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Byron C Clark

@byroncclark.bsky.social
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Author of 'Fear: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists Currently researching climate disinformation in alt-media But I seem to mostly post about movies Newsletter: feijoadispatch.nz buy me a coffee ko-fi.com/byroncclark

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 3h
Please help if you can
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 3h
I 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
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 3h
Tonight's spooky season / Weird Wednesday watch is Dinner for Adele (1978) a Czechoslovakian mystery farce involving a carnivorous plant Crossposted with @openvibe.social
An old man with an impressive moustache captioned "you won't escape my revenge you told devil!"
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 4h
Possibly, but from what I've seen it's similar to previous election campaigns
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 8h
Bryce Edwards has spent years developing an analytical hammer that makes everything look like a woke nail Crossposted with @openvibe.social
NZ Herald graphic showing Chloe Sawbrick and the headline "the Greens dialed down middle class woke politics and surged in the polls"
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 13h
Voices 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

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A screenshot of a social media post by Alia Bee reading, “For all those who think their voices don't matter... They do, and it's such fun to witness the meltdown. Bring it.” Below is an embedded post from Helen Clark, with a verified account badge, criticising New Zealand's abstention from a United Nations General Assembly vote on a political declaration concerning pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. The post states that 153 countries voted in favour, three against, and New Zealand and Paraguay abstained. A link to a UN News article is included, along with a screenshot of UN Web TV showing the vote tally, with country names and voting positions displayed in columns.
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Aspharon @asph.me · 10/10/2026
dont make me tap the sign
tumblr post by carbomcoco

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence
they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

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people always go "Instead of spending all that time on a study they could have just listened to us when we said these thing happen"

they did listen, that's how studies work, they asked people about their experiences and put all the data together in a nice package that can be cited
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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
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It 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...
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
These two paragraphs are actually quite chilling www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610... Crossposted with @openvibe.social
The pair said Labour will never get their vote due to Covid vaccine mandates. Instead they have turned their minds to Peters, who they believe speaks sense in Parliament.

Hayman says Peters says out loud what she thinks behind closed doors.
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You 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
A concert photo of Metallica frontman James Hetfield standing onstage under blue lighting, wearing a black T-shirt and holding a guitar, with his eyes closed and head tilted slightly upward. A white “METAL HAMMER” logo appears in the top-left corner. Large white text across the lower half reads: “Metallica is not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you with their bull*****,” followed by a smaller caption: “– James Hetfield explains why you won’t get any political statements at a Metallica show any time soon.”
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'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
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Hayden 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*
John Oliver quoting me on Kiwibank's sexy green-haired sheep Buck
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
One 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
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Tonight'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
Poster for Whistle
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yeah 'weird' is probably the wrong word, as it's worryingly common for (ex)leftists of a certain age it seems
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Weird 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)
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Who 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.social
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Explainer: What you need to know about the smaller political parties in this year's election | RNZ
Explainer - 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.
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Actually 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
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The decapitation interrogating colonialism movie is New Zealand's entry for the Best International Picture Oscar and now I want it to win even more
Festivals aren’t rewarding leftist politics so much as wrapping gore in political language. By day, it’s a cathedral of art and politics, handing out jury prizes under the ethical guidepost of Javier Bardem. By night, it’s a meat market, serving face-peeling gore to the poors. Under the guise of Everything Is Political, we are indulging the most annoying audience in the world. It’s a crowd that whoops at a decapitation, then posts on Bluesky how the decapitation interrogates colonialism.
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Me reading that Hollywood Reporter article complaining that film festivals are dominated by horror movies and lefty politics Crossposted with @openvibe.social
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The future is now old man
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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.social
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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report | Christianity | The Guardian
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Tonight'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
Poster for Under the Skin
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Things take a turn for the worse when it transpires that he, unlike most incels, has godlike psychic powers given to him by aliens
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The 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
TV screen showing Captain James T Kirk speaking to a young man
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now for some Tubi trash Crossposted with @openvibe.social
To people in a shop, with the subtitle "it's the citizen Kane of crazy chicken films"
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"losers will be tortured and eaten by demons!" Smokefree Rockquest rules, gotcha.
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He can escape hell if he wins the battle of bands. Many greats before him have done this, such as Ozzy Osbourne 🦇
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tonight'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
Poster for Too Young to Die
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh my. #nzpol
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I 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.social
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US to livestream Army execution of Fort Hood shooter, Pentagon official says | RNZ
The 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.
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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
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just 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...
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National promises random drug testing for jobseeker beneficiaries
National is promising to introduce random drug testing for those on the jobseeker benefit to ensure they're "ready for work".
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They 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...
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Whakaata Māori poll: Labour leads party vote as Te Pāti Māori dominates Māori roll – Te Ao Māori News
A 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
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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
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Free 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
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Always 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
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
She'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
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
All former National MPs though, so a bit of a "better the devil you know" situation
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Breathed 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
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 07/10/2026
Last 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...
From Penfold's article:

Mundt said the abortion legislation had been "shrouded in controversy".
"It was passed just as the country was going into covid lockdowns," she wrote,
"so the focus of the nation was divertedẠại
She said NZ First had "put forward a conscience vote" and its MPs voted against the bill at its third reading.
"Their (sic) is NO upper limit to the age of a baby being aborted. If two practitioners agree, a baby can be killed right up to the day of birth," Mundt continued.From Peters' interview today: 

Asked about abortion, Peters said "the facts" were worth revisiting.
"At its worst, and it's a matter of timing, but it shades into a thing called murder. You got me here?
"It shades into a thing called murder or assassination, get any name you like. But that's the purpose. We've got to know the facts."
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Paparoa @paparoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Seven 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...
Image description: Picture of Neo-Nazi Jack Captein with the following text above the picture:

"Jack Captein named as former New Zealand Army soldier in attempted espionage case

Tracy Neal
Open Justice multimedia journalist, Nelson-Marlborough·NZ Herald·
6 Oct, 2026 03:00 PM
5 mins to read"
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Stu Fox @stufox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When you're voting this year remember that ACT hates you and every person who works for a living www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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ACT wants to freeze minimum wage and reduce youth training rate
The 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.
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I 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
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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They finally lifted name suppression for the incompetent white supremacist wannabe spy, Jack Captein. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/jac...
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Soldier guilty of attempted espionage finally named after court rejects his fears of retaliation
Jack Captein gave restricted NZDF documents to an undercover officer posing as an agent.
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Bara’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." 🧵
An adult hand holding a child's hand before a tent ceiling.
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Rebecca Priestley @rkpriestley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We 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/...
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New Zealand Farmers’ Trust in Climate Change Expertise and Policy: A Case Study
Responding 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...
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This 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...
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Jacob 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
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