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Mickey @mickeytreadwell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't want to make Ōtepoti more like a Paris, a lovely but inferior city, but I DO want you to submit your thoughts on the Ōtepoti Pathways Plan!

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Mickey @mickeytreadwell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's there in another slightly zoomed out graphic! (Which also includes the chain hills tunnel trail, maybe the coolest bit of pedestrian/cycling infra in the city)

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Business financial data day - always a favourite. What's going on? TLDR: Profits pick-up, wages don't. I'll get into the glorious detail, but concepts first... 'NZ Businesses' buy stuff, pay wages, sell stuff, and make profits. Per capita figures for the above in the chart, simple? Right... [🧵 1/n]

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Mickey @mickeytreadwell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"People Produce Progress" is a legitimately great slogan and double entendre

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Mickey @mickeytreadwell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You cannot believe climate science and hold this position; this is madness. It's climate denier policy. What has become of Labour? They bear no resemblance to the party of 2020. #nzpol

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Mickey @mickeytreadwell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What an absolute banger. Costed, straightforward policy with clear benefits for pretty much everyone suffering under this chud government. A better Aotearoa is possible! #nzpol

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Hokitika Clock @hokitikaclock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I knew this would be bad, but it's awful. Malpractice even. I'll limit my criticism to 9 posts. The Herald have added together the gross debt of NZ public & private sectors and called this debt 'we collectively owe the world'. Pure unadulterated nonsense. Literally untrue. [🧵1/n]

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I assume it's based on the assumption that it will maximise their chance of getting into parliament. But you're right that it's naïve. I maintain that, whatever it is, it's a perverse thing to commit to.

Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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The lack of widespread industry knowledge on the economics of queueing, wait times and WIP limits is beginning to bite.

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Power before values I guess.

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Right, this would seem to confirm that their first offer for negotiations will almost certainly be the National party.

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Thanks! Gods, centrism. What a vacuous thing.

Here's the thing. LGNZ was a somewhat effective lobbying platform that acted as a bulwark against the things he's complained about. But he destroyed LGNZ by pulling Auckland out of it. He deserves a big share of the blame for exactly what he's complaining about.

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I think they should switch asap but I fear there's no Jacinda waiting in the wings.

Have they said that explicitly? The largest party bit?

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Jasmin Taylor @meshedlight.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We're still a ways out, but we really should reckon with the fact that TOP may just side with the coalition. #nzpol

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Ōtepoti: NZSL Club get together to use and practice New Zealand Sign Language September: 10th, 24th October: 8th, 22nd Thursdays 6:30-7:45pm Te Whata o Kaituna South Dunedin Library accessible venue All welcome! event supported by Otago Deaf Society Inc. image: event poster, same info

NZSL Club

get together to use and practice New Zealand Sign Language

September: 10th, 24th
October: 8th, 22nd
Thursdays

6:30-7:45pm

Te Whata o Kaituna
South Dunedin Library

accessible venue

All welcome!

event supported by Otago Deaf Society Inc.

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You know my stance: no names on the ballot, hand-written write-ins only. Keeps the computers out of it, you see.

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Write-in ballots will fix stv

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The nomination was so touching because we were fan-submitted — but I didn't think we had a chance of taking it home given the quality of the other finalists. What an unbelievable honor! I'm reeling!

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Mitch Cramer @heavyeyed.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Entirely consistent imo! Three waters is offensive to them because it's taxpayer money, Tiaki Wai because it's ratepayer money; they're only interested in full privatisation. The actual cost doesn't matter — in fact the higher the better — as long as it's lining the pockets of some rich ghoul.

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New Video: 5 Indie Games You (Maybe) Haven't Played Reposts appreciated but not necessary ily xo youtu.be/43ZMzFDwd2A

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Mickey @mickeytreadwell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Occasionally you get a review that, in and of itself, justifies all the work you put into a project. This is one of those! Huge mihi, Mitch.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Simply cut staffing numbers! Reduce budgets! Cut the unnecessary spending! Buddy you do realise Councils have plans and annual reports audited every three years and every year respectively. You realise staff deliver services. Budgets pay for facilities. Or don't you? Maybe they don't.

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Mickey @mickeytreadwell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Tell your council you hate it! Get a petition together! Speak at public forum!

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Mickey @mickeytreadwell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Rates capping is possibly the most harmful piece of legislation this government will pass in terms of massive austerity and assets sales across the country. And it has gone more or less unreported because of our spectacular national apathy — & antipathy — towards local government. #nzpol

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I don't have any specific beef with it (I use it!), it's just an example to illustrate that the ban won't be effective in keeping minors off social media. Discord effectively operates as a social media platform, has had a large number of grooming/predator scandals, and has a very young userbase.

CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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Here's what I wrote to every Labour MP about the social media ban. The easiest way to email them all is to go to the link below, and cut and paste their email addresses from the pdf - it saves a lot of time. www3.parliament.nz/media/12194/...

Hello Labour caucus,

A few months back I wrote each of you, and every MP in Parliament, an individual email about the awful NZ First anti-trans legislation. Thank you to each of you who offered a personal response to that, it afforded comfort at a time of worry.

Today you launched your new campaign slogan, Better Starts Now.

Tomorrow you’re meeting to discuss whether or not to support National’s social media ban for under-16’s - and it is just National’s social media ban - nobody else wants a bar of it. They’ve dropped this so late, having denied anyone else a look, in the hope they can rush it through.

The proposed social media ban won’t work. You can look across the Tasman at how Australia’s ban has not worked, or in the UK and see how their ban has not worked. National’s proposal doesn’t include Roblox which MPs who are parents will shudder at, because of how obsessive it is - but also because it’s a platform that takes almost no action on predatory behaviour

This bill will end up being a big data-gathering obstacle to everyone using the internet, as various verifications and requirements and additional steps make it more difficult to gain access to the online world - and as has been said, won’t actually protect young people.

I’d also argue that the internet, and social media in particular, has done far more damage to Gen X and Boomers than it has to young people - I mean, have you seen the facebook comment section recently? It makes the flashes of hell in Event Horizon (1997) look like walk along the beach at sunset with someone you love

If better starts now, I hope that means - now. A last minute ham-fisted bit of legislation that doesn’t work from the lead partner of a coalition government whose calling card is legislation that’s done too quickly, had poor scrutiny, and doesn’t work - that isn’t better.

Call them on it. Commit to developing cross-party regulation for social media platforms that focuses on harm reduction, consequences for hosts of harmful content or inaction on predatory behaviour.

Go full noise, emphasise that Labour would do it differently, take their time, give it the prioritisation online safety requires. In short, do it better - because I hear it starts now

Thanks for reading,

Johnny Cans

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They both function as big unregulated public chatrooms, basically, and have notoriously developed grooming/sexual predator issues. They're also widely used by minors.

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I am because I'm an elected representative. As soon as I leave office you'll probably never see me online again.

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Yeah absolutely, everyone will need some proof of age — though meta has bandied about some notions of "facial age estimation". I do wonder if this will accelerate or decelerate the echo-chamberisation of fb especially.

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I suspect it's just electoralism — they're guessing it's a vote-winner based on the putcomes from prior trials. It will be interesting to see how the cooker vote reacts to Meta's demand for photo ID.

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