lwf
@liesweforgive.bsky.social
social history topics: early modern, china, colonisation, espionage, cold war; gamedev
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You want some fucking *clicks* MSM? Get 'em here while they're HOT GOSSIP
An important *impending* example, that might be *more* important to cover, is that Steven Pinker was an associate of Epstein which has been reported on since at least 2019, AND in the latest tranche
Pinker is speaking in Takapuna TOMORROW having been brought here by the Free Speech Union
Pinker is speaking in Takapuna TOMORROW having been brought here by the Free Speech Union
February 1, 2026 at 4:38 AM
You want some fucking *clicks* MSM? Get 'em here while they're HOT GOSSIP
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Mark Mitchell appeared in a NEMA jacket yesterday to offer the message to camera that individuals need to take responsibility for securing their own property. Everything else was about increased police powers. About as close to ‘every landlord for themselves’ as I’ve ever seen from the NZ govt.
January 21, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Mark Mitchell appeared in a NEMA jacket yesterday to offer the message to camera that individuals need to take responsibility for securing their own property. Everything else was about increased police powers. About as close to ‘every landlord for themselves’ as I’ve ever seen from the NZ govt.
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A scroll through Bishops posting history is enough to void him as any ally of anyone who even pretends at moderate social or economic centrism, let alone leftism. He is, at best, an ecological fascist.
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
A scroll through Bishops posting history is enough to void him as any ally of anyone who even pretends at moderate social or economic centrism, let alone leftism. He is, at best, an ecological fascist.
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Hey, so guess what I did? 🧵
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
Just noting which consultancy wrote this report and the history of their reports for public agencies internationally. Anyone check the footnotes of this one?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Hundreds of job cuts proposed in new report to Wellington City Council
Wellington City Council could save tens of millions of dollars through cost-cutting, such as reducing staff, according to a new report.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Hey, so guess what I did? 🧵
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
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Almost everyone who interacted with the insane husband girlies were elderly. And maga. This is what actually sent me down my research path that led to me finding an alt right AI pipeline.
(Obligatory paper link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...)
(Obligatory paper link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...)
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Almost everyone who interacted with the insane husband girlies were elderly. And maga. This is what actually sent me down my research path that led to me finding an alt right AI pipeline.
(Obligatory paper link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...)
(Obligatory paper link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...)
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Hyperobject permanence and situational awareness deeply lacking in our societies.
Wow I am blown away by this new data on Australia's climate views
Highest levels of outright science denial since 2009. Highest level of 'gov't is doing too much' (!!!)
And more people afraid of 'self aware AI' than climate.
What a nightmare set of results
pca.st/episode/6577...
Highest levels of outright science denial since 2009. Highest level of 'gov't is doing too much' (!!!)
And more people afraid of 'self aware AI' than climate.
What a nightmare set of results
pca.st/episode/6577...
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Hyperobject permanence and situational awareness deeply lacking in our societies.
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again, any other government doing this would not have had a moments rest from nz media, their public lives made almost impossible and been hounded out of government
this coalition is being given the most cover and support, maybe in nz history, by media and institutions
this coalition is being given the most cover and support, maybe in nz history, by media and institutions
November 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
again, any other government doing this would not have had a moments rest from nz media, their public lives made almost impossible and been hounded out of government
this coalition is being given the most cover and support, maybe in nz history, by media and institutions
this coalition is being given the most cover and support, maybe in nz history, by media and institutions
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I'll link the story below, and whatever, but saying this when we've just had the Minister of Defence effusively touring with Hegseth, Noem and other fascists and a Luxon/Trump photo op that have been routinely amplified, if not celebrated, by NZ media is just pathetic actually.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I'll link the story below, and whatever, but saying this when we've just had the Minister of Defence effusively touring with Hegseth, Noem and other fascists and a Luxon/Trump photo op that have been routinely amplified, if not celebrated, by NZ media is just pathetic actually.
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trying to operation paperclip NZ
This is insanely foul, genocidal zionists rife in NZ media again
This is insanely foul, genocidal zionists rife in NZ media again
September 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
trying to operation paperclip NZ
This is insanely foul, genocidal zionists rife in NZ media again
This is insanely foul, genocidal zionists rife in NZ media again
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To translate Oz-govt speak: A complex web of proxies means, "We have no evidence but just wanted to pin something on Iran."
August 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
To translate Oz-govt speak: A complex web of proxies means, "We have no evidence but just wanted to pin something on Iran."
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It is deeply frustrating to see the Ministries for Women and Pacific Peoples positioned as expendable. Equity ministries exist because the system does not treat us equally. Calling their erasure “efficiency” is structural misogyny and racism #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Commissioner won't rule out absorbing Ministries for Women, Pacific Peoples into larger organisations
The Public Service Commissioner won't rule out merging it, and Ministry for Pacific Peoples, into other organisations.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It is deeply frustrating to see the Ministries for Women and Pacific Peoples positioned as expendable. Equity ministries exist because the system does not treat us equally. Calling their erasure “efficiency” is structural misogyny and racism #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Mick Hall lining them up again, you're missing out if you're not on the subscription list
mickhall.substack.com/p/secretive-...
mickhall.substack.com/p/secretive-...
Secretive terror laws review targets protest and dissent
A leaked document reveals proposed law revisions in New Zealand, as Western repression in defence of Zionist genocide takes hold in the South Pacific.
mickhall.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Mick Hall lining them up again, you're missing out if you're not on the subscription list
mickhall.substack.com/p/secretive-...
mickhall.substack.com/p/secretive-...
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too many people with actual influence, power and resources in this country - liberals and progressives - who refuse to see what's happening, believe without reason that institutional rules and traditions will win out, and get rabid at any suggestion otherwise from their left flank.
July 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
too many people with actual influence, power and resources in this country - liberals and progressives - who refuse to see what's happening, believe without reason that institutional rules and traditions will win out, and get rabid at any suggestion otherwise from their left flank.
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Genuinely need to heed these warnings. What’s implicit rather than explicit in this analysis is the global scope of the problem. All that artificially pumped wealth (created by policy choices) catalysing inordinate imbalances in carbon emissions between wealthy and poor, cooking the biosphere.
Analysis from the University of Auckland: New Zealand is hurtling towards a sharply divided country of extreme wealth and extreme poverty with an insecure middle class
Govt should defuse NZ's social timebomb – but won't
newsroom.co.nz
May 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Genuinely need to heed these warnings. What’s implicit rather than explicit in this analysis is the global scope of the problem. All that artificially pumped wealth (created by policy choices) catalysing inordinate imbalances in carbon emissions between wealthy and poor, cooking the biosphere.
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This KiwiSaver stuff (along with consistent messaging over time from the Protestant work ethic think tank cult believers) feels like the beginning of the end for that part of the welfare state. Burden us with student loans at the start. Wring us with “should have saved harder” at the end.
May 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This KiwiSaver stuff (along with consistent messaging over time from the Protestant work ethic think tank cult believers) feels like the beginning of the end for that part of the welfare state. Burden us with student loans at the start. Wring us with “should have saved harder” at the end.
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Paul Thompson, the CE of RNZ, must be removed following this report
That the head of the public service broadcaster *intentionally* created an environment by defaming one of his *own journalists* & triggered an NZSIS investigation has been, & continues to be, hugely damaging for journalism
That the head of the public service broadcaster *intentionally* created an environment by defaming one of his *own journalists* & triggered an NZSIS investigation has been, & continues to be, hugely damaging for journalism
April 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Paul Thompson, the CE of RNZ, must be removed following this report
That the head of the public service broadcaster *intentionally* created an environment by defaming one of his *own journalists* & triggered an NZSIS investigation has been, & continues to be, hugely damaging for journalism
That the head of the public service broadcaster *intentionally* created an environment by defaming one of his *own journalists* & triggered an NZSIS investigation has been, & continues to be, hugely damaging for journalism
american primacy and great power competition has skewed Indopacific strategists to recognise only the rivarly between the US and PRC, largely framed by unilateral laws such as freedom of navigation, at the expense of emerging rivalries between US and its closest partners who depend on a RBIO.
February 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
american primacy and great power competition has skewed Indopacific strategists to recognise only the rivarly between the US and PRC, largely framed by unilateral laws such as freedom of navigation, at the expense of emerging rivalries between US and its closest partners who depend on a RBIO.
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Can’t pay nurses, teachers or fund science and humanities research but can fund military Will be a hard sell when the public start asking “what is left to defend?”
Existential crisis for the NZ Inc project. They’ve ignored geopolitics and society for so long. Chickens now coming home to roost.
Existential crisis for the NZ Inc project. They’ve ignored geopolitics and society for so long. Chickens now coming home to roost.
February 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Can’t pay nurses, teachers or fund science and humanities research but can fund military Will be a hard sell when the public start asking “what is left to defend?”
Existential crisis for the NZ Inc project. They’ve ignored geopolitics and society for so long. Chickens now coming home to roost.
Existential crisis for the NZ Inc project. They’ve ignored geopolitics and society for so long. Chickens now coming home to roost.
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I feel it’s safe to say that such a determined focus on China at the expense of any consideration of the interference/influence activities of NZ and its western allies, is a clear case of racist framing.
December 19, 2024 at 8:16 AM
I feel it’s safe to say that such a determined focus on China at the expense of any consideration of the interference/influence activities of NZ and its western allies, is a clear case of racist framing.
listening to SJ's Bloke Panther series on British big cat colonies' intersection with all things Green, culminating in a codex for farmers' conspiracies of indigeneity.
December 11, 2024 at 7:48 PM
listening to SJ's Bloke Panther series on British big cat colonies' intersection with all things Green, culminating in a codex for farmers' conspiracies of indigeneity.
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If the Wellington Chamber of Commerce won its battle with the council and the massive number of seismic standards upgrades to existing buildings 1970s–2010s never took place, the 7.8 earthquake in 2016 would have been unimaginably devastating.
May 30, 2024 at 10:35 AM
If the Wellington Chamber of Commerce won its battle with the council and the massive number of seismic standards upgrades to existing buildings 1970s–2010s never took place, the 7.8 earthquake in 2016 would have been unimaginably devastating.
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I know I’m a stuck record on this, but we have to accept the reality that grievance-led populism isn’t a backlash against neoliberalism, it’s a mutant strain with the same origin story: a decades-long post-WW2 push to protect social hierarchy from the threat of democracy and civil rights movements.
I know we're here because of many things, but I truly think we have to reckon with what societal bothsidesism has wrought. Neoliberalism and regressive populism have thrived under the idea of false balance. The marketplace of ideas is working as intended, as markets always do.
March 6, 2024 at 7:59 AM
I know I’m a stuck record on this, but we have to accept the reality that grievance-led populism isn’t a backlash against neoliberalism, it’s a mutant strain with the same origin story: a decades-long post-WW2 push to protect social hierarchy from the threat of democracy and civil rights movements.