Māyā
@mayaofaotearoa.bsky.social
Aspiring novelist. Sets crosswords for local magazines. Lifelong fan of ''Doctor Who'' (but in a good way). Married with kids.
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Today the #independent newspaper is bleating about “why are the pensioners a special case” when they should be asking “why are millionaires a special case”
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Today the #independent newspaper is bleating about “why are the pensioners a special case” when they should be asking “why are millionaires a special case”
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A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE
www.thebulwark.com/p/backlash-b...
www.thebulwark.com/p/backlash-b...
A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE
Activists are targeting the reputations of Home Depot, AT&T, and other businesses.
www.thebulwark.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE
www.thebulwark.com/p/backlash-b...
www.thebulwark.com/p/backlash-b...
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I don't know if it's "charming" exactly but I'll always remember the last Lufthansa flight circling over Auckland to say goodbye after we closed our borders, and not knowing when they'd be back, but knowing it was the right thing to do
What's a charming memory you have from the worst period of the pandemic?
November 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I don't know if it's "charming" exactly but I'll always remember the last Lufthansa flight circling over Auckland to say goodbye after we closed our borders, and not knowing when they'd be back, but knowing it was the right thing to do
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Post-acute COVID is also now the leading chronic illness in kids. Vinay Prasad thinks they’re all “lying fake disease grifters.” www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-i...
ANSWERED: Is COVID-19 Harmful to Children?
A Compilation of Peer-Reviewed Medical Research
www.panaccindex.info
November 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Post-acute COVID is also now the leading chronic illness in kids. Vinay Prasad thinks they’re all “lying fake disease grifters.” www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-i...
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I have long not been a Prasad fan. He was a practicing oncologist who mocked people for masking. I'm not surprised, but infuriated.
November 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I have long not been a Prasad fan. He was a practicing oncologist who mocked people for masking. I'm not surprised, but infuriated.
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I think it's bad that all countries aren't doing more to push to get kids vaccinated. But Vinay Prasad allegedly going to tighten vaccine restrictions while claiming without evidence that 10 kids died from Covid vax is monstrous. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Blaming some child deaths on covid shots, FDA vows stricter vaccine rules
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I think it's bad that all countries aren't doing more to push to get kids vaccinated. But Vinay Prasad allegedly going to tighten vaccine restrictions while claiming without evidence that 10 kids died from Covid vax is monstrous. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Obviously babies younger than six months can't be vaccinated. But if you're a plan of a baby six months or older....please get them vaccinated.
November 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Obviously babies younger than six months can't be vaccinated. But if you're a plan of a baby six months or older....please get them vaccinated.
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Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.
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A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE
Activists are targeting the reputations of Home Depot, AT&T, and other businesses.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Also, they can ask what's happened with this?
How dare they pretend to support food banks while declining food grants and pulling funding.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-...
How dare they pretend to support food banks while declining food grants and pulling funding.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-...
'Madness': Auckland foodbanks face closure as govt funding to stop
'Hundreds of thousands rely on us for food. I'm worried about the future' - City Mission.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Also, they can ask what's happened with this?
How dare they pretend to support food banks while declining food grants and pulling funding.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-...
How dare they pretend to support food banks while declining food grants and pulling funding.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-...
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Bleugh. She's a walking page of talking points. Her billboards and ads everywhere in Tamaki really get my goat. I just hope I have someone to vote for next year. National aren't interested and Labour seem to think Epsom and Tamaki are a lost cause.
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Bleugh. She's a walking page of talking points. Her billboards and ads everywhere in Tamaki really get my goat. I just hope I have someone to vote for next year. National aren't interested and Labour seem to think Epsom and Tamaki are a lost cause.
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In case anyone would like to go ask some hard questions about why so many more people need foodbanks and can't afford to buy food now than before Brooke and gang? #nzpol
www.brookevanvelden.nz/christmas_co...
www.brookevanvelden.nz/christmas_co...
Christmas Community Meeting supporting the Glenn Innes Food Bank
Change for the Better
www.brookevanvelden.nz
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
In case anyone would like to go ask some hard questions about why so many more people need foodbanks and can't afford to buy food now than before Brooke and gang? #nzpol
www.brookevanvelden.nz/christmas_co...
www.brookevanvelden.nz/christmas_co...
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In case anyone would like to go ask some hard questions about why so many more people need foodbanks and can't afford to buy food now than before Brooke and gang? #nzpol
www.brookevanvelden.nz/christmas_co...
www.brookevanvelden.nz/christmas_co...
Christmas Community Meeting supporting the Glenn Innes Food Bank
Change for the Better
www.brookevanvelden.nz
November 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Imagine if instead of providing their volunteer labour, they donated their and their entourage's wage for that time.
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Imagine if instead of providing their volunteer labour, they donated their and their entourage's wage for that time.
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Yeah, of all the things politicians do for a bit of friendly media coverage, the food banks and Christmas boxes and similar just feel offensive.
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Yeah, of all the things politicians do for a bit of friendly media coverage, the food banks and Christmas boxes and similar just feel offensive.
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So the guy that could actually just change things so that not so many people needed these Christmas boxes....helped pack them?
Over 35,000 Christmas Boxes packed this year as Kiwis struggle with cost of living
Over 35,000 Christmas Boxes packed this year as Kiwis struggle with cost of living
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, former All Blacks Pita Alatini and Eroni Clark, and MasterChef judge Michael Dearth joined around 2500 other volunteers to pack the boxes.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
So the guy that could actually just change things so that not so many people needed these Christmas boxes....helped pack them?
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Calamitous coalition of cunty chaos Chris crisis coup collapse comedy currently causing chuckles.😯
Crikey!🤪🤣
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
Crikey!🤪🤣
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
November 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Calamitous coalition of cunty chaos Chris crisis coup collapse comedy currently causing chuckles.😯
Crikey!🤪🤣
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
Crikey!🤪🤣
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
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This is my basic conclusion too. There's a fluff piece on Bishop in Newsroom and there's a piece saying he tried to roll Luxo and was outwitted and there's some waffling from Peter Dunne, and none of these things add up to anything definitive. But they (weirdly) exist. Why do they exist #nzpol
But there are Known Knowns.
We know there are rumours.
We know people in National are spreading them & discussing them with journos.
We know Bishop has been accused of being behind it, & that some in National want us to think it's all over and Luxon rinsed him.
These are Known. Not much else is.
We know there are rumours.
We know people in National are spreading them & discussing them with journos.
We know Bishop has been accused of being behind it, & that some in National want us to think it's all over and Luxon rinsed him.
These are Known. Not much else is.
November 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This is my basic conclusion too. There's a fluff piece on Bishop in Newsroom and there's a piece saying he tried to roll Luxo and was outwitted and there's some waffling from Peter Dunne, and none of these things add up to anything definitive. But they (weirdly) exist. Why do they exist #nzpol
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What's a charming memory you have from the worst period of the pandemic?
November 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
What's a charming memory you have from the worst period of the pandemic?
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Its not just this particular administration. Biden was the same, nz labour was the same, governments worldwide did the same and decided that eugenics is actually fine after all (not that eugenics ever stopped, its only ramped up since the pandemic started)
November 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Its not just this particular administration. Biden was the same, nz labour was the same, governments worldwide did the same and decided that eugenics is actually fine after all (not that eugenics ever stopped, its only ramped up since the pandemic started)
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This is a really important point. The malaise and fatigue, concentration and memory issues especially. Depression. Exhaustion.
And in a society being driven by, uh, this administration, the volume of depression isn't being alleviated.
And in a society being driven by, uh, this administration, the volume of depression isn't being alleviated.
November 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
This is a really important point. The malaise and fatigue, concentration and memory issues especially. Depression. Exhaustion.
And in a society being driven by, uh, this administration, the volume of depression isn't being alleviated.
And in a society being driven by, uh, this administration, the volume of depression isn't being alleviated.
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Yes. Nonsensical & Stupid! -& this:
Like so may things this #Neoliberal #AtlasNetwork #austerity Govt has done, there's something deeply “off” about the way the NZ Government is trying to re-wire its controversial #FastTrack Approvals Act.
open.substack.com/pub/theinteg...
Like so may things this #Neoliberal #AtlasNetwork #austerity Govt has done, there's something deeply “off” about the way the NZ Government is trying to re-wire its controversial #FastTrack Approvals Act.
open.substack.com/pub/theinteg...
Democracy Briefing: Sneaking in turbocharged Muldoonist powers to the Fast Track Act
There’s something deeply off about the way the Government is trying to re‑wire its controversial Fast Track Approvals Act.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Yes. Nonsensical & Stupid! -& this:
Like so may things this #Neoliberal #AtlasNetwork #austerity Govt has done, there's something deeply “off” about the way the NZ Government is trying to re-wire its controversial #FastTrack Approvals Act.
open.substack.com/pub/theinteg...
Like so may things this #Neoliberal #AtlasNetwork #austerity Govt has done, there's something deeply “off” about the way the NZ Government is trying to re-wire its controversial #FastTrack Approvals Act.
open.substack.com/pub/theinteg...
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"We recognise the concern about the environmental and infrastructure impacts caused by wet wipes, but our approach is to focus on practical, evidence-based solutions, rather than blanket bans" - Minister for the Environment,Penny Simmonds
They clog pipes. What more evidence does she need?
(1)
They clog pipes. What more evidence does she need?
(1)
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 AM
"We recognise the concern about the environmental and infrastructure impacts caused by wet wipes, but our approach is to focus on practical, evidence-based solutions, rather than blanket bans" - Minister for the Environment,Penny Simmonds
They clog pipes. What more evidence does she need?
(1)
They clog pipes. What more evidence does she need?
(1)
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The only "evidence" these Coalition fools respect is when voters finally get a gutsful and vote them out.
Something as simple as this and they are incapable of acting rationally.
Idiots,the lot of them.
(2/2)
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Something as simple as this and they are incapable of acting rationally.
Idiots,the lot of them.
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www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
UK bans wet wipes containing plastics, but NZ won't, government says
The UK is banning the sale and supply of wet wipes containing plastics, a huge cause of pollution and sewer blockages.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The only "evidence" these Coalition fools respect is when voters finally get a gutsful and vote them out.
Something as simple as this and they are incapable of acting rationally.
Idiots,the lot of them.
(2/2)
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Something as simple as this and they are incapable of acting rationally.
Idiots,the lot of them.
(2/2)
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Met a shockingly flexible old lady today.
Her name is Baba Yoga.
Her name is Baba Yoga.
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Met a shockingly flexible old lady today.
Her name is Baba Yoga.
Her name is Baba Yoga.