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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 18m

Also: now we're transcluded. Ho ho ho. en.wikisource.org/wiki/Granny%...

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 19m

Update: almost done. The red bits are advertising; the yellow bits need validation. 40-something pages to go...

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 2h

50 years ago today thousands crammed into Parliament grounds in Wellington at the end of a 1100 km historic Māori land march from Te Hāpua in the far north led by Ngāpuhi leader Whina Cooper to protest against the continuing loss of Māori land. #TeRōpūOTeMatakite 🏳️

Photograph of Māori Land March demonstrators outside the Parliament Buildings in Wellington. Heinegg, Christian F, 1940- :Photographs of the Maori Land March. Ref: PA7-15-12. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 1h

On NRT: Palmerston North keeps the cookers out! - norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/10/palm...

Palmerston North keeps the cookers out!

Local body election results were announced on Saturday, and it seems that Palmerston North has kept the cookers out! Mayor grant Smith was h...

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 2h

6000 blank votes on the Māori ward poll in Horizons with a 1000 preliminary gap between no and yes was embarassing. But glad to see it shifting on the specials.

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Robert McLachlan @robertmclachlan.bsky.social · 2h

Kaydee in, Butt out. Māori wards now 0.3% ahead in Horizons region

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Jonathan Marshall @jmarshallnz.bsky.social · 23h

On prelim results Palmy now has 2 Green and 1 Labour. Yesterday it was 1 Green, 2 Labour. Either way a slight shift right with Fitzgerald elected. Could change again on specials as it’s pretty close.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 2h

I think the Greens can be relied upon to stand strong on this.

The real question is whether Labour can be relied upon to boost its vote sufficient to get them back into power. Because that's very much on them. The Greens and TPM will do their bit.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 2h

But again: it doesn't matter what they say, because we all know the Greens will be running climate policy, and strong action will be (part of) the price of coalition.

They're undoing this, and bring agriculture into the ETS immediately, or they won't be in government. Simple.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 2h

On NRT: Climate Change: The end of bipartisanship - norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/10/clim...

Climate Change: The end of bipartisanship

National has historically been a climate denial party, first refusing to recognise the reality of climte change, then refusing to recognise ...

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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 3h

here's what they could have said:

"if everyone did what national just did, this world would dry a death in 30 years. we used to fear for the world our grandkids grew up in, but now we're not even certain that our kids will have drinking water. National is taking your future and leaving you barren"

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 3h

Columnist's curse. If you have to write x hundred words a day, it rots your brain.

(Says the person who's been blogging for over 20 years now...)

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 3h

Or you can just bypass the paywall and not pay them.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 3h

But terrible news for Australian big energy companies. And you can see why our big energy companies don't want it to happen here.

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

Sounds like an excellent place to get react quotes to National's weakening of methane targets.

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 8h

Hundreds of scientists and global leaders are converging on Christchurch for the world's largest and most influential climate adaptation gathering.

Global leaders, scientists gather for NZ's largest ever climate event

Hundreds of scientists and global leaders are converging on Christchurch for the world's largest and most influential climate adaptation gathering.

dlvr.it

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Steve @kiwistevemc.bsky.social · 5h

I’m sick of RW govts trying to separate “the unions” from their members.

“The unions” can’t take strike actions without balloting members. “The unions” aren’t forcing members to strike; they can’t. Members are voting to strike, because of shite offers from this govt.

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

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blames unions for ongoing strike action

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

www.rnz.co.nz

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

Yeah, no commitment to fix it.

OTOH, their position is ultimately going to be dictated by the Greens, so does it matter what they say?

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 5h

Attention Labour party, @nzgreenparty.bsky.social, Te Pati Māori. #nzpol

www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...

Media Release: Rights Aotearoa calls for united Opposition commitment to repeal the Regulatory Standards Act in the first 30 days of any future left-wing coalition government, should the Bill become l...

The select committee's report, released yesterday, represents only cosmetic adjustments to legislation that remains fundamentally unconstitutional, anti-democratic, and catastrophically harmful to hum...

www.rightsaotearoa.nz

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5h

this is a nice rendering by @nickevershed.bsky.social but, er, it definitely shows coal power output remaining persistently high even as renewable energy grows, which feels like a problem

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

a hand-drawn chart showing renewable energy griwing but coal output remaining stagnat for the past three entire years because demand itself has been growing oddly fast

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

Summer is coming.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 15h

well, I've watched the TV version, which was great, and the TV drama about Mitford herself, which was also great. But the core problem is that there are so many good books,and only a limited amount of time, so tragic choices must be made.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 20h

One of the symptoms of the 'resource curse' is that Govt becomes captured by one industry. In NZ that is dairy. Methane is the dominant GHG for NZ but it is now exempt from prices or regulations to cut it, which means all other sectors have to carry the weight of emissions reductions.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 19h

Cats are absolutely better than elections.

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LostArcNZ @lostarcnz.bsky.social · 20h

This should be the story from the left. Again, and again, and again. The country is getting richer, but the majority of people are not.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 21h

Remember the old rightwing argument that all we needed to do was put a price on climate emissions and let the market do its thing? Well the necessary step was for the Govt to put a price on emissions. The current far right NZ Govt just announced it will never put a price on emissions.

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