KoBettyAhau ♥️🤍🖤 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@kobettyahau.bsky.social
Chic cat lady - ngai Aotearoa ahau. Social Justice is my bag she/her #NZ/Aotearoa 🇳🇿
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Gretzky really is doing his best to make Canadians disown him
Trump went golfing with Wayne Gretzky today. That's FOX host Brett Baier on the right. Trump posted this on his Truth Social account.
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Gretzky really is doing his best to make Canadians disown him
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Watercare harms a local industry by not building infrastructure soon enough to match increased demand from housing.
'We're basically stuffed' - Oyster farmers shut down by another oveflow
Growers have been told to suspend harvesting while it carried out testing, with results expected this week.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Watercare harms a local industry by not building infrastructure soon enough to match increased demand from housing.
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“The American pope could do what others manifestly cannot: shame and tame the monster.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Who can tame Trump? An unlikely candidate is emerging: the Catholic church | Simon Tisdall
Inequality, immigration and civil rights are the battlegrounds on which the church, and some other Christian denominations, are fighting, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“The American pope could do what others manifestly cannot: shame and tame the monster.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Coming to U.K. if Farage gets in
My health insurance premiums will more than double in January. I pay a little less than $500/month for my current silver plan.
I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.
And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.
And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
November 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Coming to U.K. if Farage gets in
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November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Mark Kelly: "My concern is with the service members -- we're gonna put these individuals in a really tough place. They may find our down the road that they did something that's illegal. It's not fair to them. That's why need presidents and secretaries of defense who understand the Constitution"
November 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Mark Kelly: "My concern is with the service members -- we're gonna put these individuals in a really tough place. They may find our down the road that they did something that's illegal. It's not fair to them. That's why need presidents and secretaries of defense who understand the Constitution"
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Here is how to make your own hornets’ trap. Wonder if there is a way to keep bees out? #nzpol
Hornet invasion: How to make your own traps
A former bee keeper is calling for a united Auckland front to eliminate the threat of yellow-legged hornets.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 30, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Here is how to make your own hornets’ trap. Wonder if there is a way to keep bees out? #nzpol
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If you're Aotearoa New Zealand-based, please sign and share. 27 queens found at last count by a biosecurity department that's been battered by public service cuts. We have to eradicate this threat. c.org/bkt2N7cxFh
Sign the Petition
Urgent Action Required on Yellow-Legged Asian Hornet Incursion.
c.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
If you're Aotearoa New Zealand-based, please sign and share. 27 queens found at last count by a biosecurity department that's been battered by public service cuts. We have to eradicate this threat. c.org/bkt2N7cxFh
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Indeed!
#nzpol
#nzpol
I wish Disinfo Project had ¼ of the funding, & resources he had to continue work we did. Examples like this make it harder for other folk to access philanthropy. | The transparency project that went dark: Inside the collapse of Bryce Edwards’ Integrity Institute www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
The transparency project that went dark: Inside the collapse of Bryce Edwards’ Integrity Institute
A million-dollar political integrity project has imploded with little transparency, revealing a tangle of broken promises, stalled research and an institution unwilling to explain what went wrong.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 30, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Indeed!
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Every new science funding announcement from this government is actually just repurposed funding from some existing fund for science
A new release is available from Hon Dr Shane Reti.
NZ and US deepen Antarctic science partnership
New joint research initiatives focused on climate and ecosystem change expand on the long-standing collaboration between New Zealand and the United States on Antarctic science and logistics, says Science, Innovation a
www.beehive.govt.nz
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Every new science funding announcement from this government is actually just repurposed funding from some existing fund for science
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#nzpol nz is the canary down the coal mine…metaphor intended
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running. This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:27 AM
#nzpol nz is the canary down the coal mine…metaphor intended
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#NZpol
Sometimes an article comes along that slices through the noise, but without needing to bullhorn its way through.
With calm clarity, this may help you navigate the contradictory stances where many who "speak of" X actually *do* Y...
I'm sure it may help many others too, so share it around.
Sometimes an article comes along that slices through the noise, but without needing to bullhorn its way through.
With calm clarity, this may help you navigate the contradictory stances where many who "speak of" X actually *do* Y...
I'm sure it may help many others too, so share it around.
November 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
#NZpol
Sometimes an article comes along that slices through the noise, but without needing to bullhorn its way through.
With calm clarity, this may help you navigate the contradictory stances where many who "speak of" X actually *do* Y...
I'm sure it may help many others too, so share it around.
Sometimes an article comes along that slices through the noise, but without needing to bullhorn its way through.
With calm clarity, this may help you navigate the contradictory stances where many who "speak of" X actually *do* Y...
I'm sure it may help many others too, so share it around.
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That's right! They were repatriation flights, I had forgotten that. Because Lufthansa must do codeshares with more local companies, surely
I remember that, it was significant because I don’t think that carrier had ever flown to New Zealand, they repatriated all the German tourists who were stuck here when flights ceased to exist. It was certainly a time! (I do miss the lack of traffic though!)
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
That's right! They were repatriation flights, I had forgotten that. Because Lufthansa must do codeshares with more local companies, surely
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this guy made his son a tiny version of Engineered Garments's FA pants 😭
IG twhattcomethru
IG twhattcomethru
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
this guy made his son a tiny version of Engineered Garments's FA pants 😭
IG twhattcomethru
IG twhattcomethru
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It wasn't just the policy makers who panicked. The SAGE modellers did too, when one of their less prominent members (who happened to have real-world experience of epidemics) pointed out the futility of modelling for herd immunity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Domesticating models: On the contingency of Covid-19 modelling in UK media and policy - Lukas Engelmann, Catherine M Montgomery, Steve Sturdy, Cristina Moreno Lozano, 2023
Our article traces the representation of pandemic modelling in UK print media from the emergence of Covid-19 to the early stages of implementing the first UK-wi...
journals.sagepub.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It wasn't just the policy makers who panicked. The SAGE modellers did too, when one of their less prominent members (who happened to have real-world experience of epidemics) pointed out the futility of modelling for herd immunity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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From the chilling time line:
“Thur 12 Mar 2020
At press conference Whitty says 80% of people could be infected, with up to 1% death rate ie: >500,000 deaths. Supports government decision to stop community testing. Unlike European countries, UK does not cancel sports events.”
“Thur 12 Mar 2020
At press conference Whitty says 80% of people could be infected, with up to 1% death rate ie: >500,000 deaths. Supports government decision to stop community testing. Unlike European countries, UK does not cancel sports events.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
From the chilling time line:
“Thur 12 Mar 2020
At press conference Whitty says 80% of people could be infected, with up to 1% death rate ie: >500,000 deaths. Supports government decision to stop community testing. Unlike European countries, UK does not cancel sports events.”
“Thur 12 Mar 2020
At press conference Whitty says 80% of people could be infected, with up to 1% death rate ie: >500,000 deaths. Supports government decision to stop community testing. Unlike European countries, UK does not cancel sports events.”
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“You cannot have an extraordinarily detailed and comprehensive Public Inquiry conclude that major errors were made, yet the two most senior advisers say the Inquiry is wrong.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“You cannot have an extraordinarily detailed and comprehensive Public Inquiry conclude that major errors were made, yet the two most senior advisers say the Inquiry is wrong.”
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“He confuses suppression with eradication. All the East Asian states suppressed their outbreaks effectively and had death rates five times lower than the UK.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“He confuses suppression with eradication. All the East Asian states suppressed their outbreaks effectively and had death rates five times lower than the UK.”
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“Whitty told the Inquiry: “If it’s spread out of China it cannot be stopped . . . No-one with an ounce of common sense would suppress.” This is nonsense.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“Whitty told the Inquiry: “If it’s spread out of China it cannot be stopped . . . No-one with an ounce of common sense would suppress.” This is nonsense.”
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“East Asian states suppressed their epidemics within two months, had no further national lockdowns, and maintained healthy economic growth.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“East Asian states suppressed their epidemics within two months, had no further national lockdowns, and maintained healthy economic growth.”
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“Vallance wrote “a ‘zero Covid’ strategy could have been pursued (but) required a national lockdown and border closures by the end of February, to be continued indefinitely.” This is simply untrue.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“Vallance wrote “a ‘zero Covid’ strategy could have been pursued (but) required a national lockdown and border closures by the end of February, to be continued indefinitely.” This is simply untrue.”
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“They stuck to their lethal strategy of pandemic influenza and the omertà imposed on their advisers, to not comment on policy. They endorsed their political masters who saw public health measures as a threat to economic success.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“They stuck to their lethal strategy of pandemic influenza and the omertà imposed on their advisers, to not comment on policy. They endorsed their political masters who saw public health measures as a threat to economic success.”
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“No recommendations were made about the lamentable failure to support poor families to isolate, the failure to devolve resources to local public health teams so that they could find and pay contact tracers, and no reference made to the policy failures that privatised test and trace so disastrously.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“No recommendations were made about the lamentable failure to support poor families to isolate, the failure to devolve resources to local public health teams so that they could find and pay contact tracers, and no reference made to the policy failures that privatised test and trace so disastrously.”