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The perfect dinner guest. DJ, writer, te Tiriti beginner, SJW, cycle criminal, flâneur extraordinaire, Olympian, community advocate. Born at 317ppm
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In other news, Police are searching for the artist who painted a tunnel and the Roadrunner on the side of a bridge. One unlucky driver said "it's very realistic."

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Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – why you should quit your job to make the world a better place

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Brilliant story on Vienna’s approach to housing (social housing on steroids with design competitions rewarding those with Green solutions), and how local govt is leading the way in the US even as Trump pulls back. www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

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As a candidate for local govt in Maungawhau subdivision of Albert-Eden - one of the oldest areas of the city - this particularly resonates with me. The “But Council Inefficiency and Waste” mantra drowns out any reasoned debate that inevitably ends with this realisation

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Anti-ICE battles turning into potential massacres by police forces.

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History never repeats, but it does rhyme…

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See a doc, post a doc

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"Wellington City Council spokesperson Richard MacLean said "it would be nice if the people involved would just grow up and stop being dicks"." PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA RESPONSE OF THE YEAR

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

#nzpol Senior National MP Chris Bishop - drunk, mouthy, uncouth and racist at NZ Music awards last night - 😬 what a POS -

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Hey, hey it's Monday that wonderful day of the week where we celebrate all the small to big wins with everything in between. Mine is that my new boiler system was installed at the pool & we are now back up and running after a stressful 3 weeks. What's yours?

submitted 21 days ago • 16 comments

Robbing Paula to pay Peter.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Not that I'm trying to depress you, but more people need to understand what's happening...it's really not good... qr.ae/pAbEr6

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Never forget: NZ Govts for 50 years have bought into an economic management model that relies on keeping a bufferstock of kiwis unemployed & desperate. Jobs are kept scarce, so that kiwis sell their labour at poverty-wage prices. If unemployment is too low, Govt's henchmen at RBNZ crash the economy.

submitted 36 days ago • 17 comments

“I’m here to make our laws better”, says van Velden. @NZNationalParty and @actparty are complicit. If that’s the case, why pass under urgency, so far Bill could be examined and refined. She’s rationalising betrayal of women.

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Helen Mirren is delightfully evil in Mobland.

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I write emails etc etc #nzpol

submitted 40 days ago • 18 comments

Dog is currently trying to figure out how to fit in the cat bed…

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The good people behind the flu tracker study are searching for new participants, particularly young ones. It takes about two minutes once a week to tell them whether you've had the snuffles or COVID or anything in between. Easy as, plus you're helping SCIENCE. www.flutracking.net/Join/NZ/inv2...

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Ffs.🤦‍♂️

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Amazing thread on the reality of govt and private debt. Eye-opening.

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As we head into the budget silly season of tenuous truths and gotchas, it is worth reflecting on why we obsess so much about the Govt bit of the NZ balance sheet. I mean, look at it, it's *tiny* (and in the black). [1/n]

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