Terry McKain
@telsone17.bsky.social
Retired history teacher MA Hons UC 1969
Retired adolescent counsellor M Ed Hons UA 2002
Worried for my grandchildren
Green voter
Retired adolescent counsellor M Ed Hons UA 2002
Worried for my grandchildren
Green voter
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a woman is covering her face with her hands while a crowd of people applaud .
ALT: a woman is covering her face with her hands while a crowd of people applaud .
media.tenor.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Gee, maybe right-wingers just stopped making threats when their team took charge? #occam
Number of threats against politicians nosedives in Govt’s first year - what’s changed?
Threats and online hate escalated between 2020 and 2022 amid the Govt's Covid response.
www.nzherald.co.nz
February 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Gee, maybe right-wingers just stopped making threats when their team took charge? #occam
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Fact. Dunning-Kruger effect.
December 11, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Fact. Dunning-Kruger effect.
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The Muldoon super comparison is apt I think. There’s risk of freight and logistics logjams and high shipping costs flowing on for years, which will be stubbornly unfixable and directly attributable to this one big decision.
December 12, 2024 at 12:17 AM
The Muldoon super comparison is apt I think. There’s risk of freight and logistics logjams and high shipping costs flowing on for years, which will be stubbornly unfixable and directly attributable to this one big decision.
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Researchers pen scathing open letter to Minister over Marsden Fund changes
"I find it immensely ironic that the Minister is basing this decision on its benefit to the economy, when the study of the economy is itself classed as a social science."
"I find it immensely ironic that the Minister is basing this decision on its benefit to the economy, when the study of the economy is itself classed as a social science."
Researchers pen scathing open letter to Minister over Marsden Fund changes
Dozens of Rutherford Discovery Fellows condemned "damaging changes" to the Marsden Fund's terms of reference.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 11, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Researchers pen scathing open letter to Minister over Marsden Fund changes
"I find it immensely ironic that the Minister is basing this decision on its benefit to the economy, when the study of the economy is itself classed as a social science."
"I find it immensely ironic that the Minister is basing this decision on its benefit to the economy, when the study of the economy is itself classed as a social science."
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Their dire need to make this year's books look better to pay for irresponsible spending promises is driving a whole lot of delays across infrastructure projects.
December 12, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Their dire need to make this year's books look better to pay for irresponsible spending promises is driving a whole lot of delays across infrastructure projects.
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If the Cook Strait ferries are not a road of national significance then nothing is.
December 12, 2024 at 1:16 AM
If the Cook Strait ferries are not a road of national significance then nothing is.
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Media covering Candace Owens' potential visit to New Zealand should make clear she is a Holocaust denier, not merely "controversial".
December 12, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Media covering Candace Owens' potential visit to New Zealand should make clear she is a Holocaust denier, not merely "controversial".
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Big step. Now time for government departments to follow suit.
The UK parliament has joined Bluesky, with proper verified domains and everything:
• @houseofcommons.parliament.uk
• @houseoflords.parliament.uk
• @ukparliament.parliament.uk
• @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
• @houseofcommons.parliament.uk
• @houseoflords.parliament.uk
• @ukparliament.parliament.uk
• @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
December 10, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Big step. Now time for government departments to follow suit.
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As I’m fairly new here, I wanted to share a major project that we published earlier this year
It’s a months-long deep dive into the devastating impact of 14-years of Conservative austerity policies on a city and its people
This is Austerity City
It’s a months-long deep dive into the devastating impact of 14-years of Conservative austerity policies on a city and its people
This is Austerity City
Liverpool: Austerity City
How 14 years of Conservative-led cuts have damaged a city and its people
austeritycity.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 4:56 PM
As I’m fairly new here, I wanted to share a major project that we published earlier this year
It’s a months-long deep dive into the devastating impact of 14-years of Conservative austerity policies on a city and its people
This is Austerity City
It’s a months-long deep dive into the devastating impact of 14-years of Conservative austerity policies on a city and its people
This is Austerity City
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Also don't interview her. Don't think you're getting a gotcha. Just outline who she is, what she says and does, and then ignore her. RCR and The Platform are no doubt going to have her on.
Media covering Candace Owens' potential visit to New Zealand should make clear she is a Holocaust denier, not merely "controversial".
December 12, 2024 at 3:37 AM
Also don't interview her. Don't think you're getting a gotcha. Just outline who she is, what she says and does, and then ignore her. RCR and The Platform are no doubt going to have her on.
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www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rod-emmer... Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of December 2 - 8
December 5, 2024 at 6:51 PM
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rod-emmer... Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of December 2 - 8
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I'm all for protecting Dr. Fauci and other true patriots who Trump might target with preemptive pardons.
You?
You?
December 6, 2024 at 4:39 AM
I'm all for protecting Dr. Fauci and other true patriots who Trump might target with preemptive pardons.
You?
You?
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wow I am struggling to understand how the thing that has never worked is working even less
December 5, 2024 at 10:41 PM
wow I am struggling to understand how the thing that has never worked is working even less
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They've gone verrrry quiet on The Most Expensive Road Of All Time, the East West Link. It was $1.8 billion for 6km of road in 2017. Anyone knows that number has gotten a whole lot bigger.
The reckless fantasy of promising major projects based on their 2016 costs is starting to bite for the government.
www.politik.co.nz/paying-for-n...
www.politik.co.nz/paying-for-n...
Paying for National's roads
The Government has promised 17 Roads of National Significance, but the brutal truth is that it cannot afford them. So Transport Minister Simeon Brown yesterday announced that from now on, tolls and o...
www.politik.co.nz
December 5, 2024 at 11:59 PM
They've gone verrrry quiet on The Most Expensive Road Of All Time, the East West Link. It was $1.8 billion for 6km of road in 2017. Anyone knows that number has gotten a whole lot bigger.
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Ok so of this cohort of 10 boot campers one is dead and two have done a runner. In the previous cohort of 10, one did a runner and reoffended. This indicates a 20% jump in failure in six months
December 5, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Ok so of this cohort of 10 boot campers one is dead and two have done a runner. In the previous cohort of 10, one did a runner and reoffended. This indicates a 20% jump in failure in six months
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Nice easy one from Rangi here. Post-Treaty folks don't get the rights of Māori, because those rights pre-date and are affirmed by Te Tiriti.
November 24, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Nice easy one from Rangi here. Post-Treaty folks don't get the rights of Māori, because those rights pre-date and are affirmed by Te Tiriti.
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I get this but imo we shouldn't buy into Seymour's framing.
What I'd insist on is that this has nothing to do with individual rights; it's one party to an agreement that set up this country trying to change the deal unilaterally. As unconstitutional as if the US federal gov tried to abolish states.
What I'd insist on is that this has nothing to do with individual rights; it's one party to an agreement that set up this country trying to change the deal unilaterally. As unconstitutional as if the US federal gov tried to abolish states.
David Seymour keeps saying, “The challenge for people who oppose this bill is to explain why they are so opposed to those basic principles of equal rights [the same rights and duties, the right to self-determine].”
Can we crowdsource (bluesource?) a collection of simple explanatory points?
#nzpol
Can we crowdsource (bluesource?) a collection of simple explanatory points?
#nzpol
November 24, 2024 at 8:01 AM
I get this but imo we shouldn't buy into Seymour's framing.
What I'd insist on is that this has nothing to do with individual rights; it's one party to an agreement that set up this country trying to change the deal unilaterally. As unconstitutional as if the US federal gov tried to abolish states.
What I'd insist on is that this has nothing to do with individual rights; it's one party to an agreement that set up this country trying to change the deal unilaterally. As unconstitutional as if the US federal gov tried to abolish states.
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Not a scrap of rubbish on the ground. No violence. No arrests. No swastikas. No nooses. Fifty thousand people all uniting to voice their objection to the absurd, peacefully observing the kaupapa. That's a power you can't dismiss or switch off.
November 19, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Not a scrap of rubbish on the ground. No violence. No arrests. No swastikas. No nooses. Fifty thousand people all uniting to voice their objection to the absurd, peacefully observing the kaupapa. That's a power you can't dismiss or switch off.