Byron C Clark

@byroncclark
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Author of 'Fear: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists'

Examples of extremist content will typically have content warnings, but vanilla politics posts will typically not

My Websitehttps://byron.geek.nz

In a demonstration of how much the culture wars have been imported, the Conservative Party have put out a press release about how "the month of June will be given back to the taxpayer"

Nowhere in Aotearoa has Pride month in June

Crossposted with @openvibe

Saw 'Backrooms' last night & between that & 'Obsession' I think anyone who saw the "the curtains were blue" meme a few years back and despaired that the young generation may not be able to produce textually rich media can now rest easy, movies are going to be ok

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Manar needs help buying pregnancy medication, please give a little if you can
From: @Manar_gaza
https://mastodon.social/@Manar_gaza/116738445035792496

Billboard at Saint Mathews in the City opposing the Legislation (definitions of woman and man) amendment bill

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Are you in Tāmaki Makaurau? Do you like socialist literature at bargain prices?

The Socialist Library Project is selling surplus books at Trades Hall on July 25

https://facebook.com/events/s/socialist-booksale-to-support-/1444222294402883/

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Socialist Booksale to support the Socialist Library Project

Event in Auckland, New Zealand by Daphne Lawless and Cyprian de Castro-Robinson on Saturday, July 25 2026

#OtD 11 June 1936 Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists attempted to hold an impromptu rally in Tonypandy, Wales. 6,000 locals forced the fascists to flee in what would become known as the 'Battle of De Winton Field' https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8322/battle-of-de-winton-field
Working Class History

I'm too young to have any nostalgia for He-man but a "brain vaporising misfire of epic proportions" sounds right up my ally

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/masters-of-the-universe-he-man-review/

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This is a terrible response to black people having their homes torched by roaming bands of masked racists, from anyone, let alone a sitting New Zealand MP

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If Opportunity wants to do the "kingmaker" thing I feel a better strategy would be highlighting that they'd be giving National a potential coalition partner who isn't obsessed with imported culture wars around bathrooms etc
If NZF tries to do the "kingmaker" thing this year it would be a bluff to try and get more policy concessions in a coalition with National, and they'd likely be called on it