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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau

@markgraham.bsky.social
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The perfect dinner guest. DJ, writer, te Tiriti beginner, SJW, cycle criminal, flâneur extraordinaire, “enthusiastic amateur“, Olympian, community advocate. Born at 317ppm

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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
If the logic that led to National staking a 2 million house framework was relevant then, it's relevant now. This is the govt moving from a principled stand to a politically expedient one scared of finally losing those conservative seats in Auckland.
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This ain't rock-'n'-roll, this is GENOCIDE! 🐈‍⬛🍉🇳🇿🇵🇸 @icyred.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
In fact, I’m strongly thinking of grabbing one of these costumes to use because if the excellent disruption of the desired narrative Tamaki and his fascist mates want… www.spotlightstores.com/nz/party/cos... As explained here… vt.tiktok.com/ZSadL3N1V/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I’m not calling for violence against Tamaki and his thugs (they’d probably welcome the chance to retaliate), but I’m all for a strong turnout to Tamaki’s divisive march against immigration January 31. I’ve got too much on to organise, I’ll def be there. www.nzherald.co.nz/world/minnea...
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Pardoned January 6 rioter driven from Minneapolis rally by large counter-protest
Jake Lang was swarmed and attacked during anti-immigration march.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I mean, she has a point…
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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitchy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Tonight thinking about this all-time @ndrew.bsky.social banger
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Andrew Lawrence
@ndrew_lawrence

a few years ago social media said they cant ban white supremacists bc it would mean banning GOP politicians and I think that's a pretty good microcosm of how the media in general has handled the mainstreaming of race hatred that has led to numerous mass shootings

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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
For those about to put their bodies in harm’s way. This has every sign things are going to get ugly.
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
If the Trump administration was remotely competent (which it sometimes is), then organising a misrepresented charity fraud scandal, followed by Trump’s Brownshirt invasion of the state, ending in the killing of an innocent woman, leading to a martial law declaration…
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Interesting analysis of what’s happening in the US right now (free to read). And it’s getting worse… www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
There is no universe where having a trillionaire is justified
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Turns out bumblebees have nests. Turns out we have one hiding in the Ivy on one of our fences. Turns out bumblebees don’t like having their nests disturbed. Turns out bumblebee stings hurt LF.
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
The @nytimes.com is showing remarkable leadership in the battle against the lawlessness of Donald Trump and they are courageous and principled in doing so. I absolutely salute them. (Free to read) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
“…then control the media…”
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
You want to read something horrifying - it’s this from Fact Check NZ. Money is taking over our politics on the right and they’re repaying it with policies that favour the wealthy and corporations... open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
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WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR DEMOCRACY
Part I - Money, money, money
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
He’s reached the dgaf stage and he’s just going to do what he wants regardless of anything.
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It’s not the overfishing. It’s right there in the headline.
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Just to be clear, is this the same Anthropic that just paid out $150b to authors whose work they stole? That one? Tbh this is a fucking disappointment @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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‘The biggest decision yet’: Jared Kaplan on allowing AI to train itself
Anthropic’s chief scientist says AI autonomy could spark a beneficial ‘intelligence explosion’ – or be the moment humans lose control
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
JFC. Awful. Just fucking awful.
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Honestly, fuck the Washington Post and its owner
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Been a bit absent lately - busy doing our kitchen, amongst other things (will provide pictures for those who’d like to see 🤠). Those other things include running for Albert-Eden Local Board in the Maungawhau subdivision (Kingsland, Mt Eden, Epsom). Here’s me… www.instagram.com/reel/DOiIPHo...
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Evidence-based. Means the Greens are ahead of the curve. Again.
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The New Zealand Election Study data for the 2023 general election is now out, and available publicly at dataverse. I have remade my Treaty graph, replacing 2020 with 2023. The long term trend towards Toitū Te Tiriti is unchanged.
The same colours is the same age group with 21 years of change. Different colours are people of different ages at the same point in time.
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Of all the people who have moved south in the past few years, the @nzherald finds and features that numptie, Peter Williams,.🙄
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Tee Vixen Sutton @vixenbite.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I can’t believe that people are still not seeing what’s really happening. JC. WAKE THE FUCK UP
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Weaponising social media against academics: David Seymour's problematic posts www.linkedin.com/pulse/weapon... (LinkedIn) sanjanah.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/w... (WordPress) #nzpol
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
As cities heat up in an ever-warming world, Green Infrastructure becomes ever more important to cool cities, its people, and the fauna that reside in them
Temperatures in an urban setting
50C+ on hard surfaces
32C on green surfaces like grass with no shade
27C on green and hard surfaces in the shadeColombian City cuts temperatures by 2C by planting Green Corridors Nature based solutions including
Cost Effective and Adaptable 
Climate Adaptation and Mitigation
Natural Systems for urban challenges
Community Involvement
Co Benefits for people and planet 3-30-300 rule
3 large trees should be seen from home, work, and parks
30% urban tree canopy cover
300m away from a green space
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I like this little story because it illustrates how Govt accounting works. There is no bank account full of cash collected. Govt issues liabilities (cash, bonds, NZUs), which become our assets, then Govt tax those assets out of the economy (destroying our assets). [Ends]
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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
wild to me to have no agenda to grow a tanking economy other than tax cuts to landlords and businesses, make it harder to get a benefit, make active choices that punish people struggling, and then create instant $1000 fines for shoplifting. shit is vile. just say you hate the poors and be honest.
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
So Canadian city, Calgary, in the Redneck state of Alberta, has just voted to bring back fluoridation in its water supply because of worsening child dental health. There are people here I wish would read this article. (It’s free to read) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/w...
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A Canadian City Brings Fluoride Back to Its Drinking Water
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Safer speeds also mean better neighbourhoods in which we live - less noise, less pollution and, of course, safer for our kids and cyclists. Putting limits back up in our residential streets is retrograde and stupid. www.bikeauckland.org.nz/auckland-tra...
bikeauckland.org.nz
Auckland Transport’s flawed approach to speed reversals under the Speed Rule: the full briefing - Bike Auckland
This paper has been prepared for Auckland Council covering the critical risks, avoidable errors and safety implications relating to Auckland Transport’s interpretation of the Speed Rule.
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Door knocking in the rain again. Feels familiar…great response from Kingsland makes it worthwhile!
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Kim Tairi (ia/she/her) Nā te mea he Māori ahau ia rā ia rā @kimtairi.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Ngā whetū o Matariki ✨
Illustrated poster titled "Ngā Whetū o Matariki" on a dark starry background, describing the nine stars of Matariki and their meanings in te reo Māori with English translations:

* **Pōhutukawa** – “Mē whakamihi i ō tātou tini mate” (Acknowledge our deceased)
* **Waitī** – “Ngā kai o te wai māori” (Foods of the fresh water)
* **Waitā** – “Ngā kai o te wai moana” (Seafood)
* **Waipuna-ā-rangi** – “Ngā ua” (The rains)
* **Tupuānuku** – “Ngā kai o te oneone” (Foods of the soil)
* **Tupuārangi** – “He rākau, he manu, he whurutu, he kākano” (Trees, birds, fruit and seeds)
* **Ururangi** – “Ngā hau” (The winds)
* **Hiwa-i-te-rangi** – “Me kaikōhau i ō tātou hia hia” (Murmur our hopes and desires)
* **Matariki** – “Me mahi tahi tātou. Mō te oranga o te katoa.” (Work together for the wellbeing of all.)

Below the text are star icons in different colours and a group of people gathered on a grassy hill, looking up at the stars. Text at the bottom reads: “Mānawatia a Matariki.”
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Next up, DDT will be allowed to be used again, and lead is being added back to petrol and paint…
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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 19/06/2025
You have only three days left to make a submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill. Let’s bury it together, just like we did the Treaty Principles bill. We've made it easy: greenpeace.nz/gpv4ob
The coat NZ coat of arms according to the regulatory standards bill. A cartoon. One person stands with a fonterra flag on the left of the shield, with David Seymour on the right holding the regulatory standards bill. the shild is a montage of polluted was, oil spills, dead wildlife and over fishing.
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme…
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
History never repeats, but it does rhyme
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Driving down Pt Chev Rd this morning behind the Outer Link and we had to stop when it stopped to pick up a passenger. That’s 15 seconds of productive time we’ve lost and will never get back Simeon Brown. . Bloody @AklTransport !
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Is Fletcher Building in charge of the New World Vic Park renovation?
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reb of Melbourne @guttertwits.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
In other news, Police are searching for the artist who painted a tunnel and the Roadrunner on the side of a bridge. One unlucky driver said "it's very realistic."
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Kyle MacDonald @kylemacd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – why you should quit your job to make the world a better place
theguardian.com
Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – why you should quit your job to make the world a better place
A bracingly hopeful call for high-flyers to ditch corporate drudgery in favour of something far more ambitious
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Brilliant story on Vienna’s approach to housing (social housing on steroids with design competitions rewarding those with Green solutions), and how local govt is leading the way in the US even as Trump pulls back. www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
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Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change?
Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
As a candidate for local govt in Maungawhau subdivision of Albert-Eden - one of the oldest areas of the city - this particularly resonates with me. The “But Council Inefficiency and Waste” mantra drowns out any reasoned debate that inevitably ends with this realisation
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Anti-ICE battles turning into potential massacres by police forces.
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
History never repeats, but it does rhyme…
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
See a doc, post a doc
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a man in a wheelchair is standing in front of a group of men in uniforms .
ALT: a man in a wheelchair is standing in front of a group of men in uniforms .
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"Wellington City Council spokesperson Richard MacLean said "it would be nice if the people involved would just grow up and stop being dicks"." PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA RESPONSE OF THE YEAR
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
#nzpol Senior National MP Chris Bishop - drunk, mouthy, uncouth and racist at NZ Music awards last night - 😬 what a POS -
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Sarah Chambers @sarahpolo10.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Hey, hey it's Monday that wonderful day of the week where we celebrate all the small to big wins with everything in between. Mine is that my new boiler system was installed at the pool & we are now back up and running after a stressful 3 weeks. What's yours?
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Robbing Paula to pay Peter.
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Mark Graham Tāmaki Makaurau @markgraham.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Not that I'm trying to depress you, but more people need to understand what's happening...it's really not good... qr.ae/pAbEr6
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