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Mark Baxter
@tartanperil.bsky.social
A "Socialist Petrolhead"'s channel somewhat about working-class issues, '80s culture & music, scooters, punk, social-justice, Kiwi music, Celtic heritage, rusty old cars, & other lost causes.
National's new policy to 'solve' homelessness - just sweep them away from the cities etc where the public can see the reality of their existence.
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Scooter & small-motorbike peeps - Dunedin Double this weekend:
-SAT: Roxburgh Dam return ride (contains gravel)
-SUN: Gentle End-of-Month Ride

Event page for Sat> www.facebook.com/events/13192...
Event page for Sun > www.facebook.com/events/11427...

#Dunedin #Scooter
October 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
October 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
If someone you strongly dislike wins #Dunedin Mayor - and you didn't vote, well... --There's still time to vote (even if you're not enrolled). Information on how in my Leftie Voters Guide (which will also help make it easy to choose your preferred candidates). Link >> tinyurl.com/BaxtersLefti...
October 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
And absolutely don't look at that scurrilous "Baxter's Leftie Dunedin Voters Guide". And in no circumstances SHARE it with others who'd find it helpful to sort through the candidates!
Link >> tinyurl.com/BaxtersLefti...
October 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Is this Vandervis' best chance to slip into becoming #Dunedin Mayor? 😲 --Find out how to try and avoid that with my DCC-ORC Lefty-progressive Voters Guide. Please share thanks 🙂
Link >> tinyurl.com/BaxtersLefti...
October 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Some pics from Scooter Division Dunedin's monthly ride last weekend...
#scooter #scootering #moped #Dunedin
September 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Dunners Tonight - Free Dentalcare for All discussion.
Free dental care should always have been part of NZ's free healthcare. It finally made back it to nearly become policy, so it's entirely archivable - and will change thousands of lives...
Event page >> our.actionstation.org.nz/events/otepo...
September 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Please feel free to SHARE this QR link to my Leftie-progressive DCC Voters Guide (as I'm still suspended from Facebook 😢 ).
And/or the direct link >> tinyurl.com/BaxtersLefti...
Thanks greatly 🙂
September 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Invisible incumbent Mayor & a johnnie-come-lately businessman as challenger - is this Vandervis' best chance to become #Dunedin Mayor?
Find out how to try and avoid that with my DCC-ORC Lefty Voters Guide...
Link >> docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Please share thanks 🙂
September 17, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It seems a certain demographic are over-represented in the anti-refugee protests...
September 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I will be doing my usual Lefty/Progressive voter's guide to #Dunedin local body ( #DCC & #ORC) elections. --It should be released late next week 😁
August 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Sure, RUCs might be a better way to fund roads. --But NOT if government or private contractors TRACKING YOU, with better abilities than a dystopian novel, is how it's done. This massive invasion of privacy is vastly worse than the problem it is trying to address (ie how road funding is charged).
August 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Some pics from Scooter Division Dunedin's Winter Rideout - Wet and Wild Taieri to Waihola...
#Scooter #Scooters #Moped
July 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
#NZ progressing along its race to achieve third-world public services. --Gotta pay for those large tax-cuts for the uber-wealthy and landlords somehow though, eh 🙄
July 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Alliance rides again - launch gig in #Christchurch this Friday...
Dets >> www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/96609/To...
July 2, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Happy Matariki! Much like Hogmanay, Yule, or Winter-solstice, but at the Southern Hemisphere's seasonal dates. Time to remember the recently departed, then feast and celebrate cold nights getting shorter, days getting longer and warmer, and the better times ahead.
June 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
How is today NOT the International Day of Ferris Buller 40th anniversary on the internet and saturated with Buller memes and clips etc? The world has become a sad boring place.
June 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Is it May 1st? --Ruth Richardson should be in prison for what she did to low-income Kiwis, not given an Order of Merit 😳
Link >> www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
June 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Well done DCC for voting down a mean-spirited proposal to charge foreign visitors for entry to Toitū museum and Dunedin Public Art Gallery. $20 means a lot more to some people than to others, and assuming all visitors to our city are wealthy is neither true or fair.
May 26, 2025 at 6:36 AM
THANK YOU greatly to everyone who donated or shared my post - thanks to you I was the top local fundraiser - and best ride 🙂🙂
May 18, 2025 at 6:24 AM
My former career as a porridge wrestler at Otago Uni in the '90s was in a retrospective piece on Breakfast TV this morning (at 1:52mins) - www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/breakf...
May 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Help me fundraise for MEN'S MENTAL HEALTH - no arduous epic scooter ride this time - just a jaunt around town doing what I do best - looking stylish, to fundraise for prostate cancer and men's mental health.
Any amount is very welcome, even $2
Donate at > www.gentlemansride.com/rider/MarkBa...
#NZ
May 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
BALL CANCER! --Yes, I'm raising money to help the fight against testicular cancer again (& for men's mental health) - just a brief jaunt around town this time, doing what I do best - looking stylish 😁
Please sponsor me if you're in a position to.
Donate at >> www.gentlemansride.com/rider/MarkBa...
May 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Random stylish pic...
May 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM