Simon Britten for Papanui
@thinkpapanui.bsky.social
Christchurch City Council candidate for Papanui. Second term Deputy Chair, Waipapa Community Board. Founder & curator of Think Papanui.
Authorised by Paul McMahon [email protected].
Authorised by Paul McMahon [email protected].
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I’m trying this:
I’ve set up a Ko-Fi account & will be choosing a supporter at random to ‘win’ my girl (& future pieces). Any donations of $25 or more from now till 10am Monday 19th Jan could have her. PLEASE share widely & often 💗🫶🏼. #nzpol #Kikorangi
ko-fi.com/ciaraaxstitch
I’ve set up a Ko-Fi account & will be choosing a supporter at random to ‘win’ my girl (& future pieces). Any donations of $25 or more from now till 10am Monday 19th Jan could have her. PLEASE share widely & often 💗🫶🏼. #nzpol #Kikorangi
ko-fi.com/ciaraaxstitch
January 10, 2026 at 6:33 PM
I’m trying this:
I’ve set up a Ko-Fi account & will be choosing a supporter at random to ‘win’ my girl (& future pieces). Any donations of $25 or more from now till 10am Monday 19th Jan could have her. PLEASE share widely & often 💗🫶🏼. #nzpol #Kikorangi
ko-fi.com/ciaraaxstitch
I’ve set up a Ko-Fi account & will be choosing a supporter at random to ‘win’ my girl (& future pieces). Any donations of $25 or more from now till 10am Monday 19th Jan could have her. PLEASE share widely & often 💗🫶🏼. #nzpol #Kikorangi
ko-fi.com/ciaraaxstitch
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Another article in @thepress.co.nz today covering our cycleway network, great to see we are being recognised for our efforts in Christchurch!
January 9, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Another article in @thepress.co.nz today covering our cycleway network, great to see we are being recognised for our efforts in Christchurch!
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I never agreed to Luxon working from home. Get back to the office bro.
January 8, 2026 at 1:39 AM
I never agreed to Luxon working from home. Get back to the office bro.
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Hey NZ news outlets, would you like to demonstrate some journalistic intentions? How about an article headlined "Where is the Prime Minister?" with the byline "The world is on fire and nobody in government is answering the phone."
Or do we only dig into parties on the left?
#nzpol
Or do we only dig into parties on the left?
#nzpol
January 7, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Hey NZ news outlets, would you like to demonstrate some journalistic intentions? How about an article headlined "Where is the Prime Minister?" with the byline "The world is on fire and nobody in government is answering the phone."
Or do we only dig into parties on the left?
#nzpol
Or do we only dig into parties on the left?
#nzpol
"Critics have already written thoroughly about the environmental harms, the reinforcement of bias and generation of racist output, the cognitive harms and AI supported suicides, the problems with consent and copyright, the way AI tech companies further the patterns of empire, how it’s a con..."
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
December 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Critics have already written thoroughly about the environmental harms, the reinforcement of bias and generation of racist output, the cognitive harms and AI supported suicides, the problems with consent and copyright, the way AI tech companies further the patterns of empire, how it’s a con..."
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This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids
These people definitely understand how tough it is for everyone right now.
December 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
These people definitely understand how tough it is for everyone right now.
The Government of strong fiscal management has spent $150k removing just two hundred (200) road cones. Well done.
$750 per road cone removed. The Taxpayer's Onion should be all over this colossal waste.
"In October, Stuff revealed the hotline only led to about 200 cones being removed - despite receiving upwards of 800 complaints ... In total Work Safe spent about
$150,000 on its Road Cone Hotline"
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
$150,000 on its Road Cone Hotline"
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
December 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The Government of strong fiscal management has spent $150k removing just two hundred (200) road cones. Well done.
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I've been doing a bunch of media about Australia's social media ban for under 16s this week.
NZ looks likely to follow.
Before we copy-paste a ban, here’s what actually matters (imo) 👇
#nzpol
NZ looks likely to follow.
Before we copy-paste a ban, here’s what actually matters (imo) 👇
#nzpol
December 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I've been doing a bunch of media about Australia's social media ban for under 16s this week.
NZ looks likely to follow.
Before we copy-paste a ban, here’s what actually matters (imo) 👇
#nzpol
NZ looks likely to follow.
Before we copy-paste a ban, here’s what actually matters (imo) 👇
#nzpol
"...looking through live jobs, to see whether an aerial presence can be of use... No other jobs were forthcoming."
Other concerns aside, what's the climate impact of helicopter-based overpolicing of our suburbia?
Other concerns aside, what's the climate impact of helicopter-based overpolicing of our suburbia?
The Police helicopters are an obscene waste of money and a net negative for society: most of the noise and disruption is in pursuit of petty things like "someone saw a light turn on in a house" (a real example). Flight hours are pre-purchased use-it-or-lose-it. So they use them for dumb shit.
After being thwarted, the police helicopter continued to circle, “looking for other opportunities to add value”.
December 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
"...looking through live jobs, to see whether an aerial presence can be of use... No other jobs were forthcoming."
Other concerns aside, what's the climate impact of helicopter-based overpolicing of our suburbia?
Other concerns aside, what's the climate impact of helicopter-based overpolicing of our suburbia?
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The NZ Govt is doing everything it can to obstruct climate action domestically and globally. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Government rejects all of Climate Change Commission's emissions target recommendations
It comes despite a Climate Change Commission warning that New Zealand is being hit sooner and more severely than expected.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The NZ Govt is doing everything it can to obstruct climate action domestically and globally. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Important thing to remember in this rates cap beat-up by the government: the very same government is a freeloader, because it’s exempted itself from paying rates at all
#nzpol
#nzpol
📢 Wayne Brown has taken aim at the policy, suggesting the government could start paying rates on its own properties to help fund projects like the City Rail Link.
Auckland mayor hits out at government's rates cap, says it could impact City Rail Link
www.rnz.co.nz
December 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Important thing to remember in this rates cap beat-up by the government: the very same government is a freeloader, because it’s exempted itself from paying rates at all
#nzpol
#nzpol
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the CoC has swung for the fences, disregarded criticism, and just plain got on with implementing their vision.
experts? fuck 'em!
public opinion? aint got time for it!
damn the torpedoes, start smashing foundations.
the left bloc needs to bring that same energy to fix it all
experts? fuck 'em!
public opinion? aint got time for it!
damn the torpedoes, start smashing foundations.
the left bloc needs to bring that same energy to fix it all
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
the CoC has swung for the fences, disregarded criticism, and just plain got on with implementing their vision.
experts? fuck 'em!
public opinion? aint got time for it!
damn the torpedoes, start smashing foundations.
the left bloc needs to bring that same energy to fix it all
experts? fuck 'em!
public opinion? aint got time for it!
damn the torpedoes, start smashing foundations.
the left bloc needs to bring that same energy to fix it all
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In a way it's kind of funny that the govt thinks it's ok to just, immediately after local body elections, announce that the regional govts we voted for are for the chop, and the people we elected as city and district mayors are going to have different jobs to the one we just voted them into.
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
In a way it's kind of funny that the govt thinks it's ok to just, immediately after local body elections, announce that the regional govts we voted for are for the chop, and the people we elected as city and district mayors are going to have different jobs to the one we just voted them into.
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So ... the government just forced us all to have referendums on *existing* Māori wards because Local Communities Deserve Choice, but now they're unilaterally abolishing our regional councils because they don't like the Choices we made?
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 AM
So ... the government just forced us all to have referendums on *existing* Māori wards because Local Communities Deserve Choice, but now they're unilaterally abolishing our regional councils because they don't like the Choices we made?
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Puberty blockers are safe and proven - the THIRD PARAGRAPH acknowledges that children WILL still be prescribed them, just not if they're trans
This is an attack on trans children, full stop
This government does not care about children, full stop
This is an attack on trans children, full stop
This government does not care about children, full stop
The Government is banning new patients from being prescribed the most common form of puberty blocker and is explicitly aligning NZ's future policy on this matter to the UK's. PR below.
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Puberty blockers are safe and proven - the THIRD PARAGRAPH acknowledges that children WILL still be prescribed them, just not if they're trans
This is an attack on trans children, full stop
This government does not care about children, full stop
This is an attack on trans children, full stop
This government does not care about children, full stop
🩵💗🤍💗🩵
1. New Zealand's right-wing govt has banned new prescriptions of puberty blockers in a major concession to its far-right flank.
The move was to be announced by the health minister, but the far-right NZ First preempted it, calling it a "win in the war on woke."
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The move was to be announced by the health minister, but the far-right NZ First preempted it, calling it a "win in the war on woke."
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NZ Right-Wing Government Bans Puberty Blockers: "Sacrificing A Generation Of Trans Youth"
The far-right coalition partner NZ First took a victory lap, calling the decision a "win in the war on woke."
www.erininthemorning.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🩵💗🤍💗🩵
Oh my!
yeah sorry you have to sleep on the streets and don't have a house for your family, some politician needed a bridge in his electorate, his own govt was against, so took your social housing money to pay for it.
#nzpol
#nzpol
November 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Oh my!
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#nzpol
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
#nzpol
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
If every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets, what does it mean that we're getting this 👇 and also the tens of thousands of false/erroneous breath tests?
Disappointed to hear the new Police Commissioner say on RNZ this morning that it was a failure of leadership and not systematic. Those 'leaders' were created by the system. Women needed to hear recognition that it could be systematic and a determination to investigate and deal with that.
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets, what does it mean that we're getting this 👇 and also the tens of thousands of false/erroneous breath tests?
Richard nails it here:
Love how National proudly opposed the Treaty Principles Bill, and wore it like a badge of honour.
Then basically rolled it out anyways. They’re dismantling and removing anything that honours the treaty, and undermining Māori.
Without consultation too like yesterday.
Depressing.
Then basically rolled it out anyways. They’re dismantling and removing anything that honours the treaty, and undermining Māori.
Without consultation too like yesterday.
Depressing.
November 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Richard nails it here:
There's a Red wind warning for Christchurch and the Canterbury Plains tomorrow ‐ fasten your trampoline, and limit travel.
🔺 Red Warnings in force for dangerous northwest winds on Thursday 🔺
Get the most up to date information here: metservice.com/warnings/home
Those in Red Warning areas should limit travel if possible, prepare for power outages and make sure that trampoline is tied down.
Get the most up to date information here: metservice.com/warnings/home
Those in Red Warning areas should limit travel if possible, prepare for power outages and make sure that trampoline is tied down.
October 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
There's a Red wind warning for Christchurch and the Canterbury Plains tomorrow ‐ fasten your trampoline, and limit travel.
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Every "Christchurch is cool now" article is illustrated with a photo of a pedestrianised street with a tram, meanwhile every local election the discourse is like "rip out the cycle lanes, then turn the botantic gardens into a car park? It's worth a least considering"
www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...
Once branded the world's unluckiest city, Christchurch is now the 'capital of cool'
Our second biggest city is experiencing the type of revival that should make the rest of New Zealand envious.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Every "Christchurch is cool now" article is illustrated with a photo of a pedestrianised street with a tram, meanwhile every local election the discourse is like "rip out the cycle lanes, then turn the botantic gardens into a car park? It's worth a least considering"
www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...
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It’s amazing to me that the Covid period was less damaging to jobs than the current economic policies.
#nzpol
#nzpol
Here's the job ads online index - adjusted for working-age population. Good news is that we've stopped falling. Bad news: we're back to 2012 - a low point in the economic cycle. We are facing years of stagnation / slow recovery without some kind of large, strategic intervention. [2/3]
October 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It’s amazing to me that the Covid period was less damaging to jobs than the current economic policies.
#nzpol
#nzpol