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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

[🤭 One fish 🪼 Two fish 🐟 🐠 @spacefish2]

Ho many Australians does it take to change a lightbulb?

Oh aussie, aussie, aussie 😂😂😂🇦🇺

[🇦🇺The_Insignificant_Nobody😮‍💨 @aus_fella]

We are so fuked.
Get these women the fuk away from DEFENCE.

[Kelly Eckhold @kellyenz]

FYI for the broader audience. Its just not been a great environment for just about anyone in the last few years.

[LesbianResistanceNZ ✡️ @lesbianresist]

Cheri, we have news, you don't get to decide who is a feminist.

Feminism is a movement for women's rights, not an obedience test for the body modification industry.

And the fact that women and men who don't conform to sex stereotypes have existed throughout history doesn't mean people have always believed that men can be women.

Disagreement is not hatred. Refusing to redefine women is not exclusion.

And dragging Elon Musk's son into the argument is just weird.

Nothing but love? Ok, thats a bit too JeffMarchey ... also weird.

[🤭 One fish 🪼 Two fish 🐟 🐠 @spacefish2]

@ScootFoundation In Te Tai Tokerau, TPM candidate Aperahama Edwards leads the Green Party's Hūhana Lyndon by just 436 votes. It's possible the seats could flip to Greens. It would favour the right.

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

The party that received the most measurable benefit from vote splitting was the Greens. It has affected the 2 blocs differently, but Greens have had a massive increase in Māori electorates. They can squeal as if there has been some great unfairness but they accidentally tell on themselves (as do their allies) far too often

[🤭 One fish 🪼 Two fish 🐟 🐠 @spacefish2]

@aniobrien I could find no evidence that prior to the election the Greens expressed disapproval of TPM's strategy whereas both Labour & National did. The Greens remained silent and benefited ... until the numbers came in post-election. It's a bit rich for them to complain now.

[Aghh. ……… OFF @LjahNo]

https://t.co/YTgsNuePMJ

[🤭 One fish 🪼 Two fish 🐟 🐠 @spacefish2]

@BeaumontBee @bibibedamned This: "$300m to tobacco industry" - is a nonsense.
See explanation from Grok as attached, and @EricCrampton has a thread here: https://t.co/zlqKjySPbz

[Eric Crampton @EricCrampton]

Still seeing nutty numbers floating around on the "tax cut for big tobacco."
@nztreasury really ought to be embarrassed for having let such a bad estimate through.
Excise on reduced-harm heated-tobacco halved.
Given the volume of imports, that means maybe $3 million per year.

[🤭 One fish 🪼 Two fish 🐟 🐠 @spacefish2]

@gaye_ess @KeaKeaFlight Nope, leave Opp out.

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

Oh look. The UK government is giving itself powers to restrict lawful behaviour then imprison citizens for disobeying.

What could possibly go wrong?

[🤭 One fish 🪼 Two fish 🐟 🐠 @spacefish2]

@MrEArts1 @ZooNealand Apparently they're not accountable until they're 25yrs. 🤭

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

My profile pic expresses my pride in having shared a stage with &TheVapingBogan and @GrimmGreen. Laws have been passed to suppress our voices; to deny us the same rights others enjoy to Free Speech.

Many others like us have also been subjected to smear campaigns, cancellation of our platforms, jobs or businesses. Why?

Why cancel people who cracked how to reach and effectively communicate with people who smoke cigarettes about how to finally stop smoking?

Across the world people like us —influencers, harm reduction advocates, vape shop owners and consumers, and a small number of brave academics, scientists and ‘tobacco control’ people have helped hundreds of thousands (it’s now millions) of people to quit smoking. Quickly. Easily.

Our new innovative approaches, underpinned by RESPECT and genuine care for consumers, showed up how flawed and how ineffective all previous public health / behavioural change theories and strategies were. Instead of advancing, we were framed as a threat to the established global tobacco control sector and their lucrative cancer, lung, respiratory, and anti-smoking NGOs.

So, they shifted from their one job, their only mandate — reduce smoking-related disease and deaths — to eliminating us and the innovative new far far far safer products that will see mass production of cigarettes displaced just like the light bulb replaced gas lamps, just like digital phones replaced cameras and Kodak film.

Technological innovation, scientific advancement and forward thinkers will not be stopped. But, while the enemies of innovation, those people trying to hang on to their salaries and status block access to the escape pods (pun), millions of people every year — about 7 million — continue to die. Millions more develop and live with debilitating diseases.

The academics, and the health workers & journalists they’ve lied to, can defame me (as they have), cancel me, block publication of my research papers; they can lie to the public, threaten people into cutting all contact with me; make me a leper like they tried to do to smokers. By their actions they have shown how behind and how unethical they are. I know how wrong they are and I remain proud to fight alongside the consumers for their right to choose a safer nicotine product.
#vapingsaveslives
#oralnicotinepouchessavelives
#heatedtobaccoproductssavelives

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

Opportunity Party types think they are all that and a bag of chips, and keep on talking about their "new type of politics"... except we all know that's bullshit.
Here's their Queenstown candidate asking for a split vote, like those bad bastard billionaires who tried to hijack the election...

[🤭 One fish 🪼 Two fish 🐟 🐠 @spacefish2]

@EricCrampton After watching a few of the Senate hearings, we do not want to follow their path. Aside from the Privacy aspect, it adds layers upon layers of bureaucratic entanglement and ... many more consultants.

[🤭 One fish 🪼 Two fish 🐟 🐠 @spacefish2]

@dellavaris @TheRedbaiter She did some good work in Edu but I cannot believe people would want her to take over from Luxon.😬

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Absolutely disgraceful

An extraordinary lack of any sense of proportion

[Graeme Edgeler @GraemeEdgeler]

Imagine the worst thing happened to the Ministry of Justice.
The charges are dropped. Mistaken identity.

They get sued and have to pay out one of the biggest damages claim ever for breaches of employment law.
They're still not spending $500k.

https://t.co/faVIqfBXqL

[🤭 One fish 🪼 Two fish 🐟 🐠 @spacefish2]

@dellavaris @TheRedbaiter Remember, she's mates with Chloe.

[Institute of Public Affairs @TheIPA]

“Buried deep in this bill…is a change to the Privacy Act.”

Dr Andrew Bushnell, Director of the IPA’s Law and Freedom Program, highlights a little-noticed provision in the Digital Duty of Care Bill that would expand the eSafety Commissioner’s powers under the Privacy Act.

📺 Watch more: https://t.co/9StGYZgeYA

#Privacy #Legislation #Australia

[🤭 One fish 🪼 Two fish 🐟 🐠 @spacefish2]

@TheIPA