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Ben Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz · 3h

anyone good at OIA requests know what the next steps are? I presume because "no information held" that means there was just nothing diarised and no notes.

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Ben Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz · 3h

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

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 58m

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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Based Moon Alpha @nedgilmore.bsky.social · 45m

It's a different vibe, and a completely different scale, but he also got rid of the wine awards thing that Air New Zealand had going for a while, simply because *he's* a teetotaler.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 1h

"Did you know I used to run an airline?" #dudPM #nzpol

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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 1h

I think many if us are now at the stage where if a Coalition Minister tells us the sun will rise at 6.33AM, we WILL get up out of bed,pull aside the curtains, and check for ourselves.

These guys resort to lies because the truth reveals their incompetance/failed policies.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 2h

Tama Potaka accuses Kieran Mcanulty of lying about pregnant women being refused emergency housing. Mcanulty says he provided contact details and the Minister hasn't been in touch. So we definitely have a weaponisation of parliamentary decorum by the regime to hide deceit here #nzqt

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Sam[uel] Smith @sgowsmith1988.bsky.social · 2h

Good analysis from Mani Dunlop on the TPM fallout

www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/10/14/a...

Analysis: Te Pāti Māori turmoil exposes a deeper hurt for Māori

Te Pāti Māori faces turmoil over leaked allegations, financial overspend, and leadership rifts, undermining its kaupapa and risking wider harm to Māori amid unresolved internal strife.

www.teaonews.co.nz

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 2h

Sorry, I'll see myself out

A Pantone colour swatch picking out the red shirt of our striking brother demanding a living wage

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ⓘ Kaiwhiu ⓘ @aotearoa-nz.bsky.social · 1h

ICYMI

Family cat saves dog from coyotes

Family cat saves dog from coyotes

YouTube video by KFOR Oklahoma's News 4

youtu.be

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KoBettyAhau ♥️🤍🖤 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kobettyahau.bsky.social · 1h

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 2h

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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1h

“The Raines say ChatGPT offered to help their son write a suicide note and on the night of his death in April, it provided step-by-step instructions for the method Adam used.”

‘He would be here if not for ChatGPT': Grieving parents sue AI companies

It has become a trusted companion for millions of teens. But it’s not a person. It’s an algorithm powered by artificial intelligence – one that’s trained to generate human-like responses. And some fea...

www.nbcwashington.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

FLORIDA now requires public schools to share space with charter schools, and “one charter operator intends to occupy space in more than 100 public schools (!)” 🤔

Privatizing public schools at breakneck speed, filling their pockets with taxpayer funds. www.fox13news.com/news/charter...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

If you're wondering whether or not to get a flu shot, I didn't get one in time, and I just had a fever dream where I was in the Drew Carey Show because several days ago I was on the Wikipedia page for the Drew Carey Show. You don't have to do this to yourself.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 5h

Goal reached! This project will go ahead. You can still pledge, and there's some 'reward' options to get a producer credit on an episode, or sponsor an episode (and have your ad featured) available

Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 20h

A little more about the planned podcast project. We're just about over the line to meet the goal now; 165 more people pledging $5 and we'll be there

www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/podcast-pr...

Podcast Project: Quit Paris?

How pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords went from fringe media to the mainstream

www.feijoadispatch.nz

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

gene kelly is antifa

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6h

Someone in or close to the White House is making a killing with inside information on what Trump will threaten next before chickening out.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 10h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”