Tom
@kiwiteej.bsky.social
Kiwi escapee from Twitter. Archivist and other things. Hopes for a better, cooler world. Ōtautahi local.
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Every right-wing “grassroots”organisation in New Zealand is just Jordan Williams, David Farrar, and one randomly-selected Atlas Network apparatchik in a trenchcoat
There's a new "grassroots" website automating supportive emails to Erica Stanford / signatures on an open letter endorsing her attacks on te Tiriti and you have until the end of this skeet to guess who registered the domain name
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Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star
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Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Every right-wing “grassroots”organisation in New Zealand is just Jordan Williams, David Farrar, and one randomly-selected Atlas Network apparatchik in a trenchcoat
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If we don't stand up and collectively exercise our democratic franchise to remove these scumbags from Government, we risk losing our democratic options to resist their anti-democratic authoritarian agenda.😱
Their wealthy donors only want us to be customers, not voters.😡
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
Their wealthy donors only want us to be customers, not voters.😡
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
On The Coup Against Local Government
It's democracy Jim, but not as we know it. In line with the plans that the government unveiled this week to reform local government, the recently elected regional councils will be scrapped, and their ...
www.scoop.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
If we don't stand up and collectively exercise our democratic franchise to remove these scumbags from Government, we risk losing our democratic options to resist their anti-democratic authoritarian agenda.😱
Their wealthy donors only want us to be customers, not voters.😡
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
Their wealthy donors only want us to be customers, not voters.😡
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
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We are setting the scene for the world’s most unsympathetic version of the face-eating leopards, which is really saying something
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We are setting the scene for the world’s most unsympathetic version of the face-eating leopards, which is really saying something
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Minister for Lowering Standards. #NzPol
New cost-cutting measures for wasterwater standards announced
It is hoped the new standards will save up to $830 million over the next 35 years by streamlining wastewater consents.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Minister for Lowering Standards. #NzPol
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The contaminated sand scandal.
Remember:
"Under the Consumer Guarantees Act if a product isn't safe, buyers are entitled to a refund of the money as well as the cost of testing and cleaning."
The retailer is liable!
#nzpol
Remember:
"Under the Consumer Guarantees Act if a product isn't safe, buyers are entitled to a refund of the money as well as the cost of testing and cleaning."
The retailer is liable!
#nzpol
Parents fear long-term impacts of asbestos-contaminated coloured play sand exposure
In the last two weeks there's been rolling recalls of the magic sand used by children and schools across the country.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The contaminated sand scandal.
Remember:
"Under the Consumer Guarantees Act if a product isn't safe, buyers are entitled to a refund of the money as well as the cost of testing and cleaning."
The retailer is liable!
#nzpol
Remember:
"Under the Consumer Guarantees Act if a product isn't safe, buyers are entitled to a refund of the money as well as the cost of testing and cleaning."
The retailer is liable!
#nzpol
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humans can’t even shoot their organs at predators
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
humans can’t even shoot their organs at predators
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I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this dude has never published a piece saying 'The media's frothing and disproportionate coverage of Tory Whanau has become nothing more than gossip-mongering and it needs to stop' #nzpol
OPINION: Speculation about Luxon’s hold on the National Party’s leadership could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It needs to stop.
Rolling Luxon gathers too much dross
OPINION: Speculation about Luxon’s hold on the National Party’s leadership could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It needs to stop.
dlvr.it
November 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this dude has never published a piece saying 'The media's frothing and disproportionate coverage of Tory Whanau has become nothing more than gossip-mongering and it needs to stop' #nzpol
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Seymour yet again finding a way to enshittify school lunches
"Mila described the move to tie funding to attendance as "disgusting". "To have the Government take the school lunches programme and try to make it a carrot for attendance.. it's just terrible.""
I agree, Mila, I 💯 agree
#nzpol
"Mila described the move to tie funding to attendance as "disgusting". "To have the Government take the school lunches programme and try to make it a carrot for attendance.. it's just terrible.""
I agree, Mila, I 💯 agree
#nzpol
Not only is this blatantly unfair, but for a Party that doesnt believe in collective responsibility,theyre holding ALL children responsible for the actions of others...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Lunch funding to be tied to attendance for hundreds more schools
Next year funding for school lunches delivered through the internal model will be tied to attendance.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Seymour yet again finding a way to enshittify school lunches
"Mila described the move to tie funding to attendance as "disgusting". "To have the Government take the school lunches programme and try to make it a carrot for attendance.. it's just terrible.""
I agree, Mila, I 💯 agree
#nzpol
"Mila described the move to tie funding to attendance as "disgusting". "To have the Government take the school lunches programme and try to make it a carrot for attendance.. it's just terrible.""
I agree, Mila, I 💯 agree
#nzpol
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[almost anything happens]
me: what the fuck just happened
me: what the fuck just happened
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
[almost anything happens]
me: what the fuck just happened
me: what the fuck just happened
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if you see a robot in the wild like this you are allowed to ride it like you would ride a turtle if it wasn’t unethical to ride a turtle.
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
if you see a robot in the wild like this you are allowed to ride it like you would ride a turtle if it wasn’t unethical to ride a turtle.
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In 1975, Bill Rowling's Labour Govt introduced a compulsory contributory scheme that would have made AoNZ the 'Switzerland of the South Pacific'.
Naturally the right-wing National Party under Muldoon wrecked it and with it our chance for individual prosperity in retirement. National are vandals.
Naturally the right-wing National Party under Muldoon wrecked it and with it our chance for individual prosperity in retirement. National are vandals.
NZ vs Australia: Where you’re better off retiring
With more of us chasing riches in the lucky country, Damien Venuto considers which side of the Tasman offers the best retirement.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In 1975, Bill Rowling's Labour Govt introduced a compulsory contributory scheme that would have made AoNZ the 'Switzerland of the South Pacific'.
Naturally the right-wing National Party under Muldoon wrecked it and with it our chance for individual prosperity in retirement. National are vandals.
Naturally the right-wing National Party under Muldoon wrecked it and with it our chance for individual prosperity in retirement. National are vandals.
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in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook
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I know one billionaire and I've been around him enough to have made some observations about not just him, but the circle he's in. Money becomes a game. This is why Forbes has a list. Trump knows he can't beat the people on it. And he wants money, but he SEEKS power because nobody on Forbes has it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I know one billionaire and I've been around him enough to have made some observations about not just him, but the circle he's in. Money becomes a game. This is why Forbes has a list. Trump knows he can't beat the people on it. And he wants money, but he SEEKS power because nobody on Forbes has it.
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Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
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November 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."
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Quite a bold claim.
November 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Quite a bold claim.
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A central issue at trial for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam was whether an Army lieutenant, or the Army captain who was his superior, was responsible for the order to leave no survivors.
Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.
Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
A central issue at trial for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam was whether an Army lieutenant, or the Army captain who was his superior, was responsible for the order to leave no survivors.
Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.
Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.
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This is a highly unusual order from a Secretary of Defense, and it’s almost certainly a war crime.
In the strike in question, two people survived and were clinging to the side of the ruined boat, and a second mission was spun up to execute them.
In the strike in question, two people survived and were clinging to the side of the ruined boat, and a second mission was spun up to execute them.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This is a highly unusual order from a Secretary of Defense, and it’s almost certainly a war crime.
In the strike in question, two people survived and were clinging to the side of the ruined boat, and a second mission was spun up to execute them.
In the strike in question, two people survived and were clinging to the side of the ruined boat, and a second mission was spun up to execute them.
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This is important and significant. These are the guidelines that were submitted and agreed before political interference. The ones that should have been published.
PATHA have taken a stand of not having their name used to give credence to the rewritten ones, and released the correct ones.
PATHA have taken a stand of not having their name used to give credence to the rewritten ones, and released the correct ones.
Y’ALL. PATHA RELEASED THE NEW GENDER AFFIRMING CARE GUIDELINES. THE ONES THE GOVT SUPPRESSED
GET IN IT
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GET IN IT
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Clinical Guidelines | Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa Inc. (PATHA)
patha.nz
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This is important and significant. These are the guidelines that were submitted and agreed before political interference. The ones that should have been published.
PATHA have taken a stand of not having their name used to give credence to the rewritten ones, and released the correct ones.
PATHA have taken a stand of not having their name used to give credence to the rewritten ones, and released the correct ones.
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Opinion: The evisceration of the clean car standard is the latest move in a hollowing out of our climate policy architecture.
Clean car standard tinkering an incoherent misstep
newsroom.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Opinion: The evisceration of the clean car standard is the latest move in a hollowing out of our climate policy architecture.
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On display from both politicians and ideologues hacking at the curriculum is a deep contempt for genuine engagement with systems of knowledge and critical thinking. It‘s one thing to not understand learning; it‘s another to forcibly cut children off from these opportunities.
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Not only is science education going to suffer from the manufactured crisis in maths education, the science curriculum itself has also been under attack to remove components of critical thinking and epistemological foundations.
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NZ’s draft science curriculum favours rote learning over critical thinking
Critical thinking is an essential skill students should be encouraged to develop as part of their science learning. NZ’s draft science curriculum fails the test.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 AM
On display from both politicians and ideologues hacking at the curriculum is a deep contempt for genuine engagement with systems of knowledge and critical thinking. It‘s one thing to not understand learning; it‘s another to forcibly cut children off from these opportunities.
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."