Amanda Hunt
@tuihunt.bsky.social
Shorebird junkie, poet. @nzgreens
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If upon seeing the headline:
“Whooping cough
cases soar
as vaccination rates drop,”
you find yourself wondering
how this could happen,
it is important to remember
that even as this headline
fills you with anger and worry,
most people will react to it
by saying: “big whoop.”
“Whooping cough
cases soar
as vaccination rates drop,”
you find yourself wondering
how this could happen,
it is important to remember
that even as this headline
fills you with anger and worry,
most people will react to it
by saying: “big whoop.”
December 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If upon seeing the headline:
“Whooping cough
cases soar
as vaccination rates drop,”
you find yourself wondering
how this could happen,
it is important to remember
that even as this headline
fills you with anger and worry,
most people will react to it
by saying: “big whoop.”
“Whooping cough
cases soar
as vaccination rates drop,”
you find yourself wondering
how this could happen,
it is important to remember
that even as this headline
fills you with anger and worry,
most people will react to it
by saying: “big whoop.”
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Also worth noting that this survey coheres closely with the last few years of NZTA walking-and-cycling surveys. There is majority support for cycling everywhere – and for investing in bike infrastructure.
December 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Also worth noting that this survey coheres closely with the last few years of NZTA walking-and-cycling surveys. There is majority support for cycling everywhere – and for investing in bike infrastructure.
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#nzpol Data released today shows that for all the talk of green shoots, the economy hasn’t grown at all in 2 years. Unemployment is up, & the cost of living is still rising for middle and low-income New Zealanders. The GDP increase today simply balances out the fall previously. A Thread
December 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
#nzpol Data released today shows that for all the talk of green shoots, the economy hasn’t grown at all in 2 years. Unemployment is up, & the cost of living is still rising for middle and low-income New Zealanders. The GDP increase today simply balances out the fall previously. A Thread
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This data shows there is no plan to deliver growth. The government is looking at more cuts at the next Budget. We have record numbers of Kiwis on benefits. Its time for a different economic approach - before working people and their families face another year of drift and decline
December 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This data shows there is no plan to deliver growth. The government is looking at more cuts at the next Budget. We have record numbers of Kiwis on benefits. Its time for a different economic approach - before working people and their families face another year of drift and decline
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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This Bill could invalidate the votes of enough people to swing the next election in favour of the current government for no reason other than that they failed to fill out the correct piece of paper by the "proper" time (as defined by the people who benefit from the rule change).
Justice Committee recommends passing Electoral Amendment Bill with some amendments
The bill would prevent same-day enrolments, ban prisoners from voting, and tighten up the rules around treating.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This Bill could invalidate the votes of enough people to swing the next election in favour of the current government for no reason other than that they failed to fill out the correct piece of paper by the "proper" time (as defined by the people who benefit from the rule change).
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Please consider donating to my kofi. This is how much i have left after bills for food and other expenses
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November 28, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Carney joins the climate obstructionist club. What is so striking about the current moment is that so many establishment figures who talked a big game on climate have capitulated. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Canada minister resigns from cabinet over Carney’s controversial oil pipeline deal
Minister Steven Guilbeault says Indigenous nations were not consulted and the pipeline would have ‘major environmental impacts’
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Carney joins the climate obstructionist club. What is so striking about the current moment is that so many establishment figures who talked a big game on climate have capitulated. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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It's so cool how this government is doing so many Trumpian things- voter suppression, climate denial, interfering in education against expert advice, destroying healthcare, rolling back environmental protections- but we're still largely treating them as normal and being like 'But how's the economy?'
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
It's so cool how this government is doing so many Trumpian things- voter suppression, climate denial, interfering in education against expert advice, destroying healthcare, rolling back environmental protections- but we're still largely treating them as normal and being like 'But how's the economy?'
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I think it's really important to understand how thorough the guidelines were that recommended the use of puberty blockers, and that careful oversight was always part of the care plan.
The government took this decision out of the hands of medical professionals and the families and people involved.
The government took this decision out of the hands of medical professionals and the families and people involved.
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I think it's really important to understand how thorough the guidelines were that recommended the use of puberty blockers, and that careful oversight was always part of the care plan.
The government took this decision out of the hands of medical professionals and the families and people involved.
The government took this decision out of the hands of medical professionals and the families and people involved.
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Opinion: The evisceration of the clean car standard is the latest move in a hollowing out of our climate policy architecture.
Clean car standard tinkering an incoherent misstep
newsroom.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Opinion: The evisceration of the clean car standard is the latest move in a hollowing out of our climate policy architecture.
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New Zealand's Minister of Education can't tell the difference between Mathematics and Social Studies.
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
New Zealand's Minister of Education can't tell the difference between Mathematics and Social Studies.
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"It took only weeks for Trump to turn the US from a biomedical & global health leader to a pariah, shattering trust while shattering lives, all the while posing fundamental threats to a law-based international order grounded in human rights & democratic governance"
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
The Trump presidency: Cascading global shocks on global health
journals.plos.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
"It took only weeks for Trump to turn the US from a biomedical & global health leader to a pariah, shattering trust while shattering lives, all the while posing fundamental threats to a law-based international order grounded in human rights & democratic governance"
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Social media feeds can be tuned to increase or decrease political polarisation.
Nice demonstration by @tiziano.bsky.social and colleagues
Nice demonstration by @tiziano.bsky.social and colleagues
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Social media feeds can be tuned to increase or decrease political polarisation.
Nice demonstration by @tiziano.bsky.social and colleagues
Nice demonstration by @tiziano.bsky.social and colleagues
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Great news, but a shame it's at tourist prices. Hopefully over time the price reduces to something that makes more economical than driving or taking a bus
www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...
www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...
Passenger train to link Christchurch to South | Star News
Long-distance passenger rail is returning to the South Island, with a service set to consistently reconnect Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill...
www.odt.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Great news, but a shame it's at tourist prices. Hopefully over time the price reduces to something that makes more economical than driving or taking a bus
www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...
www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...
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This Friday over 17,000 PSA health members are striking across the motu for safe staffing, fair pay, and conditions to give quality care patients deserve. 📍Find your nearest 28 November picket or rally at psa.org.nz/health
#NZPol #StandTogetherForHealth
#NZPol #StandTogetherForHealth
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This Friday over 17,000 PSA health members are striking across the motu for safe staffing, fair pay, and conditions to give quality care patients deserve. 📍Find your nearest 28 November picket or rally at psa.org.nz/health
#NZPol #StandTogetherForHealth
#NZPol #StandTogetherForHealth
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Going out on a limb here to suggest that the PM doesn’t understand what it is that regional councils do
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Going out on a limb here to suggest that the PM doesn’t understand what it is that regional councils do
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I'm fairly certain that the Cabinet decision not to provide a rescue vessel for the Cook Strait will be a case study in future textbooks on risk assessment and mitigation.
NZ government peers over cliff, having pointlessly delayed new fence at top, now opts to cancel ambulance at bottom…
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/cost...
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/cost...
www.beehive.govt.nz
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I'm fairly certain that the Cabinet decision not to provide a rescue vessel for the Cook Strait will be a case study in future textbooks on risk assessment and mitigation.
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I really don't get how Judith's new defence weapons are a must have but a rescue vessel is not.
Surely the risk for Cook Strait ferries is much higher
Surely the risk for Cook Strait ferries is much higher
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I really don't get how Judith's new defence weapons are a must have but a rescue vessel is not.
Surely the risk for Cook Strait ferries is much higher
Surely the risk for Cook Strait ferries is much higher
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Bruce nails it.
“NZ is like mainly two large islands?”
“Yeah”
“So you must have a good ferry link”
“Our ferries are old and break down often”
“So you’ve got big tugs?”
“Minister of Transport just cancelled the tug. Said it wasn’t needed”
“Oh I guess the water is pretty calm”
“Rough as guts. Sunk a ferry once.
“Yeah”
“So you must have a good ferry link”
“Our ferries are old and break down often”
“So you’ve got big tugs?”
“Minister of Transport just cancelled the tug. Said it wasn’t needed”
“Oh I guess the water is pretty calm”
“Rough as guts. Sunk a ferry once.
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Bruce nails it.
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Canadian mining company is being given the 'right' to kill native birds and bats, to mess with Archey's, Hotchstetters frogs, to take water, to make toxic mountains, to put forests at risk of fires, to do whatever they want in Waihi North 😭 🐸 🏞️ 🔥
#NZpol
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#NZpol
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Draft decision and conditions
www.fasttrack.govt.nz
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Canadian mining company is being given the 'right' to kill native birds and bats, to mess with Archey's, Hotchstetters frogs, to take water, to make toxic mountains, to put forests at risk of fires, to do whatever they want in Waihi North 😭 🐸 🏞️ 🔥
#NZpol
www.fasttrack.govt.nz/projects/wai...
#NZpol
www.fasttrack.govt.nz/projects/wai...
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Can we have more pink grasshoppers and fewer yellow hornets please.
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Can we have more pink grasshoppers and fewer yellow hornets please.
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An oldie from 22nd April 2024 but even more relevant today than last year.
And each year that we continue to use fossil fuels.
#NzPol #Cartoon #30PercentPure
And each year that we continue to use fossil fuels.
#NzPol #Cartoon #30PercentPure
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
An oldie from 22nd April 2024 but even more relevant today than last year.
And each year that we continue to use fossil fuels.
#NzPol #Cartoon #30PercentPure
And each year that we continue to use fossil fuels.
#NzPol #Cartoon #30PercentPure
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Resharing this because in conversation with Malak learning that it rained yesterday and their tent flooded.
Please support Malak, her sisters, her family.
Support is sharing on here, in other networks, and directly contributing.
Thanks for helping to get this out.
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Please support Malak, her sisters, her family.
Support is sharing on here, in other networks, and directly contributing.
Thanks for helping to get this out.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Resharing this because in conversation with Malak learning that it rained yesterday and their tent flooded.
Please support Malak, her sisters, her family.
Support is sharing on here, in other networks, and directly contributing.
Thanks for helping to get this out.
chuffed.org/project/1489...
Please support Malak, her sisters, her family.
Support is sharing on here, in other networks, and directly contributing.
Thanks for helping to get this out.
chuffed.org/project/1489...