Sidhe Said
@altnamackin.bsky.social
Politics-nerdy and proud. Work in words and pictures. Part-time postgrad student. Ex-South Armagh, Ireland, now NZ. Opinions my own.
Many more posts over at the bad place until it becomes Truth X and then I'm here for good.
Many more posts over at the bad place until it becomes Truth X and then I'm here for good.
YESSSSS
As I finally assemble my full thesis on anti-environmental culture wars discourse around the Fast-track legislation, I take this as a positive omen. Good people, justice, and evidence can and will trump divisive rhetoric designed to deflect.
www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
As I finally assemble my full thesis on anti-environmental culture wars discourse around the Fast-track legislation, I take this as a positive omen. Good people, justice, and evidence can and will trump divisive rhetoric designed to deflect.
www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
'Win for nature': Court rejects Ruataniwha groundwater appeal
The decision reduces the Central Hawke's Bay farm’s capacity to produce food.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
YESSSSS
As I finally assemble my full thesis on anti-environmental culture wars discourse around the Fast-track legislation, I take this as a positive omen. Good people, justice, and evidence can and will trump divisive rhetoric designed to deflect.
www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
As I finally assemble my full thesis on anti-environmental culture wars discourse around the Fast-track legislation, I take this as a positive omen. Good people, justice, and evidence can and will trump divisive rhetoric designed to deflect.
www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
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Maybe putting Pentecostal Christian cishet men in charge of things is not good, eh?
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Maybe putting Pentecostal Christian cishet men in charge of things is not good, eh?
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If I, as a woman, get accused of ruining society by being a woman I’m just gonna keep doing the thing even more. I definitely want to ruin society. These men are dropping bombs and destroying the environment and getting away with it. Ruining society will continue as long as my morale improves.
November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
If I, as a woman, get accused of ruining society by being a woman I’m just gonna keep doing the thing even more. I definitely want to ruin society. These men are dropping bombs and destroying the environment and getting away with it. Ruining society will continue as long as my morale improves.
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
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It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
Attended v good online hui on how to take advantage of early researcher opportunities. Few +reducing opportunities in Aotearoa; main take-out for me was we should prob all be looking overseas. 🤔 @islates.bsky.social called out academic precarity - time to stand together or fall apart #joinyourunion
October 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Attended v good online hui on how to take advantage of early researcher opportunities. Few +reducing opportunities in Aotearoa; main take-out for me was we should prob all be looking overseas. 🤔 @islates.bsky.social called out academic precarity - time to stand together or fall apart #joinyourunion
Preliminary results are in and Wendy Schollum has consolidated her lead in the Hastings Mayoral contest - now well over 500 votes in front.
www.hastingsdc.govt.nz/.../2025-tri....
Results not even close to the Curia / @taxpayersunion.bsky.social 'poll'. Can't think how they got it so wrong! 🤔 😆
www.hastingsdc.govt.nz/.../2025-tri....
Results not even close to the Curia / @taxpayersunion.bsky.social 'poll'. Can't think how they got it so wrong! 🤔 😆
October 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Preliminary results are in and Wendy Schollum has consolidated her lead in the Hastings Mayoral contest - now well over 500 votes in front.
www.hastingsdc.govt.nz/.../2025-tri....
Results not even close to the Curia / @taxpayersunion.bsky.social 'poll'. Can't think how they got it so wrong! 🤔 😆
www.hastingsdc.govt.nz/.../2025-tri....
Results not even close to the Curia / @taxpayersunion.bsky.social 'poll'. Can't think how they got it so wrong! 🤔 😆
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happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you
October 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you
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Excellent cartoon by fellow Listener cartoonist Anthony Ellison #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
Anthony Ellison’s Cartoon of the Week
Anthony Ellison shares his take on the week in politics.
www.nzherald.co.nz
October 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Excellent cartoon by fellow Listener cartoonist Anthony Ellison #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
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i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
Dystopian.
"We for one welcome our *cough* OK, genocidal (but, more importantly, potentially profitable!) start-up overlords"
Revise that: sociopathic neoliberalism.
"We for one welcome our *cough* OK, genocidal (but, more importantly, potentially profitable!) start-up overlords"
Revise that: sociopathic neoliberalism.
How the actual fuck is Business Desk publishing a piece framing the genocide of Palestinians as a 'challenge' for Israeli start ups AND trying to PR Israeli entry into the NZ market on that basis????
This is fucking atrocious
businessdesk.co.nz/article/opin...
This is fucking atrocious
businessdesk.co.nz/article/opin...
Startups, sanctions and survival: Israel’s next test
As New Zealand weighs up a historic decision on recognising Palestine as a sovereign state, Israel, long celebrated as the “startup nation”, finds i...
businessdesk.co.nz
September 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Dystopian.
"We for one welcome our *cough* OK, genocidal (but, more importantly, potentially profitable!) start-up overlords"
Revise that: sociopathic neoliberalism.
"We for one welcome our *cough* OK, genocidal (but, more importantly, potentially profitable!) start-up overlords"
Revise that: sociopathic neoliberalism.
Maybe it's all the Christo-facism in the air, but I can't help but see the absurd Paracetomol announcement in the context of burgeoning Christian nationalism: Genesis 3:16, in which God punishes Eve: 'Bearing children will be bloody painful! (your fault, preggers, also yr husband's in charge').
September 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Maybe it's all the Christo-facism in the air, but I can't help but see the absurd Paracetomol announcement in the context of burgeoning Christian nationalism: Genesis 3:16, in which God punishes Eve: 'Bearing children will be bloody painful! (your fault, preggers, also yr husband's in charge').
Using the @nztaxpayersunion.bsky.social handy guide to strike out local govt candidates who said they'd 'cap rates' 🤔
and then another elimination round - those who don't support Māori wards
The names left were my starter list for research.
Voted, posted 🥳
#localgovtmatters #localleadership
and then another elimination round - those who don't support Māori wards
The names left were my starter list for research.
Voted, posted 🥳
#localgovtmatters #localleadership
September 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Using the @nztaxpayersunion.bsky.social handy guide to strike out local govt candidates who said they'd 'cap rates' 🤔
and then another elimination round - those who don't support Māori wards
The names left were my starter list for research.
Voted, posted 🥳
#localgovtmatters #localleadership
and then another elimination round - those who don't support Māori wards
The names left were my starter list for research.
Voted, posted 🥳
#localgovtmatters #localleadership
Sad trombones for unfortunate misogynist #stuartnash
today as #shanejones is announced heir presumptive to the rightwing populist NZF throne.
Nash's bid for power stymied by one (1) p*ssy and (2) t#ts. Women, huh! #nzpol
today as #shanejones is announced heir presumptive to the rightwing populist NZF throne.
Nash's bid for power stymied by one (1) p*ssy and (2) t#ts. Women, huh! #nzpol
a drag queen says womp womp waaaa in a pink and blue dress
ALT: a drag queen says womp womp waaaa in a pink and blue dress
media.tenor.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Sad trombones for unfortunate misogynist #stuartnash
today as #shanejones is announced heir presumptive to the rightwing populist NZF throne.
Nash's bid for power stymied by one (1) p*ssy and (2) t#ts. Women, huh! #nzpol
today as #shanejones is announced heir presumptive to the rightwing populist NZF throne.
Nash's bid for power stymied by one (1) p*ssy and (2) t#ts. Women, huh! #nzpol
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Education is the enemy of fascism.
September 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Education is the enemy of fascism.
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#nzpol
The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows:
- Food prices up 5%
- Fruit & Veg up 8.9%
- Meat up 9.4%
- Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%)
- Cheese up 14.3%
- Milk up 15%
- Electricity up 11.4%
Laser focused on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows:
- Food prices up 5%
- Fruit & Veg up 8.9%
- Meat up 9.4%
- Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%)
- Cheese up 14.3%
- Milk up 15%
- Electricity up 11.4%
Laser focused on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
Selected price indexes: August 2025 | Stats NZ
Food prices increased 0.3 percent in the month of August 2025, and increased by 5.0 percent in the 12 months to August 2025.
www.stats.govt.nz
September 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
#nzpol
The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows:
- Food prices up 5%
- Fruit & Veg up 8.9%
- Meat up 9.4%
- Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%)
- Cheese up 14.3%
- Milk up 15%
- Electricity up 11.4%
Laser focused on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows:
- Food prices up 5%
- Fruit & Veg up 8.9%
- Meat up 9.4%
- Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%)
- Cheese up 14.3%
- Milk up 15%
- Electricity up 11.4%
Laser focused on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
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I wish Charlie Kirk never died so that I wouldn't have to hear about his loser ass every single fucking day
September 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I wish Charlie Kirk never died so that I wouldn't have to hear about his loser ass every single fucking day
Any idea why someone has OIA-ed the *names* of submitters on RMA reform Package 2?
@greenpeace.org.nz @nzgreenparty.bsky.social
@greenpeace.org.nz @nzgreenparty.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Any idea why someone has OIA-ed the *names* of submitters on RMA reform Package 2?
@greenpeace.org.nz @nzgreenparty.bsky.social
@greenpeace.org.nz @nzgreenparty.bsky.social
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You don't have to fight fire with fire. It's probably bad to fight fire with fire. But jfc don't fight fire with debate.
September 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
You don't have to fight fire with fire. It's probably bad to fight fire with fire. But jfc don't fight fire with debate.
Credit where credit's due, here is some genuinely investigative reporting on local govt elections in Hastings, picking apart disinformation from one mayoral candidate, Steve 'swarm of angry hornets in an overcoat, riding a scooter' Gibson @joelmacmanus.bsky.social
baybuzz.co.nz/steve-gibson...
baybuzz.co.nz/steve-gibson...
Steve Gibson, the innuendo candidate – Part 2 | BayBuzz
baybuzz.co.nz
September 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Credit where credit's due, here is some genuinely investigative reporting on local govt elections in Hastings, picking apart disinformation from one mayoral candidate, Steve 'swarm of angry hornets in an overcoat, riding a scooter' Gibson @joelmacmanus.bsky.social
baybuzz.co.nz/steve-gibson...
baybuzz.co.nz/steve-gibson...
When I quoted these vile things to a (much loved and trusted) male family member he said, oh yeah I've heard others too, eg 'if they didn't have c#nts they'd be stacked ten-high at the tip'.
Must admit I was speechless.
What's animating this anger and hatred?
He said it was 'just guys'.
Must admit I was speechless.
What's animating this anger and hatred?
He said it was 'just guys'.
September 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
When I quoted these vile things to a (much loved and trusted) male family member he said, oh yeah I've heard others too, eg 'if they didn't have c#nts they'd be stacked ten-high at the tip'.
Must admit I was speechless.
What's animating this anger and hatred?
He said it was 'just guys'.
Must admit I was speechless.
What's animating this anger and hatred?
He said it was 'just guys'.
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to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech
September 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech