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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 3h

Someone help me understand the angst around paying women what they are worth, where that money will go back directly into the economy, vs this constant angst hang up with “How will we pay for it??” 🙄🙄😑 #nzpol

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Labour's fiscal plan leaves big questions on pay equity

Comment: The Opposition's spending plans are conservative in some respects, but make heroic assumptions about how far unallocated spending can stretch

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4h

Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 4h

the man in the drunk castle

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad “‘Blessings be on this house,’ Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

comedians suffer one (1) consequence and turn into the whiniest men alive

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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 12h

Last week Israeli football fans targeted monkey chants at Black Irish players and chanted for the IDF to kill Irish people. We’ve evidence for that, but none for the claims made by this ‘journalist’. Of course, when it comes to The Special Country, they’re always the victims never the perpetrators

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Ganesh Rajaram Ahirao @ganeshahirao.bsky.social · 1h

#nzpol The economy is there to serve the people and communities in which it operates✊. To maintain that licence to operate the economy has two tasks🤔. Feed the people and house the people♥️. That is the measure of a successful economy🙂. Anything less is a failed economy😥. 🙏

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 1h

The price of backsliding on climate deals “the complaint has been covered by international media, and academics here are concerned that New Zealand is no longer seen as a "leading climate change actor that it once was".” #nzpol

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The price of backsliding on climate deals

New Zealand faces its first climate complaint under EU trade rules, but the government rejects claims climate promises have been broken.

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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 12h

What has this government been up to? Brad knows. Brad's been keeping a list (over on FB)... #nzpol

Over the last three years, I’ve been keeping a list of the rubbish this Government has done.
Stopped work on Auckland light rail.
Stopped all work on the Lake Onslow renewable battery project.
Disestablish the Ministry for the Environment.
Scrapped the smoke-free law to fund tax cuts.
Scrapped Fair Pay Agreements.
Gave $3 billion in tax cuts to landlords.
Tired to paid himself $52,000 to live in one of his own many properties, on top of his half a million dollar salary.
The so-called party of infrastructure ... cut Cook Strait ferry deal, then paid $8 million for consultants to tell them they need new ships. $700 million wasted in total. Still no ships.
Stopped the Clean Car Discount, after Luxon took an $8,000 discount himself.
Blocked statistical reporting on who does and doesn’t pay their share of tax. Think about that!
Broke its election promise and didn’t scrap the app tax.
Scrapped Three Waters, pushing costs onto ratepayers and increasing rates.
Used $4,150 of taxpayers’ money to pay for his te reo Māori classes after saying, “People in the real world should pay for it themselves.”
Halved the crayfish take for locals, but cut the commercial take by only one-fifth.
Gutted freshwater protections so cruel intensive winter grazing could continue to pollute water ways.
Took $80 million from hospitals.
Cut DOC funding by $125 million.
Scrapped the First Home Grant.
Gave half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money to their mate Bill English to do a "review".
Blew $8 million on consultants for a proposed tunnel under Wellington.
Wasted $4 million on a six-person advisory group to talk about crime and reduce youth offending. They achieved nothing.
Gave big tobacco a $216 million tax cut.
Refused to reinstate Jobs for Nature while unemployment soared.
Reduced the qualifications needed for relief teachers.
Introduced new road tolls.
Deprioritised police responses to mental health and family violence call-outs.
Slashed $107 million a year from school lunches, costing…

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 11h

Quick, someone explain to me again how ~actually it's about Israel defending itself against Hamas~ while the IDF are bombing churches and sniping Palestinian Christians in their places of worship

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Will de Cleene @zippygonzales.bsky.social · 14h

In another rare mis-step, National campaign manager Simeon Brown steps on yet another rake.

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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 12h

A rare misstep from Simeon Brown #nzpol

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 13h

I kinda figured that somebody found out asbestos was poisonous and then everybody went "oh that sucks, let's not use it anymore" but it turns out somebody figured it out in 1898 and we just kept stuffing it into buildings for another 80 years

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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 20h

Hope this bodes well for us on this side of the planet!! #nzpol

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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 15h

DON’T ever forget this. Pass it on: #nzpol

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 14h

I love the reaction to Labour’s costings from National. National who has been fact checked multiple times by the AAP. National who was called out by the ASA for misleading voters. National who use AI slop and lies on their social media every damned day. They call it “dishonest”.

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J. Jonah Jameson's Iconic Laugh

ALT: J. Jonah Jameson's Iconic Laugh

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 16h

This amateur statistician has observed that the NZ media does not cover the parties in proportion to their seats in Parliament. It does not cover them in proportion to their current polling average. It does cover them approximately in proportion to their total donations #NZpol #ViciousCycle

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I bought a six-pack of donuts when a guy next to me said, "You shouldn't eat donuts." I replied, "My grandparents parents lived to be 100." He asked, "Did they eat donuts?" I shot back, "No, they minded their own fkn business."

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 16h

Green Party put CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKER on a t-shirt challenge: Entirely Possible

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GeekeryNZ @geekerynz.bsky.social · 15h

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They are privileged, entitled, can’t bear to lose or be held to account. So, they cheat, lie, break rules, call in favours from mates in and out of the media & public office/s to win, to put themselves first, for jobs, to get off crimes, to get scholarships because they can’t compete fairly & win.

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Marama Davidson @maramadavidson.bsky.social · 22h

Fam. It's not like the Greens have never loved trains. But sure, must be a secret plan instead.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 23h

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Marama Davidson @maramadavidson.bsky.social · 23h

Coleaders have already said we would not lead Greens into any arrangement with them. It's a non goer. Focus is on Party Vote Greens so we have the biggest mandate.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 22h

I really wish I lived in a world where it isn't so damn refreshing - and more than a little shocking - to see front-loading of the idea that men have absolute, unqualified agency over, and responsibility for, their own sexual (mis)conduct.

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 23h

I know it's cliché at this point but the Cornell case so perfectly proves the double standard applied to women's behaviour vs men's. The actions (and inactions, and coverups) of dozens of men don't count if one young woman dared to go to a party first

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Obviously I adore the promise of actual intercity trains in Aotearoa, instead of the few tourist trains we have now. But I think we also really need to push for higher levels of (electrified) intercity rail freight too, and not forget such in our (correct) love for passenger rail.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

YES! This is exactly why I'm ungraciously salty about *bleep*ing grace discourse. The implied demand you pretend not to notice how, uh... extremely selective the deployment of this virtue signal is, and who is only going to get a redemption arc when there's a snow day in Hell.

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23h

meanwhile, in new zealand: www.webworm.co/tika/

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Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.butchsky.social · 02/10/2026

one thing lingering is the feeling that if there wasn't documentation he would never publicly be accountable. When parasocial confidence collapses, he's vulnerable to the question "what else hasn't told people about". idk. we should read @theradr.bsky.social's book on Repentence and Repair í guess?

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

National lies. A lot. And they keep doing it because there keeps being no real or lasting consequences. Not in Parliament. Not from the media. Not in the polls. At the ballot box? We shall see, I guess. #nzpol

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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Surprise, LNG no longer has a purpose

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Remember travelling on the Silver Fern overnight train service between Wellington and Auckland as a child (after catching the Rangatira ferry from Lyttelton to Wellington) and it was great. Still got this set of cards as a souvenir.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am glad Cal and their family will be somewhere not the UK. The changes over there in the 12 years since I left make it bureaucratically impossible for our family to return, as we live in NZ, a country that doesn't have insane cruel barriers to getting accurate documentation and healthcare.

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Peter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Absolutely savage from RNZ: National leader Christopher Luxon did not want taxpayer funding going into a "white elephant" that was not commercially viable. "Of course we're very committed to our 17 roads of national significance and we make no apology for that."

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My husband worked in rail for over fifty years. I'm a heavy public transport user (including trains) because I can't pass the vision test to get a license. Certainly don't have the spare cash for taxis etc. So, no Prime Minister. Also: Fuck off and fuck your patronizing self.

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Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah, I have many questions too. First of which us, how did such an appallingly bad AI image even make it this far? Maybe Kiwi Drivers need to know what side to drive on?? Or maybe how to park a bus *in* a shelter? Or maybe how overtaking lanes are o lying wide enough for a bike? Or.. #NzHerald #AI

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Kelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎶Your own Personal Cheeses Something to eat with pears Not cheese to share🎶

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

MAGA is in meltdown. It looks like Macklemore has incited a movement. In the heart of Robert Kraft's stadium, after the Sheeran-Macklemore fallout. "Zach Bryan is making a pretty loud statement at Robert Kraft's Gillette Stadium ... hitting the stage in a "Free Palestine" shirt.”

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

NZ Greens “Budget” & FairTax plan is fully costed & fantastic. FREE GPs, Dentists & childcare‼️Less tax for 96% NZers‼️ #climatechange action, conservation; a $395/wk income guarantee‼️ & the wealth tax is v similar to Australia’s! 💚❤️🖤#nzpol www.greens.org.nz/tax_system_f...?

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I put off watching Tucker Carlson’s interview with Jacob Rees Mogg but I did want to see if it’s been taken out of context. It has not. Carlson absolutely argued that Britain would be better off to have not fought in WWII, that Germany was justified in invading Poland, and more than in that vein.

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Jez @jezbrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Having lived in countries that have real rail, I really hope #NZ can do this and get it right. The option has to be better than taking a car or a plane, it has to have that advantage and be built in from the ground up. Look at Finland's system. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...