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lieslm.bsky.social @lieslm.bsky.social · 11h
2 months pay, all accrued leave paid out, decent company. We are fine, husband above retirement age. My point was more that it's yet another company going under.
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lieslm.bsky.social @lieslm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Husband going into a "meeting" this afternoon. We know why already.
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Voting green? ✅✅ for the greens if you live in one of these electorates ✅ party vote elsewhere
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I forgot to tell you all that yesterday a similar group was at a roundabout in Henderson. Luckily the traffic was quite slow-moving so I think my finger out the window as I crawled by would have made an impression
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
🧪 An unexpected science story: an edible pregnancy test for the blind. Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is in saliva for several days after conception. They’re developing a lollipop 🍭 with bumps that rise in the presence of hCG. Suck the lollipop, if both sides become bumpy, you’re pregnant.
smithsonianmag.com
This Lollipop Could Help Blind Women Independently Detect Pregnancy
Design student Sneha Rao is developing Tact, an edible pregnancy test that allows people with vision impairment to feel its results on their tongues
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lieslm.bsky.social @lieslm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We're watching the building work, and the occasional crane from our place. Good to see something concrete (no pun intended) happening. Husband was working at AirNZ the day it all happened, he's never forgotten it.
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wordsSHIFTminds @wordsshiftminds.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Regarding that UN vote on international cooperation during future pandemics, Luxo says this wasn't important enough to require a cabinet decision. The Covid pandemic killed at least 7.1 million globally. That tells you how little our prime minister values New Zealanders' lives. #nzpol
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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
😳😡
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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is a worrying breach of Cabinet collective responsibility if reports are true -- but something doesn't add up with the explanations? 🤔
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lieslm.bsky.social @lieslm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Excellent degree. Will it be available by distance?
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#AoNZ #AtlasNetwork updates.... #Auspol
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were."
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/10/2026
twitter is a nicer and friendlier place than bluesky: false bluesky has some of the most aggressively hectoring, pedantic weirdos on the entire internet: true
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Lululamarmiteontoast @lalamarmiteontoast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NZI, TPU, Atlas Network, National Party, NZF & ACT are so busy in bed giving each other a "reach around" that their branchless family tree has spread its roots into every nook & cranny of Aotearoa New Zealand to break our society, our norms as well as our democracy #nzpol vote.nz/enrolling/en...
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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
All of a sudden, Labour's 3Waters starts to look damn good. I'd like to send my water bill to Taxpayers not-a-union for those b@stard5 to pay... www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...
rnz.co.nz
Deputy mayor estimates price of fixing Wellington's pipes at $80k per ratepayer over 25 years
Wellington's deputy mayor is warning it could cost every ratepaying household or business more than $80,000 over the next 25 years to fix the city's poor pipes alone.
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Pippy Granny-pants 🍉 @mspippy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
FYI re the Opportunity party and the kaupapa behind their leader
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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
SCOOP: A majority of Cabinet wanted New Zealand to back a vote on a new UN pandemic treaty but Winston Peters made the call not to, @samsachdeva.bsky.social reports. NZ and Paraguay were only countries to abstain, US, Israel and Argentina voted against. newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/13/p...
newsroom.co.nz
Peters overrides Govt ministers on UN pandemic vote
Majority of ministers wanted to vote in favour of declaration on pandemic prevention – but with no Cabinet decision needed, the foreign minister made a captain's call.
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lieslm.bsky.social @lieslm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If only
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#NZpol Winston Peters has misrepresented NZ at WHO, again 😔 ⬇️ (And Luxon will, as ever, stand by and do nothing.) By default WHO agreements let countries have their “sovereign decision making”. In the case of these pandemic-related agreements they have a clause explicitly granting it.
Winston Peters writing on X,

“This morning it has been announced that New Zealand did not support the adoption of the Political Declaration on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response.

NZFirst is the party that ensured the National Interest Test was included in the coalition agreement to keep our sovereign decision making with New Zealand, not Geneva. 
 
We believe it is essential to New Zealand that its sovereign decision making on health is protected.”
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
So he went against a Cabinet decision?? “Foreign Minister Winston Peters has effectively forced New Zealand to abstain from a United Nations vote adopting a pandemic declaration, despite a majority of Cabinet ministers backing the pact.”
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lieslm.bsky.social @lieslm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Seriously? Over riding the will of both other ministers, and the public?????
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Fucks sake how much longer can we let this 81 year old meat sack fuck us
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The far-right Voices for Freedom is now amplifying the far-right Family First. Both networks have, inter alia, significant Christo-fascist overlap. One session's slated for later this week, & another was published a few days ago. Clearly, individual, & collective networks ramping up efforts. #nzpol
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Looks like Deloittes don’t just fabricate reports on jobs to cut at Wellington City Council. @ponekeben.bsky.social #nzpol
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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What National actually understands about education could fit on the pointy end of a pin 😑
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Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Treasury's 2023 forecast for 2026, vs now: Wage growth 4.0% → 2.8% Unemployment 4.8% → 5.6% Inflation 2.1% → 4.1% GDP growth 3.3% → 1.6% National promised to get the economy back on track. Three years on, it's worse than forecast on all four. Smaller pay rises, fewer jobs, dearer groceries. #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Treasury gives Willis pre-election boost as surplus forecast improves
Nicola Willis has been given a pre-election reprieve, with Treasury painting a brighter picture of the government's finances in the short term.
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Matt @matteastnz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I don’t want to hear about tax cuts or surpluses until our hospitals are operating normally, our fire service has the equipment needed to save life’s, woman are paid equal, teachers, nurses et al are paid what they are worth, and no child goes hungry, no matter their situation. End of story. #NZPol
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lieslm.bsky.social @lieslm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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lieslm.bsky.social @lieslm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We should be so lucky
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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
THIS IS MY WHY
Mike Hosking says "I will leave the country of a left wing government is elected."
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“It’s really hard to see the humanity in people who are unwilling to see the humanity in some of the most vulnerable and marginalised, who they’re actively harming.” #nzpol
thespinoff.co.nz
Chlöe Swarbrick and the weight of expectations | The Spinoff
A decade into her career, the former political prodigy is knocking on the door of cabinet – and trying to manage her intensity.
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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Ugly Truth Behind TOP/#Opportunity’s Sudden Rise #nzpol #PartyVoteGreen+💚🖤❤️ www.facebook.com/share/p/1JFc...
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lieslm.bsky.social @lieslm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social
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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The USA sanctions on #icc judges are punitive & far reaching, isolating them & their families, disrupting/blocking credit cards/banking services/email/ insurance/travel etc The attack on judges is an attack on a moral International order by USA- where does NZ stand? www.icc-cpi.int/news/icc-str...
icc-cpi.int
The ICC strongly rejects US sanctions against the institution
Today, the United States has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court as an institution. This unprecedented step follows a series of designations against thirteen independent Judges and p...
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Auckland Women's Centre @akwomenscentre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Unthinkable not so long ago but women are collectively worse off now than we were 3 years ago. But damage control is not progress, & we don't want to go back to 2023. Instead let's lift our horizons, imagine a relaxing future - and vote with that future in mind. Scorecard commentary:
awc.org.nz
Election 2026: Political Party Scorecard Revealed - Auckland Women's Centre
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Anneleise @anneleise.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Because NZ's covid response was world leading and valued lives over money without the sky falling in, the Epstein Class cartel made Jacinda Ardern a target last election year. NZ sidestepped the vicious misogynist attack campaign that they were laying the groundwork for by standing down. 1/2 #NZPol
A screenshot of a tweet posted by Roger Stone 19 Jan 2023: In New Zealand the currnt Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern (a protege of Klaus Schwab) has actually banned newspapers and magazines that don't support the Government's narratives.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Some anonymous person tried to delete a section of Harete Hipango's Wikipedia article—the bit mentioning she was caught getting a staffer to scrub info on her attending an anti-vax rally. Reinstated, article protected. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harete_...
On 27 January 2022, Hipango acknowledged that she had asked a member of her staff to edit her Wikipedia biography to remove any mention of negative or controversial issues that Hipango was involved in, including her attendance at anti-vaccination rallies. The staff member deleted the "Controversies" section of her Wikipedia page four times, identifying themselves as a staff member and therefore a person with a conflict of interest according to the Wikipedia community. Hipango later said that she regretted this request.
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Prime Minister’s Office is facing fresh questions over transparency and corporate lobbying after the Chief Archivist formally directed it to account for records relating to dealings with two of New Zealand’s biggest companies, Fonterra and Z Energy. #nzpol
waateanews.com
Missing Records, Corporate Lobbying and the PM: Chief Archivist Demands Answers Over Fonterra and Z Energy - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
The Prime Minister’s Office is facing fresh questions over transparency and corporate lobbying after the Chief Archivist formally directed it to account for records relating to dealings with two of […...
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
💉 As the post notes, it’s the *balance* of risks between the disease and the vaccine.* Approved vaccines have an excellent balance of risk.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.
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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This government fucking hates scientists.
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Anneleise @anneleise.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Well put together analysis of NZ as a site for 'apocalypse planning' and the wider Epstein Class cartel and influence network, good to have the timeline of all this and the links in one place. #NZPol #EpsteinClass open.substack.com/pub/smithkst...
open.substack.com
The Little St. James of the South Pacific
Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, and the path to “Apocalypse Insurance” New Zealand
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Mlb Kiwi 🫵✋😛🤚 @mlbkiwi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
America cannot be trusted. They make the rule of law political from the Supreme Court to the local Sheriff’s department. Now they want to change the ICC 🤷#auspol #nzpol www.dw.com/en/us-impose...
dw.com
US announces sanctions on the International Criminal Court
The US has announced new sanctions on the International Criminal Court. It's the latest in a series of steps by the Donald Trump administration as it seeks to "dismantle" the intergovernmental organiz...
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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You don't have to steal the deed to steal the land. You just have to make it too dangerous for its owners to return. In Qusra, Palestine, armed Israeli terrorists are doing exactly that. My latest investigation: open.substack.com/pub/rebekahj...
open.substack.com
Qusra: The Geography of Dispossession
Watch now (2 mins) | How Israel abuses land control to terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank
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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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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/10/2026
The 85-year-old South African judge has spent decades fighting apartheid and genocide.
aljazeera.com
Who is Navi Pillay, winner of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize?
The 85-year-old South African judge has spent decades fighting apartheid and genocide.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. “releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
nytimes.com
Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Andrew Jull NZRN (he/him) @andrewjull.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I published a piece on The Conversation today on legislated nursing ratios. Results in decreased mortality, complications, readmission, length of stay, and burnout in nurses, and better job satisfaction. Savings cover twice the cost of extra nurses. #nzpol theconversation.com/nzs-nursing-...
theconversation.com
NZ’s nursing squeeze is an election issue. Is it time for compulsory patient ratios?
A new study linking lower nurse staffing on surgical wards with higher rates of post-operative deaths has raised urgent new questions about NZ’s settings.
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Krystal Chandelier @krystalchandelier.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well there you have it. I rescind all my generosity towards TOP. This 100% confirms they are a Trojan horse, created by RWers to provide a teal party to sap votes from the left. This is the deputy leader, not some backbencher. He wants to vote for Nats. #nzpol www.tickaroo.com/e/GYui53TulW...
tickaroo.com
Opportunity's deputy says he'd vote National if he couldn't vote for his party
Opportunity's deputy says he'd vote National if he couldn't vote for his partyDeputy Leader of the Opportunity Party Daniel Eb says he would vote for the National Party if he couldn’t vote for Opportu...
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