Robert Reid
@rreidfu.bsky.social
Socialist, unionist, proletarian director, comic. Twitter refugee.
Once a panelist.
We/our.
Once a panelist.
We/our.
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omg nzh - the photo remains online and was posted to social media because YOU LEAD WITH IT
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sorry-foo... Foodstuffs admits its security staff leaked photo of ex-MP Golriz Ghahraman as new privacy breach emerges
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sorry-foo... Foodstuffs admits its security staff leaked photo of ex-MP Golriz Ghahraman as new privacy breach emerges
February 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
omg nzh - the photo remains online and was posted to social media because YOU LEAD WITH IT
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sorry-foo... Foodstuffs admits its security staff leaked photo of ex-MP Golriz Ghahraman as new privacy breach emerges
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sorry-foo... Foodstuffs admits its security staff leaked photo of ex-MP Golriz Ghahraman as new privacy breach emerges
So, NZ sent a warship into the 130 km wide Taiwan Straits a few months ago without consulting China.
... but now has kittens because China has repayed the visit by dropping into the north of the 2,250 km wide Tasman Sea without consultation.
... but now has kittens because China has repayed the visit by dropping into the north of the 2,250 km wide Tasman Sea without consultation.
February 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
So, NZ sent a warship into the 130 km wide Taiwan Straits a few months ago without consulting China.
... but now has kittens because China has repayed the visit by dropping into the north of the 2,250 km wide Tasman Sea without consultation.
... but now has kittens because China has repayed the visit by dropping into the north of the 2,250 km wide Tasman Sea without consultation.
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The @NewstalkZB audience is foul. Matched by its principals.
Some of the grossest, most ignorant people on earth.
ZB featured Ardern promoting a book. The commentary it engendered is disgraceful. Does ZB moderate that. Of course not. It invites it.
Some of the grossest, most ignorant people on earth.
ZB featured Ardern promoting a book. The commentary it engendered is disgraceful. Does ZB moderate that. Of course not. It invites it.
January 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
The @NewstalkZB audience is foul. Matched by its principals.
Some of the grossest, most ignorant people on earth.
ZB featured Ardern promoting a book. The commentary it engendered is disgraceful. Does ZB moderate that. Of course not. It invites it.
Some of the grossest, most ignorant people on earth.
ZB featured Ardern promoting a book. The commentary it engendered is disgraceful. Does ZB moderate that. Of course not. It invites it.
Haere rā Tari.
My boss, my mentor, my guide, my friend.
A great life.
Tears.
My boss, my mentor, my guide, my friend.
A great life.
Tears.
January 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Haere rā Tari.
My boss, my mentor, my guide, my friend.
A great life.
Tears.
My boss, my mentor, my guide, my friend.
A great life.
Tears.
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"Nurses were also alarmed at plans to pause a digital staffing system used in hospitals to indicate how many full-time staff were needed on duty at any given time, the union said."
Oh, and avoid being ill on 3 December.
Oh, and avoid being ill on 3 December.
Nurses' union calls nationwide strike over pay dispute with Health NZ
Nurses are "tired and frustrated" and there is no evidence their work is valued, union says.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 17, 2024 at 7:47 PM
"Nurses were also alarmed at plans to pause a digital staffing system used in hospitals to indicate how many full-time staff were needed on duty at any given time, the union said."
Oh, and avoid being ill on 3 December.
Oh, and avoid being ill on 3 December.
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Best my phone can achieve but go hikoi! Make this government hear you.
November 12, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Best my phone can achieve but go hikoi! Make this government hear you.
The fog of war.
Written before the bombing and killing of the Central World Kitchen staff.
thegrayzone.com/2024/03/27/u...
Written before the bombing and killing of the Central World Kitchen staff.
thegrayzone.com/2024/03/27/u...
April 3, 2024 at 9:52 AM
The fog of war.
Written before the bombing and killing of the Central World Kitchen staff.
thegrayzone.com/2024/03/27/u...
Written before the bombing and killing of the Central World Kitchen staff.
thegrayzone.com/2024/03/27/u...
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'A disgrace': Families doing it tough after government cuts funding to food bank
'A disgrace': Families doing it tough after government cuts funding to food bank
There's been an avalanche of demand for kai, but not enough money coming in to help.
www.rnz.co.nz
April 3, 2024 at 4:59 AM
'A disgrace': Families doing it tough after government cuts funding to food bank
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Cutting funding for for foodbanks to pay for tax cuts to landlord. This Sherriff of Nottingham government must be stopped!
April 3, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Cutting funding for for foodbanks to pay for tax cuts to landlord. This Sherriff of Nottingham government must be stopped!
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'The government recently told [foodbank operator] BBM it would have to wait for the new financial year if it wanted funding.' 🇳🇿
'A disgrace': Families doing it tough after government cuts funding to food bank
There's been an avalanche of demand for kai, but not enough money coming in to help.
www.rnz.co.nz
April 3, 2024 at 7:18 AM
'The government recently told [foodbank operator] BBM it would have to wait for the new financial year if it wanted funding.' 🇳🇿
A sobering watch on Good Friday.
March 28, 2024 at 11:07 PM
A sobering watch on Good Friday.
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NZ teen arrested with trove of violent, sexual and terrorist content
newsroom.co.nz/2024/03/27/n...
newsroom.co.nz/2024/03/27/n...
NZ teen arrested with trove of violent, sexual and terrorist content
The case is part of a pattern, globally and in New Zealand, of minors being radicalised online and seeking out a variety of illegal content.
newsroom.co.nz
March 27, 2024 at 6:30 PM
NZ teen arrested with trove of violent, sexual and terrorist content
newsroom.co.nz/2024/03/27/n...
newsroom.co.nz/2024/03/27/n...
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Look familiar, Aotearoa?
We're being played.
We're being played.
March 24, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Look familiar, Aotearoa?
We're being played.
We're being played.
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March 22, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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March 20, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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- somehow we have a govt who, in spite, of all the evidence, is choosing "boot camps" for young troubled people-
Care and protection, or containment and punishment? How state care fails NZ’s most vulnerable young people
Analysis - Care and protection residences are increasingly used as a solution for young people with complex needs. What needs to change?
www.rnz.co.nz
March 5, 2024 at 3:11 AM
- somehow we have a govt who, in spite, of all the evidence, is choosing "boot camps" for young troubled people-
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For those who cannot / don't wish to access this article on Forbes, I've added it to my site (where it is completely free to read) www.lauriewinkless.com/journal/how-... #nzpol
How Roads Fail... And Why They’re Set To Get Worse
Sick of potholes? Thanks to climate change and heavy trucks, we’ll likely see more of them in future
www.lauriewinkless.com
March 5, 2024 at 2:08 AM
For those who cannot / don't wish to access this article on Forbes, I've added it to my site (where it is completely free to read) www.lauriewinkless.com/journal/how-... #nzpol
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The heaviest vehicle allowed on (some of) Aotearoa New Zealand's roads is the 50MAX truck. A single 50MAX truck applies as much stress to a road as ~1,582 cars (or quite literally billions of bicycles) www.forbes.com/sites/laurie...
How Roads Fail... And Why They’re Set To Get Worse
Road transport produces tonnes of emissions, making it a driver of climate change. It is also one of the sectors most susceptible to the effects of climate change.
www.forbes.com
March 5, 2024 at 12:17 AM
The heaviest vehicle allowed on (some of) Aotearoa New Zealand's roads is the 50MAX truck. A single 50MAX truck applies as much stress to a road as ~1,582 cars (or quite literally billions of bicycles) www.forbes.com/sites/laurie...
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Want to know the best way to prevent potholes? Reduce the number of enormous, heavy trucks using those roads, by shifting as much freight as possible to rail. Is that what Brown and his cronies are proposing? F*CK no. #nzpol
thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...
thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...
War on future potholes as public transport funding cut, tax and fees to rise for drivers
Big roads will be back on track, while funding for cycling, walking and rail has been cut.
thespinoff.co.nz
March 5, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Want to know the best way to prevent potholes? Reduce the number of enormous, heavy trucks using those roads, by shifting as much freight as possible to rail. Is that what Brown and his cronies are proposing? F*CK no. #nzpol
thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...
thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...
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Since we're doing throwbacks, here's that research on how austerity policies deepen inequality, which "can significantly lower both the level and the durability of growth" from that bastion of leftist cant, the IMF which I think stands for the International Marxist Front. www.imf.org/external/pub...
February 20, 2024 at 6:44 AM
Since we're doing throwbacks, here's that research on how austerity policies deepen inequality, which "can significantly lower both the level and the durability of growth" from that bastion of leftist cant, the IMF which I think stands for the International Marxist Front. www.imf.org/external/pub...
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Ka taki te kākau i te whakaaroiti.
Gosh, who could have predicted this: "...international credit rating agency S&P Global has placed 15 NZ councils on negative credit watch, in response to last week’s repeal of the water reforms"? newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/20/c... #nzpol
Councils placed on negative credit watch due to Three Waters repeal
Twenty-one city and district councils face paying millions more in interest. Jonathan Milne reports.
newsroom.co.nz
February 20, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Ka taki te kākau i te whakaaroiti.
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Those three new anti-mandate astroturf unions aimed at doctors, nurses and teachers? You'll never guess who's behind them.
New “fake unions” connected to Australian ATLAS network think tank
www.astroturfing.nz
February 19, 2024 at 7:34 AM
Those three new anti-mandate astroturf unions aimed at doctors, nurses and teachers? You'll never guess who's behind them.