Eric Rowe
@kiwieric.bsky.social
Lodge-owner, cheesemonger, gardener. Fan of baked goods. New Zealand.
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I'll just note this inquiry has noted that with 20/20 hindsight the UK should have acted... pretty much exactly as New Zealand did.
Which a good portion of NZ's media and political class have spent 5 revisionist years trying to paint as an overreaction. Overwhelmingly, it wasn't.
Which a good portion of NZ's media and political class have spent 5 revisionist years trying to paint as an overreaction. Overwhelmingly, it wasn't.
‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under Tories
Second pandemic report focuses on decision-making, organisation and messaging by senior politicians including Boris Johnson
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I'll just note this inquiry has noted that with 20/20 hindsight the UK should have acted... pretty much exactly as New Zealand did.
Which a good portion of NZ's media and political class have spent 5 revisionist years trying to paint as an overreaction. Overwhelmingly, it wasn't.
Which a good portion of NZ's media and political class have spent 5 revisionist years trying to paint as an overreaction. Overwhelmingly, it wasn't.
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Karen Chhour is quoted in this piece actively promoting conversion practices, after previously comparing gender affirming care to torture at Lake Alice. This coalition is evil. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Govt halts new puberty blockers prescriptions for gender-affirming care
Green Party MP Ricardo Menéndez March says the government is "buying into imported culture wars" .
www.rnz.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Karen Chhour is quoted in this piece actively promoting conversion practices, after previously comparing gender affirming care to torture at Lake Alice. This coalition is evil. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
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So we are paying $46m more for smaller ferries that will be delivered 4-5 years later than IREX, but still have no idea on port-side costs apart from NACT1 continuing the Kiwi-way tradition of do absolutely minimum rather than properly invest in a 100 year asset....
New Cook Strait ferries won't cost more than $2b, Rail Minister vows
Peters says taxpayers have saved $2.3 billion while still getting the ferries and infrastructure they want.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 AM
So we are paying $46m more for smaller ferries that will be delivered 4-5 years later than IREX, but still have no idea on port-side costs apart from NACT1 continuing the Kiwi-way tradition of do absolutely minimum rather than properly invest in a 100 year asset....
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NZ’s electric car sales dropped 70% last year while global sales rose, but the Transport Minister says his policies aren’t to blame.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/18/g...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/18/g...
Behind the Govt's urgent move to make it cheaper to import dirty cars
Analysis: NZ's electric car sales dropped 70% last year while global sales rose, but the Transport Minister says his policies aren't to blame, writes Marc Daalder
newsroom.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
NZ’s electric car sales dropped 70% last year while global sales rose, but the Transport Minister says his policies aren’t to blame.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/18/g...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/18/g...
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whoever selected the photos for this article deserves an award for photo selection, this is peak photo selection, unsurpassable perfection, all other photo selector people can just get their coats and go home because this selection will never be bettered
Graham Linehan clashes with Father Ted star Ardal O’Hanlon over trans views
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/18/graham-linehan-ardal-ohanlon-anti-trans-views/?utm_content=1763480405&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/18/graham-linehan-ardal-ohanlon-anti-trans-views/?utm_content=1763480405&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Graham Linehan clashes with Father Ted star Ardal O'Hanlon over trans views
Anti-trans activist Graham Linehan has claimed Father Ted actor Ardal O'Hanlon 'disagrees' with his views on trans rights.
www.thepinknews.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
whoever selected the photos for this article deserves an award for photo selection, this is peak photo selection, unsurpassable perfection, all other photo selector people can just get their coats and go home because this selection will never be bettered
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The stupidest thing about a second Mt Vic tunnel is that the cars have no where to go. You pop back onto 1 lane each way Ruahine St or into the snarl of the basin. Like whats the point. What problem does this solve?
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The stupidest thing about a second Mt Vic tunnel is that the cars have no where to go. You pop back onto 1 lane each way Ruahine St or into the snarl of the basin. Like whats the point. What problem does this solve?
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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The National Party collapsed the EV import market by cancelling the Clean Car Discount and now finds that there aren't enough EVs being imported to meet demand.
Imagine that.
Incredible.
Imagine that.
Incredible.
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The National Party collapsed the EV import market by cancelling the Clean Car Discount and now finds that there aren't enough EVs being imported to meet demand.
Imagine that.
Incredible.
Imagine that.
Incredible.
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admitting to statutory rape to own the libs
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
admitting to statutory rape to own the libs
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Both this and in their story on Bannon and Epstein, Guardian has done it right.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Both this and in their story on Bannon and Epstein, Guardian has done it right.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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The winner was Bergkäserei Vorderfultigen, a cheese made from cow’s milk at a small dairy in the Alpine lowlands of western Switzerland.
#cheese #news 🧀 #food #travel #worldcheeseawards #gruyere #switzerland
#cheese #news 🧀 #food #travel #worldcheeseawards #gruyere #switzerland
‘Three cheeses on, we could still taste it’: Swiss Gruyère crowned the best in the world | CNN
Aged Swiss Gruyère triumphs at the World Cheese Awards, beating over 5,000 rivals as judges endure a pungent, palate-stretching marathon of global dairy.
www.cnn.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The winner was Bergkäserei Vorderfultigen, a cheese made from cow’s milk at a small dairy in the Alpine lowlands of western Switzerland.
#cheese #news 🧀 #food #travel #worldcheeseawards #gruyere #switzerland
#cheese #news 🧀 #food #travel #worldcheeseawards #gruyere #switzerland
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Someone needs to have a word because this is not acceptable.
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Someone needs to have a word because this is not acceptable.
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Just call it what it is: corruption. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
'Most deteriorated' - NZ plummets in global tobacco control ranking
An anti-vaping group calls the ranking an "international disgrace".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Just call it what it is: corruption. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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This is utterly sickening, particularly the charges under HDCA. Many, many things from the 2021-2023 period of my life in terms of police (in)action related to threats made to me now must be viewed thru this unholy prism.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...
Police bosses ignored sex complaints against top cop, charged woman for 'revenge' emails instead
Suppressions fall away to reveal the full story of the downfall of a deputy police boss.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
This is utterly sickening, particularly the charges under HDCA. Many, many things from the 2021-2023 period of my life in terms of police (in)action related to threats made to me now must be viewed thru this unholy prism.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...
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If you'd told me that a speaker at the Free Speech Union conference would call for banning non-Christian public expressions of faith to an applauding crowd, I would have said yes, obviously that is going to happen newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/t...
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you'd told me that a speaker at the Free Speech Union conference would call for banning non-Christian public expressions of faith to an applauding crowd, I would have said yes, obviously that is going to happen newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/t...
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Pop was giddy sending me this.
I don't get it nor the meep meep reference. 🤷🏻♀️
I don't get it nor the meep meep reference. 🤷🏻♀️
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pop was giddy sending me this.
I don't get it nor the meep meep reference. 🤷🏻♀️
I don't get it nor the meep meep reference. 🤷🏻♀️
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American: “I’m paying more at the grocery store.”
Trump: “No you’re not.”
American: “I mean…I am. I have the receipt right here.”
Trump: “Prices are WAY down.”
American: “They’re just…not.”
Trump: “Are too!”
American: “…”
Trump: “…”
American: “…”
Trump: “I’ve ended 22 wars!”
Trump: “No you’re not.”
American: “I mean…I am. I have the receipt right here.”
Trump: “Prices are WAY down.”
American: “They’re just…not.”
Trump: “Are too!”
American: “…”
Trump: “…”
American: “…”
Trump: “I’ve ended 22 wars!”
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
American: “I’m paying more at the grocery store.”
Trump: “No you’re not.”
American: “I mean…I am. I have the receipt right here.”
Trump: “Prices are WAY down.”
American: “They’re just…not.”
Trump: “Are too!”
American: “…”
Trump: “…”
American: “…”
Trump: “I’ve ended 22 wars!”
Trump: “No you’re not.”
American: “I mean…I am. I have the receipt right here.”
Trump: “Prices are WAY down.”
American: “They’re just…not.”
Trump: “Are too!”
American: “…”
Trump: “…”
American: “…”
Trump: “I’ve ended 22 wars!”
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Anybody notice a similarity?
Luxon is pretty bad at optics honestly. Trump is literally going to court to argue he doesn’t need to fund SNAP benefits during the US shutdown and Luxon has chosen this moment to put a food related class war item on the media agenda lol
#nzpol #luxon #maga #trump
Luxon is pretty bad at optics honestly. Trump is literally going to court to argue he doesn’t need to fund SNAP benefits during the US shutdown and Luxon has chosen this moment to put a food related class war item on the media agenda lol
#nzpol #luxon #maga #trump
November 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM