Trickybirdy
@oodle-ardle-leahy.bsky.social
Lefty, opinionated but mostly silent. Getting grumpier and less inclined to leave the house with every year. She/her 🏳️⚧️
Te Whanganui a Tara Aotearoa
Te Whanganui a Tara Aotearoa
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What the Electoral Amendment Bill would do:
- bad things like take away enrolment rates of everyone, and voting rights of prisoners, and make manaakitanga near voting places illegal.
What it wouldn't do:
- speed up election results.
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
- bad things like take away enrolment rates of everyone, and voting rights of prisoners, and make manaakitanga near voting places illegal.
What it wouldn't do:
- speed up election results.
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
New electoral legislation won't speed up official results
That's despite the changes primarily being made to improve the timeliness of the official vote count.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
What the Electoral Amendment Bill would do:
- bad things like take away enrolment rates of everyone, and voting rights of prisoners, and make manaakitanga near voting places illegal.
What it wouldn't do:
- speed up election results.
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
- bad things like take away enrolment rates of everyone, and voting rights of prisoners, and make manaakitanga near voting places illegal.
What it wouldn't do:
- speed up election results.
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Wellington City is becoming even greener with its new waste plant. Yes it has been a high investment but the impact it’ll have on our environment and long term savings is phenomenal.
Love this piece by @maxrashbrooke.bsky.social #nzpol
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Love this piece by @maxrashbrooke.bsky.social #nzpol
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Wellington’s new waste plan is a step toward a greener city
OPINION: Half a century on, my grandmother would have been dismayed to see waste piling ever-higher – but heartened by the signs that, at long last, those piles might soon start shrinking.
www.thepost.co.nz
September 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Wellington City is becoming even greener with its new waste plant. Yes it has been a high investment but the impact it’ll have on our environment and long term savings is phenomenal.
Love this piece by @maxrashbrooke.bsky.social #nzpol
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Love this piece by @maxrashbrooke.bsky.social #nzpol
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
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Important for parents of autistic children in the USA
YouTube video by Christina Talks
youtu.be
September 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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New Zealanders electricity bills are already high. When Luxon blocks offshore wind, by fast tracking seabed mining in the same place, he is driving electricity prices higher, while blocking new low emissions generation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Wind power firm departs, amid fast-track controversy over seabed mining
A plan for an offshore wind power generation site has been abandoned as the company has pulled out, as controversy continues over seabed mining also planned for the area.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
New Zealanders electricity bills are already high. When Luxon blocks offshore wind, by fast tracking seabed mining in the same place, he is driving electricity prices higher, while blocking new low emissions generation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Council rates skyrocketed in 24/25 and 25/26 because the govt cancelled three waters. The govt then blamed councils for wasting money, when what they were doing was continuing to own, operate, maintain and upgrade the water assets the govt had cancelled the transfer of. This is surprisingly obvious.
New Zealanders haven’t had a lot of fun with the extra money that’s come back into their budgets as mortgage rates have fallen.
That’s because much of it is being sucked out again by council rates rises, insurance company premium increases, and supermarket food price inflation, economists say.
That’s because much of it is being sucked out again by council rates rises, insurance company premium increases, and supermarket food price inflation, economists say.
‘The money just disappeared’: A year since home loan rates started to fall, why’s nobody spending?
Interest rates have dropped, but they’ve been sucked up by rates, insurance premiums, groceries, paying down debt and building up savings in case of job loss.
www.thepress.co.nz
August 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Council rates skyrocketed in 24/25 and 25/26 because the govt cancelled three waters. The govt then blamed councils for wasting money, when what they were doing was continuing to own, operate, maintain and upgrade the water assets the govt had cancelled the transfer of. This is surprisingly obvious.
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Luxon is such a grifter, not content with giving himself a 10.5% pay rise and taking him to the near $600K band, he is also charging rent to Kiwis at a rate 3 times more than comparable politicians. And that goes into his own pocket!
Say it again, with me folks - grifter Luxon
#grifterluxon
#nzpol
Say it again, with me folks - grifter Luxon
#grifterluxon
#nzpol
Money, Money, Money, Christopher Luxon
It's a Rich (Wo)Man's World
mountaintui.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Luxon is such a grifter, not content with giving himself a 10.5% pay rise and taking him to the near $600K band, he is also charging rent to Kiwis at a rate 3 times more than comparable politicians. And that goes into his own pocket!
Say it again, with me folks - grifter Luxon
#grifterluxon
#nzpol
Say it again, with me folks - grifter Luxon
#grifterluxon
#nzpol
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I hate how public opinion is turning in favour of that forehead guy stealing his kids away and making them live rough in the bush and do crimes in marokopa. they're all going to start going through puberty soon, which includes two girls starting periods, they have no mates and no social lives
August 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I hate how public opinion is turning in favour of that forehead guy stealing his kids away and making them live rough in the bush and do crimes in marokopa. they're all going to start going through puberty soon, which includes two girls starting periods, they have no mates and no social lives
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The absolute audacity of this woman blaming “local leadership” and cycleways for the flailing economy after firing our public servants. You’re the Minister of Finance AND Economic Growth. Take a hard look at yourself, your lack of plan and your missing boats before coming at us. #nzpol
#Wellington economy shrinks as 177 businesses shut in a year-Economic Growth Minister #NicolaWillis is responsible for Wgtn’s grim economy as those in the capital spend less, businesses go bust & more people join the jobless queue #Neoliberal #austerity #NZGovtFail
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...
The city suffering as 177 businesses shut – does Nicola Willis accept any blame?
New numbers show the region's economy continues to be hit more than the national average.
www.nzherald.co.nz
August 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The absolute audacity of this woman blaming “local leadership” and cycleways for the flailing economy after firing our public servants. You’re the Minister of Finance AND Economic Growth. Take a hard look at yourself, your lack of plan and your missing boats before coming at us. #nzpol
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Yesterday Israel hit a Gaza hospital in a double tap, which means bombing the location a second time as people went to help. IDF killed 20 - including Reuters & AP journalists who were filming. Despite all of this, David Seymour is still defending Israel's actions & Peters is using ACT for cover.
Reuters and AP journalists killed in Gaza strike were not 'a target,' an Israeli military spokesperson says
Israeli forces struck Nasser hospital in Gaza, killing at least 20 people including journalists. Reuters has frequently broadcast a feed from Nasser hospital during the Gaza war.
www.reuters.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Yesterday Israel hit a Gaza hospital in a double tap, which means bombing the location a second time as people went to help. IDF killed 20 - including Reuters & AP journalists who were filming. Despite all of this, David Seymour is still defending Israel's actions & Peters is using ACT for cover.
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Imagine if instead of fixating on the politicians who got Aotearoa through Covid with minimal deaths, all the nation's cookers & grifters & TalkBack hosts focused their attention on the mayors & councilors who vocally opposed 3 Waters & promised cheaper alternatives?
www.odt.co.nz/regions/nort...
www.odt.co.nz/regions/nort...
Residents could lose homes: Mayor
Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher fears residents could lose their homes over an astronomical rise in water charges which will cost households over $200 a...
www.odt.co.nz
August 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Imagine if instead of fixating on the politicians who got Aotearoa through Covid with minimal deaths, all the nation's cookers & grifters & TalkBack hosts focused their attention on the mayors & councilors who vocally opposed 3 Waters & promised cheaper alternatives?
www.odt.co.nz/regions/nort...
www.odt.co.nz/regions/nort...
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Since 2023, Luxon’s coalition “has repealed, defunded, or delayed dozens of climate initiatives: from electric bus funds to agricultural emissions pricing to subsidies for solar and wind. Officials have been ordered to stop planning for lower car use. Climate scientists have lost their jobs…” #nzpol
The Zero Carbon Act in 2019 represented then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's promise to tackle her generation's "nuclear-free moment" head on.
Six years on, analysis (by me) suggests the law has been hollowed out to little more than a husk.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Six years on, analysis (by me) suggests the law has been hollowed out to little more than a husk.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
How Jacinda Ardern’s ‘groundbreaking’ climate law has become ‘a shell’
The Zero Carbon Act promised to lock climate ambition into law. But with key policies repealed, delayed or watered down, the once 'world-leading' legislation has become a husk of its former self.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Since 2023, Luxon’s coalition “has repealed, defunded, or delayed dozens of climate initiatives: from electric bus funds to agricultural emissions pricing to subsidies for solar and wind. Officials have been ordered to stop planning for lower car use. Climate scientists have lost their jobs…” #nzpol
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Oh nOoOoOoOoOo not another new book idea
August 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Oh nOoOoOoOoOo not another new book idea
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The absolute @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social on HONEYEATER!
August 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The absolute @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social on HONEYEATER!
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"Another consideration, when it comes to building immunity, is the growing body of research suggesting that for several months after a Covid infection, people become more vulnerable to other infections and there can be lingering effects on the heart, cardiovascular system and the brain."
To summarize
-waves are not seasonal
-vaccines are waning
-people are getting long covid
-it’s still not an endemic disease
-very young kids are at increased risk because they didn’t go through the initial vaccine series
Oh and it turns out, Covid Cautious people have been right the whole time.
-waves are not seasonal
-vaccines are waning
-people are getting long covid
-it’s still not an endemic disease
-very young kids are at increased risk because they didn’t go through the initial vaccine series
Oh and it turns out, Covid Cautious people have been right the whole time.
August 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"Another consideration, when it comes to building immunity, is the growing body of research suggesting that for several months after a Covid infection, people become more vulnerable to other infections and there can be lingering effects on the heart, cardiovascular system and the brain."
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In my experience, ESOL Asians often pronounce Māori better than old white people bc they - you know - read the words as written. Te Reo Māori could be really effectively deployed as a foundation of any phonics-based literacy system here, but that would involve not being fucking racist.
August 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
In my experience, ESOL Asians often pronounce Māori better than old white people bc they - you know - read the words as written. Te Reo Māori could be really effectively deployed as a foundation of any phonics-based literacy system here, but that would involve not being fucking racist.
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#NZPol Any government should need a significant supermajority and to have campaigned on selling any publicly owned assets.
It’s disgusting that these morons are allowed to impoverish our shared future prosperity for a 20 second sugar hit because they are too stupid to invest in productive growth.
It’s disgusting that these morons are allowed to impoverish our shared future prosperity for a 20 second sugar hit because they are too stupid to invest in productive growth.
August 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#NZPol Any government should need a significant supermajority and to have campaigned on selling any publicly owned assets.
It’s disgusting that these morons are allowed to impoverish our shared future prosperity for a 20 second sugar hit because they are too stupid to invest in productive growth.
It’s disgusting that these morons are allowed to impoverish our shared future prosperity for a 20 second sugar hit because they are too stupid to invest in productive growth.
We awoke to find our firstborn child not in her bed on her 16 birthday. Or anywhere else in the house
She was of course, outside up a tree watching the tui, a fact we had already discounted as a possibility because all the doors were still locked.
But she'd gone out a window, because doors... meh.
She was of course, outside up a tree watching the tui, a fact we had already discounted as a possibility because all the doors were still locked.
But she'd gone out a window, because doors... meh.
August 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We awoke to find our firstborn child not in her bed on her 16 birthday. Or anywhere else in the house
She was of course, outside up a tree watching the tui, a fact we had already discounted as a possibility because all the doors were still locked.
But she'd gone out a window, because doors... meh.
She was of course, outside up a tree watching the tui, a fact we had already discounted as a possibility because all the doors were still locked.
But she'd gone out a window, because doors... meh.
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Also "you're union slackers and we don't want you in charge of our kids"
August 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Also "you're union slackers and we don't want you in charge of our kids"
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Gary Payinda: “What I can tell you is how a progressive party loses an election:
By being weak centrists.
By being a little less racist than one party, or a bit less conspiracist than another, or a bit more competent than a 3rd.
But tepid centrism cannot improve lives, or win in the long term..”
By being weak centrists.
By being a little less racist than one party, or a bit less conspiracist than another, or a bit more competent than a 3rd.
But tepid centrism cannot improve lives, or win in the long term..”
Wealthy and Sorted, Or Sinking?
How the left/progressives can make it through the next 18 months and build something better. #BeefTrimmingsandOffal
drgarypayinda.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Gary Payinda: “What I can tell you is how a progressive party loses an election:
By being weak centrists.
By being a little less racist than one party, or a bit less conspiracist than another, or a bit more competent than a 3rd.
But tepid centrism cannot improve lives, or win in the long term..”
By being weak centrists.
By being a little less racist than one party, or a bit less conspiracist than another, or a bit more competent than a 3rd.
But tepid centrism cannot improve lives, or win in the long term..”
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Shane Te Pou's Herald piece on national's voter suppression says "You’ve been able to enrol up to the day before election day since 1993". This is wrong. You've been able to do it since 1954. National is trying to turn the clock back over 70 years.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/facing-pr...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/facing-pr...
Shane Te Pou: Govt trying to change rules as it faces prospect of election defeat
OPINION: The Government shouldn't try to exclude the 100,000 voters it doesn't like
www.nzherald.co.nz
August 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Shane Te Pou's Herald piece on national's voter suppression says "You’ve been able to enrol up to the day before election day since 1993". This is wrong. You've been able to do it since 1954. National is trying to turn the clock back over 70 years.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/facing-pr...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/facing-pr...