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KoBettyAhau ♥️🤍🖤 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@kobettyahau.bsky.social
Chic cat lady - ngai Aotearoa ahau. Social Justice is my bag she/her #NZ/Aotearoa 🇳🇿
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Coming to U.K. if Farage gets in
My health insurance premiums will more than double in January. I pay a little less than $500/month for my current silver plan.

I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.

And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
November 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Mark Kelly: "My concern is with the service members -- we're gonna put these individuals in a really tough place. They may find our down the road that they did something that's illegal. It's not fair to them. That's why need presidents and secretaries of defense who understand the Constitution"
November 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Here is how to make your own hornets’ trap. Wonder if there is a way to keep bees out? #nzpol
Hornet invasion: How to make your own traps
A former bee keeper is calling for a united Auckland front to eliminate the threat of yellow-legged hornets.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 30, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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If you're Aotearoa New Zealand-based, please sign and share. 27 queens found at last count by a biosecurity department that's been battered by public service cuts. We have to eradicate this threat. c.org/bkt2N7cxFh
Sign the Petition
Urgent Action Required on Yellow-Legged Asian Hornet Incursion.
c.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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The flu sets new record in Australia this year. Also low vaccine uptake 🤷‍♂️. Think on that for a minute #auspol #nzpol
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Indeed!
#nzpol
I wish Disinfo Project had ¼ of the funding, & resources he had to continue work we did. Examples like this make it harder for other folk to access philanthropy. | The transparency project that went dark: Inside the collapse of Bryce Edwards’ Integrity Institute www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
The transparency project that went dark: Inside the collapse of Bryce Edwards’ Integrity Institute
A million-dollar political integrity project has imploded with little transparency, revealing a tangle of broken promises, stalled research and an institution unwilling to explain what went wrong.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 30, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Every new science funding announcement from this government is actually just repurposed funding from some existing fund for science
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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#nzpol nz is the canary down the coal mine…metaphor intended
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running. This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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#NZpol

Sometimes an article comes along that slices through the noise, but without needing to bullhorn its way through.

With calm clarity, this may help you navigate the contradictory stances where many who "speak of" X actually *do* Y...

I'm sure it may help many others too, so share it around.
November 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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That's right! They were repatriation flights, I had forgotten that. Because Lufthansa must do codeshares with more local companies, surely
I remember that, it was significant because I don’t think that carrier had ever flown to New Zealand, they repatriated all the German tourists who were stuck here when flights ceased to exist. It was certainly a time! (I do miss the lack of traffic though!)
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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this guy made his son a tiny version of Engineered Garments's FA pants 😭

IG twhattcomethru
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Who could have seen this coming except literally everyone

share.google/GFaMy3K2Jjlo...
South Korea's Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster
The South Korean government's billion-dollar AI textbook initiative has been a complete failure from start to finish.
share.google
November 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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It wasn't just the policy makers who panicked. The SAGE modellers did too, when one of their less prominent members (who happened to have real-world experience of epidemics) pointed out the futility of modelling for herd immunity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Domesticating models: On the contingency of Covid-19 modelling in UK media and policy - Lukas Engelmann, Catherine M Montgomery, Steve Sturdy, Cristina Moreno Lozano, 2023
Our article traces the representation of pandemic modelling in UK print media from the emergence of Covid-19 to the early stages of implementing the first UK-wi...
journals.sagepub.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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From the chilling time line:

“Thur 12 Mar 2020
At press conference Whitty says 80% of people could be infected, with up to 1% death rate ie: >500,000 deaths. Supports government decision to stop community testing. Unlike European countries, UK does not cancel sports events.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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“You cannot have an extraordinarily detailed and comprehensive Public Inquiry conclude that major errors were made, yet the two most senior advisers say the Inquiry is wrong.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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“He confuses suppression with eradication. All the East Asian states suppressed their outbreaks effectively and had death rates five times lower than the UK.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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“Whitty told the Inquiry: “If it’s spread out of China it cannot be stopped . . . No-one with an ounce of common sense would suppress.” This is nonsense.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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“East Asian states suppressed their epidemics within two months, had no further national lockdowns, and maintained healthy economic growth.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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“Vallance wrote “a ‘zero Covid’ strategy could have been pursued (but) required a national lockdown and border closures by the end of February, to be continued indefinitely.” This is simply untrue.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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“They stuck to their lethal strategy of pandemic influenza and the omertà imposed on their advisers, to not comment on policy. They endorsed their political masters who saw public health measures as a threat to economic success.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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“No recommendations were made about the lamentable failure to support poor families to isolate, the failure to devolve resources to local public health teams so that they could find and pay contact tracers, and no reference made to the policy failures that privatised test and trace so disastrously.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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“A balanced pandemic advisory group would, at the minimum, include experts working at the frontline of an epidemic, especially those in public health science, primary and intensive care.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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“A death rate five times higher than the East Asian states that took rapid action to suppress and control the virus. Three times more deaths than in the Blitz. The bereaved families need accountability. They won’t get any from the medical establishment.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello….

“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM