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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I wonder who that babe quoted in the third slide could be… must be someone really sexy and involved in direct action or something

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Peace Action Ōtautahi @peaceactnotautahi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Our aerospace summit blockade was an enormous success despite police aggression. Ngā mihi maioha to our brave peace activists! 🔥 #nzpol #nz #peaceactivism #freepalestine #antiwar

36 arrests at National Aerospace Summit. Organisers claim “major victory”.

On 08/10/2025, more than 100 peace activists descended on Te Pae Convention Centre to blockade and disrupt the National Aerospace Summit for it's ties to the United States Military and international weapons companies. The protest, organised publicly online by Peace Action Ōtautahi, was extremely successful in challenging the narrative around what the aerospace industry really is, the group states.

Around 6.30am, groups of activists chained themselves and blockaded various entrances to the building. Of these activists, 22 were arrested, and three minors were detained and released, most at the main entrance.

Later in the day, Police arrested 14 more activists for obstructing Police vehicles leaving the summit with previously-arrested activists inside, as well as for wilful trespass, and breach of bail conditions. Three protesters were held overnight, and released around 11.30am on 09/10/25.

We celebrate the disruption of the summit and labels the protest as a major victory.

"We set out to expose the aerospace industry as what it really is, a front for developing and launching foreign military technology. And we did exactly that," states a spokesperson for the group. "It's clear from the response that these links aren't common knowledge, but thanks to these brave activists who were willing to put their bodies on the line, our legitimate concerns have entered the public conversation."

The summit will be held again in Christchurch next year.

The spokesperson remarks: "The number of people who are now aware of what aerospace really means, and how New Zealand is complicit in war crimes around the globe, has just been exponentially increased. I'd expect the number of people willing to take direct action against this summit next year to be magnitudes larger."

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

experiencing a swell of patriotism over our officials repeatedly losing secret government documents at second hand stores

RNZ: Confidential Wellington council documents found by man in mayoral desk bought from dump

Newsroom: Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

Nothing happened for a year. Then in August 2025 a shopper browsing through a pile of op shop goods made a most surprising discovery. The trove of secret documents from the Portsmouth meetings had been accidentally donated to a Hutt Valley Salvation Army store.

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Shame on cops, shame on aerospace!! Please spread the word 🕊️ #nzpol

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

For such a short video, this does a brilliant job at explaining military links within the aerospace summit and why we’re blockading. Please share widely! #nzpol #kikorangi

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mcc @dryad.technology · 27/09/2025

They made my existence into an "issue" then complained I'd become a single issue voter

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Unreal that a handful of greedy assholes hellbent on destroying Aotearoa’s humanitarian legacy are being enabled to do so by all our parliamentary processes. If an overhaul wasn’t already clearly needed, it surely is now #nzpol

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Relishing the moment of seeing human rights for trans people expanding instead of contracting. Great mahi, Kenya!

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Word on the street is the only thing the Aerospace Summit will be ‘innovating’ this year is ticket refunds…

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Urbanist optimism ✨ all roads of progress lead back to grassroots activism!!

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Sometimes, the right book falls in your lap at the right time. @erikkennedy.com’s Sick Power Trip is that book. Need something beautifully realistic and tenderly addressing the state of the world? This’ll be your medicine too.

Erik Kennedy’s Sick Power Trip on OP’s green stripy duvet, next to their hand holding a cup of coffee. A rather pleasant Saturday morning scene.

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Materially disrupting the business of war, one blockade at a time ✊ stand with PAŌ against war criminals conducting business in #christchurch! #nzpol #peaceactivism

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Peace Action Ōtautahi @peaceactnotautahi.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The Aerospace Summit is back. Why is this conference of “innovation” so concerning for peace activists? Sign up to blockade at the link in our bio! (Graphics crossposted from Instagram - alt text included) 1/2

Vintage image of a woman with a globe on her head, riding a rocket, is the centre image on a black background. Top red text reads: THE AEROSPACE SUMMIT IS BACK. Bottom white text reads: WHY IS THIS A PROBLEM? with a white arrow to the next image.

Stop sign on a street is the background. Text reads: “The Aerospace Summit is being sold to us as “innovation” and “opportunity”. In reality, it is a meeting ground from weapons manufacturers, war profiteers, and government officials who see the sky about as a place of wonder, but as the next battlefield.
This is not harmless “space exploration”. It is about militarising the skies, monopolising space, and using technology to expand surveillance and control. When corporations and states claim ownership of space, they do it for power and profit — not for people.
We cannot ignore how deeply tied this industry is to war crimes and occupation.”

A bombed image of Rafah is the background to text that reads: “This summit is dangerous for our city and for our world. It normalises the idea that war and exploitation are “progress”. It invites those who profit from bloodshed into our communities. And it tells our young people that the future lies in building weapons instead of building peace. We don’t need a summit of arms dealers and war profiteers. We need futures of justice, solidarity, and compassion.”

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

NZ journalists could easily hound Peters for this. Instead they harassed Doyle. And 2/3s of the coverage I've seen of Doyle resigning frames the resignation up as being another scandal for the Greens NZ media is a direct platform for abuse against diversity - the evidence is clear

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

SWers have been speaking to the harms of “save the children” censorship forever, even more so since FOSTA-SESTA. It materially ruins people’s livelihoods with little pushback. Maybe if we took lead from those at the front line of this fight, we’d be looking at a different battle altogether.

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Collaborative event across a few leftist orgs here in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Worth tagging along - have a giggle and piss off ACT at the same time! #nzpol

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

No singular party should be cornering this much of the public's news diet. The right wing rot in MSM *is* much worse than it used to be, and it's not "just for clicks" or because of a "lack of resources". It's an intentional decision to poison the well of public comprehension. #nzpol

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

No surprise it's the same evil conglomerates looking to expand their empire here, despite the dangers to our rural whānau and Papatūānuku. They know how primed NZ gvt is to roll over for corporate profits; we know how these data centres destroy quality of life for working class people. #nzpol

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Started looking at my genealogy… rare ignore is bliss moment. So far I’m only finding bigger and stinkier pieces of shit, not a single interesting/artistic/not terrible person in the whole bunch. Wicked 😬

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Share widely! These two young people have put themselves on the line to materially disrupt genocide and they need our support. A strong legal battle against NIOA, a genocide complicit weapons manufacturer, is a direct disruption of the war machine. Please donate if you have the means. #nzpol

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We need to understand what organised solidarity with Queer and trans people materially looks like, esp with the far right pimple growing in #AoNZ, and this is it.

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We’re pretty spoilt with these new releases. The horrors persist etc but damn we’re lucky

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Sam 🪼سام @symbolicmyths.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Sunday 29th June at Wea Ōtautahi!!

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Manawatia a Matariki ✨ thankful for a beautiful new year to remind me how grateful I am for my creative practices and my whānau. Gotta revel in moments of art to keep up the good fight. I love you, Aotearoa 💋

Close up of a cafe table with Ocean Vuong’s “The Emperor of Gladness” open to the first chapter, next to a closed black journal and an iced americano.

Stack of printed collaging materials on a leather chair. Top piece is titled “war is over” from a peace activist mag from the 70s, sourced through justseeds.

Photo of Davien’s blue jeans and black platform low cut doc martens with red socks. They have a black journal on their lap and are sitting on a park bench, with grass visible in the background.

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Incredibly important reporting on Alex’s story - Farrier has linked actions points for complaints here. Hoping plenty of cis folks will be loudly complaining. #nzpol

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

1954 NZ Labour party poster, showing how National has always worsened the cost of living. #nzpol

A vintage political pamphlet from New Zealand Labour criticising the National Party’s handling of the economy. It reads: “The Cost of Living is a ‘National’ Disaster,” with “National” in quotation marks to imply blame. A cartoon woman stands beside groceries with the caption, “No wonder housewives are desperate!” Below that, the text reads: “Through Nationalist Bungling, Prices are impossibly high — And they will soar still higher.” The document is stamped multiple times with “University of Auckland Vertical File – To be used in the library only.” The pamphlet appears to be from a mid-20th-century election campaign, likely Labour Party material.

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This happened with my TPB submission and doubled the amount of time it took to submit - tautoko writing in a separate doc! #nzpol

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Te Pāti Māori @tepaatimaori.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Slashing roles at Manatū Taonga. Gutting Te Ara. Axing digital history for schools. This isn’t just cost cutting. It’s this govt austerity version of burning books. A government that cares about the future wouldn’t erase the past. #HistoryMatters #TePātiMāori #NZPol

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This content hugely contributes to our understanding of our social history. Defunding this mahi (while handing out tax cuts) is an attempt to manufacture consent by obscuring reality and history - you don't fight what you don't understand. #nzpol

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Grateful there are journalists like David Farrier that hold the line and call out transphobic media slop in #AoNZ. There's not enough people in positions of relative power who use it to directly challenge this filth, and as our rights & material conditions worsen, it's more important than ever.

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Given that Marco Rubio is condemning NZ's decision to sanction Israeli ministers, and demanding we change our stance, perhaps we need to seriously reconsider military entanglement with the US. They're actively attempting to undermine our sovereignty in regards to foreign policy

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 10/06/2025

Getting real hard to stop looking like someone standing in front of a corkboard covered in red string when we keep being proven right about it aye

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 06/06/2025

It's reassuring to finally see this getting media coverage. We still have not received a response from the Minister. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Prominent medical bodies call for release of delayed gender affirming healthcare guidelines

A small section on advice for prescribing puberty blockers has caused the delay.

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The racism blatantly paraded around in parl right now is disgusting. The double standards are the point, because the aim is to enforce colonial censorship to the highest feasible degree. Incredibly grateful to TPM for being principled & dignified where the rest of govt largely refuses to. #nzpol

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Almost $25 AUD minimum wage… NZ would neverrrr.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I've got my gripes with Engels, but the concept of Social Murder is so incredibly useful for understanding the enforcement of gender; society does not have to explicitly put a gun to your head in order for it to kill you, it just has to put you in conditions which you cannot reasonably survive.

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Sometimes, motivation for finishing the semester has to be a *gift to self* that you can’t use till you submit everything. I finished Vuong’s “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” last week, so this seemed like a fitting choice. Plus, a new fancy journal never hurts the poetic process…

Hand holding Ocean Vuong’s new novel and a new unopened black moleskine journal in front of a window. There is grass visible outside and a yellow pot with an (admittedly sad) plant on the windowsill behind the books.

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Labour has proven they can’t - or won’t - rise to any of the challenges of our times. Those deeply seated within the party are well ingratiated into the private industries that need to be regulated. They won’t offer any real political alternatives because they’re National (red edition). #nzpol

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Leftist movements should be vigilant about this. #Queer people very quickly become pawns in ideological chess. Not only does this dehumanise us, but it others Queer identity not as an innate part of our personhood but as a fluid political position.

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The aim is to make us too scared and vulnerable to exist in public places. That means conformity or structural isolation. Both of those mean immense suffering, if not death. *This* is what ‘defining a woman’ bills and other transphobic bs in gvt results in; it leads to direct violence. #nzpol

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Davien @davi-en.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

ATTENTION ŌTAUTAHI: SJP🇵🇸 calls on students at the University of Canterbury to rally ‼️TODAY‼️ at 12pm to protest UC’s institutional complicity in the genocide of Palestinians. Say NO to >$330,000 invested in armaments! #nzpol

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Uncut Femmes @juliagiantrat.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

the average cis person would have to be admitted into a psych ward if they suddenly had to manage the regular stress of day-to-day that we all face with the added pressure of being a tranny and having the Entire World focus on trying to kill you almost every day

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 22/05/2025

“they are *withheld* from us because we’re trans” is unfortunately succinct and correct.

Texas Medicaid prior auth. flowchart for any type of hormones where as long as you don’t have gender dysphoria it’s approved in green and if they do it’s a big fat red deny request.

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