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Kevin Weaver@kevinweav2003.bsky.social |
219 followers 370 following 173 posts
Husband, father to two great boys, socialist, a fair go for all, mathematics, music, football, books, computing, cycling, tai chi, sci-fi, ... Thoughts and ramblings my own Geraldine, New Zealand
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PapaJ
@michiganpapa.bsky.social
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My youngest grandson (8) asked me why I didn't like rich people. Told him I don't care if there are rich people so long as everyone else has enough to survive & live somewhat comfortably. Told him we teach kids to share, & scold them if they don't & that I'd like adults to remember that lesson.
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Johnny Cans
@oldmatecans.bsky.social
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UK Labour's last three vote counts, percentages and seats. Man that's one fucked up voting system. 2024: 9,650,254 / 33.8% / 411 2019: 10,269,051 / 32.1% / 202 2017: 12,877,918 / 40.0% / 262
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David Ho
@davidho.bsky.social
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โโฆpast predictions of global warming have proved largely correct. To persist with scepticism is immoral and stupid. Even a free-market fanatic cannot deny that environmental externalities are a form of market failure. Climate is the biggest externality of all.โ
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Kay in the End Times ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐๐๐๐
@jennykaynz.bsky.social
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What views can't be expressed in polite respectful ways? If a Code of Conduct is stopping councillors from saying racist or defamatory things, isn't that a good thing? If the Code stops them from pushing junk science like anti vax views, that's good too! #nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3503...
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John Lipponen
@lippoenen.bsky.social
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Katya
@nzkatya.bsky.social
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The worst part of neither Doocey nor Luxon bothering to read this report is that they are about to begin a new cycle of abuse in care with bootcamps.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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โSome folks need killing, Itโs time for somebody to say it. Itโs not a matter of vengeance. Itโs not a matter of being mean or spiteful. Itโs a matter of necessity!โ the republicans are attempting to goad their followers to terrorism against their perceived enemies. This is what fascism looks like.
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Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
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Look, if a chain smoker hiding the chronic and degenerative heart disease that would eventually kill him in office and a geriatric bipolar alcoholic could haul our arses through an actual World War... Just saying.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa
@greenpeacenz.bsky.social
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Why IS the government increasing speed limits despite extensive research highlighting the benefits of slower speeds โ including fuel savings, reduction in injuries and deaths, environmental benefits and community wellbeing?
Here are 5 reasons they should slow down on raising speed limits
#nzpol
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Kevin Weaver
@kevinweav2003.bsky.social
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Let's hope it's clearly visible from his front room
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Kevin Weaver
@kevinweav2003.bsky.social
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Possibly the only time this headline has ever been written by anyone but a @theonion.com journalist?
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CindyLou
@cindynorth1.bsky.social
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Janel Comeau
@verybadllama.bsky.social
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"we never used to have all these women in their 30s suddenly getting diagnosed with ADHD" listen, I wouldn't have even noticed I have ADHD if I lived in an era where my doctor could ask if I want to lose 5lbs and then hand me enough amphetamines to see the face of God
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Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
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There comes a point in child development where failure to develop a sense of object permanence (the understanding that objects don't cease to exist when not directly observed) is considered a serious problem.
So why are we so tolerant of it in our gaslit corridors of power? #nzpol
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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New York Times: Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Too Old For This Fight And Should Drop Out And Let Luke Or Possibly C3PO Replace Him For The Good Of The Galaxy
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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Brilliant work by Led By Donkeys. They disrupted Farageโs latest rally with a Putin banner.
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Foxy esquire
@foxylustygrover.bsky.social
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We really really hate him! @dimsie.bsky.social #NZPol www.1news.co.nz/2024/06/26/p...
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Kevin Weaver
@kevinweav2003.bsky.social
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Is that Rimmer's youtube profile? #nzpol
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Kevin Weaver
@kevinweav2003.bsky.social
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25 dead from covid last week wasn't it? But yeah NACTFirst, the pandemic is over #nzpol
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. Results showed that close to half of the participants secured housing, and nearly $600K saved in public service costs due to fewer ER visits & jail stays. They also saw improved mental health.
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CindyBax
@cindybax.bsky.social
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blog from me:
โIf you have to destroy the South Taranaki Bight, home to pygmy blue whales and kororฤ, to get a mineral like vanadium for โcritical mineralsโย then youโre doing it wrong. Trashing the environment to tackle the climate crisis is not a solution.โ
www.kasm.org.nz/post/seabed-...
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Scott
@scottypnz.bsky.social
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I feel for the people impacted by the power outage. But find it very funny that when the govt is looking to push privatisation this fuck up was done by a private company. Also ACT looking to remove red tape and pesky h&s regulations like 'don't undo all the nuts at once'
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Grumpy
@grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social
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So he's claiming that the previous IRex ferries would have been a terrible mistake and that, by spending more for less, and taking a lot longer about it, he's somehow doing NZ a favour? What a dick
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Sarah
@notsailingalone.bsky.social
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"$3b is too much so what weโre going to do is spend $200mill to cancel our contracts but then have $7.5b available to replace that deal for a product that will have no long term infrastructure upgrade. We are geniuses." -The Fiscally Responsible Business Party of New Zealand #nzpol
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Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
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"Israeli forces strap wounded Palestinian man to hood of military jeep"
Flip this script and tell me with a straight face that a IDF soldier being used as a hood ornament wouldn't be instantly and vocally condemned by the people shrugging off this.
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Dr. Lucky Tran
@luckytran.bsky.social
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Wow. A restaurant in Chicago OโHare, one of the biggest airports in the world, banned an infectious disease doctor from entering because they were wearing a mask. This is unacceptable.
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Ms Hooper
@mshooper.bsky.social
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No shit ๐คทโโ๏ธ Opinion: No-cause evictions have the potential to hurt renters - with little gain for good landlords
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Eddie Clark
@dreddieclark.bsky.social
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The opposition with nothing but the truth as the ferry sits like a beached whale in the Marlborough sounds. Willis and Brown own this, 100%.
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Kevin Weaver
@kevinweav2003.bsky.social
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In that his supporters are not well informed and easily lied to? In that sense he has an advantage, yes
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Dr Neil and Mr Price
@drneil.bsky.social
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Weak, Cracked, and Rusted is how we describe the three government party leaders too
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Kevin Weaver
@kevinweav2003.bsky.social
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You must listen to this. Kim starts with the most majestic song possible. I too have played and played and played this song on repeat. Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Kevin Weaver
@kevinweav2003.bsky.social
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Ditto
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Kevin Weaver
@kevinweav2003.bsky.social
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Tidal is it
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Kevin Weaver
@kevinweav2003.bsky.social
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It's so patronising to the hardworking poor who work so hard just to keep their familes' heads above water
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Ko Irihapeti toku ingoa
@irihapeti.bsky.social
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ACC classifies volunteer fire fighters as being engaged in a leisure activity. What the actual fuck!
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Kevin Weaver
@kevinweav2003.bsky.social
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You're not a philistine
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Kevin Weaver
@kevinweav2003.bsky.social
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Bring it on #nzpol
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Kameron Hurley
@kameronhurley.bsky.social
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When we talk about "taxing rich people" there's folks who think we're talking about Aunt Edna who has the second summer home. The astronomical levels of "rich" that now exist are almost unfathomable to people. It's the stuff of vast empirical dynasties. We're talking about taxing emperors.
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QuetzalcoatlusWellnessInstitute
@8t3v3n.bsky.social
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35 years #TiananmenSquare
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Countering Hate Speech Aotearoa
@chsaotearoa.bsky.social
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Almost all the recommendations of the Royal Commission of inquiry into the mosque attacks are being quietly erased.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Byron C Clark
@byroncclark.bsky.social
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Everything the Royal Commission report into the Christchurch shooting recommended is getting quietly dismantled
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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D Jukic
@dejanajuk.bsky.social
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The government has NO commitment to the common good.
โThe govt has slashed funding of research into terrorism and violent extremism, with the fledgling centre that carries out the research already having to cut back.โ Terrorism and violent extremism research funding cut by two-thirdsโ #kikorangi
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Kevin Weaver
@kevinweav2003.bsky.social
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Yes, convince parliament and the public that all proposals are legitimate and in our best interests, not slimy backdoor push throughs #nzpol
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Jonathan's Daughter
@contusion.bsky.social
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Willie Jackson "This Government heavily criticised Grant Robertson for borrowing, yet Nicola Willis is borrowing more than Labour did.
When Labour borrowed, we borrowed to save lives from Covid, when National borrows, it is doing it for tax cuts that benefit their rich mates."
#nzpol
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Nat Torkington
@gnat.bsky.social
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I'll pay about $1k/year less tax from the new NZ budget. That's a small amount of my tax bill and SUCH a wrong direction for NZ.
Pay the teachers, fund universities, make sure there are doctors and nurses in hospitals when I need them, look after the people who can't work!
Fuck's sake. #nzpol
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Kay in the End Times ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐๐๐๐
@jennykaynz.bsky.social
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On #NZQandA JaCk Tame asked Finance Minister Willis about NZers who will be worse off after her #GoldilocksBudget. Her response? They'd be better off if they Got A Job! ๐
Is this Magical Thinking? These people have got jobs. This is real not Hypothetical. #nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350...
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Ms Hooper
@mshooper.bsky.social
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Government's freshwater bill will result in more polluted waterways, critics say
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Jonathan's Daughter
@contusion.bsky.social
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Broken promises
#nzpol
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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard)
@alans-world.bsky.social
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#NZpol
Bingo.
"...the real purpose of the Budget Day circus is to show the world what a sound fiscal manager Nicola Willis is and parade the centre-rightโs claim to be superior managers of the economy. Thereโs no evidence to back up that claim, and never has been."
werewolf.co.nz/2024/05/gord...
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Kevin Weaver
@kevinweav2003.bsky.social
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Two newspapers and a second rate The Onion parody
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