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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’d be very interested in the takes from Bernard Hickey and Ganesh Nana as to the net cost of fair pay once that extra money is recycled through the local economy (& taxed & retaxed and so on). But that’s not the kind of column you’re going to see on a New Zealand news site, unfortunately #nzpol

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's the govt looking at an infrastructure problem and going "hey stop using the only method you have for paying for it!" which is exactly what they've done with Local Govt and rates. What it means is, uh, less infrastructure renewal by power trusts? That's not good for anyone.

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Paperwork for Permanent Residency got approved! First thing I did was enrol to vote. 🗳️ 🇳🇿

Screenshot of an email that says:

Congratulations, you're enrolled to vote
Being enrolled means you can have your say on who represents you on the issues that affect your community.
Here's some important information you need to know:

You're enrolled in the Napier electorate

Your electorate is the voting area you live in. Every place in New Zealand is covered by both a general electorate and a Māori electorate.

Find out more about your electorate

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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here it is! The BLACK SHEEPS poster – featuring our spectacular star, Tabatha Killick, the incredible Joe Witkowski and the mighty (honorary) Dane Nathan Meister! Opens mid-November in NZ!

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Bauhausandmies 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇿 @bauhausandmies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s a shame we’re not getting those new ferries today. Also a shame that no journalist in a national paper wants to remind the government that they spitefully threw away a fuck tonne of money.

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kind of a huge fan, from at least 14 years ago…🕊️ youtu.be/hlVBg7_08n0?...

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MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - SAME LOVE feat. MARY LAMBERT (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

YouTube video by Macklemore

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🇳🇿 For Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori I ordered a medium mocha in Te Reo Māori this morning. He moka māku. Wawaenga. Also used “mōrena” “āe” and “ngā mihi” appropriately (morning, yes, thank you) Learning slowly :)

Picture of a woman standing outside in front a petrol station holding a coffee cup

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Downgrade a movie: The Yeoman of the Rings

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In my opinion AI ruined spellcheck. It used to be based on dictionary standards and grammatical rules, now it is based on what the majority of users are known to have typed. Give me back my pre-AI spellcheck.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Slash debt and get back to surplus = sell your house, pay back the bank, and live in your car. #Labour #NZpol

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#ShowMeYourKnits is baby knits this week. I have knit many baby items and of course would knit for my new nephew. But his mother had severe preeclampsia and he was born very premature. I made sure he had a tiny hat and bootie set, if for nothing else his parents to remember how small he once was.

Two knitted rainbow booties sitting on a hand. Knitted for a premature baby, the length of each foot is less than the length of a thumb.

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Shame on Winston Peters and shame on every media outlet that put the word in their headlines and failed to point out how atrocious it was for him to use it. 🇳🇿 youtu.be/fkdtEOrrkPs?...

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End the R-word

YouTube video by TVDSAweb

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

At a recent archaeology conference I was shocked to see AI-generated reconstructions of Māori sites—these are racist tools trained on old northern -hemisphere assumptions. Maybe work with an artist, or learn to draw? theconversation.com/historical-i...

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Historical images made with AI recycle colonial stereotypes and bias – new research

Generative AI is known to mirror sexist and racist stereotypes, but it also carries a colonial bias that is reinforcing outdated ideas about the past.

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

#ShowMeYourKnits Patterns you have knit at least twice. Deja Joy’s ‘Knit Frozen Snowflakes Beanie’ Knit six of them as a Christmas gift to my sister, her husband, and four children. Lovely pattern.

Six handknit beanies, blue and white with a snowflake pattern and pom-poms.

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Simon O'Neill @sjponeill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Availability of our front facing comms is not something we track. Great.

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Looking for an appropriate way to honour Sam Neill? He hated NZ First opening up the country to mine it. Vote them out in November in his honour!

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Happy Matariki from Napier, Hawkes Bay

Bonfire on the beach with a silhouette of the photographer’s boots in the foreground

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FookyFBSandcat @funkypuffin56.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Misogynist fuckers (also thick) Writing on The Spinoff this morning, Michelle Duff wonders whether New Zealand police officers are fundamentally incapable of protecting women from harm. thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...

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She called the police for help – they banned her from her own home

The IPCA's latest report raises questions about police dealing with family harm.

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 23/06/2026

I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“This is the largest rollback of environmental protections New Zealand has seen in nearly 40 years. They are commercialising our national identity to make a quick buck, and they thought we'd be too distracted to notice.” GetlostwithLiam sounding the alarm - this should be front page news 👇

getlostwithliam Why is everybody so silent on this?
The newly introduced Conservation Amendment Bill is a direct, calculated attack on New Zealand's wilderness. It is a radical legislative rewrite designed to hand the keys of our conservation estate over to private industry.
First, the Bill opens up roughly 60% of our public conservation land (five million hectares of forests, mountains, and coastlines) making it eligible for land swaps, disposal, or outright sale if the government decides it's "surplus" or wants to clear a path for big business.
Second, they quietly went behind the public's back. After official consultations closed, Cabinet ordered a rewrite of Section 6 of the Conservation Act. They are fundamentally altering DOC's DNA.
Instead of prioritising preservation, the law will now legally mandate DOC to "recognise economic opportunities" and enable commercial exploitation to the "greatest extent practicable." They even admitted in official documents that the main goal of this rewrite was to stop environmental groups and iwi from being able to legally challenge them in court.
To push this through, they've gutted DOC from the inside. Massive budget cuts have axed hundreds of regional support roles. Frontline rangers are being completely buried under administrative tasks.
They are trapped behind desks doing paperwork instead of being out in the bush maintaining tracks, repairing huts, and keeping our native species from going extinct.
This is the largest rollback of environmental protections New Zealand has seen in nearly 40 years. They are commercialising our national identity to make a quick buck, and they thought we'd be too distracted to notice.
The Bill has passed its first reading. The Select Committee and parallel DOC consultations are open right now, and the absolute deadline to stand up and fight this is July 9, 2026.
These are OUR lands, our children's lands, our mokopuna's lands.
They belong to the people of Aotearoa. Keep our wild places wild.

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

See also business bro guys. Like a couple guys who’ve never knitted in their life but are convinced they can purchase knitting.com for $80K and within a year the domain will be earning them $80K a month. Been 4 years since that ridiculous display of arrogance; I wonder sometimes how they are doing?

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Congratulations NY Place of my birth With you in spirit tonight

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Lovely night of incredibly talented belly dancers at the Paisley Stage in Napier 🇳🇿

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 13/06/2026

'passwords don't match' Honestly the person/company that is developing New World's Club+ system, you ulcer can not bring you enough pain, your toe jam can not stink enough & your halitosis can't be hides enough. I hope your cats pack up & leave & rats invade your pantry.

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A warehouse that is over one million square feet (92,900 square meters) is burning. Despite its size, only 120 workers were in the building, all escaped safely. The warehouse is almost entirely staffed by drones. Cause of the fire unknown. abc7news.com/live-updates...

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Live updates: Officials call Tracy warehouse fire 1 of largest in US; could burn for days

A massive fire that broke out Thursday afternoon has destroyed the Medline Inc. building in Tracy. A huge plume of black smoke is blanketing the surrounding area and can be seen from the Bay Area.

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

“I built an HTTP library and called it Requests: HTTP, for Humans … tools should serve human mental models instead of forcing humans to contort themselves around the tool's internals … This essay applies it to the system I've spent a decade surviving” kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-...

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Mental Health (for Humans)

Let me present my credentials. I am sick as fuck. Disabled, in fact. I have schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, with a side of PTSD. I have watched an...

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It strikes me, on the balance of probabilities, that 1. Fonterra and Z sent their lobbying to Matt Burgess’ personal email address in order to try to avoid public scrutiny; 2. They were given that address to facilitate avoiding public scrutiny;

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

“Former staffer” sounds like any random employee who just made a mistake. He was Luxon’s Chief Policy Advisor. Important detail.

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

And it is okay for the Teaching Council to remove the elected positions too…

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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

If you are new to this - Z energy and Fonterra handed the gov legislation to protect themselves from legal action *already under way* and the PMs office hid the fact this had happened We should not allow private industry to secretly write law to protect them from US holding them liable #nzpol

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

ISN’T THAT THE MEANING OF ‘CITING’? Apparently simply having a list of sources is now more important than the knowledge from those sources? (Is this where the philosophy of ‘teaching to the test’ finally culminates in the academic world???)

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🇳🇿 government budget is not the same as a household budget. Renovating a kitchen doesn’t increase your income. Renovating ferries and train lines can improve the economy. Household does not equal government. Sorry, but that analogy is only for people who have zero understanding of macroeconomics.

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Chris Jensen @chrisjensenj.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"Government continues with <terrible idea> despite <abundance of evidence it's a terrible idea>" Is an evergreen headline for the Luxon coalition of chaos

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

For the far right to ultimately win in the US they needed the power of disinformation of Fox News. They know the first step to that in Aotearoa is to take down the Broadcasting Standards Authority.

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Name your top 15 TV shows ever Doctor Who Monty Python’s Flying Circus Dark (German) Westworld Midnight Mass Avatar the Last Airbender Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Venture Bros 3rd Rock from the Sun Supernatural Game of Thrones Yes Minister/Prime Minister Blackadder Letterkenny Dollhouse

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Remember that ICE in the US was created in 2002. Having it already established and in place made it so much easier for it to be used as a tool for fascism 15 years later. The Right works with a long-term plan in mind This has to be nipped on the bud.

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

🧶 For every clothing item I have made I took photos of me wearing it for my ravelry database. But for #ShowMeYourKnits (pictures of you wearing your knitted items) I thought it would actually be more fun to scroll through my photo album and find random photos where I am wearing my knits.

Four pictures of me wearing my handknits - three hats, two scarves, one shawl, one set of fingerless gloves, and one shrug.

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Historyweaver @historyweaver2.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Without downloading anything new Where are you at mentally

Cartoon of two Spider-Mans pointing at each other. One has the text “Not getting anything done because I’m too overwhelmed”. The other has the text “Being overwhelmed because I haven’t gotten anything done”.

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