Manu Caddie
@manucaddie.bsky.social
Hope is waiting for someone else to do it. Born at 327 ppm CO2. Less than 30 years to live (StatsNZ). Biotech entrepreneur & Indigenous/Nature activist.
Something I learnt today…
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Something I learnt today…
Since #TheHollowMen & #DirtyPolitics were published, I haven’t had much respect for Matthew Hooton, but his opinion piece in the latest - and possibly last - edition of Metro Magazine, was both balanced and incisive - this line sums it up:
“No cash or operating surpluses are forecast ever again.”
“No cash or operating surpluses are forecast ever again.”
November 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Since #TheHollowMen & #DirtyPolitics were published, I haven’t had much respect for Matthew Hooton, but his opinion piece in the latest - and possibly last - edition of Metro Magazine, was both balanced and incisive - this line sums it up:
“No cash or operating surpluses are forecast ever again.”
“No cash or operating surpluses are forecast ever again.”
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This is JAWDROPPINGLY funny
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This is JAWDROPPINGLY funny
Of course it’s not failing landlords and the propertied class to cut social housing - less social housing generally means higher rents and house prices.
#NZPol
“In two years, the Government has delivered a mere 136 homes. Labour delivered 5299 homes in the two years before that. The contrast couldn’t be clearer." Kieran McAnulty
The Nats need to admit their ideology fails in reality
“In two years, the Government has delivered a mere 136 homes. Labour delivered 5299 homes in the two years before that. The contrast couldn’t be clearer." Kieran McAnulty
The Nats need to admit their ideology fails in reality
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Of course it’s not failing landlords and the propertied class to cut social housing - less social housing generally means higher rents and house prices.
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Well done #Ecuador! Another victory for Nature with @garnglobal.bsky.social ✊🏼 insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...
Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution - Inside Climate News
Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” and rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases in the country.
insideclimatenews.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Well done #Ecuador! Another victory for Nature with @garnglobal.bsky.social ✊🏼 insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...
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Look. What I say to you is this.
We said yesterday that we're cutting the cost of gas guzzlers for kiwi battlers on struggle street.
Our Mitsubishi ASX example costs $1,600/yr in fuel more to run than an EV. When we shift all cars to RUC it'll be $1,900/yr more.
Luxon maths in action.
#nzpol
We said yesterday that we're cutting the cost of gas guzzlers for kiwi battlers on struggle street.
Our Mitsubishi ASX example costs $1,600/yr in fuel more to run than an EV. When we shift all cars to RUC it'll be $1,900/yr more.
Luxon maths in action.
#nzpol
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Look. What I say to you is this.
We said yesterday that we're cutting the cost of gas guzzlers for kiwi battlers on struggle street.
Our Mitsubishi ASX example costs $1,600/yr in fuel more to run than an EV. When we shift all cars to RUC it'll be $1,900/yr more.
Luxon maths in action.
#nzpol
We said yesterday that we're cutting the cost of gas guzzlers for kiwi battlers on struggle street.
Our Mitsubishi ASX example costs $1,600/yr in fuel more to run than an EV. When we shift all cars to RUC it'll be $1,900/yr more.
Luxon maths in action.
#nzpol
Certainly some healthy ‘surplus value’ in the mining sector: www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Certainly some healthy ‘surplus value’ in the mining sector: www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
I have no trust in Public Trust - www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
The ‘outrageous’ fees that drained a disabled man’s income – and the dispute over his mother’s will
In some years, Public Trust would charge more in fees for managing the finances of Brian Harkness than he received in income.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I have no trust in Public Trust - www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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It just keeps getting better, doesn't it?
BTW. Sarcasm.
#nzpol #onetermgovtnz
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
BTW. Sarcasm.
#nzpol #onetermgovtnz
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Emergency response roles on the chopping block
When the earth shakes or eruptions start, there has been a team of Public Information Managers ready to help the public and Government agencies.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It just keeps getting better, doesn't it?
BTW. Sarcasm.
#nzpol #onetermgovtnz
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
BTW. Sarcasm.
#nzpol #onetermgovtnz
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
“very clearly, it has been shown that the National Party are happy to sign up to these things when they’re in opposition for the sake of looking as though they’re constructive, and when it comes to holding the reins of power, their word isn’t worth anything,”
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...
Gutting of Zero Carbon Act crashes bipartisan climate consensus
It took more than a year of painstaking cross-partisan negotiation to land the Zero Carbon Act. Now, the Govt is gutting it unilaterally, Marc Daalder reports
newsroom.co.nz
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“very clearly, it has been shown that the National Party are happy to sign up to these things when they’re in opposition for the sake of looking as though they’re constructive, and when it comes to holding the reins of power, their word isn’t worth anything,”
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...
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1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Rod Carr calls it: Govt’s ETS changes are a gift to polluters, not people. By unlinking the carbon market from NZ’s climate targets, they’ve crashed prices, gutted credibility, and handed control to vested interests. Strong & stable? Try weak & captured. #nzpol www.carbonnews.co.nz/news/35966/g...
Carbon News
Carbon News NZ Climate Policy Carbon Markets
www.carbonnews.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Rod Carr calls it: Govt’s ETS changes are a gift to polluters, not people. By unlinking the carbon market from NZ’s climate targets, they’ve crashed prices, gutted credibility, and handed control to vested interests. Strong & stable? Try weak & captured. #nzpol www.carbonnews.co.nz/news/35966/g...
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It doesn't get said enough that Nats have built just 45 State houses since coming into government, no one is being housed in your ghost houses Bishop and now you want to hunt people off the streets? Where worse can you send them, the sewers where you slither? #NZPol
Rough sleeping ban in central Auckland considered by government
Rough sleeping ban in central Auckland considered by government
Government ministers have confirmed they are considering measures to move homeless people out of Auckland's city centre - but the exact details remain unclear.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
It doesn't get said enough that Nats have built just 45 State houses since coming into government, no one is being housed in your ghost houses Bishop and now you want to hunt people off the streets? Where worse can you send them, the sewers where you slither? #NZPol
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #AtlasNetwork @exxonmobiloil.bsky.social @exxon.bsky.social @notexxonsbitch.bsky.social @leftcoastnv.bsky.social
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Despite all the evidence subsidies work perfectly well in practice, The Treasury knows full well they’ll never ever work in theory
#nzpol
#nzpol
What are they doing over the ditch? They could have had a flacid Emissions Trading Scheme instead of these ridiculous, distorting subsidies. Idiots.
October 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Despite all the evidence subsidies work perfectly well in practice, The Treasury knows full well they’ll never ever work in theory
#nzpol
#nzpol
Of all the cultures/values in the world, the largely secular and sustainability-focused, #NewZealand & #Germany are the countries that #ChatGPT is mostly closely aligned with according to this @harvard.edu study: scholar.harvard.edu/sites/schola...
October 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Of all the cultures/values in the world, the largely secular and sustainability-focused, #NewZealand & #Germany are the countries that #ChatGPT is mostly closely aligned with according to this @harvard.edu study: scholar.harvard.edu/sites/schola...
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This absolute buffoon held an international summit for investors and nobody invested 🤦
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This absolute buffoon held an international summit for investors and nobody invested 🤦
Huge victory for Rights of Nature & Ecocide at the #IUCN World Conservation Congress...
ALL five #RightsOfNature motions, and Motion 061 on recognizing the crime of #ecocide, have passed. 🌿⚖️
ALL five #RightsOfNature motions, and Motion 061 on recognizing the crime of #ecocide, have passed. 🌿⚖️
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Huge victory for Rights of Nature & Ecocide at the #IUCN World Conservation Congress...
ALL five #RightsOfNature motions, and Motion 061 on recognizing the crime of #ecocide, have passed. 🌿⚖️
ALL five #RightsOfNature motions, and Motion 061 on recognizing the crime of #ecocide, have passed. 🌿⚖️
MPs should have to do this all the time, it would reduce emissions, improve #nzpol relationships and likely lead to more bipartisan/multiparty legislation.
@jantinetti.bsky.social
www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plent...
@jantinetti.bsky.social
www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plent...
'Car-alition': MPs take seven-hour cross-party 'roadie' after flight canned
'Reached a consensus on transport policy: get to Wellington by dinner.'
www.nzherald.co.nz
October 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
MPs should have to do this all the time, it would reduce emissions, improve #nzpol relationships and likely lead to more bipartisan/multiparty legislation.
@jantinetti.bsky.social
www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plent...
@jantinetti.bsky.social
www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plent...
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
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Some background on the use of 'remigrate' now being used by an administration that openly declared those who tried to resist Nazism in Weimar Germany the bad guys.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Used An Alarming Word — And Most People Missed It
Most people didn't notice when the former president used the term in a Truth Social post. But white nationalists did.
www.huffpost.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Some background on the use of 'remigrate' now being used by an administration that openly declared those who tried to resist Nazism in Weimar Germany the bad guys.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Yesterday Luxon Govt embraced climate science denialism by stating they will never have regulations or pricing to drive down methane emissions, NZ's largest climate gas. Next day scientists state climate change has led to tipping point for corals. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Client Challenge
www.nature.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Yesterday Luxon Govt embraced climate science denialism by stating they will never have regulations or pricing to drive down methane emissions, NZ's largest climate gas. Next day scientists state climate change has led to tipping point for corals. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Today’s scary story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Today’s scary story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...