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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 5h

People really get it and they really care
But the people with power and money stymie every real attempt to change

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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 7h

You know, there’s this pervasive view that people don’t care about climate change / are bored of it / find it overwhelming but I wrote this story this week and social media went crazy over it. People care!!!! They really care are they need a way to channel it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

New Zealand guts climate policy it bragged about on the world stage

The law was once held up internationally as a model of transparency. The government just weakened it.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Elouise Quigan - Haslett Street Books @elouisequigan.bsky.social · 5h

Guys, it’s a “windbreak” not “wind, break!”

Picture of a windbreak of trees that has been felled by the recent wind in New Zealand

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 5h

They’re not dead they’re just resting

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 16h

National proposes gagging the public, to prevent "record number of submissions; 98% opposed" headlines.

This party opposes democracy. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/t...

Tighter rules may be needed to stem flow of public submissions, says MP

'Coordinated, largely online campaigns' make it harder for politicians to consider good-faith submissions on laws

newsroom.co.nz

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 12h

If you don't like "98%opposed" headlines maybe you should make better laws

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 12h

But it's an AirNZ plane and you paid AirNZ right?

Sounds like a commerce commission complaint is required

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 18h

Donors

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 18h

Maybe someone could let Craig McCulloch at RNZ know that, while yes. a reputable poll with 65% to 25% is indeed "more"

In political terms, it is an overwhelming majority and describing it as merely "more" is biased and unprofessional

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 19h

Nah you just need to use his full name in that voice you use on naughty children

Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 1d

If you figure out where she will be talking can you post. I'd like to if I can get in from Mt Albert Research Centre if I can

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 1d

You found $$$ for roads, tobacco industry, landlords, cancelling ferries, piddly tax cuts.

You cut a bunch of so-called 'back room' jobs that supported doctors, nurses, & teachers to do their work.

You froze hiring & refused to employ nurses

You outsourced curriculum development to AI and Aus.

Beehive NZ @beehivenz.bsky.social · 1d

A new joint release is available from Hon Simeon Brown, Hon Erica Stanford and Hon Judith Collins KC.

Strike unfair, unproductive and unnecessary

Tomorrow’s proposed strike is unfair, unproductive and unnecessary and should be called off, Public Service Minister Judith Collins says.

www.beehive.govt.nz

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Bishop clearly believes they can suppress enough left-leaning voters and swamp the media enough to win the next election

Depressingly I'm not certain he's wrong

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 1d

They are already enacted voter suppression to get over the line

I'm quite sure there will be more changes to voting that suppress left-leaning voters

And I'm betting there will be a deluge of social media with scary stories about The Greens/TPM/Labour

So I'm really not confident they will lose

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure they were, but it's pretty clear this government only responds to the interests of their donors - in this case charter school owners and private healthcare companies

Mere voters can always be swayed later with slick ad campaigns close to the election

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 1d

But did you poll NACT's donors ... because nobody else matters

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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 2d

You’re never too old to make worse friends than Slater

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 1d

I bet all those cars had tanks of flammable material in them that accelerated the fire

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 2d

One thought I did have is that the analogy could be extended to raindrops on a pond - with multiple rings spreading and intersecting

Where you are in one ring may be completely different to your position in another ring

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 2d

I really like that concept

For what it's worth I became somewhat accepting of how different people reacted and/or got it wrong when I was in the centre (heck my brother brought me a box of doughnuts ... when I was in the ICU after open heart surgery)

I'll try and remember not to get it wrong

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 2d

I agree entirely that Labour is much better than the current utterly corrupt puppets of ATLAS and big oil/car/milk/tobacco

I just think Labour could be better than merely ... not corrupt AF

I also think Labour has been better than merely not corrupt AF and perhaps they should aspire to be better

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 2d

And you don't have to be particularly cynical to wonder how much of this is going to go straight into the pockets of the Coalition parties' biggest donors... because that's the only "business case" that counts, right?

Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 3d

A billion dollars more than either the original Dunedin Hospital plan or a resilient Cook Strait crossing. And then there's Mill Road, which offers an even worse business case at similar (at least) cost.

UrbanAKL @urbanakl.bsky.social · 3d

Oh btw, the "East West Link" has been resurrected.

NZTA is pushing an investment case to spend $3.7-4.1 billion to get <1% back in economics benefits ($49.5m) each year.

Who the fuck is still asking for this?

#nzpol

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 2d

But the membership can be led by an ambitious progressive leader or they can have a passive make-no-ripples leader

I get the crowd is naturally passive but that won't help AoNZ

Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 2d

Because at the heart, Chippy is a gutless centrist

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social · 2d

But shoveling public money into private hospitals and private schools while the public systems are desperate for money?

No that's not privatisation at all - yeah right

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