Pen
@whioduck.bsky.social
Hidden talents and strong opinions, will respond when enraged.
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You shall not bob us out of our melody. If you do, our melancholy upon your head!
December 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
You shall not bob us out of our melody. If you do, our melancholy upon your head!
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#NZ
Science in NZ has long been underfunded. Cuts to both staff and funding by the current coalition have cut into something already stretched thin.
Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
Science in NZ has long been underfunded. Cuts to both staff and funding by the current coalition have cut into something already stretched thin.
Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain
Dr Samuel Mehr says the Government values science, but their ‘idiotic’ approach to funding it will cost them their brightest.
newsroom.co.nz
October 29, 2025 at 8:12 AM
#NZ
Science in NZ has long been underfunded. Cuts to both staff and funding by the current coalition have cut into something already stretched thin.
Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
Science in NZ has long been underfunded. Cuts to both staff and funding by the current coalition have cut into something already stretched thin.
Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
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In Aotearoa New Zealand Parliament today.
"The Speaker has 'named' Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick for refusing to leave the House.
The punishment means the MP had to once again leave the House, and will have her pay docked."
[ www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... ]
#nzpol
"The Speaker has 'named' Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick for refusing to leave the House.
The punishment means the MP had to once again leave the House, and will have her pay docked."
[ www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... ]
#nzpol
August 13, 2025 at 3:33 AM
In Aotearoa New Zealand Parliament today.
"The Speaker has 'named' Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick for refusing to leave the House.
The punishment means the MP had to once again leave the House, and will have her pay docked."
[ www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... ]
#nzpol
"The Speaker has 'named' Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick for refusing to leave the House.
The punishment means the MP had to once again leave the House, and will have her pay docked."
[ www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... ]
#nzpol
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Imagine it’s the west of Ireland in 1847, during the Great Famine?
Starving men, women, children desperately try to get to the Workhouse or charity Soup Kitchens. British Red Coat soldiers line up on the road, fire, then bayonet wounded by the road, while laughing. 1/
Starving men, women, children desperately try to get to the Workhouse or charity Soup Kitchens. British Red Coat soldiers line up on the road, fire, then bayonet wounded by the road, while laughing. 1/
The PNG Courier on the crime against humanity currently being permitted to take place in Gaza.
Substack - mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...
Substack - mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...
July 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Imagine it’s the west of Ireland in 1847, during the Great Famine?
Starving men, women, children desperately try to get to the Workhouse or charity Soup Kitchens. British Red Coat soldiers line up on the road, fire, then bayonet wounded by the road, while laughing. 1/
Starving men, women, children desperately try to get to the Workhouse or charity Soup Kitchens. British Red Coat soldiers line up on the road, fire, then bayonet wounded by the road, while laughing. 1/
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This is an excellent piece on manufacturing consent by Emily Writes as she documents how Stuff specifically is guilty of manufacturing consent for the genocide in Gaza.
@nzstuff
emilywrites.substack.com/p/stuffs-rol...
@nzstuff
emilywrites.substack.com/p/stuffs-rol...
Stuff's role in the genocide in Gaza
And why it matters so much...
emilywrites.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This is an excellent piece on manufacturing consent by Emily Writes as she documents how Stuff specifically is guilty of manufacturing consent for the genocide in Gaza.
@nzstuff
emilywrites.substack.com/p/stuffs-rol...
@nzstuff
emilywrites.substack.com/p/stuffs-rol...
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Unpaid women doing the work that governing MPs wouldn't do before deciding that women should remain underpaid for doing women's work ...
Former MPs unite for ‘people’s select committee’ into pay equity
Women who served for the National, Labour, NZ First and Green parties will form a committee to analyse the Government’s pay equity changes.
www.stuff.co.nz
May 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Happy 276th birthday Edward Jenner! What a time for vaccination: 154 million lives saved in the last 50 years, tempered with an increase in vaccine preventable diseases across the world, vaccine sceptics in charge in the US, and cuts to overseas aid threatening global immunisation programmes.
May 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Happy 276th birthday Edward Jenner! What a time for vaccination: 154 million lives saved in the last 50 years, tempered with an increase in vaccine preventable diseases across the world, vaccine sceptics in charge in the US, and cuts to overseas aid threatening global immunisation programmes.
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How did we go from the country that was first in the world for Women’s Suffrage, to this destroying pay equity for women bullshit???
May 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
How did we go from the country that was first in the world for Women’s Suffrage, to this destroying pay equity for women bullshit???
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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🧵 of truth
David Seymour vs the All Blacks
Clear statement from the All Blacks
#ToitūTeTiriti
#ToitūTeTiriti
April 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
🧵 of truth
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OK I found the Hipkins quote. This is the 2nd time RNZ's headlines print out of context. May I suggest some care when quoting then? What it is is Hipkins saying if we accept Peters' recommendation then we would not have needed bigger ferries. But it was Peters WHO RECOMMENDED IT. It's a dig
#nzpol
#nzpol
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
OK I found the Hipkins quote. This is the 2nd time RNZ's headlines print out of context. May I suggest some care when quoting then? What it is is Hipkins saying if we accept Peters' recommendation then we would not have needed bigger ferries. But it was Peters WHO RECOMMENDED IT. It's a dig
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Hand over $10, you get back a Big Mac
Hand over a million, you get a house
Hand over 800 million and what do you get for it?
Nothing, if you're Nicola Willis
Hand over a million, you get a house
Hand over 800 million and what do you get for it?
Nothing, if you're Nicola Willis
March 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Hand over $10, you get back a Big Mac
Hand over a million, you get a house
Hand over 800 million and what do you get for it?
Nothing, if you're Nicola Willis
Hand over a million, you get a house
Hand over 800 million and what do you get for it?
Nothing, if you're Nicola Willis
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Speaking truth to (limited) power. @dieworkwear.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Speaking truth to (limited) power. @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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Government workers working remotely in NZ = Bad
Foreigners working remotely in NZ = Good
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Foreigners working remotely in NZ = Good
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Watch live: Visa rules for 'digital nomads' to be loosened, Nicola Willis announces
The announcement comes after a high-profile economist said the economy recently performed the worst in the developed world.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Government workers working remotely in NZ = Bad
Foreigners working remotely in NZ = Good
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Foreigners working remotely in NZ = Good
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Kaipara Mayor Craig Jepsen says the damage across Mangawhai Village was much worse than he envisaged.
Maybe if he'd listened to climate scientists and didn't stop #ClimateChange work by KDC, Council would be more ready for #ExtremeWeatherEvents?
#NZpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/26/l...
Maybe if he'd listened to climate scientists and didn't stop #ClimateChange work by KDC, Council would be more ready for #ExtremeWeatherEvents?
#NZpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/26/l...
Two injured, around 50 buildings damaged by Mangawhai tornado
People have been rescued from damaged homes, as fallen trees and powerlines caused havoc in the area.
www.1news.co.nz
January 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Kaipara Mayor Craig Jepsen says the damage across Mangawhai Village was much worse than he envisaged.
Maybe if he'd listened to climate scientists and didn't stop #ClimateChange work by KDC, Council would be more ready for #ExtremeWeatherEvents?
#NZpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/26/l...
Maybe if he'd listened to climate scientists and didn't stop #ClimateChange work by KDC, Council would be more ready for #ExtremeWeatherEvents?
#NZpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/26/l...
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"Have we been making awkward gestures in moments of enthusiasm?"
January 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"Have we been making awkward gestures in moments of enthusiasm?"
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Just had to post this because it seems so appropriate for anyone in DC right now.
Wish I could get the Village People to sing it during the inauguration 😂
youtu.be/surb8FzjWfg?...
Wish I could get the Village People to sing it during the inauguration 😂
youtu.be/surb8FzjWfg?...
Stealers Wheel-Stuck In The Middle With You Lyrics-HD
YouTube video by Sean Dolan
youtu.be
January 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Just had to post this because it seems so appropriate for anyone in DC right now.
Wish I could get the Village People to sing it during the inauguration 😂
youtu.be/surb8FzjWfg?...
Wish I could get the Village People to sing it during the inauguration 😂
youtu.be/surb8FzjWfg?...
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"NO FRONTLINE CUTS"?!
Napier (Pop. >56,000) does not have a hospital.
HB Hospital is in Hastings, a 15-30min drive away.
Wellesley Road Urgent Care is the closest thing we have to it.
Health NZ proposes cut to Napier’s overnight urgent care services
www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
Napier (Pop. >56,000) does not have a hospital.
HB Hospital is in Hastings, a 15-30min drive away.
Wellesley Road Urgent Care is the closest thing we have to it.
Health NZ proposes cut to Napier’s overnight urgent care services
www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
Health NZ proposes cut to Napier’s overnight urgent care services
A confidential briefing note says the changes could occur by March 2025.
www.nzherald.co.nz
January 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"NO FRONTLINE CUTS"?!
Napier (Pop. >56,000) does not have a hospital.
HB Hospital is in Hastings, a 15-30min drive away.
Wellesley Road Urgent Care is the closest thing we have to it.
Health NZ proposes cut to Napier’s overnight urgent care services
www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
Napier (Pop. >56,000) does not have a hospital.
HB Hospital is in Hastings, a 15-30min drive away.
Wellesley Road Urgent Care is the closest thing we have to it.
Health NZ proposes cut to Napier’s overnight urgent care services
www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...