *:・°✧ @winterwhe.at · 07/10/2026
>Workers First Union called the restructure a "predatory scam" and warned that the cost of buying the trucks could put workers in "hundreds of thousands of dollars" of debt. christ they're attempting to set up a indentured labour situation
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For anyone outside NZ, last night there was a leader's debate featuring the 2 major parties and our current prime minister came third ... out of two. They'll probably still win the election because everything is bad and everything absolutely sucks.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Now I'm a GREEN dragon @kiwiwalrus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ōtautahi peeps (and vicinity) long shot but would anyone possibly be able to drive a car from chch to timaru today or tomorrow? 🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏💜
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm not watching but please keep posting friends
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bingo card selection for tonights debates #nzpol #bhn
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Impossible to invent something as absurd as the Minister for Cracking Down On Truancy And School Lunches not knowing it is the school holidays www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Oct 6, 2026 2:56 PM
RNZ Live
'Why are you not in school?' It’s school holidays

David Seymour stopped to speak to some children at Velocity Valley in Rotorua, giving them a piece of advice.

“Don’t trust politicians,” he said. “Are you a politician?,” they questioned.

After the three children asked if he was going to be on the news and waved at the cameras, he said: “hey, one question, how come you guys aren’t at school?”

It’s school holidays, they said.

Seymour said they could still go into school, but the kids didn’t seemed thrilled by that idea.

“No, it’s ok,” they said before walking away.
- Rachel Moore, Reporter
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Liz @arvethli.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This govt continues to cause chaos into its final moments. Not content with requiring local govt to be restructured at the same time as writing new plans, they've also told Auckland Council to get rid of planning rules that were agreed through public submissions and an independent hearings panel.
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Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎 @sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please enjoy this very normal cottage :) www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...
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Check out this 1 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
1 bedroom detached house for sale in The Wellhouse, 3 Machpelah Yard, Hebden Bridge, HX7 for £250,000. Marketed by EweMove, Covering Yorkshire
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Liz @arvethli.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Quote posts have been turned off the first-scary-media post, but I'll show you mine anyway: These wheeling fuckers in Return to Oz when I was about 4. I had nightmares about them. I guess the benefit was that I didn't see the "room full of heads" scene until I watched the whole thing in my 20s 🙃
Photo of a Wheeler from the film Return to Oz.  They were people with wheels for feet and hands who wheeled around on all fours like terrifying zoomy apes. They also have a scary mask face.
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
adding '5 British doggers' to the list of surprising defeats for the US military, alongside the IRGC, Viet Cong, and geography
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Miriam Ross @miriamruthross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What's even better than trains (wait, nothing is better than trains 😂). What's a really fantastic add on... affordable public transport across the motu, for all of us 💚🚃🚍🚃💚 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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Greens promise $2 capped fares and free travel for millions
The Greens are promising free travel for children, students and several other groups, with bus and train fares capped at $2 for everyone else.
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 03/10/2026
This is the opposite of Jaws. They mayor is like "we should do something about this shark" and the entire country says "shut up we love the shark."
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Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looking through some old stuff and found this cartoon I cut out c1996. They just never really have new ideas, just new packaging. (For younger readers - right wing think tank the NZ Initiative formed out of a merger of the NZ Business Roundtable and the NZ Institute in 2012.)
Photo of a black and white cartoon with a bunch of men sitting around an executive board table. A sign in front reads “Quiet please, Roundtable in session”. From left to right they are saying:
“The govt should get out of education and health…”
“We need more contestability in social welfare…”
“the govt should sell ACC and the post office…”
“We should privatise electricity and roading…”
“Seen the polls? Winston could be the next PM”
“That’s disgraceful. What happened to the New Zealand we all knew and loved?”
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This sort of bullshit is stupid because actually reducing speed saves lives and it benefits the economy when people don't get injured or killed on the road. It's double stupid because the cheering idiots are the same ones yelling about their rates being high. Guess what dipshits, stuff costs money.
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★Dash Copper★ @calico-gf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is how I picture youse all riding around on the CRL 🥹🥹🥹
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Liz @arvethli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Love me a deep-level station escalator 🚇
View down escalator at Karanga-a-Hape Station, which descends 4 levels in one stretch.
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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Peter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Worth remembering that if it costs the government $4.5b to reverse the gender pay tax, then it costs the women affected $4.5b to leave it in place.
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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Where’s the single most effective place I can donate money to end marcroft’s embarrassing political career?
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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
my aunt chloe was like this, she loved dogs and when she died around 4 or 5 different women were crying & fighting, saying "but she adopted a dog with me!" , finally the shelter manager (a friend of the fam) was like "um, folks she adopted a dog with EVERYBODY, she was our best customer" 😂
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please share this update on sewing machine donations! We're up to 783 and aiming for 800 by the end of the year. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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Hundreds of donated sewing machines and counting
The Sewing Machine Drive aims to reach 800 sewing machines by the end of the years.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The connection between the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and mast cell degranulation is so strong by this point I am starting to advise people who have had really severe reactions to prior vaccine doses (or very lingering cases of COVID itself) read my MCAS primer: synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/793547.html
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Captcha Check
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Annnnnd the death threats have started again 🙃
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When abuse or harassment happens it creates work and a resource drain - logging the incident, informing police, screenshots and writing up exactly who what and where. This is cutting into my lunchbreak at my regular job I have on top of being a candidate.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Brown was given Transport to cut the shit out of the NLTP, he was given Local Government to repeal three waters and replace it with the vastly more expensive LWDW, he was given Health to cut the shit out of the spending. He is Luxon's dead eyed psycho of a hatchet man and everything he touches dies.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A classic Simeon Brown move here, much like his work on Local Water Done Well and Health NZ Te Whatu Ora - it always comes down to a gargantuan cost being punted beyond his responsibility and landing on taxpayers and ratepayers which is "Fixing the basics and building the future".
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Along with others, I've had a bit to say about Simeon Brown's deranged 2024 Transport GPS. But this is actually shocking. It was altered *after the consultation period* to make the books look better – in a way that wrecks the National Land Transport Fund. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/09/29/t...
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Transport borrowing comes back to bite - Greater Auckland
Today, Treasury is releasing the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (or PREFU) ahead of the election. So I figured it was worth looking at a significant recent change to the way transport expendi...
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#NZpol Saw this excellent quote-reply to Simeon Brown’s latest attack on Labour. Worth sharing.
David Peez @RebelEkonomista

"The truck driver in Pakuranga helps pay off a lawyer's loan." No, Simeon. He doesn't. Not a cent.

When the government lends a student money, it creates the dollars and credits their account. No tradie's tax was collected and posted to a law degree. When the graduate repays, those dollars are deleted, drained back out like tax. They don't land in the truck driver's pocket either.

So nobody foots the bill. The worker and the graduate aren't on opposite sides of a ledger. Setting them against each other is the trick, and it runs on the same myth as "add it to the tab", that the government is a household counting coins. It issues the currency. The real limits are real resources and inflation, not a truck driver's tax bill.

"Someone always pays." Sure. Just never the person you keep pointing at.

Read more: http://therebeleconomist.substack.com
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Liz @arvethli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The UK higher education sector is fucked in many ways, but Southampton dumping Turnitin bc it is gonna steal student work, and Manchester making it possible to turn off Copilot are definitely good news stories.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, the famous property market which fixes all the problems involving residential property in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Nick Baker @nickbaker.digital · 27/09/2026
This is your school holiday assignment. Complete the school lunch quiz by matching the image to the name - a quiz based on the school lunch images sent by @ninjakitty.bsky.social this past school term. There are 15 images in total. forms.gle/et7qDL4VGBJH...
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The Aotearoa New Zealand School Lunch Quiz
The images show 15 school lunches delivered to a school in August 2026. Your task is to pick the name that was assigned to each one.
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Liz @arvethli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've poked the Americans oh dear lol
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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Te Awamutu Museum is holding a series of events between 21-23 October to mark Rā Maumahara, the national day of remembrance for the NZ Wars, including guided bus tours to Rangiaowhia and Ōrākau, a screening of Ka Whawhai Tonu, and a talk from me. Full details here. buttondown.com/unsettling/a...
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Rā Maumahara 2026 - Te Awamutu Events
Rā Maumahara, the national day of remembrance for the New Zealand Wars, is coming up on 28 October and Te Awamutu Museum have organised a series of free...
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te pua o te rēinga @cucumber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
on display at world of wearable art this year a werewere kōkako brassiere
Saar Snoek blue mushroom and moss brassiere on a mannequin
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