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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 3h

This $300,000 was clearly as useful as the $100,000 NACT threw away on the road cone hotlines & the $500,000 to Sunny Kaushal to stop talking about retail crime. #nzpol

'Extremely wasteful': Cook Strait ferry ministerial advisory group paid $300,000

$300,000 spent on the Cook Strait ferry Ministerial Advisory Group has been criticised as wasteful, as a contract for new ships is yet to be signed.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 2h

No ceasefire is ever a ceasefire when you're dealing with a genocidal occupying state with the support of the world's powers.

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: The death toll has risen to five after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, according to medical sources.

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 52m

Especially after Laura Fergusson Trust closed the Auckland facility.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 9h

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on.

These philistines need to hear from you all.

Thank you

petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

Edvard Munch's 'Scream' but with the text 'I can't believe they're cancelling Art History' in a speech bubble

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1h

The attack on southern Lebanon in October 2023 killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six other reporters.

NGOs welcome Lebanon’s push for justice over Israeli attack on journalists

The attack on southern Lebanon in October 2023 killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six other reporters.

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Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 5h

NZ has appalling leadership supported by appallingly ignorant, selfish, greedy, short sighted individuals #nzpol

Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 9h

Seems like a good time to share this again - given the government's decision to weaken the methane emissions target and not to put a price on agricultural emissions northandsouth.co.nz/2021/10/18/n...

"We Spent 25 Years Doing Virtually Nothing"

Why New Zealand is one of the developed world's worst climate laggards

northandsouth.co.nz

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 8h

Re-upping this thread in light of @ben.gracewood.nz uncovering that there is no record of David Seymour ever being told (as he had claimed) that alcohol warning labels hamper craft brewers ... a non-issue that would require us to break from our international agreements to fix ...

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Ben Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz · 10h

Well, as expected, Seymour talked to precisely no craft beer business. fyi.org.nz/request/3228...

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 9h

Have to say ChatGPT completely nailed Joe Lycett style

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Kory Graham @korytellers.bsky.social · 21h

You know the topic of hearing loss is important to me, and I am well aware of the connections between hearing loss and dementia (I'm seeing that with my mom these days) Sharing this little bit of @drjengunter.bsky.social most recent Substack to help other women around my age know about this.

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Brain Fog and Hearing
I was speaking at a menopause conference this past weekend, and one of the presentations was on hearing loss.
It's good to remind everyone (or let you know, if you were unaware) that hearing loss can contribute to dementia (I've written about this previously here). Two important points that I took away from the speaker were:
• It's a good idea for everyone to have a baseline audiology or hearing assessment before age 50, or if you are older than that, whenever you can.
• Hearing loss can present as brain fog. (Right? I know! So fascinating).
The speaker used an analogy that compared how foggy everything looks to those of us who need glasses when we don't have them.
The same analogy holds true as we lose our hearing; the world seems fuzzy. In addition, when you are struggling to hear or may be unaware that ou can't hear, you are

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• Hearing loss can present as brain fog. (Right? I know! So fascinating).
The speaker used an analogy that compared how foggy everything looks to those of us who need glasses when we don't have them.
The same analogy holds true as we lose our hearing; the world seems fuzzy. In addition, when you are struggling to hear or may be unaware that you can't hear, you are likely missing vital pieces of information in conversations that could lead you to be confused and/or lead you to erroneously think you have a problem with cognition or memory, when in fact, it's hearing loss.
Think of this as a prompt to get a baseline hearing test if you can (I had one two years ago), and especially if you are struggling with brain fog.

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Jen Longshaw @jenlongshaw.bsky.social · 14h

They're cutting disability funding to pay for shit schemes like this. Performative politics.

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 1d

National/ACT Coalition government spends over $100,000 a year on a road cone hotline that increasingly hardly anyone uses - with each call leading to less than one road cone removed.

And they took this funding from real worksafe work

WTAF #nzpol #kiwi

After 5 months of the heralded ‘tipline’, just 204 road cones are confirmed gone

In Whanganui, information from the Government’s own Road Cone Tipline had actually led to more cones being put out than taken away. In Wellington, 110 complaints resulted in just two cones being remov...

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 14h

As predicted, over half of retail businesses admit they will hike prices across the board to cover new Paywave surcharge.
National need to buckle up and cancel their failed policy here or all Kiwis will pay + it will increase general inflation #nzpol

Fresh calls for government to ditch proposed ban on surcharges

There are fresh calls for the government to ditch its proposed ban on retail surcharges. Retail NZ has surveyed its members and almost half say they will raise their prices if the law change comes int...

www.rnz.co.nz

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Kyle MacDonald @kylemacd.bsky.social · 1d

Lies, lies and damned statistics…

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When Phonics Isn’t Reading: Why Today’s ‘Literacy Breakthrough’ Doesn’t Add Up

This afternoon, the Minister of Education announced what she called a “transformational boost” in reading achievement, crediting the government’s mandated structured literacy programme and newly intro...

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 14h

Thinking about buying one of these costumes just to bust out whenever I need to spread some lols, tbh.

Make Lying Wrong Again @makelyinwrongagain.bsky.social · 23h

This one is my favorite 😂

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 1d

Take that Victoria Slapper, rightwing moderator for the Titirangi FB page and key Westwards promoter, who took down many posts critical of them and Ken Turner (including mine that was clearly getting Turner to admit he did not support the living wage).

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 5d

The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 1d

Weirdly, it is on the wrong side of the terminal - they would have had to cross over a concrete median strip at a 90-degree angle to crash where they did - makes me wonder who was driving and whether they were really in control.

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 1d

Bus has crashed into New Lynn train station - no idea if anyone hurt (hope not). Lots of sirens.

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Steve @kiwistevemc.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sick of RW govts trying to separate “the unions” from their members.

“The unions” can’t take strike actions without balloting members. “The unions” aren’t forcing members to strike; they can’t. Members are voting to strike, because of shite offers from this govt.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blames unions for ongoing strike action

"I think people are getting sick of unions prioritising the politics over patients," Christopher Luxon says.

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 1d

Christchurch City Mission needs our help! They provide 1600 Christmas food parcels for families and people in need through December, but they need boxes! 📦📦📦

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 1d

Attention Labour party, @nzgreenparty.bsky.social, Te Pati Māori. #nzpol

www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...

Media Release: Rights Aotearoa calls for united Opposition commitment to repeal the Regulatory Standards Act in the first 30 days of any future left-wing coalition government, should the Bill become l...

The select committee's report, released yesterday, represents only cosmetic adjustments to legislation that remains fundamentally unconstitutional, anti-democratic, and catastrophically harmful to hum...

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

Remember the old rightwing argument that all we needed to do was put a price on climate emissions and let the market do its thing? Well the necessary step was for the Govt to put a price on emissions. The current far right NZ Govt just announced it will never put a price on emissions.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

Methane makes up 48% of NZ's climate pollution. The Govt's grossly irresponsible announcement today that they will never have a price on methane, combined with their policies to increase the dairy herd, means that they have zero intention of meeting NZ Paris obligations.

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 2d

So Winston Peters has been lying about his playing in NZ Māori (old term for Māori All Blacks). Has always had a flexible relationship with the truth. #nzpol

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 2d

Does the NZ First leader need to tweak his official bio on the ministerial page of the Beehive’s website – and on his party’s site – claiming he’s a former NZ Māori rugby representative?

‘Words matter’: A little play on words in Winston Peters’ CV

newsroom.co.nz

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