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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

LOL, I will be bitterly disappointed if the world is destroyed but there are still lawyers around

Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Read to the bottom of this waiting for discussion of the real degree of nastiness of him drunkenly abusing an employee at a site visit as part of his parliamentary duties.

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kilkenny.bsky.social @kilkenny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Has ANY mainstream media covered Luxon's "Cry me a river" retort? I couldn't even find any mention of it on The Spinoff website. 🤷🏼

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I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills Meme

ALT: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills Meme

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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The difference in NZ is you can still protest Labour by party voting for the Green party & Still end up with a Labour Green coalition that would be proportionally more progressively left wing. Last time Labour actually acted as a progressive left wing party it won spectacularly. #nzpol

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Okay #NZpol, you know what to do. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

Visual of a stuff.co.nz poll of preferred prime minister or favorite politician, with Jacinda Ardern on 50% and the next highest being Christopher Luxon on 16%, followed by Chloe Swirebrook and Chris Hopkins tied on 8% each

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 15/09/2026

With three of Sen̓áḵw’s 11 towers now complete, the development is already dramatically reshaping Vancouver’s skyline, and provoking plenty of chatter about its scale, density and ambition. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

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Inside North America's Largest Indigenous-Led Housing Development | The Tyee

The vision underpinning the architecture of Sen̓áḵw.

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f*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

do you think Bic Runga ever gets put on hold and just starts screaming

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Brad Company @waeherebro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For those in the back: The total amount the New Zealand government has spent on all historical Waitangi Tribunal settlements over the last 30+ years is less than the cost of a single year of the 2024 tax cuts for Landlords.

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ben Burr-Kirven Will Dissly Sidney Jones Miles Gaskin Ryan Grubb

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Mamdani is a charismatic guy but I promise you anyone can replicate this. 1) Unapologetically use the government to help ordinary people; and 2) Tell them about it

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Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand @greens.org.nz · 08/09/2026

Poverty is a political choice. Louise Upston and National can’t keep avoiding responsibility for their decisions to wrongfully decline support, and their failure to take action to create jobs and lift people out of poverty.

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're ever in San Francisco, these murals are a must-see. New-Deal-era life portrayed in social realism style, by artists paid for by an offshoot of the Civil Works Administration. livingnewdeal.org/sites/coit-t...

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Coit Tower Murals – San Francisco CA

While the structure itself is not a New Deal project, San Francisco's Coit Tower is the site of a large number of stunning New Deal murals and paintings. Twenty-five artists, supervised by Diego River...

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John Fraley @johndavidfraley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

hell yeah

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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Found this floating around in my photo reel. A reminder that NZ's 30/30 rule (Govt debt & spending limited to 30% of GDP) is a fetish that's unique to us, and so obviously NOT the norm among OECD nations.

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I remember a comic book from growing up, where Scrooge McDuck bought every single 1916 Quarter coin, and destroyed all but one, so he could have the rarest and most valuable coin in the world. The only problem? There was noone else rich enough to buy it from him for what it was worth. 😒 🤔 😒

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Adi Khen @adlysia.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Digital seaweed art: a wreath, made from historical pressings by Mary Snyder from Florida (ca. 1895) #PhycologyFriday #SciArt

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Niggling worry: If things get so bad with #nzpol that a snap election is called, do the new enrolment cut-offs mean that rolls will be frozen at that point, effectively and immediately disenfranchising huge swaths of left-leaning voters?

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george 💿 @deejaygeejaygee.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The government should give you an allowance towards therapeutic goods like jazz albums on bandcamp and scarf with a nice texture

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

RIYL Machinecode Azu Tiwaline Blawan Francis Harris Acid Pauli clipping. The Black Dog Jacob Story An-i & Torn Hawk Deena Abdelwahed Shackleton Or:la Blanck Mass Parris Wrecked Lightship Jako Maron Neil Landstrumm SPEEDY J Cocktail Party Effect Salvatore Mercatante Low Jack AICHER

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm getting kind of sick of saying it #nzpol

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Kind of a hot take, but maybe Spain should just give Cueta back

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Perennial skeet bsky.app/profile/suit...

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Daylight Waihorotiu! Daylight Opoutukeha! Daylight nga awa o Tāmaki Makaurau!

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Just in time for all the interislander ferry disruptions!

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If there's one thing I miss about Seattle, it's Charles Mudede

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Okay, I'm going go out on a limb that the Auditor General couldn't. This is like the first limb jutting out of tane mahuta, btw, very sturdy. Not sure why that AG was too scared to go out on it. That's plainly and obviously Predetermination. #nzpol #fireseymournow

Screen shot of report of David Seymour's corruption and grounds-for-firing shadiness on the school lunch programme.

"The KidsCan contract

The report also expressed concerns in the way KidsCan was contracted in October 2024 to provide a targeted food programme for early childhood centres. While no evidence of predetermination was identified, "there is a combination of circumstances that could give rise to that perception", it said. The charity, after meeting with the ministry at Seymour's request, had put in an "unsolicited bid" for funding to support its existing early childhood food programme. This information was not shared with the procurement team. Soon after, a cabinet paper seeking approval for funding for the early childhood programme contained "a highly specific description of the type of organisation that should be funded to provide this programme", which "effectively reduced the pool of potential suppliers to just one

provider"

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

As an academically trained phycologist with a Ph.D. in microalgae and their ecology, I can definitively point to the scientific cause of this bloom in the reflecting pool. A 🧵

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Definitely in my deliberate typo era now

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

'Where does your tax money come from?' is the question to start with. If Govt spend an extra $10bn, we have an extra $10bn to pay taxes with.

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I've seen all I need to see. The book with the flower pictures should win

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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

There are a growing number of people looking at the situation in the Middle East and staring at our diesel supply and the apparent indifference of our government, and wondering: why aren’t they doing more? And there’s a straightforward but unhappy answer to that question. A 🧵 #nzpol

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

If only Winston Peters had met with JD Vance last week. #nzpol

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Man, being on this side of the date line sucks some times. "TACO Wednesday" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

That's right, hang your head in shame, Winston Peters

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Tāmaki whānau, heads-up for Sunday. Big weather incoming! I've never seen this much alignment between models five days out. We can be pretty confident of a direct hit of from ex-tropical cyclone Vaianu.

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Great 🧵 And brings to mind this seasonal gem. Let's not elect fairy-tale-believers this November, eh?

Please don't make fun of kids who still believe in the easter bunny

I know adults who still believe in trickle-down economics.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 05/12/2024

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

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

Source: scottsantens

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

If only there was an organization, a part of society, whose job is to step in and solve market failures for the long-term good!

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