Nic
@nicnacnew.bsky.social
Looking for social media sanity and Whittakers chocolate. Hoping to find at least one of those things here
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Just a reminder - this is the network David Seymour's ACT is part of #nzpol theaimn.net/tim-wilson-s...
Tim Wilson, secretive money and "think" tanks. Australia’s democracy is at stake.
Australians should remember, as the election approaches, that Tim Wilson was shortlisted in 2015 for the US-based Atlas Network’s most prestigious prize. He and his team at the Atlas Network-partner t...
theaimn.net
April 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Just a reminder - this is the network David Seymour's ACT is part of #nzpol theaimn.net/tim-wilson-s...
Can't believe we are needing to hear this again. For many of us our grandparents fought so we wouldn't have to.
You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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April 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Can't believe we are needing to hear this again. For many of us our grandparents fought so we wouldn't have to.
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Cuba Dupa. How good and we’re not even halfway ❤️
March 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Cuba Dupa. How good and we’re not even halfway ❤️
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Cycleways are a vital step towards making Wellington safer and more family-friendly, so I'm stoked to be able to share the positive experiences some families are having. #nzpol
Mayors office - Cycleways a family affair
Wellington wheels are turning, and families are feeling the difference.
wellington.govt.nz
March 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Cycleways are a vital step towards making Wellington safer and more family-friendly, so I'm stoked to be able to share the positive experiences some families are having. #nzpol
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It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
March 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Succinct and on point @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social receipts in hand because we will NOT let this gaslighting excuse for a governement get away with privatising our country into oblivion 👏
#nzpol #BHN #onetermgovernment
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#nzpol #BHN #onetermgovernment
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How running the country like a business is going...
Luxon and his team and running the country like a Blockbuster video in 2012.
open.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Succinct and on point @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social receipts in hand because we will NOT let this gaslighting excuse for a governement get away with privatising our country into oblivion 👏
#nzpol #BHN #onetermgovernment
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#nzpol #BHN #onetermgovernment
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I really hate Seymour for munting up the kids school lunches, people like him are the reason we can't have nice things #NZPol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Substandard school lunches ruining 'sense of community' - principal
Nearly a third of schools receiving the cheaper free lunches have contacted the ministry with queries and complaints
www.rnz.co.nz
February 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I really hate Seymour for munting up the kids school lunches, people like him are the reason we can't have nice things #NZPol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Arohanui to all Tangata Whenua & Tangata Tiriti across our beautiful motu.
On this commercially defined day of love remember to look around & acknowledge the lonely as well.
Smiles & thank yous are rare gifts for some but everyday is your opportunity to praise & give love in our world.
#valentines
On this commercially defined day of love remember to look around & acknowledge the lonely as well.
Smiles & thank yous are rare gifts for some but everyday is your opportunity to praise & give love in our world.
#valentines
February 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Arohanui to all Tangata Whenua & Tangata Tiriti across our beautiful motu.
On this commercially defined day of love remember to look around & acknowledge the lonely as well.
Smiles & thank yous are rare gifts for some but everyday is your opportunity to praise & give love in our world.
#valentines
On this commercially defined day of love remember to look around & acknowledge the lonely as well.
Smiles & thank yous are rare gifts for some but everyday is your opportunity to praise & give love in our world.
#valentines
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#BHN Schools turning to sausage sizzles to feed kids as school lunches don't get delivered #nzpol
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#BHN Schools turning to sausage sizzles to feed kids as school lunches don't get delivered
YouTube video by DOC Studios
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February 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
#BHN Schools turning to sausage sizzles to feed kids as school lunches don't get delivered #nzpol
youtu.be/KQ0se28lHgY
youtu.be/KQ0se28lHgY
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#BHN Are National lining up NZ for privatisation in their desired second term? #nzpol
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#BHN Are National lining up NZ for privatisation in their desired second term
YouTube video by DOC Studios
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February 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM
#BHN Are National lining up NZ for privatisation in their desired second term? #nzpol
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THIS IS FINE
#nzpol
#nzpol
David Seymour floats pulling out of Paris Agreement after 2026 election - NZ Herald
The Act leader suggested his party might campaign on pulling out of the deal.
www.nzherald.co.nz
February 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
THIS IS FINE
#nzpol
#nzpol
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How is Trump hoping to improve air safety?!
February 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
How is Trump hoping to improve air safety?!
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350,000 people wanting work or more work vs about 11,000 jobs on TradeMe. It's stats like these that inspired my moniker.
February 3, 2025 at 5:23 AM
350,000 people wanting work or more work vs about 11,000 jobs on TradeMe. It's stats like these that inspired my moniker.
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“D’Souza noted New Zealand, once among the top three countries for palliative care provision, now lagged behind Costa Rica and Lithuania, alongside Mexico and Slovenia — “largely due to a lack of palliative care policy and resulting access to palliative specialists”.”
#nzpol
#nzpol
Palliative care specialists fear for future of service
Palliative care is the latest medical speciality on the Te Whatu Ora chopping block and specialists are scared of what that means for rural patients.
www.thepress.co.nz
January 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“D’Souza noted New Zealand, once among the top three countries for palliative care provision, now lagged behind Costa Rica and Lithuania, alongside Mexico and Slovenia — “largely due to a lack of palliative care policy and resulting access to palliative specialists”.”
#nzpol
#nzpol
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The current NZ Govt's economic 'strategy' in a single headline: "All of Govt’s 2024 coal earnings spent treating damages at a single mine" newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/02/a...
All of Govt's 2024 coal earnings spent treating damages at a single mine
The Stockton mine is hoping for a fast-tracked 25-year extension, as historic damages are costing the Crown more than it earns from all coal mine royalties
newsroom.co.nz
January 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The current NZ Govt's economic 'strategy' in a single headline: "All of Govt’s 2024 coal earnings spent treating damages at a single mine" newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/02/a...
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Breaking news: I did a long interview with one of the fired IG's, Mark Greenblatt of Interior. Excerpts have been posted at @thecontrarian.bsky.social, where I am a founding contributor, but the full conversation -- well worth your while if you have time -- is now a 1-on-1 at bit.ly/GreenblattTF
“Friday night was the danger zone”
Harry talks with Mark Greenblatt, one of the Inspectors General fired suddenly in the “Friday night purge” of the vast majority of Senate-confirmed IG’s. They discuss the origin, function, and nature ...
bit.ly
January 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Breaking news: I did a long interview with one of the fired IG's, Mark Greenblatt of Interior. Excerpts have been posted at @thecontrarian.bsky.social, where I am a founding contributor, but the full conversation -- well worth your while if you have time -- is now a 1-on-1 at bit.ly/GreenblattTF
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Repost because this is possibly the best astro image I've taken. Galactic Kiwi, Scorpius & Antares clearly visible in this composite image of the Milky Way above Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ as seen from Macandrew Bay on Otago Peninsula (alt text big explanation of how)
#Nikon #Photography #MilkyWay
#Nikon #Photography #MilkyWay
January 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Repost because this is possibly the best astro image I've taken. Galactic Kiwi, Scorpius & Antares clearly visible in this composite image of the Milky Way above Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ as seen from Macandrew Bay on Otago Peninsula (alt text big explanation of how)
#Nikon #Photography #MilkyWay
#Nikon #Photography #MilkyWay
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"Fossil fuels are losing their grip on EU energy. At the start of the European Green Deal in 2019, few thought the EU’s energy transition could be where it is today; wind and solar are pushing coal to the margins and forcing gas into structural decline"
Big new @ember-energy.org report on EU energy
Big new @ember-energy.org report on EU energy
European Electricity Review 2025 | Ember
The EU’s electricity transition continued at pace in 2024, as solar overtook coal for the first time and gas declined for the fifth year in a row.
ember-energy.org
January 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
"Fossil fuels are losing their grip on EU energy. At the start of the European Green Deal in 2019, few thought the EU’s energy transition could be where it is today; wind and solar are pushing coal to the margins and forcing gas into structural decline"
Big new @ember-energy.org report on EU energy
Big new @ember-energy.org report on EU energy
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LOVE this thread
*spoiler alert, free science lesson
*spoiler alert, free science lesson
Yesterday I spoke to the @washingtonpost.com about Trump’s ‘split the atom’ claim. As widely acknowledged, this achievement is NOT the United States’s to claim, but it’s an interesting topic to explore. The WaPo story here is: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Trump claimed the United States split the atom. New Zealand begs to differ.
Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was not an American.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
LOVE this thread
*spoiler alert, free science lesson
*spoiler alert, free science lesson
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An informative read that helps make sense of #nzpol atm where “a fringe party supposedly committed to freedom of thought seeks to impose its ideologies on Parliament & all other political parties in perpetuity, & to set themselves up as the ‘mind police’ to enforce this imposition”. Thanks Dame Anne
Anne Salmond: Hayek's bastards
Comment; The summertime call for submissions on a revived Regulatory Standards Bill got Dame Anne Salmond reading and connecting the dots of neoliberal campaigns.
newsroom.co.nz
January 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
An informative read that helps make sense of #nzpol atm where “a fringe party supposedly committed to freedom of thought seeks to impose its ideologies on Parliament & all other political parties in perpetuity, & to set themselves up as the ‘mind police’ to enforce this imposition”. Thanks Dame Anne
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Musk misleading election claims viewed 1.2bn times on X – with no fact checks spreading harmful election disinformation on X, breaking his platform's own guidelines
counterhate.com/research/mus...
counterhate.com/research/mus...
Musk misleading election claims viewed 1.2bn times on X – with no fact checks — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH
CCDH found that Elon Musk’s false and misleading claims about the US elections were viewed nearly 1.2 billion times on X.
counterhate.com
January 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Musk misleading election claims viewed 1.2bn times on X – with no fact checks spreading harmful election disinformation on X, breaking his platform's own guidelines
counterhate.com/research/mus...
counterhate.com/research/mus...