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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 2h

Any day now Seymour and Peters will tell their fans to pull their heads in.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 3h

They are so fab!

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 5h

“I really want people to know that no one is immune to this, anyone can get long Covid. I didn't think it would happen to me.” Read it and weep:
www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/o...

Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid

A group of young Kiwis prove what international studies show: that long Covid has a particularly debilitating effect on young people. But how much medical support is there for them?

www.1news.co.nz

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 5h

While this young man should of course face justice, the mostly middle age men who incited this violence should too, but it's unlikely they will

19-year-old charged after sending death threats to Green MP who since resigned | Stuff share.google/viSA8fS2oy3F...

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 4h

Wow that's true down to the bone, eh. Jeepers it's good stuff.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 4h

❤️❤️

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 5h

There's been a few that would surprise me if they had ever got over room temperature.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 7h

Hell, since Parliament changed the rules to allow proxy votes its not as if Whips are required any longer to scour the bars, brothels and hospitals of the Wellington region for more or less warm bodies to make up the numbers on particularly close and contentious votes. #nzpol

Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 8h

Parliamentary Whips (whose one job is making sure this kind of screw up never happens) are paid an extra $25-$61K above an MPs base salary.

So much for fiscal discipline and value for taxpayer dollars, I guess... #nzpol

Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 8h

What's Seymour going to do about government truancy !

#nzpol

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 5h

He has apologies dating back to the 1980's if he starts doing it.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 5h

Vindictive old ex-lawyer would know that too.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 6h

Fine their parents!!

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 6h

Probably the groundskeeper at parliament.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 6h

It is safest to assume that anything that comes out of his piehole is lies.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 8h

If Peter’s wants civility upheld, he could just shut his mouth for 6 months and there’d be an improvement across the board. #nzpol

His partner hurt herself on a bit of glass that hadn’t been cleaned up. Do a better job cleaning up and stop trying to milk a bull.

Winston Peters, the victim.

Winston Peters needs you to know that he's a victim. He's a victim. And his dog is a victim. His house is a victim. What he has been through is worse than anything anyone else has ever been through. W...

www.emilywrites.co.nz

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The One and Only Kay @theonekay.bsky.social · 1d

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

📌I am not a religious man, but I stand with this man, and against the most grotesque man on earth, and the broken, immoral people who worship him.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 6h

Cheers to you!

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WTF Just Happened Today? @whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com · 7h

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 10h

Are we going to ask Winston Peters to comment? Are we going to get him to denounce this? Will he call off his attack dogs?

Y’know, to be consistent…
#nzpol

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 9h

The ACToids got 8% in the general election which is about 11 times more support than this reactionary bill. That suggests that it's not needed or wanted.

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 11h

Interesting appendix, though, covering off some of the numbers, key themes, and overwhelming opposition to the RSB. #NZPOL

Text reads: "
Appendix
Committee process

The Regulatory Standards Bill was referred to this committee on 22 May 2025. We called for submissions on the bill with a closing date of 23 June 2025. About 166,300 submissions were lodged through the website and by email.1 A minority of us would like to report that the Ministry for Regulation contracted Allen + Clarke to assist with analysing submissions. Of the submissions analysed, 98.7 percent opposed the bill, 0.7 percent were in support, and 0.6 percent were either unclear or did not take a position on the bill. A majority would like to report that from additional analysis, 1,317 submissions were identified as containing detail or unique arguments, and were considered to be “substantive” on this basis. The main reasons given in support of the bill include: • promoting greater transparency and accountability • improving the quality of regulation • reducing unnecessary regulatory burden and compliance costs. The themes that emerged from submissions opposing the bill include: • omission of the Treaty/te Tiriti and its principles is unacceptable and is a breach of the Crown’s obligations • the bill is based on an ideology unsupported by most New Zealanders • the bill would favour private interests over collective benefits • the bill would weaken environmental protections • the bill would give excessive power to the Minister for Regulation • the bill would be unnecessary and expensive. We considered submissions from 159,493 interested groups and individuals. We heard oral evidence from 204 submitters, with approximately 30 hours of oral submissions heard. Advice on the bill was provided by the Ministry for Regulation. The Office of the Clerk provided advice on the bill’s legislative quality. The Parliamentary Counsel Office assisted with legal drafting. The Regulations Review Committee reported to us on the powers contained in clauses 10, 14, and 19."

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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 15h

All of this was *purposeful,* it's not just short sighted narrative-fuckery and spin.

National, Act, NZFirst and the donor classes *are delighted* at this ongoing eternal excuse for cruelty and punching down.

There is no downside for them. #nzpol

D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 18h

Opinion: Nation upset at the inevitable result of its own actions

“Step one: push people out of work and onto the streets. Step two: get mad at people being out of work or on the streets” #nzpol

Nation upset at the inevitable result of its own actions

Step one: push people out of work and onto the streets. Step two: get mad at people being out of work or on the streets

thespinoff.co.nz

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 17h

Next week: Tobacco excluded from anti-smoking laws.

Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 18h

Sometimes it is as if the Prime Minster was talking out of his bumhole *
"People were willing to move to Te Anau for work, she said. Those numbers in particular were "unheard of" for such a small centre."

Number of job applicants 'unheard of' for small town, company says

Fiordland Lobster Company says it's received 91 applications for a factory hand role in Te Anau, with people willing to relocate for the entry level role.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 18h

National: making Australia look good since 2024!

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 18h

A friend used AI to check out candidates and used "common sense" as one of the exclusionary phrases.

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