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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙

@cleverhansel.bsky.social
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Sometime cabaret reprobate, civic participation nerd, digital wonk, crochet aficionado, several neuroses in a trenchcoat. Pronouns he/they/ia. Wellington & Lower Hutt, Aotearoa New Zealand. Views are my own and not my employers'.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've been working in climate change for nearly five years now, and every day in my inbox there's a new "oh shit, I didn't think of that as a climate headline and yet" article www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1...
rnz.co.nz
Seventh person killed by bear in Russian region in a month as spate of attacks grows
A Russian woman has been fatally mauled by a bear in her garden, the seventh such death in her Siberian region this month, state investigators said, amid a nationwide spate of killings that experts bl...
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Ben Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz · 22/09/2026
All of NZ Bluesky is just SICKOS YES at the moment.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Freedoms & Outdoors Party - firmly fellow travellers these days.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think you guys were probably the inspiration - someone on an interparliamentary delegation would have seen the honey in the gift shop and gone 'heyyyyy wait a minute'. I am reliably informed that it took years of wrangling to get it over the line here.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We have a beehive (a literal one) at nz's parliament too! Staff couldn't resist the pun. It's tucked down the side of Parliament House
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Peaches The Mint Chicks No Doubt David Bowie Pokey Lafarge NOFX The Kills (×2) The Tiger Lillies (×2) OdESSA (×5 or more) Manhattan Transfer Never let them guess your next move.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I've never been one for vandalism, which makes it all the more remarkable that every time I see a Tesla on the road I feel a near-irresistible impulse to key it.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Oh boy. Will this be one of the three or four potential incidents already known to the public, or an exciting new addition? - Human Rights Commission head to be investigated over conduct www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
RNZ headline: Human Rights Commission head to be investigated over conduct. Dr Stephen Rainbow (chief commissioner) pictured.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
anyone with a large following who is chronically online knows it is important to make sure you have friends willing to stage an IRL intervention at any indications you have developed Poster's Madness
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 11/06/2026
I realize there's a high bar but it could be argued that Raymond, who actively killed all of Exxon's renewable energy experiments and emissions research *after* company insiders measured oil's climate impacts, was one of the most evil CEOs of the 20th century www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Lee Raymond, Exxon CEO Who Doubted Climate Change, Dies at 87
Lee Raymond, the former head of Exxon Mobil Corp. who oversaw the biggest corporate merger in the history of the oil industry and was derided as “the Darth Vader of global warming” for his skepticism ...
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I should just tee this up every Budget Day huh
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The NZ parliamentary complex is widely known to be haunted. We're overlooking the very real possibility that lobbying documents from tobacco giants and GHG emitters being mysteriously dropped on ministers' desks - and perhaps even minor legislative drafting? - are the work of civic-minded ghosts.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
And the govt's responses quoted in the Stuff article, particularly Bish's, are – surprise surprise – more consistent with the Fonterra lobbying doc: static1.squarespace.com/static/60de6...
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The Bar Association's position is consistent with the advice Cabinet received from MoJ officials and legal experts - see proactive release: www.justice.govt.nz/assets/Docum...
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 25/03/2026
Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.
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Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Post a banger that isn't in English ARTIST: 이날치 (LEENALCHI) TITLE: 범 내려온다 ("Tiger is Coming") Groove-funk take on South Korean pansori (traditional musical storytelling) youtu.be/SmTRaSg2fTQ?...
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[온스테이지2.0] 이날치 - 범 내려온다(with 앰비규어스 댄스컴퍼니)
YouTube video by 온스테이지ONSTAGE
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Incredible stuff happening at Spencer’s Gifts
RIP now loading
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I've seen many tone-deaf corporate fauxpologies in my time, and this is shaping up as one of the all-timers. Featuring classic hits like: - WE'RE the real victims here - Just trust me bro - I'm totally prepared to step down except no I'm not www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
rnz.co.nz
Manage My Health CEO: 'Trust us even though we've dropped the ball'
The chief executive of beleaguered patient portal says he is open to standing down if required.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
In my sleep sometimes - not regularly or often, but a few times a year - my dreaming brain will identify songs that technically work as a mash up. Today I awoke with Björk's Bachelorette x Sisqo's Thong Song ringing in my ears.
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Chairman George @superbunnyhop.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
You know how back in the '60's, Russ Meyer would make movies called things like "Journey to The Planet of 1,000 Babes" and "Revenge of the Toxic Buxotic Karate Babes?" Well, one of those babes lives upstairs from me. And now she's in trouble and needs our help! youtu.be/rsk6V4mXIBM
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GoFundMe Update: The Tami Roché Story
YouTube video by Super Bunnyhop
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This is a genuinely lovely thing to do, so do share this.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burn- ing flowers I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air
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AJ Fitzwater is Undead 💀 ⬛🟪⬜️🟨 @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The words FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE laid overtop David Lynch's face, an older white man with white hair and a serious look.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The inter-tidal zone between the two being a truly awful John Waters moustache I grew during lockdown to freak colleagues out on Zoom
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Struck by the sudden highly millennial-coded realisation that almost everything I did in the '10s was painfully ironic, and almost everything I have done in the '20s is painfully sincere
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Mike Kay (he/him/ia) @mike-kay.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Remember, remember.
An illustration of Taranaki maunga with the words 'Remember Parihaka Fifth of November'.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
And the knock-on effects from *that* include things like making it harder/slower to access healthcare - which is one way climate change disproportionately affects disabled people, and relates to OP's question!
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
And landslides too, in steeper suburbs. A veritable buffet of options! Not sure how your neighbourhood will fare, but the central suburbs are very exposed to sea level rise, so when the arterial transport routes that pass through them are affected, there are knock-on effects for the whole city.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I have some not-great news about how impacted by climate change we're likely to be, though...
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Welp, time to reset the giant novelty counter again environment.govt.nz/news/governm...
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Government announces a series of changes to NZ’s climate change law
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
*being dunked into a flushing toilet* this is classic ad homineglbbbbglbglbglbb
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
'my job is Email' 'my job is Spreadsheet' This is comms erasure. My job is Canva, PowerPoint and seven thousand Chrome tabs.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
My phone keeps autocorrecting LinkedIn to KinkedIn, and honestly I think FetLife is missing a branding opportunity
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
NZ climate journalism summed up in 2 articles: RNZ: govt guts climate disclosures regime, a key tool for delivering Paris Agreement commitments www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... Also RNZ: govt lifts burden on finance industry (actual climate change impacts not mentioned) www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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New Zealand guts climate policy it bragged about on the world stage
The law was once held up internationally as a model of transparency. The government just weakened it.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
(this is genuinely cool citizen democracy stuff, my brain is just cooked from spending too much time at the intersection of personal and professional social media) Ping @leolastname.bsky.social
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
When I was A young boy My father Took me into the city To see a marching band He said –
Screenshit of LinkedIn post by Nicole Curato, Professor of Democratic Governance: Can global citizens' assemblies give voice to the stateless, the displaced and the unrecognised?
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Te Ao Māori News - 🤖 (unofficial) @teaonews.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Moriori people, tchakat henu (tangata whenua) of Rēkohu, the Chatham Islands have much to celebrate with the first-ever Moriori language week kicking off this November.
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First-ever Moriori language week a ‘long time coming’
Moriori people, tchakat henu (tangata whenua) of Rēkohu, the Chatham Islands have much to celebrate with the first-ever Moriori language week kicking off this November.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
As was something of a habit bsky.app/profile/clev...
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
And if you're thinking, huh?, wait, I thought he missed the vote on that firearms bill – – you're correct. Seymour also missed that vote, in that same year, because he was late, because he spent too long bragging to reporters on the tiles about how hard he was going to vote against it.
Headline: David Seymour hoists himself with his own petard, providing small moment of levity. Apr 2, 2019.The Government MPs maintained big smiles throughout Question Time, handing a bucket of lollies passed down the front bench, National MPs - including the man obliged to lose to Seymour every election, Paul Goldsmith - could be seen openly laughing, with Maggie Barry wiping what looked to be tears from her eyes.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Look, it's the least of our worries given the NZ govt's decision to weaken climate change targets BUT as a committed pedant i cannot let David Seymour claim unchallenged that he was the only MP to vote against the current target. Because he didn't - he missed the vote, lol. The bill passed 119-0.
screenshot: ACT misses climate vote, allowing bill through unanimously
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Climate change isn't happening, except it is and it's natural, except it's not and it's a scam by UN/WEF (((globalists))), except it is and it's HAARP geoengineering, except it's a good thing actually because CO2 is plant food and truth is unknowable and science is just a matter of opinion!
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a cartoon character is wearing a pink hat and making a funny face
Alt: Louise Belcher from the cartoon Bob's Burgers, staring with one eye twitching
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I feel like screaming. Mis/disinfo is hobbling every part of the climate change response - the premise (CC is a hoax), the cause (govt weather control), the means (the UN wants to ban meat), adaptation (managed retreat is a govt land grab), to emergency response (scammers targeting ppl in disasters)
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
[wearily resetting my giant novelty Days Since Last Hera Lindsay Bird Tweet Moment counter from 05 to 00] #nzpol
@HeraLindsayBird: godDAMN this stupid milkloving piece of shit dumbass mean spirited sale at brisolcoes racist sexist 40% off deck furniture piss country
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I'm spicing up my work day by dropping mispronunciations into meetings and seeing who pulls me up on them. So far no one has reacted to me pronouncing awry to rhyme with jewelry. Time to escalate: pronouncing whack-a-mole to rhyme with guacamole.
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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
the exposed moral wound of fossil extraction is real and is worth knowing the torn bloody edges of, but you can't get people to participate in other modes of living by just showing them the wound and asking them to feel how much it really hurts.
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Good to see mainstream media also highlight the threat VFF poses to New Zealand's liberal-democratic firmament, though it's much, much greater than presented in this article. | Behind the boring promises: the protesters trying to reshape local democracy www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
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