Anneleise
@anneleise.bsky.social
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” she/her, systems thinker, writer, artist, Tangata Tiriti AnneleiseHall@mastodon.nz
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Blog: https://diary-of-a-butterfly.ghost.io
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Anneleise
@anneleise.bsky.social
· Jan 26
The NZ government is moving fast to remake NZ's laws to enshrine corporate immunity as NZ sits on the biggest gold strike in a century and a stockpile of the most important mineral you've never heard of.
diary-of-a-butterfly.ghost.io/freedom-and-...
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It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
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Picts or it didn't happen.
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Picts or it didn't happen.
This. the system is broken. Labour got their historic majority under MMP because the electorate wants bold ideas. Candidates who will fight hard for democracy, human rights, equity, dignity, radical energy/conservation reforms and equality under the law will clean up, people are fed up. Bring it.
Coming up on another election where these are your options if you vote for either of the major parties
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This. the system is broken. Labour got their historic majority under MMP because the electorate wants bold ideas. Candidates who will fight hard for democracy, human rights, equity, dignity, radical energy/conservation reforms and equality under the law will clean up, people are fed up. Bring it.
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We need to use the real words. Epstein didn’t “like girls”. He raped them and marketed them to other men to rape them.
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We need to use the real words. Epstein didn’t “like girls”. He raped them and marketed them to other men to rape them.
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Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
We've gone from "financier" to "late convicted sex offender" as a descriptor for Jeffrey Epstein do you think the media get it yet???
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We've gone from "financier" to "late convicted sex offender" as a descriptor for Jeffrey Epstein do you think the media get it yet???
Coup. The word is coup.
There were 159,000 written submissions on the Regulatory Standards Bill (on top of over 23,000 submissions last year) - numbers that are second only to the Treaty Principles Bill in NZ’s history.
More than 98% of public submissions were opposed.
There’s a word for this, but it’s not democracy.
More than 98% of public submissions were opposed.
There’s a word for this, but it’s not democracy.
Controversial Regulatory Standards Bill passes third reading
The bill got the backing of the coalition parties
www.rnz.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Coup. The word is coup.
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Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
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Labour will repeal the Regulatory Standards bill.
November 13, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Labour will repeal the Regulatory Standards bill.
...👀
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
...👀
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Keep posting sky pictures, I like being reminded that we're all piles of carbon screaming through space on a rock and we're all just hanging on and hoping for the best.
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Keep posting sky pictures, I like being reminded that we're all piles of carbon screaming through space on a rock and we're all just hanging on and hoping for the best.
Feedback loops. This is why it's so important to take advice from expert public servants instead of partisan thinktanks pushing fascist right wing agendas. When you are not a systems thinker, or competent and qualified to be a finance minister you can fuck things up really badly, really quickly...
#nzpol Migration data from Stats NZ today with 72,700 New Zealand citizens leaving in the year to Sept 2025 – one every 7 minutes & 22 seconds. It’s improved marginally, but it's way behind where it should be on Treasury forecasts. That creates a $1bn tax gap against forecast. A 🧵
International migration: September 2025 | Stats NZ
Annual net migration had a provisional gain of 12,400 (± 1,500) in the September 2025 year, compared with a gain of 42,400 (± 200) in the September 2024 year.
www.stats.govt.nz
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Feedback loops. This is why it's so important to take advice from expert public servants instead of partisan thinktanks pushing fascist right wing agendas. When you are not a systems thinker, or competent and qualified to be a finance minister you can fuck things up really badly, really quickly...
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If anyone has any spare coins, or connections to people with big pockets - please note funding is needed to support this vital and deeply urgent cause:
www.tika.org.nz/donate
www.tika.org.nz/donate
Donate to Tika | Supporting Victims of Sexual Harm
Support Tika's free legal service helping New Zealanders affected by sexual harm access justice through collective action. Registered charity CC62989.
www.tika.org.nz
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
If anyone has any spare coins, or connections to people with big pockets - please note funding is needed to support this vital and deeply urgent cause:
www.tika.org.nz/donate
www.tika.org.nz/donate
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If you’re heartsick and furious at the consistent headlines and the lack of accountability across the board for NZ’s stats, please amplify and support Tika - an org that’s gearing up to do something about it, including the excellent @alisonmau.bsky.social.
Tika reps are on RNZ just after 9 today.
Tika reps are on RNZ just after 9 today.
About Us - Tika is taking collective action against sexual harm
Tika is New Zealand's first and only legal charity dedicated to taking action against sexual harm. We offer a safe, sophisticated and secure way for people to report incidents and seek justice through...
www.tika.org.nz
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If you’re heartsick and furious at the consistent headlines and the lack of accountability across the board for NZ’s stats, please amplify and support Tika - an org that’s gearing up to do something about it, including the excellent @alisonmau.bsky.social.
Tika reps are on RNZ just after 9 today.
Tika reps are on RNZ just after 9 today.
The internalised misogyny and moral integrity of the media matters. When leaders aren't held to account they learn what they can get away with. www.nzherald.co.nz/world/new-se...
New memoir claims Richard Nixon beat his wife
New memoir details claims on how Nixon beat his wife so badly she was sent to hospital.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The internalised misogyny and moral integrity of the media matters. When leaders aren't held to account they learn what they can get away with. www.nzherald.co.nz/world/new-se...
A+ use of this meme
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A+ use of this meme
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
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Righto, we had 50 years of state sanctioned child abuse, we had a former Minster of Immigration under investigation for sexual abuse of children, we have the former Act party pres. convicted of sexual abuse, we had a collection of top police men covering for sex offenders, we had cops making false
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Righto, we had 50 years of state sanctioned child abuse, we had a former Minster of Immigration under investigation for sexual abuse of children, we have the former Act party pres. convicted of sexual abuse, we had a collection of top police men covering for sex offenders, we had cops making false
is this just open looting?
Republicans have added a provision to the continuing resolution to allow the GOP Senators whose call logs were subpoenaed by Jack Smith to each collect $500K in taxpayer money. 🙄
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Thune secures provision in government funding bill letting senators sue for phone records seizure
The new legislative language is an escalation of the GOP’s efforts to discredit former special counsel Jack Smith.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
is this just open looting?