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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There are 22 kids in my 8 year old sons class. 8 kids were at school today.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Unintentionally the funniest thing he's ever said

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belynda @bel10.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Anyone know what the A-League rules are around red cards? Are players who have been sent off allowed to just watch the game from the side of the pitch? Never seen that in any other league. #Aucklandfc #aleague

Manjrekar James standing at the pitchside end of the tunnel despite having been sent off.

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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Scoop: A trove of briefings and Cabinet documents released under the OIA reveals the Govt was advised its new methane target is only consistent with warming of 2-2.7C (and possibly up to 4.5C). Climate scientists have said 2.7C would represent 'unprecedented peril'. newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/04/g...

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Govt warned new methane target aligned with 'catastrophic' warming

Newly released documents reveal the Govt's new methane target is associated with 2.7C of warming – a level labelled 'catastrophic' by the UN.

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belynda @bel10.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Oh good god. 🤦🏽‍♀️😭

Screenshot from RNZ headlines with a photo of Christopher Luxon not at all awkardly chatting to IKEA workers because he is a man of the people. Caption reads: watch live: Christopher Luxon at IKEA opening

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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Okay Aotearoa, I'm doing another round of Pay It Forward for my female identifying followers or their friends. There will be 3-4 beauty packages available and the nominator must DM me a name & address for their nominee. Aotearoa only please. ##payitforward #Aotearoa #Pōneke #AoNZ

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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Come on people, there must be someone in your life who needs cheering up? You can even nominate yourself! 😁 Please repost 🙏 Aotearoa only. #Payitforward #Aotearoa

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Let the Right One Ian @ianfortey.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Yes, this 35 year old woman who had been around the world by the time she was a teen, who was one of Time's most influential people in the world a decade ago, who graduated Brown University & Oxford, who was a UN Goodwill Ambassador, who started a goddamn sustainable gin business is so inexperienced

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henry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

EXC: Plans are underway for a coordinated strike across the public sector on October 23 featuring: - Nurses - Teachers - Doctors - and more If the ballots go ahead it could well be the biggest coordinated strike in NZ history www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

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Tidal wave of strike action planned for October 23

Plans are under way for a co-ordinated strike across much of the public sector, with nurses, teachers and other public sector workers potentially walking off the job on the same day.

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henry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Cabinet papers are typically written by ministerial staffers with direction from Ministers. But the paper canvassing the options on recognising Palestine and deciding on one was written by Winston Peters' office instead. From my colleague Thomas Manch: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

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Winston Peters did not ask foreign ministry for opinion on Palestine decision

Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the paper trail shows the Government decision was based on “political positioning ... rather than a good, robust process”.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

*All* of the key themes noted in this @theguardian.com investigation are present, entrenched, & growing in New Zealand's leading far-right, evangelical Christian, anti-establishment, and anti-vaccine Facebook account constellations - extending to Twitter/X, YouTube, & Telegram.

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Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow

The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation

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Greater Auckland @greaterauckland.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

We’re in this list and we like it. 😊#GlobalUrbanists

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This is a brilliant interview. Chloe has to be the most economically literate politician in AONZ right now. youtu.be/zl_LgDjpzxE?... #nzpol

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The first politician on Gary's Economics

YouTube video by Garys Economics

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Greater Auckland @greaterauckland.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Three major crashes today on roads where the current NZ govt *increased* the speed limit (previously lowered for safety reasons) in pursuit of "productivity"? Serious injuries. Lengthy closures. Costly disruptions to lives, whānau, the transport network, our health system. This is not productive. 😞

"Pedestrian seriously injured after being hit by car, Botany Rd in East Auckland closed." Screenshot of a news story in the NZ Herald from Monday 29 September 2025. The first line of the story reads: "A worker close to the site where a pedestrian was struck by a car in East Auckland said he heard a loud “bang” noise before a rush of sirens."

This year, Botany Rd was one of over 1400 Auckland streets that had its speed limit raised by order of the current government, in this case, from 50km/h back up to 60km/h. In a move that runs counter to evidence and good practice, the government's new Speed Rule (authored by Simeon Brown and rolled out by Chris Bishop) *reversed* speed reductions implemented since 2020 on the spurious grounds that safer speeds impacted "productivity".

The speed reductions were aimed at making roads safer for everyone using them, whether in a car or not. A quick search of "Botany Rd serious crash" explains why Botany was one of them.

Today's crash seems to have happened along a stretch of Botany Rd that has shops and bus stops on both sides of the road, but the nearest signalised crossings are around half a kilometre away in either direction.

"Six hurt in SH1 crash near Taupō." Screenshot of a Radio NZ news story from Monday 29 September 2025. This stretch of State Highway 1 recently had its speed limit raised back up to 100kmh from 60kmh. The speed limit had been lowered due to a history of serious and fatal crashes along this key route.

Many locals were appalled by the reversal, as the highway runs through popular and busy holiday towns. For context, see this story from June 2025, in which the Taupō District Council's deputy mayor describes it as "grossly inappropriate”. https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/360717092/holiday-communities-livid-about-speed-limit-reversals and this NZ Herald story https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-speed-rules-100kmh-through-a-lake-taupo-campground/G2VZI4VSJZCTLKP3K444D6H2VU/ which describes some of the worst crashes in this area. "Until 2020, the speed limit remained 100km/h. Between 2000 and August 2023, there were 284 crashes reported on the 10km stretch of road from Motutere to Hallets Bay. Nine were fatal and 22 others were serious."

"'Significant delays' afer stock truck rolls on SH5 Napier Taupō Road." Screenshot of a Radio NZ news story from Monday 29 September 2025. SH5 had its speed limit raised this year back up to 100km/h from 80km/h, as a priority of the current government.

Speeds had been reduced to 80km/h due to the ongoing history of serious and fatal crashes on this highway, which is the only link between Napier and Taupō. The return to 100km/h sparked concern from road safety experts.

For further context, see this story from February 2025: "An independent study released after the drop to 80km/h concluded the lower speed limit on Napier-Taupō Rd prevented 34 crashes in the first 12 months following its implementation. Crash data also showed there had been fewer crashes on Napier-Taupō Rd since the drop to 80km/h." https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/napier-taupo-rd-speed-limit-rise-to-100kmh-sparks-safety-debate/5QTIH2LPTFGAFAAOWTME3AD7IE/

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

“Ever since Caesar’s pivotal decision, mankind has understood that the deployment of a nation’s armies against its own people marks the end of that nation.”

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Hot Type: The Die is Cast

American political correspondent Heidi Siegmund Cuda tries to make sense of a truly terrible week in the history of America

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Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

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∙ ᴘᴀᴜʟɪɴᴀ ∙ @iamthepaulina.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Oh, sorry, of course I meant in Australia.

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

#nzpol Migration data came out today. It’s down at levels not seen – outside of COVID – since January 2014 when we were climbing out of the GFC. Migration added 21,300 people to NZ in April 25. It was 95k in April 24. A thread...

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

'New poll reveals farmers wildly out of step with mainstream NZ, that the industry shows extreme levels of viewpoint discrimination within its ranks, and needs to take serious steps to understand opposing views or they risk becoming further isolated and ignored' www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

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How farmers would vote: A clear winner, a divide and a warning for Labour

It’s hardly breaking news that farmers are more likely to vote for the National Party over Labour, but the extent of the gulf is stark in a new poll.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Humiliated by China, Harvard, Elon Musk, and the federal courts, Trump has launched a war inside America on vulnerable people inside America. Like any bully, Trump is fundamentally a coward.

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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Watch, watch watch - please watch. RSB proceeds = possible snap election RSB fails = possible snap election Labour Party - ARE YOU READY? #nzpol

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Mattie Electric Air Line @mrbtx.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is *wild*

map of the united states black with dots of protests in places both big and small

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Thousands of people marching through Lower Manhattan now demanding ICE get out of New York City.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

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Craig @kiwicraig74.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

"Wanker, me"

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Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Feels worth sharing this again, because it still has 🔥 power “During hard times, you often see a rise in the tendency to want to punish, to demonize, and to exclude. I think we're living through a phase like that in this country at the moment”

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GUEST WRITER DON McGLASHAN on the power of songwriters in a cold climate

What follows is Don McGlashan's speech at the Apra Silver Scroll Award in Auckland on September 13, 2012. We print it here with Don's permission and it's our privilege to do so, as much for its inspir...

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Being told to "shut up you dickhead" by Don McGlashan is literally the worst thing that can happen to you as a New Zealander

Renowned musician Don McGlashan was seen on the video confronting Bishop, but McGlashan said he did not realise at first that it was the minister.

"I could hear an enormous amount of ranting, kind of against the whole thing. I didn't get the full gist of it, but it was basically - 'the hīkoi is ages ago, sit down everybody' - so this geezer was just ranting away and telling everybody to sit down," McGlashan said.

"After a while I turned to him and said 'ah shut up you dickhead' and I looked at him and I thought, oh I know that face. Then he said 'what did you say to me?'".

McGlashan said that he again told Bishop to "shut up you dickhead and he said 'I could say the same to you', and I said, well I wasn't talking and you were. And then I realised I was talking to the leader of the house".

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Helping this business electrify is exactly the kind of thing we (govt) should be doing. Keep a valuable business in operation, permanently reduce industrial carbon emissions. Picking winners? YES, exactly what govt should do. Carbon tax/trading as funding source: businessdesk.co.nz/article/ener...

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NZ’s sole aluminium recycling foundry may close because of gas shortage

New Zealand’s only aluminium recycler may go out of business if it can’t find an energy source to replace its expiring natural gas supply.Switching...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows

Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Trump exempting computers & phones from the tariffs today means that Chinese-made laptops now have lower tariffs than European Cars, Mexican Steel, & Canadian Lumber. Also means Vietnamese-made laptops have a lower tariff than Ethiopian coffee, Indian tea, & Guatemalan bananas

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 15/05/2024

Our media need to take a real hard look at themselves and sit down and write some clear fuckin style guides on how they report when someone espouses disinformation, because this is untrue and they have not done enough to make that clear

He was showing his opposition to the relationship and sexuality curriculum in schools, which included instructions for girls about "how to stimulate themselves" and told children as young as 5 they could choose their gender, Tamaki said.

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 15/02/2025

What an odd moment to be in agreement with the Mayor of Auckland, and yet here we are.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/02/2025

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 12/02/2025

Urban transformation is about more than beautification. It’s about returning public spaces back to their original purpose: places for connection, play, spontaneity, relaxation, and sometimes movement from A to B (and C and D)…

People walk, cycle, and sit along the Underline—a linear park and urban trail beneath an elevated railway line in Downtown Miami.

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belynda @bel10.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Trying to imagine what Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland might be like if we had someone wthis kind of vision leading the way at AT. 😍

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belynda @bel10.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Gah. Accidentally strayed onto twitter and thought I was here. Interacted and everything. How do I decontaminate?

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

In many convos with BSA over the years, the need for a complete overhaul of existing regulatory frameworks has come up innumerable times, esp considering growth of disinfo/far-right podcast platforms. This is a welcome development. Cue targeting by FSU, VFF et al. | www.bsa.govt.nz/news/bsa-new...

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