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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...

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It’s curious that the people that insisted SCOTUS would never overturn Roe v Wade and abortion rights advocates claiming otherwise were alarmists, are now the same people insisting that LGBTIQ activists’ legal strategies have been too “aggressive” in advocating for the rights of transgender people.

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I just think sea slugs are neat 💕

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This is the way.

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Reading a Big Number xkcd.com/3102/

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This guy espouses "white genocide" theory and popularised using "groomer" to describe members of rainbow communities

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The party that campaigned on "one person, one vote" just made it so they can ignore your vote.

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Mood

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If enshittification was a person it would be David Seymour.. #nzpol

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Have a sleepy Merlin #cats

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1/5 The Regulatory Standards Bill looks to change the way our Government makes laws. It’s an ACT Party Bill, built on ACT Party values. Once again, a minor party is making major decisions for this Government.

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The funniest thing about this was the guy from the Employers & Manufacturers Association on Morning Report saying they weren't focused on removing existing entitlements, and while sick leave entitlements have doubled, actual use has only risen from just under 5 to just over 6 days per year

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last week RNZ published a story about alex, a 17-year trans teen who tragically died, alone, in 2023. the piece erased both his identity, and story. i know this because i have 6000 messages he posted online in the two years leading up to his death. please RT, for alex: www.webworm.co/p/lifeanddea...

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The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

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Farewell to the great Maurice Gee. His novels go on looking clearly at the world and introducing us to ourselves. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

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Ah, I see we're at the "Put metrics back into the health system without any increase in funding to achieve the goals" stage of this National government. #nzpol

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We’re living in the Dairy Isle, though you’d be forgiven for thinking dairy products were some exclusive import. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol

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God those Damien Grant columns are so stupid. This week: half of it is a waffling story, the other half is "but if we tax the wealthy they can't invest it in stuff!".

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Good morning everyone! It is officially TWO WHOLE YEARS since Sex Self-ID became available in Aotearoa New Zealand! And not a single person has been harmed, bothered, or inconvenienced by it. TERFs are all big fat losers and liars.

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lmao get her

submitted 8 days ago • 148 comments

Anyone in NZ shocked that an US senator gets detained should not forget that ACT MP Parmjeet Parmar asked for imprisonment of @tepaatimaori.bsky.social MPs too: www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... Democracy is vulnerable and must be protected! #nzpol

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Politicians in NZ, on both sides of the house, that go on this radio station to get interviewed by the unethical Sean Plunket are putting their support behind this and his other egregious behaviour. #NZpol

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Reducing work safety standards will increase ACC claims/payouts, according to ACC #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

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One element of the Dragon Age story that I want to emphasize: If the team had known in 2021 (after the single-player pivot) that they'd ship in Oct 2024, it'd be a much different game. Instead they were always under the impression they had to finish in 6-12 months, which led to all sorts of problems

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

I told you we’d be back

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Recent mood, honestly.

submitted 67 days ago • 6 comments

yo you should read my books, if The Locked Tomb is a goth girl they're her punk friend who reeks of tobacco www.simonandschuster.com/series/The-E...

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1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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I feel like this is a worthy song to be listening to today youtu.be/Ch84fmOa414?...

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Curia poll targeting National voters found that 100% of New Zealanders intend to vote National at the coming election, Farrar adamant about accuracy of poll

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The immediate response to NZ placing sanctions on two Israeli ministers is "Why don't you sanction Hamas?". Fun fact: Hamas is already defined as a terrorist organisation by New Zealand, a few lines under the Proud Boys and above the Houthis and Hizbollah.

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