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Motivist @motivist.bsky.social · 8h

It’s all in good fun until the evidence-devoid policy is aimed at you.

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 13h

Government determined to press on with card surcharge ban

But businesses are pleading for the government to pause the move.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Motivist @motivist.bsky.social · 8h

Must be all that ethics education he got at politician school. They should think about including some of that when training doctors.

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Motivist @motivist.bsky.social · 12h

Nailed it

Motivist @motivist.bsky.social · 13h

Yep

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Motivist @motivist.bsky.social · 1d

Chur

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Motivist @motivist.bsky.social · 1d

NZ could use a couple of near new ferries. We can give you a couple of slabs for them.

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Motivist @motivist.bsky.social · 1d

Surely they are trolling.

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Motivist @motivist.bsky.social · 1d

Kids should be setting up shoe-shine stands.

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Stephanie... In New Zealand @bootstheory.bsky.social · 2d

"We dismantled all the social support structures and then people sought out the only social support structures available, this is a mystery" - Mark Mitchell, apparently

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 3d

Gang numbers reach record highs under National - but could be even higher, as police can no longer easily identify members.
Meanwhile gang profits double too. Too bad most Kiwis will never realise in the absence of right wing media dominance & not enough funding on the other side #nzpol #kiwi

Police Minister says record high gang numbers "highly concerning" July 29 1News article

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 3d

Crossing a six lane road full of mostly single occupant cars to catch a bus that only goes once an hour so will soon standing room only, and thinking "well, I guess we just keep voting for this"

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 4d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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SuperBatPajamaPants @ribbs.bsky.social · 6d

Quick, someone ask Peters to condemn THESE threats!
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

19-year-old charged after sending death threats to Green MP who since resigned

Detective Inspector Warren Olsson said the nature and volume of the threats met the threshold for investigation and subsequent prosecution.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Motivist @motivist.bsky.social · 6d

Selling the rental property.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7d

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 7d

Now this is going to come as a shock but it seems that the Cones Hotline is a complete waste of time and money.

A graph from Newsroom showing Van Veldens Cones Hotline is a waste of money.

Data shows Wellington City Council's cone report outcomes -
Sites found to be in order 54
Closed with no action 35
Out of scope 22
Contractor advised to move cones 5
Council moved cones

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Motivist @motivist.bsky.social · 8d

What are the odds that Epsom could sour on the Seymour experience?

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Cool Hand Fluke @nzrossvideo.bsky.social · 9d

So, absolutely nothing that Winston says has the slightest effect on anyone listening.
Concurrently, everything Chloe says is a siren call to violence.
The demented old man is telling on himself

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 11d

I left home well before 20 - and if I hadn’t had income that allowed me to leave I absolutely would not have made it to 20.
Forcing young adults to rely on potentially insecure circumstances despite a parent qualifying on paper to be a caregiver is potentially dangerous for both.
Bad policy - again.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 11d

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 13d

Imagine the calls to resign if this was a leftwing Maori women Mayor ... #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

‘F*** off’, Auckland mayor Wayne Brown tells Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance

An email screenshot sighted by RNZ showed Wayne Brown's "unambiguous" reply to the Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 15d

So Winston Peters doctored the Palestine statehood Cabinet paper to remove 3 of the 5 MFAT options. #nzpol #kiwi

www.reddit.com/r/nzpolitics...

From the nzpolitics community on Reddit: Winston Peters doctored the Palestine Cabinet paper to only include 2 of the 5 MFAT options

Explore this post and more from the nzpolitics community

www.reddit.com

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 16d

In Nineteen Eighty Four all art for the "proles" is created without human intervention at all because they just feed a set number of scenarios and words into fiction machines and songwriting machines, which then create them and disperse them widely to keep the proles happy and FOR FUCK'S SAKE ORWELL

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 17d

Um wat?

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Requirements for fire safety and disability access would also be removed, and councils would be able to grant 15-year extensions for strengthening deadlines, including for building owners whose deadlines already expired, with new timeframes beginning from the date their extension application is received.
The 'priority' category - which currently requires hospitals, fire and police stations, schools and some other buildings to be remediated twice as fast as other buildings, would also be changed.
It would apply only to buildings that could block emergency services routes in an earthquake and unreinforced masonry buildings with parts that could fall on footpaths and roads with high levels of pedestrian and vehicle traffic, and deadlines would be extended. Hospitals and fire stations would be removed.

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Motivist @motivist.bsky.social · 18d

Important event: he went to the rugby.

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