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Phil Tanner

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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 02/10/2026
Call to action for overseas Kiwis There's thousands of you in Australia, please help us boot out this awful coalition government🙏🏼 #auspol #nzpol
greens.org.nz
A call to action for friends of overseas New Zealanders
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"There is no safe age verification. There is no age verification that doesn’t put people at risk." True, dat. Are you listening, NZ Government? #nzpol
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Phil Tanner :tinoflag: @phil-tanner.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
WTAF kind of clickbait bullshit is this RNZ? Seriously‽ I expect much more of a state broadcaster, and I don't think that's an unreasonable expectation either. Do. The. FUCK. Better.
Screenshot of an RNZ Android notification that reads:
"Doctors accused her of faking illness - now they’re asking for forgiveness"
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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hey does anyone know how to put horses back in a stable? Really having a hard time with it
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
They shut down flu tracking and flu is out of control. They cancelled ferries to save money and now we are gonna get shittier ferries that cost more. They fired all the public servants and unemployment went up. They gave landlords tax breaks and homelessness people are dying on the streets.
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Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Nicola Willis caused this recession. David Seymour caused a large part of this flu epidemic.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
1/ In the UK? A iPhone user or iPad user? In June 2026, did you receive a red dot notification on your settings icon, that if selected took you to a process to 'Confirm You are 18+' and in which Apple stated that 'UK law requires you to confirm you an adult to change content restrictions'. 2/
A screenshot of a red dot notification in iOS settings sent by Apple to 'Confirm you are 18+'A screenshot of a request on iOS to confirm you are 18+ because UK law requires it
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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 26/08/2026
19 December 2025 The Ministry of Health decided to not renew its contract for FluTracking New Zealand www.health.govt.nz/news/new-zea...
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New Zealand maintains a comprehensive respiratory surveillance system
The Ministry of Health, in consultation with partners the National Public Health Service and PHF Science, has decided to not renew its contract for FluTracking New Zealand because New Zealand has othe...
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New: The authors of the age assurance tech trial report underpinning the social media ban have conceded ChatGPT was used in editing the report but denied citation errors discovered were due to AI hallucinations (w/ @nickevershed.bsky.social ) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Report supporting Australia’s teen social media ban appears to contain AI hallucinations, Senate hears
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Okay Clacton. Let’s go.
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 09/08/2026
This all seems pretty unhinged. You wouldn't continue to employee a person who you couldn't trust, especially not if the proposed solution was, "pay another person to watch and review everything he does, in real-time, to make sure he doesn't sabotage your business"
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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hey Siri, who was in power when unemployment was last this horrifically high? … The same people? But I thought they were good at the economy?
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Lessons for NZ - apparently datacentres in Ireland draw =23% of the country's power and household power bills have gone up 600 Euros in the last year as a result. Use urged from 5% of national electricity demand in 2015 to 23% in 2025. Forecast to exceed 30%
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New exhibition tracing evolution of Māori carving over 700 years
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New exhibition tracing evolution of Māori carving over 700 years
He Toi Whakairo: The Art of Māori Carving opens at Te Papa next month, with 147 taonga from the 1300s to the modern day.
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
if you're ruling out TOP but NOT NZF in a climate where the latter party routinely attacks you and pushes FAR more extreme bigotry and fascist rhetoric then ... well you're overtly fascist accelerationists at that stage
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
First complete national picture of our water networks is out. 11,535 wastewater overflows last year. 31 a day. A fifth of treatment plants running on expired consents. Moa Point was never a Wellington problem. This is what forty years of deferred maintenance looks like when the bill lands. #nzpol
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First complete water network report points to 'severe' pressures
The first national picture of water networks has revealed "severe" and "immense" pressures, with an average 31 wastewater overflows across New Zealand every day.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I think this is fucking awful and terrifying and outrageous and should cause an international incident. Also I think that stop going to America if you’re not American. My mother has been begging me. It’s been over 5 years. She hasn’t met my son. I refuse to go. I’m not going there. Stop going there.
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 21/07/2026
"Dylan doesn't win Lotto, but if numbers had been different he would have"
Headline screenshot:
Inflation rises to 4.1%, but if fuel prices had not changed it would be 2.9%
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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The perfect parody doesn't exis-
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Green shoots! Green shoots! Fuck off media
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 17/07/2026
a few good Jessica’s
A digital illustration of 6 versions of doodles of Jessica Rabbit: short, fat, flat-chested, black, asian, and masc.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 16/07/2026
A major 'minor' quake away from the main centres & infrastructure of NZ & it crashes. I have ZERO faith in it or this Govt's ability to respond to say a Wgtn quake now. I'm shocked.
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Good news everybody. There are no active climate related official states of emergency in the country as I currently write this.
2026 dominates in days of officially declared states of emergency, but the trend is rising anyway.
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Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
New Zealand's real wage growth over the past 5 years: -6.4%. Worst in the OECD. Growth just barely positive (Mar 2026 quarter), June expected to slip back. Inflation still at 3.9% peak. RBNZ raising the OCR to 2.5%. The coalition inherited this and hasn't turned it. Wages tell the story. #nzpol
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Reserve Bank rate hike hits Kiwi households enduring worst wage squeeze in developed world
While the central bank looks for economic growth in the stars, new OECD data reveals New Zealanders' after-inflation wages plummeted 6.4 percent. Jonathan Milne reports.
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New Zealand, 7 years ago: they are us. New Zealand, now: let’s invite a person that’s responsible for mass murdering of Muslims! Yay! Trade! Yay yay yay!
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
And Nat Minister Simon Watts wrote to Councils to not do Climate Mitigation policies
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Phil Tanner @philtanner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Nothing quite like an old school "out of context re[tw|sk]eet"...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/07/2026
Looks like Mayor Z's pied a terre tax is not collapsing the real estate market or causing the wealthy to flee Manhattan after all. Indeed, the opposite. Who could have possibly imagined this scenario? www.realtor.com/news/trends/...
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Manhattan Luxury Market Booms Despite Mayor Mamdani's New Tax on Second Homes
Despite the new pied-à-terre tax, Manhattan's ultrahigh-end luxury market remains incredibly robust, say experts.
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crafty.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy @crafty.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026
Completed another bust. A couple of months ahead of the 86th anniversary of the #BattleOfBritain, this one is called "The Few" from Life Miniatures, 1/10th scale. No in progress shots of this, as I was never terribly happy with it "in progress" […] [Original post on mastodon.philtanner.com]
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
😂
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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Proper envious of governments taking action more constructive than "ban kids" The closest our clownshow could manage would probably be to mandate trusting Copilot outputs. "No secondary searches!"
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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We are absolutely at the point where supporting any of the coalition parties should be considered anti-AoNZ. "Oh, but race shouldn't be a part of medical need" STFU unless you want no more kākāpō.
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DHS @drhsinghnz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"A vote for NZ First is not merely a choice for a domestic political party; it is a direct, deliberate vote to import the most divisive, anti-Indigenous tactics of American Trumpism into the heart of New Zealand politics."
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DHS @drhsinghnz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The "immigrant flood" is a myth. It is a narrative manufactured by fear-mongers and politicians looking to exploit anxieties and score cheap points.
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
*Taps sign*
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Flipturns 🏊‍♀️ 📷 🦋 @flipturns.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Something to ponder upon... www.reddit.com/r/randomques...
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Explore this post and more from the randomquestions community
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I will give a chocolate fish to anyone who can tell me what in the fuck this weird little dipshit man is talking about here #nzpol
"We're really stuck in a 1995 way of doing things. Why can't a 32-year-old mother who needs eyeglasses for the nine-year-old daughter and wants to understand your tax rebates for the, you know, with an 11-year-old and nine-year-old daughters actually be able to just do an inquiry rather [than] have to go to MSD and IRD and all that stuff?
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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Yeah they promised a nationwide network of EV chargers ahead of the last election too #nzpol
Polaroid labelled "don't believe his lies" from the film Memento
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Here's a little glimpse into where Aotearoa's "definitions of a man and woman bill" is headed. Did they also force the men to take gender tests?
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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
40°c is genuinely hot anywhere but in a country that thinks 16° is T-shirt weather it’s deadly
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filipe com i de iscola @ilustrefilipe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Anakin and padme meme. Anakin has the checkerboard patterned background behind him that typically indicates transparency to the background in photo editing software. Anakin says "I'm a PNG, you can download me". Padme responds "And you're transparent right?" The next panel is Anakin's supposedly transparent background overflowing into Padme's fourth panel.
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.
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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Wait. What? How is that even a thing?! (Also, National will NEVER remove this loophole for employers) www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines... #nzpol
But providers said the issue of total remuneration has to be tackled as part of that.

Someone who was paid via a total remuneration package paid both their own KiwiSaver contribution and that of their employer out of a total amount allocated for their salary.

It means that, at the moment, they take home 7 percent less than they would if they opted out of KiwiSaver.
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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Did I know that the NZ union movement started with miners in Blackball? Yes. Did I know that it was initiated by a man not being allowed to finish his pie? No. But pies do loom large in the national psyche so... this feels right.
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Zoë Irene 😷❤️🦈 @getcaughtliving.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
#nzpol
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Great/weird combination of low cloud and sunset just now in Wellington.
A portrait oriented photograph of a dull orange-yellow sun, partially obscured by clouds, above silhouetted trees and dark grey corrugated steel roof. A landscape oriented photograph of a dull orange-yellow sun, partially obscured by clouds, above silhouetted trees and dark grey corrugated steel roof.
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Either you are totally incompetent and you hire total incompetents, or you are totally incompetent and you hire corrupt civil servants, or you are totally corrupt and you hire corrupt civil servants. All of our options are bad
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