Pepperannie
@pepperanne.bsky.social
(she/her)🇳🇿Aotearoa. tauiwi / pākehā. I like politics, current affairs, history, weird bs, & cats. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✊🏽
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Opinion from the University of Auckland: Cannabis, ecstasy, meth and cocaine are the only drugs being added to the new roadside testing regime. Why is driving impaired permissible if caused by legally prescribed drugs?
Roadside drug testing's 'puritanical' political agenda
newsroom.co.nz
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Opinion from the University of Auckland: Cannabis, ecstasy, meth and cocaine are the only drugs being added to the new roadside testing regime. Why is driving impaired permissible if caused by legally prescribed drugs?
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They prosecuted the woman who made complaints against him. #nzpol
“Over a period of years, Lack said the woman attempted to report allegations of a serious physical, psychological and sexual nature by McSkimming, who was one of the most powerful police officers in the country.” #misogny #corruption
“Over a period of years, Lack said the woman attempted to report allegations of a serious physical, psychological and sexual nature by McSkimming, who was one of the most powerful police officers in the country.” #misogny #corruption
Police bosses ignored sex complaints against top cop, charged woman for 'revenge' emails instead
Suppressions fall away to reveal the full story of the downfall of a deputy police boss.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
They prosecuted the woman who made complaints against him. #nzpol
“Over a period of years, Lack said the woman attempted to report allegations of a serious physical, psychological and sexual nature by McSkimming, who was one of the most powerful police officers in the country.” #misogny #corruption
“Over a period of years, Lack said the woman attempted to report allegations of a serious physical, psychological and sexual nature by McSkimming, who was one of the most powerful police officers in the country.” #misogny #corruption
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In a political flip-flop, Education Minister Erica Stanford has decided to remove the Treaty of Waitangi obligations on school boards without consulting Māori. Laura Walters reports.
Warnings of relationship damage, Treaty breaches over school board changes
newsroom.co.nz
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
In a political flip-flop, Education Minister Erica Stanford has decided to remove the Treaty of Waitangi obligations on school boards without consulting Māori. Laura Walters reports.
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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People forget that when the survivors were fighting for a Royal Commission into State Care under John Key's government, Anne Tolley the then Nats MSD minister said there would never be a commission and the only reason we have it at all is that Jacinda Ardern formally launched it in 2018 #NZPol
While I'm not really surprised this increasingly Christofascist government is applying their 'worthiness test' to acknowledged victims of state abuse, I am really disgusted. #nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
A grubby, grotty attempt to shirk responsibility for decades of horror
OPINION: The Government’s move to make it harder for some victims of abuse in state care to access compensation is disgusting.
www.stuff.co.nz
October 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
People forget that when the survivors were fighting for a Royal Commission into State Care under John Key's government, Anne Tolley the then Nats MSD minister said there would never be a commission and the only reason we have it at all is that Jacinda Ardern formally launched it in 2018 #NZPol
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In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
October 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
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i see mike king and "i am hope" is in the news again recently. just resharing this amazing piece @jessmcallen.bsky.social wrote for webworm last year: www.webworm.co/rockstar/
The Making of a Mental Health Rockstar
Does Mike King’s popularity come with a big dose of impunity?
www.webworm.co
October 16, 2025 at 3:51 AM
i see mike king and "i am hope" is in the news again recently. just resharing this amazing piece @jessmcallen.bsky.social wrote for webworm last year: www.webworm.co/rockstar/
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!
October 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!
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Stuff reporters, you don’t need to use “characterises” and “suggests” framing here when the Greens advice is demonstrably true:
Women are more likely to be engaged in part-time or casual employment - this means they will bear the brunt of the sick pay changes.
It’s not a suggestion, it’s a fact.
Women are more likely to be engaged in part-time or casual employment - this means they will bear the brunt of the sick pay changes.
It’s not a suggestion, it’s a fact.
Women will bear the brunt of sick pay changes, Greens say
Women will bear the brunt of sick pay changes, Greens sayThe Greens are characterising the Government's changes to sick leave for part-time workers as "yet another blow to women across Aotearoa".“Stri...
www.tickaroo.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Stuff reporters, you don’t need to use “characterises” and “suggests” framing here when the Greens advice is demonstrably true:
Women are more likely to be engaged in part-time or casual employment - this means they will bear the brunt of the sick pay changes.
It’s not a suggestion, it’s a fact.
Women are more likely to be engaged in part-time or casual employment - this means they will bear the brunt of the sick pay changes.
It’s not a suggestion, it’s a fact.
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I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.
September 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.
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you're allowed to speak ill of the dead. even if you think Charlie pissboy Kirk shouldn't have been assassinated, you're still allowed to say he was a snot-guzzling homophobe, misogynist, transphobe, gun nut, moronic idiot with an ego far out of proportion to his IQ or level of critical thinking
September 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
you're allowed to speak ill of the dead. even if you think Charlie pissboy Kirk shouldn't have been assassinated, you're still allowed to say he was a snot-guzzling homophobe, misogynist, transphobe, gun nut, moronic idiot with an ego far out of proportion to his IQ or level of critical thinking
I think maybe the receptionist is just new, but I just called my Dr to book in a jadelle removal/reinsert & she quoted me $350 for a thing that, last I checked, is free.
If this is not an error & in fact a new charge, I think I’ll also be buying a plane ticket to Wellington to cuss out some MPs.
If this is not an error & in fact a new charge, I think I’ll also be buying a plane ticket to Wellington to cuss out some MPs.
September 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I think maybe the receptionist is just new, but I just called my Dr to book in a jadelle removal/reinsert & she quoted me $350 for a thing that, last I checked, is free.
If this is not an error & in fact a new charge, I think I’ll also be buying a plane ticket to Wellington to cuss out some MPs.
If this is not an error & in fact a new charge, I think I’ll also be buying a plane ticket to Wellington to cuss out some MPs.
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
Irony is an incredible thing to behold sometimes.
September 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Irony is an incredible thing to behold sometimes.
Can we take a moment to talk about push notifications, because I don’t even know what this is saying to me but I feel mildly threatened:
September 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Can we take a moment to talk about push notifications, because I don’t even know what this is saying to me but I feel mildly threatened:
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RFK Jr. spits out a mouthful of asbestos and takes a swig from his sewage bottle.
"I can already see children getting healthier," he gurgles, a bone from a roadkill bat lodged in his larynx. "The spike in measles deaths is a sign their mitochondrial vitality is spiking."
His left ear drops off.
"I can already see children getting healthier," he gurgles, a bone from a roadkill bat lodged in his larynx. "The spike in measles deaths is a sign their mitochondrial vitality is spiking."
His left ear drops off.
September 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
RFK Jr. spits out a mouthful of asbestos and takes a swig from his sewage bottle.
"I can already see children getting healthier," he gurgles, a bone from a roadkill bat lodged in his larynx. "The spike in measles deaths is a sign their mitochondrial vitality is spiking."
His left ear drops off.
"I can already see children getting healthier," he gurgles, a bone from a roadkill bat lodged in his larynx. "The spike in measles deaths is a sign their mitochondrial vitality is spiking."
His left ear drops off.
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Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
August 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
