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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Frankly, I don’t care. Also, cry me a river.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Go Brewers!!! (But still love you, AG. And San Diego’s nice.)

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 03/10/2026

Fletcher Building leads a group of big employers saying a members' bill seeking to define men and women creates operational risks and uncertainty. Andrew Bevin reports.

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Major export and construction firms warn against legal definition of women

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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Schmitt for Brains For @rawstory.com Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do like the new and improved Jack Smith — now with personality!

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mate, we miss you down in Auckland — when you coming back?

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Agreed. A coalition centred around Labour and the Greens could have some really positive outcomes. Also, folks don’t look at me so funny anymore when I tell them my party vote will be Greens.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s been quite some time since I’ve been able to use public transport, and I forgot how much I enjoy it. Faster, cheaper, easier than driving. Build more of this instead of roads. #NZPol

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m probably too focused on what exactly constitutes a “very good war.”

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good lord. You could tell me this photo was AI generated by a malign actor trying to smear Mace, and I would believe you without question.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lo ciento, no hablo ingles, apparently.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've got a mate who's a pilot for Air New Zealand. He laughed long and hard at the original story here. Someone please tell Tommy that pilots around the world do this sort of stuff all the time as code to friends of theirs who are also flying at that time.

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Minister of Tourism Louise Upston on where the $40m came from to entice large overseas acts to Aotearoa. My #cartoon today #NZpol #NZMusic #NZArts

Cartoon. Title: “The Impresario” Two frames. 1st frame shows Louise Upston saying, “I can’t pull money for local performers, concerts and festivals out of thin air!” 2nd frame has her continuing, “and I didn’t pull money for big overseas acts out of thin air” Image shows Upton with her hands out, wearing a suit and bow tie, with money rushing from behind her, saying, “I had the $40 mill coming out the wazoo!”

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)

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Idc Jd

ALT: Idc Jd

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@eggerdc.bsky.social Anything to not have to listen to Trump speak, but is that a Martin over your right shoulder?

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It would be one thing if the economy was good and small venues could live on their own right now. Rising tide and all that. But that's not the case. Folks can't afford to go out as much. So why not help more places that host $10, $15, $20 shows instead of the $200 gigs most can't afford anyway? 2/2

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here's what really burns my toast. I play music in small venues that are hurting. Some are closing. These shiny stadium gigs are fine if they make financial success organically. This crap does nothing for the local music scene; it actually harms it by taking that $ away from Kiwi artists. 1/2 #NZPol

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's fucking criminal, that's what it is. Two more measles deaths in Pennsylvania this week. I say this constantly about ... everything, but I really have a hard time visualising how the US recovers from all this for a very, very long time.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I was a journalist for about 15 years until the turn of the century, including covering the MN state house. If the governor tried this with one of us everyone would have threatened to walk out. (Wait, the governor did try to ban me from his press conferences, and that's what everyone did. He caved.)

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I sometimes, just for shits and giggles, I ask Claude and ChatGPT the same question to see if they give different answers (usually they do). In this case, ChatGPT got it right and Claude got it wrong, but it qualified its answer.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I get inflation and all that, but around 1970 when I was losing teeth I used to get a quarter. That would be $2.16 today. Seems like something went haywire somewhere.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Music cannot change the world, but music has the power to make us believe that the world can be changed." — Billy Bragg

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If I get a good video I’ll post it here. That oughta do the trick to change National policy.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah, debuting a new song tonight at UFO in New Lynn called Fiscal Responsibility, about exactly that.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sorry David, you’re blissfully naive. This clearly was due to the mess left by “the last lot.”

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Clay Jones @claytoonz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who doesn't have Russian oligarchs at their wedding? #DonaldTrumpJr #Trump #MAGA #RussianOligarch #DJTJ #Putin

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well, then I would fully expect to see that. And I would fully expect that this is the government’s plan.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m not up to speed with campaign finance laws here in Aotearoa, but how much is Foodstuffs allowed to pour into National’s coffers so that this doesn’t come to pass?

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I subscribe to an awful lot of online publications (don't believe me, ask my wife). My frustration is with links to publications I'd never subscribe to normally. I with they'd have a way to read one article — maybe pay 50 cents or something. I'd be happy to do that. (WSJ leaps immediately to mind.)

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In the late '80s I was Night Editor at The Minnesota Daily. Me and one other guy, sometime between 10pm and 2am, read and checked every word of the newspaper before the negatives were shot, plates were made, and the paper went to the printer. This was a COLLEGE NEWSPAPER. Not hard.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Maybe a little artificial personality is in order.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As long as we're floating awful ideas, we might as well have them carry guns as well.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I pretty much never say this because I think it's a dumb (with a B) and tired phrase, but I really want to wipe that fucking grin off his fucking face.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: The Jesus and Mary Grain

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This was my Little Buddy’s school lunch today (it’s pizza bread in case you can’t tell from looking at it). He says it tasted as gross as it looks; one bite and it went in the bin. Please ask David Seymour if $3.50 each is a good deal if most of the lunches wind up in the compost. #NZPol

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Moved to New Zealand, bought a tiny house and retired early, took up punk rock guitar, became a baseball umpire (in NZ). That’s pretty much it.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And as a Brewers fan, I can only thank them for it.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Well then. Good to see Augustus Gloop came out of it on the other side.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not sure what they’re slipping into Wayne Brown’s muesli, but he seems to be a different guy lately. And I mean that in a good way.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Also, more than a half million Americans declare bankruptcy from medical debt every year. I reckon that number in Canada (and Aotearoa) is zero.

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