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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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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Take advantage of free public transport throughout Victoria! Not just the city trams and trains!
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is outrageous. The govt is playing with fire
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I’m free this weekend
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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 · 27/05/2026
How fucked, and who of us is fucked. You can guarantee that some will come out of this quite nicely. They look after their mates
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I’m prepared to believe that Luxon has given the rest of cabinet, and the govt generally, carte blanche to do whatever they want and whatever it takes, in return for his knighthood and unlimited travel and photo opportunities, unencumbered by actual work
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Can’t read - paywalled
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
And for the benefit of anyone remaining confused, it is *still* May 2026 - today, tomorrow, and for the rest of the week
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We shall decide what’s in the public interest, Luxon, not you. What you meant to say, and what is factually correct, is; “it’s not in *my* interest”
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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"
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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 · 05/03/2026
Water will be the future flash point, for certain
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Yes, and so does India, and that is a concern
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Yes, but while Pakistan is a relatively recent political entity, tribal and ethnic scrapping in the region have a much longer history
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
They’ve been scrapping for centuries
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I know, but my vocabulary is exhausted when it comes to addressing issues concerning trump and his govt and all the govts enabling and supporting him. I no longer have the appropriate words
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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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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If we cannot eat the rich, maybe we just burn down $20M+ homes
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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 · 03/03/2026
There is not one single, principled person in government
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Sounds utterly miserable down there! Keep the fire burning!
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We need to redirect that anger
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Maybe we need to find a way to redirect people’s anger. It’s clearly the case that Peters’ support for this govt has played a large part in bringing NZ down to the abysmal economic, social and environmental condition we are in
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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
True to a point, but Peters is becoming increasingly unstable and unpredictable, and I think his age and mental state will count against him. It’s the disengaged that really trouble me, and that is why I like the idea of some sort of external crisis (not Peters generated) to focus peoples’ minds
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I’m happy for this govt to end any way it takes. I don’t trust Peters’ judgement, and I am willing to take a chance. But in reality, what % of the vote Peters thinks he might get, and what he actually gets, are 2 different things. I think the public is over both Peters, and Jones
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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
An apt description. Maybe also, a pocket full of mumbo jumbo
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I would rather like to see a government crisis of some description that would bring about an early election, but I’m not sure how that could be engineered. Ideas, anyone?
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
He is the most shallow, vacuous, urban hayseed of an individual. In a different era he would have achieved peak career development selling vacuum cleaners door to door
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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 · 26/02/2026
I would like to send David Seymour’s DNA and any other biometric data to the US, intact, in a box ⚰️
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Thank you! More family staying, with 2 y/o and 6 week old so days are rather structured, but beach time for all is a priority
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Palm Beach, Waiheke. Our favourite beach. Very fortunate in being on the island for a few weeks
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Wrong? That’s fightin’ talk!
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I have never called it anything else but rego, but maybe its the Australian in me
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Water temp still around 20 so lovely for swimming
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
My current situation. Coping well!
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The chainsaw is my tool/weapon of choice in this instance
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Nobody is making any money giving the Sassy Little Hobbit advice on dealing with her neighbour’s tree
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Thanks for posting that info also 👍
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
You are entitled to cut it above the property boundary line and throw the offending wood back over onto their property
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Mike @drmike.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The gas man cometh! Job done in 10 minutes. Off to find coffee and food
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