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Robbie

@robbiemackay.nz
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Software engineer, musician, greenie, anarchist. He/they

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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 15h
Well lets bloody fund it already #nzpol
Te Huia popularity rises, business case on-track, Greens ready to fund permanent route
Andrew Ashton Waikato Times
https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/361095172/te-huia-popularity-rises-business-case-track-greens-ready-fund-permanent-route
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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
lotta people out here bragging about "training models" but why do that when you can model trains
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Green Party put CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKER on a t-shirt challenge: Entirely Possible
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is my clip and GIF of the election. Both as a creator of joy and a prediction of what is to come. Entitled boys trying to take down the 💚GREENS💚.. (National, Labour, NZ last and no FACTs) #nzpol
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Greens propose Inter City Rail that costs less than Roads of National Party Significance, have a higher Benefit Cost Ratio than Roads of National Party Significance, and even NZF supports it. Of course National wont despite their conservative voters supporting it because Luxon is a fuckwit
rnz.co.nz
Green Party announces plan for passenger rail between major NZ cities
The Green Party says it will connect the country with intercity passenger rail services, if elected.
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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 29/09/2026
🤘 KICK IT 🤘 The Bird of the Year is the Black Robin/Karure, coming in like a tiny wrecking ball to smash the competition. Thread Project premium screenprinted tees in unisex and fitted sizes S-5XL. Pre-order this tee NOW: pepperraccoon.com #birds #boty #kikorangi
A detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.A flatlay of green t-shirts, featuring a detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Looking at national (split retail), Labour (split wholesale) and Green (state ownership to force competition) supermarket policies, and just thinking "why not all?" Obviously, we should look at the benefits of each intervention, but I'm for really fucking over the cartel. Payback time.
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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Enough funding for a proper maintenance schedule: it's what keeps engine fires out of fire engines.
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
'The Green Party is pledging to restore city centre vibrancy by ensuring market rent reviews for small businesses can lower rents, and letting councils run rental auctions for spaces that have been empty for longer than 12 months.' #NzPol
rnz.co.nz
Greens announce reforms to lower commercial rents, fill empty shops
The Green Party is pledging to restore city centre vibrancy by ensuring market rent reviews for small businesses can lower rents, and letting councils run rental auctions for spaces that have been emp...
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Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Also, backed by a lot of research, and what I would call common sense!
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Workers First Union @workersfirstunion.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Living Wage is now $29.90 per hour. The Living Wage is calculated using the latest data and is the income that enables workers and their families to live with dignity, afford the basic essentials and participate as citizens in society. The new rate applies from 1 Sep 2026 - 31 Aug 2027. #nzpol
text reading "Did you know:
The Living Wage is now $29.90."
small text reading "www.livingwage.org.nz"
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Paul Henry is a liar www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
stuff.co.nz
Podcast host says he was arrested after challenging Paul Henry at ACT event
A podcast host says he was arrested after challenging ACT candidate Paul Henry during a public meeting in Dunedin.
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Robbie @robbiemackay.nz · 10/09/2026
RP your awa
Oratia Stream. A kayak in the middle of a stream banked by trees
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NZ Transit Buzz @nztransitbuzz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#StationNews: Auckland Transport has confirmed the names of the new robot cleaners for the City Rail Link stations. Robot Downer Junior Fat Freddy's Mop Meryl Sweep
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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“The youngest surviving chick from the berry-fuelled bacchanalia has reached 150 days old…this fuck season has officially brought 90 kākāpō into the world.” Brilliant from @haydendonnell.bsky.social as always 💚🦜 thespinoff.co.nz/science/08-0...?
thespinoff.co.nz
Update: This was the best kākāpō fuck season ever
The world may be burning but at least the world’s fattest parrot has been boning.
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not enough beds. So a man died. Due to decades of sinking-lid funding to meet the 30-30 debt & spending rule that both National and Labour still adhere to. Greens/Opportunity should refuse to form Govts with National/Labour until the Public Finance Act is repealed. www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
rnz.co.nz
Health NZ Wairarapa breached code over ICU transfer failure, commissioner finds
A man presented to his GP with severe abdominal pain after collapsing at work on January 25, 2022.
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Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔 @br3nda.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wished that this site existed, so I spent the last week building it. Track which way an MP votes on various issues across their whole time in Parliament: hotair.nz
hotair.nz
Hot Air
Hot Air links every New Zealand MP to what they've actually said and how they've actually voted in Parliament — built from the official Hansard record, so you can look past the press release and see the voting history for yourself.
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Robbie @robbiemackay.nz · 05/09/2026
Busy morning putting out Greens billboards. As you can see we are now a little tired
A Party Vote Green sign on the side of the roadA Huhana Lyndon Greens billboard, with someone collapsed underneath it
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
First sentence is why I lost my mind an hour ago and started this too long 🧵. What kind of swivel-eyed fuckwit adds up all the gross debt of all the different NZ sectors? The vast majority of this debt is what we all owe to each other Liam! Cancel it all out and you get $200bn. Why? [18/n]
Starting tomorrow, the Business Herald will launch its annual Nation of Debt series, tallying a grand total of New Zealand gross debt.
That’s all the mortgage debt, farming debt, business debt, consumer debt, student, central and local government debt.
It’s a big, scary number, closing in on a trillion dollars.
But in the end, don’t think it is the specific debt number that should drive debate as much as what we are doing with the money we borrow.
That’s where we should be putting the acid on politicians.
Of course, our debt has to be serviceable. We have to be sure we can keep paying it back at a pace the international credit rating agencies are happy with.
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Ol’ ɔıN @hazmat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Anyone in the media going to remind the Nats that it was them that raised student loan repayments to 12% from 10% in 2013? Or are they just going to let that slide, like how Nats scrapped free flu vaccinations from under 12s, but it's back for under 5s just in time for election campaigning? #nzpol
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Wayne Brown has many negatives against his leadership but he actually does understand this shit and is at least trying to scrap for it.
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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 28/08/2026
Made a little video of something I’m cooking up…sound on for good jams
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Ben McNulty @ponekeben.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
WATCH THIS VIDEO BEFORE YOU CROSS MOLESWORTH STREET 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This week's photodump (most of these from a walk from Johnston's Hill through the Skyline & Otari to Crofton Downs. (From the "you learn something new every day" files; no idea tuna (NZ eels) has such beautiful blue eyes)
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Ben Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz · 23/08/2026
Auckland-Hamilton-Tauranga this could be you! Blasting past a solar array at 240km/h (the array is literally plugged directly into the overhead train lines, best I could tell).
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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🤦‍♀️ Counterpoint: we could spend some fucking money, build infrastructure, fund the services people need (health, education, social support, etc) and become a country where nice things are allowed and everyone has a safe, warm home and enough to eat. #nzpol
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 23/08/2026
There are somewhere between 73-77 nations with a higher dept to GDP ratio than New Zealand. The OECD average is 110% New Zealand's is 51% Labour 'we will concentrate on debt this election' I miss Jim Anderton & Norm Kirk
A chart with 10 OECD countries with higher debt to GDP ratio than NZ
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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Can we piss off with this “slashing debt” bullshit? We’re not a broke country. Our debt levels are far from unserviceable. We are, however, a country with serious deficit in infrastructure maintenance. Why can’t we address that? It’s far cheaper than continuously kicking the can down the road.
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 22/08/2026
Cameras on cats monitoring everything but no privacy impact assessment? Curious.
nzherald.co.nz
'Extended surveillance': Motorist takes AT to court over parking cameras and $85 in fines
AT withdrew four parking tickets after a man challenged its mobile camera footage.
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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 22/08/2026
Great piece by @tfwelch.com We are shit at infrastructure Even if we build it, it's really expensive, glacially slow, crap (sometimes all three) What infrastructure we do have is piss poorly maintained #nzpol
newsroom.co.nz
Another Auckland harbour crossing study, right on schedule
Comment: There’s something almost admirable about the predictability and longevity of the process around the Auckland second harbour crossing, writes Auckland University's Dr Timothy F Welch
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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 22/08/2026
Insightful piece. It describes the nuts-and-bolts of running a small business. The 'back office' part is key, often done by women, and too often overlooked. "I’ll never work for someone else again, because taking ownership of something and building it is the most satisfying thing I’ve ever done."
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auntietiffa.bsky.social @auntietiffa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you want a timeline cleanse I lost it at the Rabbit 🤷‍♂️
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runningwhio @runningwhio.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We could literally house unhoused people. It's the only proven model to reduce homelessness & restore people's dignity, safety & sense of security
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
NZ generated 44140 GWh in 2025. A 1GW data centre would use (at full utilisation) 8760 GWh a year. This report is saying we can generate an extra 5000 jobs, if we dedicated 20% of our electricity to data centres. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I am a girl. I like reptiles and horror movies and science fiction and comics and TTRPGs, and for my entire life, every time I have entered a space, I have had to prove that I didn't "steal" it from the person* it rightfully belonged to. (*Boy, then man.)
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Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔 @br3nda.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Extremely worried about my elderly aunt, who has a broken jaw from a fall, and Palmerston North Hospital has told her to catch a bus Palmy to Hutt Valley on her own today to get surgery, and bus back after - my aunt is forgetful, has no cellphone (we've tried) on one of the coldest days of the year
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Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔 @br3nda.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Spent all day on this and can't get anywhere. We're on day 5 of her being unable to eat.
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Robbie @robbiemackay.nz · 04/08/2026
Oops left car lights on. Luckily my lovely neighbours came over to let me know ☺️
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
THISSSSSSS and also he didn’t do mergers and acquisitions
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Robbie @robbiemackay.nz · 21/07/2026
Ah yes. Threatening emails about truancy when my child is already ahead of expectations. I'm sure this will really help with their chronic health issues. FFS
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Cath S @cathsheard.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
And the Sallies can get fucked given their anti-trans stance. I’d rather give to other agencies.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Government are spending millions on boot camps that don’t work and are just a facade and pretence they’re fixing the problem, while community programmes with a proven track record of changing lives have no certainty of long term funding. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/life/culture...
rnz.co.nz
How one West Auckland art collective is changing the lives of vulnerable rangatahi
For some young people, success is getting a job or finishing school. And for others, success is simply getting out of bed.
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Robbie @robbiemackay.nz · 16/07/2026
Accidentally hit the first piano chord from the New World ad, my brain filled in the rest, and now the tune is stuck in my head 🎶 😩
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Zooey Neumann @zoomoo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
No, Luxon is not primarily the problem. The problem is record poverty, unemployment, homelessness, a health system on its knees, a plan to strip conservation lands, and zero effort towards climate action while we are being pummelled by a weather event every 8 days. Great angle, RNZ.
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trains. Literally if I could go back a hundred years I could get a train to Taumarunui, Paeroa, New Plymouth...
A photograph of Louise at the Waikato Museum with a train timetable board from 1930s showing trains leaving Frankton for Auckland, Rotorua, Paeroa, Tauranga, Taneatua, Taumarunui, Wellington, and New Plymouth.
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Robbie @robbiemackay.nz · 13/07/2026
Took my older two kids mountain biking. Hit two great new trails. Sore and tired but happy
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Live your life so that when you pass, the world reacts like they did for Sam Neill.
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Tony Hafoka Ao NZ TON @ahafoka.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
France sent secret agents to Auckland to blow up the Rainbow Warrior 10 July 1985. They sunk the ship, killed one person and were subsequently captured. Their bumbling arrogance was evident.
Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior after the French had blown a hole in her and killed one person
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