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Matt Whitehead

@mjwhitehead.bsky.social

Sometimes writer, ironically straight man-style humour, Wellington NZ

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Yes, he accidentally went so pro-business he did something good

13.12.2025 02:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sounds like they need to covertly install surveillance on the location then put it up one more time, lol

13.12.2025 02:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hereโ€™s Zelenskyy, freely walking in Kupyansk that Russia claimed to have occupied.

So when we talk about โ€œoccupied territories in exchange for peaceโ€, what exactly are we talking about.

12.12.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2038    ๐Ÿ” 820    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 78    ๐Ÿ“Œ 49

We are governed by bloodsucking, technocratic morons. more technofuedal enshittification from the incrementalist in chief.

03.12.2025 05:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Let them cook cake

30.11.2025 01:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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this was obvious from the very beginning. what we call "isolationism" was a period of aggression towards latin america

12.12.2025 18:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 136    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Maybe he could use that position to fight for the waterways in our rohe which he now calls home supposedly.

Or could just fund our people to be kaitiaki of our waterways 24/7.

13.12.2025 01:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

sounds like a good reason to put up more, really

13.12.2025 02:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

they could also try giving kids places to go and things to do that don't involve drinking or driving, so that by the time those kids are adults they have interests other than liver failure

13.12.2025 02:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Things normal countries do without devolving into totalitarianism that lead to unhinged discourse from a remarkable number of US posters:

- drive at the speed limit on the highway rather than 60km/h above it
- have random breath testing
- use speed cameras
- alcohol interlocking

13.12.2025 01:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh. Cool. Just as the President is using every power he can to suppress dissent and stifle speech, @whitehouse.senate.gov and the @judiciarydems.senate.gov are trying to hand Trump a new tool to suppress speech online.

What a joke.

12.12.2025 23:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1231    ๐Ÿ” 375    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

Innocent people end up in our criminal courts.

Completely, terrifyingly innocent.

And all that stands between them and losing everything is a fair trial.

Politicians would do well to remember this when they tell us that justice is all about processing โ€œcriminalsโ€ swiftly.

11.12.2025 22:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 643    ๐Ÿ” 203    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We wonโ€™t get an โ€œAt long last, sir, have no sense of decency?โ€ moment.

Instead, some MAGA cabinet member will be at a hearing, ranting about โ€œantifaโ€ and some senator will say โ€œThatโ€™s not antifa. It sounds more like bofa.โ€

And then Miller or Noem or whoever it is will say โ€œWhatโ€™s bofa?โ€

12.12.2025 06:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 75    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Unskilled labor is a capitalist myth used to justify poverty wages.

Unskilled labor is a capitalist myth used to justify poverty wages.

Show me a billionaire CEO that works harder than a line cook.

04.02.2025 09:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 100    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

When there's no coordination, there's only bad options

12.12.2025 07:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Everyoneโ€™s a bit stressedโ€™: Interislander turns back for Wellington after circling in Cook Strait The Kaiarahi is heading back to Wellington.

Boy am I glad the first replacements for these ferries will be arriving in Feb 2026, with port upgrades at Picton and Wellington nearing completion after two and a half years of work.

Oh wait, hold on a second, just hearing that ferries won't be here until 2029.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

12.12.2025 08:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 114    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

FFS- Stop pussy-footing around Israel. Drive aid into Gaza from multiple points with miltary air cover. Open up the direct crossing between Rafah and Egypt. Tell Israel that if it fires on Gaza, Gazans, the Aid and/or Aid Workers, or world military, the world will invade Israel and dismantle it. ๐Ÿคฌ

12.12.2025 09:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Meantime, a Carerโ€™s โ€œAllowanceโ€ works out to $2.45/hr, after tax, and weโ€™re treated as if we are sitting on our arses playing on a PS5. No Kiwisaver either, just a fuck you very much.

I am not kidding about that rate which covers 24/7 #nzpol

12.12.2025 03:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 61    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is how you know USA is already gone.

12.12.2025 05:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When us process-heads warn about the importance of following systems and giving due weight to the how alongside the what, we have things like this in mind โ€ฆ

12.12.2025 05:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 63    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This is my fear. The Left leaning towards Centrism enables the Right to move further Right without increasing the gap in ideology.

12.12.2025 00:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Judge rules Trump unlawfully ended FEMA disaster prevention programme Twenty states had challenged the end of the programme, meant to make localities more resilient to natural disasters.

Twenty states had challenged the end of the programme, meant to make localities more resilient to natural disasters.

12.12.2025 00:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 131    ๐Ÿ” 49    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

imagine thinking someone's ethnicity matters more than their connection to you or how good a person they are

12.12.2025 05:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I would never give ANY government all this information, let alone the Trump regime.

12.12.2025 05:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 573    ๐Ÿ” 176    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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a man in a suit is dancing in a row ALT: a man in a suit is dancing in a row

It's about creating a new Online Child-Protection industry grift with an army of paid consultants to keep MPs in boozy lunches until desperate parents are utterly drained of all remaining resources, "for the sake of THE CHILDREN!"

11.12.2025 08:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œPeople do frown on monstrous evil,โ€
"Not nearly often enough if you ask meโ€

11.12.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."

It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.

11.12.2025 09:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3015    ๐Ÿ” 1063    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 64    ๐Ÿ“Œ 46
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Democrats warn their party may try to unravel any Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal A new letter from Reps. Sam Liccardo, D-Calif., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., also raised concerns about foreign investorsโ€™ involvement.

This is 100% the correct (and obvious) move by Dems and they need to do it Every. Single. Time: counter Republicans strongarming companies/schools by openly and directly saying "we will be in charge in like a year and will absolutely make this cost you."
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

11.12.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1182    ๐Ÿ” 321    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

And, not to be a hater but...

If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.

10.12.2025 15:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1043    ๐Ÿ” 118    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17

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