DonRobertson
@moko-papa.bsky.social
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social listening to is the world getting uglier. Lived in a nice old house. Ice on the inside of the windows every winter. Had to a job cleaning old Victorian things - impossible to clean. Built to show you could afford staff.
October 5, 2026 at 8:02 AM
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social listening to is the world getting uglier. Lived in a nice old house. Ice on the inside of the windows every winter. Had to a job cleaning old Victorian things - impossible to clean. Built to show you could afford staff.
The Audio Long Read: The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear
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The Audio Long Read | The Guardian
<p>Three times a week, The Audio Long Read podcast brings you the Guardian’s exceptional longform journalism in audio form. Covering topics from politics and culture to philosophy and sport, as well a...
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October 2, 2026 at 7:37 AM
The Audio Long Read: The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear
Episode webpage: www.theguardian.com/news/series/...
Media file: flex.acast.com/audio.guim.c...
Episode webpage: www.theguardian.com/news/series/...
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@labournz.bsky.social Chris? Chris? Anybody there? Harry Potter wants his invisibility cloak back. Chris?
September 23, 2026 at 6:45 AM
@labournz.bsky.social Chris? Chris? Anybody there? Harry Potter wants his invisibility cloak back. Chris?
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If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost.
This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice.
#citymakingmath
This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice.
#citymakingmath
September 12, 2026 at 4:29 AM
If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost.
This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice.
#citymakingmath
This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice.
#citymakingmath
Whenever Labour is talking about tax, they're not talking about education, health or employment. If they are going to talk about tax, why aren't they pinning national's cuts to hospital queues, jobless youth, broken roads.
Okay, not roads.
Playing National's game by National's rules and loosing.
Okay, not roads.
Playing National's game by National's rules and loosing.
September 4, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Whenever Labour is talking about tax, they're not talking about education, health or employment. If they are going to talk about tax, why aren't they pinning national's cuts to hospital queues, jobless youth, broken roads.
Okay, not roads.
Playing National's game by National's rules and loosing.
Okay, not roads.
Playing National's game by National's rules and loosing.
Has accident and spent few days in hospital in Aug. Clinical staff et al in ED and the wards excellent. Trying to get hold of some paper ACC forms that should have been mailed 6 weeks ago. Huge waste of med and other staff time. This is what penny pinching the back room support staff results in.
September 4, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Has accident and spent few days in hospital in Aug. Clinical staff et al in ED and the wards excellent. Trying to get hold of some paper ACC forms that should have been mailed 6 weeks ago. Huge waste of med and other staff time. This is what penny pinching the back room support staff results in.
One would be plenty
September 3, 2026 at 5:30 AM
One would be plenty
Anybody else think it's weird that this is how the Mormons are trying to entice me into their church?
September 1, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Anybody else think it's weird that this is how the Mormons are trying to entice me into their church?
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I truly believe that everyone gets what they deserve. I really hope that Trump gets exactly what he deserves.
August 31, 2026 at 1:26 PM
I truly believe that everyone gets what they deserve. I really hope that Trump gets exactly what he deserves.
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The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed...
"How will you pay for it?"
The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts...
"How much do you need?"
It doesn't have to be this way.
"How will you pay for it?"
The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts...
"How much do you need?"
It doesn't have to be this way.
August 31, 2026 at 6:01 PM
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed...
"How will you pay for it?"
The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts...
"How much do you need?"
It doesn't have to be this way.
"How will you pay for it?"
The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts...
"How much do you need?"
It doesn't have to be this way.
Chris Hipkins attacks government on issues that matter to New Zealanders - Chris Penk.
August 19, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Chris Hipkins attacks government on issues that matter to New Zealanders - Chris Penk.
Labour bottle it again. Desperate not to offend anyone, they inspire no one.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Labour blames mixed messaging on streaming levy on 'administrative oversight'
Labour has blamed an "administrative oversight" for mixed messaging over whether the party would introduce a new levy on streaming services like Netflix.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 18, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Labour bottle it again. Desperate not to offend anyone, they inspire no one.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
In waiting area at hospital. The only other person without a phone blasting noise is the only teenager here
August 18, 2026 at 1:08 AM
In waiting area at hospital. The only other person without a phone blasting noise is the only teenager here
What I've heard is that there are some people that say it is that way.
Donald Trump displays his considered evidence based decision-making.
Must be hard being a satirist these days.
Donald Trump displays his considered evidence based decision-making.
Must be hard being a satirist these days.
August 11, 2026 at 10:46 PM
What I've heard is that there are some people that say it is that way.
Donald Trump displays his considered evidence based decision-making.
Must be hard being a satirist these days.
Donald Trump displays his considered evidence based decision-making.
Must be hard being a satirist these days.
Spent half an hour trying to figure out why the media center (Kodi) was muted. Son comes in, picks up the tv remote and unmutes the tv.
July 28, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Spent half an hour trying to figure out why the media center (Kodi) was muted. Son comes in, picks up the tv remote and unmutes the tv.
@suebra.bsky.social listening to you on the whip. At home I have a photo of Helen Clark and Verna something on stage at the national election hq congratulating the national candidate Clem Simich when he - with Labour's help - won the Tamaki by election. He just beat the Alliance candidate.
July 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
@suebra.bsky.social listening to you on the whip. At home I have a photo of Helen Clark and Verna something on stage at the national election hq congratulating the national candidate Clem Simich when he - with Labour's help - won the Tamaki by election. He just beat the Alliance candidate.
@bernardchickey.bsky.social re conferences. Conclusion: more research grants are needed. Chattering classes want to continue the conversation. Rome is burning - someone get me a fiddle. Urgently.
July 3, 2026 at 1:43 PM
@bernardchickey.bsky.social re conferences. Conclusion: more research grants are needed. Chattering classes want to continue the conversation. Rome is burning - someone get me a fiddle. Urgently.
@bernardchickey.bsky.social Jim Anderton founded the Alliance? Well that's news to those of us who were there. To Mana Motuhake, the Greens, and the Democrats.
Btw - the innuendo and smears about opportunity are starting to show up in my inbox. Love to see main party internal polling.
Btw - the innuendo and smears about opportunity are starting to show up in my inbox. Love to see main party internal polling.
June 26, 2026 at 1:12 PM
@bernardchickey.bsky.social Jim Anderton founded the Alliance? Well that's news to those of us who were there. To Mana Motuhake, the Greens, and the Democrats.
Btw - the innuendo and smears about opportunity are starting to show up in my inbox. Love to see main party internal polling.
Btw - the innuendo and smears about opportunity are starting to show up in my inbox. Love to see main party internal polling.
@podsavetheuk.crooked.com Speaking as a boomer - or maybe boomer adjacent - the reason my friends and I don't get involved in left wing things anymore is the distain with which we are treated when we do. The automatic assuption seems to be that I must own ten houses and evict widows as a hobby.
June 26, 2026 at 8:20 AM
@podsavetheuk.crooked.com Speaking as a boomer - or maybe boomer adjacent - the reason my friends and I don't get involved in left wing things anymore is the distain with which we are treated when we do. The automatic assuption seems to be that I must own ten houses and evict widows as a hobby.
After seeing the Lincoln reflecting pool I'm begging to understand why Trump number pays his contractors
June 23, 2026 at 9:39 AM
After seeing the Lincoln reflecting pool I'm begging to understand why Trump number pays his contractors
Opportunity Party poll at 4.6%. Given the timid, lacklustre policy announcements from captains call Hipkins and the constant comments from greens about how they can't wait until I die, that's close enough to give for me to them a shot.
www.1news.co.nz/2026/06/23/a...
www.1news.co.nz/2026/06/23/a...
Analysis: NZ sours on National and Labour, minor parties on the rise
The last time Labour and National's ranking combined was this low was in 1996.
www.1news.co.nz
June 23, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Opportunity Party poll at 4.6%. Given the timid, lacklustre policy announcements from captains call Hipkins and the constant comments from greens about how they can't wait until I die, that's close enough to give for me to them a shot.
www.1news.co.nz/2026/06/23/a...
www.1news.co.nz/2026/06/23/a...
@podsavetheuk.crooked.com I like the way you can talk about the need to protect privacy and danger of private companies collecting data while promoting the benefits of Shopify collecting and using private data. Yeah I know. Money.
June 18, 2026 at 2:48 PM
@podsavetheuk.crooked.com I like the way you can talk about the need to protect privacy and danger of private companies collecting data while promoting the benefits of Shopify collecting and using private data. Yeah I know. Money.
My son said he likes electronic music - so playing Straw People. Nearly 40 years since Broadcast released. Not really an electronic fan - more of a three chords should be enough for anyone kind of person. But Strawpeople ... blew me away back in the day. Where'd that forty years go?
June 18, 2026 at 6:38 AM
My son said he likes electronic music - so playing Straw People. Nearly 40 years since Broadcast released. Not really an electronic fan - more of a three chords should be enough for anyone kind of person. But Strawpeople ... blew me away back in the day. Where'd that forty years go?