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University Workers for Palestine @uwp-aotearoa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

CALL TO ACTION - TEU MEMBERS ✊🇵🇸 We need your support to make sure the ethical superannuation claim is a priority during this bargaining period. Contact your local bargaining team now to tell them! Stand with Palestine. Support BDS. Demand that UniSaver divest from genocide.

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M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 29/09/2026

At the moment the only party demonstrating both an awareness of the situation people find themselves in, and a credible economic pathway out of that situation is the Green Party. Labour's tinkering around the edges of what they will inherit from National won't shift the dial much (if at all)

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Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand @greens.org.nz · 25/09/2026

Right 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.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

reading Dirty Work I am completely revising my "will barely move the needle", every second page of this thing is a career-destroying scandal. There are extensive DMs and court records. This thing is UGLY.

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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That these 2 guys can dismiss the book as 'business as usual' tells us a shitload about their warped perspective on NZ politics and the infiltration of lobbyists. It also insults their listeners, who care deeply about the influence of corporate money, esp when it's ramping up racism and dividing us

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stuff really going out of their way to prove Hager's point about how how they manufacture credibility for bad-faith right wing partisans.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nicky Hager book is unusual because its main thesis seems to be "they are just doing all this bad faith money-for-racism stuff in plain sight and the media don't seem to perceive it as bad" Media: "Hmm this Hager book has no revelations in it, we knew all this already, oh well carry on as normal"

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 09/08/2023

bisexual men are always turning back at the threshold to give the decrepit room behind them and its piled boxes of rotting newsprint one last pass with the flashlight, leaving themselves momentarily unguarded against the burgeoning congregation of shadows in the unlit hallway

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M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 23/09/2026

Toby Manhire’s repeated question to Nicky Hager of “Wouldn’t your book have been better if you had given the lying liars a right to respond with lies in your book?” is yet more evidence that journalists in Aotearoa seem to think civility is everything

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you're wondering why the media will give Farrar, Williams a good old run at denying everything without being specific or proving anything, it's because Hager criticises the media for their uncritical platforming of both of them and calls them lazy which is 100% correct.

Hager also criticised the media's role, suggesting it contributed to poor transparency.

"Despite all their undeclared political machinations, both Farrar and Williams are often interviewed uncritically in the mainstream media - far more often than most genuinely independent experts and commentators.

"At the time of writing, for instance, Radio New Zealand had interviewed Farrar about 600 times since 2007, an astonishing amount of coverage considering that he is one of the least independent people available. He is often introduced with labels such as 'polling company maestro', while Williams is given labels such as 'anti-waste campaigner'. It is lazy journalism."

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Kyle and Avery's work on this was incisive and will, I expect, be a useful companion to Hager's Dirty Work

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just home from Hager's launch of 'Dirty Work: The Taxpayers' Union and New Zealand's Hard Right'. We did some work on the NZTU which may be of interest to people who want to understand some more about NZTU strategies. Report: tinyurl.com/WhoCountsANZ. 5 videos: www.youtube.com/@WhoCounts

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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“…the coalition ministers have tolerated and benefited from these unscrupulous groups. They should be held accountable by the public.”

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

my "not involved in corruption at the highest levels of state" press release has a guy who writes political exposés asking questions already answered by my press release

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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“There is the chapter on their work as tobacco lobbyists, a whole chapter on Jordan Williams’ abysmal attitude to women, a major chapter on the deliberate use of racism as a political tool, a chapter on dirty politics attacks and smears…”

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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“First and most damaging is the influence of private donors. Private money needs to be banned in our electoral system.”

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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Together with a network of allied groups, the Taxpayers’ Union raised over $2 million over the three years up to the 2023 election, to spend on activities moving New Zealand politics to the right. It looks like they are doing the same thing in 2026.”

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nicky Hager's book reminds me of Jordan Williams & Slater old leaked texts What surprises me is that Jordan Williams, Taxpayers Union & co are still considered credible members of society by media simply because they are well funded and sworn partners of right wing networks #kiwi #NickyHager

Jordan Williams, 1/10, 10:11am

women; if they didn’t have a fanny between their legs they’d have a bounty on their heads

nice pic with Judith holding Truth
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Cameron Slater, 1/10, 10:13am

if they didn;t have cunts we’d chuck rocks at them

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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wellington 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.

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Sacha @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.' #NzPol

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Greens announce reforms to lower commercial rents, fill empty shops

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 emp...

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Microsoft internally admitting that its ‘AI’ products are built on “the largest theft of labor in human history”. But the NZ Government — and far too many public servants — are willing to hand wave this theft away. Knowingly purchasing stolen goods. #nzpol

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Toa5tNZ @toa5tnz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This provides the direct evidence of the positive effect that the Greens KiwiMart policy would have for all Kiwis. This information direct from the current government!

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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#nzpol There’s NEVER any mention of this when politicians discuss gross national debt and ‘crippling’ interest payments. Turns out we also receive interest and dividends. ‘It returned 14.17 percent after costs and before tax… well ahead of the 2.71 percent return from 90-day Treasury bills’

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

BRANZ is an internationally well-respected research institute that’s *independent* of any government department—folding it into MBIE for vague cost-cutting reasons is stupid. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

rnz.co.nz

Decades of building industry research at risk

The future of our world-respected building research association is looking shaky with a government move to cut the dedicated levy that funds it.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje...

In a dashboard available to the workers, human reviewers are able to select which “task” they want to take on. Once they click that, they are presented with the real ChatGPT user’s prompt. 404 Media has seen multiple real prompts but is not quoting any of them for source protection reasons. Some of the prompts indicate the ChatGPT user does not expect that a human may end up reading their conversation, because they ask ChatGPT to keep the content to themselves.

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The following public transport projects for NZ should be completely uncontroversial: - light rail in Auckland and Wellington - completing the electrification of the North Island Main Trunk and sparking the East Coast Main Trunk - Extending Te Huia to Tauranga and the Capital Connection to Whanganui

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

this is perhaps the most useful thing that LLMs and GenAI have done: to provoke people into articulating (over again) that even the 'hardest' of 'hard sciences' are human endeavours, with human meaning, and concerned with human understanding of the significance of the world we all inhabit

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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This ok? Or more important the NZ Govt bond yield is a fraction of a basis point lower than it otherwise would be? That's the choice.

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's very distressing reading about the state of our healthcare system, particularly when you have/loved ones have high medical needs/disabilities

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M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 09/09/2026

Journalists mourned the political demise of Chris Penk, a man who holds a number of retrograde views, because he was seen as “sensible”. No wonder the more extreme political candidates are just treated as normal people just asking questions…

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

*whispers in analysis of political economy and science and technology studies* Frankly, no. If your technology relies on massive capital consolidation to function at all, then the problem is the technology, not simply who wields it.

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is great. But why not also extend it to people who have 2 year disabilty certificates from their GP, are trying to get recognised as disabled, but are still being rejected by MSD? There's a big black hole where these likely eligibles are left to rot, exhausted by the fight to be seen. #nzpol

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

so far these are the big real uses of AI 1. Analyzing huge data sets better than we could before 2. Automate hacking and malware to an unprecedented degree 3. Supercharge fraud beyond all prior precedent 4. Flood the internet with slop / disinfo Where's the change in our very nature?

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Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"This is something that has been identified by experts and economists, the likes of Consumer New Zealand as a consumer advocacy group, who have identified that as a small country at the bottom of the world, that it does make sense to have a publicly owned supermarket as a third competitor"

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Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand @greens.org.nz · 06/09/2026

Everyone in Aotearoa should have access to affordable kai. The Green Party has a plan to take on the supermarket duopoly, bring down grocery prices, and make sure everyone can access good food. Affordable Food For All of Us: www.greens.org.nz/affordable_f...

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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

These are political deaths caused by ideological commitment to austerity and privatisation. Responsibility not only falls on politicians, but also donors, media and economists who continue to promulgate myths about public and private debt and block much-needed change. www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...

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Family says woman died after leaving hospital over fears she faced 25-hour wait

* The headline has been updated to clarify the family said Briar Parfitt feared a 25-hour wait

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is good, but I have a more radical suggestion: Te Whatu Ora / Health NZ should employ all GPs and we should outlaw private medicine along with private education.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Counterpoint: ACT is demonstrably not the party of cost-benefit analysis. The right has looooong-abandoned economically-grounded evidence-based policy because the results shit all over their ideological preferences.

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Aya @melangell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Good article, one gripe! The absence of popular enthusiasm for war is not evidence that consent has ceased to be manufactured, imo. Propaganda need not manufacture a desire to kill Iranians; it may only need to manufacture enough distance from Iranians that their killing fails to produce solidarity.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s an endless source of frustration that genAI was somehow the one technology universities embraced too quickly instead of too slowly

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Allison @handle.invalid · 28/08/2026

There’s nothing smart or snappy to say. Homeless people across our country are being socially murdered to maintain an increasingly unsustainable economic arrangement. Goldsmith is a particularly aggressive agent in the pursuit of that murder. The death of this person is also its own real tragedy.

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Kieran @nugmonster.cryptoanarchy.network · 26/08/2026

"Instead, Luxon got free rein to deliver an uninterrupted, 30-minute long speech, starting with a tribute to Dolly Parton. "This morning I played 9 to 5 to my team at 8 o'clock in the morning at our special meeting," he said." bro. Did you or any of your idiot staff listen to the lyrics?

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 27/08/2026

You can just ban socially toxic technologies! They were socially banned like twelve years ago with Google Glasses, we can do it again in more formal ways with this latest attempt to push the Pervert's Delight™ onto society. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

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Push for import ban on 'pervert' smart glasses amid privacy concerns

Support is growing for a ban on the import of so-called “smart glasses”, amid an influx of low-cost devices that are being used to film Australians without their consent.

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I heard some retching in the bedroom this morning and hurriedly managed to whisk my Wahs jersey away before my cat could throw up on it. Please remain vigilant for any potential ill omens/auguries that might curse our blessed boys as finals approach.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Among “top economists, hedge fund titans and left-wing politicians” alike, concerns are growing that “AI may be building a powder keg of inequality with potentially disruptive political consequences.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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A new force is increasing inequality in America

Evidence is mounting that artificial intelligence is helping the richest people and cities pull further ahead.

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Andrew Jull NZRN (he/him) @andrewjull.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Other nursing leaders and I have been writing about this for two years, while Reti, Brown and Luxon have denied it. They have lied.

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