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Peter Ashford
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Software engineer. Dad. Ex game-dev.
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julieannewingate.bsky.social
Amen !
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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nzjanette.bsky.social
The article says he doesn't have name suppression any more, but they're still not naming him for 'legal reasons'. What does that mean?
#nzpol
nzpom.com PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 1d
IT'S TIM JAGO, EVERYONE KNOWS IT IS🤦‍♂️

Any proper journalists want to hammer Seymour on why they fought for name suppression FOR YEARS in the run up to the election?
#nzpol
Well-known figure pleads not guilty to indecent assault charge from three decades ago
The well-known figure has denied a charge of indecent assault and sought a trial by jury.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
peterashford.bsky.social
#tvnz making it clear that the only "issue" they are going to talk about with Labour is TPM.
Double standards as usual - they didn't make interviews with National MPs about Act/NZF weirdness leading up to the last election. #nzpol
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
👇👇
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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gillmartin.bsky.social
Be like Finland, and have no 'poorly educated '

#education #understanding #criticalthinking #trumplovesthepoorlyeducated
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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domesticanimal.bsky.social
The govt is considering banning homeless people and rough sleepers in city centres.
My Stuff #cartoon today #homelessness #poverty #homeless
Cartoon. Title: Homeless Help. Image shows PM Christopher Luxon and helper Chris Bishop wearing maid’s aprons and sweeping the homeless from Auckland’s CBD under a rug with “SUBURBS” written on it. Chris Bishop is saying “Move on”, which is the name of the “tool” they will give police to “deal” with rough sleepers.
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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etangata.bsky.social
“What is clear from He Whakaputanga is that there was never a ceding of any kind of sovereignty to Britain. Not then, nor five years later, when Te Tiriti was signed at Waitangi.” — Catherine Delahunty.
Towards He Whakaputanga | E-Tangata
“What is clear from He Whakaputanga is that there was never a ceding of any kind of sovereignty to Britain. Not then, nor five years later, when Te Tiriti was signed at Waitangi.” — Catherine Delahunt...
e-tangata.co.nz
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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jennykaynz.bsky.social
Disappointed #NZQandA gave time to representative from USA libertarian Cato Institute. The Cato Institute opposes minimum wage laws, child labour prohibitions, public sector unions, universal health care, and #ClimateAction. Ideas like ACT's Brooke Van Velden
#NZpol
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Cato Institute - Wikipedia
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November 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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feralcommie.bsky.social
The Israelis are never going to withdraw further than the yellow line, they will leave the 2 million people boxed up in the rubble and filth stretching from Khan Yunis to Gaza City and just tell them "you can leave whenever you like"
No economy, no life
The concentration camp just got a lot smaller
A map of the gaza strip showing the yellow line where israel still controls half the land
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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robincapper.bsky.social
Another Denniston

“It’s not even like uranium or nuclear waste that has a half-life,” said Joy. “These tailings are dangerous forever.”
Freshwater ecologist Dr Mike Joy | Newsroom

www.robincapper.net/say-no-to-mi...
SAY NO to mining Denniston Plateau
Save Denniston Plateau, it's too precious to dig
www.robincapper.net
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
peterashford.bsky.social
So pleased to see Q+A giving a platform to the right wing Cato Institute #nzpol
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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leftistlawyer.com
They knew. They knew it was genocide. And they helped Israel do it anyway.

www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
Biden Discussed Potential Israeli War Crimes In Gaza. He Kicked The Can To Trump.
New intelligence shocked officials in late 2024, spurring heightened fear of U.S. liability, HuffPost has learned. The period saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken ask if Israel’s actions constituted ...
www.huffpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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morbidhegel.bsky.social
Mamdani has shown considerable self-control in the face of some quite horrific tantrums.

Self-control imo is the quality modern masculinity is most sorely in need of.
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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flaneuse1.bsky.social
This is beyond horrendous - it simply cannot be allowed to happen.

"The mine would have a 1km long processing plant where rock was crushed, and gold extracted using up to 1900kg of cyanide a day."

#nzpol

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
The Press
www.thepress.co.nz
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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requiemarm.bsky.social
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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foxylustygrover.bsky.social
While tourists dine under stars, the homeless sleep under them

Andrea Vance
November 9, 2025

Vance at her perfectly cynical but utterly empathetic best #NZPol
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Opinion Auckland Culture Sport Puzzles Sunday Star-Times Regions While tourists dine under stars, the homeless sleep under them Andrea Vance Andrea Vance November 9, 2025 Share Play Video 1:45 Christopher Luxon makes promise about homeless in CBD VIDEO CREDIT: David White Andrea Vance is National Affairs Editor for The Post and Sunday Star-Times. OPINION: It’s the poverty, stupid. And yet the Government seems oblivious - perhaps wilfully so - to why more people are sleeping rough. Auckland’s rough sleeper numbers have doubled in six months. The same pattern is emerging in Christchurch and Wellington. It’s no mystery, nor is it a law-and-order problem. Try a collapsing economy, policies that make it harder to get emergency accommodation, a housing system that punishes the poor while rewarding investors, overwhelmed food banks and mental health failures. The problem isn’t anti-social behaviour - it’s that people can’t afford homes. And yet. This Government’s solution is to move the symptoms out of sight. Ministers are mulling ways to move on rough sleepers from Auckland’s city centre. Property owner, landlord and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon thinks the streets look bedraggled and with the City Rail Link and the convention centre about to open, he needs the city to “look its best.” At the same time, Tourism New Zealand is spending $6.3 million to bring the Michelin Guide to Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. Officials think the gourmet stars will light up the economy by drawing an estimated 36,000 high-spending tourists to our shores. The government is moving fast: clearing the slums for the sommeliers. Last week, Police Minister Mark Mitchell and Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith confirmed work is under way to empower law enforcement – police, Māori Wardens, or other agents – to ask homeless people to move on from public spaces. Luxon insisted no Cabinet decisions have been made. But Mitchell, caught letting the cat out of the bag, confirmed that Goldsmith is drafting a bill with input from a retail advisory group. That group isn’t dominated by social workers or housing advocates; rather dairy owners, liquor store operators, Michael Hill managers, and lobbyists Retail NZ. Mitchell says the aim is to take them to a place of safety. But funding cuts means that place doesn’t exist. Emergency housing is full and mental health and addiction services are stretched. I get the political calculation. A move on law is easy to sell: a tidy fix to make inner cities feel safer and more orderly, with just enough punitive scapegoat-ery to satisfy the base. It’s the kind of cheap idea governments turn too when they’ve run out of them. Like the policy that kicks in this month, targeting young people, the very demographic hardest hit by unemployment. From November 2026, many 18-and 19-year-olds will be ineligible for Jobseeker Support if their parents earn above $65,529 a year. It’s meant to incentivise them to find work, despite youth unemployment hitting 15.2% and the NEET rate rising to 13.8%. The policy could affect over 4,000 teenagers. The logic is perverse. The Government punishes young people for being unemployed while presiding over an economy that cannot generate enough full-time work. Meanwhile, rents – at least on paper – are finally softening. (Although, Median weekly rents remain eye-watering: $650 in Auckland, $567 in Wellington, $532 in Christchurch.) But rents aren’t falling isn’t because we’re all suddenly feeling flush. It’s largely a result of young people leaving cities, a cooling rental market, and slow wage growth. Even with tiny dips, the vast majority of people struggling to find shelter cannot suddenly afford a home.
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
This is a good article, worth reading.

Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?

The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.

Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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thedailyshow.com
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Saturday plans:
🖼️ Kristina Kemenikova
An illustration by Kristina Kemenikova depicting a cosy scene both above and below ground. Above ground: A large, brown, dried leaf stands in the center, resembling a tree. A small birdhouse is attached to its stem, and several small birds are perched on the leaf and flying in the grey sky. Tall, dry grasses and other plants surround the central leaf. A small black stovepipe with smoke coming out of it extends from the ground. Below ground: A cross-section reveals a small, circular burrow. Inside, a mouse in a red sweater is sitting in a red chair, holding a cup. A small white stove with a teapot on top is to its right. A basket of food is hanging from the ceiling, and a lamp provides light. The mouse appears to be relaxing in a warm, comfortable home.
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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kiwichar.bsky.social
“Wow I can't believe that 40 years of maximizing shareholder value at the expense of everything else didn't improve society at all.”
🤷‍♀️ #nzpol
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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kojamf.bsky.social
Luna and Lucifer
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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#NZPOL
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Disabled Kiwis ‘abandoned and betrayed’ a year after funding cuts
Many are struggling mentally, financially and physically - unable to get funding for basics like carers or incontinence pads.
www.thepress.co.nz
November 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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ramiismail.com
If you're tired of hearing about Israeli terrorism and war crimes and human rights violations and apartheid and genocide, imagine how tired the Palestinians are of suffering them.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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ninametz.bsky.social
Companies have found employees can be just as productive when working remotely. And they’re happier too.

Imagine!
Companies have found employees can be just as productive when working remotely. And they’re happier too.
Employers are perfecting their flexible work arrangements. They’re making in-person time strategic and ensuring new employees don’t feel isolated.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM