tarikaka
@tarikaka.bsky.social
Public sector worker, so yeah, nah, I'm not saying much more til this lot are out.
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How do you fix journalism?
Fucking pay for it.
Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe.
The rise of right-wing media is because the rich funded it. The fall of legacy media is because the rich funded it and then decided not to.
Fucking pay for it.
Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe.
The rise of right-wing media is because the rich funded it. The fall of legacy media is because the rich funded it and then decided not to.
February 4, 2026 at 7:47 PM
How do you fix journalism?
Fucking pay for it.
Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe.
The rise of right-wing media is because the rich funded it. The fall of legacy media is because the rich funded it and then decided not to.
Fucking pay for it.
Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe.
The rise of right-wing media is because the rich funded it. The fall of legacy media is because the rich funded it and then decided not to.
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MSD have been delaying their December benefits data release due to data processing issues but they shared headline numbers yesterday. If the data is correct, this is a huuuge increase. We now have nearly 1 in 7 adults on a working age benefit. Link in ALT. (🧵 1/n)
February 5, 2026 at 6:46 PM
MSD have been delaying their December benefits data release due to data processing issues but they shared headline numbers yesterday. If the data is correct, this is a huuuge increase. We now have nearly 1 in 7 adults on a working age benefit. Link in ALT. (🧵 1/n)
Collins' legacy: Dirty Politics, the Oravida scandal, this...
Evergreen reminder that this was something she came up with, not something she was advised to do. In fact she was pretty specifically advised it was a terrible idea (it was) but she went ahead with it anyway because something something Not Real Science
Slashing all Marsden grants to social science and humanities another Judith Collins legacy www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
January 28, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Collins' legacy: Dirty Politics, the Oravida scandal, this...
Written about the US and applicable everywhere. A necessary pep talk.
Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.
I don't know how to do this
But I'm going to keep doing it anyway.
heated.world
January 27, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Written about the US and applicable everywhere. A necessary pep talk.
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Our own Green Party is a partner in the Global Greens with the Green Party of England. And this brilliant ad is just as applicable here as there
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 23, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Our own Green Party is a partner in the Global Greens with the Green Party of England. And this brilliant ad is just as applicable here as there
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LOL. But also... I find the "urban elite" argument hilarious. How do these ppl consistently fail to grasp that a lot of cyclists get around on bikes for affordability purposes? Like sure, I'm so elite that I can't afford a car. And my "utopia" is... not getting run over by cars. I know, so radical!
New cyclist finds out he's an anti-car urban elite who has no life and wants some made up bike utopia.
January 21, 2026 at 3:16 PM
LOL. But also... I find the "urban elite" argument hilarious. How do these ppl consistently fail to grasp that a lot of cyclists get around on bikes for affordability purposes? Like sure, I'm so elite that I can't afford a car. And my "utopia" is... not getting run over by cars. I know, so radical!
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A year after Trump, US science is a shadow of itself. To understand the devastation and vandalism, check out this new set of visualizations of the cuts for a bird's-eye view of the utter destruction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
www.nature.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:41 AM
A year after Trump, US science is a shadow of itself. To understand the devastation and vandalism, check out this new set of visualizations of the cuts for a bird's-eye view of the utter destruction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Ruin a band by changing one letter.
Toot
Toot
Ruin a band by changing one letter.
Boxy Music
Boxy Music
Ruin a band by changing one letter.
Smashing Bumpkins
Smashing Bumpkins
January 16, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Ruin a band by changing one letter.
Toot
Toot
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It's the most magical time of the year — when estimates of last year's global average temperature anomaly come out. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.
November 3, 2024 at 12:44 AM
It's the most magical time of the year — when estimates of last year's global average temperature anomaly come out. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.
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I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7).
Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7).
Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
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If the last 5 years of your social media history doesn't get ban you from Trump's USA, then we can't be friends 🙅♀️💁♀️
December 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
If the last 5 years of your social media history doesn't get ban you from Trump's USA, then we can't be friends 🙅♀️💁♀️
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Paywall lifted: At every turn, the Govt has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Govt’s other priorities.
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
Govt's climate strategy: Let it burn
Comment: The Government has relentlessly pursued policies that boost climate pollution – even if they cost more or jeopardise NZ's reputation, Marc Daalder writes
newsroom.co.nz
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Paywall lifted: At every turn, the Govt has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Govt’s other priorities.
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
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Righto, we had 50 years of state sanctioned child abuse, we had a former Minster of Immigration under investigation for sexual abuse of children, we have the former Act party pres. convicted of sexual abuse, we had a collection of top police men covering for sex offenders, we had cops making false
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Righto, we had 50 years of state sanctioned child abuse, we had a former Minster of Immigration under investigation for sexual abuse of children, we have the former Act party pres. convicted of sexual abuse, we had a collection of top police men covering for sex offenders, we had cops making false
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Just want to note that the local paper in Wellington spent an entire term of council proactively and in many cases irrationally campaigning against any urbanist initiatives whatsoever and the result has been a mayor perhaps slower on it but not opposed & a council table substantially more urbanist.
October 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Just want to note that the local paper in Wellington spent an entire term of council proactively and in many cases irrationally campaigning against any urbanist initiatives whatsoever and the result has been a mayor perhaps slower on it but not opposed & a council table substantially more urbanist.
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The new front cover of The New World magazine.
A man has been arrested in London tonight for silently holding the magazine up in the street.
A man has been arrested in London tonight for silently holding the magazine up in the street.
October 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The new front cover of The New World magazine.
A man has been arrested in London tonight for silently holding the magazine up in the street.
A man has been arrested in London tonight for silently holding the magazine up in the street.
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A pop up box on Tylenol dot com
September 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
A pop up box on Tylenol dot com
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September 17, 2025 at 6:39 AM
So where can art history take you? thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-0...
So where can art history take you?
A bunch of art history classmates reunite to explain how the soon-to-be-scrapped subject has served them, two decades on.
thespinoff.co.nz
September 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
So where can art history take you? thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-0...
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Ukrainian spirit.
Something I am deeply proud of.
Something I am deeply proud of.
September 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Ukrainian spirit.
Something I am deeply proud of.
Something I am deeply proud of.
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#nzpol
The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows:
- Food prices up 5%
- Fruit & Veg up 8.9%
- Meat up 9.4%
- Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%)
- Cheese up 14.3%
- Milk up 15%
- Electricity up 11.4%
Laser focused on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows:
- Food prices up 5%
- Fruit & Veg up 8.9%
- Meat up 9.4%
- Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%)
- Cheese up 14.3%
- Milk up 15%
- Electricity up 11.4%
Laser focused on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
Selected price indexes: August 2025 | Stats NZ
Food prices increased 0.3 percent in the month of August 2025, and increased by 5.0 percent in the 12 months to August 2025.
www.stats.govt.nz
September 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
#nzpol
The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows:
- Food prices up 5%
- Fruit & Veg up 8.9%
- Meat up 9.4%
- Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%)
- Cheese up 14.3%
- Milk up 15%
- Electricity up 11.4%
Laser focused on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows:
- Food prices up 5%
- Fruit & Veg up 8.9%
- Meat up 9.4%
- Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%)
- Cheese up 14.3%
- Milk up 15%
- Electricity up 11.4%
Laser focused on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
Another objectively stupid decision by this narrow-minded government whose vision for progress is simply to make NZ dull again by sucking the life out of arts.
I have a friend with a PhD in Art History and most of her doctorate was in the chemistry labs and working with lasers (her topic was conservation focused). But importantly she started with loving art and art history at high school.
Just a sad and narrow minded decision. #nzpol
Art history will no longer be a school subject in New Zealand | The Post share.google/La61tqUL54LW...
Art history will no longer be a school subject in New Zealand | The Post share.google/La61tqUL54LW...
September 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Another objectively stupid decision by this narrow-minded government whose vision for progress is simply to make NZ dull again by sucking the life out of arts.
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Completely agree with this. A Minister who believes all kids brains develop the same and that outdoor ed offers nothing worthwhile let alone for the economy when they go on to find work is ignoring evidence that proves otherwise.
This is such a dumb idea/false economy - please consider signing: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ke...
Stop the Government taking away Outdoor Education
Outdoor Education gives young people opportunities they can’t always get in a classroom. It builds resilience, confidence, leadership, teamwork, and problem-solving skills. It keeps students engaged i...
our.actionstation.org.nz
September 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Completely agree with this. A Minister who believes all kids brains develop the same and that outdoor ed offers nothing worthwhile let alone for the economy when they go on to find work is ignoring evidence that proves otherwise.
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I would be sooooo excited for this
Once Benjamin Doyle is not an MP they should undertake a relentless slate of defamation actions against each and every person who has baselessly accused them of being a paedophile, or implied as much, up to and including the Deputy Prime Minister
September 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I would be sooooo excited for this