Kurt M
@kiwikurt.bsky.social
Airline Pilot | Girl Dad
From Gisborne to Auckland by way of West Papua and the Rhône Valley
Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿
From Gisborne to Auckland by way of West Papua and the Rhône Valley
Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿
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When the Ministry cannot explain how a foreign company won a national contract to hold the learning data of every child in Aotearoa, it is not an administrative inconvenience.
It is a breach of trust.
It is a breach of trust.
Tears Weren’t About the Fight
by ELVOn the way home, I cried.Tears stung the unhealed cold sore on my lip,and the aircon dried them hard against my chin.I didn’t cry because I was exhausted from breaking up a fight before morning ...
www.engaginglearningvoices.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
When the Ministry cannot explain how a foreign company won a national contract to hold the learning data of every child in Aotearoa, it is not an administrative inconvenience.
It is a breach of trust.
It is a breach of trust.
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The brain is a powerful organ.
It starts working in the mother's womb, and doesn't stop working until you vote for National, ACT, or NZ First.
#nzpol
It starts working in the mother's womb, and doesn't stop working until you vote for National, ACT, or NZ First.
#nzpol
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The brain is a powerful organ.
It starts working in the mother's womb, and doesn't stop working until you vote for National, ACT, or NZ First.
#nzpol
It starts working in the mother's womb, and doesn't stop working until you vote for National, ACT, or NZ First.
#nzpol
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History will remember we banned Palestine Action for putting graffiti on planes.
But never stopped supplying Israel with bombs to drop on children.
But never stopped supplying Israel with bombs to drop on children.
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
History will remember we banned Palestine Action for putting graffiti on planes.
But never stopped supplying Israel with bombs to drop on children.
But never stopped supplying Israel with bombs to drop on children.
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Hipkins jumped on bluesky after a 2month break to support Winston Peters here
Has so far refused to do the same to support the trans community in the face of destructive and, frankly, fatal policy that NZF and National delivered this week
Really showing his, and Labour's, priorities
Has so far refused to do the same to support the trans community in the face of destructive and, frankly, fatal policy that NZF and National delivered this week
Really showing his, and Labour's, priorities
The attack on Winston Peters home today was totally unacceptable. MPs homes are not the place to protest. No matter the cause, political violence is never ok and should be condemned. Free speech is healthy in a democracy, political violence is not.
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Hipkins jumped on bluesky after a 2month break to support Winston Peters here
Has so far refused to do the same to support the trans community in the face of destructive and, frankly, fatal policy that NZF and National delivered this week
Really showing his, and Labour's, priorities
Has so far refused to do the same to support the trans community in the face of destructive and, frankly, fatal policy that NZF and National delivered this week
Really showing his, and Labour's, priorities
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FYI I’ve opened this one up for full public reading, listening and sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty in public. #nzpol
Wednesday's Chorus: Churn claims Police target
Govt to fail to hire extra 500 Police officers after 212 go to Australia; PM says prison pop'n rise of 1,967 to record-high 10,860 "a good thing"; Govt rejects 402 of 642 Auckland housing pleas in Aug
thekaka.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
FYI I’ve opened this one up for full public reading, listening and sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty in public. #nzpol
Nope, nope, nope. My dudes you are still not getting it
Jevon McSkimming accuser faces charges of harassing another police officer
The woman who accused the disgraced top cop of sexual offending has received an apology, but is still facing charges.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Nope, nope, nope. My dudes you are still not getting it
So not the same church but separate evangelical ones
With the current NZ Police self-immolation and the revelation that Coster and McSkimming went to the same church very interested to see the @davidfarrier.com take when he gets the chance.
#nzpol
#nzpol
November 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
So not the same church but separate evangelical ones
With the current NZ Police self-immolation and the revelation that Coster and McSkimming went to the same church very interested to see the @davidfarrier.com take when he gets the chance.
#nzpol
#nzpol
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
With the current NZ Police self-immolation and the revelation that Coster and McSkimming went to the same church very interested to see the @davidfarrier.com take when he gets the chance.
#nzpol
#nzpol
How are we in this timeline where you scratch the surface and find out it's sex pests and often peodophiles all the way down? I hate it #nzpol
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
How are we in this timeline where you scratch the surface and find out it's sex pests and often peodophiles all the way down? I hate it #nzpol
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I was thinking exactly the same thing. Chris Hipkins misrepresented what Tamatha Paul said. She knew exactly what she was talking about.
Hipkins crossed a major line when he did that. He should have made it right earlier. Now he NEEDS to make it right.
Hipkins crossed a major line when he did that. He should have made it right earlier. Now he NEEDS to make it right.
Now I’d like to hear Chris Hipkins apologise to Tamatha Paul and the rest of us who he gaslit on police safety not that long ago 😡
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Chris Hipkins misrepresented what Tamatha Paul said. She knew exactly what she was talking about.
Hipkins crossed a major line when he did that. He should have made it right earlier. Now he NEEDS to make it right.
Hipkins crossed a major line when he did that. He should have made it right earlier. Now he NEEDS to make it right.
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remember when the former president of the act party got more child rape charges and the story just kinda... disappeared again?
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
remember when the former president of the act party got more child rape charges and the story just kinda... disappeared again?
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Firefighter verifies that Seymour is lying to the public and media, again. Journalists must be sick of being used as tools.
All Black turned firefighter challenges David Seymour over fire truck comment
"The siren stopped working on the way to a call. Then a spotlight in the cab caught on fire," says Steve Devine as the ACT leader talks down problems.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Firefighter verifies that Seymour is lying to the public and media, again. Journalists must be sick of being used as tools.
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Given the close links between the FSU and the ACT Party, any parent who would willingly send their children to a school run by the associates of pedophiles should lose custody.
Why exactly does the FSU want to be directly involved with and in control of minors? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Why exactly does the FSU want to be directly involved with and in control of minors? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
A new school built on ‘western civilisation’ is coming to Wellington
The former Free Speech union boss says he’s excited to have a school that could “remember the virtue of civilisation that has come from the West”.
www.stuff.co.nz
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Given the close links between the FSU and the ACT Party, any parent who would willingly send their children to a school run by the associates of pedophiles should lose custody.
Why exactly does the FSU want to be directly involved with and in control of minors? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Why exactly does the FSU want to be directly involved with and in control of minors? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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I think Cory Doctorow really put it best
Conservatives think everything in the past was different from what is really was because they are remembering it from the viewpoint of childhood naïveté
Conservatives think everything in the past was different from what is really was because they are remembering it from the viewpoint of childhood naïveté
October 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I think Cory Doctorow really put it best
Conservatives think everything in the past was different from what is really was because they are remembering it from the viewpoint of childhood naïveté
Conservatives think everything in the past was different from what is really was because they are remembering it from the viewpoint of childhood naïveté
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BREAKING: Seventeen Government ministers issue open letter condemning Tāwhirimātea for playing politics and disrupting New Zealanders' lives with unnecessary gale force winds, insist he come back to the table with open eyes
October 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
BREAKING: Seventeen Government ministers issue open letter condemning Tāwhirimātea for playing politics and disrupting New Zealanders' lives with unnecessary gale force winds, insist he come back to the table with open eyes
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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
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Share Colbert widely today:
ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
October 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Share Colbert widely today:
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Shout out to @laura-kiwi-birb.bsky.social for sending me this!
@iamprettyawesome.bsky.social @chewienz.bsky.social @detectiverogers.bsky.social ffs a member of the Atlas Network won the Nobel Peace prize.... Where aren't they at this point 👀
#AtlasNetwork #nzpol
@iamprettyawesome.bsky.social @chewienz.bsky.social @detectiverogers.bsky.social ffs a member of the Atlas Network won the Nobel Peace prize.... Where aren't they at this point 👀
#AtlasNetwork #nzpol
October 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Shout out to @laura-kiwi-birb.bsky.social for sending me this!
@iamprettyawesome.bsky.social @chewienz.bsky.social @detectiverogers.bsky.social ffs a member of the Atlas Network won the Nobel Peace prize.... Where aren't they at this point 👀
#AtlasNetwork #nzpol
@iamprettyawesome.bsky.social @chewienz.bsky.social @detectiverogers.bsky.social ffs a member of the Atlas Network won the Nobel Peace prize.... Where aren't they at this point 👀
#AtlasNetwork #nzpol
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Bryce Edwards, another example of an inadequate White man getting a paid public platform to present biased nonsense in New Zealand.
This country is colonial to its core.
This country is colonial to its core.
Just got sent this from an article by Bryce Edwards. This is completely false, and he never once fact-checked it with me. My campaign was run by me and my small volunteer team. Comments like this reflect a tired mindset that assumes women can’t succeed in politics without a man pulling the strings.
October 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Bryce Edwards, another example of an inadequate White man getting a paid public platform to present biased nonsense in New Zealand.
This country is colonial to its core.
This country is colonial to its core.