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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 13h

Why are his sleeves so long?

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 13h

What was the answer to Jack’s question about the number of nurses hired?

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 21h

"Swarbrick referenced some of her party's policies: making public transport free for under 25s; solarising households with a zero-interest ratepayer assistance scheme loan; & its tax policy where 96% of New Zealanders would get a tax cut paid for by a wealth tax, not by cuts to public services". Yep

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I found this: A 2020–2022 Toyota Aqua can only go a few hundred metres, up to about 1–2 km, and only at low speeds • Toyota’s own manual for the Aqua states that EV Drive Mode gives a possible distance of “a few hundred metres to about 1 km”, depending on battery charge and driving conditions.

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I got to ride the light rail between Mestre and Venice recently and all I could think of was how cool this would be running from the bottow of Queen St to Mt Albert and on to the Airport, via Dominion Road. youtu.be/mtZwXuqr05s?...

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Trams in Mestre - Venice

YouTube video by ErebosSan

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🔜 Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Most of my friends are already reasonably aware, but if you are looking to explore, there are a bunch of quizzes I've found that can help you decide which party to vote. #nzpol whichparty.nz parliamentpulse.co.nz/quiz newzealand.isidewith.com/political-quiz www.onthefence.co.nz

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WhichParty NZ - The 2026 Election Quiz & Compass

Which NZ party actually matches your views? Take the free 5-minute quiz for the 2026 election.

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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

second half

Scrapped the Productivity Commission and set up the Ministry for Regulation, which is four times bigger and more expensive.
Put a toll on a road that had already been built and paid for.
Stripped $30 million from a programme funding teachers to learn te reo Māori.
Broke its promise and downgraded the Dunedin Hospital rebuild.
Allowed commercial fishing in highly protected areas. Yes you read that right.
Increased ACC levies.
Broke its pre-election promise to lower the bowel cancer screening age.
Halved support for apprentices.
Took away the first-year Fees Free scheme for tertiary education.
Removed the Reserve Bank’s mandate to support maximum sustainable employment.
Took away support designed to help people back into work.
Sacked 700 scientists.
Cut the First Home Loan scheme.
Halved the government contribution to KiwiSaver.
Halved the Community Conservation Fund.
Defunded Māori services by $757 million in one Budget.
Changed the RMA to allow farmers to discharge pollution into rivers without consent.
Gave $300 million to oil and gas companies.
Went back on a law to ban cruel pig sow crates.
Raided the Climate Emergency Response Fund.
Put a tax on everyone’s power bill.
Spent money and time making English an official language, while saying there wasn’t time to pass modern slavery legislation.
Cancelled a 70-million-litre diesel storage facility, then had to build another one at a far bigger cost.
Gave the racing industry more than $1 million in fuel subsidies.
Let the fishing industry write rules that would have resulted in no size limits for them. Those changes are now on hold for if they get back in.
Raided $100 million from the Tourism Levy that was meant to go towards conservation.
Is trying to change DOC’s mandate towards generating profit rather than protecting conservation land.
Is stripping fisheries management powers from regional councils and handing them exclusively to Fisheries New Zealand.
Changed the law so citizens can't take polluters to court.
Ri…

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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What has this government been up to? Brad knows. Brad's been keeping a list (over on FB)... #nzpol

Over the last three years, I’ve been keeping a list of the rubbish this Government has done.
Stopped work on Auckland light rail.
Stopped all work on the Lake Onslow renewable battery project.
Disestablish the Ministry for the Environment.
Scrapped the smoke-free law to fund tax cuts.
Scrapped Fair Pay Agreements.
Gave $3 billion in tax cuts to landlords.
Tired to paid himself $52,000 to live in one of his own many properties, on top of his half a million dollar salary.
The so-called party of infrastructure ... cut Cook Strait ferry deal, then paid $8 million for consultants to tell them they need new ships. $700 million wasted in total. Still no ships.
Stopped the Clean Car Discount, after Luxon took an $8,000 discount himself.
Blocked statistical reporting on who does and doesn’t pay their share of tax. Think about that!
Broke its election promise and didn’t scrap the app tax.
Scrapped Three Waters, pushing costs onto ratepayers and increasing rates.
Used $4,150 of taxpayers’ money to pay for his te reo Māori classes after saying, “People in the real world should pay for it themselves.”
Halved the crayfish take for locals, but cut the commercial take by only one-fifth.
Gutted freshwater protections so cruel intensive winter grazing could continue to pollute water ways.
Took $80 million from hospitals.
Cut DOC funding by $125 million.
Scrapped the First Home Grant.
Gave half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money to their mate Bill English to do a "review".
Blew $8 million on consultants for a proposed tunnel under Wellington.
Wasted $4 million on a six-person advisory group to talk about crime and reduce youth offending. They achieved nothing.
Gave big tobacco a $216 million tax cut.
Refused to reinstate Jobs for Nature while unemployment soared.
Reduced the qualifications needed for relief teachers.
Introduced new road tolls.
Deprioritised police responses to mental health and family violence call-outs.
Slashed $107 million a year from school lunches, costing…

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Love this 👇

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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

DON’T ever forget this. Pass it on: #nzpol

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey Bluesky New Zealand!! Can you help spread the message this weekend?! Yeah sure this is just one video, but so many people haven’t enrolled yet and don’t realise they are running out of time. Thank you! 🇳🇿

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s really not good enough. Have they never heard of Macca’s? Gas station pies?

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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"We’re supposed to think of women workers, the homeless and the sick as collateral damage, because tough decisions must be made. Yes, people have died, but Luxon can accept it. He’s got the balls" #nzpol

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This time 2 weeks ago I was on holiday in Italy and I find myself rather pathetically ordering pizza in an effort to recapture that magic.

A glass of Moltipulciano wine in front of a takeaway pizza box

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Feeling for you. I remember how hard it was to make decisions when my Mum died. Mum’s are irreplaceable.

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Purely a coincidence that no enrolment on the day might impact the % of young people voting 🤔

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☕️Caffeinated Weka☕️ @cafeweka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Got my 18-year-old nephew to enroll for elections last night. It took three minutes online. “Is that all it takes?” he asked. Yep, simple. 😊

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Kieran @nugmonster.cryptoanarchy.network · 01/10/2026

It genuinely looks like the fucking idiot political reporter class considers Winston the winner because he doesn't shut the fuck up. Politics is literally just a sports match to them.

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The reverse of my trip - we started in Rome. One thing we DID do well was spending our 10 hour layover in HK at the closest hotel. Slept for a bit, used their gym and pool, then had dim sum before boarding the flight. Very civilised. Hope your trip went well.

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Smart move - I flew back in on Sunday morning, and started work on my 400 emails on Monday morning. I have not enjoyed "ramping up" so quickly after my holiday.....

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Confused as to why most of the coverage of the so-called Kingmakers Debate focuses on how many words each of them spoke. I missed the debate but, was there simply not content worthy of being reported on?

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I “may” have had bolognaise sauce on toast for breakfast this morning….

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So sorry to hear this Sarah - sounds like a truely crappy time. Be kind to yourself when you can, and remember to celebrate those small and large achievements, just as you’ve encouraged the rest of us to do. 🙌

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’ve been in Italy, Slovenia and Croatia for the past 3 weeks and can confirm!

People milling about the bars and restaurants behind the Amphitheater on the huge pedestrianised Piazza Bra in Verona

Fruit and veg market on a cobblestoned, pedestrian street, overlooked by 4 story buildings

Bars and restaurants have tables, chairs and umbrellas on both sides of a narrow Italian street. A car is able to get through but only at walk pace, and with a special permit for being there.

A wine festival in Soave, northern Italy. Cars are unable to drive within the ancient city walls and people are roving from stall to stall sampling the wares of the various wine and food producers.

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Currently e-biking through Northern Italy where “severe thunderstorms” are forecast today. Hope your weather is better than ours. #firstworldproblems

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You think you know a person….really?

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I recently had a senior manager say we should start every new task with AI and I wondered if he still valued cogitation and the eventual creative thinking that can come from that 🤔

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Scarlet @scarletblade.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

*Stares at CRL from train-deprived North Shore*

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

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Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level

Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh, and while the bank who’s Board he chaired repatriates massive profits to Australia every year, far more than they can make in their home country.

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

He also asserts that only growing the economy will improve all the things, while his party has spent the last 3 years shrinking it. Public services continue to erode for lack of tax and he worries that additional taxes will make NZ a less attractive place to live. 2/2

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s so tiresome to read this stuff - the assumption that nothing can be done that isn’t already being done. Key says that taxing businesses more means they won’t invest, but says nothing about incentivising business investment by reducing incentives for housing speculation 1/2

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

An interesting idea for ensuring that AI datacentres actually provide the value promised, once the bubble bursts #nzpol substack.com/@justindesch...

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Justin Deschamps (@justindeschamps)

I haven’t heard this take before about data centers. It’s spot on.

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was in Rome, Italy a couple of weeks back - they were experiencing their 5th heat wave since May!

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fat Freddy's Mop

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Good piece on Helen Clark Foundation's site, by Paula Southgate. Incivility is hurting local government democracy www.helenclark.foundation/news/incivil... #nzpol

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 07/09/2026

Completed in late 2025 at a cost of €14 million, Tallinn's Lastekodu Street has been rebuilt around slower traffic and safer cycling, and more pedestrian space and greenery. It now features raised intersections, cycle tracks, benches and planting, while the design speed has been reduced to 30 km/h.🧵

Photos of a street transformation in Tallinn that features red asphalt cycle tracks, vegetation and seating, and a two-tier sheltered bike parking structure.

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Multiple parking options on the fringe of the old town, including some underground. As a result, pedestrians, analogue and e-bikes stream in from all directions, as well as e-scooters and electric motors that attach to the front of wheel chairs. It wouldn’t work for big box stores of course.

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Currently in Ljubljana which has had the same mayor for the past 20 years and he remains very popular. It was his decision to block cars from entering the old town area. This has massively increased tourist and local numbers to the city and created a thriving retail and restaurant scene #nzpol

Market stalls set up in a cobblestone square. There are pedestrians walking around freely as there are no cars allowed

A line of bikes parked in front of a cobblestone street with tourists and shoppers walking between 3-5 story buildings

Tourists and locals meandering around a cobblestone square. A row of bikes parked to the right of the picture

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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’ve seen a number of these while in holiday in Italy - often parked front on in spaces not available for “normal” parked cars

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