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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22h

How are people missing that the actual use case of AI is distorting and manipulating democracy? Why else would the billionaires be willing to burn money on it? (rhetorical)

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Good morning country where apparently it's more of a scandal for a political party to reach out to gangs and get them enrolled to vote in election season, than it is to have a literal convicted pedophile as party president. 🌅 #NZPol

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Imagine if a powerful country's navy was out chasing a peaceful activist ship, on the bidding of the fossil fuel industry. That would be scary right? Even if it was nothing but intimidation. Some may even call it fascistic. Imagine.

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

If you only support protests that are not disruptive, don't cost the powerful, and don't highlight contradictions and conflicts... You don't really support the right to protest. 🤷

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Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @phil-stevens.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Excellent insight from David Farrier. Billionaires have their thumbs on the scale of electoral democracy. #NZPol www.webworm.co/elections

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Activists have occupied one of Woodside’s offshore gas platforms, which have since stopped operations. But Woodside’s plans for more dirty gas haven’t. Our message: STOP WOODSIDE’S DIRTY GAS. SAVE SCOTT REEF. Scott Reef is worth more than another gas project […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

🚨Right now, Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists are occupying one of Woodside’s offshore gas platforms. Woodside’s latest gas project would bring dirty gas infrastructure like this straight to Scott Reef, putting pygmy blue whales, green sea turtles, and […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

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Jon Sullivan @joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

One of the ecology postgrads working with me at the moment, Dee Patel, has spent this year doing lots of data curation work, and now stats analysis, on my 23-years of ongoing high frequency bird counts between Ōtautahi-Christchurch city and Lincoln town in Canterbury, NZ. That's where I […]

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Mu @mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

David Farrier does amazing journalism, consistently great work and on topics that other people don't even consider. He has got schools to acknowledge their pedo past and expressed grifters. If any of that is useful, and you have a few bucks lying around, please consider subscribing to his […]

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 15/10/2026

hello friends TMI but webworm could use your help! pulling the curtain back a little (embarassing, kiwis aren't wired for this). eternal gratitude if you can be fucked reading x me www.webworm.co/webwormsos/

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A Webworm SOS

Looking back at the last year of David Farrier's Webworm newsletter, how we're tracking, and how you can help.

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

:tinoflag: Petition (with a groovy website) to have the tino rangatiratanga flag up on the harbour bridge full time. They're aiming to reach 80,000 signatures, let's help them smash that goal by sharing it around - :tinoflag: www.theflagpoll.nz #NZPol

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The Flag Poll

On Waitangi Day, the Tino Rangatiratanga flag goes up on the Auckland Harbour Bridge. The next day, it comes down. Together, we can keep it raised.

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Cost of Greed is banger framing from the greens. They should be saying that a lot. #NZPol

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Isaac Freeman @isaacfreeman.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

The Green Party has released AI policy today as part of our general election campaign: www.greens.org.nz/ai_policy I’m pretty happy with it. There are some things I’d word differently for a more technical audience, but as something going out to all voters I think it strikes the right […]

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Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism @salty.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

If anyone would like a hangi or to donate a hangi to someone in need, while also raising money for the Green Party South Auckland campaign, here is where to go -- […]

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Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @phil-stevens.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Not to mention the most obvious benefit: food kids would actually eat, and was good for them. You get what you pay for when all you care about is the lowest bid.

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I have heard people say that Love is the strongest motivator in the world, but have you even tried Spite?

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Look, all the money is going to the right wing parties. 👀 Ask yourself why the oligarchs are so invested in keeping this incompetent coalition in power. And then make sure you're registered, vote and help us make sure all that money they donated is flushed down […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

Graphic from RNZ detailing donations per political party.

Act leads with $2372036
Next is National with $2291751
Labour is third with $890301
NZ First has received $833000
Opportunity is second to last $491660
Last are the Greens with $405195

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Can't wait to hear from the Coalition ghouls why this is a terrible idea. #NZPol

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Phone call with the conservative uncle: -The problem with all this Socialist and communist ideology is that it doesn't consider people are different. We don't have the same interests, capacities, desires. That's why it's bound to fail. Me: Right. Everyone has something different to offer and […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Banger policy after banger policy. At this point you can't say that you vote for the best policy on offer and not vote green. 💚✅✅ #NZPol #voteGreen #ditchThePricksIn26 www.greens.org.nz/greens_announce_j…

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I love this albulm (Felt) so much. And this is a great intro to it. Its like listening to a piano from the inside of the piano. Nils Frahm - Keep www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7XcLsCl8to #JukeBoxFridayNight #PianoMusic

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The bad news is that the current system threatens wildlife everywhere. The good news is that if we change it, recovery does happen. More than ever we need to collectively push for better! Comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and sea turtles prove nature loss can be reversed, scientists say | WWF | […]

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Ko Simon toku ingoa :tinoflag: @simonchulse.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

The teams responsible for D&D and M:TG have announced plans to unionise! They want people to sign their petition that WoTC recognise the union voluntarily #dnd #ttrpg #DungeonsAndDragons www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/YEVc5OtrlU

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I dream of a day when NZ is not led by a bland white neolib named Chris. #NZPol

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

No Brazil, what are you doing? Please don't elect another Bolsonaro. 🙏 🇧🇷 www.reuters.com/world/americas/braz… #BRPol

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Beware. If you are looking for Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's film "Naza" based on interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers, that is currently in film festivals and cinemas, you won't find it online. Instead you will find the IDF's "Naza - The True Story" that presents a very different picture of […]

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Good News Community @good-news-community.mastodon.cosmicnation.co.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

On the Great Barrier Reef, Traditional Owners are taking a growing role in managing and protecting Sea Country. Indigenous knowledge combined with modern conservation is helping shape how one of the world’s most remarkable ecosystems is cared for. Read more […]

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Ko Simon toku ingoa :tinoflag: @simonchulse.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

One party *actually* “building the future” while the other is only *saying* they’re “building the future” while actually building the 1950’s.

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Sounds about right to me. Can't be any more progressive left within this chart. 🤷 votecompass.tvnz.co.nz #NZPol

Screenshot of the Tvnz political compass result.

Text reads
Your fit in the political landscape
The graph shows how you compare with the parties in terms of ideology.

The dot marked as You is located in the furthest left, topmost corner straight between the Greens and the Te Pāti Māori.
This corner corresponds to the progressive leftt

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Hell yeah! Choo choo mfers! 🚉 If I wasn't already locked in for a green vote, these would certainly do it. ✅✅💚 Green Party announces plan for passenger rail between major NZ cities […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

[Proud leftie dad moment] At lunch time, my partner was talking about a friend who is having trouble in her new job. She's been making mistakes while using a complicated system she hasn't been trained on, and her requests for training have not had any response. She's frustrated and doesn't know […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Occam's razor says the simplest explanation is often the correct one: Todd McClay likely confused a member of the Dutch environmental group Both Ends, Fernando Hernández Espino, with Francisco Hernández from the Green Party. Then he said that the complaint was the Green's fault. Now they're […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

🇵🇸 47SOUL - Intro To ShamStep | السبعة و أربعين - مقدمة الشام ستيب www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgEiIXay4rY #AWiderWorld #JukeboxFridayNight

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