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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 1d

(this is genuinely cool citizen democracy stuff, my brain is just cooked from spending too much time at the intersection of personal and professional social media)

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 1d

When I was
A young boy
My father
Took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said –

Screenshit of LinkedIn post by Nicole Curato, Professor of Democratic Governance: Can global citizens' assemblies give voice to the stateless, the displaced and the unrecognised?

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Te Ao Māori News - 🤖 (unofficial) @teaonews.bsky.social · 2d

Moriori people, tchakat henu (tangata whenua) of Rēkohu, the Chatham Islands have much to celebrate with the first-ever Moriori language week kicking off this November.

First-ever Moriori language week a ‘long time coming’

Moriori people, tchakat henu (tangata whenua) of Rēkohu, the Chatham Islands have much to celebrate with the first-ever Moriori language week kicking off this November.

www.teaonews.co.nz

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 2d

As was something of a habit bsky.app/profile/clev...

Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 2d

And if you're thinking, huh?, wait, I thought he missed the vote on that firearms bill –

– you're correct.

Seymour also missed that vote, in that same year, because he was late, because he spent too long bragging to reporters on the tiles about how hard he was going to vote against it.

Headline: David Seymour hoists himself with his own petard, providing small moment of levity. Apr 2, 2019.

The Government MPs maintained big smiles throughout Question Time, handing a bucket of lollies passed down the front bench, National MPs - including the man obliged to lose to Seymour every election, Paul Goldsmith - could be seen openly laughing, with Maggie Barry wiping what looked to be tears from her eyes.

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 2d

And if you're thinking, huh?, wait, I thought he missed the vote on that firearms bill –

– you're correct.

Seymour also missed that vote, in that same year, because he was late, because he spent too long bragging to reporters on the tiles about how hard he was going to vote against it.

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 2d

Look, it's the least of our worries given the NZ govt's decision to weaken climate change targets

BUT

as a committed pedant i cannot let David Seymour claim unchallenged that he was the only MP to vote against the current target.

Because he didn't - he missed the vote, lol. The bill passed 119-0.

screenshot: ACT misses climate vote, allowing bill through unanimously

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 2d

Climate change isn't happening, except it is and it's natural, except it's not and it's a scam by UN/WEF (((globalists))), except it is and it's HAARP geoengineering, except it's a good thing actually because CO2 is plant food and truth is unknowable and science is just a matter of opinion!

a cartoon character is wearing a pink hat and making a funny face

Alt: Louise Belcher from the cartoon Bob's Burgers, staring with one eye twitching

media.tenor.com

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like screaming. Mis/disinfo is hobbling every part of the climate change response - the premise (CC is a hoax), the cause (govt weather control), the means (the UN wants to ban meat), adaptation (managed retreat is a govt land grab), to emergency response (scammers targeting ppl in disasters)

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 2d

[wearily resetting my giant novelty Days Since Last Hera Lindsay Bird Tweet Moment counter from 05 to 00] #nzpol

@HeraLindsayBird: godDAMN this stupid milkloving piece of shit dumbass mean spirited sale at brisolcoes racist sexist 40% off deck furniture piss country

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 12d

I'm spicing up my work day by dropping mispronunciations into meetings and seeing who pulls me up on them. So far no one has reacted to me pronouncing awry to rhyme with jewelry. Time to escalate: pronouncing whack-a-mole to rhyme with guacamole.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 16d

the exposed moral wound of fossil extraction is real and is worth knowing the torn bloody edges of, but you can't get people to participate in other modes of living by just showing them the wound and asking them to feel how much it really hurts.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 16d

Good to see mainstream media also highlight the threat VFF poses to New Zealand's liberal-democratic firmament, though it's much, much greater than presented in this article. | Behind the boring promises: the protesters trying to reshape local democracy www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 17d

🚨 Voices for Freedom and Local Elections 🚨

Last local elections VFF encouraged people to run for local council. Their plan was semi-successful, electing dozens of councillors and board members. This time around, they're far more organised. Read: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

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A photo of Voices for Freedom coordinators at their VFF Connects event in 2022. The background has an illuminated VFF sign. Three people are wearing VFF t-shirts and many are wearing a lanyard. There are eight people circled in red.

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 19d

He may be a perfectly nice fellow, and I know nothing about his policies, but this council candidate's hoardings make him look like an amateur stage magician

Small billboard reading Rodney Cook for Council, with a slightly smirking Pākeha man in a collared shirt and tweed waistcoat, looking like he's just burst through the bright orange background. His hands are striking a dynamic 'nothing up my sleeve' pose.

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 27d

One of my favourite things about flying is all the no smoking signs, alongside all the built-in ash trays. A+ environmental storytelling.

Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 28d

Never in my life have I encountered a city that combines such lethal traffic with such a love of looking at their phones while walking

Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 28d

I'm in Bangkok for 48 hours for work, here's my guide as a pedestrian -

Traffic lights on green: cross here if you're brave

Pedestrian crossing: cross here if you're suicidal

Anywhere else: hopital

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Sep 8

I know I harp on this all the time, but the authoritarian personality is the skeleton key here. The authoritarian believes, at a brainstem level, that all of society is a hierarchy and that one of the benefits of being high on the hierarchy is that you get to abuse others below you.

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · Sep 6

I took stats as a senior year elective, and on the first day the teacher said 'Stats isn't math' and proceeded to teach the course essentially as social science / how to spot bad reporting. To this day it's probably the most impactful class I've ever taken, including everything I did at uni.

Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · Sep 6

One of the greatest errors in K-12 education, in my opinion, is prioritizing trigonometry and calculus over statistics. Yes, trig and calc are important for many professions. Statistics are important for literacy.

Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Sep 6

oh noooo

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · Sep 4

@emerald.fennel: cottagecore influencer gradually soft launching the worst politics you've ever heard (currently about five weeks from saying 'blood and soil' on main)

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · Sep 2

Look, I'm not saying I would rather be burnt alive than endure another fire drill walking downstairs from my 21st floor office - I'm just saying that it would be nice to be offered a choice

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · Aug 28

PETITION: Ask the Govt to back our future:

- Fund a teacher aide in every class in Budget 2026

- Deliver fair pay & secure work to all educators — & restore pay equity

- Protect te reo Māori as a taonga

- Make ECE accessible, affordable, culturally appropriate & high quality for all tamariki

Back education that works for all tamariki

All tamariki deserve an education where they can learn, feel included and access learning support when they need it.  However, the Government is taking public education in the wrong direction an...

action.nzei.org.nz

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · Aug 23

Bloody hell...

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · Aug 23

Is Make It 16 not the campaign in favour of lowering the voting age? Or is there a lookalike campaign?

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · Aug 15

I don't know what it is about retired engineers, man, but they seem to make up a disproportionate number of scoffing online climate change sceptics. This is particularly noticeable on LinkedIn, where brainwormed Facebook escapees air their wildest opinions with their whole CV flapping in the breeze.

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