Jo
@dreadwomyn.bsky.social
Delightfully acerbic, brazen, queer, pākehā, deeply curious about understanding our practices as Tangata Tiriti. through a colonial class lens. Honour Te Tiriti - return stolen land, dismantle colonial systems of power.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...
Stop Failing our Māmā: Improve Perinatal Mental Health Services in Aotearoa
With the repealing and replacing of the Mental Health Act currently taking place, now is the time to get this important issue in front of decision makers to ensure provisions are in place in the new l...
our.actionstation.org.nz
January 24, 2026 at 7:11 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...
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It's started! The 2026 #kakapo breeding season is under way, with the first nest found on Whenua Hou today. Pearl is on two eggs. #conservation #parrots #birds
January 8, 2026 at 2:30 AM
It's started! The 2026 #kakapo breeding season is under way, with the first nest found on Whenua Hou today. Pearl is on two eggs. #conservation #parrots #birds
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Just saw on Reddit that Manage My Health has had a major data breach.
a man in a leather jacket and tie is saying cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
ALT: a man in a leather jacket and tie is saying cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
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December 31, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Just saw on Reddit that Manage My Health has had a major data breach.
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Put together my Christmas wishlist. Remember that it's a political choice to allow AI and social media spaces to go unregulated and instead erode children's rights. Cool. #nzpol
December 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Put together my Christmas wishlist. Remember that it's a political choice to allow AI and social media spaces to go unregulated and instead erode children's rights. Cool. #nzpol
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We support the right to strike. Wear a mask in the crowd to invest in your health 💪
October 20, 2025 at 6:08 AM
We support the right to strike. Wear a mask in the crowd to invest in your health 💪
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While agribusiness lobbyists celebrate Luxon's decision to never do anything to cut their climate pollution, the skies open. Climate change means more flooding - ordinary rural and urban people will cop it while agribusiness take their money and run for higher ground www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Dramatic photos emerge showing the sheer scale of destruction in this week’s floods
‘Screw it, I’m getting a horse,’ one local said.
www.stuff.co.nz
October 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
While agribusiness lobbyists celebrate Luxon's decision to never do anything to cut their climate pollution, the skies open. Climate change means more flooding - ordinary rural and urban people will cop it while agribusiness take their money and run for higher ground www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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DIRE EMERGENCY
2,000 New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union members walked off the job across the motu today to fight for safe staffing, working equipment, and better conditions. The NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi stands with the NZPFU in their fight to keep our communities safe.
#nzpol
2,000 New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union members walked off the job across the motu today to fight for safe staffing, working equipment, and better conditions. The NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi stands with the NZPFU in their fight to keep our communities safe.
#nzpol
October 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
DIRE EMERGENCY
2,000 New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union members walked off the job across the motu today to fight for safe staffing, working equipment, and better conditions. The NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi stands with the NZPFU in their fight to keep our communities safe.
#nzpol
2,000 New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union members walked off the job across the motu today to fight for safe staffing, working equipment, and better conditions. The NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi stands with the NZPFU in their fight to keep our communities safe.
#nzpol
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BREAKING: Three Palestinian children have died from malnutrition in southern Gaza, a source at the Nasser Medical Complex has told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ocm0cs
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ocm0cs
September 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
BREAKING: Three Palestinian children have died from malnutrition in southern Gaza, a source at the Nasser Medical Complex has told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ocm0cs
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ocm0cs
No surprise here - the Govt of the time took great care not to embed or give meaningful power to the commission - any anti climate environment is a resource to be pillaged government coalition was going to hobble & break the commission as a reporting agency. www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/19/g...
Govt considers sidelining Climate Change Commission from emissions advice
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts repeatedly denied the plan, but then confirmed it to 1News two days later.
www.1news.co.nz
September 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
No surprise here - the Govt of the time took great care not to embed or give meaningful power to the commission - any anti climate environment is a resource to be pillaged government coalition was going to hobble & break the commission as a reporting agency. www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/19/g...
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Our Labour Party also…. imo. #nzpol #Kikorangi
September 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Our Labour Party also…. imo. #nzpol #Kikorangi
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Perfect way to deal with Destiny Church
September 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Perfect way to deal with Destiny Church
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To let it flow 🐈⬛🤍
September 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
To let it flow 🐈⬛🤍
The modern supermarket, with its vast aisles of imported goods and plastic-wrapped produce, stands as a monument to a globalised food system built on inequitable foundations. open.substack.com/pub/jowrigle...
Beyond the Aisle
Reclaiming Food Sovereignty from Supermarket Ideology
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September 4, 2025 at 5:10 AM
The modern supermarket, with its vast aisles of imported goods and plastic-wrapped produce, stands as a monument to a globalised food system built on inequitable foundations. open.substack.com/pub/jowrigle...
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Hey you! Yeah you. Now I have your attention here's a friendly reminder to sign the greens petition to restore passenger rail!
Imagine how much cheaper it would be to take a train from Wellington to Auckland compared to the Intercity bus 👀😅
#nzpol #trains
action.greens.org.nz/restore_rail
Imagine how much cheaper it would be to take a train from Wellington to Auckland compared to the Intercity bus 👀😅
#nzpol #trains
action.greens.org.nz/restore_rail
Restore Regional Rail
action.greens.org.nz
September 4, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Hey you! Yeah you. Now I have your attention here's a friendly reminder to sign the greens petition to restore passenger rail!
Imagine how much cheaper it would be to take a train from Wellington to Auckland compared to the Intercity bus 👀😅
#nzpol #trains
action.greens.org.nz/restore_rail
Imagine how much cheaper it would be to take a train from Wellington to Auckland compared to the Intercity bus 👀😅
#nzpol #trains
action.greens.org.nz/restore_rail
Oneone ki te whenua, please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/on...
Oneone ki te Whenua
On the 5th of May 2025, Ngati Oneone activated 'Oneone ki te whenua' 185 years to the day that our tipuna Rawiri Te Eke Tu signed 'ae ra' on Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
80 years later, the whenua of his hap...
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August 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Oneone ki te whenua, please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/on...
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The #kakapo population has dropped to 238. Adult female Lisa was found dead on Anchor Island recently, and two of the 2019 cohort, Tūmanako and Whakakini, have not been since since then and so have been removed from the official count. #conservation #parrots #birds
August 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The #kakapo population has dropped to 238. Adult female Lisa was found dead on Anchor Island recently, and two of the 2019 cohort, Tūmanako and Whakakini, have not been since since then and so have been removed from the official count. #conservation #parrots #birds
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they literally know that their offer is dogshit / they know such a shit offer leads to strikes and that those strikes impact the workers more negatively than them / they know the media will take their dogshit talking points and plaster them all over / this is class war simple as that
Just pay health workers what they need to keep people safe. You, the actual politician, are literally the one "playing politics".
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Health Minister Simeon Brown slams striking health workers for 'playing politics'
Health NZ claim 85 patients were affected, when a proposed strike was called off in Christchurch.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
they literally know that their offer is dogshit / they know such a shit offer leads to strikes and that those strikes impact the workers more negatively than them / they know the media will take their dogshit talking points and plaster them all over / this is class war simple as that
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Federated Farmers say Kiwis are 'lucky' to have 'premium' ‘grass-Fed’ butter, but neglects to mention the rainforest destruction, polluted rivers, contaminated drinking water and climate change that goes with it.
#TooManyCows
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
#TooManyCows
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Kiwis 'lucky' to have 'premium' butter as only option, but have to pay market price for it - Federated Farmers
Karl Dean says Fonterra, wholesalers and supermarkets are doing their best to keep prices down.
www.rnz.co.nz
July 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Federated Farmers say Kiwis are 'lucky' to have 'premium' ‘grass-Fed’ butter, but neglects to mention the rainforest destruction, polluted rivers, contaminated drinking water and climate change that goes with it.
#TooManyCows
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
#TooManyCows
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Its been a while - global fascism and more locally Political players I refuse to name have helped me to hone some thinking about resistance leadership and Te Tiriti. open.substack.com/pub/jowrigle...
Following, Not Leading
Pākehā Leadership in Food Justice
open.substack.com
July 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Its been a while - global fascism and more locally Political players I refuse to name have helped me to hone some thinking about resistance leadership and Te Tiriti. open.substack.com/pub/jowrigle...
Just transitions our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ke...
Keep Tokoroa Toi Ohomai OPEN
No matter where we live in Aotearoa our communities need access to essential services, education and opportunities to grow and thrive. That includes Tokoroa and other small regional communities throug...
our.actionstation.org.nz
July 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Just transitions our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ke...
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A Pitch for a new political best-seller! The Adventures of Hipkins: The Plight for Promising Policy! Read he full pitch here: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/the-advent...
July 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
A Pitch for a new political best-seller! The Adventures of Hipkins: The Plight for Promising Policy! Read he full pitch here: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/the-advent...