🐻Iona🐻
@bewarethefish.bsky.social
Chaotic soft bear residing in Pōneke. She/her.
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if a political party does not have an obvious way, nor even *signalling* to solve the "tiny minority of overwhelmingly powerful and wealthy men" problem then they are the enemy. That's literally it. That is the political environment and calculus for the current moment. "Labour" parties included.
February 13, 2026 at 7:50 PM
if a political party does not have an obvious way, nor even *signalling* to solve the "tiny minority of overwhelmingly powerful and wealthy men" problem then they are the enemy. That's literally it. That is the political environment and calculus for the current moment. "Labour" parties included.
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people who still maintain they're 'centre' left or shy from radical left as part of their political brand have missed key facts of the current environment - the scale is out the window now.
We're at "do you think a tiny minority of men should have overwhelming power and wealth or not".
We're at "do you think a tiny minority of men should have overwhelming power and wealth or not".
February 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM
people who still maintain they're 'centre' left or shy from radical left as part of their political brand have missed key facts of the current environment - the scale is out the window now.
We're at "do you think a tiny minority of men should have overwhelming power and wealth or not".
We're at "do you think a tiny minority of men should have overwhelming power and wealth or not".
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Cost pressures from *who*, motherfucker?
Kiwi shoppers turning to supermarket own brands as cost pressures persist
Foodstuffs and Woolworths New Zealand say many Kiwi shoppers are choosing home-brand supermarket products to cut grocery costs.
www.1news.co.nz
February 13, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Cost pressures from *who*, motherfucker?
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Shout out to the Hawaiians for killing James Cook on this day in history..
February 13, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Shout out to the Hawaiians for killing James Cook on this day in history..
Not everyone's favourite Bitcoin pusher Susan Edmonds joining Anne Salmond in promoting these narcissistic centrist losers whose single election victory has been to get one person on the Featherston Community Board. The amount of publicity this joke of a party is getting is ridiculous.
February 13, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Not everyone's favourite Bitcoin pusher Susan Edmonds joining Anne Salmond in promoting these narcissistic centrist losers whose single election victory has been to get one person on the Featherston Community Board. The amount of publicity this joke of a party is getting is ridiculous.
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RNZ earlier reported her saying the investments to date had gone into areas such as health and aged care, so I'm guessing that's more private hospitals and private retirement villages which are notorious cash cows....
February 13, 2026 at 4:56 AM
RNZ earlier reported her saying the investments to date had gone into areas such as health and aged care, so I'm guessing that's more private hospitals and private retirement villages which are notorious cash cows....
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Stuff breaks out more words in their headline than ever before to make sure Seymour's position is covered. I didn't think their CMS even allowed this many characters.
February 12, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Stuff breaks out more words in their headline than ever before to make sure Seymour's position is covered. I didn't think their CMS even allowed this many characters.
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OIA all those visa applicants and cross reference them all with the epstein files released thus far.
'Golden visa' update announced by Immigration Minister
Immigration Minister Erica Stanford said 573 applications had been received to date, totalling about $3.39 billion invested.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 13, 2026 at 2:25 AM
OIA all those visa applicants and cross reference them all with the epstein files released thus far.
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And remember folks, LNG is just its stage name
It's actually methane
It's actually methane
February 12, 2026 at 3:46 AM
And remember folks, LNG is just its stage name
It's actually methane
It's actually methane
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btw Wellington this is a service i offer. please hire me to help tidy and organise at your house; it is some of my favourite work to do
February 13, 2026 at 1:14 AM
btw Wellington this is a service i offer. please hire me to help tidy and organise at your house; it is some of my favourite work to do
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Please correct me if I'm wrong but the way that Chris Bishop pronounces Kāinga Ora sounds to me like he's saying "satisfied with leftovers"...
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
February 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Please correct me if I'm wrong but the way that Chris Bishop pronounces Kāinga Ora sounds to me like he's saying "satisfied with leftovers"...
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
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Beginning to suspect letting a Russian compromised peado ring run the worlds most powerful country was a bad choice
February 12, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Beginning to suspect letting a Russian compromised peado ring run the worlds most powerful country was a bad choice
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Kakapo are getting fucked so that makes them very similar to [checks notes] everyone in New Zealand, just in a different way
breaking new frontiers when it comes to headline writing at The Spinoff
February 12, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Kakapo are getting fucked so that makes them very similar to [checks notes] everyone in New Zealand, just in a different way
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Green MP Teanau Tuiono said it was "the opposite of virtue signalling".
"I'm going to call it toxic signalling to their base... that's going to bring out a particular contingent of people that think that way… It's anti-Māori, it's racist and in many ways pathetic."
"I'm going to call it toxic signalling to their base... that's going to bring out a particular contingent of people that think that way… It's anti-Māori, it's racist and in many ways pathetic."
Opposition finds change to school lunch scheme's name hard to swallow
A free school lunches programme rebrand has dropped the reo Māori name Ka Ora Ka Ako, a move David Seymour says is "delivering real value".
www.rnz.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Green MP Teanau Tuiono said it was "the opposite of virtue signalling".
"I'm going to call it toxic signalling to their base... that's going to bring out a particular contingent of people that think that way… It's anti-Māori, it's racist and in many ways pathetic."
"I'm going to call it toxic signalling to their base... that's going to bring out a particular contingent of people that think that way… It's anti-Māori, it's racist and in many ways pathetic."
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a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate'
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
www.thepinknews.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:36 PM
a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate'
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
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And, both the mayor and deputy mayor received donations from the Gallaghers. They might not be a political party, but they donated the Captain Hamilton statue, they have well known political opinions, and they have 200x the wealth of say, the Green Party, but that's not worth mentioning...
February 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
And, both the mayor and deputy mayor received donations from the Gallaghers. They might not be a political party, but they donated the Captain Hamilton statue, they have well known political opinions, and they have 200x the wealth of say, the Green Party, but that's not worth mentioning...
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This shit just reminds me of how surface level some journalists understanding is of local govt is - so you get these weirdo takes that don't really make the points they think they are.
And no, despite being mentioned in the article, I was not approached for comment.
And no, despite being mentioned in the article, I was not approached for comment.
February 12, 2026 at 7:31 PM
This shit just reminds me of how surface level some journalists understanding is of local govt is - so you get these weirdo takes that don't really make the points they think they are.
And no, despite being mentioned in the article, I was not approached for comment.
And no, despite being mentioned in the article, I was not approached for comment.
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This is so funny to me.
Yes, interview the former mayor who was a known member of the National Party about how he thinks local politics should be "apolitical". No no, no irony there whatsoever.
www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Yes, interview the former mayor who was a known member of the National Party about how he thinks local politics should be "apolitical". No no, no irony there whatsoever.
www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
The Waikato Times
www.waikatotimes.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 7:24 PM
This is so funny to me.
Yes, interview the former mayor who was a known member of the National Party about how he thinks local politics should be "apolitical". No no, no irony there whatsoever.
www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Yes, interview the former mayor who was a known member of the National Party about how he thinks local politics should be "apolitical". No no, no irony there whatsoever.
www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
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I feel like "all my extremely wealthy friends and family went to the child sex abuse island for extremely wealthy people and now randos think I too may have gone to the child sex abuse island" is not a very good sob story
February 12, 2026 at 7:50 PM
I feel like "all my extremely wealthy friends and family went to the child sex abuse island for extremely wealthy people and now randos think I too may have gone to the child sex abuse island" is not a very good sob story
Didn't one of the Zuru relatives publicly deny being a name suppressed pedophile recently? Starting to think that these grown men who've got rich off plastic toys for children might not be people we want around anything to do with children 🤔
ahahaha not a zuru exec complaining in public that they know people in the epstein files but it’s unfair because they’re not “guilty” and reputations are being “unduly affected”
February 12, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Didn't one of the Zuru relatives publicly deny being a name suppressed pedophile recently? Starting to think that these grown men who've got rich off plastic toys for children might not be people we want around anything to do with children 🤔
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Hmm this doesn't look like a clean process. It also looks extremely political. That Judith Collins exit from electoral politics can be described as "Dirty Politics" is just too on the nose
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
'Nakedly political': No rivals considered for Judith Collins' new job
Judith Collins was the only person considered for the role of Law Commission president - with no recruitment process, no selection panel and no rival candidates.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Hmm this doesn't look like a clean process. It also looks extremely political. That Judith Collins exit from electoral politics can be described as "Dirty Politics" is just too on the nose
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Mmmmm. Interesting to note what gets written down in Costello's diary and what doesn't.
Astonishing how Costello recalls events from an evening nearly 15 months ago (www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...), yet still can't recall the source of the tobacco industry friendly "mystery document" she passed on to the MOH to inform tobacco policy.
Judge called Winston’s speech ‘disgusting’ during disruption at club event, minister recalls
NZ First Minister Casey Costello told the panel Judge Ema Aitken yelled “he’s lying” during Winston Peters speech.
www.stuff.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Mmmmm. Interesting to note what gets written down in Costello's diary and what doesn't.
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whenever a website has a points/score system based on reactions people are motivated to create reactions to make number go up. the easiest path of least resistance to get a response out of someone is to make them angry.
its actually a property of applying game design to the internet w/ metrics.
its actually a property of applying game design to the internet w/ metrics.
Why do we have to do dunks on here, especially when it’s SOMETHING THAT IS TALKED ABOUT EVERY 2 MONTHS ON THIS SITE
February 12, 2026 at 1:48 AM
whenever a website has a points/score system based on reactions people are motivated to create reactions to make number go up. the easiest path of least resistance to get a response out of someone is to make them angry.
its actually a property of applying game design to the internet w/ metrics.
its actually a property of applying game design to the internet w/ metrics.
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Turns out The Speaker, Gerry Brownlie, who has had hysterical conniptions over dress standards and a haka or 2 in parliament because they didn’t follow the rules hasn’t thought the rules applied to him for two decades.
The crass hypocrisy of yet another National MP beggars belief. #nzpol
The crass hypocrisy of yet another National MP beggars belief. #nzpol
February 12, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Turns out The Speaker, Gerry Brownlie, who has had hysterical conniptions over dress standards and a haka or 2 in parliament because they didn’t follow the rules hasn’t thought the rules applied to him for two decades.
The crass hypocrisy of yet another National MP beggars belief. #nzpol
The crass hypocrisy of yet another National MP beggars belief. #nzpol
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Sweet Mary, Jospeh & that poor long suffering donkey the opening sentence "Speaker of the House Gerry Brownlee has been incorrectly and incompletely declaring his property ownership to Parliament for 20 years"
Change the name to say Trevor Mallard - the right would be apoplectic with outrage. FFS
Change the name to say Trevor Mallard - the right would be apoplectic with outrage. FFS
February 11, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Sweet Mary, Jospeh & that poor long suffering donkey the opening sentence "Speaker of the House Gerry Brownlee has been incorrectly and incompletely declaring his property ownership to Parliament for 20 years"
Change the name to say Trevor Mallard - the right would be apoplectic with outrage. FFS
Change the name to say Trevor Mallard - the right would be apoplectic with outrage. FFS