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Jo

@dreadwomyn.bsky.social
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Delightfully acerbic, brazen, queer, pākehā, deeply curious about understanding our practices as Tangata Tiriti. through a colonial class lens. Honour Te Tiriti - return stolen land, dismantle colonial systems of power.

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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Pledge: Make Your Vote Count for Palestine
This year’s General Election provides a crucial opportunity to elect representatives who will take a stand for justice and be accountable to us, the people. Voters can use their power to demonstrate t...
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ur...
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Urgent Establishment of a Sudan Special Humanitarian Visa Pathway
Context  April 15 marked three years since the outbreak of war in Sudan. The crisis has escalated into one of the most severe humanitarian emergencies globally, with over 33.7 million people in n...
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11/07/2026
But cool, they got an economist to say 'it's not that bad' But did they fucking get a grocery checkout operator's option too?
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Signing and sharing the petition also helps.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
ZWN is asking the NZ Govt to reject the export of New Zealand’s waste to Fiji to be burned in a proposed incinerator. A solidarity campaign start at Fijian High Commission 17 April, 9 am to support communities who are fighting this proposal. Please meet at 31 Pipitea St, Thorndon. c.org/mwr2NtfPKt
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Stop the waste to energy INCINERATOR in Vuda-Saweni, Fiji Islands
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Please sign, our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ca...?
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OPEN LETTER: Call for Peace and Sovereignty for Cuba and the world!
Washington has moved to cut off Cuba’s access to imported oil and other energy resources, leading to increased blackouts andshortages of basic human necessities. “There will be no more oil or money go...
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purepapua.bsky.social @purepapua.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
At least 83,000 soldiers and police are deployed across West Papua. This isn’t “security.” It’s a security chokehold. If West Papua were a country, it would have more troops per person than North Korea — one of the most militarized states on Earth.
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A Lopsided War: 83,000 Soldiers and Police Powering Indonesia’s Violent Agenda in Papua
Soldiers and police have increasingly encroached on Papuans’ daily lives, not only to maintain security but also to advance a development agenda built on violence.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...
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Stop Failing our Māmā: Improve Perinatal Mental Health Services in Aotearoa
With the repealing and replacing of the Mental Health Act currently taking place, now is the time to get this important issue in front of decision makers to ensure provisions are in place in the new l...
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Yep, the Labour Government planted the seeds and National followed through. A recurring pattern in NZ.
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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
It's started! The 2026 #kakapo breeding season is under way, with the first nest found on Whenua Hou today. Pearl is on two eggs. #conservation #parrots #birds
A photo of a fridge door, showing kākāpō nest breeding and status as of 8/1/2026. Credit: Andrew Digby
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Steph Matuku @stephm1.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Just saw on Reddit that Manage My Health has had a major data breach.
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a man in a leather jacket and tie is saying cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Put together my Christmas wishlist. Remember that it's a political choice to allow AI and social media spaces to go unregulated and instead erode children's rights. Cool. #nzpol
My Holiday wishlist. Image of a Christmas tree.Wishing for women politicians to be protected from online violence, not told to log off.Wishing for ai deepfakes to be regulated Wishing for childrens rights online to be taken seriously
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I did catch the train in Taneatua in the 70s.
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Aotearoa Covid Action @covidactionnz.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
We support the right to strike. Wear a mask in the crowd to invest in your health 💪
The graphic has a raspberry red background with white text and a white outline image of an N95 mask. The text reads - Striking? Invest in your health by masking. There is a small violet framed white circle in the bottom right with Aotearoa Covid Action's logo inside.
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
While agribusiness lobbyists celebrate Luxon's decision to never do anything to cut their climate pollution, the skies open. Climate change means more flooding - ordinary rural and urban people will cop it while agribusiness take their money and run for higher ground www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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Dramatic photos emerge showing the sheer scale of destruction in this week’s floods
‘Screw it, I’m getting a horse,’ one local said.
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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions @nzctu.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
DIRE EMERGENCY 2,000 New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union members walked off the job across the motu today to fight for safe staffing, working equipment, and better conditions. The NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi stands with the NZPFU in their fight to keep our communities safe. #nzpol
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/op...?
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Oppose the Amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area Act
Join us in calling on the government to immediately halt all progress on the amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/09/2025
BREAKING: Three Palestinian children have died from malnutrition in southern Gaza, a source at the Nasser Medical Complex has told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ocm0cs
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
No surprise here - the Govt of the time took great care not to embed or give meaningful power to the commission - any anti climate environment is a resource to be pillaged government coalition was going to hobble & break the commission as a reporting agency. www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/19/g...
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Govt considers sidelining Climate Change Commission from emissions advice
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts repeatedly denied the plan, but then confirmed it to 1News two days later.
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Ciara 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ciaraarmstrong.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Our Labour Party also…. imo. #nzpol #Kikorangi
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
So satisfyingly beautiful 😍
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Craig @kiwicraig74.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Perfect way to deal with Destiny Church
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Here for the loom content 👏 💛✊️
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
To let it flow 🐈‍⬛🤍
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The Cat's Whiskers @thecatswhiskers.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Once again, better reporting in international press #nzpol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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New Māori queen brings hope for New Zealand in first speech: ‘Being Māori is forever’
In her first public address, Nga wai hono i te po spoke of unity and said Māori must ‘walk a new path’
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Lilith Grace Toitū Te Tiriti @lilithgrace.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This should be a source of deep shame for any govt that allows it to continue. #NZPol
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The modern supermarket, with its vast aisles of imported goods and plastic-wrapped produce, stands as a monument to a globalised food system built on inequitable foundations. open.substack.com/pub/jowrigle...
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Beyond the Aisle
Reclaiming Food Sovereignty from Supermarket Ideology
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Magenta Kaos of Bright Hairy News @xkaosmagex.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Hey you! Yeah you. Now I have your attention here's a friendly reminder to sign the greens petition to restore passenger rail! Imagine how much cheaper it would be to take a train from Wellington to Auckland compared to the Intercity bus 👀😅 #nzpol #trains action.greens.org.nz/restore_rail
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Restore Regional Rail
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Oneone ki te whenua, please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/on...
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Oneone ki te Whenua
On the 5th of May 2025, Ngati Oneone activated 'Oneone ki te whenua' 185 years to the day that our tipuna Rawiri Te Eke Tu signed 'ae ra' on Te Tiriti o Waitangi. 80 years later, the whenua of his hap...
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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The #kakapo population has dropped to 238. Adult female Lisa was found dead on Anchor Island recently, and two of the 2019 cohort, Tūmanako and Whakakini, have not been since since then and so have been removed from the official count. #conservation #parrots #birds
A juvenile kākāpō on the forest floor during the day time. Credit: Andrew Digby
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te kootahekore ranapiri @ired0mi.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
they literally know that their offer is dogshit / they know such a shit offer leads to strikes and that those strikes impact the workers more negatively than them / they know the media will take their dogshit talking points and plaster them all over / this is class war simple as that
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Federated Farmers say Kiwis are 'lucky' to have 'premium' ‘grass-Fed’ butter, but neglects to mention the rainforest destruction, polluted rivers, contaminated drinking water and climate change that goes with it. #TooManyCows www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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Kiwis 'lucky' to have 'premium' butter as only option, but have to pay market price for it - Federated Farmers
Karl Dean says Fonterra, wholesalers and supermarkets are doing their best to keep prices down.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Its been a while - global fascism and more locally Political players I refuse to name have helped me to hone some thinking about resistance leadership and Te Tiriti. open.substack.com/pub/jowrigle...
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Following, Not Leading
Pākehā Leadership in Food Justice
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Just transitions our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ke...
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Keep Tokoroa Toi Ohomai OPEN
No matter where we live in Aotearoa our communities need access to essential services, education and opportunities to grow and thrive. That includes Tokoroa and other small regional communities throug...
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Oh hiiii
A photograph of Louise, standing in front of two posters - each saying a version of Vote Louise Hutt #1 Hamilton West
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
A pair of sneakers hanging from the tree branch.
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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
A Pitch for a new political best-seller! The Adventures of Hipkins: The Plight for Promising Policy! Read he full pitch here: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/the-advent...
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
If only grid scale solar didnt waste so much agricultural land! /s
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 23/06/2025
Light snow falling over Falls Dam reservoir on the Manuherekia River, Ōmakau region. The iconic Hawkdun Ranges hiding behind the cloud. The Manuherekia was an important kāinga nohoanga (settlement) and kāinga mahinga kai (food-gathering place) place for Ngai Tahu pre European Settlement.
A man made lake from the 1930s with a headland & 2 trees , a mountain range in the distance with snow on it & heavy clouds dropping light snow
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Attempting my 3rd run at uploading my RSB submission today. Just sitting here watching what I think should be renamed the circle of success 🙌 keep trying - crashing the parliament site with righteous anger is so 2025.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
A rural Waikato map of Auckland city...
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Te Mana Raraunga not fucking around with this, slating the Census move on grounds of: - unlikely cost savings - ethics - in terms of informed consent/social license, and data sovereignty - data quality - ignoring or diluting expert recommendations
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Like all market-based solutions, biodiversity credits should be approached with deep suspicion unless grounded in a constitutional reckoning that begins by honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi as a binding political truth in Aotearoa. jowrigley.substack.com/p/biodiversi...
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Biodiversity Credits, Stolen Land, and the Risk of Recolonising Aotearoa
Offsetting justice.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Kudos to @nzgreenpeace.bsky.social on an exemplary RSB submission tool. By far, it is the easiest and simplest I have ever used. Writing a submission to OPPOSE the RSB has never been so easy - greenpeace.nz/rsb
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Regulatory Standards Bill Submission Builder
Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.
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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
If you're not sure where to start with your RSB submission, this tool by Melanie Nelson, Dr Ryan Ward and associates will help with thought starters for each area you care about. tinyurl.com/RSBTool
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​RSB tool
​ SECTOR-SPECIFIC TOOL FOR THE REGULATORY STANDARDS BILL https://tinyurl.com/RSBTool A tool to help you reflect on how the RSB could affect laws and regulation in your area – and what ...
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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This is an album from my youth. I've never stopped listening to it, and after years reporting from authoritarian countries, from China to Russia to Cuba, I've only come to appreciate it more as an adult. I am from Los Angeles, and today is a good day to listen to it.
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This should be a billboard campaign ⬇️
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
This misleading crap just gets spilled out into the media with barely any challenge. The purpose of course is to convince us that cuts to public services and the sale of assets to rentiers are all very necessary indeed. TINA. Let's unpick these manipulative stats... [Geek Level Medium to High 🧵1/n]
Excerpt from Stuff 29 April 2025...

A main focus of Tuesday’s speech was debt.

“The interest bill on Government debt has soared from $3.6b in 2014 to $8.9b last year. That’s an awful lot of money,” Willis told the crowd at Metco’s factory.

She noted the annual interest payments New Zealand was making, issuing about $500 million of Treasury bonds each week, amounted to more than was spent on law and order and defence combined.
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