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Mike

@drmike.bsky.social
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Australian New Zealander. Retired, but maintaining a keen interest in landscapes, seascapes & urban environments. ngai Aotearoa ahau

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 27/05/2026
BUT WE STILL HAVE A FUCKING MINISTRY FOR HORSE RACING!?!?!?! make it make sense. #nzpol
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Great to see McLaren on the podium and Lawson in the top 10 Really enjoying this season! #F1
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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 06/03/2026
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
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Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 06/03/2026
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Here's @lucyham.bsky.social with a great piece of research about the local right-wing establishment social engineering operation occurring of late. "Powerful right-wing regressive weirdos gather to plot at Atlas-linked conference in Australia"
theshot.net.au
Powerful right-wing regressive weirdos gather to plot at Atlas-linked conference in Australia - The Shot
There is a transnational Islamophobia Industry of massive family foundations and “think tank” operations that have been generating fear and loathing of Muslims since the 1990s.
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Just like you replaced the Taliban with the Taliban Your president and government have shit for brains
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 03/03/2026
Oh sure .... the shortage of $20M+ homes is the problem that we should be worrying about in NZ right now when we're "moving on" record numbers of homeless people. FUCK THIS PANDERING TO THE RICH! FUCK OFF! #nzpol
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Absolutely no further evidence is necessary to show that this govt places corporate profits way above absolutely everything else, and it is all justified to the public through comprehensively debunked trickle down economic nonsense. We’re mugs to tolerate this bullshit
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Seymour, Peters, and proctologist searching for Luxon’s brain Proctologist to Luxon: “Bend over and say Ahhhh!”
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Luxon OK with the nuclear option
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Except for the hair, these inflatable adverts seem the perfect metaphor for Luxon; Full of air Inarticulate Flailing Always looking for attention
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Funny how nobody is advocating that AI replace tech CEO jobs, given how adept AI bots seem to be at making shit up and sprouting rubbish
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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Is it just me that thinks if the cars were going through store fronts instead of children there'd be something from this govt about it? But since it's people's lives and not businesses livelihood they're quiet. Since their policies create the situation, they're quiet. Deafeningly quiet. #nzpol
nzherald.co.nz
Student road patroller hit at crossing becomes 5th child run over on school run this month
The latest child casualty was on morning duty when they were struck by a car.
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This is unacceptable and is reinforced in part by the likes of Simeon Brown, Ryan Bridge, and others with their "war on cars" fuelling the attitude of car supreme Time to revert back to the Labour Speed Management Policy and also get a lot more raised crossings installed. A LOT MORE.
nzherald.co.nz
Student road patroller hit at crossing becomes 5th child run over on school run this month
The latest child casualty was on morning duty when they were struck by a car.
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
My current situation. Coping well!
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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Returned from holiday to the house for a day as the gas man needs access to change the gas meter. Nothing to eat in the house, no coffee, and I can’t leave until he is here. No time given for his arrival. Nothing to do but sit and wait. Could be a looooong day! 😖
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Solid burn. 🔥
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion
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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
This from the Spinoff awhile ago covers a bit of the Banks side of things.
thespinoff.co.nz
The curious case of Winston Peters and ‘Brexit bad boy’ Arron Banks
The bankroller of Nigel Farage's Brexit campaign has spent most of 2020 in NZ, becoming an ardent supporter of Winston Peters and NZ First – and the feeling is mutual.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Advance is in NZ too, and these guys have form here, there and elsewhere. www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11...
abc.net.au
How the boomer meme-industrial complex helped shred Bill Shorten's campaign
A video has emerged of a Liberal Party consultant revealing details of the social media savvy used to outflank Labor in the election and win the 'battle of the thumbs'.
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Interesting parallels between Peters in the NZ parlt, and Hanson in the Aus senate. Both vile, racist PoSs. We know who is behind Hanson, but who are the dark forces behind Peters? He’s working on someone’s agenda, for certain
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
While Shane Jones is channeling Trump (each one a pornophile sack of shit), Winstone Peters has found his intellectual* and ideological soulmate in Australia’s Pauline Hanson - bigotry, racism & grievance Pauline Hanson is an idiot’s idiot
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Here’s what you can do…Get angry! Get very angry! And take your anger out on this government of fools. Let them know how fucking angry you are! www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbei...
rnz.co.nz
What can you do if the weather forecast terrifies you?
Explainer - We’ve already had more weather emergencies in 2026 than all of last year. How do you cope with weather stress and anxiety?
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The 8:00 am swim. A bit later than usual. Cool air but the water is great!
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
You picked a great day for this, you absolute fools. Every decision you make takes you closer to Trump’s USA. The only consolation is that it also takes you closer to Trump’s inevitable ignominious demise. May you all suffer in hell bills.parliament.nz/v/6/27caed65...
bills.parliament.nz
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Thinking I should return to this place for a while, or at least spend a bit more time here. X is giving me murderous thoughts. Not unreasonable in the circumstances, but I have too much on my plate over the next couple of years to fit in a prison term as well
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I am prepared to believe Luxon still lived with his mum and dad at age 20, and had an 8:30 pm bed time
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
why the fuck isn't the government pouring money into and emergency response to this??
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Back on the streets at 6:00 this morning to resume my exercise regime after almost a year of relative inactivity. Hopefully all the ailments are done with. Got to get that step count up! Great to see so many people out and about at an early hour
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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
#nzpol I’ll keep saying it. This corrupted slag heap of a man should be removed from power permanently. He’s a criminal who should face justice.
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Mrs Larry has just driven the length of Dominion Rd and reports it is Bogan Central, as black-clad crowds migrate towards Eden Park for the Metallica concert. Take card out there
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
In what universe is this a good deal for NZ, and in what universe could the bumbling perpetrators of this fiasco term themselves “good economic managers”?
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
So we are paying $46m more for smaller ferries that will be delivered 4-5 years later than IREX, but still have no idea on port-side costs apart from NACT1 continuing the Kiwi-way tradition of do absolutely minimum rather than properly invest in a 100 year asset....
rnz.co.nz
New Cook Strait ferries won't cost more than $2b, Rail Minister vows
Peters says taxpayers have saved $2.3 billion while still getting the ferries and infrastructure they want.
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This looks more like a promotion for World Philosophy Day
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A.Better.World @skyladsy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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KiwiRed @kiwired.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
#NZPol
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Clearly Luxon’s idea of a “mature conversation” is one in which we all reach a point of agreeing with him and his govt - his govt being the paragon of maturity Luxon, we can be mature and still vigorously oppose the sale of state assets, as you will soon see cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_ful...
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Ally Stewart @allystewart.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
THIS is the inconvenient truth
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Paul Dutton @pdutts68.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The very words that should get this idiot removed from Presidency. He can’t be controlled and he has too many equally dumb potential protectors. Making him far too close to those nuclear buttons.
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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
You’re never too old to make worse friends than Slater
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Scale. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Scale. On one side of scale, weighing heavily, a small gold weight marked “OCT 7 2023”. On the other side, much lighter, a huge bag (of sand?) marked “EVERY DAY SINCE.”
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Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 @alcappuccinoit.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Pretty clear what’s coming. See you all in the camps.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Agree that this is in many ways a solid deconstruction of blackpill. What bothers me about it, though, is the insistence that you can't break it down by traditional left/right. And you *can.* Groypers are ABSOLUTELY right wing. And they are ABSOLUTELY interested in the nation state project.
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Queen St Tāmaki Makaurau this morning. Great to see such a huge turnout in support of Palestinians
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
BRIDGE CROSSING POSTPONED. Change to the Gaza March for tomorrow. Starts in Aotea Square.
NEW ROUTE AOTEA SQ TO VICTORIA PARK Saturday 13 September 9:30am
Harbour Bridge March postponed due to high windAfter reviewing multiple weather models, including a forecast commissioned twice from MetService specifically for the Harbour Bridge.  It is clear that predicted winds of 75-85KM/H make the crossing unsafe. 
Postponing the Harbour Bridge march is the only responsible course of action.
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🇨🇦 NanaGale in Alberta @nanagale.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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Until All of Us are Dead @solidarity5ever.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
RIGHT NOW Trump's deportations and military deployments to US cities are political violence. Police brutality against Stop Cop City and other protesters is political violence. The mainstream thinks it only counts as political violence when the state didn't explicitly order it & that's a filthy lie.
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