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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 40m

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Rohan MacMahon @rohmac.bsky.social · 1h

Stuff front page right now… what a juxtaposition.

#climate #nzpol

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Rohan MacMahon @rohmac.bsky.social · 1h

Stuff front page right now… what a juxtaposition.

#climate #nzpol

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 1h

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist & coming Armageddon.

He’s crazy & dangerous. Can we revoke the illegal NZ citizenship please? #nzpol
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 7h

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A young human (7?) is standing next to a bookshop.
Speaking into a walkie talkie, with a very serious expression he says: "Dad. I think it's DEFINITELY time for pizza. Are you at the pizza place now? Over."
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 7h

A small human (4?), wearing a dinosaur T-shirt has just found a very efficient poking stick.
First he experiments by poking a tree.
Yes. This is satisfying.
Then a rock. Yes this is even better...
Hmmm.
He looks at Dad's bottom speculatively.
There is DEFINITELY potential here. (5)

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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 55m

Plus loss of face with at least 2 important trading countries. #nzpol #ferries

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

To sum up we're likely spending ~$700m per ferry to get worse ferries than the two we ordered for $550m total

Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 3h

So-orig it was $551m for 2 top of the line Korean rail ferries delivered this year & next. It cost National $671m to cancel them. We don’t know the added price for these Chinese Ferries-hopefully they won’t be full of asbestos like the rail carriages were #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/14/g...

Govt confirms shipyard for new Cook Strait ferries

The shipbuilder was the "largest modern integrated shipbuilding enterprise in Southern China," Peters said in his media release.

www.1news.co.nz

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 2h

Too bloody right.

The seven stages of your workplace getting obsessed with AI then realising it's bollocks

ANYONE with a job is likely to have witnessed managers gushing about AI then quietly ditching the idea. See where your employer is in the cycle of AI hype.

www.thedailymash.co.uk

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Steve Reeves @stevereeves.bsky.social · 2h

Also see: every Uni in NZ..even those with groups with world-wide reputation in ML/AI.

Whose management and senior admin people never spoke to them.

There's a sort of senior admin person who saw "expertise" in ML as a way of gaining prestige and having a highly paid job.

May their time be short.

Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 2h

Too bloody right.

The seven stages of your workplace getting obsessed with AI then realising it's bollocks

ANYONE with a job is likely to have witnessed managers gushing about AI then quietly ditching the idea. See where your employer is in the cycle of AI hype.

www.thedailymash.co.uk

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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 2h

OMG ❤️

JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 2h

They'll be 'sorey'!

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 3h

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on.

These philistines need to hear from you all.

Thank you

petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

Edvard Munch's 'Scream' but with the text 'I can't believe they're cancelling Art History' in a speech bubble

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 4h

www.instagram.com/p/DPxKMcVEsx...
#nzpol

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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 2h

'Since 2021 when world leaders and corporate executives promised to halt deforestation, the new study found that forest loss has increased, driven by subsidies for livestock, monocrops, logging and other extractive industries.' #nzpol #ClimateCrisis

Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 3h

“We already know what works to stop forest loss, but countries, companies, and investors are only scratching the surface. And even those initial efforts are facing strong pushback from the standard bearers of an economic system built on forest destruction.” 🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

www.theguardian.com

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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 2h

'Since 2021 when world leaders and corporate executives promised to halt deforestation, the new study found that forest loss has increased, driven by subsidies for livestock, monocrops, logging and other extractive industries.' #nzpol #ClimateCrisis

Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 3h

“We already know what works to stop forest loss, but countries, companies, and investors are only scratching the surface. And even those initial efforts are facing strong pushback from the standard bearers of an economic system built on forest destruction.” 🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz · 4h

Well, as expected, Seymour talked to precisely no craft beer business. fyi.org.nz/request/3228...

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The Post @thepost-nz.bsky.social · 3h

“In all honesty, as long as I get to work on the issues that I care about, which is women in leadership, helping marginalised communities and that sort of thing, the world is kind of my oyster.”

Tory Whanau confirms legal action, may join the Kiwi brain drain

The outgoing Wellington mayor is considering Melbourne or New York job opportunities ‒ and has already put about $5000 into legal fees for defamation action against her worst critics.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · 3h

If you missed my GFANZ webinar on MythBusting de-extinction to sort fact from fiction, you can catch it here. genomics.nz/myth-busting...

Myth Busting De-Extinction - Recorded Webinar - Genomics for Aotearoa New Zealand

Myth Busting De-Extinction - Recorded Webinar. What's the truth about de-extinction? - A New Zealand perspective.

genomics.nz

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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 10h

If taught well, the kids will succeed but yesterday’s PR stunt by Minister Stanford was just that. She wouldn’t know a grapheme from a phoneme.

And by the way, what they’re calling “structured literacy” was started under Labour by Minister Tinnetti who actually has expertise in this area #nzpol

Kyle MacDonald @kylemacd.bsky.social · 20h

Lies, lies and damned statistics…

open.substack.com/pub/aecnz/p/...

When Phonics Isn’t Reading: Why Today’s ‘Literacy Breakthrough’ Doesn’t Add Up

This afternoon, the Minister of Education announced what she called a “transformational boost” in reading achievement, crediting the government’s mandated structured literacy programme and newly intro...

open.substack.com

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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 3h

The @marsdenfund.bsky.social has been essential for funding blue skies research in New Zealand for 30 years. Such a pity to see news it will be swallowed by the new Research Funding New Zealand. I hope the best aspects of the Marsden Fund will be retained.
www.mbie.govt.nz/science-and-...

A new strategy for the science system | Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

The Government is changing how science, innovation and technology are funded and supported in New Zealand. The goal is a simpler and more strategic system that helps researchers turn ideas into solutions that benefit New Zealand.

www.mbie.govt.nz

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 5h

This seems fine. I remember what happened last time they did this.

www.stuff.co.nz/money/360854...

Reserve Bank to loosen mortgage lending rules

Finance Minister Nicola Willis has welcomed the changes, saying they will help first home buyers.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 4h

Tama Potaka accuses Kieran Mcanulty of lying about pregnant women being refused emergency housing. Mcanulty says he provided contact details and the Minister hasn't been in touch. So we definitely have a weaponisation of parliamentary decorum by the regime to hide deceit here #nzqt

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4h

"xKid’s Always Interrupting platform is a game-changing (and mandatory) feature that nobody asked for."

After Many UX Improvements, We’re Relaunching the Small Child as xKid, Your Next-Gen Everyday Companion

Thank you for attending our company’s all-hands. It’s been an incredible eight years since we launched the first version of the Small Child. I’m no...

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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 7h

Retrospective #25: Almost forgot this one from 2018:

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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 6h

Oh sorry, I should have been clearer. I meant them.