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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 3h

The Govt claiming we must drill more fossil fuels so we can use the tax revenues to fund the green transition is about as logical as a doctor telling you to smoke 2 packs a day to raise the money for your lung transplant You don’t put out a fire by pouring on more fuel 🔥#Jackdaw

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Sajad Alipour @sajadalipour98.bsky.social · 2h

Betonica grandiflora Thuill Synonym = Betonica orientalis Lamiaceae Arasbaran, Iran July 2026 Elevation 2400m #Lamiaceae #wildflowers #botany #ecology

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 4h

We were too spineless to regulate these billionaire freaks, so now one of them gets to decide whether Ukrainian drones can catch the missiles aimed at Ukrainian kids. We have failed spectacularly.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 5h

Came here to say that, but I knew someone would beat me to it.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 7h

Who wins when #NZ Healthcare is privatised? 54 FTE nurses have been hired this term while thousands hired under Labour. Simeon transferred hundreds of millions from public to private healthcare. And froze doctor hires for over a year. 1News: All governments at fault. Why ignore cause & effect?

Christopher Luxon refers Arataki / Tend Health CEO Cecilia Robinson for OZNM after rewedding her business a lucrative PHO contract during a Health NZ moratorium

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Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 7h

Greens promise R&D at 3% of GDP. NZ spends 1.54%. Last year the government scrapped the 2% target and cut the Marsden Fund by about 29%. Why it matters: in 1970 an hour of Kiwi work produced about what a Danish or Finnish hour did. By 2022 it was 40% less. Denmark and Finland spend 3%. #nzpol

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Greens promise 284,000 jobs with $6b economic plan

The Green Party says it will create 284,000 jobs over four years as part of its nearly $6 billion economic development plan.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 5h

The reporter saved the best till last. Seymour wants ACT supporters to tell people, 'I saw David Seymour, he's far less crazy than I realised'. Vote Seymour because he's really not as crazy as Donald Trump.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 7h

I think a lot of NZers have a simple voting algorithm: if they’ve had one term, give them another; if they’ve had two terms, it’s time for a change.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 7h

I know nothing about him except I think he looks a bit like John Key. But if Seymour is campaigning for him that’s all I need to know. Anyway my first principle of democracy is #NeverVoteTory.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 7h

To clarify my first reply, that advice was for Nelson.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 7h

Might bump one of their list only people out of Parliament. That could be no boats, or Bish if he doesn’t win his electorate. I don’t recommend trying to vote strategically like that because all we have to go on are notoriously dodgy polls.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 7h

I was called by a campaigner from the Greens in Wgtn North (bc they had my old address on file) and she recommended EV Lab, PV Green and made it sound like that’s their official position but I don’t know for sure. OTOH if splitting the left vote here gets the Tories another electorate seat it…

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

How many rounds of chemo would this have bought for Starship? How many nursing hours? How many of those free parking vouchers that you really do need if you have a kiddo in hospital for a long time?

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 20/10/2026

Just waiting to hear from the printer (possibly tomorrow) and I'll be taking pre-orders for my 2027 calendar. It's going to be my most personal & precious work I've produced to date for reasons that'll be made public at the time.

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 20/10/2026

Amazing that we spend billions on “Mercedes” war toys, but skimp on “Used Toyota Corollas” for our ferries & infrastructure because of ideological spite. $1.6 BILLION on war machines when our hospitals turn away children with cancer? #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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New Zealand signs $1.6 billion deal to buy five navy helicopters and weapons

New Zealand has signed a NZ$1.6 billion deal with the US government to buy five navy helicopters and weapons.

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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Can we have a shout-out for the unsung heroes of the insect world? Hoverflies, beetles, moths and many other insects are important pollinators. To help them (and bees & butterflies) grow nectar-rich flowers and avoid pesticides. #biodiversity #nature

Red soldier beetle on a white cow parsley flower

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Landlords! You could’ve had another tax break with that $1,600,000,000! They’re robbing you blind!

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

DC3. Paraparaumu to Dunedin. Stopped at Christchurch for lunch. Probably 1956.

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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

Takes some neck to choose this way to apologise for completely fucking up the ferries

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

When Billionaires claim they cannot afford higher taxes to fund public infrastructure, yet they readily pour hundreds of millions into political campaigns. This isn't just campaign finance, it is a calculated investment strategy… And, they expect to be paid back. Are you paying ATTENTION, yet?’ 😎✨

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Ariana Gic @arianagic.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

There is nothing new to say to this other than Trump is an evil, lying monster who is working hard to help fascist Russia win an illegal war and genocide. He is a menace to the world and must be stopped. No one should pretend or behave otherwise. And Americans MUST do better!!

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Add: 1. a more difficult date for voters (against 2 other better options recommended) 2. plus new rules (for first time in 40 years) limiting registration vote Equals 3. vote suppression by a current government It won’t lead to faster results or govt formation but it is utterly unfair #nzpol

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

The scale of it. Astounding: "At the last election, more than 450,000 people enrolled or updated their details after voting began, including 110,000 on election day itself. This time, anyone who misses the 25 October deadline will have their vote excluded." #nzpol rnz.liveblog.pro/lb-rnz/blogs...

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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Deeply depressing isn’t it. It’s a literal Nat/Act swindle, deeply dishonest and very Trump like.

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Cartoon in The Times

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Pocket change, yes, but what a return on investment!

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

We need a post-American internet and future.

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Tarnjit Parmar @tarnjitparmar.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Pete Fry is Vancouver’s next Mayor. He will be the first Green Mayor in Vancouver and the first Green Mayor of a major city in all of Canada.

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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Jesus fucking Christ. Opportunity’s deputy advocating for compulsory military service in Aotearoa. Based on ISRAEL’s military service. Get in the bin opportunity. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 #nzpol

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

It is just amazing that people are attempting to communicate and organize anti-fascist activity on a fascist-affliated website. Do y'all plan a heist in the lobby of a police station? Make your game plan in the opposing team's locker room? Are we all just stupid?

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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Why is the AoNZ govt aligning itself to this rogues' gallery? #nzpol

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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

He’s already mentally unstable. He’s going to get progressively worse as he gets more desperate. Prepare yourselves.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

The most dangerous period in modern American history *so far*.

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Patrida Sutton @patridanz.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

In a functional society the delays in child cancer treatment under Simeon Brown's leadership should be the absolute death-knell for this government. Will it be? #nzpol

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Comma after exhibition. That’s why I’m hoping. I’m not vain enough to think they’ll extend it just for me.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

It looks fabulous. I'm hoping they'll extend the exhibition because I'll be in Hamilton in April.

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Veranoa Hetet @whaeavee.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ripoi Anamata, Ripoi Inamata opened at Waikato Museum. So humbled to have my Kākahu alongside my gt gt grandmother Mere, gt grandmother Rangimarie, gt aunt Diggeress and my aunties. And my words were on the wall 😊

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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

From the archives! It's all there. Black and white. This coalition of chaos has unleashed a raft of awfulness. Get your youth to vote. 8 days left #NzPol #PoliticalCartoon

Title: Government cuts to come could 'dwarf' those to date...

Nicola Willis is sitting in her lavish chair nonchalantly swinging her leg thinking out loud with a finger tapping on her lip. She says, "Ok, so we've cut, closed, dismantled, renamed, rehoused, reduced, repealed, reversed, scrapped, disestablished and now I can't remember what it is we're supposed to be doing!"

To the right of her are five bins full of department names. It's a pile of destroyed agencies laying in ruins.

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beckydubs 🇳🇿 @beckydubs.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

My sister, in her 40s, needs a knee replacement. We’re talking bone on bone. She got a letter the other day saying her first specialist appointment (that is just to talk about it) will be in 2028. Not 2,3,4 or 6 months. Not even 12. 16 months away. Just for the FSA. #nzpol

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I don't know how many lines have to be crossed before the remaining democratic West realises this fucking maniac cannot be permitted the power he's accumulated. We have Musk. Or we have established international security norms. We can't have both.

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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Taken: 9 September 2026 (8:18pm – 10:13pm) "I estimate there are approximately 14,000 satellite trail appearances across the 578 photographs. These aren't necessarily 14,000 different satellites, as the same satellite can appear in multiple exposures." "This is NOT AI-generated." #Kikorangi #nzpol

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14,000 Satellite Trails over Mt Taranaki — BRENDAN LARSEN PHOTOGRAPHY

14,000 satellite trails over Mt Taranaki, New Zealand. An extraordinary astrophotography composite created from 578 photos and 45 hours of editing. Fine art prints.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 15/10/2026

Simeon Brown’s dismissal of any concern & horrendously ill advised ‘no one was affected’ comment yesterday alone should be bringing a govt down

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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ukrainian flags have been raised in the three more liberated settlements of Lypove, Zelena Dolyna, and Kolodiazі - reports ❤️‍🩹

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I ended up choosing a symbol of it all.

But if anyone really captures the worst instincts of this government, it is Simeon Brown, the Minister whose deranged 2024 Transport General Policy Statement amounted to a war on anyone not in a car, and who promised $50 billion worth of over-specced trophy roads we can never pay for.

The deal for one of those roads, the 26km stretch from Warkworth to Te Hana, north of Auckland, was signed off in July, at a “net present value” cost of $3.65 billion. It’s a public-private partnership – a form of Afterpay for governments, in that it costs more than raising debt, but repayments can come later. Even with the deal signed, the exact numbers remain a secret, but Connor Sharp, of transport lobby group Greater Auckland, estimates the PPP will cost $9 billion over 25 years – and require 10% of all transport funding in its first decade.

It’s actually worse than that. Like its Labour predecessor, the government’s transport policy statement sees NZTA repaying a loan from the government (in this case, $1.6b). But in Brown’s version, repayments during this term of government were lowered by means of a “bullet loan”, a device that requires interest-only repayments for the length of the term, then the full principal at the end – which in this case is the 2033-34 year. From 2028, the land transport fund, which is replenished from petrol excise and road user charges, will no longer be able to cover the annual cost of servicing the debt. Future governments, Sharp concludes, will need to find taxpayer money for NZTA to pay the government back.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

My Listener column about enduring under the worst government of my lifetime was surprisingly difficult to write – I wrangled text for days trying to work out what I could fit in the page I had. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

There is no corresponding whopper attached to the present government, if only because that would be hard to top. Instead, there’s been a series of feckless, arrogant decisions that will cost us dearly in years to come, and an inordinate focus on culture war issues while the economy stalled. Youth unemployment rose to a 30-year high while we wasted time and money on the Treaty Principles Bill.

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