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Shifty Cow

@supergoofnz.bsky.social

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Geek, dog nut, player of video games. Middle-aged idle. May contain coarse language & traces of nuts. Tangata Tiriti, Aotearoa. She/her. #Kikorangi. #ToituTeTiriti / #TransRightsAreHumanRights / #BLM

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Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · Jan 2

If LGBTQ+ folks make you feel uncomfortable, that is absolutely a 'you' problem. It's not up to marginalised folks to hide or change to accommodate your feelings, it's up to you to harden the fuck up and get over yourself.

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Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · 1h

Now 36% 'someone else' to Bishflaps' 30%. Tee hee.

Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · 1h

He's such an insufferable wanker.

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 3h

Come vote for "Someone else" with me to mess up Bishop's numbers! #NZPol

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Chris Bishop received the highest percentage of votes with 38%.
Erica Stanford and Christopher Luxon followed with 18% and 17% respectively.
"Someone else" received 21% of the votes, which is the second-highest result.
Nicola Willis and Simeon Brown each received 3% of the votes.

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Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · 1h

Heh.

Screencap of Stuff poll, showing 'someone else' is the most popular choice to lead the National Party at 35%, beating Chris Bishop at 31%.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 2h

WA is on track for its worst year of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) despite strong vaccination rates.

11,551 cases have already been reported — just 104 short of the 2022 record. By contrast, only 9,725 cases were recorded in all of 2024.

Source: archive.md/6XK9e

Health Public Health

RSV on track to hit worst on record despite strong immunisation uptake

Claire Sadler
The West Australian
Mon, 13 October 2025 9:52PM

WA is on track for the worst respiratory syncytial virus year on record, despite a strong uptake in immunisation. Credit: Margaret Johnson/stock.adobe.com

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Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · 1h

Meanwhile, Japan and several Pacific Island nations were officially declared measles-free very recently.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9h

Over 1,500 measles cases have been reported in 42 states — a 500% increase from 2024 and the highest count in more than 30 years.
www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...

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Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · 1h

This is in Aotearoa New Zealand, but our current government is certainly trying to encourage more mining.

Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · 1h

They used to be a few cents per circular delivered, I think. Not enough to survive on even with the coming Christmas advertising bonanza. Most community newspapers have also been canned recently, so there's even less call for people to deliver stuff.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Moosh 🍄🐶 cms open @mooshpuppii.bsky.social · 8h

just in case anyone needs the confirmation - our class had an editor from a well-known comics publisher come in today and told us she won't even look at the dead bird app anymore when they're looking for artists. hosting your own website for your art (or here on bsky!) is the best right now.

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 2h

This is kind of an odd request but does anyone know of a good private psychiatrist in Wairarapa or Wellington with a short wait time? I just got told by a GP that the debilitating fatigue, skin, pain and digestive system symptoms I've been experiencing for many years are psychological 😒

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 20h

I am once again begging you to boycott Tesla

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

apple.news

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 20h

Pay attention, Aotearoa New Zealand, because your health care system isn't robust enough to cope with this. #nzpol

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 23h

1 in 6 bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO - rising to 1 in 3 in SE Asia on.ft.com/46Zv7Dq

One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO

Levels of antimicrobial resistance highest in south-east Asia and eastern Mediterranean

on.ft.com

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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 19h

#NZPol So of course this political violence pearl clutching is just Atlas cunts trying to make sure the authorities protect them from sane people’s reactions to their own racist, misogynist, society and biosphere destroying ideas and the ‘free speech’ hate they use to push for this crap. Snowflakes.

Print Edition: Newspaper Front Pages @printedition.bsky.social · 20h

Tuesday's Dominion Post (New Zealand) #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · 17h

The cunt never met an issue he didn't want to be on the wrong side of.

Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · 17h

See also:
Tamaki claimed he postponed plans for the Labour weekend immigration protest march – but authorities say permission was actually refused.
www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/brian-t...

Permission denied: Brian Tamaki forced to change Labour weekend protest plans

Tamaki claimed he postponed the bridge protest – but permission was actually denied.

www.nzherald.co.nz

Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · 17h

Receipts:
Brian Tamaki says he attended Tommy Robinson’s far right rally in UK
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · 17h

And this is the guy whose rally Eftpostle Brian Scamaki went to in London last month.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_R...

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Joe Hislop @joehislop.bsky.social · 23h

For years scientists have been saying it’ll be cheaper to prevent climate change than to pay for the consequences of ignoring it. And here we are.

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 1d

Surely we also have a cut-and-dry referral of Potaka to the Privileges Committee for not only making an unparliamentary attack on a fellow Member but, more arguably, misleading the House in the process? #nzqt #nzpol

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

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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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19h

It's great that the Albanese gov't doesn't even need to hide any of this anymore

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

lol

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · 18h

LOL he gets a real Time Mag cover, and the pic is one he won't want to have on the wall at Mar-a-Lago. Heh.

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Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · 18h

I also know for sure I've used both 'arsehole' and 'asshole' at least once in the last week, so not sure how accurate this is.