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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 6h
in Aotearoa, the arts "contribute 18.5 billion to the economy; we are the fourth largest export earner after dairy, meat, and forestry; and there’s 120,000+ jobs. Numbers that suggest the arts are “not a rounding error or a niche interest” and “not a line item to trade away under pressure” […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
How do you become third in a two-person race? Still from TV debate between Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon, showing 49% felt Hipkins won the debate, with 24% for Luxon and 27% undecided.
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
more excellent financial management from the national party: $1B for 11 kilometres of road - the same as what the new dunedin hospital is meant to cost. what kind of government choses 11k of road over a hospital for 300,000 people? […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
great episode about the use of predictions as marketing tool & for compliance with an imagined reality ... pca.st/episode/a5aeb48b-6e26-437c-9…
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
"In New Zealand multinational corporations are pretty much the ones who operate all the services [...] We need to bring it back to New Zealand and cut out the middleman, bring that money back and make it stay here so we can invest in more public transport and give cheaper fares to users." […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
"We want to connect our cities and our country with alternative ways to travel that will save people money, connect our communities and give New Zealanders real transport choices." […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
"A series of events almost got us to armageddon, not caused by “rogue, superintelligent AI”, but by government reliance on error-prone systems that are marketed by their manufacturers as being close to superintelligent." […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
“Care and support workers have waited far too long for their work to be valued properly, and today’s announcement from the Greens shows there is a clear path to getting it done,” says Melissa Ansell-Bridges, NZCTU Secretary […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
"It's because I think [the Greens] have come out swinging right from the get go," she says. "They've been relentless about the cost of living crisis that we are in, and we cannot underestimate how acute it is." […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
overseas kiwis! it's really important that you enroll and vote! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/…
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
"If Aotearoa is a sovereign currency issuing country, then the thing we have been taught to imagine as scarce (‘the money’) was never scarce in quite the way the household story needed. The constraints are in the real economy, people, our capacity to be productive, resources and inflation. " […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
"We’re a collective who believe in an Aotearoa New Zealand where everyone has access to healthy, culturally appropriate kai and Te Tiriti ō Waitangi is honoured in shaping our food system." www.voteforkai.nz
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Vote for Kai | Join the Food Justice Movement
Explore Vote for Kai, a movement advocating for a just, sustainable, and culturally respectful food system in Aotearoa New Zealand. Join us to support equitable access to healthy kai.
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
interesting results here - obviously greens do best, but nz first better on organics than labour; and important to note, opportunity are on par or worse than national with their organic policies ... www.oanz.org/new-blog/vote-organic-…
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
350 Aotearoa's election resources website: 350.org.nz/elections-2026
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
"Reducing the many complexities of contemporary politics to an “embattled mainstream threatened by emboldened far right” narrative [...] strengthens the far-right’s populist narrative, which portrays politics as a struggle between “the elite” (that is, all the mainstream parties) and “the […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
in case anyone forgets, here is a rather depressing, long & incomplete list of the current govt's attacks on maori & te tiriti: www.emilywrites.co.nz/te-tiriti
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
"social" media blocks "social topics" www.theguardian.com/technology/2026…
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
We urge the Minister to make a recommendation to the Governor General: To declare the areas (in link below) be included within Kahurangi National Park and subject to the National Parks Act 1980: Conservation Area - Sams Creek Conservation Park - North West Nelson Forest Park - Tākaka River - […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
"Chlöe Swarbrick is now more trusted to manage the economy than Nicola Willis." well, duh!! 😂 www.thepost.co.nz/politics/36108162…
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
"If the .org domain registration is, in effect, subject to the arbitrary decisions of the US government, then we need to consider whether and how this can be changed." internet.exchangepoint.tech/what-it…
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What It Means to Lose Autistici/Inventati
A terrorism designation is forcing Autistici/Inventati to shut down operations, and forcing its blogging platform NoBlogs off the internet.
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
35,000 marching in auckland to protest the conservation amendment bill, which would open up conservation land for development. "people are not prepared to stand by, while a government tries to rewrite conservation law to make those places easier to exploit." […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Turn Turn is a new participatory hybrid performance using UpStage, to be performed online and at the Internationales Frauen* Theaterfestival in Frankfurt on 18 September, 2026, time to be confirmed (European evening). upstage.org.nz/?event=turn
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
The Greenpeace policy scorecards rank the environmental policies of the seven main political parties for the 2026 General Election. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/act/ele…
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:pressure network @femalepressure.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
find us on @subvert.fm www.subvert.fm/@marine/fema...
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
no suprises here! www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/act/ele…
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
call for tech companies to actively make sure their products and services are safe by design, with external monitoring and penalties for not following the rules. noharmware.nz/no-harmware
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
"GPAHE’s research documents a movement that has repeatedly adjusted to changing circumstances. Organizations have reorganized after Christchurch massacre, altered their public presentation, developed new networks, and adopted ideas emerging from far-right movements." […]
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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This petition is still open for a few hours. Would be great if it got a bit closer to 50,000 ( at 48730) at 8pm ish "Do not remove or amend Te Tiriti principles or references in legislation" #nzpol petitions.parliament.nz/ddbe7598-59d...
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
The wealthiest Kiwis pay just 9% in tax while middle New Zealanders pay just over 20%. That’s because income generated by owning and selling assets isn’t taxed the same as wages and salaries. www.bettertaxes.nz
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
in a true democracy, politicians don't pay people to vote for them; people choose freely to vote for the politicians who propose policies that will build the societies those people actually want to live in. good politicians don't need to pay people to vote for them. it' so sad, like buying friends.
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
"The US doesn't care about Pacific sovereignty or regionalism. They are already gunning to unilaterally mine the deep sea floor in the high seas, despite international law." greenpeace.nz/stop-dsm
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Just to be clear:
Map of Germany showing the percentages of votes for parties other than the AFD. There is nothing below 61%, and in half of the states more than 80% have not voted for the AFD.
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
“Just because the U.S. decides that someone is a terrorist — without any judicial procedure, without anything that one can legally go against — so just a decision by the State Department, and then all this internet governance structure falls apart,” she said. “I think that opens a lot of […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
The Ministry of Social Development has told thousands of people that food was “not an essential need”, in what it now calls an admin error ... !!! thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin/08-09…
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
british police turn a blind eye to rght-wing domestic terrorists www.thenerve.news/p/britain-far-rig…
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Britain isn’t too soft on migrants; it’s too soft on Patriot Platform
Between a Home Office determined to seem tough, and a police force too slow – or too scared – to act against far-right disorder, the country is entering dangerous territory, writes Nick Lowles
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
sounds very ominous ... "There’s big business involved and battlelines have already been laid down. That business is polymetallic nodules found at the bottom of the ocean, rich in cobalt, nickel, titanium and other critical minerals used for power grids, weapons systems, smartphones and electric […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
handy fact-checker with info tiles to share: paultheotherone.com/factcheck26
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
i went to the downunder festival in munich and encouraged a few kiwis there to enrol and vote (it was unsurprisingly dominated by the aussies). can you also encourage people you know to enrol & vote? our.actionstation.org.nz/events/act…
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
Switzerland's federal government is replacing Microsoft on 3,000 computers - start of a larger pilot for the federal administration. itsfoss.com/news/switzerland-replac…
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
"A/I is shutting down. The Autistici/Inventati collective is shutting down and will soon discontinue all of the services we provide. There is no easy way to announce or explain this Every day we stayed online after August 26, 2026, has been a victory, but now we are forced to stop." […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
We encourage the government to support the many viable alternatives to the ‘dry-year risk’ instead. The low probability high impact fatality and injury risks and consequences of having an LNG import facility in Port Taranaki are unacceptable to local residents […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
if you'r in auckland on 19 september: www.marchfornature.nz
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March for Nature: Hands off Conservation Land!
On Saturday 19 September 2026, at 1pm, people from across Aotearoa will come together in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland to stand up for nature and defend conservation land.
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Omas* gegen Rechts Leipzig 🌈🦄🏳️‍🌈 @omasgegenrechtsle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Warum spricht eigentlich gerade kaum jemand darüber, dass es in ganz Sachsen-Anhalt Woche für Woche Demos gegen Rassismus, für Solidarität & Vielfalt gibt!? 🤯 Von Halle bis Zerbst, von Wittenberg bis Magdeburg gehen Menschen auf die Straße. 🌈 Was wäre, wenn wir alle auf sie 1/2
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
The dairy industry’s excessive use of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser is already choking New Zealand’s rivers and lakes, and poisoning rural drinking water. Now, an Australian company has plans to double down on the damage. greenpeace.nz/rqxg7y2h
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Supporting New Zealanders of all backgrounds to use their vote to protect Te Tiriti, so that Te Tiriti can protect us all. www.votefortetiriti2026.com
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
Ocean sanctuaries work. Around the world far too little of the ocean is fully protected, but, where it is, the waters thrive. Fish populations rebound and species that have disappeared, return. The ocean is more resilient when it’s abundant and diverse.​ […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
"Implementing an age limit obviously requires that all users, young and old, will have to prove their age and identity when getting online. We are concerned that this might lead to New Zealanders being forced to provide identity documents and other evidence to both local and foreign platform […]
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
"The National government has announced they will ban social media for under 16-year-olds. This is an odd approach to take. If the problem is that social media platforms are unsafe for children, the people we should be regulating are the companies making billions from those platforms - not the […]
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