Rob
@clearcut87.bsky.social
Casual follower of science and new technology, interested in learning more about Aotearoa’s place in the scientific world.
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Employers will no longer need to provide info about unions or ensure that workers are employed on the same terms with any collective agreement. Make no mistake, this is a deliberate attempt to undermine unions and prevent workers from securing good pay and conditions.
April 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Employers will no longer need to provide info about unions or ensure that workers are employed on the same terms with any collective agreement. Make no mistake, this is a deliberate attempt to undermine unions and prevent workers from securing good pay and conditions.
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“Finance Minister Nicola Willis (on a base salary of $6021 a week) has indicated she wants to pay less money to the people who clean her office and toilet, or who look after her security, by removing the Living Wage requirement government contractors are obliged to pay their employees.”
#nzpol
#nzpol
The Willis War On Wages
The Queen Of Mean Strikes Again! 27 /3/25
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March 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
“Finance Minister Nicola Willis (on a base salary of $6021 a week) has indicated she wants to pay less money to the people who clean her office and toilet, or who look after her security, by removing the Living Wage requirement government contractors are obliged to pay their employees.”
#nzpol
#nzpol
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If Jeffrey Goldberg was the man for the moment he'd have at least hit send on "new phone houthis" before leaving the signal group
March 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If Jeffrey Goldberg was the man for the moment he'd have at least hit send on "new phone houthis" before leaving the signal group
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Wage theft is set to become law but the National Party voted against it. Strange, for the “party of law and order”. Or is it?
March 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Wage theft is set to become law but the National Party voted against it. Strange, for the “party of law and order”. Or is it?
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February 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Speaking truth to (limited) power. @dieworkwear.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Speaking truth to (limited) power. @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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Seymour shits in his hands and flings it at the cameras pointing at him.
“WATCH: David Seymour flinging shit”
“Seymour’s shit show: Will it stick?”
“Seymour not afraid to get his hands dirty”
“WATCH: David Seymour flinging shit”
“Seymour’s shit show: Will it stick?”
“Seymour not afraid to get his hands dirty”
February 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Seymour shits in his hands and flings it at the cameras pointing at him.
“WATCH: David Seymour flinging shit”
“Seymour’s shit show: Will it stick?”
“Seymour not afraid to get his hands dirty”
“WATCH: David Seymour flinging shit”
“Seymour’s shit show: Will it stick?”
“Seymour not afraid to get his hands dirty”
It’s gotten to the point I can’t tell if this is satire.
A jailhouse report from a guardian of New Zealand's moral fibre
The Secret Diary of .. Tim Jago
newsroom.co.nz
February 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It’s gotten to the point I can’t tell if this is satire.
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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
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They found a way to litter from space
Something else to thank EM for.
"The sustained rate of daily reentries is unprecedented," says Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics who tracks satellites. "They are retiring and incinerating about 4 or 5 Starlinks every day."
@planet4589.bsky.social
#astronomy
"The sustained rate of daily reentries is unprecedented," says Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics who tracks satellites. "They are retiring and incinerating about 4 or 5 Starlinks every day."
@planet4589.bsky.social
#astronomy
February 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
They found a way to litter from space
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www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rod-emmer... Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of January 27 - February 2 #nzpol
February 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rod-emmer... Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of January 27 - February 2 #nzpol
Oh no not the party of “checks notes” snap chatting children.
"Stuff can now reveal the wife of one of Tim Jago’s survivors contacted ACT Party leader David Seymour in November 2022, two months before Jago’s arrest, warning the party that their president was a 'sexual predator'." - by Edward Gay.
Former ACT Party president named for sexually abusing boys
The allegations were brought to ACT Party leader David Seymour two months before Timothy Jago’s arrest, Stuff can reveal.
www.stuff.co.nz
February 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Oh no not the party of “checks notes” snap chatting children.
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Shane Jones' a boorish troll but this looks to me like diversion politics because I'd bet that NZ First are the ones behind the tobacco/vaping corruption revelations reported in The Strait Times this week.
#kiwi
#newzealand
#kiwi
#newzealand
January 31, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Shane Jones' a boorish troll but this looks to me like diversion politics because I'd bet that NZ First are the ones behind the tobacco/vaping corruption revelations reported in The Strait Times this week.
#kiwi
#newzealand
#kiwi
#newzealand
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Shane Jones wants subsidies for *overseas* oil companies like Tamarind, which *NZ* taxpayers had to pay $400m to clean up after they went bankrupt. Jones etc overturned the *NZ* Supreme Court decision blocking *Australian* mining company TTR. Yet he attacks migrants for not being pro-NZ enough.
January 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Shane Jones wants subsidies for *overseas* oil companies like Tamarind, which *NZ* taxpayers had to pay $400m to clean up after they went bankrupt. Jones etc overturned the *NZ* Supreme Court decision blocking *Australian* mining company TTR. Yet he attacks migrants for not being pro-NZ enough.
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When the Act Party Minister for Agribusiness, Andrew Hoggard, says that he is opposed to govt regulations on agribusiness, he means regulations like those that are meant to stop MudFarming. MudFarming like this: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
Farm consultants behind company that left cows in ‘appalling’ conditions
Investigators say the three farm consultants knew their cows were in bad conditions - something one of them disputes.
www.stuff.co.nz
January 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
When the Act Party Minister for Agribusiness, Andrew Hoggard, says that he is opposed to govt regulations on agribusiness, he means regulations like those that are meant to stop MudFarming. MudFarming like this: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
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Some great work here done by Emily Writes, well worth the read and educating ourselves the threat that Simeon Browns promotion to Minister of Health could mean for reproductive and sexual health in NZ (by ourselves I mean men): open.substack.com/pub/emilywri...
Will Simeon Brown try to shut down Family Planning?
The Health Minister's dark past is a concern.
open.substack.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Some great work here done by Emily Writes, well worth the read and educating ourselves the threat that Simeon Browns promotion to Minister of Health could mean for reproductive and sexual health in NZ (by ourselves I mean men): open.substack.com/pub/emilywri...
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Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
January 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
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The NACT govt has recently stopped multiple bowel cancer screening programs - incl. for entire NZ regions, as well as high risk patients.
Bowel Cancer NZ statement: "With bowel cancer, the earlier you find it, the more likely you are to survive. But also, practically, the cheaper it is to treat."
Bowel Cancer NZ statement: "With bowel cancer, the earlier you find it, the more likely you are to survive. But also, practically, the cheaper it is to treat."
January 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The NACT govt has recently stopped multiple bowel cancer screening programs - incl. for entire NZ regions, as well as high risk patients.
Bowel Cancer NZ statement: "With bowel cancer, the earlier you find it, the more likely you are to survive. But also, practically, the cheaper it is to treat."
Bowel Cancer NZ statement: "With bowel cancer, the earlier you find it, the more likely you are to survive. But also, practically, the cheaper it is to treat."
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Look at all those Brexit benefits
Starmer needs to be braver. Delivering on his ambition for growth means addressing the consequences of Brexit
Starmer needs to be braver. Delivering on his ambition for growth means addressing the consequences of Brexit
January 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Look at all those Brexit benefits
Starmer needs to be braver. Delivering on his ambition for growth means addressing the consequences of Brexit
Starmer needs to be braver. Delivering on his ambition for growth means addressing the consequences of Brexit
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Quick questions for any manager/director in any NZ firm/government:
- are you paying for ads on facebook/instagram?;
- have you exposed your customers/constituents/employees etc to fraud, hate speech or other forms of abuse?; and,
Have you complied with your health & safety obligations as a PCBU?
- are you paying for ads on facebook/instagram?;
- have you exposed your customers/constituents/employees etc to fraud, hate speech or other forms of abuse?; and,
Have you complied with your health & safety obligations as a PCBU?
NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit”
theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”
theintercept.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Quick questions for any manager/director in any NZ firm/government:
- are you paying for ads on facebook/instagram?;
- have you exposed your customers/constituents/employees etc to fraud, hate speech or other forms of abuse?; and,
Have you complied with your health & safety obligations as a PCBU?
- are you paying for ads on facebook/instagram?;
- have you exposed your customers/constituents/employees etc to fraud, hate speech or other forms of abuse?; and,
Have you complied with your health & safety obligations as a PCBU?
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This audio clip posted by @bernardchickey.bsky.social completely floored me. The facts stated in parliament about the potential for cronyism in the Fast Track legislation should have every New Zealand (not aboard that particular gravy train) very worried! podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/w...
A fast track to cronyism?
Podcast Episode · When the Facts Change · 09/01/2025 · 10m
podcasts.apple.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This audio clip posted by @bernardchickey.bsky.social completely floored me. The facts stated in parliament about the potential for cronyism in the Fast Track legislation should have every New Zealand (not aboard that particular gravy train) very worried! podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/w...
The Post
www.thepost.co.nz
January 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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New ferries to be powered by 3000 greyhounds on treadmills announces Minister for Racing and Rail Winston Peters
Rehoming greyhounds to be a 'special project', Winston Peters says www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
December 11, 2024 at 12:34 AM
New ferries to be powered by 3000 greyhounds on treadmills announces Minister for Racing and Rail Winston Peters