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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@koruandthistle.bsky.social
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Mum, Ops. Manager, streamer, musician, all around wholesome dork. She/her/ally, Tangata Tiriti.

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 4h
One thing I try to do, every time I talk to men, is make sure they understand how pay equity works Overwhelmingly because if you want to be a good feminist or ally, this is a chance to speak up about women's financial freedom - but also because they're often shocked to learn IT ALSO EFFECTS MEN
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 2h
At first glance this infographic appeared to be in front of flames which. Y’know. Accurate.
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 3h
Three years of "fixing the basics" and "building the future" to "get New Zealand back on track" And we're worse on every measure.
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 2h
Ew
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13h
Now, as far as the idea that impeachment would be *politically* ineffective I don't agree but I'm open to ideas that would be more effective at stopping a criminal president and/or generating public opposition to him
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13h
I understand this view but I think we should consider the implications of preemptively giving up charging a criminal with crimes because the jury may not convict
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 10h
SO often lately I see an RNZ headline and say that.
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 12h
Health targets. My #cartoon today #Health #NZpol
Cartoon. Title: “Health Targets” Simeon Brown pushing a patient in a wheelchair, in an Emergency Department. He’s wheeling her towards a cupboard that is stuffed full of people, and saying, “Technically, this isn’t the ED. Our targets are working!”
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My dyslexic husband is terrible with time (and we think our son is too). He really struggles with judging how long anything has taken/will take.
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 10/10/2026
I dunno, I think it's pretty reasonable not giving the Nobel Peace Prize to a guy who has overseen the extrajudicial murder of at least 235 people in the waters of Central and South America, and who has directed unprovoked military action against two sovereign nations.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pity there’s no cover for Night Bugs and this isn’t really in order per se, but some of my all time favourites
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 09/10/2026
This is a pretty crass ad from National, but also seems especially stupid given the portfolios they handed over to secure their current coalition — including the Deputy PM job share.
A Facebook ad from the National Party featuring an AI slop illustration where an exasperated Chris Hipkins is contending with child caricatures seeming to represent Chloë Swarbrick, Qiulae Wong and Rawiri Waititi. The children have speech bubbles saying, respectively, "I want Finance!", "I want Housing!" and "I want Justice!"

Hipkins' speech bubble says "Okay, okay, if you help me win I'll give you what you want."
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And they’re nowhere near 6/12”
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you would genuinely work with either side, I don’t want ya. No one should want to work with those hacks.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
THE LONG DARK is one of Steam's Weekend Deals right now, and if you haven't already pulled the trigger I suspect you may want to because...well, let's just say it'll make sense next week. store.steampowered.com/app/305620/T...
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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026
The previous Labour Govt dropped a bunch of speed limits. The NACT Govt reversed the changes, did two rounds of consultation, and ended up reinstating the original Labour govt changes. Great use of resources. Glad we're not wasting time or money on idealogical farts. #nzpol
Text from an email, reads: "Kia ora
New lower speed limits will in place in the following locations in Northland.

SH1 Moerewa to Kawakawa - 80km/h  from 12/10/2026
SH10 Kaingaroa north - 80km/h from 14/10/2026
SH10 Kaingaroa south - 80km/h  from 15/10/2026
SH12 Opononi north - 60km/h from 13/10/2026"
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wow, TIL this exists really close to the LH CBD. Anyone wanna buy a brothel? www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/r...
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286a High Street, Lower Hutt, Wellington
286a High Street Lower Hutt is for sale by auction. Situated in the heart of Lower Hutt, this is an outstanding opportunity to purchase prime real estate plu...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/10/2026
Starbucks Announces New Teen-Free Hours For Nervous Adults Who Just Want To Redeem Birthday Reward theonion.com/starbucks-announces-ne…
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Steven Shea 🇺🇦DC statehood now @stevenlsjr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
But it would also provide a way to listen to 1989 Technotronic classic “pump up the jam” anywhere in the world at an instant
static.klipy.com
Pump up the Jam
ALT: Pump up the Jam
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do the govts announcements this week seem a bit random? Do they feel almost targeted? Like theyre trying to do things to make specific groups of people angry even? Yea, thats the point. Theyre trying to make you talk about anything that isnt the COST OF LIVING CRISIS. It's a trap.
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Asher @asherwilsongoldman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Polling booths and their opening hours have been published so now I know when I'm voting (my local marae on the first morning, coz I'm a giant nerd). vote.nz/2026-general...
vote.nz
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ha!
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nearly 15% of working population on jobseekers, 80,000 above National's target as Coalition's job cuts, record biz failures & cost of living results in 220,000 Kiwis on jobseekers while ~160,000 so far leave permanently. Their answer: cut benefits, cut youth off benefits & drive more into poverty
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s been SO fun to play (and submit screenshots for!)
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 08/10/2026
Perfect response from Chlöe Swarbrick and the @greens.org.nz.
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've looked at their policy release and I cannot see how they would make this work. It's much more complicated than the Key government scheme, which only kicked in if a jobseeker declined to apply for a job which required pre-employment testing, or if such a test was failed.
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No, untrue, do not take these ghouls seriously.
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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They've had power for 3 years fixing the 'basics', passed more bills under urgency than any other parliament and yet they need a 47 point emergency fix the fuck ups plan for the next term? #nzpol
Luxon unveils Nats’ 47-point business plan
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lolllll
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Votecompass!
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One day that scroll will be the magic one that makes us all happy
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 07/10/2026
Our conversion practices prohibition legislation is more popular than New Zealand First or Winston Peters has ever been and it will long outlast him.
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 07/10/2026
It's shocking how much media attention we give someone who is the political equivalent of a drunk uncle bragging at the bbq. That legislation had the biggest submission campaign in support at the time. Roughly 50% of NZF's total vote count in 2023 submitted in favour.
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 07/10/2026
Peters can bluster all he likes but I won't stop fighting for all trans people's right to bodily autonomy and self determination, including trans kids, and I've got a lot more years left on the clock than he does. If he thinks he can touch the conversion practices ban he's in for a fight. Tick tock!
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Interesting (I’m voting Green).
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
100%!
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
100%!
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Madeira Pince-Nez @caitlinsnark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One of the highlights of my Whitcoulls career was when Paul Henry's book got remaindered and we had to rip all the covers off about 100 of them to send back to the publisher. My manager came over and said 'Caitlin, I have a job you're going to love every second of'
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh NZ. Why do we need to just find any connection at all, what is wrong with us
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Saw a great video today from a woman suffering from depression who said one of her driving motivations to live these days is to outlive Trump. I hope she’ll then push on, of course, but yes. 100%. We must continue. Even if it’s just for spite.
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Kat 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @koruandthistle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gonna be interesting when this grifter’s jawbone falls off
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Briiiiiiaaaaannnnnssss!! @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 03/10/2026
Getting ratioed to hell over there
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 03/10/2026
EVERY UK MP needs to read this You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this.
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 03/10/2026
I opened Facebook and immediately died of cringe.
Facebook screenshot
From Christopher Luxon 
Text: "All taxpayers aboard!"
Image: still frame from video of Christopher Luxon boarding bus pumping both fists above his head. Text on the video reads: "Day 1 on the no new taxes bus"
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Kelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🎶Your own Personal Cheeses Something to eat with pears Not cheese to share🎶
Babybel cheeses
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Greens propose Inter City Rail that costs less than Roads of National Party Significance, have a higher Benefit Cost Ratio than Roads of National Party Significance, and even NZF supports it. Of course National wont despite their conservative voters supporting it because Luxon is a fuckwit
rnz.co.nz
Green Party announces plan for passenger rail between major NZ cities
The Green Party says it will connect the country with intercity passenger rail services, if elected.
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