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Jane A

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writer ~ doing my PhD?! ~ wellington, nz ~ she/her www.janearthur.co.nz

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Sarah Pallett @sarah4ilam.bsky.social · 11h

Your regular reminder that unions represent PEOPLE. They are simply the voice of the PEOPLE they represent.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
Attack them and you’re attacking the people they represent.
It’s pretty simple.
#nzpol

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 11h

This is terrible

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not sure anything has made me want to vomit and cry more than this. Its CEO is from the Free Speech Union! It wants to address the 'equity gap'?! Give the poors access to good teachers? What? What in the offensive backwards shit are they on about.

Altum Academy will be the first charter school to open in Wellington. Altum will look at addressing the equity gap in education by enabling disadvantaged students access to a school with strong teaching workforce. The school will teach Classical Education. Students will be taught how to learn and thinkbased on the Trivium method. The method identifies a three-stage natural development of a students’ education; grammar, logic, and rhetoric. In the early years (Grammar stage) students learn facts through recitation and repetition, and by asking ‘what’. In the middle years (Logic stage) students learn to ask ‘how’ and ‘why’. In the high school years (Rhetoric stage) students will learn to persuade others that facts are true.

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 6d

Mophead rulz! I don't reckon it's just for kids, really. (Selina Tusitala Marsh)

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 6d

Hah, it's possible!

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 6d

My dog went outside and had a little woof, and the neighbour's builders went woof-woof back, kind of making fun of him which is understandable because he is a silly sausage. He was so confused coz he'd go WOOF WOOF and then they'd go 'Woof woof' heh so silly

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 6d

you chose the wrong place to attempt to drive your wedge, you dipshit. oh my GOD you dipshit, seriously

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 6d

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blames unions for ongoing strike action

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blames unions for ongoing strike action

"I think people are getting sick of unions prioritising the politics over patients," the Prime Minister says.

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 8d

To ask a pakeha majority to remove representation of an indigenous minority is ongoing white supremacist colonisation. #nzpol

TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 8d

Preliminary results of the 2025 Māori wards referendums

#nzpol

Map showing preliminary margin of support by council for the 2025 Māori ward referendums

CC BY 4.0 TheLoyalOrder

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 8d

😭

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 8d

you have got to be kidding me

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 10d

it is going to be so gross if Ray Chung gets in again. But he won't, eh? ...?

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 8d

100%!

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 8d

Sux we won't have Tory Whanau on council but man I can't wait to see her soar free from all that shit now eh

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 8d

God did it have a dinosaur that sprayed water out its mouth as a shower? So they showered under another dino's saliva? Or have I done something in my brain...?

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 9d

I think I would like a little public accolading because I - the person who caught *one* ball in high school P.E. - have just volunteered to be a parent helper at my kid's school sports day 😇

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 10d

it is going to be so gross if Ray Chung gets in again. But he won't, eh? ...?

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 10d

so intimate 🥲

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 10d

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH oh wow you felt his teeth!

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 11d

Open letter from staff, students, and alumni of the New Zealand community of universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine

As students, staff and alumni of the university community in Aotearoa (New Zealand), we express our profound dismay at the Government’s recent decision not to recognise the State of Palestine. Aotearo...

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Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 14d

What did people ever do to this government? Did humans hurt it when it was small? Was big business the only thing that ever showed it affection? Was profit the only thing that brought it joy in the middle of the lonesome night?

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 14d

LAST FEW DAYS to vote in the local elections! v. important to do so, because hoo baby there are some major losers standing. VOTE pls!!!

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 14d

This is fun!

Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 14d

#nzpol 20 Economists have penned an open letter to the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance - asking for change. The contents and signatories to the letter are at: craigrenney.substack.com/p/open-lette...

Open Letter to Prime Minister and Minister of Finance

Our current economic approach is causing real harm. We need to change track

craigrenney.substack.com

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 17d

“I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers – but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked – time and time again – is solidarity: binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another.”

- Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era

In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support

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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 18d

*BREAKING: PLEASE REPOST*

The Media Council has upheld complaints against RNZ, finding that the article about Alex lacked balance and failed to present alternative perspectives, particularly once information about Alex's own voice became publicly available.

www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/park...

Parker et al against Radio New Zealand

If you have a complaint about the editorial content of a newspaper, magazine or periodical in circulation in New Zealand (including their websites) you may complain to the Media Council.

www.mediacouncil.org.nz

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 19d

I was making the bed and the cat was on the windowsill. I was tucking in the sheet with my head down, concentrating. NEXT THING, the cat has attached herself to my head! By her claws! One paw on my forehead, the other behind my ear! She just leapt! And attached! Like a ... I don't know but fuck man

Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 19d

oh STOP IT! They're having a laff!!!!!!!