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Lakeishia

@tortellinigoat.bsky.social
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Ōtepoti Dunedin, originally Hāwera She/her Pākehā, left leaning, autistic, medical education Toitū te Tiriti + Free Palestine.

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Drug tests, and also this: Other parts of the plan included reducing the amount paid to Jobseekers who had been on the benefit for two of the previous three years. Such cynical and performatively punitive policy. Being unemployed is soul sucking and this stuff will make it so much worse #nzpol
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National promises random drug testing for jobseeker beneficiaries
National is promising to introduce random drug testing for those on the jobseeker benefit to ensure they're "ready for work".
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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not recovering from cancer fast enough? Maybe if your benefit gets cut you'll work harder on that! Good god.
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Nats: Cancer patients on Jobseeker benefit could face sanctions
Nats: Cancer patients on Jobseeker benefit could face sanctionsNational's promising new hardline rules for beneficiaries, including payment rate cuts for those who've been on welfare for more two year...
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And disability can be yours in a heartbeat. Vote accordingly. #NzPol
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ApocalypseElf @apocalypseelf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tickle down theory fallacy
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Living Safely With Covid @covidsafenz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Optimal Clinical Trials Auckland is recruiting patients for a Long Covid clinical trial right here in NZ Adults 18 – 75 years old Body mass index (BMI) between 18.0 and 35.0 kg/m² If you apply please share details about the type of intervention being trialed Apply here 👇
optimalclinicaltrials.com
- Optimal Clinical Trials
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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not surprised they used AI here, National hate real artists, have cut funding to Ministry of Culture/Heritage, Te Papa, Creative NZ, Heritage, Film commission etc #Nzpol
NZ National party AI advert
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Jasmin Taylor @meshedlight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ōtepoti: if you're out & about, go down & support local musicians ticket sales on the gate, its family friendly, take the kids, the kind of event you can be there however long or short you want theres food trucks or you can take a picnic
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fictional scenarios; misspoke; incorrect suggestions! I mean you can’t call someone a liar in Parliament because ‘the rules’ but given how often the incumbent crew in Govt have lied, the media have no business giving them the benefit of the doubt or letting the liars choose the words. #nzpol
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm
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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"If it was my business and my money this is what I would do." Its not a business, and its *our* money, its meant to fund health, infra, police, education Not some techbro datacenter in USA and Nvidia stock price #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
How to cut public sector jobs? A much more aggressive approach to AI
The government's recipe for cutting thousands more public sector jobs demands using AI much more. RNZ looks through 16 documents that led up to Nicola Willis's announcement in May that 8700 jobs would...
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Erica Stanford's delusion on display (and inaccuracy on multiple counts) "I've done more for Maori than any Education Minister in history"
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Erica Stanford: I have done more for Māori than any Minister
YouTube video by Mountain Tui
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
David Seymour wanted RNZ bosses sacked because RNZ hired John Campbell Then, when RNZ defended its editorial independence, Seymour said he'd sack RNZ Board members & replace them with government appointees to do it This is not only fascist, its intent is wholly illegal #nzpol #kiwi
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I got 11/15 but only because I remembered some of them from @ninjakitty.bsky.social's posts. They somehow all manage to look like the worst thing.
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Nick Baker @nickbaker.digital · 28/09/2026
The top 4 most unidentifiable school lunches so far. See how well you do in the quiz - the average score is 8.6/15
Brown gunkBrown gunkWeird gunkHardly any gunk
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beckydubs 🇳🇿 @beckydubs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
HealthNZ has been imposing “fiscal savings plans” on all parts of the health system SINCE DAY ONE. This is ONGOING. #nzpol 1/2
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
RNZ is again playing its part, helping to normalise this right wing attack on expertise. And Faafoi is lending it cover too.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
People went hungry People couldn’t pay rent - were there evictions? People couldn’t heat their homes - were there hospitalisations? People couldn’t afford prescriptions, the doctor, electricity, groceries, period products. Thousands of people left with nothing. #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
More beneficiaries may have had payments wrongly suspended - but ministry won't say how many
Some unemployed and sole parent beneficiaries may have also had their payments wrongly suspended during the Ministry of Social Development's recent botch-ups.
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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Karure! All hail Borb of the Year 2026!
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Kevin @tautoru.io · 17/09/2026
There should be billboards everywhere with: NZ: Cost of living gone up by more than 20% Luxon: CRY ME A RIVER Repeat, Repeat Repeat.
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Cath S @cathsheard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm sorry another business is closing but 'tragic loss'? What's tragic is what's happening in-hospitals, schools, the way we treat our homeless etc. This is capitalism working. When people lose their jobs or have no job security, of course they don't spend money in cafes, restaurants, and bars.
A newspaper headline that says: "A true tragic loss: popular Wellington bar closing after 9 years"
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Radio New Zealand again making bad editorial choices as it recycles parties’ policy announcements. ‘Update’ is entirely the wrong verb, implying existing policy is out of date. The verb they should be using is ‘restrict’. Getting very hard to trust RNZ’s reporting. #nzpol
A screenshot of a paragraph from the RNZ article linked to in the quoted post, which reads:
“The party also wants to update birthright citizenship requirements, so only the children of citizens are automatically entitled to New Zealand citizenship at birth.”
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
*That's* why Amazon fulfillment is so profitable! While the Amazon tax is extracted through several types of junk fee, the most *profitable* junk fee of them all is Amazon's search payola. In fact, search payola *is the most profitable business that Amazon operates, full stop*. 31/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
Amazon's payola isn't about radio play - it's about *search*. When you search Amazon, the top results do not represent Amazon's best guess about what product will best match your query: rather, Amazon *auctions off* those top results to its platform sellers. 22/
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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This makes so much sense. Anatomy was an exercise in brute memorization until I first saw surgery being performed. It was only then I understood how knowledge of anatomy directly enabled making a positive difference to a person. #motivation #MedEd
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Integration of Clinical Case Scenarios With Anatomical Dissection Teaching—Is Recall Improved Among Medical Students?
Background There is ongoing debate about how best to deliver anatomy teaching in a modern medical curriculum. Some studies suggest that the separation of basic sciences and clinical teaching can imp.....
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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species _is_ possible with sustained effort. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There are demonstrably not enough jobs for all the people who want jobs. Just how far does Mr. Luxon expect this "whatever it takes" to go? What does he expect our children to do to get a job?
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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In December 2023 the Secretary of Education emailed the Director-General of Health asking her to "soften" the stay-home-if-sick messaging. Not a doctor. Acting for a Minister who is also not a doctor. I have the email, via OIA. #nzpol 🧵 1/
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Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Stopping 18-19 year olds "languishing on welfare" by making them ineligible for welfare is very "trees are the cause of forest fires."
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 30/08/2026
The political obsession with public debt and budget surpluses with no broader regard to the functional and social health of the nation is infuriating. Literally what is a government for if not to build a stronger and more functional society?
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 30/08/2026
One of the things I find most frustrating about modern politics, after the neoliberal reforms of the 1980s, is that it's not as if we've forgotten what came before. We can literally see what Government was able to achieve previously. It's still visible all around us!
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 29/08/2026
So opening tomorrow in Otago Arts Society, in the Dunedin Railway Station (upstairs) we have finally bought our @winterstellar.bsky.social Rangi Takō astrophotography exhibition to Dunedin. Pls come & have a look, up for the next month.
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arthritisnz.bsky.social @arthritisnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Have you been diagnosed with RA, are 18+ years and currently receiving medical care and taking prescribed medication? For more information, please contact: Michelle Taylorson, Doctoral Candidate, University of Auckland. Email: mtay322@aucklanduni.ac.nz. auckland.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Workers First Union @workersfirstunion.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Have you received an orange man letter in the mail yet, confirming your enrolment details? If you didn't, you may not be correctly enrolled to vote! Check and update your details NOW at: vote.nz #nzpol
text reading "If you didn't get an enrolment letter in the mail yet:
You may not be correctly enrolled to vote.
Update your details now: vote.nz"
There is a photo in the background of an enrollment letter from the electoral commission.
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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
They're fixing to crush the financials of local councils and ensure the continuing degradation of our infrastructure and cities to 'save' ratepayers...$34 a year. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Do they even listen to themselves? #nzpol
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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I'm old enough to remember John Key promising "no new taxes" and then raising GST from 12.5 to 15%. 🤷. #nzpol
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Government defunded flu vaccines for under 12s and other vulnerable people and we’re all paying the cost and now next year they say they’ll refund less than 1/3 of the people they took it away from. #nzpol The article doesn’t mention the defunding at all. 1/2
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The penny-pinching NZ govt only makes Shringrix free to people aged 65 (so if you forget, sorry, you have to pay). Now wondering how much it could save in heart disease costs. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
theguardian.com
Shingles vaccine linked to lower risk of heart attack and stroke, study finds
Researchers say benefits of two-dose Shingrix vaccine could be comparable to taking daily blood pressure medication
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Lakeishia @tortellinigoat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Archive August 21, 2026 Wordle 1,889 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 😮
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The health system is actively collapsing, and both major parties are basically promising not to fund it. They have nothing to offer aotearoa but austerity and decline.
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
AND ANOTHER THING ... We recently saw the outcome of rushing through legislation before it is ready, using urgency etc, with the impact on winter payments for seniors. This kind of negative effect is exactly what happens with we don't submit complex issues to proper process.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It doesn't fucken wooooork
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
On August 23, 1989, about 2 million people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania formed a 600 km long human chain that united all 3 countries to show the world their desire to leave the Soviet Union and Communism.
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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Can we piss off with this “slashing debt” bullshit? We’re not a broke country. Our debt levels are far from unserviceable. We are, however, a country with serious deficit in infrastructure maintenance. Why can’t we address that? It’s far cheaper than continuously kicking the can down the road.
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Pro democracy chalking at the botanic gardens
Vote encouragement
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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 21/08/2026
I made this for a friend but it’s worth sharing, printing or saving to your phone so you can get the QR code in front of someone
THEY
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WILL YOU?
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NOT ENROLLED BY THEN? NO VOTE.
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REMIND YOUR FRIENDS
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We knew they were lying. It was OBVIOUS they were lying. Hundreds of jobs advertised, hundreds of graduate nurses not getting hired. Meanwhile in hospitals those with jobs crushed under extra workload, and no leave, no replacements, no help. Simeon browns answer? Gaslighting the whole country
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Andrew Jull NZRN (he/him) @andrewjull.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Minister digging his hole deeper - remember Jack Tame identified only 54 FTE of nurses were hired when there were 1300 vacancies over last two years. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Politicians weigh in after revelations of Health NZ hiring crackdown
The Health Minister insists he never accepted a policy by senior health officials to keep tight controls on hiring frontline health staff.
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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 17/08/2026
A series of recent RNZ articles having to do with tertiary education in Aotearoa. Fees free scheme scrapped. 1/5
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Students question university affordability after government scraps fees-free scheme
Some University of Auckland students are questioning whether they can afford to continue their studies, after the government has announced it is scrapping the fees-free university scheme.
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Aotearoa's Electoral Orange Guy @poti-aotearoa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
General Election 2026 Deadlines Days left to enrol for the first time: 70 days Switching rolls has closed, new enrollments can still choose rolls Enrol or update here: vote.nz/enrolling/enrol-or-update/e… Remind your Friends & Whanau #nzpol
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