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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The dumbass Govt has finally conceded it can't build an LNG import terminal and its dreams of a revival of fossil gas are dead. NZ wasted 3 years while this Govt delayed the transition off fossil gas, while telling the country a dangerous fossil gas fairy tale. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

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Simeon Brown's disastrous decision to cancel the Gas Transition Plan (and buy a lotto ticket instead) - Greenpeace Aotearoa

New Zealand is in the middle of an energy transition

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Let's pretend for a minute that right-wing discourse is correct and unemployed people are just lazy and could get a job if they just worked harder at it. Since the coalition took power, more and more people have been becoming lazy. The last time this many people were lazy, National were in power...

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chairmanknow @chairmanknow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“The Finance Minister should stop pretending that inflation is a mysterious visitor from overseas, that he has no control over,” Nicola Willis, Stuff 2022 #nzpol

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Zoë Irene 😷❤️🦈 @getcaughtliving.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Observed Effects of UBI (alt text added)

OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI

No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis)

Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%)

Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis)

New mothers extend their maternity leaves

Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition

Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve

Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%)

Crime goes down (15%-42%) especially illegal hunting (95%)

Domestic violence decreases (30%-51%)

Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people)

Home ownership rates increase (17%-26%)

Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables

Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%)

Savings go up, debts go down

Credit to @scottsantens

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

They probably think this says to centre voters "we've ruled out this Green policy you might think is extreme: you can trust us". But it just as much says "National's right, the Greens are extreme, you can never vote for Labour because the Greens will get in too". www.1news.co.nz/2026/06/23/h...

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Hipkins confident he can form coalition with Greens without budging on tax

The Labour leader said his party disagreed with most of what was announced by the Greens in their tax policy.

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Simon Britten for Papanui @thinkpapanui.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Updating this one: Q: Do you want to make things better? Greens & TPM: Yes! Labour: Not really. National: No. TOP: We'll support the 'no' team to form Government. ACT: We want to make things WORSE! NZF: WHAT iS a wOMan? #nzpol

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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

well that's all i need to know.

the last section of the herald's budget coverage has the heading "Child poverty targets will be missed, Government unlikely to meet first Paris climate goal"

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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

“Empires rise and fall, but to my knowledge no state has ever deliberately, and systematically, killed its own power – much less with such speed,” writes the historian and expert on fascism Timothy Snyder of the US under Trump.

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Timothy Snyder: We are watching the US attempt a superpower suicide

From the abandonment of its alliances to the dismantling of its education system, Trump’s administration is tearing down the institutions that really made America great, writes the historian

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Trump is such an unreliable ally that the Gulf States are about to undertake a massive military buildup. And any of them could become a potential long term threat to Israel. Not sure if that's part of Trump's thinking with this, probably not, but Israel might well be keen to get them onside.

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

In fact the GFC, nearly 20 years ago proved decisively that countries with governments that did austerity fared much worse than those that, you know, helped people and understood that a country isn’t like a household

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Getting both the rise and the savings wrong is quite the fail. An increase from $100 to $600 is a 500% rise, not 600%. These guys are too stupid to be making decisions for anyone else.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If AI agents have to buy software licenses then they also have to buy all the material they were trained on.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The mistake people often make is to view the increased frequency and intensity of damaging storms as the “new normal” under climate change. The reality is that it’s going to keep getting worse, even if we stopped all emissions today. How much worse, is still up to us, but it’s going to get nasty.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 02/04/2026

I want to remind NZ that one reason we were the last to get the covid vaccines is that we are a small country with very low trading influence and power. If you think we're going to be anywhere near the front of the line for the 80% of fuel left in the world, think again.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The NZ Govt just spent the last two years introducing policies to make NZ more dependent on fossil fuels, and proudly overturning policies that were reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Now they have some Mickey Mouse national fuel plan. What a joke.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Watching Luxon claiming credit for interest rates being lower than a few years ago - yeah, like everywhere else you egg. If he wants to claim credit for something stand out about our economy over the last few years, he could talk about our go-it-alone recession. Envy of the world.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

There’s soo many things to drag this govt on I can’t believe they are still around tbh: -Cost of living: like they did nothing -Tax cuts: no one has seen them -Childcare rebate: ditto -THE FERRIES WTF -Pay equity -Unemployment -Voter suppression -Climate crisis inaction: EV, Solar etc Epic fail.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Can’t say Muslims. Can’t say mosques. Can’t say white supremacism. A coward who is scared of his own base and overpowered by his own bigotry. In the month of Ramadan too. Disgusted.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Countries that have adopted electric vehicles the fastest will suffer the least from oil price spikes caused by the US/Israel attack on Iran. NZ is not one of those, thanks to Luxon’s poor leadership.

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Even if it works now - and I'm not saying it does - AI is explicitly and loudly destroying the things that makes it feasible, and nobody is even looking one move ahead here. When the snake eats itself, it doesn't grow and eat endlessly. It just fucking dies.

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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The covid emergency clearly demonstrated one inescapable fact: Labour is better at planning for the future. The Superannuation Investment Fund and Kiwisaver is more evidence that Labour plans for the future whilst National offers tax cuts for short term electoral self-benefit. Until NZers... (3)

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Matt Sheridan @mattsheridan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

So I read in some article that folks are adding deliberate typos to their writing in order to dispel suspicions that they’re getting machines to speak for them. That’s coward shit. I say just use the word “fuck” more. In the face of enshittification, commence the enfuckening.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

So instead of being a tiny country with little to make us a target, Farrar wants us to become part of a much larger, much more attractive target that is a lot closer to the perceived enemy he's worried about? Typical Farrar logic.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Seems to be just as true for Labour here. #nzpol

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This is probably the best and most important video @techconnectify.bsky.social has ever made. And that’s a very high bar. Even if you’re just measuring by impact. And you’ll think that even before the last chapter, which is even more so. youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?...

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You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔 @br3nda.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

If you're deliberately failing at climate and emmisions targets, then you are not "doing everything we can to help flooding victims"

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

In 2008/09, the slump was global. This one was ours almost alone. Blows. My. Mind... that media aren't recognising this simple fact and asking obvious questions.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

EV sales in Iceland decreased from 50% of new vehicles in 2023 to 15% in 2024 and 30% in the first half of 2025, after the government made policy and tax changes.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Threatening to invade 3 different countries (include 2 allies) should be disqualifying from any "peace" prize. Farcical.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

FT calls the government's removal of EV incentives ill-advised: "The only countries that have already brought in similar mileage taxes, New Zealand and Iceland in 2024, experienced large, immediate falls in EV sales — though both, ill-advisedly, also removed incentive schemes around the same time."

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Home - Financial Times

News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My point here is it's a mistake to say the conduct of this government in relation to trans NZers is solely a NZ First thing. Yes, the majority of the National Party voted to ban conversion practices. But those who thought it should remain legal did not find that position a barrier to advancement.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I tell you what's irresponsible, leaving hundreds of thousands of kiwis wanting work or more work... There is loads of stuff that needs doing.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

It's one thing to not want to discuss cases in public, but if the affected user is not being informed it's an unfair system open to abuse. Without transparency you will lose the trust of your users. Please do not go down the road of secret decisions with no recourse from your users.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

They didn't give it to the guy threatening to invade Canada and Greenland? Huh.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Not only are we not doing enough to reduce emissions, we haven't even managed to stabilise them.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

And now we know what is behind the government's surge in defence funding.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

And because our society has chosen an economic model that requires some people to be unemployed, our society has a moral responsibility to support those people.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

And the government is going to force rich parents to support their 18-19 year olds rather than just hanging them out to dry, right? Right?

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

It is offensive for the person supposedly in charge of the government and its economic levers to suggest that youths, and their playstationing ways, are responsible for the most rapid surge in unemployment since the Great Financial Crash

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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I will reiterate as someone with field and specific knowledge of New Zealand’s oil and gas sector, there is no giant untapped field out there. Even if Labour agrees to this, not a single drop of oil or gas will be produced in the next decade because it’s not there. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon asks Labour leader Chris Hipkins to support offshore gas exploration

The Prime Minister wants a bipartisan approach to offshore exploration for natural gas.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Obviously Trump thinks "rare earth" means "rare earth magnet". He's had people talking to him about China's dominance of rare earth mineral supply and thought it was all about making rare earth magnets.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

National have been awfully quiet about "brain drain" since the election.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Labour should be loudly promising they're reinstate the ban on day one with no compensation for companies that try to take advantage of this government's climate vandalism.

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SteveH @stevehnz.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Convicted felon cheats at golf. Also, sky is blue.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 23/07/2025

If you're an #InternetNZ member planning to participate in the upcoming AGM, you, like me, might have been finding it difficult to get your head around the changes to the Constitution that would be effectuated by the MANY proposed motions. I've created a tracked-changes style guide:

drive.google.com

INZ Constitution.pdf

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