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Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 4h

It’s worldwide yet farmers continue to largely support right wing leaders who deny the climate crisis…….persuade me I’m wrong

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 4h

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and Westmeath

Farmers along Shannon say lives 'destroyed by flooding'

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and W...

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Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 6h

Today’s good news story #standtogether #unity

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

How fashy do you have to be for the Washington Post to refuse to sign your pre-clearance policy? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19h

Respect to those who got here first.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

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Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 6h

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

Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 10h

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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Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 6h

This was my one shit moment in my day reading Stuff momentarily. They can get Stuffed.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

New Zealand govt has not only unbunckled it's seatbelts, it guzzling down leaded petrol & farting methane in the face of technology

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 1d

We could all learn…..I’m leafing this

Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 2d

Methane bubbling up in #Antartica - I wish it weren’t so. NZ farmers just let themselves off the hook to ensure they pump out more methane #climatecrisis #greed #nzpol

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Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like a spot that’s good for the soul

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 3d

To ask a pakeha majority to remove representation of an indigenous minority is ongoing white supremacist colonisation. #nzpol

TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 3d

Preliminary results of the 2025 Māori wards referendums

#nzpol

Map showing preliminary margin of support by council for the 2025 Māori ward referendums

CC BY 4.0 TheLoyalOrder

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 3d

#NZpol Not holding my breath, but I’d love to see Winston Peters apologise to the protesters and Green Party members he attacked over the burglary*

“Hudson told Stuff his client wanted to be clear that he was not part of any protest activity outside Peters’ house”

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Man accused of burglary at Winston Peters’ house pleads not guilty, keeps name secret

The man pleaded not guilty and is not allowed to go within 1km of Winston Peters’ home.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 2d

Sympathies

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Jules @julianjackson.bsky.social · 2d

Best news this week, hopefully it goes ahead and every regional council adopts this.
#nzpol

Council to notify massive Coromandel bottom trawl ban, picking fight with Govt

Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says the Waikato Regional Council proposal is an abuse of the RMA process and he's taking advice on his next moves, reports Andrew Bevin.

newsroom.co.nz

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 2d

Just remember that this guy was gifted AoNZ citizenship by John Key, he is a fucking disgrace. #nzpol

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This is what happens when you become a billionaire, once you've bought everything that can be bought and own everything you always wanted to own the only thing left to do is talk shit, get your face in the media, and score as many ego points as possible.

The man is dead inside, empty.

Peter Thiel reportedly linked Greta Thunberg and AI skeptics to the Antichrist

In a four-part lecture series on his views of religion, billionaire Peter Thiel reportedly said Luddites are the Antichrist.

go.stonking.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

Too much truth in one meme

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Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 2d

Now that’s a big FUp
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/s...

Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

The National-led government has been avoiding questions about whether it is joining in preparations for a US military confrontation with China. A series of Official Information Act requests on this su...

newsroom.co.nz

Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 3d

Same Tasman

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Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 3d

Not Tasman though…..disappointed

Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 3d

WTF

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

So greasy fascist lunatic Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg may be the Antichrist?

Guess whose name appears in the Epstein Files that have been released, Peter? No hers. Yours!

So that, technically, makes you more evil than the Antichrist.

Wilson Dizard III @wpd3.bsky.social · 3d

[Excerpt:] Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg & critics of tech or AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that linked government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.