@rupertbbare.bsky.social
he/him. Business Analyst. Frustrated Writer. Civil Servant. OPINIONS ARE MINE ALONE (& quite possibly wrong).
I'm more active on Mastodon TBH.
https://rupert-brackenbury.squarespace.com/
I'm more active on Mastodon TBH.
https://rupert-brackenbury.squarespace.com/
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Hello, I hope you've been well.
I left Twitter a while ago and have been posting at mastodon.nz/@RupertBBare
Now I'm here too, it seems.
I left Twitter a while ago and have been posting at mastodon.nz/@RupertBBare
Now I'm here too, it seems.
"Suppose we're invited to a yacht party by drug dealers"
January 15, 2026 at 10:48 AM
"Suppose we're invited to a yacht party by drug dealers"
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The #nzpol and #kikorangi feeds often follow similar themes, and I have often thought about the fact that a lot of what people want it already being offered, by the @greens.org.nz
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January 14, 2026 at 7:59 PM
The #nzpol and #kikorangi feeds often follow similar themes, and I have often thought about the fact that a lot of what people want it already being offered, by the @greens.org.nz
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Happy New Year: I put a new piece of flash fiction up on my site. I hope you enjoy this brief horror story of hangovers & tentacles:
rupert-brackenbury.squarespace.com/blog/the-catch
#mywriting #writing
rupert-brackenbury.squarespace.com/blog/the-catch
#mywriting #writing
The Catch — Rupert Brackenbury
Not quite awake, he falls from his berth onto the haphazard store of nets and bottles that litter the cabin. His head throbs from whiskey and blunt-trauma. He curses, stands, curses, searches in his ...
rupert-brackenbury.squarespace.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Happy New Year: I put a new piece of flash fiction up on my site. I hope you enjoy this brief horror story of hangovers & tentacles:
rupert-brackenbury.squarespace.com/blog/the-catch
#mywriting #writing
rupert-brackenbury.squarespace.com/blog/the-catch
#mywriting #writing
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
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I would really like to see NZ's Prime Minister say something fairly unequivocal about this.
He can avoid being directly confrontational if he wants, and just assert that the international rule of law is important or something, but he better say something that at least implies this isn't okay.
He can avoid being directly confrontational if he wants, and just assert that the international rule of law is important or something, but he better say something that at least implies this isn't okay.
January 3, 2026 at 10:05 AM
I would really like to see NZ's Prime Minister say something fairly unequivocal about this.
He can avoid being directly confrontational if he wants, and just assert that the international rule of law is important or something, but he better say something that at least implies this isn't okay.
He can avoid being directly confrontational if he wants, and just assert that the international rule of law is important or something, but he better say something that at least implies this isn't okay.
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Thanks for listening! Our Christmas episode is out tomorrow- in which we discuss our favourite Leyline High Christmas specials. 🎄
I just finished the podcast @leylinehighrewind.bsky.social and im desperate for more episodes. The cast are amazing and I need to see where this is going.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thanks for listening! Our Christmas episode is out tomorrow- in which we discuss our favourite Leyline High Christmas specials. 🎄
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If you charge young people with being homeless and they end up in jail, is anyone on the right going to wonder if it was worth cutting off the $16k a year benefit and putting them in $150K a year jail - Anyone? Bueller? #NZPol
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
If you charge young people with being homeless and they end up in jail, is anyone on the right going to wonder if it was worth cutting off the $16k a year benefit and putting them in $150K a year jail - Anyone? Bueller? #NZPol
I just finished the podcast @leylinehighrewind.bsky.social and im desperate for more episodes. The cast are amazing and I need to see where this is going.
December 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I just finished the podcast @leylinehighrewind.bsky.social and im desperate for more episodes. The cast are amazing and I need to see where this is going.
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BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:
www.courtsofnz.govt.nz
December 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:
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December 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Meet Smeena, your helpful AI assistant! From Crowley Time Episode 40 with special guest Paul F. Tompkins. crowleytime.com
@pftompkins.bsky.social
@pftompkins.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Meet Smeena, your helpful AI assistant! From Crowley Time Episode 40 with special guest Paul F. Tompkins. crowleytime.com
@pftompkins.bsky.social
@pftompkins.bsky.social
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December 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
[Getting fired for poisoning a customer]
"My boss is a 'frequent flyer' with HR, complaining about quite a range of my behaviours, they have the right to do, but I think people need that context."
"My boss is a 'frequent flyer' with HR, complaining about quite a range of my behaviours, they have the right to do, but I think people need that context."
Seymour: let's not make "assumptions" that a serious food safety incident is the responsibility of a company with a record of food safety incidents so bad that officials strongly warned against contracting it. Maybe it was the person who reported it! What a prick. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchu...
Seymour labels principal at centre of mouldy school lunches a media 'frequent flyer'
The principal has hit back saying the food is delivered daily and leftovers removed.
www.nzherald.co.nz
December 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
[Getting fired for poisoning a customer]
"My boss is a 'frequent flyer' with HR, complaining about quite a range of my behaviours, they have the right to do, but I think people need that context."
"My boss is a 'frequent flyer' with HR, complaining about quite a range of my behaviours, they have the right to do, but I think people need that context."
I suppose you might want 8 toilets if you have no external doors?
December 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I suppose you might want 8 toilets if you have no external doors?
As I drove through Lower Hutt, on the way to a hospital appointment I'd waited 2 years for, I saw the huge queue at the food bank & billboard for Chris Bishop gloating about more roads.
It seems like its all connected.
#nzpol
It seems like its all connected.
#nzpol
December 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
As I drove through Lower Hutt, on the way to a hospital appointment I'd waited 2 years for, I saw the huge queue at the food bank & billboard for Chris Bishop gloating about more roads.
It seems like its all connected.
#nzpol
It seems like its all connected.
#nzpol
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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Boy if you think our health system is stretched now, just wait til Serco “known for abusing prisoners” get their hands on it
Prisons operator Serco eyes NZ's public health infrastructure needs
The outsourcing firm tells the Government it is uniquely positioned, and its services could be of great value
newsroom.us14.list-manage.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Boy if you think our health system is stretched now, just wait til Serco “known for abusing prisoners” get their hands on it
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It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.
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In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
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Between you and me, if I were a freshly elected mayor who had just called out the toxic behaviour towards my predecessor, I wouldn't then go and reward one of the central figures in creating that toxicity by making them chair of an influential subcommittee... 🤦♂️
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Wellington's new mayor Andrew Little says Tory Whanau faced 'toxic behaviour'
In a speech to supporters on Saturday night, Little said Whanau had shown courage during her time as mayor.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Between you and me, if I were a freshly elected mayor who had just called out the toxic behaviour towards my predecessor, I wouldn't then go and reward one of the central figures in creating that toxicity by making them chair of an influential subcommittee... 🤦♂️
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
I hate to lose my leftist street-cred, but from what I've seen, voters seem quite positive about Labour's CGT, so maybe it's not total failure? #nzpol
October 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I hate to lose my leftist street-cred, but from what I've seen, voters seem quite positive about Labour's CGT, so maybe it's not total failure? #nzpol
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I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone
October 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone
In Philip K Dick's short story "Faith of our fathers" an illegal anti-hallucinogen allows you to see the country's leader is actually horrifying biomechanical monstrosity & this is a pretty good metaphor for living in Lower Hutt & hearing people fawn over Chris Bishop.
#nzpol
#nzpol
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
In Philip K Dick's short story "Faith of our fathers" an illegal anti-hallucinogen allows you to see the country's leader is actually horrifying biomechanical monstrosity & this is a pretty good metaphor for living in Lower Hutt & hearing people fawn over Chris Bishop.
#nzpol
#nzpol