Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenPōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Geez, it’s terrible to hear about Winston Peters. Nothing happened to him; it’s just terrible to hear about him. #NZPol 814831
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-Chenshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏 461925436
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenJewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The total and expanding devastation in Gaza is a result of Zionism—the racist colonial movement that led to the establishment of Israel, an apartheid state built on land stolen from massacred and forcibly exiled Palestinians. 13813
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenAlgeria Worblebot @algeriaworblebot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I mean it's ACT, grooming's a big part of the culture right? 2356
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenBloody Marla 🏳️⚧️ 60/450 💜❤️ @desperatemarlas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Jared Fucking Leto did this? 2381
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenDavid Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Wrong question. It should be "Which political party would make us all better off?". #nzpol 913124
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Cuddles 🥰 22118197
Josh O'Connor-Chen @joshoconnorchen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Those TOP bottom lines all seem kinda centre-leftish to me. 000
Josh O'Connor-Chen @joshoconnorchen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My daughter, playing minecraft next to me: "Daddy, can you come and help me kill these pillagers? They're taking over my home. Well, I'm taking over their home, but can you come and help?" I don't *think* she's intending it as geopolitical commentary... 020
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenSome Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There is no excuse, none. As a ND parent of ND men I’ve labored, LABORED to instill that in them. Lack of social awareness isn’t a get out of jail free card. so yeah it enrages me when people push it as an excuse. No, never ever. Absolutely not. Being autistic is not a license to be an asshole. 422012
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Most riveting thing I've seen all week 385113473085
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenGreen Party of Aotearoa New Zealand @greens.org.nz · 25/09/2026Right now, the richest pay $9 in tax for every $100 they make, while a teacher pays $22. The Greens would give 96% of earners an income tax cut, paid for not by cuts to public services, but ensuring the super wealthy pay their fair share. 27736
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenTW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026this is fantastic and I learned something new 563182435
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenKent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026As someone pretty senior in local government remarked on a Teams call this afternoon, “I think what this demonstrates is that we don’t need better proposals, we need better Ministers” 14210
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenQueen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 23/09/2026Good work to you and @alisonmau.bsky.social ❤️ 0111
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenDavid Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/webworm.coThis Could Change The Way Victims Get JusticeDavid Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand. 8351188
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenSallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Feel like tomorrow is going to be a drowsy day for NZ’s political journalists.static.klipy.comBaby's Frantic Reading SessionAlt: Baby's Frantic Reading Session 041
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-Chenmayor of sc*ry town @missfluss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026the streisand effect to be hence known in new zealand as the williams effect 26516
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenFelix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“Less than 24 hours after Jordan Williams’ press release the first Taxpayers’ Union source made contact… The second made contact a few weeks later. And so it began.” 113115
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man 8375761752
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenBugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026addressing a room of male vegans: lentilmen, 8634105
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenSacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026'The Green Party is pledging to restore city centre vibrancy by ensuring market rent reviews for small businesses can lower rents, and letting councils run rental auctions for spaces that have been empty for longer than 12 months.' #NzPolrnz.co.nzGreens announce reforms to lower commercial rents, fill empty shopsThe Green Party is pledging to restore city centre vibrancy by ensuring market rent reviews for small businesses can lower rents, and letting councils run rental auctions for spaces that have been emp... 49024
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenCinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Wellington is full of places that have been vacant for years and in some cases a decade or more because commercial landlords will leave them empty and councils have no mechanism against it. This would be huge. 04413
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026Why talk about how nuts the AI rationalist sex cult is, and not just focus on the (very real) risks and harms of AI? Well, when we're discussing "who should get to regulate AI, and how," I think it's VERY relevant to talk about the antisocial, unsettling ways many people running US AI think. 261227265
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenA HUNGRY MOUTH @ahungrymouth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026there are different approaches to being an advocate for change. for instance by not advocating for change. or stifling change advocacy. so many different approaches 071
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenEmathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from. 933811924
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenBumbleebee @parrykylie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Ruru has never won bird of the year. This is an outrage! Don't let those horny Kākāpō seduce you. Vote Ruru! #teamruru #birdoftheyear 27522
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenCally Beaton @callybeaton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Anyone who has ever complained about London Underground, complain no more. 151127672218
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenLew @lewsos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Unicorn policy that is not only morally correct and ideologically consistent, but which forces the govt to make up bullshit like the idea we don't use trade as a foreign policy tool Labour would prioritise recognition of Palestine, sanctions on Israel www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...rnz.co.nzLabour would prioritise recognition of Palestine, sanctions on IsraelLabour is calling the government's stance on Israel an embarrassment to the country, and says it is failing to meet its responsibilities under the genocide convention. 46716
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 08/09/2026I love seeing your kids’ first day of school pics! All of them are beautiful! But saying this with my cybersecurity professional hat on: you probably shouldn’t be posting pictures of your kids. I’m sorry :( 281267226
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenOl’ ɔıN @hazmat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Stop talking about 1 in 7 kids living in material hardship, and start talking about 1 in 7 NZ families living in material hardship. It's a way bigger fukn number. #nzpol 15217
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026You have rights as a patient that far exceed the rights accruing to a mere customer. Same goes for other professions: Teachers have pupils, librarians have patrons, lawyers have clients. "Customer" is a demotion from all of these. 24/ 210537
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenNinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The amount of hazard knowledgment required of teaching staff when planning anything should also be on a council to mitigate those hazards firsts. The CE needs to go with a black mark. This was his duty to insure they had the knowledge with the latest report 3132
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenChef Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 01/09/2026I don't want a "smart house" that yells at me and messes up the thermostat, I just want like a check engine light for houses that turns on when a pipe breaks or when you got termites 3572
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-Chenf*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · 29/08/2026can we please give fire fighters a huge fucking payrise? 30 of them on site and 4 of them physically kicked down the fence on my driveway so they could get close to the fatal fire to save my house. they were breathing in horrendous smoke and facing roaring flames to save me and my home 823542
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenPàra @para14.bsky.social · 26/08/2026playing 9 to 5 for your staff when you make them start work at 8am is kind of a perfect synecdoche for this whole government though. 04310
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-Chenan appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I love reading old books to my kids and explaining things like "newspapers" and "the middle class" 312410
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today. 226395007140
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenHilarie Ashton @hilarieashton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Anna Paquin is a real one 82253374
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-Chen🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Okay, but hear me out: a Daft Punk/John Williams collaboration. 152
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Continue to believe a movie called "Three Hours of Lighsaber Fights, Soundtrack By Daft Punk" would make more box office than the entire prior history of film. 1721528
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenH Dawg @hmilnej.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I love you so much Wellington, never fucking change. #nzpol 110128
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenPetra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Decades of research on bullying in academia tells us abusers are usually known in HEIs (including to HR). They typically stay in post, or are promoted. Their victims (within and outside the uni) are the ones who quit, step down, or are hurt. HEIs generally only act when their reputations are hit /1 78639
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenMark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: The glass is half full Pessimist: The glass is half empty Monique: Says you're dumb.youtube.comNZ Anti-Drink Driving Commercial - LegendYouTube video by Anthony Parsons 2214
Reposted by Josh O'Connor-ChenGuardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 21/08/2026Victoria has begun vaccinating about 5,000 little penguins at Phillip Island and St Kilda to protect them against the deadly H5 bird flu, in what is believed to be the world’s largest vaccination program involving wild birds. 9329114
