ClaraTIG 🏳️⚧️
@claratig.bsky.social
She /Her. An old IT manager, who started in IT in the 90s I enjoy motor bikes, but have ended up selling them. I now ride e-bikes.
Married to an amazing woman, @Kidof60steens
Avid reader of sci-fi/fantasy
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Married to an amazing woman, @Kidof60steens
Avid reader of sci-fi/fantasy
Kāi Tahu 🏳️⚧️
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This just reinforces that this government rapes our environment for short term profit.
Total government expenditure on climate:
2022/23 - $800m
2023/24 - $1,083m
2024/25 - $1,225m
2025/26 - $657m
That's a 46% drop from last year to this and the lowest amount ever since the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment started compiling these figures. 1/2
2022/23 - $800m
2023/24 - $1,083m
2024/25 - $1,225m
2025/26 - $657m
That's a 46% drop from last year to this and the lowest amount ever since the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment started compiling these figures. 1/2
December 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This just reinforces that this government rapes our environment for short term profit.
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Neither Labour nor National have done f-all 2 slow dropping living stds 4 most NZers 4 the last 40+ yrs. The Greens have produced a viable economic plan. Give them 3 yrs 2 show what they can do. The fact the 2 big parties spend time screaming about them shows they're worried. Vote Greens
#NZPol
#NZPol
#NZPol Just vote Green. This is such bullshit.
Things that Labour will say 'yes' to:
1. We need 120,000 people unemployed (at least) to stop wages going up by too much.
2. Banks can extract $8bn a year in profits, because that's the price we should pay.
3. The market will eventually deliver affordable energy / food / rent - be patient comrades.
1. We need 120,000 people unemployed (at least) to stop wages going up by too much.
2. Banks can extract $8bn a year in profits, because that's the price we should pay.
3. The market will eventually deliver affordable energy / food / rent - be patient comrades.
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Neither Labour nor National have done f-all 2 slow dropping living stds 4 most NZers 4 the last 40+ yrs. The Greens have produced a viable economic plan. Give them 3 yrs 2 show what they can do. The fact the 2 big parties spend time screaming about them shows they're worried. Vote Greens
#NZPol
#NZPol
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#nzpol Don’t get me started on the Electoral Roll registration changes. This is a ham-fisted effort to disenfranchise people who have other shit going on in their lives. This smacks of risible UK Tory efforts to off-roll people without the right kind of ID.
July 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
#nzpol Don’t get me started on the Electoral Roll registration changes. This is a ham-fisted effort to disenfranchise people who have other shit going on in their lives. This smacks of risible UK Tory efforts to off-roll people without the right kind of ID.
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Just saw a post from IRD on face plant - Landlord tax cut is retrospective for interest deductibility for 2021 2022 2023 WTF past tax years - lolly scramble - no wonder we can’t have hospitals school lunches & ferrys. Nikki no boats is bankrupting the country
“If we continue to reward property-backed expansion and underwrite financial returns in low-productivity sectors, we should not be surprised by the outcomes.”
#nzpol
#nzpol
Opinion from Auckland University: The findings of a new IMF report suggest NZ is not just underperforming, but actively backing the wrong kinds of growth.
June 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Just saw a post from IRD on face plant - Landlord tax cut is retrospective for interest deductibility for 2021 2022 2023 WTF past tax years - lolly scramble - no wonder we can’t have hospitals school lunches & ferrys. Nikki no boats is bankrupting the country
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"Federated Farmers and Beef + Lamb says yes,because methane is much shorter lived than the other main heating gases, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide."
Yes,methane is "short lived".It breaks down.
It breaks down into CARBON DIOXIDE, WATER VAPOUR, and OZONE - all of which are greenhouse gases!
(1)
Yes,methane is "short lived".It breaks down.
It breaks down into CARBON DIOXIDE, WATER VAPOUR, and OZONE - all of which are greenhouse gases!
(1)
June 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"Federated Farmers and Beef + Lamb says yes,because methane is much shorter lived than the other main heating gases, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide."
Yes,methane is "short lived".It breaks down.
It breaks down into CARBON DIOXIDE, WATER VAPOUR, and OZONE - all of which are greenhouse gases!
(1)
Yes,methane is "short lived".It breaks down.
It breaks down into CARBON DIOXIDE, WATER VAPOUR, and OZONE - all of which are greenhouse gases!
(1)
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#RSB Regulatory Standards Bill: #submission guide 🍃🌸🌿
Even if you #submitted on this under the discussion documents, earlier -we have to do it again to #StopTheRSB
Submissions close: 1pm 23 June #nzpol
Send copies to MPs, SelectCommittee + keep one
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Even if you #submitted on this under the discussion documents, earlier -we have to do it again to #StopTheRSB
Submissions close: 1pm 23 June #nzpol
Send copies to MPs, SelectCommittee + keep one
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
June 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
#RSB Regulatory Standards Bill: #submission guide 🍃🌸🌿
Even if you #submitted on this under the discussion documents, earlier -we have to do it again to #StopTheRSB
Submissions close: 1pm 23 June #nzpol
Send copies to MPs, SelectCommittee + keep one
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Even if you #submitted on this under the discussion documents, earlier -we have to do it again to #StopTheRSB
Submissions close: 1pm 23 June #nzpol
Send copies to MPs, SelectCommittee + keep one
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Stolen from facebook. Love these 2
June 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Stolen from facebook. Love these 2
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Sex work is "real" work.
Sex workers are "real" workers - and are entitled to the same freedom from abuse, harassment and exploitation as everyone else.
This is only as controversial, or weird and awkward, as we all choose to make it.
Pass it on.
#nzpol
Sex workers are "real" workers - and are entitled to the same freedom from abuse, harassment and exploitation as everyone else.
This is only as controversial, or weird and awkward, as we all choose to make it.
Pass it on.
#nzpol
June 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Sex work is "real" work.
Sex workers are "real" workers - and are entitled to the same freedom from abuse, harassment and exploitation as everyone else.
This is only as controversial, or weird and awkward, as we all choose to make it.
Pass it on.
#nzpol
Sex workers are "real" workers - and are entitled to the same freedom from abuse, harassment and exploitation as everyone else.
This is only as controversial, or weird and awkward, as we all choose to make it.
Pass it on.
#nzpol
Just part of the plan to strip public assets and sell them off to their puppet masters
Typical neo-liberal BS expecting public services to show an ROI, when the "R" is the service they deliver. How about asking landlords to show a better ROI since they are getting so much "investment" (foregone taxes) from this government #nzpol
thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...
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NZ Post under scrutiny as ministers demand better returns from SOEs
The government has issued stern warnings to a range of SOEs over poor performance, while quietly laying the groundwork for a future conversation about selling state assets.<br />
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thespinoff.co.nz
June 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Just part of the plan to strip public assets and sell them off to their puppet masters
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Funny how, after attacking women's pay equity, with their leader's press sec just revealed to have been an utter creep taking nonconsensual pictures of sex workers and random women at the gym...
... suddenly Collins goes all in on anti-trans culture-warring in oral questions.
Distraction, much?
... suddenly Collins goes all in on anti-trans culture-warring in oral questions.
Distraction, much?
June 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Funny how, after attacking women's pay equity, with their leader's press sec just revealed to have been an utter creep taking nonconsensual pictures of sex workers and random women at the gym...
... suddenly Collins goes all in on anti-trans culture-warring in oral questions.
Distraction, much?
... suddenly Collins goes all in on anti-trans culture-warring in oral questions.
Distraction, much?
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Why do I find this so incredibly moving?
1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
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So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow
Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Why do I find this so incredibly moving?
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May 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Nats: We are going to chuck 17 and 18 year olds off Jobseekers
Labour: We are going to help young people into apprenticeships
Which of these strategies do you really think works? #NZPol
Labour: We are going to help young people into apprenticeships
Which of these strategies do you really think works? #NZPol
May 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Nats: We are going to chuck 17 and 18 year olds off Jobseekers
Labour: We are going to help young people into apprenticeships
Which of these strategies do you really think works? #NZPol
Labour: We are going to help young people into apprenticeships
Which of these strategies do you really think works? #NZPol
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One of Mountsin Tui's best - and most damning - blogposts yet. This is the kind of insight and analysis missing from msm.
open.substack.com/pub/mountain...
open.substack.com/pub/mountain...
Nicola Willis's Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government
Current & planned debt will surpass Labour's full term debt in less years. Willis also admitted Budget 2024 had a higher deficit than all of Grant Robertson's bar Covid.
open.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
One of Mountsin Tui's best - and most damning - blogposts yet. This is the kind of insight and analysis missing from msm.
open.substack.com/pub/mountain...
open.substack.com/pub/mountain...
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This one's very important for EVERYONE - the RSB opens us up to an American hellscape with many unintended consequences. It's part of the Coalition agreement, and they passed the first stage through urgency.
But this Select Committee process is arguably MORE important than the TPB. SUBMIT.
#nzpol
But this Select Committee process is arguably MORE important than the TPB. SUBMIT.
#nzpol
May 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This one's very important for EVERYONE - the RSB opens us up to an American hellscape with many unintended consequences. It's part of the Coalition agreement, and they passed the first stage through urgency.
But this Select Committee process is arguably MORE important than the TPB. SUBMIT.
#nzpol
But this Select Committee process is arguably MORE important than the TPB. SUBMIT.
#nzpol
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What an incredibly facile understanding of our Parliamentary democracy.
All MPs can vote whichever way they like.
They *choose* to toe the party line on most instances, meaning
" ... I cannot vote other than along party lines"
is really
" ... I am only here to follow orders".
All MPs can vote whichever way they like.
They *choose* to toe the party line on most instances, meaning
" ... I cannot vote other than along party lines"
is really
" ... I am only here to follow orders".
And THIS is what I replied 😈
#NZPol
#NZPol
May 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
What an incredibly facile understanding of our Parliamentary democracy.
All MPs can vote whichever way they like.
They *choose* to toe the party line on most instances, meaning
" ... I cannot vote other than along party lines"
is really
" ... I am only here to follow orders".
All MPs can vote whichever way they like.
They *choose* to toe the party line on most instances, meaning
" ... I cannot vote other than along party lines"
is really
" ... I am only here to follow orders".
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Once we know exactly how many billions were stolen from the Pay Equity Fund nothing else matters. Not if it was moved to education, or police, or health - they had to pay for all of those things anyway, they didn't have to pay for them of the backs of women #NZPol
May 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Once we know exactly how many billions were stolen from the Pay Equity Fund nothing else matters. Not if it was moved to education, or police, or health - they had to pay for all of those things anyway, they didn't have to pay for them of the backs of women #NZPol
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Food, a non essential
But what are bottom feeders supposed to eat, just bottoms?
"fuck you, starve" isn't the central point of wins..
But what are bottom feeders supposed to eat, just bottoms?
"fuck you, starve" isn't the central point of wins..
May 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Food, a non essential
But what are bottom feeders supposed to eat, just bottoms?
"fuck you, starve" isn't the central point of wins..
But what are bottom feeders supposed to eat, just bottoms?
"fuck you, starve" isn't the central point of wins..