Stina Womack
@trickpixel.bsky.social
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Read this and reflect... NZ's tax code is even better for billionaires and worse for normal people than the US tax code. Only 🟢 @greens.org.nz is offering a better deal for Kiwis this coming election. Choose wisely. #VoteGreen #nzpol
ProPublica@propublica.org · last wk.ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
“As a doctor, public servant, and a mom, I will always stand up for fairness and protect kids’ health and safety.” Apparently being "a doctor" doesn't extend to internalizing the evidence on suicide rates of trans kids who are persecuted by adults in power.
Dr. Amy Acton@amyactonoh.bsky.social · 2w agoAs a doctor, I know healthcare only works if people can actually access it. Too many women in Ohio can't. Every woman deserves affordable, quality care at every stage of life. As governor, I'll make sure Ohioans can get the care they need, when they need it. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/01/s...
Every single representative who voted for this law (and all others like it) should be charged with the murder of every constituent who is pushed to suicide as a result. Especially the children.
Jo Yurcaba@joyurcaba.bsky.social · 3w agoContent warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Ōtepoti friends: The Green Party campaign launch event with Davidson and Swarbrick is on Sunday at the Student union. Doors open at 5pm. RSVP here and come say hi! www.greens.org.nz/dun_260719 #nzpol
Ōtepoti Campaign Launch
Ōtepoti Campaign Launch for our Dunedin, Taieri, and Te Tai Tonga campaigns
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Cool. Now release the Epstein files (not just the documents) with ONLY the victims redacted.
Feeling this one in the depths of my big tech escapee soul. "A subset of humanity is committed to a world where everyone else takes orders from them. We have different names for these people. We call the majority of them “toddlers,” but we call the others “bosses” or “tyrants.”"
electricpolecat.bsky.social@electricpolecat.bsky.social · 4w agoSuperb piece by Cory Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net in Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social about Big Tech bosses' fascism. It's not that Zuckerberg, Musk, Cook, etc have sold out to Trump; they put Trump in to deliver their desired future: "a (silicon) boot stamping on a human face forever".
Aotearoa: we have ONE DAY LEFT to make submissions on this and four other bills. If anyone’s stuck for inspo on either the Conservation or Gender Definition bills HMU and I’ll share my PDFs. You might want to tone down my anger a bit though. Or maybe not. #nzpol
We need to sear this value into our very souls and then bleed it every day. "Politics isn’t about finding people who agree w/you on everything. It’s finding enough people to push the jeep out of the mud together." #uspol & #nzpol : same problems, slightly different time horizons.
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last mo.Been reading On Courage. It should be required reading for Dems: “This basic arithmetic problem means sometimes living with contradictions, even embracing them.” Politics isn’t about finding people who agree w/you on everything. It’s finding enough people to push the jeep out of the mud together.
I cut this way too close, whanau, but finally completed my submission on NZ First’s horrific and hateful anti-trans bill. You have 4 days remaining to add your voice. #KillTheBill
This is incredibly well stated. Send it to all your friends! #nzpol #votegreennz
Simon Wilson@simonbwilson.bsky.social · last mo.New Substack post today: the case for voting Green.
I've put like 60 hours on this game in early access. Best survival builder I've ever played. Minecraft + The Sims (house building) + BoTW/ToTK, but darker. Crushes Valheim, better than Palworld. Check out some community builds on YT. If Minecraft holds nostalgia; this is your graduation game.
Keen Games, makers of Enshrouded@keengamesstudio.bsky.social · last mo.Enshrouded releases on PC, PlayStation 5 & PlayStation 5 Pro this autumn! Check out this teaser to see exactly when... 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6at...
Tena koe, whanau. I made a list of all the @greens.org.nz peeps I could find on Bluesky for easy following/checking in. bsky.app/profile/did:... - LMK if I missed anyone!
Screw it. Made my own call to action. I wish I had a Kiwi policy example but I think the point stands. Young people need to register and vote or old people will decide their fate, then kick the bucket. vote.nz/enrol WDYT? Should I print a stack and plaster them all over Otago Uni? #nzpol
Stina Womack@trickpixel.bsky.social · last mo.This is a GREAT illustration for young people on why they should vote. So Grandma, with her FB-disinformation-addled thinking and little remaining skin in the game, doesn't make a choice with far-reaching impact on those young people then kark it before she feels any of the pain she bequeathed.
I have so many questions. Is it actually true that for every evil billionaire there's a JB Pritzker or Mackenzie Scott? I'd have thought that the ratio of good:evil billionaires was more like 1:100. Can we name 36 'good' billionaires? Might be a stretch.
Patriotic Millionaires@patrioticmillionaires.org · last mo.The impact of extreme wealth goes beyond the number on a bank account. It can fundamentally reshape one's ability to connect with the rest of society. In a new piece by Dr. David Cox (featuring @chuck77.bsky.social!), he explores the "dark psychology" of money.
Giving first peoples flag emojis that they own and identify with, as an alternative to the ones imposed by their colonialist oppressors, seems like a slam dunk, so I signed. Pls consider joining. Is it time to rerun our flag referendum yet? #nzpol
Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷@paullecomtephoto.nz · last yr.Kinda going to pimp this one hard. Would LOVE a Tino rangatiratanga emoji flag. Pls share, I feel this needs a little more love signature wise. www.change.org/p/implement-...
This is a GREAT illustration for young people on why they should vote. So Grandma, with her FB-disinformation-addled thinking and little remaining skin in the game, doesn't make a choice with far-reaching impact on those young people then kark it before she feels any of the pain she bequeathed.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last mo.A fifth of Leave voters have died.
Calling my fellow #nzpol wonks. Read this thread. Doctorow is talking about other countries but you'll see NZ in there anyway. We have to beat the drum loudly on the Greens' policies. If we can get people to listen/read long enough to understand then them they will be wildly popular.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last mo.Some people love to admire a beautiful football play; me, I can't get enough of politicians doing good politics - and like those World Cup fans, I am doubly pleased when it's my team making the play. 1/
I don't think we've done anything to deserve her, but goddamn, Karen Attiah is the hero America needs. Wishing her all the best for her fight against the oligarch tomorrow ❤️
Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 2mo agoFighting my wrongful termination by the Washington Post. After Charlie Kirk was killed, I was accused of gross misconduct simply for stating the truth about America’s racial double standards when it comes to political violence. We head to arbitration tomorrow. Let’s go.
Kinda same. My English teacher told me I was going to fail 5 minutes before my first ever school cert exam. So when I got a B (79) I successfully appealed my grade up to an A (80) and slapped it on her desk the following year.
Stu Fleming@thebasement.nz · 2mo agoMy English teacher helpfully told me that I was going to fail Higher English, so I didn't.
🔑🟤 friends: Here's a submission guide on Winston Peters' horrific anti-trans legislation. I sent it to my 13yo and she's drafting hers while sharing it around her high school WhatsApp chats. You should share it too!
Paul Thistoll@pault.bsky.social · 2mo agoHere is my final draft of a high-level submission guide for the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill. Please share - I will put it on the Rights Aotearoa Website soon after collecting some more feedback. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Oh, a non-engineer vibe coding at the nexus of kid data, child safety and cybersecurity. What could possibly go wrong?
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo agoSay what now. www.businessinsider.com/bi-today-sun...
America is fundamentally broken. It did not start, and will not end, with Trump.
Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 3mo agoGOP: Horrific detention facilities where 1000s of detainees are assaulted. Dems: Horrific detention facilities where millions of detainees are assaulted. (The reason I know so much about the worst ICE facilities, is that they were all former jails used to house innocent Black adults and children🤷🏿♂️)
Kiwis: We're sprinting helter skelter at Trump-fascism and most people don't seem to realize it. Gotta talk to our families. Must have uncomfortable conversations. We can't let politeness be the reason we lose our democracy. #nzpol
Bevan Holloway@bevanholloway.com · 3mo agoAotearoa, we’re going through a seismic, systemic shift. Whether it's the courts or the classroom, the goal is the same: bypass the "middlemen" of expertise and local autonomy to create a direct line of Ministerial control.
"Political actors" is far too gentle a label. They are racist scum.
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3mo agoRoberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work
A global epidemic among the ultra wealthy. Pure evil.
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt's already outrageous and offensive that people with unimaginable wealth view themselves as the victims, but the fact they feel comfortable saying it in public takes it to another level. Their brains are broken, simultaneous delusions of grandeur and victimhood wrapped in malice and shamelessness.
Life as a dual citizen: Started reading this post and wondered whether it was about Donald Trump or Winston Peters. Had to read the second half to be sure. Let's get all octogenarians out of government in both countries. They're increasingly addled and have diminishing skin in the game #nzpol
David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · 3mo agoLook if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it.
This is why removing Trump won't get us back to "normal". Even if we reversed GOP abuses enacted during his administrations, for many people "normal" was already wildly unfair and dangerous to their existence. It's just worse now. And the Gang of Putin really likes that.
Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 3mo agoToday's demolition of Voting Rights Act by Roberts Court will likely trigger largest drop in Black representation since end of Reconstruction. They're taking America back to Jim Crow, when white supremacy and one party rule enshrined across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Can it host an index of regime sycophants, documentation of their many crimes, and culminate in a partnership with Anonymous to hack, host, and publicize the unredacted kompromat that led each individual to fall in line? A Nuremberg prosecutorial playbook, if you will.
Tim Heidecker@timheidecker.bsky.social · 4mo agoHey everybody! I am taking the helm of this classic American institution with @theonion.com and want to know what you fine folks would like to see from us.
Everyone should read this and know what Palantir does and who its leaders are. NZ should NEVER have allowed Thiel to buy citizenship. Rod Drury and Xero have a lot to answer for. They threw open the door for the next Hitler. We already had enough of our own to deal with. #nzpol
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4mo agoPalantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
