Josi
@josief.bsky.social
What matters to me likely matters to you. A brightness of future, a sense of agency, the ability to choose and a feeling of belonging.
Aotearoa, New Zealand
Aotearoa, New Zealand
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a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
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If services you use are being affected, that's around lunchtime, local time for an estimated resolution.
October 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
If services you use are being affected, that's around lunchtime, local time for an estimated resolution.
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Anyone who thinks cutting public spending is easy should read this article. Anyone who thinks increasing public investment will automatically increase growth should read this article. @warrenoates1.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Anyone who thinks cutting public spending is easy should read this article. Anyone who thinks increasing public investment will automatically increase growth should read this article. @warrenoates1.bsky.social
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hi #kikorangi! if there are any Auckland fiber crafters out there looking for some company, there's a monthly meet up this Sunday - see alt text for details. feel free to dm me if interested, i've been to the last couple 🧶🧵
www.facebook.com/615665932454...
www.facebook.com/615665932454...
October 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
hi #kikorangi! if there are any Auckland fiber crafters out there looking for some company, there's a monthly meet up this Sunday - see alt text for details. feel free to dm me if interested, i've been to the last couple 🧶🧵
www.facebook.com/615665932454...
www.facebook.com/615665932454...
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I’ve just realised that new curriculum was written by people who think winning a pub quiz is a measure of well educated you are.
October 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I’ve just realised that new curriculum was written by people who think winning a pub quiz is a measure of well educated you are.
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Byline Times is digging where the monopoly press fears to tread.
Farage’s Kremlin links. Trump’s pull on Blue Labour. Thiel & Palantir’s reach into government.
Our new investigations team is just getting started. Help us go even further:
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Farage’s Kremlin links. Trump’s pull on Blue Labour. Thiel & Palantir’s reach into government.
Our new investigations team is just getting started. Help us go even further:
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October 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Byline Times is digging where the monopoly press fears to tread.
Farage’s Kremlin links. Trump’s pull on Blue Labour. Thiel & Palantir’s reach into government.
Our new investigations team is just getting started. Help us go even further:
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Farage’s Kremlin links. Trump’s pull on Blue Labour. Thiel & Palantir’s reach into government.
Our new investigations team is just getting started. Help us go even further:
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ew post: Populism and Economic Prosperity
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/popu...
We would expect populist governments to damage the economy, and the evidence suggests that they do so in a big way. But we know from Brexit that the media typically nullifies the impact of this evidence on voters.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/popu...
We would expect populist governments to damage the economy, and the evidence suggests that they do so in a big way. But we know from Brexit that the media typically nullifies the impact of this evidence on voters.
Populism and Economic Prosperity
Mainstream political parties normally claim that populist parties, if they ever got to power, would damage the economy. We have clear evid...
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October 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
ew post: Populism and Economic Prosperity
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/popu...
We would expect populist governments to damage the economy, and the evidence suggests that they do so in a big way. But we know from Brexit that the media typically nullifies the impact of this evidence on voters.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/popu...
We would expect populist governments to damage the economy, and the evidence suggests that they do so in a big way. But we know from Brexit that the media typically nullifies the impact of this evidence on voters.
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Confirmation today that the new junior English and Maths curricula that became official policy this year are being changed.
In secret. No consultation.
In secret. No consultation.
October 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Confirmation today that the new junior English and Maths curricula that became official policy this year are being changed.
In secret. No consultation.
In secret. No consultation.
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Success comes in the shape of a pyramid. There’s only one PM and one Air NZ CEO at a time. Most people are working to pay bills and exist. We have over-index on the idea that everyone can slowly work through the steps to success and eventually be on top. It’s a myth.
October 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Success comes in the shape of a pyramid. There’s only one PM and one Air NZ CEO at a time. Most people are working to pay bills and exist. We have over-index on the idea that everyone can slowly work through the steps to success and eventually be on top. It’s a myth.
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When the animals in your presence love you as much as this, you know you are an absolutely outstanding human.
Photographer: Hugo van Lawick
Photographer: Hugo van Lawick
October 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
When the animals in your presence love you as much as this, you know you are an absolutely outstanding human.
Photographer: Hugo van Lawick
Photographer: Hugo van Lawick
Well that’s all a bit sad. Jane Goodall has died, peacefully in her sleep during a speaking tour in California
October 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Well that’s all a bit sad. Jane Goodall has died, peacefully in her sleep during a speaking tour in California
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"Instead, the primary effect of the changes will be to disenfranchise thousands of people. As The Post’s Henry Cooke reports, the Electoral Commission expects the number of votes disallowed due to lack of enrolment to quintuple from 11,000 to 55,000 in the next election."
😡
#nzpol
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#nzpol
A stinging rebuke of the government from the deputy prime minister
A stinging rebuke of the government from the deputy prime minister
A politician changing the rules in a way that benefits his election prospects has condemned politicians changing the rules to benefit their election prospects....
thespinoff.co.nz
September 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"Instead, the primary effect of the changes will be to disenfranchise thousands of people. As The Post’s Henry Cooke reports, the Electoral Commission expects the number of votes disallowed due to lack of enrolment to quintuple from 11,000 to 55,000 in the next election."
😡
#nzpol
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#nzpol
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New: My analysis on the Government's just-announced energy reforms. The uninspired package doubles down on fossil fuels, after a major market review recommended privatising the gentailers.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/01/g...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/01/g...
Damp squib energy reforms reject 8 of 10 review recommendations
Analysis: The Government's limited energy package doubles down on fossil fuels after a market review recommends privatising the gentailers
newsroom.co.nz
September 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
New: My analysis on the Government's just-announced energy reforms. The uninspired package doubles down on fossil fuels, after a major market review recommended privatising the gentailers.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/01/g...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/01/g...
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Benefit data day - quick preview...
Working age people on main benefits is still sailing above Treasury/MSD forecasts from a few months ago, and we are a full 30,000 souls above last year's forecasts. (1/n)
Working age people on main benefits is still sailing above Treasury/MSD forecasts from a few months ago, and we are a full 30,000 souls above last year's forecasts. (1/n)
September 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Benefit data day - quick preview...
Working age people on main benefits is still sailing above Treasury/MSD forecasts from a few months ago, and we are a full 30,000 souls above last year's forecasts. (1/n)
Working age people on main benefits is still sailing above Treasury/MSD forecasts from a few months ago, and we are a full 30,000 souls above last year's forecasts. (1/n)
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This is actually very impressive in polling terms.
🗳️ NEW | Greens second in London 📊
🔴LAB: 31% (+3)
🟢GRN: 18% (+6)
➡️REF: 16% (-2)
🔵CON: 15% (-3)
🟠LDEM: 15% (-2)
via @yougov.co.uk / 7-8 Sept
Chgs w/ 31 Aug-1 Sept.
@londonygs.bsky.social @londongreenparty.bsky.social
🔴LAB: 31% (+3)
🟢GRN: 18% (+6)
➡️REF: 16% (-2)
🔵CON: 15% (-3)
🟠LDEM: 15% (-2)
via @yougov.co.uk / 7-8 Sept
Chgs w/ 31 Aug-1 Sept.
@londonygs.bsky.social @londongreenparty.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
This is actually very impressive in polling terms.
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Total gross earnings rose 1.5.% last year – well below current inflation of 2.7%. Workers are falling further behind the current cost of living. This has likely been compounded by real-terms cuts in the minimum wage, and fewer jobs being available to make up lost hours
September 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Total gross earnings rose 1.5.% last year – well below current inflation of 2.7%. Workers are falling further behind the current cost of living. This has likely been compounded by real-terms cuts in the minimum wage, and fewer jobs being available to make up lost hours
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The economy is very difficult for younger workers. 19,842 fewer filled jobs for 15-24 year olds than last year, and 41,000 fewer than 2 years ago. The group with the fastest growth in jobs are the over 65s, who may well be in work for financial reasons, not through active choice
September 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The economy is very difficult for younger workers. 19,842 fewer filled jobs for 15-24 year olds than last year, and 41,000 fewer than 2 years ago. The group with the fastest growth in jobs are the over 65s, who may well be in work for financial reasons, not through active choice
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#nzpol Data released by Statistics New Zealand shows that the labour market is even more bleak than feared, with the loss of more than 10,000 jobs in just three months. The data shows that there are more than 50,000 fewer jobs than in December 2023. A 🧵 www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
Business employment data: June 2025 quarter | Stats NZ
Total actual filled jobs in the June 2025 quarter were 2.26 million. Total seasonally adjusted filled jobs were down 0.5 percent (10,560 jobs) in the June 2025 quarter (compared with the March 2025 qu...
www.stats.govt.nz
September 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
#nzpol Data released by Statistics New Zealand shows that the labour market is even more bleak than feared, with the loss of more than 10,000 jobs in just three months. The data shows that there are more than 50,000 fewer jobs than in December 2023. A 🧵 www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
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Homework is basically just teaching kids to have a shitty work-life balance and to work for free outside their contracted hours.
September 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Homework is basically just teaching kids to have a shitty work-life balance and to work for free outside their contracted hours.
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“Private care does not "free up a bed" because the same limited pool of doctors and nurses work in private as well as public care.
… Who will really benefit from an influx of government money into the private system - patients in need of vital healthcare or business owners?”
Vital question to ask👇
… Who will really benefit from an influx of government money into the private system - patients in need of vital healthcare or business owners?”
Vital question to ask👇
NZ’s shift to more private healthcare will likely raise costs and reduce quality: what the evidence tells us
amp.rnz.co.nz
September 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
“Private care does not "free up a bed" because the same limited pool of doctors and nurses work in private as well as public care.
… Who will really benefit from an influx of government money into the private system - patients in need of vital healthcare or business owners?”
Vital question to ask👇
… Who will really benefit from an influx of government money into the private system - patients in need of vital healthcare or business owners?”
Vital question to ask👇
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Share my office space!
Join small shared office with 3 creatives in Mt Albert. Warm, sunny, close to trains & buses, lots of lunch & coffee close. Alarm & heat pump. Meeting/lunch room & quiet reception room.
$100+gst/wk inc internet, power, coffee machine. louise@designassembly.org.nz Pls share!
Join small shared office with 3 creatives in Mt Albert. Warm, sunny, close to trains & buses, lots of lunch & coffee close. Alarm & heat pump. Meeting/lunch room & quiet reception room.
$100+gst/wk inc internet, power, coffee machine. louise@designassembly.org.nz Pls share!
September 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Share my office space!
Join small shared office with 3 creatives in Mt Albert. Warm, sunny, close to trains & buses, lots of lunch & coffee close. Alarm & heat pump. Meeting/lunch room & quiet reception room.
$100+gst/wk inc internet, power, coffee machine. louise@designassembly.org.nz Pls share!
Join small shared office with 3 creatives in Mt Albert. Warm, sunny, close to trains & buses, lots of lunch & coffee close. Alarm & heat pump. Meeting/lunch room & quiet reception room.
$100+gst/wk inc internet, power, coffee machine. louise@designassembly.org.nz Pls share!
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Only 7 out of 300+ analysed restructures went back to monitor and document the after-effect and whether it's been successful.
#govis2025
#govis2025
September 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Only 7 out of 300+ analysed restructures went back to monitor and document the after-effect and whether it's been successful.
#govis2025
#govis2025
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Here’s a stat that always makes my toes curl:
Over the past decade, the Conservative Party has received over £7.2 million from figures connected to the GWPF - the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group
Over the past decade, the Conservative Party has received over £7.2 million from figures connected to the GWPF - the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group
Tories pledge to get 'all our oil and gas out of the North Sea'
The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would
www.bbc.co.uk
August 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Here’s a stat that always makes my toes curl:
Over the past decade, the Conservative Party has received over £7.2 million from figures connected to the GWPF - the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group
Over the past decade, the Conservative Party has received over £7.2 million from figures connected to the GWPF - the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group