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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 · 6h
Beryl goes all Crazy Cat and pretends it's not her. "Why you shout at me? Just little cat sitting here!"
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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 9h
First review in for my new novel 'Lifted'. Available now, launch at Unity Books October 28th
Book cover of Mandy Hager's latest novel 'Lifted' with quote from review at https://www.nzbooklovers.co.nz/post/lifted-by-mandy-hager
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 9h
"Ah Simeon, you did have this thing checked out before we took it on the road, didn't you? Simeon!"
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 9h
"Never mind about our lack of policy frameworks and general ambivalence to everything while maintaining the status quo. It's time for a change! If that's OK."
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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 9h
"Vote Saruman to be independent kingmaker between the stale, corrupt Gondor and crass, aggressive Mordor traditional political parties. It's time for change!"
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 9h
I hope that the folks who want to be on the winning side will ditch the losers. But who knows, there's some powerful misinfo out there.
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 04/10/2026
still odd how giant new zealand outlets like 1NEWS report on a story like this, going out of their way to minimize webworm's involvement. to be clear: we led the reporting, & there WOULD BE NO REPORTING if we hadn't broken the story after a year of research: www.webworm.co/multiverse/
one news report from last week
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 20h
❤️
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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 20h
no taxes? I’d rather NZ political parties dealt with the fact we have 1) NO rules around lobbying 2) NO disclosure of targeted digital campaigns 3) NO limits on party donations
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 21h
It's why I'm here. Nothing like that break when twixter was self destructing to make the point about being cut off from friends.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so.
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Now run the numbers for $472 million per kilometre for the Petone-Grenada idiocy - a total of $2.6 billion. That's less than a third of the goal of 2% of GDP that people are pressing for ($455Bn/100)*2=$9.1Bn Party statements on funding research: www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2026/09/09/2...
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2026 Election Q&A - Science
Ahead of the 2026 General Election, scheduled for Saturday 7 November, the Science Media Centre asked political parties about their science policies. Responses to all 12 questions on science policy an...
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🙂Good times. Riddled ahead of the curve, yet again.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do we have a lot of FBI people living here?
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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Meri-NO
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exactly. Got a wicked beak on it too.
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OK, bear with me, Aotearoa, New Zealand, this is a #nzpol 🧵 on the topic of... If Aotearoa New Zealand political leaders were birds...
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Too many candidates for the Dodo. K.McAnulty for the Kea?
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Labour have got to do this so that the shops can be called Chippy Chippies. I will share the naming royalties with all of you.
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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It seems like one of the biggest takeaways our RW parties have taken from the state of US politics is that lies no longer need to be subtle, and indeed blatant lies are preferable.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
To coin a phrase.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The survey 😂🤣😂 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ #TaxTheRich #ForUsAll
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Andy Little @andylittle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's so funny to see the right paint Chloe Swarbrick as a dangerous radical. I hope it leads more people to learn about crazy Green policies like 'people should be able to afford food' and 'public transport shouldn't suck ass' #nzpol
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wordsSHIFTminds @wordsshiftminds.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Congratulations to the National Party for managing to create a TV campaign ad that consists exclusively of lies. It's quite a thing to behold Soviet-level disinformation from a right wing party. #nzpol
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Spinoff "National has removed the “no new taxes” mantra from an online ad after a polling company wrote to the party saying the claim did not accurately reflect its survey on how people feel about the tax they pay. " Sideshow Bob rake moment AGAIN.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
on venom Peter Dearden writing about venoms and how we might make use of them.
peterkdearden.substack.com
on venom
and biodiscovery
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Happy Birthday, Greg!!🎉💥🎂
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Shining Golden Star
Alt: Shining Golden Star
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NY ... and specifically NYC ... has the fastest growing economy in the US.. So much for the rich moving away in the face of increased taxes: didn't happen. #nzpol www.governor.ny.gov/news/governo...
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Governor Hochul Announces New York Had the Fastest Growing Economy in the Nation During Second Quarter 2026
Governor Hochul announced that New York State had the fastest growing economy in the nation in the second quarter of 2026, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of...
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Built tough to skittle pedestrians.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh Jesu, Phenry would be the one for it, here. Ugly AF if he gets into power.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Any politician in the antipodes who boasted about their fabulousness like Angry Orange does would be a former politician quick smart. Making the marks love you is the most effective con, I suppose.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Deliberately struck by lightning from a vengeful God.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Quick refresher course for the hard of learning: Does no one pay attention or is this OK because he's mean to immigrants?
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The two-year trail of financial controversy dogging Reform and Farage
Six claims the party has faced – from an undisclosed £5m gift to an alleged plot to bypass election laws
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"I used to run and airline and now I'm on a bus!"
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tiny hobbit says anti-capitalist revolution now.
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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A vote for National means a vote for David Seymour, Winston Peters and Shane Jones and if you would like to see how much chaos that means just look back over the last 3 years #NZPol
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i crashed and burned on this one. Not a clue.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
1/2 through reading "Dirty Work". Wow they are slimeballs, eh. Revolting bunch of used toilet paper.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mihingarangi Forbes: And so it begins…
mihiforbes.substack.com
And so it begins…
The campaign trail has kicked off and in the Māori seats the debates, polls and politicking have begun.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just ask Clark Gayford about that. Him selling drugs from government house is still canon to these folks.
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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At *most*, a defence might be that, like Lord of the Flies, it's privileged kids that most exhibit the toxic behaviours. But we already know it's not just that.
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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He's running the Hipkins election campaign from 3 years ago, except lying about the economy. We came out of peak COVID in a relatively strong international position economically and blew it all in just 2.5 years under the least competent/most ideologically blinkered govt in my lifetime. #nzpol
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brains are so helpful like that.
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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And the upcoming diesel apocalypse is going to hit right around election time. It's going to be brutal, and if there's the mandate, a rapid switch to rail may be required as we won't be able to ship things around with diesel trucks at a price anyone is willing to pay.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Astonishing to look at there pictures and compare them to NinjaKitty's.
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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At least Americans get the chance to vote against him. Voting against Luxon's charisma-less corporate ghoulery is less cathartic, and doesn't resolve the conspiracists and sociopaths of his coalition, that all backs Trump.
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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Synthetic focus groups" This is amazing. Not good, no, but definitely amazing.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So we have a group of bots and we train them to react to things in ways that we think mirror the general public. Then we ask them to react to various topics to see if they react to things how we thought they would. And they do since that's how we programmed them. A lucrative profession I feel.
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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