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It is I, Hamish Mack And it's through that there Magna Charter, As were signed by the Barons of old, That in England to-day we can do what we like, So long as we do what we're told. -Marriot Edgar

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 1h
I guess that the Post newspaper can choose to run racist "scary Māori's" ads if they want to. I hope that the photographer is getting recognized and paid for their work. But it just underlines their irrelevancy under the brave bass ackward leadership of Mr. Hooton.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 7h
omg it's the 2015 ads from Britain!!!! My "this is NZs 2015" theory is bang on. It's the same advert, it's the same fucking advert
A 2015 advert from Britain with noted sex abuser and dead guy Alex Salmond who was the SNP leader at the time with Ed Miliband, Labour leader, in his front breast pocket.
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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 10h
I was sick last night (flu-type thing last week, cold-type thing this week) and so couldn't attend the crime festival with Mitchell and our local candidate Ankit Bansal. At least I am presuming they were on the side of crime given everything.
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Lululamarmiteontoast @lalamarmiteontoast.bsky.social · 21h
ACT is the best advert for unionism that I've ever seen! Much has been lost about role of unions in protecting workers rights & working conditions & how that flowed into the society of Aotearoa New Zealand, health & safety, of standing by your neighbour, community, of dismantling racism & sexism
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Union Power Is People Power
ALT: Union Power Is People Power
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 11h
#nzpol
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 11h
#nzpol Excellent spotting by @mattyangel.com ⬇️
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 20h
Same same Ao/NZ.
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KiwiNikki @kiwinikki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wish the media would come up with headlines like- Seymour thinks it’s fine to feed schools kids unrecognisable slop. Inflation is up again. Thanks, National! You can’t afford to eat? ‘Cry me a river’ says #Sorted. Company liquidations as high as GFC. ‘Be adult’ Luxon whines. Do the research.
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 22h
A great watch from a bellwether electorate: @thespinoff.bsky.social Mt Albert debate, ably steered by @tobymanhire.bsky.social and live-posted by @haydendonnell.bsky.social. Jolly good questions, really interesting answers. #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/30-...
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Live from The Great Mt Albert Debate
We're live from 6pm as the leading contenders for this crucial electorate go head to head.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 23h
A giant space turtle is swimming through space. On its back stand four elephants but we can only see three. The elephants are supporting a flat earth. This turtle is The Great A'Tuin from Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.
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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Say what you will about the impact (so far) of Nicky Hager's new book, but he has without a doubt created a defining narrative about the Taxpayers Union: a Hard Right lobby group willing to do anything - including stoking racial hatred - to get the Right re-elected into Govt. Whatever the cost.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 30/09/2026
Ribose molecules came to Earth in meteorites and eventually became key parts of RNA. But how they survived in between has been a mystery.
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How sugar from outer space became one of the backbones of life on Earth
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The origin of tweeting 🥹
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wonder if anyone willask whether govt has simply given up on people who can't find work in this low demand, sale at briscoes, profits above wages economy? Yesterday's benefit forecasts suggest we will miss the govt's target by over 60,000 people!
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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good to see this banger doing the rounds again #nzpol
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can someone who's clever and computer screen-based please put these declared donations on a map so its explicit which cities and suburbs of wealthy and sorted types are buying this govt. I genuinely believe that mapping these individual bribes will be very interesting. elections.nz/democracy-in...
elections.nz
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.
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ɔıN @hazmat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Labour and their mates are going to give you 9 new taxes" Let's talk about *your* mates Luxo. Feeding kids fukn slop - your mates Stoking racial divide - your mates Massive rent hikes - your mates Massive power prices - your mates Fucking the environment - your mates Shall I go on? #nzpol
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Jennifer Ward @jenospeno.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Many 18-24 year olds are still NOT enrolled to vote 😳. #nzpol . They’re the ones that will inherit the future, so it’s REALLY important their voice is heard. Enrol here vote.nz
vote.nz
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Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia wrote to the health minister before this year's Budget, asking for $3.7 million to train 23 pathologists and close the staffing gap." Five-week delays in cancer diagnoses as specialists overwhelmed with work www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
rnz.co.nz
Five-week delays in cancer diagnoses as specialists overwhelmed with work
Specialists who diagnose cancers are warning that backlogs are resulting in an unacceptable five-week delay.
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#nzpol 🎯⬇️🎯⬇️🎯
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just some doors and window work, no biggie.
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Andrew R _ @andrewr4.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Ullo mister, where’s your brands and IP gone then?”
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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#nzpol Make some noise e te whānau, they need to hear how appalled we are at the enshittification of our state broadcaster www.rnz.co.nz/feedback
rnz.co.nz
RNZ : Audience Feedback
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Barely passed with 8/15. Also I may never eat again.☹️🤢 (A travesty that this sludgy pigswill has been imposed on our hungriest children; even worse that it has caused real harm to real children) PS Love to see a quiz about the locally prepared meals kids enjoyed *before* Seymour’s Slop Experiment!
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 27/09/2026
You taught me language, and my profit on’t Is, I know how to curse.
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The 5 horsemen of enshitification!!!
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Cyn @cyncharron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you’ve got kids studying in Dunedin who aren’t yet enrolled to vote, encourage them to get along to this all ages, alcohol free, voter enrolment music festival. Loads of really great bands in the lineup! (Yes including my kid, but genuinely, lots of great talent.) #nzpol
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Rock The Vote - Live at Southern Lights
An outdoor music festival to encourage youth voter enrolment . raise the youth vote! all ages / alcohol free
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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So, @andrewtychen.bsky.social and I put together a bit of a talk today, facilitated by Napier Libraries, and I wondered if there was interest in taking the messaging out wider? It’s non-partisan information
NAVIGATING POLITICAL & NEWS MEDIA

LEARN ABOUT
• the role of media in elections
• bias
• the impact of Al & social media algorithms
• fighting misinformation
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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#AtlasNetwork =Massive cuts; demolishing public services; privatising public assets; sacking civil servants; sweeping away constraints on corporations; destroying regs that protect workers, vulnerable people & the living world; supporting landlords against tenants www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies | George Monbiot
The Atlas Network’s dark-money junktanks are behind neoliberal policies around the world, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 27/09/2026
Anyone who sees a seal in a silly place is urged to contact DOC by phoning 0800 DOC HOT (362 468), with sightings noted for future conservation planning. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
stuff.co.nz
Why did the seal cross the road? To bring Wellington traffic to a halt
Police officers appeared to use road cones to persuade the “pretty small” seal not to cross the road, but it was too headstrong to obey.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Frank Macskasy: Letter to the editor: Luxon pledges higher wages?
frankmacskasy.substack.com
Letter to the editor: Luxon pledges higher wages?
I pledge to give up coffee. Yeah, nah to both.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Me arriving for job interview: "You'll be thinking, what's he got in that sack" *Rips it open "Why, yes it's pig on a spit! Let me arrange the charcoal over here out of our way"
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If me and @davidcormack.bsky.social and @oldmatecans.bsky.social put out a press release launching the Union of Mums & Dads (UMAD NZ) the first and only thing any media are reporting is our leftwing politics and activism. We're not getting Jesse Mulligan calling us brave and important on live radio
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Interesting analysis of one's posting on this here forumniferia.
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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lynx in description
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The grand opening of the Palmerston North airport in 1931. Contains some hair-raising acrobatics
youtu.be
Old Manawatu Aviation. A precious find
YouTube video by Clyde Rowland
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Best use of my time so far today. I thoroughly recommend reading #DirtyWork. I certainly feel more than vindicated about despising that fuckhead Jordan Williams for as long as I have #nzpol
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Walked in on the cat making yet another podcast; tiptoed back out. #nzpets
A very hard “excuse you” stare from a black and white cat sitting on a desk, with a microphone set-up at face level.
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Hear meowt: the case for five meals a day. In this episode, we…”
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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m left wondering what the line is between intelligentsia and elite intelligentsia. Is there an exam or something you have to sit?
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just got back from trying to buy Hager's book only to be told that it's sold out...twice. Have my name down for next week, 3rd time lucky.
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ah yes, the party of libertarians promises increased state surveillance. A party of principles.
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beckydubs 🇳🇿 @beckydubs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
HealthNZ has been imposing “fiscal savings plans” on all parts of the health system SINCE DAY ONE. This is ONGOING. #nzpol 1/2
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Minute Cryptic - 26 September, 2026 "Suspect’s face forgotten when recalling details? I'm, uh, embarrassed" (10) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (11,240 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s... Uh, yeah. Mainly got it after the confirming.
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Minute Cryptic
Minute Cryptic is a free daily cryptic crossword clue. Solve today's puzzle, learn how cryptic clues work with free guided courses, and build your solving streak.
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KoBettyAhau ♥️🤍🖤 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kobettyahau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just saw this on LinkedIn - I'm completely floored 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
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Jenny Nicholls @jenster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Piercing review of Dirty Work from Simon Wilson. "... when Christopher Luxon adopted Three Waters he initially wanted to keep race out of it. Hager also notes that Seymour didn’t seem interested in attacking Māori until after 2020 [when] they recognised attacks on Māori were financially lucrative."
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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Do a Google search for "minister ignored advice site:rnz.co.nz" ( sans quotes ) Click on Tools -> Any Time -> Custom Range Enter into "From" : "1/12/2023" ( sans quotes ) OR just click the link provided ⬇️ Pursue the articles at will & Keep checking the next page of articles. Do Share! #nzpol
google.com
Google Search
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Kiwi Nomad @kiwinomad06.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Beautiful time of the year at the Esplanade.
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