Baxtermack🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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It is I, Hamish Mack.
Break your back
To earn your pay
And don't forget
To grovel.
-The Clash
Break your back
To earn your pay
And don't forget
To grovel.
-The Clash
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You know how they want to “sell the silverware” because we are all living well beyond our means & apparently drowning in debt?
Yeah, BULLSHIT. It’s just another daylight robbery being plotted by some of the most corrupt politicians on earth. Don’t fall for it. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment
Yeah, BULLSHIT. It’s just another daylight robbery being plotted by some of the most corrupt politicians on earth. Don’t fall for it. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
You know how they want to “sell the silverware” because we are all living well beyond our means & apparently drowning in debt?
Yeah, BULLSHIT. It’s just another daylight robbery being plotted by some of the most corrupt politicians on earth. Don’t fall for it. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment
Yeah, BULLSHIT. It’s just another daylight robbery being plotted by some of the most corrupt politicians on earth. Don’t fall for it. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment
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Oh the government hasn't fixed the economy? You mean...
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Oh the government hasn't fixed the economy? You mean...
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This! All of this!!
"We should all be the same under the same law" they cry as if they're trying to maintain something and not start something.
Māori WEREN'T treated the same, under the same law, by that same institution, who had the idea to write out a treaty...
THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT.
#nzpol
"We should all be the same under the same law" they cry as if they're trying to maintain something and not start something.
Māori WEREN'T treated the same, under the same law, by that same institution, who had the idea to write out a treaty...
THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT.
#nzpol
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This! All of this!!
"We should all be the same under the same law" they cry as if they're trying to maintain something and not start something.
Māori WEREN'T treated the same, under the same law, by that same institution, who had the idea to write out a treaty...
THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT.
#nzpol
"We should all be the same under the same law" they cry as if they're trying to maintain something and not start something.
Māori WEREN'T treated the same, under the same law, by that same institution, who had the idea to write out a treaty...
THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT.
#nzpol
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The “Bootstraps” idiom was originally meant to refer to the literally impossible. It was co-opted.
Idiom Origin
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.
A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.
This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.
A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.
This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The “Bootstraps” idiom was originally meant to refer to the literally impossible. It was co-opted.
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For anyone passionate about The Huia or commuter rail, Waikato Regional Council are looking for feedback on the service. Open to anyone. Share it around #nzpol #transit #nz yourvoicematters.waikatoregion.govt.nz/future-of-te...
Future of Te Huia
The Te Huia passenger rail service has been operating between Waikato and Auckland since 2021. Whether you have travelled on Te Huia or not, we want to hear your thoughts about the service and what it...
yourvoicematters.waikatoregion.govt.nz
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
For anyone passionate about The Huia or commuter rail, Waikato Regional Council are looking for feedback on the service. Open to anyone. Share it around #nzpol #transit #nz yourvoicematters.waikatoregion.govt.nz/future-of-te...
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“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
#nzpol
#nzpol
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
#nzpol
#nzpol
The other thing is, that the US only had to elect Harris and none of this shite would be happening. Sainted Charlie Kirk might even still be alive. But she is younger, brown and female so that's just crazy talk, eh.
November 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The other thing is, that the US only had to elect Harris and none of this shite would be happening. Sainted Charlie Kirk might even still be alive. But she is younger, brown and female so that's just crazy talk, eh.
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So...is our Govt saying that the Cook Islands dishonored a Treaty?
Well isn't that Ironic.
#nzpol #cookislands
#TeTiritiOWaitangi
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zeala...
Well isn't that Ironic.
#nzpol #cookislands
#TeTiritiOWaitangi
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zeala...
'Breach of trust': NZ extends pause on Cook Islands payments
NZ$29.8m in funding remains on hold across two financial years.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So...is our Govt saying that the Cook Islands dishonored a Treaty?
Well isn't that Ironic.
#nzpol #cookislands
#TeTiritiOWaitangi
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zeala...
Well isn't that Ironic.
#nzpol #cookislands
#TeTiritiOWaitangi
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zeala...
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The regime knows they are going to lose the next election, so they're just spite-legislating now, smashing stuff and wrecking shit on their way out.
The faster we are rid of them, the better.
The faster we are rid of them, the better.
November 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The regime knows they are going to lose the next election, so they're just spite-legislating now, smashing stuff and wrecking shit on their way out.
The faster we are rid of them, the better.
The faster we are rid of them, the better.
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I caught some of RNZ Mediawatch this morning discussing lack of trust in NZ media.
The show lead-off featuring new Zealand's highest paid media opinionist (he himself has repeatedly declared he is NOT a journalist) Mike Hosking, decrying how biased & bad NZ media is.
YOU ARE MEDIA, fucknuckle!
The show lead-off featuring new Zealand's highest paid media opinionist (he himself has repeatedly declared he is NOT a journalist) Mike Hosking, decrying how biased & bad NZ media is.
YOU ARE MEDIA, fucknuckle!
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I caught some of RNZ Mediawatch this morning discussing lack of trust in NZ media.
The show lead-off featuring new Zealand's highest paid media opinionist (he himself has repeatedly declared he is NOT a journalist) Mike Hosking, decrying how biased & bad NZ media is.
YOU ARE MEDIA, fucknuckle!
The show lead-off featuring new Zealand's highest paid media opinionist (he himself has repeatedly declared he is NOT a journalist) Mike Hosking, decrying how biased & bad NZ media is.
YOU ARE MEDIA, fucknuckle!
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180 years and still fighting. ( Crown has appealed this decision btw)
www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/10/31/n...
www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/10/31/n...
Nelson Tenths: The 180-year history of Aotearoa’s longest case
Today's decision marks a possible end to Aotearoa’s longest land case.
www.teaonews.co.nz
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
180 years and still fighting. ( Crown has appealed this decision btw)
www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/10/31/n...
www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/10/31/n...
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The Right Royal State Of New Zealand
November 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The Right Royal State Of New Zealand
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a retired canterbury farmer trotted out this line. i asked him, did you know waikato tribes prior to invasion/ raupatu had flour mills, water wheels, ships, were exporting to australia, growing produce to supply the populace of auckland?
had no idea
had no idea
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
a retired canterbury farmer trotted out this line. i asked him, did you know waikato tribes prior to invasion/ raupatu had flour mills, water wheels, ships, were exporting to australia, growing produce to supply the populace of auckland?
had no idea
had no idea
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One of my fav new literary genres is ‘old man scribes bitchy online rants’ 😂 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
One of my fav new literary genres is ‘old man scribes bitchy online rants’ 😂 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol
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Quoting the brooking's paper, used in part as justification for invading Iraq in 2003, describes the political situation in the USA today.⬇️⬇️
"I have yet to come across any decent answers to the issues raised by those same officials who at there time were at the highest level of briefing."⬇️
#nzpol
"I have yet to come across any decent answers to the issues raised by those same officials who at there time were at the highest level of briefing."⬇️
#nzpol
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Quoting the brooking's paper, used in part as justification for invading Iraq in 2003, describes the political situation in the USA today.⬇️⬇️
"I have yet to come across any decent answers to the issues raised by those same officials who at there time were at the highest level of briefing."⬇️
#nzpol
"I have yet to come across any decent answers to the issues raised by those same officials who at there time were at the highest level of briefing."⬇️
#nzpol
So Dick Cheney, a deeply awful person. I am old enough to remember the American RW who ate up his bloodlust wrapped in a flag and were full of jingoistic bile. Remember the "To Damascus!" creeps? I sure as hell do, and how we, who opposed the war, were tools of Satan.
No WMDs eh,
No WMDs eh,
November 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
So Dick Cheney, a deeply awful person. I am old enough to remember the American RW who ate up his bloodlust wrapped in a flag and were full of jingoistic bile. Remember the "To Damascus!" creeps? I sure as hell do, and how we, who opposed the war, were tools of Satan.
No WMDs eh,
No WMDs eh,
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something something all the business associations that are against the golden mile in poneke #nzpol
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
something something all the business associations that are against the golden mile in poneke #nzpol
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Prescient...
Luxon and Peters are complicit in Seymour's neoliberal ideology and the wrecking ball Act has taken to socially and environmentally concerned laws and public services, oh and for enflaming divisive anti- te reo, anti-Treaty sentiment
#nzpol
Luxon and Peters are complicit in Seymour's neoliberal ideology and the wrecking ball Act has taken to socially and environmentally concerned laws and public services, oh and for enflaming divisive anti- te reo, anti-Treaty sentiment
#nzpol
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Prescient...
Luxon and Peters are complicit in Seymour's neoliberal ideology and the wrecking ball Act has taken to socially and environmentally concerned laws and public services, oh and for enflaming divisive anti- te reo, anti-Treaty sentiment
#nzpol
Luxon and Peters are complicit in Seymour's neoliberal ideology and the wrecking ball Act has taken to socially and environmentally concerned laws and public services, oh and for enflaming divisive anti- te reo, anti-Treaty sentiment
#nzpol
In case you were wondering about the white supremacy movement in the US. It's had a rebranding and has a new name: The Republican Party. Old news, I know, but some folks seem not to have got it yet.
Tuberville: “We just saw what happened in NY. We lost NY. It will be completely Muslim in 3-4 years. That’s what they want. And it’s going to spread throughout the country.”
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
In case you were wondering about the white supremacy movement in the US. It's had a rebranding and has a new name: The Republican Party. Old news, I know, but some folks seem not to have got it yet.
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Aotearoa NZ's current government is doing its very best to make us not democratically socialist. Awful human beings.
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Aotearoa NZ's current government is doing its very best to make us not democratically socialist. Awful human beings.
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At every turn, the Government has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Government’s other priorities.
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
Govt's climate strategy: Let it burn
Comment: The Government has relentlessly pursued policies that boost climate pollution – even if they cost more or jeopardise NZ's reputation, Marc Daalder writes
newsroom.co.nz
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
At every turn, the Government has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Government’s other priorities.
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
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typical MSM news
Crossing live now to our Prime Minister.
"squeal, squawk, hoot, hoot, scream, growl"
And there you have it, all our questions have been answered, remember to vote for National.
#nzpol
Crossing live now to our Prime Minister.
"squeal, squawk, hoot, hoot, scream, growl"
And there you have it, all our questions have been answered, remember to vote for National.
#nzpol
not only do fascists lie as a matter of course, they can't even read a dictionary
bipartisan has a meaning that's very difficult to misinterpret
unless you're hell-bent on telling porkies about something as fundamental as language
perhaps just hoot and growl if words have no meaning
#nzpol
bipartisan has a meaning that's very difficult to misinterpret
unless you're hell-bent on telling porkies about something as fundamental as language
perhaps just hoot and growl if words have no meaning
#nzpol
More red flags #NZpol
"Christina Hood, an independent climate policy expert who has advised governments of all stripes on climate and formerly headed the International Energy Agency’s climate unit, said the changes to consultation requirements were unacceptable."
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...
"Christina Hood, an independent climate policy expert who has advised governments of all stripes on climate and formerly headed the International Energy Agency’s climate unit, said the changes to consultation requirements were unacceptable."
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...
November 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
typical MSM news
Crossing live now to our Prime Minister.
"squeal, squawk, hoot, hoot, scream, growl"
And there you have it, all our questions have been answered, remember to vote for National.
#nzpol
Crossing live now to our Prime Minister.
"squeal, squawk, hoot, hoot, scream, growl"
And there you have it, all our questions have been answered, remember to vote for National.
#nzpol
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lol lmao
I hope rimmer, winnie, and flakes are having that uneasy upset tummy feeling that comes when you know you might be a bit fucked. #nzpol
I hope rimmer, winnie, and flakes are having that uneasy upset tummy feeling that comes when you know you might be a bit fucked. #nzpol
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
lol lmao
I hope rimmer, winnie, and flakes are having that uneasy upset tummy feeling that comes when you know you might be a bit fucked. #nzpol
I hope rimmer, winnie, and flakes are having that uneasy upset tummy feeling that comes when you know you might be a bit fucked. #nzpol