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ClareK@AucklandIsland

@clarekakisland.bsky.social
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Writing, climate crisis, politics, libraries, reading, fibromyalgia, public transport... Hope this site will be as good as the other was. Aotearoa New Zealand

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ClareK@AucklandIsland @clarekakisland.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
'The problem, Wooldridge said, was that AI chatbots failed in unpredictable ways and had no idea when they were wrong, but were designed to provide confident answers regardless' www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert
Prof Michael Wooldridge says scenario such as deadly self-driving car update or AI hack could destroy global interest
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Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Apparently we're getting an "English Language Bill" to make English an offical language of Aotearoa -- the odd thing is that this key document already seems to be written in English. Inception, but for lawyers. www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Massie not backing down.
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
TOMORROW MORNING: I'm appearing at Senate hearings, talking about the #AtlasNetwork of 550+ orgs in 100 nations, the IPA, Centre of Independent Studies, Advance, and many other fossil corp/billionaire funded climate disinfo orgs. #Auspol #NZpol Tune in 10.30am AEST: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwuq...
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Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy | 16/02/2026
YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal
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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
What could possibly go wrong?
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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
If you feel like your Electricity bill is out of control – it is. Prices are up 11.5% this year alone. Prices are up 21% from 2023, with the majority of the increase happening since June 2024. Don’t worry though – the government is planning on adding to your bill with a new tax!
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 17/02/2026
In the 1930s fascism used rallies and fear. A new study suggests "technofascism" uses algorithms and convenience. No uniforms. No mass spectacles. Just feeds that polarise, distract and subtly steer behaviour. But it is still fascism and we need to resist. Stephen McNair reports ⤵️
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Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism
In the shadow of the fascism of the 1930s, George Orwell wrote 1984. A new study suggests that his world is closer than we want to think
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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
if you tell me a good use of leftover egg whites is a souffle, and then proceed to tell me that the souffle also needs 4 egg yolks, then i'm throwing you into an oubliette
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/02/2026
New in PN: "Just making s**t up" — @volts.wtf sounds off on the EPA “How the f**k are they going to do that? If you can get the Supreme Court to rule carbon is not a danger to public health, it will mark the point at which they have abandoned all pretense, because that’s just a flat out lie.”
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"Just making s**t up" — David Roberts sounds off on the EPA
"To say members of Congress didn’t anticipate a specific pollutant is just f**king comical."
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Peter Ashford @peterashford.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
So, WTF is #tvnz on? Their poll coverage teased "one party surging ahead" and that's all about NZF going +1%. In a poll where the Greens went forward 4%. What the actual fuck? #nzpol
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Some in National are running scared today. I'm guessing Hehir is doing everything possible to protect Nicola Willis by yelling "Look over there!" Willis is on track to borrow more than Labour did during Covid. John Key left NZ with $60bn debt & Ardern had surpluses til Covid #nzpol
NZ Herald headline about NIcola Willis

"Sending NZ bankrupt" Former finance minister calls for Nicola Willis to resign
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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The first #kakapo chick for four years hatched two days ago (on Valentine’s Day for those who like to anthropomorphise!). Here’s Tiwhiri-A1-2026 in Yasmine’s nest. 📸: Deidre Vercoe. www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r... #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots #birds
A kākāpō chick in a nest with an egg. Credit: Deidre Vercoe
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
As always Marae meet the moment. Hospitality, generosity and care for locals and stranded travellers. If only Luxon and co had 1/100 of the leadership these Iwi show it would be an improvement. Taihape's Winiata Marae steps up for stranded travellers #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Taihape's Winiata Marae steps up for stranded travellers
When the storm closed SH1, stranding hundreds, the community at Winiata Marae knew what to do.
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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I've been thinking about this for the last couple of days. ACT believe that if you reduce government then communities will step up to fill the gaps. But the communities that fill in the gaps are never ACT voters. ACT is the party for people who expect free labour but it's never them.
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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Only @reuters.com in @theguardian.com telling it like it is: "Extreme rainfall is more common and more intense because of human-caused climate breakdown"
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New Zealand officials warn more flooding could hit north island as man killed after heavy rain
Worst weather forecast to hit late on Sunday, a day after floods caused power outages, road collapses and home evacuations
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Aspirational Chippy @aspirationalchippy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Hey hey! Real chippy just said yes to canning the LNG plant. It wasn't really that hard, eh. Credit where it's due. #nzpol
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pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
So, obviously, the solution is to simply not do anything. These people. I swear.
Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop said estimates he had seen had the total bill for New Zealand's Infrastructure deficit at "anywhere between $100 and $200 billion".
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ClareK@AucklandIsland @clarekakisland.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... 'They decided to gut all of that and take the money to put into trickle down tax cuts ... which has served precisely nobody in this country' National closed the climate resilience fund and gave it to landlords for tax cuts
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Luxon and co are fiddling with maybe saving you $4 a month while Rome, and the planet, burn
It takes some chutzpah to sell a new tax to an exhausted, broke country in an election year.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
What offends me about this is just that it's so fucking stupid. Every time some group brutalizes another, the brutalizers conclude the people they're brutalizing are inhuman savages. It's happened 100,000 times before in history. Congrats to Brianna on being 100,001st, what an achievement.
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Pablo @un5toppabl0.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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a cartoon character named luigi is driving a toy car on a race track
Alt: a cartoon character named luigi is driving a toy car on a race track
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🌺🌺 Cynbad 🌺🌺 @cyynbadd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Disgusting pigs
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ClareK@AucklandIsland @clarekakisland.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
President Trump was threating tariffs if trading partners didn't sign critical mineral agreements within 180 days. "Are we one of those countries?" www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
As requested, some personal thoughts on forgiveness from a therapist who works mainly with people suffering from PTSD, and who has recovered from PTSD himself. Gonna lay my stall out early by saying I'm not a fan of the concept!
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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Some NZ journalists are still writing about increasing storms but not providing any context: ‘as our climate changes’ I’d say it’s just an omission were it not for a comment by a radio panelist last week that she’d never heard a reported connection between more extreme storm events & climate change
Sharon Murdoch carton a women mentioned clinate change matters to Nz politicians
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
What do these corporations have in common? -Amazon -AT&T -Home Depot -Microsoft -Palantir They all reaped billions in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and are actively collaborating with ICE's deportation machine. Always follow the money.
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CNN @cnn.com · 01/02/2026
A 16-year-old from New Zealand has set a new world record for the fastest mile run by an under–18 athlete. cnn.it/4ri6Lxg
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/01/2026
Absolutely shameful to throw your employee under the bus when they’re murdered, but that’s what happens when you’re in the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the world
We can confirm Alex Pretti was a nurse at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. As President Trump has said, nobody wants to see chaos and death in American cities, and we send our condolences to the Pretti family. Such tragedies are unfortunately happening in Minnesota because of state and local officials’ refusal to cooperate with the federal government to enforce the law and deport dangerous illegal criminals.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/01/2026
If Trump is willing to remove ICE from Minnesota if they hand over their voter rolls, then there really isn't an "emergency" need for them to be there. www.cbsnews.com/news/bondi-m...
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Bondi seeks Minnesota voter rolls, welfare data to "help bring back law and order" in wake of shootings
Attorney General Pam Bondi is pushing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to let the federal government access state voter rolls and welfare data, as tensions flare in Minneapolis after a man was shot and killed ...
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
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dumb genius/smart idiot @andrew.mcguiregis.com · 25/01/2026
Twitter screenshot. Text as follows: 

Remembering that thing in grad school when my professor, a great ornithologist, got a random call

Drunk guy, bar noises in background: (text all caps) IS THIS THE BIRD PROFESSOR? 

My advisor: um...yes?

Drunk guy (again, all caps) DO HUMMINGBIRDS HAVE FEET?

my advisor: ...yes 

* wild cheering over phone from bar *
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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Our PM in full eloquent flight on RNZ this morning. "...we've spoken to all the mayors multiple times, we have very dynamic relationships, we all have our numbers, we talk very dynamically with everybody and we will pull together a plan and a support package.... #nzpol
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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Coming from the guy that's cut gov funding for Māori initiatives every budget.. #nzpol
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Pablo @un5toppabl0.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of him .
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of him .
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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 25/01/2026
Remember that Seymour is a product of the Atlas Network He, and the ACT Party, is a cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand politics #nzpol
Seymour alongside Alan Gibbs and Ruth Richardson at the Atlas "Liberty Forum" 2016
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Just a heads up team, it’s not just NZFirst pushing the anti WHO, WEF, UN conspiracies this election year, I just saw a post from a cooker ACT party member, spreading wildly false information around about it too. Buckle up team, it’s going to be BaTsHiT cRaZy 🤪🙄🤦‍♀️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment
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Darien Fenton @darienfenton.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Essential reading for us all, including Winston P. No nation is an island: the danger of campaigning against 'woke' WHO newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/26/n...
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No nation is an island: the danger of campaigning against 'woke' WHO
Analysis: Talk of NZ joining Donald Trump in moving away from the World Health Organization is 'reckless and irresponsible', public health expert says
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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
#Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Has he thought of controlling the things that contribute to incredible weather events by, for example, investing in renewable energy and the containment of cow farts?
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
#NZpol "With support from additional petroleum multinationals, a variety of forestry interests, and a complacent government."
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Look, as always, I don't want to pretend journalism is easy, but surely it is *weird* for both of RNZ's articles on this to offer no neutral summary about the work WHO does, the "original mandate" of the organisation, any kind of factual context It's just the perspectives of various dudes
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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Fucking hell. Luxon was on Morning Report backing Winston's "unelected globalists" garbage today. Their silence on what's happening in the US isn't cowardice or lack of skill, but alignment. They're happy to cosy up to the regime, despite everything it's doing. #nzpol
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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
NZ taxpayers spent $6M to bring Michelin stars here and only paid $3M to the WHO. Contributing to world health seems like a much better spend to me. #nzpol
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
RNZ *again* printing extremist PR verbatim without sufficient critique or analysis Nor a response from opposition or health professionals or NGOs Nor in an environment where they're promoting, or even reporting, on legitimate health crises or issues This is a choice www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
"Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in private" Grandma Miriam, Holocaust survivor.👇
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Bondi: we’ll call off ICE if you give us your voter rolls. Now it’s coming into focus www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shooting
Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.
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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
There’s a reason Paul Goldsmith wants to make it legal for Destiny Church to use force to enforce the Crimes Act.
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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 25/01/2026
" ...at least 11 “lone actors” charged with terrorism or serious violence had been members of the NSN or in communication with its leaders. That included the Australian Christchurch shooter, who donated money to Sewell shortly before carrying out the massacre on two New Zealand mosques..."
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Wow! This report by @mihiforbes.bsky.social is a must watch! Quite shocking that an ex-ACT candidate mentions that David Seymour was hoping that the treaty bill would cause a civil war. Also, it made me realise why aren’t we calling a ACT a far right party, yet?
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Mata Reports | ACT: The Foreign Influences That Have Shaped David Seymour's Political Agenda | RNZ
YouTube video by RNZ
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