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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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MetService NZ @metservice.com · 20/09/2026

🌊 That’s a LOT of wave! 🌊 Our marine forecast below shows combined waves of up to 10 metres ⬆️ for offshore parts of the south. This is even taller than the 6.8 metre L&P bottle in Paeroa! 🍋 👉Check the latest marine forecast at www.metservice.com/marine ⚓

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

% of income spent on food Latest OECD data US: 6.7% Ireland: 8.4% UK: 8.6% Switzerland: 8.9% Canada: 9.6% Australia: 9.8% Austria: 10% Germany: 11.5% Norway: 11.6% NZ: 12.7% (thanks to @_breadcapital on X)

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Dublin protesters greeted Trump’s visit with an inflatable Netanyahu appearing to have his way with him.

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Gee....where have we seen this recently...

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The media spring...sprung. But in Ōtepoti...we appreciate when the sun sets. And at the mo it's after six and the light's lengthening....

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jonathansgamecast.bsky.social @jonathansgamecast.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hipkins says he's not bringing back the University Free Fees Scheme. Way to torpedo the chances of your Labour candidates in seats with high student numbers. If you want fees free vote greens. A vote for labour and national is a vote for higher student loans. #nzpol

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 25/08/2026

if infrastructure is what connects people, holds them together, serves, supports, and endures, then Dolly Parton was infrastructure.

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I was a Labour member for donkey's years. I never left them. They left me. When I realised the party that once represented fairness, decency and a chance for working people was gone beyond recall, I joined @greenparty.org.uk. I've never regretted it. I can hope again, for me, and for our planet!

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I just don't believe that Labour has listened to the folk and the overwhelming message was 'return the country to a profit'. If anything...it was ' I'm fucking tired of starving'....

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Seems Labour's loot policy has gone down like regurgitated vomit... It wasn't good for you the first time around....why now? Lose yer affiliation....vote Green.

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I think that if yer a Labour Party member the time has come to resign and join the Greens. Let them raise some loot the old fashioned way and be beholden to you and not the sort of vested interests that Labour is clearly beholden to....

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Imagine if Luxon attends the opening of the new outpatients building in Ōtepoti.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Community service? People have been jailed in NZ for shoplifting & this business owner got community service for a relentless campaign of of threats, blackmail and sabotage which included visiting the wife of the rival, paying thugs to do damage. #nzpol What unequal justice looks like in practice.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There it is.

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What would be cool...would those MP's of any ilk...who take advantage of all the stuff that we folk fund...that they are entitled to , state that. For no other reason then transparency...

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Apologies...but when did 'afterpayday' become A Thing... and WTF is afterpayday.....

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Perhaps politics and politicians is where trickle down actually happens....

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

On the upside...I do love how defibrillators are getting ubiquitous. It's cool to live in an age where yer able to live an age....

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What sort of dinner etc do Nat MP's get whilst their integrity is being feted....

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Kinda feel that if Luxon is rolled...we won't notice much of a change....

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I wonder at times if because of the dearth of satire locally, the politicians get away with promoting stuff that they don’t actually believe…

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Post seems to be the newspaper that holds politicians in general, and the Government in particular, to account at the moment. Gotta say that it’s been a while since….

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ōtepoti is 8c , all sun and bugger all wind. BBQ's still six months away....

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This MMP thingy is little more than a dead cat..sigh

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The National party just had $350,000 donated. Assume it's not nascent policy. *smirk*

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

17 thousand likes

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Jeeeze. ACT and NZ First are robbing the graveyard. Is there no-one with a bit of youth...yanno under pension age, willing to stand....

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

'Prime Minister Luxon has withdrawn from his scheduled appearance on Sunday’s Q&A' Is this true....

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Lollapalooza live on Disney. Gotta love technology!

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Another glorious sun filled ,dead calm day, as Ōtepoti has the summer it was denied earlier....

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Still a bit of light at 5:45 pm in Ōtepoti. Not long and not only will we catch up,but we won’t be lighting the bbq until 9:30…

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Listening to Simple Minds and Mandela Day and reflecting on how bands aren't having a crack these days. Or are they....

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Great quake. Longish and gentle. All babies in the South are now well asleep...

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Yes..gentle and longish roll from a quake felt in Ōtepoti....

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Is investing in the US stock markets A Thing at the moment? It does seem a bit sketchy…

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I am not joking that this is one of the single greatest photos of this admin lmao

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Health spending in the US had grown 7.3% in 2025 to a whopping $5.7 trillion. This is the 3rd straight year that growth has been above 7%. Spending is projected to approach $9 trillion by 2034, at which point healthcare will devour 20.6% of the entire U.S. economy. 🧵

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alex 🍸 @alexgmartin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This week on Both Sides Now, our political podcast aimed at breaking down politics and breaking down political polarisation, Eve and I had the privilege of chatting to our former Professor, Andrew Geddis, on all things MMP. Takes me back to LAWS204 🙂‍↕️ #nzpol podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/b...

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A beginners guide to our weird voting system MMP

Podcast Episode · Both Sides Now · 27 June · 59min

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

How do politicians, who spend a decade or two as such, become multi millionaires? All those houses. Those shares.

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I dunno… Muldoon set the National Party on its hate superannuation at any cost. Now they don’t. Are they sure Rob’s mob is thoroughly staked and laid out…

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

'Collective worth of NZ's rich listers leaps by $102b' First thing I heard this morning was a thirty year high of unemployed youth. I really should sleep in ...

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elliepnw.bsky.social @elliepnw.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

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petermartin.bsky.social @petermartin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The contrails... continent to continent , that wanders over Ōtepoti....are kinda evocative ....

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