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Princess Buttercup ☠ @sckitupbttrcp.bsky.social · 5h

I got my first haircut in like four years - as he's rinsing my hair - so are ye enrolled then? We then spent the better part of an hour talking shit about NACT,our distrust of TOP and a wee crush on the Greens. I fear I will be back again. GC that one.

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Just a thought

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Princess Buttercup ☠ @sckitupbttrcp.bsky.social · 18h

10 days left to register for the 2026 Aotearoa New Zealand general election. 10 days e te whānau to talk with your fams, friends, colleagues - Joe Bloggs sitting next to you on the train about their enrolment, their concerns and what they need to be able to vote. #nzpol

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 19h

“Over the last year with budget constraints, they’ve not hired new nurses. Anytime a nurse left, they weren’t replaced.” - Starship children's hospital whistleblower. (paywalled) #NzPol

nzherald.co.nz

'Horrified and appalled': Starship suspends child cancer treatments amid staff crisis

A hospital nurse said the move increases the risk of complications or death from cancers.

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Aotearoa's Electoral Orange Guy @poti-aotearoa.bsky.social · 20h

General Election 2026 Deadlines Days left to enrol for the first time: 10 days Switching rolls has closed, new enrollments can still choose rolls Enrol or update here: vote.nz/enrolling/enrol-or-update/e… Remind your Friends & Whanau #nzpol

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Kate @knhannah.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Once again I would like to remind folks that we younger Gen X/elder millennials ALSO DIDN’T get a free education. Applies to boomers and those Gen X who completed tertiary prior to 1990-91, when fees rose to $1250 (1990) per annum & then were set by the uni (1991). Loans were intro’d in ‘92.

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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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Paparoa @paparoa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has been linked to a neo-Nazi group and online accounts that praised Adolf Hitler. Great work from @comingupcharlie.bsky.social www.thepress.co.nz/politics/361...

Nic Wells (neo-Nazi from NZ First party), and Paul Henry (ordinary racist from ACT party)

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Bloody hell. This is not, as Simeon Brown has claimed, doing everything to get enough nurses on the ground. It’s the opposite. #nzpol “The Government has told nursing schools to train fewer nurses next year.” www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

stuff.co.nz

Government tells nursing schools to stop training so many nurses

The edict came from the Tertiary Education Commission, to the surprise of many nursing professors and lecturers last week.

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Princess Buttercup ☠ @sckitupbttrcp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Should have transcribed the bit at the front but time is limited today!

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Princess Buttercup ☠ @sckitupbttrcp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It was a gloomy pahi ride i tēnei ata - e heke tonu ana te ua ki Pōneke. Enrol to vote. Today. #nzpol

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Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

✅Science ✅Tertiary Education ✅Commercialisation ✅Fellowships ✅✅ Innovation What is this?!?!? All these things… in one policy announcement?! 😱 It’s almost like someone has actually figured out that these things are connected… 💚

The Green Party's economic development plan includes:
• Innovation Boost: Rescope Investment
Boost to focus on incentivising productive investment that aligns with industry policy objectives, decarbonisation, and decent work principles.
• Mission Fellowships: Support stable public science and workforce
capability by establishing industry policy objectives-linked fellowships for early- and mid-career researchers and technical specialists.
• Idea to Export Pathway: Create a coordinated funding and commercialisation pathway that helps New Zealand innovators move from business experimentation and research through to validation, commercialisation, and scaling.
• Science Rebuild: Restore core science operating funding lost through the Coalition Government's Budget cuts to work towards the goal of aligning our R&D spend to 3% of GDP.
• Back Kiwi-Made: Use public purchasing power to support good New Zealand solutions.
• Tertiary Innovation Boost: Boost funding for tertiary research, innovation, and capacity (including restoring funding for initiatives like the centres of vocational excellence).

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Leaving aside the wrong-headedness of abstaining on this vote, I'm quite uncomfortable with the fact that our Foreign Minister effectively used this UN vote for populist politicking ends of his own party in election campaigning, instead of putting country ahead of party as a professional should do.

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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Shared from a trusted friend who has fact checked this #nzpol

A post off Threads from dravi1565 › nz pol 3h

National is in the DNA of Opportunity's leadership.
"Impartiality" - harder & harder to maintain with a straight face:
Quilae Wong's mother, Margaret Malcolm, has a long and close association with former National Party leader & Minister, Judith Collins - including acting as a snr adviser (esp during Oravida controversy).
Daniel Eb, as we now know, would vote National in default of Opportunity.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

John Oliver’s kiwibank sheep segment is *chefs kiss* so good the only light in the darkness engulfing the world right now. John Oliver should be knighted for services to New Zealand only.

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

He’s literally going to kill people

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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The real point of TOP

The Trojan Horse meme showing TOP as the Trojan horse, with a National coalition contained inside, being wheeled up to the gates of non-partisan coalition negotiations to be welcomed with open arms by disenfranchised voters.

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Princess Buttercup ☠ @sckitupbttrcp.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Unblocking the Pootential* *As per an amazing piece of resistance art I saw on an ACT hoarding in Rongotai over the weekend.

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Health targets. My #cartoon today #Health #NZpol

Cartoon. Title: “Health Targets” Simeon Brown pushing a patient in a wheelchair, in an Emergency Department. He’s wheeling her towards a cupboard that is stuffed full of people, and saying, “Technically, this isn’t the ED. Our targets are working!”

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If the price of Labour's fresh, locally-made school lunches and school buses, and the Greens' employment for 16 to 24 year-olds, is the cost of billionaires increasing their wealth a little more slowly, I'm ok with that. #nzpol

rnz.co.nz

Election live: 'Exactly what we need': Youth worker praises Greens policy about getting young people into work

It's a busy Sunday again for the political world, with most of the parties out on the campaign trail.

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Lan Pham @lanpham.greens.org.nz · 11/10/2026

In Te Tairāwhiti Gisborne and it was jobs jobs jobs that kept coming up. Our beautiful, equitable future ahead can *not only* centre our young people - but secure decent, meaningful jobs that build a country where care for each other and te taiao is simply how we work - for all of us 🌏✊️

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

'The cruelty is the point. It stokes a popular prejudice that unemployment is a personal failing, and it lets the government off the hook for its failed economic management.' - Neale Jones #NzPol

thespinoff.co.nz

Sliding in the polls, have a crack at beneficiaries: National's drug test policy follows a well-worn pattern | The Spinoff

It's just the latest example in the party's sorry history of framing an economic failure as a personal one.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 09/10/2026

Congratulations to lawyer and human rights activist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay on her Nobel Peace Prize. Few have devoted their lives to justice, peace and human dignity like she did.

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Inverted kereru @whatthehall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Someone's corrected the billboard beside State Highway 2 on the way into Wellington again. Must have been recent, it didn't look like that last night #nzpol

National Party electoral hoarding seen beside State Highway 2 in Wellington at night. Beside a claim of "9 new taxes" written on a red background, the adjacent counter claim on a blue background of "No new taxes", has had the central bar of the N overpainted in blue to read "110 new taxes"

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Princess Buttercup ☠ @sckitupbttrcp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not Israel losing their collective marbles over Navi Pillay being awarded the Nobel Peace prize.

static.klipy.com

Star Trek Captain Kirk Gasp

Alt: Star Trek Captain Kirk Gasp

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Zooey Neumann @zoomoo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tonight at 6 in Henderson! Come join us 💚

Kia ora West Auckland! Fri 9 Oct 6pm at Zeal, in Henderson (Alderman Drive, in front of West Wave)

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Lilith Grace Toitū Te Tiriti @lilithgrace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And RNZ is reporting TPU polls like they’re legitimate. How depressing. #DirtyWork #NZPol

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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I work near K road and I cannot overstate the positive impact the CRL appears to be having on it. The streets were semi deserted most days. Theres now a steady stream of people on the street. It’s amazing what decent transit can facilitate.

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Auckland Women's Centre @akwomenscentre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Whanaungatanga reminds us that our relationships and connections matter… Perhaps confidence is not the starting point, but what happens when belonging comes first." Fantastic piece by Sarah Leberman & Louisa Wall of Women in Sport Aotearoa | Ngā Wāhine Hākinakina o Aotearoa (WISPA)

newsroom.co.nz

Stop fixing girls: it's time to fix the system

Kiwi girls are markedly less confident than boys to get out on the school sports field, so the system needs a shake-up, says WISPA

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 08/10/2026

In this photo, they’re at Book Hero, who posted a blog post and social media in favour of the PM. So you can, yknow, never shop there again.

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Please stop what you are doing and reply below: If you were voting right now, which party would get your support? #NZPol

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Princess Buttercup ☠ @sckitupbttrcp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yup I was legit 21 and had no idea what to do with that behaviour. He retired the next year. Still gives me the heebs.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Princess Buttercup ☠ @sckitupbttrcp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can you include a cis-het Pākeha boomer Principal chuckling and literally patting a newbie female teacher on the head as his response to a legit concern in a staffroom?

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah, nah. Vote Green.

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