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Janet Greig

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Vegetarian. She/her 🏳️‍⚧️ #FuckThePatriarchy #TeamSussex Levin, NZ Aotearoa 🇳🇿

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · Jul 24

Where are the ferries??? ⛴️ ⛴️ ⛴️ #NicolaNoBoats
This National led #CoalitionOfChaos have stolen all the/our money allocated for ferries ⛴️ hospitals/health 🏥 schools 🏫 teachers 👩‍🏫 pay equity 👫🏻 & the environment 🌳.
To spend it on landlords, and on trying to erase Māori, te Reo, & Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · Jul 24

"Nicola Willis's NZ Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government” - but it’s been spent on the richest, & stolen from the poorest NZers #nzpol
thestandard.org.nz/nicola-willi...

Nicola Willis’s Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government

Current & planned debt will surpass Labour’s full term debt in less years. Willis also admitted Budget 2024 had a higher deficit than all of Grant Robertson’s bar Covid.

thestandard.org.nz

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 2h

I played squaredle.com 10/13:
31/31 words ( 9 bonus words)
📖 In the top 4% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 302

Squaredle

Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!

squaredle.com

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 3h

When the NZ's coalition govt took office nearly two years ago, its #WarOnNature started.

In that time, they've made a bewildering number of changes leading to environmental harm.

Greenpeace Aotearoa head @russelnorman.bsky.social has undertaken the gargantuan task of tracking them all👇
#nzpol

Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline - Greenpeace Aotearoa

It has been nearly 2 years since the formation of the Luxon-led Government. It has been two years of a war on nature.

www.greenpeace.org

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3h

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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🌮 Lucky Shitt 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @luckyshitt.bsky.social · Aug 3

Good morning BlueSky

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 4h

I taste tested mine half way through and couldn’t feel the heat so I put more in. That’s where I made the mistake 🫣😂😂 🌶️ 🌶️

Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 4h

It’s gorgeous 😍💚

Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 4h

I’m so sorry for your loss 💔💔💔 🫂❤️🫂❤️🫂

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cryoutloud26 @cryoutloud26.bsky.social · 7h

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 4h

I made tomato 🍅 pasta sauce and was also ‘slightly’ heavy handed with the chilli 🌶️ flakes 🥵 🥵 😂😂

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6h

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 4h

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 6h

Relatedly, was reading Naomi Beinart's piece in the Guardian this morning, & thinking about how (increasingly) true it must be for NZ too. | As boys shift to the right, we are seeing the rise of the ‘new chill girl’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 5h

God, this is grim.
When I was a teenager in the 80s things weren’t always great, but there was a sense that we were moving forward, that the world was getting better for women and girls.
But now this aggressive sexism and entitlement has become permissible again. We’re regressing.

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 6h

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 11h

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in.
📝166,000 submissions.
❌98.7% opposed.
Yet National are going to continue supporting it.
🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

Regulatory Standards Bill:
Select Committee Report:
166,000 submission total
0.7% supported
0.6% unclear
98.7% opposed

AUTHORISED BY DUNCAN WEBB MP, PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS WELLINGTON

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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 4h

#taxtherich

Expect to be chased for even small tax debt, IRD says

The tax department is cracking down on overdue tax as it tries to pull in an estimated $10 billion in tax debt.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks 😁

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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 9h

I thought I’d have a go at answering the question: what’s the flow on effect on emissions budgets from the methane cuts?

The answer was worse than I had anticipated

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Scientists fear weaker methane target signals wider retreat from climate action

After cutting methane targets, New Zealand has a choice: shoulder the burden at huge cost - or cause more warming to the planet.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Sarah Pallett @sarah4ilam.bsky.social · 8h

Labour promises to repeal the RSB in the first 100 days.
Let’s make sure they are able to keep this promise.
#nzpol

Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 11h

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 9h

Regulatory Standards Bill will expose the SPCA to penalty if they remove abused animals; it will expose taxpayers to compensate suspected criminals for confiscated assets; farmers can do as they want; Peter Thiels can build bunkers anywhere. A terrible bill with > 98% opposed. #nzpol

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 9h

Luxons message to young people taking their first steps into adult hood and careers is very clearly:
“We will not catch you cause you don’t matter”
He manages to make sure we all know he hates us and our children and we can all fuck cause he is wealthy and sorted.
We really should vote accordingly

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 9h

Wordle 1,577 2/6

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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 12h

and hey, maybe they're privy to info that says introducing 5 different ideas in the one press release is good comms. or that when talking about climate change the best angle is:

"This decision risks our reputation, our exports and our economy"

instead of the death of the planet.

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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 12h

here's what they could have said:

"if everyone did what national just did, this world would dry a death in 30 years. we used to fear for the world our grandkids grew up in, but now we're not even certain that our kids will have drinking water. National is taking your future and leaving you barren"

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 15h

“…I think people are getting sick of unions prioritising the politics over patients, or kids in education and parents being mucked around,"

No Christopher Luxon, people are getting sick of YOU prioritising your fiscal policies on your already wealthy mates, rather than on healthcare and education.

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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 14h

#NZPol

Fuck this shithouse, climate change denying, anti-evidence, anti-worker, misogynist, racist, transphobic, extreme neoliberal, immoral, illogical, innumerate, corrupt, fuckstain of a government.

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