belynda
@bel10.bsky.social
kiwi-dutchie gooner with a scuba-diving addiction. Tangata Tiriti in Aotearoa. Incurable leftist treehugger. She/her.
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Scoop: A trove of briefings and Cabinet documents released under the OIA reveals the Govt was advised its new methane target is only consistent with warming of 2-2.7C (and possibly up to 4.5C).
Climate scientists have said 2.7C would represent 'unprecedented peril'.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/04/g...
Climate scientists have said 2.7C would represent 'unprecedented peril'.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/04/g...
Govt warned new methane target aligned with 'catastrophic' warming
Newly released documents reveal the Govt's new methane target is associated with 2.7C of warming – a level labelled 'catastrophic' by the UN.
newsroom.co.nz
December 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Scoop: A trove of briefings and Cabinet documents released under the OIA reveals the Govt was advised its new methane target is only consistent with warming of 2-2.7C (and possibly up to 4.5C).
Climate scientists have said 2.7C would represent 'unprecedented peril'.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/04/g...
Climate scientists have said 2.7C would represent 'unprecedented peril'.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/04/g...
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When the wording of the regulation was unveiled, I wrote to Minister Brown, the DG of Health, and the Chief Medical Officer of Health to tell them they had included adults, and they have just now changed the regulation!
Absolute amateur-hour law-making.
www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/p...
Absolute amateur-hour law-making.
www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/p...
Medicines (Restriction on Prescribing Gonadotropin-releasing Hormone Analogues) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2025 (SL 2025/302) – New Zealand Legislation
www.legislation.govt.nz
December 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
When the wording of the regulation was unveiled, I wrote to Minister Brown, the DG of Health, and the Chief Medical Officer of Health to tell them they had included adults, and they have just now changed the regulation!
Absolute amateur-hour law-making.
www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/p...
Absolute amateur-hour law-making.
www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/p...
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Okay Aotearoa, I'm doing another round of Pay It Forward for my female identifying followers or their friends.
There will be 3-4 beauty packages available and the nominator must DM me a name & address for their nominee.
Aotearoa only please.
##payitforward #Aotearoa #Pōneke #AoNZ
There will be 3-4 beauty packages available and the nominator must DM me a name & address for their nominee.
Aotearoa only please.
##payitforward #Aotearoa #Pōneke #AoNZ
September 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Okay Aotearoa, I'm doing another round of Pay It Forward for my female identifying followers or their friends.
There will be 3-4 beauty packages available and the nominator must DM me a name & address for their nominee.
Aotearoa only please.
##payitforward #Aotearoa #Pōneke #AoNZ
There will be 3-4 beauty packages available and the nominator must DM me a name & address for their nominee.
Aotearoa only please.
##payitforward #Aotearoa #Pōneke #AoNZ
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Come on people, there must be someone in your life who needs cheering up? You can even nominate yourself! 😁
Please repost 🙏
Aotearoa only.
#Payitforward #Aotearoa
Please repost 🙏
Aotearoa only.
#Payitforward #Aotearoa
Okay Aotearoa, I'm doing another round of Pay It Forward for my female identifying followers or their friends.
There will be 3-4 beauty packages available and the nominator must DM me a name & address for their nominee.
Aotearoa only please.
##payitforward #Aotearoa #Pōneke #AoNZ
There will be 3-4 beauty packages available and the nominator must DM me a name & address for their nominee.
Aotearoa only please.
##payitforward #Aotearoa #Pōneke #AoNZ
September 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Come on people, there must be someone in your life who needs cheering up? You can even nominate yourself! 😁
Please repost 🙏
Aotearoa only.
#Payitforward #Aotearoa
Please repost 🙏
Aotearoa only.
#Payitforward #Aotearoa
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Yes, this 35 year old woman who had been around the world by the time she was a teen, who was one of Time's most influential people in the world a decade ago, who graduated Brown University & Oxford, who was a UN Goodwill Ambassador, who started a goddamn sustainable gin business is so inexperienced
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has hit out at Emma Watson in a lengthy statement on X, saying: “She has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.”
J.K. Rowling Brands Emma Watson “Ignorant” in Lengthy Post Defending Anti-Trans Stance: “She Has So Little Experience of Real Life”
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has hit out at Emma Watson in a lengthy statement on X, saying: “She has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.”
bit.ly
September 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Yes, this 35 year old woman who had been around the world by the time she was a teen, who was one of Time's most influential people in the world a decade ago, who graduated Brown University & Oxford, who was a UN Goodwill Ambassador, who started a goddamn sustainable gin business is so inexperienced
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EXC: Plans are underway for a coordinated strike across the public sector on October 23 featuring:
- Nurses
- Teachers
- Doctors
- and more
If the ballots go ahead it could well be the biggest coordinated strike in NZ history
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
- Nurses
- Teachers
- Doctors
- and more
If the ballots go ahead it could well be the biggest coordinated strike in NZ history
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Tidal wave of strike action planned for October 23
Plans are under way for a co-ordinated strike across much of the public sector, with nurses, teachers and other public sector workers potentially walking off the job on the same day.
www.thepost.co.nz
September 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
EXC: Plans are underway for a coordinated strike across the public sector on October 23 featuring:
- Nurses
- Teachers
- Doctors
- and more
If the ballots go ahead it could well be the biggest coordinated strike in NZ history
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
- Nurses
- Teachers
- Doctors
- and more
If the ballots go ahead it could well be the biggest coordinated strike in NZ history
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
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Cabinet papers are typically written by ministerial staffers with direction from Ministers. But the paper canvassing the options on recognising Palestine and deciding on one was written by Winston Peters' office instead.
From my colleague Thomas Manch:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
From my colleague Thomas Manch:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Winston Peters did not ask foreign ministry for opinion on Palestine decision
Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the paper trail shows the Government decision was based on “political positioning ... rather than a good, robust process”.
www.thepost.co.nz
September 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Cabinet papers are typically written by ministerial staffers with direction from Ministers. But the paper canvassing the options on recognising Palestine and deciding on one was written by Winston Peters' office instead.
From my colleague Thomas Manch:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
From my colleague Thomas Manch:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
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*All* of the key themes noted in this @theguardian.com investigation are present, entrenched, & growing in New Zealand's leading far-right, evangelical Christian, anti-establishment, and anti-vaccine Facebook account constellations - extending to Twitter/X, YouTube, & Telegram.
Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow
The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
*All* of the key themes noted in this @theguardian.com investigation are present, entrenched, & growing in New Zealand's leading far-right, evangelical Christian, anti-establishment, and anti-vaccine Facebook account constellations - extending to Twitter/X, YouTube, & Telegram.
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We’re in this list and we like it. 😊#GlobalUrbanists
NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using #GlobalUrbanists.
Urbanists OUTSIDE North America Worth Following!
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
September 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
We’re in this list and we like it. 😊#GlobalUrbanists
Age yourself with a film you saw as a kid:
September 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Age yourself with a film you saw as a kid:
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This is a brilliant interview. Chloe has to be the most economically literate politician in AONZ right now. youtu.be/zl_LgDjpzxE?... #nzpol
The first politician on Gary's Economics
YouTube video by Garys Economics
youtu.be
September 29, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This is a brilliant interview. Chloe has to be the most economically literate politician in AONZ right now. youtu.be/zl_LgDjpzxE?... #nzpol
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Three major crashes today on roads where the current NZ govt *increased* the speed limit (previously lowered for safety reasons) in pursuit of "productivity"?
Serious injuries. Lengthy closures. Costly disruptions to lives, whānau, the transport network, our health system. This is not productive. 😞
Serious injuries. Lengthy closures. Costly disruptions to lives, whānau, the transport network, our health system. This is not productive. 😞
September 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Three major crashes today on roads where the current NZ govt *increased* the speed limit (previously lowered for safety reasons) in pursuit of "productivity"?
Serious injuries. Lengthy closures. Costly disruptions to lives, whānau, the transport network, our health system. This is not productive. 😞
Serious injuries. Lengthy closures. Costly disruptions to lives, whānau, the transport network, our health system. This is not productive. 😞
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“Ever since Caesar’s pivotal decision, mankind has understood that the deployment of a nation’s armies against its own people marks the end of that nation.”
Hot Type: The Die is Cast
American political correspondent Heidi Siegmund Cuda tries to make sense of a truly terrible week in the history of America
open.substack.com
June 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
“Ever since Caesar’s pivotal decision, mankind has understood that the deployment of a nation’s armies against its own people marks the end of that nation.”
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Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.
June 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.
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Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.
June 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.
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Oh, sorry, of course I meant in Australia.
June 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Oh, sorry, of course I meant in Australia.
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#nzpol Migration data came out today. It’s down at levels not seen – outside of COVID – since January 2014 when we were climbing out of the GFC. Migration added 21,300 people to NZ in April 25. It was 95k in April 24. A thread...
June 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
#nzpol Migration data came out today. It’s down at levels not seen – outside of COVID – since January 2014 when we were climbing out of the GFC. Migration added 21,300 people to NZ in April 25. It was 95k in April 24. A thread...
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chemical warfare
June 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
chemical warfare
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This CANNOT continue.
It's a national shame.
We have to Ban Bottom Trawling!
Massive coral bycatch exposed
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bottom-tr... #nzpol #UNOC
#ProtectTheOceans
It's a national shame.
We have to Ban Bottom Trawling!
Massive coral bycatch exposed
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bottom-tr... #nzpol #UNOC
#ProtectTheOceans
'Attenborough would be mortified': Six tonnes of coral bycatch off Christchurch
Experts said incidents involving such a large amount of coral being caught are rare.
www.nzherald.co.nz
June 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This CANNOT continue.
It's a national shame.
We have to Ban Bottom Trawling!
Massive coral bycatch exposed
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bottom-tr... #nzpol #UNOC
#ProtectTheOceans
It's a national shame.
We have to Ban Bottom Trawling!
Massive coral bycatch exposed
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bottom-tr... #nzpol #UNOC
#ProtectTheOceans
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'New poll reveals farmers wildly out of step with mainstream NZ, that the industry shows extreme levels of viewpoint discrimination within its ranks, and needs to take serious steps to understand opposing views or they risk becoming further isolated and ignored'
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
How farmers would vote: A clear winner, a divide and a warning for Labour
It’s hardly breaking news that farmers are more likely to vote for the National Party over Labour, but the extent of the gulf is stark in a new poll.
www.stuff.co.nz
June 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
'New poll reveals farmers wildly out of step with mainstream NZ, that the industry shows extreme levels of viewpoint discrimination within its ranks, and needs to take serious steps to understand opposing views or they risk becoming further isolated and ignored'
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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Humiliated by China, Harvard, Elon Musk, and the federal courts, Trump has launched a war inside America on vulnerable people inside America.
Like any bully, Trump is fundamentally a coward.
Like any bully, Trump is fundamentally a coward.
June 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Humiliated by China, Harvard, Elon Musk, and the federal courts, Trump has launched a war inside America on vulnerable people inside America.
Like any bully, Trump is fundamentally a coward.
Like any bully, Trump is fundamentally a coward.
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Watch, watch watch - please watch.
RSB proceeds = possible snap election
RSB fails = possible snap election
Labour Party - ARE YOU READY?
#nzpol
RSB proceeds = possible snap election
RSB fails = possible snap election
Labour Party - ARE YOU READY?
#nzpol
If you're sick of this coalition government, WRITE A SUBMISSION - the Regulatory Standards Bill submissions process could be a way to trigger a snap election. #nzpol thank you to AshReborn on Tiktok who put together this explainer. www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...
June 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Watch, watch watch - please watch.
RSB proceeds = possible snap election
RSB fails = possible snap election
Labour Party - ARE YOU READY?
#nzpol
RSB proceeds = possible snap election
RSB fails = possible snap election
Labour Party - ARE YOU READY?
#nzpol