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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 1h

Within living memory, we've gone from a job for everyone to no jobs for anyone, including highly qualified graduates. Nobody under 50 has any idea what full employment prioritised over delivering profits looks like. None of this happened by accident.😡 #PeopleB4Profit #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

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Graduate job seeker applies for more than 600 jobs amid tough market

A recent Wellington graduate says she has undertaken more than 600 job applications and 53 interviews in a year amid a tough job market.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 2h

This is a good headline! It refuses to amplify the false claim by using "wrongly", and includes the truth in the headline for everyone who doesn't read the full story (which is mostly everyone). It's also compelling clickbait for those ad guys. Now do this all the time!

The Post:
Christopher Luxon wrongly suggests allegation about Greens came from media - it came from his minister

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Earl Mardle ✅✅ - Full Mamdani - No Swerves @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 2h

I know, in any random series, there will be clusters, but fuck me Buller 2 dead Christchurch 1 dead Glen Inness 2 dead Now this In what, a week?

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Three people dead, body seen lying on porch of home in Auckland's Papatoetoe

Three people are dead following a "serious incident" in Auckland's Papatoetoe.

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 2h

As yet another agency’s OIA failings actually reveal that they’re constantly committing offences under the Public Records Act, it’s time for an Information Commissioner who can investigate and enforce both the OIA and PRA. Last year’s review of Tasmania’s law recommended this. #nzpol

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 3h

Every time

Scooby Doo “let’s see who this really is” meme. In the first frame is a masked figure marked “high costs for rates and power bills”. In the second frame the figure is now unmasked and reads “years of systemic underinvestment coming back to bite us”

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 5h

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Two Aotearoa New Zealand right wing politicians known for being entitled about their entitlements and generally sucking the nation dry.

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Binkenstein @binkenstein.bsky.social · 5h

This National energy policy looks like Luxon wrote it with the amount of word salad in it. "Address the dry year problem by levelling the playing field for backup power by opening the backup market." Like, what does that actually mean? #nzpol

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Emma @porcupineq.bsky.social · 5h

It’s not a real debate unless they’re all hooked up to lie detectors and wearing shock collars

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 4h

did even a single "AI safety expert" come within a country mile of this threat model?

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 5h

In short it's more disintegration of the power network in favour of private providers it's just got some solar panels on it to make you distracted from the shit they're gonna do to existing power trusts etc

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 5h

I always ask if people think hearing a digital piano programmed to play a concerto is the same as hearing my dad — who’s been playing for 79 years and still practices hours a day — do it. And funnily enough no one has ever agreed that it is.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 4h

The thing about high lines charges is that it's not a lot about the Commerce Commission setting the cap too high in 2024, it's that a LOT of lines and transmission work needs to get done to increase network capacity. National is proposing reducing the ability to do that work with their policy.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 8h

I hinted that there would be more images from the Juice flyby, so here is the timelapse of the full event! It's always amazing to get these views of our fragile Blue Marble from the spacecraft we send out to explore the solar system! 🔭🧪 #planetsci

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

😳 Trump's hand as photographed moments ago (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty)

close up pic of Trump's hand showing disgusting discoloration and skin ailments from his fingers to his wrist

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 4h

Confused as to why most of the coverage of the so-called Kingmakers Debate focuses on how many words each of them spoke. I missed the debate but, was there simply not content worthy of being reported on?

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Kieran @nugmonster.cryptoanarchy.network · 7h

It genuinely looks like the fucking idiot political reporter class considers Winston the winner because he doesn't shut the fuck up. Politics is literally just a sports match to them.

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 4h

important NZ interview with Laura Clark of Client Earth (& also former UK High commisioner to NZ who led UK-NZ trade deal) about why the complaint to EU about NZ rolling back its environment & #climate law, contrary to #trade agreements we signed, is a big deal podcast.radionz.co.nz/downloads/mn...

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 8h

Luxon can crow about no new taxes, but reversing pay equity agreements was a new $4.5B tax on half of the workforce #nzpol

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henry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 4h

Todd McClay earlier this week accused of Greens of "acting with foreign actors" to make a complaint to the EU about climate. But asked about this claim today, the PM has suggested that it was actually just something the media came up with.

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 7h

On my always share list.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely 💯 Agree…. If feeding a hungry kid accidentally benefits an "undeserving" kid, I am prepared to live with this devastating outcome.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 7h

You know it's going well when Seymour is inadvertently promoting a Capital Gains Tax by not reading the sub heading of his screenshot.

David Seymour FB post

Cc Green Party

Netherlands ditches wealth tax over exodus fears

Dutch PM scraps plan to target paper profits instead introducing a more conventional capital gains levy

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 6h

It really is remarkable how this blatantly racist, conspiracy-spreading, actually-powerful old shithead continues to get a free ride because all of our journalists are so enamoured by the odd "quip". Go review Dancing with the Stars if that's your criteria.

Stuff:

Political analysis

In the Kingmakers' Debate, Winston Peters showed why he's the king

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 6h

Always worth a reminder of what investing in the country looks like.

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 6h

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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angloczech.bsky.social @angloczech.bsky.social · 6h

Hollywood is fucked. All the studios are being bought up by Trump's finacier's to silence Trump's critics. New Zealand was well placed to replace the facist controlled monolith, until the Trump's supporters in NZ'd current government stopped it. Say NO to National, ACT & NZ First's Trumpism #NZPol

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Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 7h

Kirk risked compulsory super and paid for it. Lange risked nuclear-free and paid for it. Clark risked anti-smacking and paid for it. Hipkins risks nothing. Won't reverse landlord tax cuts. Won't touch super. Won't back the wealth tax. Small target, small government. #nzpol

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Property investors relieved at Labour's landlord tax deduction promise

The Property Investors Federation is hailing Labour's decision to leave interest deductibility settings alone, if elected.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 6h

Here we go again. On the left and on the right the unaffordable pension nonsense is hitting the news again. RNZ happy to both sides transphobia and a genocide but straight up one eyed one sided on NZ Pensions. #nzpol

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manuwai.bsky.social @manuwai.bsky.social · 6h

Hey New Zealand politicians!! Are you seeing this? 👇👇👇 Palantir accurately described as an EVIL CORPORATION! National, ACT & NZ First, however, kiss the ass of the likes of Peter Thiel (& others, like Bezos). #NZPol

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 7h

“All governments will put their own people into positions of power – but a far-right government will intentionally put people into positions of power and influence where they will deliberately cause conflict.” #nzpol farrightplaybook.nz

farrightplaybook.nz

The Far-Right Playbook

A collection of essays describing tactics used by the far-right in Aotearoa, New Zealand

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 5h

Just as they'll come late to the prize ceremony, and leave when the table wine is gone and the cash bar opens, every time a Kiwi author wins a high-profile international prize like the Booker.

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No Lies Detected: Polygraph Test Results

Alt: No Lies Detected: Polygraph Test Results

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 5h

They're calling it the biggest woulda coulda shoulda...

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Cool Hand Fluke @nzrossvideo.bsky.social · 5h

There is never a day when Seymour and goldsmith can’t fuck right off

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 5h

BTW, Thanks to PHFS still publishing what data they are funded to collect, we know that in a smoothed (4 week average) kind of way, there has never been less covid in wastewater ATM than in all the time since it spread nationwide.

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Any change of Government needs to have Roche stripped of his Knighthood and exiled out of NZ I hear Texas is calling

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 18h

Here's a handy guide. If the media are saying a politician is doing socialism, they're not doing socialism. If a politician is doing socialism, the media is telling you they're doing islamic terrorism, destroying western civilization, turning your kids gay and in league with china.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 18h

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 18h

Omfg I just caught up on this and the earlier article. God this protected from disclosure scheme is batshit: relying on scouts honour of megadonors to not tell the candidates, and the candidates to not know.

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Binkenstein @binkenstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

National wants to reduce govt spending to 28% of GDP. Govt spending is included in GDP. Therefore National wants to reduce GDP. This requires cutting Govt spending by ~15% (28 divided by current ~33% of GDP). #nzpol

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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If we look at the big American corporations who leaned heavily into using genAI they've all started hiring again because it hasn't worked for them Why would we make the same mistake with the services we rely on for our govt to function. Roche has no idea what he's talking about #nzpol

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 19h

Of *course* the ‘AI boom’ will make us poorer. It’s a ‘boom’ created by tech bros for tech bros, and they’re pretty much the worst human beings on the planet. How could it possibly do anything else?

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 20h

Nick Mowbray's only contribution to the NZ economy is donations to the ACT party. His shit plastic toys waste & corrupt children's brains, and his political loyalties are with a party that protects paedophile presidents and feeds children slop for lunch and AI slop for lessons. It all fits. #nzpol

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Peter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 21h

Worth remembering that if it costs the government $4.5b to reverse the gender pay tax, then it costs the women affected $4.5b to leave it in place.

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