Andrew Jull NZRN
@andrewjull.bsky.social
Firm believer in lalochezia. Also science works. Academic nurse. Trans rights are human rights. Free Palestine.
Pinned
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New Zealand's Minister of Education can't tell the difference between Mathematics and Social Studies.
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
New Zealand's Minister of Education can't tell the difference between Mathematics and Social Studies.
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In news that will shock you, emboldened by ACTs dismissal of democracy, Australian mining company wants to silence your voice ahead of them raping the land.*
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November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In news that will shock you, emboldened by ACTs dismissal of democracy, Australian mining company wants to silence your voice ahead of them raping the land.*
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www.odt.co.nz/regions/cent...
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Anti-democracy in action (again)
"The Ministry of Justice found 80.2 percent of submitters opposed the bill, with 0.5 percent supporting it."
#nzpol
"The Ministry of Justice found 80.2 percent of submitters opposed the bill, with 0.5 percent supporting it."
#nzpol
Justice Committee recommends passing Electoral Amendment Bill with some amendments
The bill would prevent same-day enrolments, ban prisoners from voting, and tighten up the rules around treating.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Anti-democracy in action (again)
"The Ministry of Justice found 80.2 percent of submitters opposed the bill, with 0.5 percent supporting it."
#nzpol
"The Ministry of Justice found 80.2 percent of submitters opposed the bill, with 0.5 percent supporting it."
#nzpol
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FUCK (and I can 𝐍𝐎𝐓 emphasise this hard enough) OFF.
One of the absolute basic building blocks of a modern 21st century Labour movement must be, without any deviation or semantic gymnastics, pay equity.
One of the absolute basic building blocks of a modern 21st century Labour movement must be, without any deviation or semantic gymnastics, pay equity.
Chris Hipkins will not say whether Labour will commit $12.8b to restore pay equity.
Labour leader Chris Hipkins speaks to the Herald ahead of his conference
Chris Hipkins will not say whether Labour will commit $12.8b to restore pay equity. Video / Mark Mitchell
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
FUCK (and I can 𝐍𝐎𝐓 emphasise this hard enough) OFF.
One of the absolute basic building blocks of a modern 21st century Labour movement must be, without any deviation or semantic gymnastics, pay equity.
One of the absolute basic building blocks of a modern 21st century Labour movement must be, without any deviation or semantic gymnastics, pay equity.
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Labour: 'Good things happening fast is instability! Bad things happening fast is just the way it has to be - we're powerless!'
Greens: The challenges of climate change and wealth inequality need shared solutions that give back control to communities. #nzpol
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Greens: The challenges of climate change and wealth inequality need shared solutions that give back control to communities. #nzpol
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Green Budget
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
www.greens.org.nz
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Labour: 'Good things happening fast is instability! Bad things happening fast is just the way it has to be - we're powerless!'
Greens: The challenges of climate change and wealth inequality need shared solutions that give back control to communities. #nzpol
www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...
Greens: The challenges of climate change and wealth inequality need shared solutions that give back control to communities. #nzpol
www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...
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Yeah I'm calling utter BS on that one.
Strong 'you didn't tell us this would be in the exam' vibes.
FFS
Strong 'you didn't tell us this would be in the exam' vibes.
FFS
Trade Minister says UK and EU counterparts never raised concerns with him over climate policies
Trade Minister says UK and EU counterparts never raised concerns with him over climate policies
The Trade Minister said no one had raised concerns with him directly about New Zealand's oil and gas developments.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Yeah I'm calling utter BS on that one.
Strong 'you didn't tell us this would be in the exam' vibes.
FFS
Strong 'you didn't tell us this would be in the exam' vibes.
FFS
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Consequences not far away. #NzPol
Billion-dollar trade partners worried about NZ’s climate backdowns
New Zealand has entered into trade deals worth billions of dollars, on the basis that we continue to reduce emissions. Are those deals safe?
www.stuff.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Consequences not far away. #NzPol
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"Disturbing snapshot" of how Wellingtonians are being screwed by a government determined to privatise healthcare #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Wellington Hospitals waiting up to six months for Health NZ approval to recruit
Data obtained under the Official Information Act shows 219 recruitment requests took more than two months to be approved, 91 waited more than 20 weeks, and 45 roles applied for in March were still vac...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
"Disturbing snapshot" of how Wellingtonians are being screwed by a government determined to privatise healthcare #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Breaking finance minister begs banks to help her out of the mess she created.
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Breaking finance minister begs banks to help her out of the mess she created.
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Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
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Why does anyone with half a brain and the ability to read know that will happen but people in government and the farming industry apparently don't?
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Tesco's warning to New Zealand farmers
If New Zealand farmers want to continue exporting to the lucrative UK market, they will have to commit to a better climate future, says UK supermarket Tesco.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Why does anyone with half a brain and the ability to read know that will happen but people in government and the farming industry apparently don't?
www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...
www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...
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I was on the NZ Herald's Podcast "The Elephant" discussing free speech, hate speech, trans rights, and human rights.
Please watch! Tell me how I did, below! :-)
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Please watch! Tell me how I did, below! :-)
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Free speech or hate speech? Watch the debate on The Elephant
The Elephant is an online video series about the controversial topics we often avoid.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I was on the NZ Herald's Podcast "The Elephant" discussing free speech, hate speech, trans rights, and human rights.
Please watch! Tell me how I did, below! :-)
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/when-does...
Please watch! Tell me how I did, below! :-)
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/when-does...
NZ Labour Party, where are you?
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
NZ Labour Party, where are you?
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Minister for Throwing Used Car Batteries in the Ocean to abolish the only thing standing between him and throwing used car batteries in the ocean - regional councils
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No more regional councils - major shake-up of local government announced
The government says it is not a power grab, but about "making local government fit for purpose".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Minister for Throwing Used Car Batteries in the Ocean to abolish the only thing standing between him and throwing used car batteries in the ocean - regional councils
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"We were missing 12 whole nurses [over the day] and we only have 13 nurses on the morning shift altogether, so we were half staffed. It was absolutely nuts."
Remember there is no nursing shortage according then Minister Reti or TWO Commissioner Lester Levy.
Remember there is no nursing shortage according then Minister Reti or TWO Commissioner Lester Levy.
Nurses sick of being used as 'chess pieces' by Health NZ, in second week of work-to-rule strike
Nurses sick of being used as 'chess pieces' by Health NZ, in second week of work-to-rule strike
Nurses nationwide are refusing to work extra shifts or fill roster gaps, forcing hospital managers to cancel planned care and reduce ward beds.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 AM
"We were missing 12 whole nurses [over the day] and we only have 13 nurses on the morning shift altogether, so we were half staffed. It was absolutely nuts."
Remember there is no nursing shortage according then Minister Reti or TWO Commissioner Lester Levy.
Remember there is no nursing shortage according then Minister Reti or TWO Commissioner Lester Levy.
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Absolutely fantastic statement from PATHI and a number of other orgs in Ireland. Aotearoa is drawing international ire because this ban is real bottom of the barrel stuff pathi.ie/news/joint-s...
Joint Statement on Puberty Blocker Ban in Aotearoa
PATHI alongside other trans health and LGBTQI+ organisations stand with our colleagues in Aotearoa New Zealand and the young people, families, and clinicians affected by the Minister of Health’s decis...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Absolutely fantastic statement from PATHI and a number of other orgs in Ireland. Aotearoa is drawing international ire because this ban is real bottom of the barrel stuff pathi.ie/news/joint-s...
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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Mayors welcome law to combat 'vicious, sinister' harassment
Some could follow up the welcome by not promoting any blokes that did vicious harassment. Join the dots. #nzpol
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Some could follow up the welcome by not promoting any blokes that did vicious harassment. Join the dots. #nzpol
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Mayors welcome law to combat 'vicious, sinister' harassment
"Our elected members come from the community and should be able to carry out our roles without fear of personal attacks or harassment," Carterton's mayor says.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Mayors welcome law to combat 'vicious, sinister' harassment
Some could follow up the welcome by not promoting any blokes that did vicious harassment. Join the dots. #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Some could follow up the welcome by not promoting any blokes that did vicious harassment. Join the dots. #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Changes in Suicidality among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study
To examine changes in suicidality following hormone therapy (HT) among transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults.A retrospective cha…
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November 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
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I'm Jewish. I grew up in an observant home. My bar mitzvah was at a Lubavitch shul. My parents were ardent Zionists who donated to the Jewish National Fund and AIPAC as birthday presents.
If *I* can recognize Israel is a genocidal apartheid state and become antizionist, so can you.
If *I* can recognize Israel is a genocidal apartheid state and become antizionist, so can you.
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I'm Jewish. I grew up in an observant home. My bar mitzvah was at a Lubavitch shul. My parents were ardent Zionists who donated to the Jewish National Fund and AIPAC as birthday presents.
If *I* can recognize Israel is a genocidal apartheid state and become antizionist, so can you.
If *I* can recognize Israel is a genocidal apartheid state and become antizionist, so can you.
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Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
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When Israel breaks international law, what does Trump’s US do? Sanction the judges | Owen Jones
When Israel breaks international law, what does Trump’s US do? Sanction the judges | Owen Jones
Three ICC judges have been put on a list with terrorists after approving an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. This is the charade of the ‘rules-based order’, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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November 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
When Israel breaks international law, what does Trump’s US do? Sanction the judges | Owen Jones
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I can't think of any better way for a regime to completely destroy its own credibility than to announce that it will campaign against its own legislative program, and repeal a law it has just spent two years passing.
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I can't think of any better way for a regime to completely destroy its own credibility than to announce that it will campaign against its own legislative program, and repeal a law it has just spent two years passing.
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
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Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...