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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · Nov 13

OK - Another introduction as this place is alive and kicking

I'm an NZ import, landscape photographer and teacher, SW dev, guitarist, #EV and clean energy fan

I'm based in #NewZealand, a place full of spectacular views, handpies and cheeky birds

Dont take me too seriously prepare for swearing

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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 18m

New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets #Climate

New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets

Farmers praised the move, but scientists and opposition parties criticised it as ‘weak’ and ‘unambitious’

www.theguardian.com

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 21m

We're gonna have a death star that'll have a cantina

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 4h

People and businesses who thought they had it bad during Covid are finding out how it is during bad times when the government actually does abandon you. The differences couldn't be more stark #NZPol

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 1h

Nice. I hope there is a long list of shitfuckery that will get repealed quickly

Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 2h

We will repeal it in the first 100 days.

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 2h

NACT - Here's a bill

#NewZealand - Absolutely fucking not

Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 2h

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in.
📝166,000 submissions.
❌98.7% opposed.
Yet National are going to continue supporting it.
🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

Regulatory Standards Bill:
Select Committee Report:
166,000 submission total
0.7% supported
0.6% unclear
98.7% opposed

AUTHORISED BY DUNCAN WEBB MP, PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS WELLINGTON

Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

Nuts!

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

You have to go back to 2011 to get a lower % turnout for #NewZealand general elections

What does that say about Fuxon

#nzpol

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

* nearly 2 years

Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

We're at the mercy of seasons and rainfall, they know they can keep fossil fuels in the mix for profits and nobody in power will change a thing :/

Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

Mountain Tui 2 years ago - "How bad could it be?"

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

Sadly the dems wont do a damned thing if they win

Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

Also it was coming in July 2027, trump brought it forward nearly a year

Its hard to *plan fort the future* as a business when you make changes on a whim

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump order ends global tariff exemption for low-cost goods

The de minimis exemption had allowed goods valued at $800 or less to enter the US without paying any tariffs.

www.bbc.com

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 4h

Luxon abolished the Govt fund to help industry decarbonise, as he said he didn’t want to subsidise them and carbon price signals were the answer. Then he gave $200m for more fossil fuel exploration and abolished price signals for agribusiness, the biggest polluter.

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

Charity needed because gov spent a billion on a new stadium...

Oh no..

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 5h

The first event at Christchurch’s new stadium will be both virtual and a fundraiser, aiming to raise money to feed thousands of Canterbury kids.

The first event at One NZ stadium has been revealed - and it’s for charity

The first event at Christchurch’s new stadium will be both virtual and a fundraiser, aiming to raise money to feed thousands of Canterbury kids.

dlvr.it

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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 4h

Why do thousands of Canterbury kids need charity?!? #nzpol

a close up of a black and white goose 's head with a makeagif.com logo in the corner

Alt: Goose, curious... about to be furious.

media.tenor.com

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 4h

Has it been two weeks already?

Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

Because its easier and faster than doping actual journalism

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

"Its what Key would do"

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 6h

Just common or garden crime here nothing to see

If only the [checks notes] government Winston is part of helped with cost of living or crime or anything...

Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 7h

So the “protester” who broke Winston’s window was actually burgling his house? Maybe he should complain to the government about crime rates rather than falsely accusing the Greens. #NZPol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...