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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Those NZ Initiative statue avatar twitter pricks claiming Switzerland's referendum model is compatible with high development. Swiss women got the vote in 1971, after failed referenda in the past. It was 1990 when the last Canton gave women voting rights. In 2009 they banned minarets by referendum.

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Tam (she/her) @tamarinsauce.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Are cats editing the SST now?

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¡No Pasarán, Mate! @nopasarannz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

“There was still a minimum wage and additional payments such as Working for Families and the accommodation supplement that could be used to top up workers' wages.” So they’re trying to prop up private companies by topping up poverty wages with taxpayer dollars? #nzpol

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

One presumes no one involved in UK Labour did a quick search for "Robotdebt". Because that should tell you exactly where this is going to go, both in terms of the human misery it resulted in and the fate of the government which introduced it.

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This certainly applies to all reporting on Seymour & ACT

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Why?! Is this ‘popular with friends’? Why am I seeing this!

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This is a hard compromise I’ve always been proper left & have despaired as the Overton Window has cleaved to the right over the years. The left needs a reboot to remember who they really are

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Fiona Bolger @fabtknz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I’m assuming there’s a reason this land hasn’t been built on before now - is it the fact that it was a lagoon before the earthquake?

Map showing large lagoon that was drained after 1931 Napier earthquake.

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Arc @arcbreak.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Whenever someone tries to run the government like a business they do the same stupid bullshit every useless upper management asshole does. Slash staffing and hours and try and make it run with the bare minimum. They tank the business severely , and everyone is unhappy. Rinse repeat

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Citizen Thiel is at again with his own brand of conspiracism.

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JJW @jjw.wtf · 17/01/2025

This is actually fucked. A NZ based company is essentially empowering large retailers to create, hold, and share a massive facial recognition crowdsourced database of everyone who ever goes into a big box retailer. Wtf.

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JJW @jjw.wtf · 17/01/2025

The buried lede is that the supermarkets are using facial recognition technology and sharing it with other supermarkets

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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Big week for me legally releasing some of the hate in my heart ☺️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is why Americans are so tiresome. Normal elections last a month or so whereas Americans campaign all the fucken time. The democrats in the senate & house need to do their jobs as the opposition and actually oppose

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Oops, I forgot Julian Clary’s Sticky Moments too. Such a great night for appointment TV back then

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Back in the late 80s in Aotearoa/NZ, my friends & I used to rush home on a Friday to the nearest of our houses to watch Red Dwarf & Who’s Line. Loved Tony Slattery. Maybe had a wee crush. Vail Tony 😭🥰

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Hadley Thomson @hadley-t.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

#nzpol open.substack.com/pub/nickrock...

“I'm sure Seymour knows his Orwell and the value of a forever war to focus the population. That seems to have been his plan from the beginning.
Opposition to Three Waters, Co-Governance, Nanaia Mahuta, or respecting the intent of the Treaty. Promoting false narratives that are repeated until people accept them at face value without stopping to question whether Mãori actually hold a privileged position in this country or whether that is, in fact, laughable.
Unfortunately, the way the Herald and One News are reporting on the Bill at present seems to encourage this. They are furthering the myth that this is an important debate for our nation and not merely dog-whistle politics on behalf of the ACT party, with the goal of building support based on fear and lies.” - Nick Rockel

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FWIW … WTF?! ✊🏿🏴📎🥄🍉 @precisely.wtf · 15/01/2025

2/ Freedom of speech does not extend to disinformation. We need to criminalize such conduct and bring anyone who engages in such conduct to justice.

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Getting some ridiculous follower requests in the last few days. Plenty of humpy-arsed porn bots, but also pretend famous Hollywood types. Don’t need to see Keanu in my feed again

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I’ve just finished watching this. It’s a great black comedy in the Australian vernacular www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/bay-of...

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A high of 14 degrees & intermittent showers Autumn in January 🫤

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Thiel is such a tedious chin rubbing pseud who is just asking questions like a basement dwelling moron. The delusion of intellect is impressive. The prose Dan Brownesque.

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It really is so disappointing to see this happen. There was so much hope for a new way, but a bunch of chin rubbing pseudo intellectual men still trapped in their teens have wrecked it for the rest of us

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Cabana equality. My @smh @theage cartoon.

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Doc Martens used to last 15-20yrs and cost about £25; now they cost £170 and might be dead within 6 months. Maybe the knock offs are just as good a deal? Capitalism has even ruined Boots Theory

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/01/2025

Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Anger and mistrust of our govt is at an all-time high, for very good reason. Fear and anger can make us less rational. There are people who will use that to draw people into common cause with conspiracy theorists. Watch out for friends sharing dodgy sources. That rabbit hole leads nowhere nice.

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

AI is antisocial Using it dehumanised us

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

So ridiculous to see that Facebook is now introducing AI people on the platform when they forced me to change from my avatar to my real name to please them in 2017

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

When I was a teen, I learned about lead poisoning in my science class. It was 1980, and I was likely a victim. Certainly explains a lot of the batshit anti-vax idiots & all the other crazy shit I see online.

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I’m so hoping that the hangs on the pages were caused by people posting submissions against Seymour’s false premise

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Yeah so, this is my submission. It took nearly an hour of loading, refreshing & reloading to get it in.

Kia ora,
My name is Maria Hayward.
I am a 5th generation pakeha whose family came over to New Zealand via the Wakefield settlement in Nelson/ Whakatū.
This idea that we should be debating a treaty that has been slowly providing Mãori with redress after more than a hundred years of colonial theft and oppression is wrong.
ACT's argument is base on a false premise and misreading of article three of the treaty.
I would rather that the Waitangi Tribunal continues its work of redress and compensation to Mãori and that the government continues to include the precepts of Ti Tiriti in all
government and social aspects of life

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

‪making my submission tonight was like the early days of web pages when one could wait & make a cup of tea before the page loaded ‬

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Tonight I was invited to a jam session. It’s been a few years since I did this owing to a few deaths in my jam circle. I got to sing again with a new group. It was invigorating. I hope they’ll let me back for another session

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I remember when Evans was dropped after he did a cartoon that criticised Israel years ago. It was very prescient & exactly depicted what is going on now.

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Creatives in Aotearoa, please consider submitting to this as the UK government is looking to allow AI training using copyrighted works #kikorangi

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Looks like I’m not gonna need sunscreen for Pai’s nose this “summer” 😕

White bullbreed dog with a black eyepatch and a speckled black and pink nose

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Damnit Ōtautahi, the weather has me getting my thermals back out 🌧️🥶

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

This is the crux of all of it. Right Wing conspiracy theories are, and have always been, a projection of what capitalism and white supremacy have been doing onto their enemies. It’s the entire ballgame.

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Damn duffer Pai decided to drag me on the lead tonight 😬💀

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

My brother gave me this shag rug for Christmas last year. About to attack it with the serious vac attachment. How did boomers cope with shag pile carpet throughout their homes?

Photo of turquoise shag pile rug and a vacuum cleaner with the serious furniture sucking fitting

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Stuff showing their arse again 🙄 It’s for clicks & outrage

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Firehorsemia @firehorsemia.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Probably not a good idea to run a steam mop in sandals 😬 My poor toe

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