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Rhiannon Mackie @rhiannonm.bsky.social · 3h

This very likely breaks the NZ-EU Free Trading Act which requires us to act in line with Paris and 1.5 degrees.
It has also all been done at the request of agribusiness lobbyists like Federated Farmers (who somehow were able to respond to the changes 40 minutes before they were publicly available).

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Rhiannon Mackie @rhiannonm.bsky.social · 3h

Your summary of the shitfuckery this Government has just announced:
- Big Dairy doesn't have to pay for its emissions, despite being the country's worst climate polluter
- Ambition on methane emissions reductions has been slashed in favour of business as usual.
#nzpol

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4m

Stupidity like this policy will turn into a price signal.

Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 5m

They will still have their hands out for public disaster funds. Next govt should point them to insurance companies instead.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 9m

Can you imagine beige numpties actually doing that though?

Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 27m

You have worked with some good ones, so it must seem even worse nowadays

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 1h

Well this is good news!
Whakatāne mayor-elect! #nzpol

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 40m

Girl chooses mall over park.

Ten-year-old girl missing from Cornwall Park found alone at Westfield Newmarket

Lily was last seen by family members at 5pm yesterday.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 4h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Zachary “Mushroom” Hunter @bonforage.bsky.social · 1d

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 1h

Amerkins, usually

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 1h

same :)

Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 1h

How did she get that job

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 4h

Political parties is *exactly* the solution to "who the hell are these randos how am I supposed to know if they're crazy", *especially* for low-profile low-information multi-seat combined elections.

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 4h

We have a solution for this - political parties! They represent a rough set of values and policy directions, an internal vetting and selection system, and a reputational system that makes parties accountable for the candidates the choose (or throw out if they turn out to be shit).

Timothy Gassin @timothygassin.bsky.social · 5h

Voters therefore have little choice but to make their choices based on the statements made by candidates in the booklet provided with their ballot paper. These statements are often pretty generic, give little real idea of candidates' ideology or beliefs, and are pretty tedious to read.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 3h

The market will also have opinions..

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 3h

Sure, but well short of millions

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 4h

Mind blowing.

The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe it stops his overtight suit jacket from exploding?

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 3h

Sorry you did not make it in, Connor

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 3h

I wonder how many of those always avoid his dross?

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 13h

Future historians: As their computers ate and destroyed all their languages we can only assume that what happened was magic became real and that's how they defeated global genocidal fascism

On the left, the German Mud Wizard in their druid cloak pushes a German riot cops who is already stuck in the mud. On the left are 3 Portland Antifa frogs in green inflatable cartoonish costumes and one black frog with white frog bones on him like the antifa frog skeleton.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4h

National-led government betting on foreign interests being as gullible as NZers about farmers spurning climate responsibility.

Government lowers methane target, rules out methane taxes

The government is lowering its biogenic methane target for the next 25 years, a move welcomed by the industry but opposed by the Greens and environmental activists.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 5h

Mayors everywhere should have been honest and said "We were wrong about Labour's 3 Waters, the reason we've had to raise your rates by so much is due to National's much worse and more expensive waters option, please don't blame us, they lied to us too" #NZPol

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