Gary Weatherhead (AoNZ)
@wellygeenz.bsky.social
Live music feeds my soul; Sound & Lighting Tech; CompSci; Solo Nomad; Survivor. AoNZ focused.
Pākehā, cis male, he/him.
#ProVaccine #ProChoice #BLM #ProRainbow #ToitūTeTiriti #TangataTiriti #LandBack #ProudAntifa #ProScience #Kāpiti #Aotearoa
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Pākehā, cis male, he/him.
#ProVaccine #ProChoice #BLM #ProRainbow #ToitūTeTiriti #TangataTiriti #LandBack #ProudAntifa #ProScience #Kāpiti #Aotearoa
🇳🇿🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸 🔴🟢⚫️
Pinned
I click the ❤️ on people’s posts.
A lot!
It’s my way of saying:
- I see you;
- I feel you;
- I celebrate you;
- I empathise with you;
- I mourn for your loss;
- I have no words, but I paused for you;
- I care;
- I’m angry against the injustice you face;
- You are not alone;
<b> Hugs <\b>
A lot!
It’s my way of saying:
- I see you;
- I feel you;
- I celebrate you;
- I empathise with you;
- I mourn for your loss;
- I have no words, but I paused for you;
- I care;
- I’m angry against the injustice you face;
- You are not alone;
<b> Hugs <\b>
Did lighting for an amazing bunch of musos on Saturday!
The Underground Tavern, Wellington.
Dead Cherry / Jodie and the Stowaways.
Anyway, managed to take a few photos from the night…
The Underground Tavern, Wellington.
Dead Cherry / Jodie and the Stowaways.
Anyway, managed to take a few photos from the night…
November 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Did lighting for an amazing bunch of musos on Saturday!
The Underground Tavern, Wellington.
Dead Cherry / Jodie and the Stowaways.
Anyway, managed to take a few photos from the night…
The Underground Tavern, Wellington.
Dead Cherry / Jodie and the Stowaways.
Anyway, managed to take a few photos from the night…
Was at doctors in Kāpiti Aotearoa/NZ yesterday and warmly thanked my Dr for the inclusive rainbow-friendly toilet signage.
Her face lit up, so grateful for the positive feedback. She promised to pass it along.
Clearly feedback to date had been negative as the sign showed evidence of damage.
Her face lit up, so grateful for the positive feedback. She promised to pass it along.
Clearly feedback to date had been negative as the sign showed evidence of damage.
November 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Was at doctors in Kāpiti Aotearoa/NZ yesterday and warmly thanked my Dr for the inclusive rainbow-friendly toilet signage.
Her face lit up, so grateful for the positive feedback. She promised to pass it along.
Clearly feedback to date had been negative as the sign showed evidence of damage.
Her face lit up, so grateful for the positive feedback. She promised to pass it along.
Clearly feedback to date had been negative as the sign showed evidence of damage.
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Help!
I lovely trans friend of mine has flipped and gone down a rabbit hole…
He used to be “Trump is a rapist” etc.
But over the last month has done a deep dive, inspired by his partner, and completely flipped. Now he thinks “Trump is going to save us all…”
Yikes. I don’t know where to start :-(
I lovely trans friend of mine has flipped and gone down a rabbit hole…
He used to be “Trump is a rapist” etc.
But over the last month has done a deep dive, inspired by his partner, and completely flipped. Now he thinks “Trump is going to save us all…”
Yikes. I don’t know where to start :-(
October 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Help!
I lovely trans friend of mine has flipped and gone down a rabbit hole…
He used to be “Trump is a rapist” etc.
But over the last month has done a deep dive, inspired by his partner, and completely flipped. Now he thinks “Trump is going to save us all…”
Yikes. I don’t know where to start :-(
I lovely trans friend of mine has flipped and gone down a rabbit hole…
He used to be “Trump is a rapist” etc.
But over the last month has done a deep dive, inspired by his partner, and completely flipped. Now he thinks “Trump is going to save us all…”
Yikes. I don’t know where to start :-(
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🗣 Kia ora to all those taking part in the mega strike āpōpō.
✊🏾Te Pāti Māori stands in solidarity with every union member fighting for fairness, dignity, and pay equity. This government has attacked workers’ rights but in 2026, together we’ll put it right. Kia kaha e te whānau
#OneTermGovt
#NZPol
✊🏾Te Pāti Māori stands in solidarity with every union member fighting for fairness, dignity, and pay equity. This government has attacked workers’ rights but in 2026, together we’ll put it right. Kia kaha e te whānau
#OneTermGovt
#NZPol
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🗣 Kia ora to all those taking part in the mega strike āpōpō.
✊🏾Te Pāti Māori stands in solidarity with every union member fighting for fairness, dignity, and pay equity. This government has attacked workers’ rights but in 2026, together we’ll put it right. Kia kaha e te whānau
#OneTermGovt
#NZPol
✊🏾Te Pāti Māori stands in solidarity with every union member fighting for fairness, dignity, and pay equity. This government has attacked workers’ rights but in 2026, together we’ll put it right. Kia kaha e te whānau
#OneTermGovt
#NZPol
Well it looks like Trump finally got that ‘yuge’ crowd he always boasted about… except those millions are standing AGAINST him!
#NoKings
#NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Well it looks like Trump finally got that ‘yuge’ crowd he always boasted about… except those millions are standing AGAINST him!
#NoKings
#NoKings
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From the next NZ Labour policy platform I'd like to see:
- Wealth + capital gains tax
- mandatory Māori wards
- Te Aka Whai Ora
- Legalise cannabis
- Clean Car Discount + Home solar and battery subsidy
- Light Rail + funded Te Huia + SI service
- Free dental
- KiwiSaver beefed up
- Wealth + capital gains tax
- mandatory Māori wards
- Te Aka Whai Ora
- Legalise cannabis
- Clean Car Discount + Home solar and battery subsidy
- Light Rail + funded Te Huia + SI service
- Free dental
- KiwiSaver beefed up
July 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
From the next NZ Labour policy platform I'd like to see:
- Wealth + capital gains tax
- mandatory Māori wards
- Te Aka Whai Ora
- Legalise cannabis
- Clean Car Discount + Home solar and battery subsidy
- Light Rail + funded Te Huia + SI service
- Free dental
- KiwiSaver beefed up
- Wealth + capital gains tax
- mandatory Māori wards
- Te Aka Whai Ora
- Legalise cannabis
- Clean Car Discount + Home solar and battery subsidy
- Light Rail + funded Te Huia + SI service
- Free dental
- KiwiSaver beefed up
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Transphobia and homophobia is not welcomed here.
July 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Transphobia and homophobia is not welcomed here.
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Hi! I'm a doctor who was working in thr US during spring 2020! I spent the entire spring working in a PAPR hood, placing invasive lines into critically ill covid patients, many of whom died.
NZ's response was the best in the world, and these selfish idiots whining about it can get stuffed.
NZ's response was the best in the world, and these selfish idiots whining about it can get stuffed.
July 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Hi! I'm a doctor who was working in thr US during spring 2020! I spent the entire spring working in a PAPR hood, placing invasive lines into critically ill covid patients, many of whom died.
NZ's response was the best in the world, and these selfish idiots whining about it can get stuffed.
NZ's response was the best in the world, and these selfish idiots whining about it can get stuffed.
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...
PM Luxon: Uphold Codes of Conduct - Call David Seymour into line
Responsible leaders welcome advice from experts and when they are creating laws and policies. They know good decision making means planning for the long term, considering diverse points of view and ma...
our.actionstation.org.nz
June 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...
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I’ve written a letter of complaint to the PM regarding Seymour's behaviour. We’ve witnessed him target academics who act as our critic and conscience, and attack public servants for simply doing their job. This is unacceptable.
June 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I’ve written a letter of complaint to the PM regarding Seymour's behaviour. We’ve witnessed him target academics who act as our critic and conscience, and attack public servants for simply doing their job. This is unacceptable.
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#NZPol 🗣 “Rally your whānau, your hapū, your iwi, your communities. Let’s shut this bill down the way we shut down every other attempt to erase us. Submissions are our weapons- use them” @rawiriwaititimp.bsky.social
🚨📣 24 Days Left to oppose the #RSB📣🚨
📅 Deadline: 1 PM, Monday, 23rd June 2025
🚨📣 24 Days Left to oppose the #RSB📣🚨
📅 Deadline: 1 PM, Monday, 23rd June 2025
May 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
#NZPol 🗣 “Rally your whānau, your hapū, your iwi, your communities. Let’s shut this bill down the way we shut down every other attempt to erase us. Submissions are our weapons- use them” @rawiriwaititimp.bsky.social
🚨📣 24 Days Left to oppose the #RSB📣🚨
📅 Deadline: 1 PM, Monday, 23rd June 2025
🚨📣 24 Days Left to oppose the #RSB📣🚨
📅 Deadline: 1 PM, Monday, 23rd June 2025
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The main side effect vaccines have on children is that they live to be adults.
November 16, 2024 at 2:23 PM
The main side effect vaccines have on children is that they live to be adults.
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It’s a strange feeling standing by, about to watch your MPs get suspended.
Pride. Anger. Sadness… yeah all of that & more.
We came here to serve the kaupapa. To build a better Aotearoa.
Not to be silenced. Not to play nice for the comfort of the govt.
#NZPol
Pride. Anger. Sadness… yeah all of that & more.
We came here to serve the kaupapa. To build a better Aotearoa.
Not to be silenced. Not to play nice for the comfort of the govt.
#NZPol
May 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It’s a strange feeling standing by, about to watch your MPs get suspended.
Pride. Anger. Sadness… yeah all of that & more.
We came here to serve the kaupapa. To build a better Aotearoa.
Not to be silenced. Not to play nice for the comfort of the govt.
#NZPol
Pride. Anger. Sadness… yeah all of that & more.
We came here to serve the kaupapa. To build a better Aotearoa.
Not to be silenced. Not to play nice for the comfort of the govt.
#NZPol
Finding everything a bit much.
Watching Four Seasons on Netflix, with a beer, a Soju, and half a bottle of Rose…
Yep, just tucked myself into bed more than a bit pished…
Couldn’t face all the effed up-ness of everything
Sorry
Watching Four Seasons on Netflix, with a beer, a Soju, and half a bottle of Rose…
Yep, just tucked myself into bed more than a bit pished…
Couldn’t face all the effed up-ness of everything
Sorry
May 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Finding everything a bit much.
Watching Four Seasons on Netflix, with a beer, a Soju, and half a bottle of Rose…
Yep, just tucked myself into bed more than a bit pished…
Couldn’t face all the effed up-ness of everything
Sorry
Watching Four Seasons on Netflix, with a beer, a Soju, and half a bottle of Rose…
Yep, just tucked myself into bed more than a bit pished…
Couldn’t face all the effed up-ness of everything
Sorry
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NACTFirst are stealing from all women in NZ to fund interest deductibility for landlords, tax cuts for the top 20% of earners, and $9 billion of spending on military equipment. I guess they figure women don't vote for misogynistic pricks anyway. #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Government halts all current pay equity claims, makes it harder to lodge new ones
Unions are calling it "shameful", but Workplace Relations Minister Brooke Van Velden says it will "significantly reduce costs to the Crown".
www.rnz.co.nz
May 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
NACTFirst are stealing from all women in NZ to fund interest deductibility for landlords, tax cuts for the top 20% of earners, and $9 billion of spending on military equipment. I guess they figure women don't vote for misogynistic pricks anyway. #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Dr’s visit today, checking on meds levels; got both the Flu and Novavax Covid jabs while there! Me happy.
Also had heart rate (AF), lungs and blood pressure checked, all exceptionally good! Me very happy!
Also had heart rate (AF), lungs and blood pressure checked, all exceptionally good! Me very happy!
April 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Dr’s visit today, checking on meds levels; got both the Flu and Novavax Covid jabs while there! Me happy.
Also had heart rate (AF), lungs and blood pressure checked, all exceptionally good! Me very happy!
Also had heart rate (AF), lungs and blood pressure checked, all exceptionally good! Me very happy!
Tea-Rex
The Almond Brothers
Kale and the Gang
April 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Tea-Rex
Vikings
Isn’t it pretty much established that Viking raiders stumbled across the Americas before Columbus?
Therefore, might a case be made that the ‘white’ inhabitants owe subservience and tribute to the Nordic countries, including Denmark / Greenland?
You know, with MAGAts being immigrants?
Isn’t it pretty much established that Viking raiders stumbled across the Americas before Columbus?
Therefore, might a case be made that the ‘white’ inhabitants owe subservience and tribute to the Nordic countries, including Denmark / Greenland?
You know, with MAGAts being immigrants?
April 8, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Vikings
Isn’t it pretty much established that Viking raiders stumbled across the Americas before Columbus?
Therefore, might a case be made that the ‘white’ inhabitants owe subservience and tribute to the Nordic countries, including Denmark / Greenland?
You know, with MAGAts being immigrants?
Isn’t it pretty much established that Viking raiders stumbled across the Americas before Columbus?
Therefore, might a case be made that the ‘white’ inhabitants owe subservience and tribute to the Nordic countries, including Denmark / Greenland?
You know, with MAGAts being immigrants?
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Well done Aotearoa. You have been absolutely and resoundingly clear in your rejection of Seymour's toxic bill. Over 307,000 of us made submissions with around 90% opposed. Yes, 90%!!! I am so proud of who we are as a nation today. 1/
thespinoff.co.nz/atea/04-04-2...
thespinoff.co.nz/atea/04-04-2...
Select committee recommends scrapping Treaty principles bill amid huge opposition
Delivering the report 40 days ahead of schedule, the justice committee has recommended, by majority, is that the bill not proceed.
thespinoff.co.nz
April 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Well done Aotearoa. You have been absolutely and resoundingly clear in your rejection of Seymour's toxic bill. Over 307,000 of us made submissions with around 90% opposed. Yes, 90%!!! I am so proud of who we are as a nation today. 1/
thespinoff.co.nz/atea/04-04-2...
thespinoff.co.nz/atea/04-04-2...
Same
Toitū Te Tiriti. I acknowledge and celebrate that my ability to live on this beautiful land land comes from the Treaty. I have an absolute obligation to honour the treaty. I have an obligation to listen and learn and agitate when needed.
February 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Same
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"The research found New Zealanders “overwhelmingly” support Te Tiriti o Waitangi as our founding document of belonging."
Kiwis ‘largely united’ on wanting to see Te Tiriti honoured, report finds
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
Kiwis ‘largely united’ on wanting to see Te Tiriti honoured, report finds
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
Kiwis ‘largely united’ on wanting to see Te Tiriti honoured - report
Almost four out of five people in Aotearoa want respectful discussion on Te Tiriti rather than political rhetoric, survey shows.
www.stuff.co.nz
January 31, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"The research found New Zealanders “overwhelmingly” support Te Tiriti o Waitangi as our founding document of belonging."
Kiwis ‘largely united’ on wanting to see Te Tiriti honoured, report finds
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
Kiwis ‘largely united’ on wanting to see Te Tiriti honoured, report finds
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
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Very moved & encouraged by the articulate & informed submission from Asians Supporting Tino Rangatiratanga.
I feel a lot of hope for Aotearoa NZ when I see young clever NZ’ers taking the time to get beyond the superficial rhetoric on Te Tiriti put out by politicians & media #nzpol #ToitūTeTiriti
I feel a lot of hope for Aotearoa NZ when I see young clever NZ’ers taking the time to get beyond the superficial rhetoric on Te Tiriti put out by politicians & media #nzpol #ToitūTeTiriti
January 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Very moved & encouraged by the articulate & informed submission from Asians Supporting Tino Rangatiratanga.
I feel a lot of hope for Aotearoa NZ when I see young clever NZ’ers taking the time to get beyond the superficial rhetoric on Te Tiriti put out by politicians & media #nzpol #ToitūTeTiriti
I feel a lot of hope for Aotearoa NZ when I see young clever NZ’ers taking the time to get beyond the superficial rhetoric on Te Tiriti put out by politicians & media #nzpol #ToitūTeTiriti
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Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵
In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.
We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.
with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...
In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.
We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.
with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...
January 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵
In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.
We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.
with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...
In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.
We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.
with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...
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Why we need a capital gains tax #nzpol
New Zealand’s millionaires pay lower tax rates than cashiers – it’s time to fix the system | Max Rashbrooke
Inland Revenue report finds New Zealand’s 311 wealthiest families pay 8.9% of their income in tax, compared to 10.5% paid by minimum wage workers
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Why we need a capital gains tax #nzpol