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Fomison's Clown

@coasthermit.bsky.social

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Rural. West Coast. Gay. Plant daddy. 2 dogs. 1 partner. Most likely older than you are. Lefty Green but not Woo. Open minded and tolerant of most things but instablock for racism and TERFery. 🇬🇧➡️🇳🇿 🌿🚜🐕

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Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 8h

As well as cancelling your Stuff and Herald subs - Make sure you cancel Spotify too.
#nzpol

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 18h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 8h

Don't forget he thinks Chinese food is unhealthy too.

Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 8h

Castalia incapable of adding up the health costs involved in sticking with gas?

Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 20h

RNZ just hate poor people. Pass it on.
#nzpol

RNZ complaining that housing is becoming more affordable for the plebs

Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 1d

Oh NO!
How will we ever know what elitist schools we should apply for now?
How will we know which suburbs have the highest property price increases?
How will we know which massively overpriced eatery is the most fashionable?

Hopefully The Listener will be next.
#nzpol

Metro magazine gone bung. Nothing readable in it for at least 5 years. Meh.

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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 1d

www.labour.org.nz/news/release...

Here are the ideas Labour is trying to convey: National caves to coalition partners, National moving goal posts on climate change policy, our exporters are going to suffer, NZers deserve to see the advice that led to this decision".

Release: Luxon backtracks on climate commitments

www.labour.org.nz

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Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 1d

There is no reflection. 🦇

Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a reason the US introduced a 55mph speed limit in the 70’s fuel crisis.
Anything over that and efficiency drops.
Doesn’t matter what fuel - it’s down to aerodynamics.
Hence I don’t drive above 88kph. And I don’t give a damn if I hold you up.

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Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 1d

Clicks are revenue - not screenshots. It's their financial model.
If you subscribe, it's your duty to screenshot and deprive Boucher of revenue.

Atlas isn't an operator here?
Are you serious?
Ever heard of David Seymour?

Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 1d

Have you heard of screen shots?
Have you heard of linking to the internet archive so you don't keep funding fascism?

I remember the same comments being made about CNN and the BBC. Good luck with that.

Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 1d

Sinead Boucher's Stuff has been proven as a mouthpiece of the Atlas Network, anti-Māori and a promoter of transphobia.

And yet here you all are this morning, retweeting their articles and adding to their coffers.

Well done Bluesky NZ Lefties.

#nzpol

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Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 1d

It's easier to understand why the US fell for Trump when this is the quality of the opposition.
##nzpol

'Murdoch family is laughing all the way to the bank as they dismantle
America. They need to be deported back to New Zealand.'

NEVER TRUMPER account with 15.8k followers that posted the previous

Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 2d

NZMedia got what they wanted - reduced Māori representation and lower rates.
Result!
#nzpol

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, he's firing about 100,000 people this week and cutting off vaccines and food to Africa and jailing his political opponents and invading his own cities, why didn't he get peacemaker of the year?
Could RNZ do some rudimentary factchecking on this or would that upset Paul Goldsmith?

Donald Trump says he spoke with Machado after White House criticises Nobel snub

The US president says Maria Corina Machado called him and said she had accepted the prize in his honour.

www.rnz.co.nz

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 4d

my fucking god, if laying into Māori - for *whatever reason* - isn't about the one topic that will have the entirety of NZ's establishment media baying in lock-step with each other

it show's they CAN coordinate pressure - just choose not to for FAR worse transgressions by the rightwing

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Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 5d

‘Shibboleth’ is usually a giveaway

Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 5d

Only as long as there are no bike lanes.

Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 5d

Sounds like the kinda guy that should be regularly featured on RNZ as a leading light on political opinion.
I expect we'll see him wheeled out alongside Trotter and Hooton.
#nzpol

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, um, "mysterious". The director of your integrity projects was an early and regular guest to The Platform, which was funded by the owners of a chain of early childhood centres to advance their political agenda.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

The mysterious unravelling of a high-profile transparency project

Key donor silent as the Integrity Institute deregisters and its lobbying register disappears.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 6d

‘Charisma’ is now a metric decided upon and formulated by the media.
They sold Luxon when anyone with a brain could see he was a dud.

In time the truth will out, but the press can suspend the public’s disbelief for a long time.

Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 6d

These distinctions disappeared along with old school conservative values.
We are in a new era. Trump has changed everything, everywhere.
Nats and ACT are functionally the same now.
They just form two sides of a pincer movement in the war on civil society.

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Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 6d

Press love him too. Job's his if he want's it.

Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 6d

Goldsmith is waiting for his chance. He's vile enough that Farrar could get behind him as PM.

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Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 6d

It allows him to call Chinese food unhealthy and ignore the inherent racism.

Fomison's Clown @coasthermit.bsky.social · 6d

I think the concept of friendship is beyond their understanding.