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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 2h

Here's the direct link to my Lefties DCC & ORC Voters Guide on Google Docs, in case the url-redirect is annoying your browser >> docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Baxter’s Leftie/Progressive

Baxter’s Leftie-Progressive DCC & ORC Election Guide 2025 V2.2 Last Updated: 09/10/2025 No idea which of the seemingly 100s of candidates lean to the Left or Right? Or who won’t flog off our asse...

docs.google.com

Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 6h

And absolutely don't look at that scurrilous "Baxter's Leftie Dunedin Voters Guide". And in no circumstances SHARE it with others who'd find it helpful to sort through the candidates!
Link >> tinyurl.com/BaxtersLefti...

Cartoon of a billionaire greedily rubbing his hands, with the words "Please Don't Vote - the wealthy and powerful know what's best for you".

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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the direct link to my Lefties DCC & ORC Voters Guide on Google Docs, in case the url-redirect is annoying your browser >> docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Baxter’s Leftie/Progressive

Baxter’s Leftie-Progressive DCC & ORC Election Guide 2025 V2.1 Last Updated: 06/10/2025 No idea which of the seemingly 100s of candidates lean to the Left or Right? Or who won’t flog off our asse...

docs.google.com

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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the direct link to my Lefties DCC & ORC Voters Guide on Google Docs, in case the url-redirect is annoying your browser >> docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Baxter’s Leftie/Progressive

Baxter’s Leftie-Progressive DCC & ORC Election Guide 2025 V2.1 Last Updated: 06/10/2025 No idea which of the seemingly 100s of candidates lean to the Left or Right? Or who won’t flog off our asse...

docs.google.com

Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the direct link to my Lefties DCC & ORC Voters Guide on Google Docs, in case the url-redirect is annoying your browser >> docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Baxter’s Leftie/Progressive

Baxter’s Leftie-Progressive DCC & ORC Election Guide 2025 V2.1 Last Updated: 06/10/2025 No idea which of the seemingly 100s of candidates lean to the Left or Right? Or who won’t flog off our asse...

docs.google.com

Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the direct link to my Lefties DCC & ORC Voters Guide on Google Docs, in case the url-redirect is annoying your browser >> docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Baxter’s Leftie/Progressive

Baxter’s Leftie-Progressive DCC & ORC Election Guide 2025 V2.1 Last Updated: 06/10/2025 No idea which of the seemingly 100s of candidates lean to the Left or Right? Or who won’t flog off our asse...

docs.google.com

Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the direct link to my Lefties DCC & ORC Voters Guide on Google Docs, in case the url-redirect is annoying your browser >> docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Baxter’s Leftie/Progressive

Baxter’s Leftie-Progressive DCC & ORC Election Guide 2025 V2.1 Last Updated: 06/10/2025 No idea which of the seemingly 100s of candidates lean to the Left or Right? Or who won’t flog off our asse...

docs.google.com

Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the direct link to my Lefties DCC & ORC Voters Guide on Google Docs, in case the url-redirect is annoying your browser >> docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Baxter’s Leftie/Progressive

Baxter’s Leftie-Progressive DCC & ORC Election Guide 2025 V2.1 Last Updated: 06/10/2025 No idea which of the seemingly 100s of candidates lean to the Left or Right? Or who won’t flog off our asse...

docs.google.com

Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the direct link to my Lefties DCC & ORC Voters Guide on Google Docs, in case the url-redirect is annoying your browser >> docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Baxter’s Leftie/Progressive

Baxter’s Leftie-Progressive DCC & ORC Election Guide 2025 V2.1 Last Updated: 06/10/2025 No idea which of the seemingly 100s of candidates lean to the Left or Right? Or who won’t flog off our asse...

docs.google.com

Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the direct link to my Lefties DCC & ORC Voters Guide on Google Docs, in case the url-redirect is annoying your browser >> docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Baxter’s Leftie/Progressive

Baxter’s Leftie-Progressive DCC & ORC Election Guide 2025 V2.1 Last Updated: 06/10/2025 No idea which of the seemingly 100s of candidates lean to the Left or Right? Or who won’t flog off our asse...

docs.google.com

Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 2d

Is this Vandervis' best chance to slip into becoming #Dunedin Mayor? 😲 --Find out how to try and avoid that with my DCC-ORC Lefty-progressive Voters Guide. Please share thanks 🙂
Link >> tinyurl.com/BaxtersLefti...

Picture of a crate of beer with the ABV changed to read "Anyone But Vandervis"

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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 2d

"Consular support" - not nearly enough. If NZ Government is going to shill for Israel by still not recognising Palestine (when the vast majority of the world already have), surely Israel should be releasing illegally abducted Kiwi prisoners immediately.
www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/05/k...

Kiwis detained in Israel after flotilla intercepted get consular support

Samuel Leason and two Palestinian-New Zealanders have met with a consular partner in Tel Aviv where they are being held by Israeli authorities.

www.1news.co.nz

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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 6d

RIP Soo Catwoman, one of the first UK punk fashion icons.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2bR...

soo catwoman - Backstabbers

YouTube video by Janet Dieter-Holly

www.youtube.com

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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 7d

What kind of government attacks and steals a flotilla of desperately needed food and medicine going to desperate people? --The Israeli kind. Meanwhile Israel's forced displacement of Gaza continues with over 70 people being murdered by Israeli military so far today.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Updates: Israeli forces kill 73 in Gaza; arrest flotilla activists

At least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as Israeli forces arrest activists, including Greta Thunberg.

www.aljazeera.com

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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you greatly. I encourage wide sharing of it 🙂

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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 8d

On this day in 1977, X-Ray Spex released their debut single Oh Bondage Up Yours!
Here's a live version from a few months earlier, as it's the only video version I can find with Laura Logic whose discordant sax gave X-Ray Spex part of their distinctive sound.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn2L...

X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage, Up Yours! - feat. Lora Logic on Sax Live at The Roxy - London, 2 April 1977

YouTube video by Essential Logic

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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 9d

Some pics from Scooter Division Dunedin's monthly ride last weekend...
#scooter #scootering #moped #Dunedin

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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 10d

Dunners Tonight - Free Dentalcare for All discussion.
Free dental care should always have been part of NZ's free healthcare. It finally made back it to nearly become policy, so it's entirely archivable - and will change thousands of lives...
Event page >> our.actionstation.org.nz/events/otepo...

Poster for - Dunners Tonight - Free Dentalcare for All discussion.
Event page >> https://our.actionstation.org.nz/events/otepoti-dental-for-all-panel-korero

Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 11d

And this is one of the country's better hospitals 😲 --"A senior doctor working at Christchurch Hospital says he’s concerned about its ability to cope as patients are treated in corridors lined with beds, stretchers and wheelchairs...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchu...

'Point of crisis': Senior doctor warns hospital risks ‘catastrophic failure’

Beds are so scarce that patients are now being treated in hospital corridors.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 13d

Please feel free to SHARE this QR link to my Leftie-progressive DCC Voters Guide (as I'm still suspended from Facebook 😢 ).
And/or the direct link >> tinyurl.com/BaxtersLefti...
Thanks greatly 🙂

QR link to my DCC voters guide https://tinyurl.com/BaxtersLeftieGuideDCC-ORC2025

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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 16d

An alliance of Dunedin council candidates (who look like they came directly off my Lefty Voters Guide) are campaigning together as The People’s Hub. Nice 😁
[Paywalled :( ] www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...

People’s Hub a ‘progressive alternative’

An alternative alliance of council candidates in Dunedin has come together to promote shared values such as climate action and social justice. ...

www.odt.co.nz

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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 16d

Posts promoting links to my Guide? They are only of importance over the next couple of weeks (and would fade from prominence even if my FB account hadn't been wrongly suspended). As for the Guide itself, I'm OK with that staying up permanently (all my last 5 are iirc).

Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 16d

Only twice - ever. Both times after dropping a handful of links for my 2025 Voters Guide. --Either some disingenuous right-winger is reporting my account, or FB's bots have new settings (ie I've widely shared it as a googledoc link on FB in 2022 and 2019 with no issues).

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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 16d

I'm suspended from Facebook - AGAIN! If you're still on FB and have Dunedin people in your friends, please share my Leftie-progressive Voter guide on FB (as all my links to it will be invisible while my account is suspended). Link >> tinyurl.com/BaxtersLefti...

Baxter’s Leftie/Progressive

Baxter’s Leftie-Progressive DCC & ORC Election Guide 2025 V2.0 Last Updated: 18/09/2025 No idea which of the seemingly 100s of candidates lean to the Left or Right? Or who won’t flog off our asse...

tinyurl.com

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Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · 17d

Roger Douglas' neo-liberal economics "...produced an explosion of inequality which has never been reversed. To this day Aotearoa has a low-wage economy, a broken tax system, a housing crisis, and high levels of poverty”…
elliotcrossan.substack.com/p/roger-doug...

Roger Douglas Calls For Class War

Roger Douglas, architect of NZ's broken economic model, is calling for Nicola Willis to resign. The former Finance Minister wants the government to pursue a more extreme programme of austerity.

elliotcrossan.substack.com

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