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Gil Greening
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retired scientist, kiwi in Oz - Ngunnawal Country, avatar from Iceland, aurora australis from sister in Dunedin. #nzpol Vaxxed to the max.
Mostly just a lazy reposter.
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motherjones.com
The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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bloomberg.com
Millions of balcony solar systems have been deployed in countries like Germany, but the technology has remained in the shadows in the US
To Lower Electricity Costs, Consumers Quietly Install DIY Solar
Popular in Germany, “plug-in solar” has remained in the shadows in the US because it’s largely unregulated. Legislation recently introduced in many states aims to promote adoption.
bloom.bg
January 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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frwildflowers.bsky.social
Mining buildings ruins in Mayflower Gulch

#Fallback to July 29 🌿
Two derelict wooden structures in an alpine valley
January 29, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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mshooper.bsky.social
Moving on from the myth of Winston the Great Statesman

archive.today/BXYO2

#nzpol
Moving on from the myth of Winston the Great Statesman
OPINION: Winston Peters as a change agent within the coalition? Yeah, nah. Winston has always been about making NZ smaller, more isolated, with fewer migrants.
www.thepost.co.nz
January 29, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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mattiasadolfsson.bsky.social
I am travelling down to Laholm tomorrow to help build my exhibition at Teckningsmuseet. The show opens on 31 January. teckningsmuseet.se
January 26, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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mountaintui.bsky.social
Kiwisaver hardship withdrawals have doubled to over half a billion dollars since National formed govt.

And National has cut Kiwisaver contributions by half, penalising Kiwis more - and reflecting a growing divide between the haves and have nots

Their plans are working #nzpol #Kiwi
Doubling of Kiwisaver hardship values significant
Plus: India trade deal, James Cameron, and Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey
mountaintui.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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misswhanau.bsky.social
Leaders should absolutely show up, but disaster response isn’t a photo op or should be trivialised. Watching our Prime Minister hand out boxes of KFC to impacted communities was peak cringe IMO. We need serious, systems-level action and that 6b resilience fund like yesterday.
PM delivering KFC
January 29, 2026 at 5:40 AM
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openculture.bsky.social
RIP Gladys Mae West, the Pioneering Black Mathematician Who Helped Lay the Foundation for GPS
RIP Gladys Mae West, the Pioneering Black Mathematician Who Helped Lay the Foundation for GPS
Gladys Mae West was born in rural Virginia in 1930, grew up working on a tobacco farm, and died earlier this month a celebrated mathematician whose work made possible the GPS technology most of us use...
www.openculture.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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franciscoblaha.bsky.social
Imagine being a citizen from an officially bilingual (tri-lingual in fact) country and objecting to people speaking their language (as well as yours) based on the fact you don't understand them while they understand you,and then blaming them for not being inclusive 🤯

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Councillor refuses to attend meeting because it’s at a marae
Steve Gibson said the venue had changed “at the eleventh hour” from a “neutral civic venue to a marae”.
www.stuff.co.nz
January 29, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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heiheikakariki.bsky.social
#nzpol
This is an excellent piece, increasingly rare for RNZ. Very worth reading
January 29, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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rnzrss.bsky.social
Deadly storms expose growing gap between disaster recovery and climate preparation
Deadly storms expose growing gap between disaster recovery and climate preparation
Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 29, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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dailyindignation.bsky.social
Luxon's govt cut funding for extreme-weather resilience in 2024, and so shouldn't be allowed to now crow about any money they dedicate without it being mentioned.

The Post does it right.
Left, The Post: "Cash for storm-hit regions as PM stands by scrapping $6b resilience fund Questions linger over why the $6 billion resilience fund set up by Labour after Cyclone Gabrielle was canned by Christopher Luxon's Government even as his Cabinet is set to consider immediate funding to support the regions battered by last week's storm. Henry Cooke" Right, NZ Herald: "Watch: Govt allocates $1.2m to help communities affected by deadly weather disaster"
January 27, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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mountaintui.bsky.social
So National took $6b from Labour's natural disaster relief & infrastructure readiness fund and returned 0.02% of it #nzpol #Kiwi
dailyindignation.bsky.social Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 2d
Luxon's govt cut funding for extreme-weather resilience in 2024, and so shouldn't be allowed to now crow about any money they dedicate without it being mentioned.

The Post does it right.
Left, The Post: "Cash for storm-hit regions as PM stands by scrapping $6b resilience fund Questions linger over why the $6 billion resilience fund set up by Labour after Cyclone Gabrielle was canned by Christopher Luxon's Government even as his Cabinet is set to consider immediate funding to support the regions battered by last week's storm. Henry Cooke" Right, NZ Herald: "Watch: Govt allocates $1.2m to help communities affected by deadly weather disaster"
January 29, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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meatmechsuit.bsky.social
Another shitty male judge screws over NZ women.
Precedent now set that tricking women into sex isn’t rape. Disgusting.
'Felt like rape': Sportsman avoids jail after duping sex workers with fake payments, forged HIV test
One victim said she felt 'filthy', another said the man had violated her body and trust.
www.nzherald.co.nz
January 28, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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cryoutloud26.bsky.social
thestandard.nz/who-would-ha...
Who would have thunk that slashing Health IT budgets would result in IT outages
A year after the Government slashed a third of Health IT jobs the Auckland hospital system has suffered a massive IT outage.
thestandard.nz
January 29, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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dreddieclark.bsky.social
In very local news emanations of the ongoing corporatisation of public services in NZ, gutted to see NZ Post elect to kneecap am excellent local bookshop in Marsden books by closing its post counter while maintaining one... in a Mobil station.
‘Devastated’: Bookshop owner expects 35% revenue hit from NZ Post closure
A Wellington bookstore owner is expecting a 35% loss in revenue following the closure of their NZ Post counter - and says she’s “devastated” for affected c
www.newstalkzb.co.nz
January 28, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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dejanajuk.bsky.social
Bay of Plenty families remain isolated two weeks after Waioeka Gorge slips #nzpol
#climatechange

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Bay of Plenty families remain isolated two weeks after Waioeka Gorge slips
Landslides have closed part of State Highway 2 - the main route between Ōpōtiki and Gisborne and helicopters have been taking supplies to the cut-off residents.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 29, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
If you haven’t seen this before, a warning, you might end up liking Bill Nye even more.

x.com/CarsRuinedCi...
The Inefficiency of Cars Explained by Bill Nye the Science Guy! #science #green #climatechange
YouTube video by Science Savant
youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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binkenstein.bsky.social
It's weird that a news organisation ran a poll asking if the founding document of our country had "too much" influence on how the government opererates.

What will they ask next, does the Bill of Rights Act give us too many rights?

#nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Nearly 40% of voters think Treaty of Waitangi has too much influence on government decisions - poll
Voters also had their say on whether the Prime Minister should be in Waitangi for Waitangi Day commemorations, in the latest RNZ-Reid Research poll.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 28, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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cindybax.bsky.social
The truth comes out abt Stanford’s role in changing the curriculum.

#nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Ex-Education Ministry staffer says new school curriculum heavily politicised
"I watched colleagues run back and forth to the Beehive for approval, watched academics and sector experts be removed," she has told a select committee.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 28, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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greenpeace.eu
This is a major win

The Netherlands will have to put a climate action plan in place to protect the people of Bonaire, AND make stricter climate targets to contribute a fair share to limiting global heating

#ClimateJustice
Dutch government discriminated against Bonaire islanders over climate adaptation, court rules
Judgment in The Hague orders Netherlands to do more to protect Caribbean people in its territory from impacts of climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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davidjoffe64.bsky.social
Proud to see the paper our WHN Long C-19 Team wrote is making the MSM

🙏🏻

www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-l...
Trump policies at odds with emerging understanding of COVID's long-term harm
Studies offer insights into the health risks and burdens faced by people who have had COVID infections. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has narrowed COVID vaccine recommendations and cut research.
www.cbsnews.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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agnessmack.bsky.social
David Pope in Canberra Times
January 29, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
One of my dad's *lesser* achievements was helping get the fraudster Andrew Wakefield struck off the medical register. But Wakefield's murderous legacy is growing.
smolrobots.bsky.social Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 22h
I don't exaggerate when I say that Andrew Wakefield should be tried for mass murder. We'll never know how many people have died or will die as a direct result of his fraudulent study.
jensfoell.de Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 23h
This is the large domino, with the small domino being some random quack in the UK in 1998 trying to undermine the existing MMR vaccine so his business partner can swoop in with his own. Instead he lost his work credentials and now kids are dying needlessly all over the world, so great job everyone.
January 29, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
“The normalisation of One Nation, through reality TV, breakfast TV slots and inclusion as a serious political player in Australia has been media-driven, dressed up as the people’s choice,” writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social.

Read Amy Remeikis’ full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4alz8EU
January 29, 2026 at 6:01 AM