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Luxon seen headed to Wellington in a military aircraft to hold a snap vote of confidence.

Chlöe and Winston present such an interesting contrast of “veterans” this campaign. As he turns more and more to nativism and conspiracy theories, she has developed a genuine governing philosophy. It’s good to see her taken seriously in the press.

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Kerri Smith @kerri-smith.bsky.social · 21h

Phys/Med Nobel goes to discoveries concerning channelrhodopsin and optogenetics - read more from the Nature archive www.nature.com/articles/497... www.nature.com/articles/465...

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Neuroscience: Method man - Nature

Karl Deisseroth is leaving his mark on brain science one technique at a time.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You’ve done an excellent job this week in pointing out the incoherence at the heart of both Labour’s and National’s economic pitch. Minor parties filling policy voids is something we need to get used to. Not voting TOP, but feel they are reading the room (actually better than Winnie) this cycle.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To be fair, she is a subject matter expert. #nzpol

Stuff news item: “Nicola Willis lays in to Labour’s fiscal plan, calls it a ‘misleading fantasy’”

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A bit rich, coming from a paper that Kiwi-washes the dystopian fever dreams American oligarchs by platforming TPU, Curia, Atlas … #astroturf #nzpol

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hooten et al,”Our numbers suggest that the pain is all in your imagination.”

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Amazing reporting this week, Henry! It has been very refreshing to read as you shine a light on the space between the political spin and the facts.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hold them accountable for their lies. Otherwise, democracy dies in darkness. (If WaPo can fall, so can our Post)

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Winston coyly denying AI use & comparing it to the advent of “saddles” in terms of risk should terrify you. He most certainly has used AI (probably obliviously) and so overvalues his own cunning that he is the ideal vector for mass disinformation. #nzpol

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My hot takes on the Kingmakers debate. Qiuelae held her own, but faded down the stretch. Rawiri spoke truth to power (when allowed to speak). David still auditioning for the debate team. Chlöe knows her brief, always. Winston’s shtick is tiresome. #nzpol

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s deliberate mismanagement. When everything devolves into the commodity form, the latent capacity of those raw materials is sold off and the “excess” labour is stripped of its humanity. #nzpol

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lacanian analytic/economic theory really should be a thing. This thread is so much more coherent than the endless, tiresome variations on “vibes” narratives that pass as media analysis (looking at you, Stuff 👀). Thank you! #nzpol

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Budgets are moral documents, first and foremost. “… a fully rounded picture would include some sort of measure of the true liabilities of not investing in public health services, social housing and the health and wellbeing of our poorest, youngest and most vulnerable.”

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Interesting when 1) a 5-HT2A agonist sharpened neural tuning/precision of working memory representations (www.jneurosci.org/content/22/7...) and 2) working memory capacity (rather than precision) tends to be more readily impaired by 5-HTA psychedelics compared to NMDA dissociatives.

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The Physiological Role of 5-HT2A Receptors in Working Memory

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex has an essential role in the cognitive process of working memory, dysfunction of which is considered to be a core deficit in schizophrenia. Although this cortical region...

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Together, *might* suggest dissociable effects of psychedelics and dissociatives on WM capacity vs. precision: capacity less impaired by dissociatives, precision less impaired or even enhanced by psychedelics.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Excellent reporting. In spite of all the recent manufactured concern about a possible TPM overhang, the Dushku effect has historically involved entrenched coalitions gaming the electoral maths. It’s the moneyed interests that play this card cynically, not indigenous parties fighting to survive.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hop-ons, light treason and a Zanotab!

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hooten and his press cronies teeing up their next Chris for PM 🙄

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Betteridge’s law applies.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just leaving this as a marker of a certain moment in the “before” time.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Good to see PW content here on Bluesky!

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When play is replaced by compliance, we are lost. Winnicott: ‘It is creative apperception more than anything else that makes the individual feel that life is worth living.’ He contrasts this with compliance, a relationship to external reality that ‘carries with it a sense of futility’.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Psychiatrist here. I actually wrote to Stuff citing this evidence and challenged them to inform their readers of the benefits of knitting rather than amplifying right wing trolls.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Luckily, Stuffed has clarified today that sociopathic lying is not a threat to our democracy, but knitting is.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As Maya Angelou wisely noted, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Bigotry is a reflex for Wayne.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Good reporting! Upston gives off particularly strong Dunning-Kruger vibes.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Ever wonder what "information" really means? Here's our new paper, led by @frosas.bsky.social, that lays out the multiple ways the term is used in natural science. rdcu.be/fCDGv

A chart describing four faces of information: Engineering, Statistical, Thermodynamic, and Ontological.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Like most country club National voters, Sir Ian wants to vote for facism but doesn’t want to be seen with fascists.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Im positron I’ve heard this before. Can someone Dirac me to the source?

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Environmental Law Initiative - Aotearoa NZ @eli-aotearoa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Last night, the New Zealand Government passed into law the Climate Change Response (Tort Liability) Amendment Bill. We've been opposing that law change, alongside Mike Smith, and many others for the last few months (in fact, 93% of public submissions opposed it). #nzpol #climate #ClimateLitigation

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Citation: Lim MC, Jeffree MS, Saupin SS, Giloi N, Lukman KA. Workplace violence in healthcare settings: The risk factors, implications and collaborative preventive measures. Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2022 May 13;78:103727. doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103727. PMID: 35734684; PMCID: PMC9206999.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is an American solution to a universal problem. As a hospital worker, I appreciate the work of security. But research clearly points to other root causes, all of which this govt fails to address. As with the push to hire more prison guards, this govt prioritizes force, not knowledge or care.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Between digs at us, Luxon’s nostalgia for Wellington in the ‘80s seems unaware that the decade began there with a hikoi and ended with Maori as an official language. The good ol’ days, indeed.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Alas, if Labour were colluding with TPM (or Nats with ACT for that matter) to engineer minority rule, that would be a genuine scandal. Nothing points to that being the case. It’s almost as if the commentariat is preemptively looking for reasons to justify the end of Maori representation. … 🧵 #nzpol

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It even has a name: the Dushku phenomenon. TPM is an indigenous-and minor-political party fighting for its survival using an option that was explicitly defined in NZ’s choice of how to implement MMP. There was always the possibility that overhang could swing the balance in a tight election. #nzpol

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I don’t know if it’s intentional intellectual dishonesty, but the cases cited (Albania, Lesotho, Italy) do not in any way track with what TPM is doing. In those cases, it was the entrenched coalitions gaming the electoral maths to claim seats from independent, smaller parties … 🧵 #nzpol

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Perhaps start with a different Energy Minister.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“How DARE they!” I can hear the refrain coming all the way from Epsom.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Unless the Post editors are willing to spend 10x the ink on how the Coalition restricting voter access erodes the foundation of democracy itself, this is nothing more than racism in respectable clothing. #nzpol

Post headline reads: Gaming MMP risks the system itself

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Same here. I’m not voting TOP but am glad they have at least given potential coalition partners (and voters) something to hold them accountable to.

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Seymour is evil, but no fool. The inability to act as a bottomless pipeline for right wing cash would be an existential threat to ACT (second only to a functioning National Party).

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Harry’s book is eye opening (and he’s an amazing person).

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Alas, the Penk Pity Party cannot end until Damien has sounded a final howl of white male fragility. Stuff will now return you to your regularly scheduled neoliberal stenographers. #nzpol

Stuff article entitled “ex Navy officer saw the iceberg ahead. National threw him overboard.”Accompanied by photo of a bigot and a dildo.

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