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Clint Fern

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 9h
Anyone in North Nelson passing Boulder Bank Drive? I'm pretty sure that all 3 coalition signs are breaking the first two of these conditions (certainly the second one).
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 11h
Name a TV show from before 1980
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Reginald Perrin on Ravioli
ALT: Reginald Perrin on Ravioli
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Stevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 11h
If anyone would like to see a short video of some snuggly bat, wrapped up like a Burrito, this is your lucky day.
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 17h
This boy's reaction to Luxon says it all.
A poor young boy utterly bored with the desperate antics of Christopher Luxon aged 13 3/4.
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/30/f... - hopefully the politicians will start taking climate commitments more seriously if it has trade consequences #nzpol
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Formal complaint that NZ climate backsliding breaches Europe trade deal
The Government's top law officer warned that if ministers blocked Mike Smith's Fonterra lawsuit, the next case would target the Crown directly. She's been proven right, reports Jonathan Milne.
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NZ: pure shitfuckery. Great new content by @thejuicemedia.com Thanks legends #nzpol
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NZ Election 2026 | 100% Pure S*itF@^kery
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NACT1st has deliberately allowed our healthcare sector to become understaffed. . #NZpol #Listener #cartoon
Patient: "I WAS FORCED TO GO TO WORK EVEN WHEN I WAS SICK."
Cartoon depicts a scene in a crowded hospital where a nurse is pushing a very sick patient. Both appear ill.

Patient: "I WAS FORCED TO GO TO WORK EVEN WHEN I WAS SICK."
Nurse: "SAME."

Refers to a RNZ report : "Some nurses working in the emergency department at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital say they have been asked to come to work despite calling in sick.
They say they have repeatedly raised concerns with management about the pressure on staff over the past two months, but little has changed."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/indonz_featured/1291868/middlemore-hospital-nurses-reportedly-asked-to-work-despite-calling-in-sick
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walter (extra bone haver) @cucumber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this video has everything (carpool coalition on instagram) #nzpol
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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No new taxes... #NZpol #Listener #cartoon
Luxon: "No new taxes"Cartoon depicts PM Luxon on an election podium in fron of an audience. Luxon: "No new taxes."
Various audience members heckle: 
"Or nurses
Or Police
Or Ferries
Or houses
Or equal pay
Or libraries
Or Bridges
Or ideas."
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm struggling to know what 3 thumbs up means. Also what's with the weird stare?
Professional weirdo Christopher Luxon putting 3 thumbs up and staring at a man in a very odd way.

Photo credit Bruce McKay/The Post
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I got 5/15 and I was actually trying. This should be Seymour's menu for the rest of his rotten life.
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henry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour won campaign launch day with some pretty simple political wisdom: - Don’t hire a room you can’t fill - Use your time in the spotlight to offer voters something My piece on yday: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
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Labour outshines National in campaign launch battle with high-energy event
ANALYSIS: Labour won in a walk by over-stuffing a smaller room than National’s.
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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Put the horrid substantive politics aside for a second. Important to note that the vast majority of Winston's assertions are fact free, ahistorical nonsense. NZF's Teaty policies intersect with empirical reality about as much as their RFK-esque health policies do: very little.
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NZ First announces plan to abolish Waitangi Tribunal
The party vows to replace the tribunal with a temporary commission, targeting what it calls a 'make-work industry'
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is GOLD!!! Ngā mihi nui @abelsteve.bsky.social Ka whawhai tonu mātou AKE! AKE! AKE! #nzpol
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 26/09/2026
The next 40 years are going to be very challenging for multiple reasons but top of the list is the damage that will come from insane weather as a result of this kind of thing. I’m sure Shane will go to his grave confident of his position, but it is wrong and provably so.
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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I had a wonderful session with the kuaka (bar-tailed godwits) at Omaha this morning. They were very chilled out, resting and relaxing after their long migration all the way from Alaska’s arctic tundra. 🪶🇳🇿
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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For Thomas Coughlan's article: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Back from town with the two new books of the week. Good luck with the launch @brannavan.bsky.social
The spines of two books.

UXO by Brannavan Gnanalingam
Dirty Work by Nicky Hager
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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
great stuff. really worth everyone's time.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 24/09/2026
Tauhou (waxeye) & blossom. tepoti Dunedin
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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
I guess they fund think tanks to do the speaking out for them?
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Daalder on the hopeless Brownlee. "That admonition, that he couldn’t just warn all the time without there being consequences, was issued last Wednesday, some 145 weeks into Brownlee’s reign. It was rather late in the piece for the Speaker to decide there should eventually be some consequences."
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Gerry Brownlee, Parliament's ineffectual policeman, wraps up chaotic term
Comment: Gerry Brownlee held MPs to a double standard, with harsh punishments for the Opposition and leniency for the coalition.
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Let's take a moment to appreciate one of the best articles on Taxpayers Union by @newsroom.co.nz journalist David Williams: Chiding in Plain Sight Well worth a read & confirms critical elements like the tobacco money and TPU essentially working in partnership w/ ACT & Nats #nickyhager #DirtyWork
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Chiding in plain sight
Inside the Taxpayers’ Union’s in-your-face push for change. Part 1 of a 2 part series.
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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sincerely good job on this one, Labour.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
Haven't seen a better AI explainer than this one (even if it somewhat overstates the AI safety stuff) www.instagram.com/reel/Ddlt1kR...
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Melissa Stokes just murdered Jordan and Farrar
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Stone cold intro on 1News this evening!🧊 #DirtyWork #nzpol
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)
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Omar Sy's Energetic Dance
Alt: Omar Sy's Energetic Dance
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interesting from the Sealord boss, calling out the supermarket CEO extravagance. "Paulin has visited the “unbelievable” Woolworths Way in Sydney. And he’s visited the big $450m south Auckland headquarters and warehouse for Foodstuffs. They’re all “opulent”, he says."
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Sealord boss says supermarket execs should strip costs from their pay and 'opulent' HQs
Doug Paulin has no faith in election pledges to break up the supermarket chains: 'We closed our factory in NZ purely because we no longer could afford to to manufacture here and meet the margin requir...
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 23/09/2026
Close your eyes and you can't tell you're listening to a comedy sketch...
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyone after the Hager book there's some copies here. Nelson pickup / countrywide delivery
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Dirty Work: The Taxpayers' Union and New Zealand's Hard Right
Buy Dirty Work: The Taxpayers' Union and New Zealand's Hard Right by Nicky Hager from your local bookstore. Twelve years after they were exposed a...
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OwairakaAroha @owairakaaroha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For the benefit of Jordan Williams, David Farrar et al, here is a comprehensive list of everyone who has successfully sued Nicky Hager for defamation in relation to allegations made in his meticulously researched books: .... End #NZPol
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Hipkins is promising to deliver a major policy .. at Labour’s campaign launch. He’s promised those attending his public meetings he’s just getting warmed up." Maybe if you've spent 3 years doing not much & don't have the energy to run a full election campaign you're in the wrong position?
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Labour’s election pitch: Better starts now… only it looks pretty much the same
The government has wrecked the economy, but don’t worry, we're not going to go hog wild changing things.
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hipkin's Labour - "fuck the environment". "When asked about Labour’s plan for the project, Paterson cited party leader Chris Hipkins’ remarks about not interfering with any projects which had already received approval under the Fast Track Approvals Act. "
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Labour's West Coast candidate backs fast-track hydro once damned as 'destructive'
Labour previously binned the Waitaha hydro scheme because of its environmental impact – now, the party’s new rep says it’s a ‘great project’ that won’t be overturned if they're elected. Fox Meyer repo...
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 22/09/2026
NZ's best literary profilist interviews Wellington writer, lawyer and cultural critic Brannavan Gnanalingam
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Portrait of an author's 'quiet masterpiece'
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Morning Report on last nights news.
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Cricket Chirp Breaks the Silence
Alt: Cricket Chirp Breaks the Silence
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bad day to have your name attached to a David Farrar astroturf operation, Kris Faafoi ...
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James Nisbet @bandit.nz · 22/09/2026
Happy GET FUCKED JORDAN WILLIAMS day to all who celebrate
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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a frankly terrible day to be launching a TPU affiliated education astroturf.
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
for those outside New Zealand: 2 years ago a veiled far-right astroturf org threatened to sue an investigative journalist for a book he was writing about them. He was not writing a book about them, but this incident meant former staff started leaking to him. He used those leaks to write a book.
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looks like being a weapons grade shit is backfiring on Jordan.
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lloyd Burr just soiled his undies
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fantastic
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Less than 24 hours after Jordan Williams’ press release the first Taxpayers’ Union source made contact… The second made contact a few weeks later. And so it began.”
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#nzpol Medical staff should not have to resort to mass resignations just to be heard by Minister Simeon Code Brown. 🤬 Vote them out. Vote them all out. www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
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'It's certainly not safe for the patients': Six staff resign from Pahīatua medical centre
Six staff at the Pahīatua Medical Centre have resigned today, amid growing concern around extreme workloads and patient safety.
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paulinabarry.bsky.social @paulinabarry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tuatara are the most unique reptile in Aotearoa since there are no longer any other close living relatives anywhere in the world. Fossils of ancient relatives have been found in the Pacific Nortwest, suggesting they were widespread in the world for a time. #tuatata #sciart #handmade #reptile #herp
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@brannavan.bsky.social U.X.O. top of the list of new releases at Volume.
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New releases — Buy books online in Aotearoa New Zealand from your independent bookshop — VOLUME
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
John Campbell ripped Hipkins apart over the landlord tax cut. Fully deserved.
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Was looking up Hipkins salary and came across some extreme AI hallucination. Apparently he's the worlds richest politician with " lucrative endorsement deals with CoverGirl cosmetics. He also owns several restaurants (the “Fat Hipkins Burger” chain) in Wellington, (cont)
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