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Freestyle steph

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Architect of the built form. Interests in social justice and creative arts & creating a better society for all. Aotearoa. Whakatū Tangata Te Tiriti


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𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™ 's avatar 𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™ @dallasnz.bsky.social
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look what they took from us.

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A great article on Infrastructure- how investing in planning exploring options & excellent consultation & then acting fast confident in the best solution. Is the cheapest best solution. Fast tracking consents isn’t the problem if the solution is wrong.

newsroom.co.nz/2024/07/11/f...

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Another submission. That’s about 4 different submissions done this year. First time this year. I’ve decided even being counted as a submitter is worth taking a few mins to express my views. It seems to be rattling the minister too.

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We have to look to Uk / France & strategise now. Let their chaos build our community - each blow makes us stronger together - threads in a woven mat. So we don’t become siloed we support others. We support universal rights of the many not the few / humanity over profit. Resist

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As an Aucklander now residing in the South Island - oh The far North - Waitangi / Russell- Mangonui fish & chips. Karikari Peninsula ( out to Matai bay) - 90mile beach - low key beautiful beaches unspoilt by development & stepping back in time. Then Waipoua Kauri Forrest’s Tane Mahuta - Kohu ferry

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Ms Hooper's avatar Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social
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‘Shock and awe’ tactics sap our will to fight Whether by intention or not the coalition Government’s policy blitz seems to be having a numbing effect on many – the media not least

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Byron C Clark's avatar Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social
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I was in a court of law, reading out posts calling for my execution, posts about how how Arps was preparing his oven for me, and yet I was not able to get legal protection

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Abbie Jury 🌱's avatar Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social
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If the cost of IREX as planned is compared to the cost of just one or two of National's "Roads of National Significance", the cost doesn't seem excessive. Arguably the ferries are as important or more so than any single road and hell of a lot more environmentally friendly.

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Cantering Mad Cath's avatar Cantering Mad Cath @catherinejmckenzie.bsky.social
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Dr Siouxsie did us proud, supported us with her amazing knowledge and now we need to give her a bit of a hand.

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Environment Network Manawatū 's avatar Environment Network Manawatū @enviromanawatu.bsky.social
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"How could a sustainable diet impact your health? What would the impact be on the planet if lots of us made that shift? Dr Cristina Cleghorn (University of Otago) has been investigating the impact of sustainable diets on health and the effects..."
thespinoff.co.nz/partner/09-0...

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Freestyle steph's avatar Freestyle steph @freestylesteph.bsky.social
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Last election big parties were thwarted in the list line up with unexpected electorate results. Upsetting the apple cart - Nats & Labour only got a handful of list MPs. There is strategy to be had it’s just different.

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Cancer lobby did it - as did Winston & Seymour. Nats team are deeply unserious their skill set is right wing twitter / blog echo chamber. They are not negotiators - they are skilled in management speak jargon & sarcastic one liners

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Te Pati grew the vote share not cut the pie differently. It was conscious & strategic. 6 seats from 3% - 2 more than their party split & let’s say. 80% Te Pati Māori electorate seat voters gave party vote to Labour. Right can’t complain they’ve done it for years with Epsom - Act 1 % -1 seat

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Yes we have party vote. But 2023 -Māori have shown strategic vote splitting gave 2 additional seats of Maori representation - Ka Pai. Nats won so many electorates their sure bet list MPs didn’t get in - If the Lab Nat split was closer those 2 TPM seats would have given govt to Left

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Fantastic news. A drop in the bucket to the harm caused - your an inspiration

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Hipkins is talking this evening in Whakatu - I’m going to go. I want to see energy excitement. Optimism & hope. Policies that dovetail into Coalition partners - strategy.

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Didn’t Key trip up Clark with wealth is being able to fix the car when it breaks down. How many people’s budgets are so tight today food & rent inflation is the car crisis.

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They can’t just break the rail connection. Surely rail enabled ferry’s is just a fundamental in the brief - like a house without a kitchen as budget Engineering - eating out is an option but not sustainable. Road rail roll on roll off - if they need to be smaller - GET THREE

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I like some of TOP policies but as a left leaning voter I couldn’t live with the risk of TOP enabling a right wing govt - keep Winnie out but enabling NACT

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4 lane highways are short termism too as they just shift the choke point.

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That’s happening already. The kids are studying great books paired with films modern and older. Last night we watched Hacksaw ridge studied as a model of intergenerational trauma - & my daughter chose Emma to contrast / compare to clueless ( she loves)

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As Tangata Tetiriti - Payouts for farmers in Ao Nz stinks like plantation owners being compensated for abolition of slavery in a deal that took 150yrs to pay off - while victims of slavery are left dealing with intergenerational trauma. Commit to a buy back scheme - keep Whenua ownership in Nz.

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Assiduously Julie's avatar Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social
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"Would that be the reaction if we ... were talking about the property rights of Pākehā landowners? Where are all the “one law for all” warriors when it comes to laws that only disadvantage Māori?"

The pain of perpetual leases
e-tangata.co.nz/history/the-...

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Tristan Snell's avatar Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social
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FACT: Donald Trump is in Jeffrey Epstein's newly released appointment logs. FACT: Donald Trump was sued by a woman who claims she was RAPED by Trump when she was a 12-year-old Epstein captive -- but the suit was dropped, 4 DAYS before the 2016 election, because of death threats.

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Mountain Tui's avatar Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social
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Tui oilfields cost taxpayers almost half a billion to clean up.

The NACT1 Government numbers show at a peak export rate of $2bn (in 2035) we might get $40mn back.

How do those numbers add up?

(They don't)

#nzpol
#Kiwi
#NewZealand

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Freestyle steph's avatar Freestyle steph @freestylesteph.bsky.social
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The people are saying should read- Koru class filling glasses policy -

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The dangerous thing with this brand of double down Tory She’s blaming her defeat on not lowering taxes enough greater cuts. The disconnect is astounding - yet I think we have the same mantra here. Self help politics - say it loud enough, believe it irrespective of what is being said around you

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Ronnie's avatar Ronnie @ronnie-anz.bsky.social
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My fear too. KO forced to sell off discounted stock, flood the market, lock in losses on the public sector balance sheet? Speculators sweep in and pick up a bargain. Another massive transfer of wealth from public ownership to private ownership.

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#nzpol
My fear is Nat funders want hands on KO stock. Millions invested at height of boom in quality land & houses. Fine for long term investment.

Bishop saying house prices are going to fall - he knows. If flicked off en mass now - market will be flooded - sold at loss - AoNZ left w debt

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Freestyle steph's avatar Freestyle steph @freestylesteph.bsky.social
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My picnic table is growing mushrooms. - um edible?

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Ok Nats went and talked to Truss for advice on policy & winning. ( strangely ) Labour / Hipkins go & embed yourselves in UK Lab strategy ( except for the Terf stuff- don’t want that). UK has a huge rebuild job. The conservatives have stripped UK for parts. Watch out Nats

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I know I’ve been thinking of Jacinda 2020 landslide - people voted for leadership not middle management - to knee jerk back to radical hard right. I hope this is a warning to our Nats - people HATE. Austerity politics & it fails.

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It’s interesting we know his snaps aren’t appropriate - Newshub article of condom - “Be safe kids - posted by Seymour on Snapchat 2017 That’s NOT appropriate.

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Theta Salmon's avatar Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social
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Perfect summary.
Worth a read if you want to understand Luxon and his mates.

It’s not exactly equal to this (because USA) but the same basic processes apply if you met Kings/Grammar boys circa the 80s to 90s. I have a large collection of horror stories.

TW: Discussions of sexual assault
#nzpol

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I think he’s had his palm greased - he likes playing “the man “ with mining prospectors - it seems to me like a new wave of colonialism- selling prospecting rights. but maybe if you sit around private clubs & yachts smoking cigars having your ego stroked - you think its your right

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Hey kiwis - can’t you hear willoLux in the cuts & efficiency drive. Austerity is a death spiral - Nz Nats are taking us on their Austerity fast track. Except our system had previously been cut to the bone by the last round of Nats.

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This Nat govt should take heed - Tory wipe out in UK. No wonder they kept going on about Ram raids - they admire them.

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sophie malice's avatar sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz
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can anyone imagine the hue and cry from our MSM if David Seymour was transgender?

i can't, the Beehive would be a conflagration of biblical proportions

#nzpol

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Actually if that was the case - if all MP comms were public the shear extent of violent & disturbing correspondence to the likes of Jacinda & other female MPs would be truely shocking. But it would be public not privately born. Others such as Jones & Bish couldn’t dance with corrupt type comms

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Agreed - as a parent of teens. There is no justification for an adult MP privately messaging teens - that’s inappropriate/ period.

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Essentially your standard HWC becomes your battery ( & EV car ) I did the maths recently HWC &EV all charged when sunny - with maybe my office heater during day in winter. $10k 10Kw system would eat my summer power use & 1/3 ish reduction in winter. 6 yr payback. That’s fine by me.

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