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Adam

@hellomotorbike.bsky.social
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Teacher, Dad, Husband, Munter, Politics tragic, Tangata Tiriti (I hope) #kikorangi

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This fool is literally running against Jacinda Ardern now. Not Rosa Luxemburg. Jacinda Ardern. 2021 was too radical left for him.
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After being interviewed by Harriet Laughton about the Ministry of Education so thoroughly dropping the ball on curriculum development, it is delightful to see this in the newly released Arts Curriculum.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New Zealand First has precisely 14 immigration policies. That they're all UK-far right Reform policies with a splash of Trumpian deportation makes me think that number is not a mistake. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Exclusive: More deportation powers, visa cap referendum among NZ First policies
The party also wants to hold the immigration portfolio if it is re-elected.
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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Imagine a dramatically under-resourced and under-staffed IRD failed to issue refund cheques to over SIXTEEN THOUSAND businesses because of half-arsed garbage law. Do you seriously think the responsible minister would be allowed to go ghost rather than being humiliated and sacked in public? #nzpol
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Steve @kiwistevemc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“They’re barely people” is how the Confederacy saw slaves, by amazing coincidence. What an absolute piece of work Henry clearly is. What next? A speech in front of a swastika? www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
nzherald.co.nz
'They're barely people': Paul Henry takes pot shot at Greens during country pub visit
Henry spoke to 60 supporters beneath Confederate flag in a pub that burned Ardern's book.
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When ERO ask about a school's progress towards developing a "local curriculum" and are pressed on how a Local Curriculum is possible under the Stanford Curriculum, the answers get so wishy washy. #nz #tetiriti 1/
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As a parent, how much of a lesson would you expect ERO to observe before rendering judgement on the school your kids attend? Reskeet with your take #nzpol
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is a lie, they're 100% going to do some new taxation in various levies and other forms. This is just to hammer Labour in the election, and then make the sad tough decision face and go "Ah you see we didn't want to but Labour made such a mess of the economy we have to..."
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is cooked. Erica Stanford's approach will see swathes of students left behind. #nzpol
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Kiwis seem smarter than NACT1 and in part the media too newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/19/k...
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NZers blame Trump and coalition Govt for rising inflation, not Labour – poll
Christopher Luxon, Chris Hipkins, David Seymour and Winston Peters all agree that international events are driving prices higher in New Zealand.
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It would be grand if we could get answers to Keith's very reasonable questions before sacrificing substantial ecological and economic resources to the Ai gods.
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Fuck me, the trains are already so cooked. This will only break them further, all for shareholder profit.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This country spent seven years carefully establishing a water regulatory framework and setting up large nationalised water organisations to give effective scale, and then three years cancelling that and bodging together 40 really expensive water companies to make anti-Māori racists feel better.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
MY BROTHER IN POORLY EXECUTED COUPS, YOU PASSED THE LEGISLATION THAT SET ALL THE RULES FOR THESE ORGANISATIONS, YOUR MINISTER APPROVED THE PLANS
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Grant McDougall @grantkmcdougall.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So National can't afford to build new Dunedin Hospital to its original planned scale, but three months before an election suddenly find $100m for (checks notes), a gondola in Queenstown ? Utterly incompetent. #nzpol #NationalNotFitToGovern #onetermgovernment #CoC #LuxonOut
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Perfection. #nzpol
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Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I suspect few of my pocket pals on here are landlords but I thought I would ask: my 82 year old mum is in desperate need of a house - no luck with applications. She currently lives in Torbay. She can pay up to 650 per week. At least 2 bedrooms needed. She's a keen gardener. She has a mini poodle.
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
National's attempts to control what happens in NZ classrooms will fail because teachers can't all be watched at the same time. Those of us with integrity will continue to teach using methods, knowledge and skills we know matter.
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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hell yeah, this is what a deep bench of talent looks like in government.
Paul Goldsmith will pick up the Defence, Veterans, Space, GCSB, and NZSIS portfolios.
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 12/08/2026
It's a secondary thing, but can we talk about how ridiculous "Fix the basics" is as an election slogan for an incumbent government? Especially one that ran on that same slogan last time.
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 13/08/2026
All I want to know from TOP, would you form a coalition govt where the deputy pm and the foreign minister told your party leader to “go back to your own country where you lie like flat fish”? Right now, they’ve said they’d support this. They’d support racism at the highest level. #nzpol
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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Umm, wut now?! Penk ❌️voted against the Abortion Legislation Bill in 2020 & actively opposed the legislation, voting against amendments during committee stages ❌️voted against the safe-areas leg for abortion facilities ❌️ sought stronger protections for drs objecting to providing abortion services
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Lioness is simultaneously the most naive and most gung ho shit on TV. That first episode of the third series has the most unrealistic drone warfare sequence in film. I wonder what Ukrainians think of it.
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Defense Minister attempts political coup Amazing how different that headline sounds to what we get, eh? #nzpol
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
To the Labour Comms person who's reading this, get Chippy to say: "It barely matters that Luxon demoted Penk, or that he's standing down. Disgraced Ministers always end up back in a National government through the NZ First home for political failures. Let's end this on November 7"
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
More #seymourslop for the timeline @ninjakitty.bsky.social Apparently Stanford thinks this is satisfactory too. Why would she allow it otherwise? #nzpol
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 09/08/2026
I’m gonna say it again, one more time, for those that are still unsure … the country is NOT A BUSINESS. A surplus is just money you did not invest in to the country (like you should). Feed your people, educate your people, house your people, care for your people, invest in the country. #nzpol
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
We've already had a superb policy demonstration about what to do when people wear pervert glasses in school from the lad in the photo attached.
The kid who straight up clocked the kid with the pervert glasses on who was wandering around the school being a little right wing shit
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wondering what the school policy needs to be on these. The cellphone ban hasn't stopped kids carrying phones, so there is no reason these won't be worn.
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Lack of govt spending means longer wait times at the hospital and for treatment, more homeless people, fewer educated people but also a tanking economy due to lower profits and high unemployment. So yeah I guess good luck and best wishes to everyone!
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Absolute no-brainer
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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#Seymour’sSlop - we’re back to Super Cheesy Pasta again!! 😬 #nzpol (Read the alt text)
Lotsa budget mixed veges with spiral pasta mixed in with a congealed blob of something …Yeah, I think I’ll pass today otherwise I’ll be on the Metamucil for the next fortnight
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Michael Bain @mikejbain.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Unemployment up. Underutilisation rate is worsening. Long-term and youth unemployment up. #nzpol #ditchthepricksin26 #Nationalnoideas
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Man this is well-explained. How NZ Sport leadership are stifling our athletes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVoU...
youtube.com
They Were Never Supposed To Be This Fast
YouTube video by Jumpman
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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Great to see that National support 30 weeks Paid Parental Leave. Especially after they voted against the introduction of PPL. Blocked the extension to 26 weeks for several years. Canceled 33 pay equity claims. And just this year, cut Best Start payments for the majority of new parents.
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The new 12.5% tariffs imposed by Trump on New Zealand require a very simple response: The cancellation of all deals on US arms. Start with the insanely expensive deal on the helicopters.
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Fellas, ladies, are data centres Epstein-coded?
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The High School I work for struggles to find staff each year to take on the added labour of training teachers on placement from various ITE centres near us. One has made a recent quite desperate plea below. They haven't found mentor teachers for 40% of their trainees!!! 1/
Every placement makes a difference so if your school has the capacity to host our kaiako tauira or take additional students, please get in touch at your earliest convenience. With placement start date fast approaching (PP3 start date Monday 24 August), we are still looking at finding placements for 40% of our cohort. So, an urgent consideration from our partner schools would be greatly appreciated.
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Virginia Cattell @virgcatt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Andrea Vance on Paul Henry's candidacy in the Sunday Star-Times. No notes from me. #NZpol
This is the generation of ageing elites who spend their golden years complaining about a broken world they actively helped construct, while simultaneously insisting that only they possess the unique wisdom required to fix it.When you strip away Henry's celebrity charm, his vision is just a monologue delivered to a public he doesn't even want to share a bus seat with.
Still, we give Henry a pass because he used to read the weather headlines.
I can be dismissed as the humourless columnist who wandered into the circus tent and started complaining about the clowns.
Maybe. But the problem isn't that Paul Henry is funny. He is disarmingly so.
It's that we've become so thoroughly convinced politics is broken and that nobody is really fixing anything, so we might as well enjoy the show while the whole thing burns down.
Clacton gets Count Binface. At least everyone knows he's wearing a costume.
But sure, maybe it's fine. Electing a ratings-busting TV celebrity who built his brand on gold-plated excess, crude remarks, and racial provocations - what could possibly go wrong?
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What do you think? Email sundayletters@ stuff.co.nz. Please include your full name and address.
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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The members bill to make stalking a crime was literally lodged by Labour Party's Ginny Anderson in response to a murder that happened in 2022. Luxon wont tell you that though 🤷
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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We're all agreeing to call the second ferry the "Cooker" yeah?
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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This will get less media attention than the last few days of fawning Paul Henry stories.. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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‘I am guilty’: Former ACT Party president has jail time added for latest sex charge
The latest victim of Timothy Jago said he still suffers from fear and anxiety after he was sexually abused in the 1990s.
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Talked with a bloke who works shore side in Wellington. A number of different projects running concurrently is likely to wreck interisland over the next two months.
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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Willis and Winnie’s second-hand Toyota, 40% off at Briscoes, governance model is rocking along as well as expected: www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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Temporary ferry terminal planned as Wellington upgrades begin
Interislander passengers are expected to use a temporary terminal for about three years while the existing Wellington ferry terminal is redeveloped.
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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Happy friday, Luxon just uploaded a photo of people flipping him off and then replaced it with an edited version 20mins later 👍🏽 Thats our Prime Minister 🤦🏾
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Thomas - HANZ @historyaotearoa.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Life imitates art
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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
MichaelLaws career lurched from 1 racist, mysogenistic or anti-Disabilities comment, to another. He resigned from Parliament after his Parliamentary sec forged a signature as a non-existent "#AntoinetteBeck" to grant a poll contract to a company part owned by his wife www.1news.co.nz/2026/07/03/f...
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Chris Bishop would become apoplectic
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Why am I not surprised that Nick Smith is still trying to meddle with justice for Māori so that property rights still don't actually get honoured? www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Really common practice in authoritarian states is to "work towards the leader". Whereby the leader doesn't have to give specific orders but officials pursue programmes that push their organisation towards the leader's goals. Which is bad, but I'm not sure it is any better or worse.
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