Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 3hI get a lot of messages like this and it's hard to keep up, please pin the post you'd like me to share I couldn't see it on your profile 110
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 3hTonight's spooky season / Weird Wednesday watch is Dinner for Adele (1978) a Czechoslovakian mystery farce involving a carnivorous plant Crossposted with @openvibe.social 121
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 4hPossibly, but from what I've seen it's similar to previous election campaigns 210
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 8hBryce Edwards has spent years developing an analytical hammer that makes everything look like a woke nail Crossposted with @openvibe.social 76414
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 13hVoices for Freedom founder gloats that they have been able to influence New Zealands vote at the UN, as the foreign minister is a man who leads a party who's core constituency is now assorted anti-vaxxers and 'wellness' grifters Crossposted with @openvibe.social 13516
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026*this is of course, just statistical noise within the margin of error and should not be taken too seriously 071
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It seems that Te Pati Maori supporters have got the message about giving their party vote to others, the latest poll actually puts their party vote behind the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party and only slightly ahead of the Free Palestine Party* tvnz-my.sharepoint.com/personal/jus... 2101
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026These two paragraphs are actually quite chilling www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610... Crossposted with @openvibe.social 3479
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026You won't get any political statements from us, claims frontman of band whose most famous album has a Gadsden flag on the cover Crossposted with @openvibe.social 5244
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'm getting to old to relate to teenagers in movies (whatever the genre) but I know this would have been my jam had it came two decades earlier 021
Reposted by Byron C ClarkHayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"I'd really like to be recognised for my journalism outside of New Zealand" *monkey's paw curls* 423392488
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026One in ten people backing NZ First is definitely a worry, but thankfully they aren't reaching levels of support comparable to MAGA (US), Reform (UK) or One Nation (Australia) hopefully in a few years they'll be back to polling around 2-3% again reut.rs/4rWbPJ3 Crossposted with @openvibe.social 6484
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Tonight's spooky season watch is Whistle (2025) a group of students find an Aztec death whistle and discover that the sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down Crossposted with @openvibe.social 121
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Yeah 'weird' is probably the wrong word, as it's worryingly common for (ex)leftists of a certain age it seems 010
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Weird tidbit: the woman who leads the transphobe party (Women's Rights) used to lead the socialists (Alliance) but more recently has spoken at events with the leaders of the Conservatives and the evangelical Christians (Vision) 3144
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Who are the small parties? In short: Socialists, vegans, stoners, hard right conservatives, pro-Palestine activists, cookers, a different kind of cookers, people from Te Tai Tokerau, evangelical Christians, transphobes www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... Crossposted with @openvibe.socialrnz.co.nzExplainer: What you need to know about the smaller political parties in this year's election | RNZExplainer - More than a dozen parties are asking for your vote this year, including several smaller ones striving to make it into Parliament, most for the first time. 1175
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Actually was just reading about a new British/Irish film that was a hit at Cannes and may also interrogate colonialism with decapitations, so maybe he meant that one 091
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The decapitation interrogating colonialism movie is New Zealand's entry for the Best International Picture Oscar and now I want it to win even more 2204
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Me reading that Hollywood Reporter article complaining that film festivals are dominated by horror movies and lefty politics Crossposted with @openvibe.socialmedia1.giphy.comhttps://media1.giphy.com/media/1zRd5ZNo0s6kLPifL1/200.gifThe future is now old man 1243
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 11/10/2026"the findings suggest that Christianity is increasingly being invoked as a marker of British identity amid wider anxieties about immigration, Islam and cultural change." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... Crossposted with @openvibe.socialtheguardian.comChristian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report | Christianity | The GuardianResearch challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity 5193
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Tonight's spooky season watch is Under the Skin (2013) I don't I'm recall adding this to my to-watch list so I probably did when it came out and am only now getting around to it to a little over a decade later Crossposted with @openvibe.social 381
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Things take a turn for the worse when it transpires that he, unlike most incels, has godlike psychic powers given to him by aliens 191
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The second episode of Star Trek features a scene were Kirk tells a young man who is the sole survivor of a shipwreck he can't have anything he wants after he starts exhibiting incel like behaviour aboard the enterprise Crossposted with @openvibe.social 2161
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Now for some Tubi trash Crossposted with @openvibe.social 071
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"losers will be tortured and eaten by demons!" Smokefree Rockquest rules, gotcha. 051
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026He can escape hell if he wins the battle of bands. Many greats before him have done this, such as Ozzy Osbourne 🦇 121
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Tonight's spooky season watch is Too Young to Die (2016) A Japanese horror comedy about a teenager who dies, goes to hell, then escapes with the help of hell's resident heavy metal band Crossposted with @openvibe.social 161
Reposted by Byron C ClarkDr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Oh my. #nzpol 1111343
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Got 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 2269
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I suspect the livestream won't actually happen, but by talking about it as a real possibility, a few more people will start accepting the idea of execution as entertainment spectacle as something within the bounds of 'normal' www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1... Crossposted with @openvibe.socialrnz.co.nzUS to livestream Army execution of Fort Hood shooter, Pentagon official says | RNZThe US will livestream the Army's upcoming firing squad execution on 3 December of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in a 2009 shooting spree, a Pentagon official says, in what would be an unprecedented move. 4122
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"actors don't have unique faces any more" Yeah they do, you're just not watching enough movies Crossposted with @openvibe.social 071
Reposted by Byron C ClarkRussell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Just piss off, you desperate creeps. You've done this before, and it was a total waste of time and money. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...rnz.co.nzNational promises random drug testing for jobseeker beneficiariesNational is promising to introduce random drug testing for those on the jobseeker benefit to ensure they're "ready for work". 3131374
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They did actually register in a poll- the one that just asked Māori voters- though it's possibly just statistical noise www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/09/17/w...teaonews.co.nzWhakaata Māori poll: Labour leads party vote as Te Pāti Māori dominates Māori roll – Te Ao Māori NewsA new Whakaata Māori–Curia poll of 1,000 Māori voters puts Labour ahead on the party vote, while Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke ranks second as preferred prime minister 010
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026*as always I'm not advocating people vote Opportunity, no need to send me the dossier you've prepared on Opportunity, I'm sure it's very through and long but I don't need convincing as I don't plan to vote for them 172
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Free GP visits *are* a plus (as is cheaper public transport) but the Labour platform isn't exactly exciting, maybe that explains the Green surge and the rise of Opportunity* as those parties are proposing something transformative 151
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Always hard to guess what the medium voter is thinking, but of the 'major' parties it seems Nation is offering the status quo and Labour is offering status quo+ that is, your wages, taxes, and bills are largely the same but you get a couple of free GP visits etc Crossposted with @openvibe.social 161
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026She's definitely sympathetic to that crowd but not exactly of it it. She might turn up at another VFF rally but probably won't waste parliaments time by (for example) using question time to ask about the UN and WEF making us eat bugs 010
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026All former National MPs though, so a bit of a "better the devil you know" situation 100
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Breathed a sigh of relief when I read the NZ First list released today, no known cookers in any winnable positions (Of course, there are cooker fingerprints over all of the policies) Crossposted with @openvibe.social 5392
Reposted by Byron C ClarkJennifer @jennifilm.nz · 07/10/2026Last month @paulapenfold.bsky.social wrote this excellent piece interrogating a NZF candidate's disinformation about abortion. Today the leader of that party quite clearly shared the dogwhistle version of that rhetoric unchallenged. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361... 04416
Reposted by Byron C ClarkPaparoa @paparoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Seven years on, it's finally public knowledge that Neo-Nazi Wargus Christi, Dominion Movement and Action Zealandia co-founder Jack Captein/Johann Wolfe is the New Zealand Army soldier that is currently imprisoned for attempting espionage. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/jac... 47143
Reposted by Byron C ClarkStu Fox @stufox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When you're voting this year remember that ACT hates you and every person who works for a living www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...rnz.co.nzACT wants to freeze minimum wage and reduce youth training rateThe ACT Party would freeze the adult minimum wage for three years and reduce the training minimum wage for workers under 20 years old to 60 percent, if re-elected. 511739
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I remember in the lead up to the manuscript deadline for my book hoping the suppression would be lifted so I could include the name, it's taken another four years 4130
Reposted by Byron C ClarkAssiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They finally lifted name suppression for the incompetent white supremacist wannabe spy, Jack Captein. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/jac...nzherald.co.nzSoldier guilty of attempted espionage finally named after court rejects his fears of retaliationJack Captein gave restricted NZDF documents to an undercover officer posing as an agent. 34514
Reposted by Byron C ClarkMicheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Bara’a writes directly from her tent in Gaza: "In the absolute dark, when the sounds of fear outside grow too loud, I hold Ibrahim’s tiny hand. His skin is warm, his breath quiet, and in that small touch, I hold my entire universe." 🧵 13139201
Reposted by Byron C ClarkRebecca Priestley @rkpriestley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We talked to farmers in a South Island community and found: (1) mistrust in climate science and scientists, (2) mistrust in government, (3) mistrust of the mainstream media and (4) a sense of responsibility and care for their farms. #ClimateChange rsnz.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...rsnz.onlinelibrary.wiley.comNew Zealand Farmers’ Trust in Climate Change Expertise and Policy: A Case StudyResponding to recent discord between Aotearoa New Zealand's agricultural sector and the government over environmental policies, this paper examines farmers’ trust in climate change science and policy... 106128
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is clearly just a case of the radical leftist Jacob Rees Mogg implying anyone he disagrees with is a Nazi. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comJacob Rees-Mogg accuses Tucker Carlson of ‘verging on defending Hitler’Former Tory minister defends UK decision to enter war in podcast with US rightwinger and Putin sympathiser 2365