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ngai Aotearoa ahau | Ōtautahi resident | Retired | Was once an overland driver | Very annoyed at the CoC in AoNZ!!! Born at 315 ppm. I'm on the Puffball server!
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Happy World Albatross day! #worldalbatrossday

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Israel's Prime Minister may think no one will notice what he's doing in Gaza while he bombs Iran. People face starvation. 55,000 killed. Aid workers and doctors turned away at the border. Shooting at innocent people desperate for food. The world sees you, Benjamin Netanyahu.

submitted 3 hours ago • 72 comments

Earthling, heads up! I’ve used Te Ara among others for some research & for curiousity. Sources like these might be abolished. 😢 This is deeply malice from our government. #nzpol #history #government #nzhistory @vomalley.bsky.social have you see this, Mate? open.substack.com/pub/anuncomm...

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Libertarians don't just want to change laws, but encase them. The #RSB would "put them in a sealed case so that future governments can't change these laws... every future law has to be in line with David Seymour's principles." Max Harris Like me to do your sub? DM, or email: [email protected]

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David Seymour described smokers as “fiscal heroes” during a speech to a neoliberal thinktank in London this month: ““If you want to save your country’s balance sheet, light up, because … lots of excise tax, no pension.” Tobacco researchers are…unimpressed: newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/21/s...

submitted 3 hours ago • 19 comments

I do like Steve Braunias' satire. This was probably true though. newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/21/t...

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Auckland really needs to get the message on this one. There’s great swathes of this city where walking the streets in summer is an exercise in courting heat stroke and it’s only going to get worse.

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Christopher Luxon - smarter than the head of NATO. "dismissing suggestions [China] is working with Russia, Iran or North Korea to undermine the West - as alleged by NATO's top official." Or did Winnie tell him what to say? #nzpol

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Our acting Prime Minister. He continues to bully anyone who disagrees with the Bill, and to an extent putting them in danger. He is unfit to lead. Shame on him. Shame on this government. #nzpol

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

Aotearoa medical peeps: does any one know who can do a cast check? Does it have to be a nurse or doctor? Asking for a sibling who doesn't want to travel for a check tomorrow and is hoping the pharmacy can do it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Got some serious FOMO going on. Two of the great events of the NZ beer calendar on this weekend (Smith's NZ IPA Challenge and Moon Under Water Aotearoa Stout Challenge) and I'm at neither. Good luck to all the brewers.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

🔴Engineered Estrangement | An Interview with Cory Doctorow The author, activist, and technology critic Cory Doctorow on reckless broligarchs and what their 'enshittified' platforms are doing to our future www.bylinesupplement.com/p/engineered...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Brilliant idea!

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Missed this. Was uploaded yesterday. If you can stand Seymours "jokes", then this is worth a watch. Video (50mins) of Mr Seymour’s speech last week to the Adam Smith Institute. 1/2 #nzpol www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2rT...

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

You learn stuff on BlueSky. 1. Cheaper trade transactions for Africans (20-30% > 1%) 2. Pisses off DonOld. What's not to like?

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Recent unscientific research from the bottom of a crackerjack box has discovered asbestosis is actually caused by autistic people who’ve been infected with fluoride.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe, report says False claims are obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised www.theguardian.com/environment/... #climatecrisis

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Mānawatia a Matariki me Puaka! Hope you are having a wonderful New Year. Come along to Tūranga tomorrow Saturday 10am to 3pm for Whānau Fun and Wellbeing Day: Haumanu, hauora kia manawa tītī my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/matariki/ ^DR

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

This is really exciting - a new Substack by a team of very senior climate experts who collectively represent centuries (yes, really!) of experience in emissions, economics, health and more: @krisebi.bsky.social, Ben Santer, Gary Yohe, Henry Jacoby, Rich Richels & Bud Ward, all legends in our field.

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Ok Ōtepoti, catching the afternoon crowd. We’re probably a group of 5-7.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Wondering if we have piglets then why don’t we have doglets and catlets? Eh?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Great question ⬇️

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This is where Shane Jones wants to take us, Aotearoa New Zealand. And it is “one hundred percent preventable” How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Coal Country www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...

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With Bishop taking control of development planning, by overruling local elected bodies, and Seymour criticising local government decision making, where are the Groundswell / 15 minute city / non-centralised planning protests?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments