Tim Batt
@Tim_Batt
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Joke man, Podcast boy. @TWIOATPod | @littleempirepod | @LilEmpireLive
Auckland, New Zealand
Joined January 2009
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This is completely unedited footage of the New Zealand Health Minister. Seriously. (sound on)
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Apple's ideal use case for this product is working first thing in the morning while you make breakfast for your kid. Bleak. Technology was supposed to relieve us from toil but it did the complete opposite so that 6 people could become richer than God.
Welcome to the era of spatial computing with Apple Vision Pro. You’ve never seen anything like this before!
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80% of adults in New Zealand have smoked cannabis. 53% voted against legalising it. Why?. Because only only the vulnerable minority have to deal with the outcomes of criminalisation. Cowardice and hypocrisy. I'm livid.
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Guarantee there's zero people who've worked in a government department in this crowd. Once you have, you could NEVER entertain the notion of government pulling off a grand conspiracy.
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This is Ngā Hine Pūkōrero who performed at the #BlackLivesMatter rally in Auckland today. I am shook. #blacklivesmatternz .1/2
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We have a baby now. He's very cool and his name is Remy. Will pass on any well wishes to him from you. 🐣.
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Ardern has dealt with a terror attack, natural disasters, a global pandemic but on the other hand Judith Collins has a point - ZOOM IS KIND OF TRICKY!.
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I don't just think we should give Ashley Bloomfield a knighthood - I think we should give him John Key's one.
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Hi everyone: It's Tim from New Zealand here. We have a single payer system. It's pretty fucking dope. #InvestigateACC #debates.
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Berate me all you want - Crate Day represents the very worst of NZ culture. A for-profit invention by a commercial radio station and several beer companies, with the sole aim of peer pressuring 19 year olds to binge drink. Cool stuff.
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Kim Hill: "Is the water safe to drink?".Wayne Brown: "Uh, I'm headed into a briefing and I'll add that to the list".AND YOU COULD AUDIBLY HEAR HIM SCRATCHING ON PAPER BECAUSE IT HADNT OCCURED TO HIM TO ASK THIS! 😶.
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The Green Party always get painted as identity politics merchants yet they're the only ones who've released policy addressing the huge problems in our economy. National's running on "te reo is too confusing" and Labour is the 'This is Fine' dog in a fire meme.
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Respectfully, NZ media, your job today is incredibly hard but nothing is gained by reading anything written by a murderer. Please do not do it.
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Don't know who needs to see this but here's the income tax you pay in NZ right now, based on your annual income:.10k 10.5%.20k 12.6%.30k 14.2%.40k 15.1%.50k 16.0%.60k 18.4%.70k 20.0%.80k 21.7%.90k 22.9%.100k 23.9%.110k 24.7%.200k 28.46%.1m 32.1%.
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The garage is a bit fucked and my back hurts from manually bailing water but I think I've earned a beer.
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Just fainted while giving blood and pissed my pants. How's your day going?.
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Part two of Ngā Hine Pūkōrero's performance at #BlackLivesMatter in Auckland today. Cannot overstate how powerful and affecting this piece about colonial brutality was, delivered to a crowd of several thousand in Aotea Square. Aotearoa, we got a ways to go. 2/2
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The Greens Wealth Tax works like this:. If you have:.- $1m in assets, nothing to pay. - $2m in assets, nothing to pay. - $3m in assets, $25,000 to pay. - $4m in assets, $50,000 to pay.
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Fun fact: that $55,000 accommodation benefit Luxon claimed is tax free, so he was receiving, in the hand, what a worker earning $68,000/yr receives after tax. Sorry, I meant fucked. Fucked fact.
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So like, what's going to happen with Casey Costello? Does she just get to keep being a tobacco lobbyist while serving as a Minister even though she keeps getting caught breaking the law?.Shouldn't. something be happening with her?!.
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I know everyone's bored of Labour but I cannot stress how much more component Hipkins is in the role of PM, than Luxon would be.
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Losing it at finding out the name of the social media influencer who ignored warnings, went to Iran, got detained for months until the NZ govt negotiated his release is named TOPHER RICHWHITE.
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I just have the share this with someone. My infant son has Covid. I have just heard him do the most worrying sounding shit I've ever heard. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers. This is gonna be a real one.
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I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.
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I am moving today. If you also live in Auckland, you will understand why this is funny (for you, not me).
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Ok how bout this - We'll do one more week of level 4 BUT YOU MUST TURN THE WANAKA COUPLE OVER TO WE, THE PEOPLE.
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Marama Davidson (a sitting Minister) went to a rally to uplift the trans community, then got hit by a motorcycle there, then got accosted by woman who claimed the C19 vaccine had microchips in it - she responded by spitting facts with a smile on and SORRY, WHO'S ANGRY AT HER?!.
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Wow - did not know any of us had the keys to this account!.
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Seeing so many angry news stories about how some overseas people are getting the Cost of Living payment and no stories about how beneficiaries don't get it makes me really sad.
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David Seymour on RNZ tonight:."the only thing people can do is help each other"."these things in New Zealand happen". Chlöe Swarbrick on RNZ tonight:."this is climate change and obviously we need to acknowledge that".
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Our PM got applause for saying she smoked marijuana once. Based on this, I believe I could become King of New Zealand.
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If you thought NZers who have to quarantine are costing our country, wait till I till you about our LACK OF CAPITAL GAINS TAX ON A RUNAWAY PROPERTY MARKET.
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Our Minister for COVID Response competing with a lawn mower as he informs the country about an Omicron outbreak is peak New Zealand.
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AT A FUCKING MINIMUM, change to law to require landlords to allow renters to have pets. We all have pets now because NOBODY CAN AFFORD TO BUY A HOUSE AND START A FAMILY. Fuck.
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I just realised (I think) I have @Worthikids art from 2015 depicting Brady The Rat King! Long live @TWIOATpod.
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Every Aucklander with a Twitter, TikTok or Instagram account saw the city flooding in real time. Our 76 year old mayor didn't know what was happening because nobody rung his phone. "You can't see from my office what's going on in Henderson or South Auckland"
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OH NO, I PAID AN INTERNAIONAL PR COMPANY SIX FIGURES TO REBRAND MY TELCO AND IT CAME OUT RACIST - HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?!.
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Spent my life watching Winston Peters build a political career on bashing immigrants. Now he's targeting trans NZers. Fuck right off with this shit. We shouldn't shift a God damn inch backwards in our progress of protection, acceptance and celebration of our trans community.
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New working theory: Shapiro doesn't know porn exists.
Ben Shapiro argues that a woman can't play 007 because it wouldn't satisfy a "wish fulfillment fantasy" for men
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I just walked into a Chemist Warehouse and got a booster vaccine for a global virus for free and walked out and the whole thing took 10 minutes and God damn, sometimes SOCIETY SMELLS GOOD.
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"COWARDS!" I shout at the people rightly leaving social media to protect their mental health.
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"It'll be interesting to see how Wellington does after it's big earthquake" - Wayne Brown to Kim Hill when asked about Auckland's lack of preparedness to the flood. 🫥.
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I'm being forced to use a third party to apply for a rental and it has a premium service option. For me. The renter. Which enables the lights to be on, on time. This country, in many ways, is cooked as a chook.
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I wanted to make this clear so you can form a picture in your mind of the couple sitting on a freehold properties worth $5,000,000 being asked to pay $25,000 in tax to support a safety net for the lest well off. This is not dangerous or radical. It's actually good and sensible.
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You would be SHOCKED at how little going viral for a stand up clip has done for my Auckland ticket sales. 🥰.
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Our Prime Minister just earnestly apologised for getting a journalist's name wrong. Today. Just now. We are really very lucky to live here.
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NZ: Adjusts minimum wage for inflation (to US$14.04/hr in a country without tipping), while a landed Gentry continues to lock out home ownership for all but the hyper wealthy. CNN: NEW ZEALAND - A SOCIALIST UTOPIA.
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Reading the 500th tweet saying "I should've waited to get vaxxed today and then I'd actually get something. ". Yeah, I guess we have to settle for OVERWHELMING IMMUNITY AGAINST THE CURRENT PLAGUE.
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If you're a New Zealander and describe yourself as a "patriot", you're not a New Zealander.
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Nothing will make townies sympathetic to your cause quite like holding up Friday traffic with a tractor donning sexist epiphets against the most popular leader of a generation.
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4 films i've seen the most times
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As of today, I've paid off my $23,000 student loan!.I would like to add that, as of today, I have zero degrees. :D.
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If Luxon can be wasted so easily by Jack Tame this morning, how the heck can he hold his own against China and US interests?. Putting policy to the side for a moment, I have no faith in this man's ability to defend our country in a room with the big guys.
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It is hard to escape the reality that the NZ Herald is now actively working against the best interests of the country.
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Imagine if we had the combined mental energy currently dedicated to stringing Q shit together on climate change.
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A reminder that Chlöe Swarbrick once ran to be mayor of this city and was laughed at for being too young. This is a fucking ridiculous situation.
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This is WILLFULLY misleading. So many kiwis incorrectly think you trip over a tax bracket and suddenly are taxed higher - THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS!
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If you paid off your student loan and that is the reason you think others shouldn't have student loan forgiveness, you are a bad person. This is a very straight forward bad person test.
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Sat down and ordered myself a $14 beer at the bar where I will perform the art of stand up comedy to 4 people. The stuff dreams are made of.
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Rose Garden Seedlings and Fertilizer: Serving DC's Rose needs for 35 years.
Will be having a press conference from the Rose Garden in 15 minutes.
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Considering starting a NZ comedy collective called Stand Ups For Women that exists purely to support trans rights. .
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Cannot stress how easy it is to vote in NZ elections. Took me 6 minutes total. Please don't take it for granted - VOTE before 7pm Saturday. You DON'T NEED ID or an Easy Vote Card. There's people to help you understand the forms. Here's where you can vote:
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Don't Look Up rules and I am so confused by the negative reviews. It's a very good movie.
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Really feels like this government is completely breaking NZ's healthcare system.
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Fun fact, my flatmates and I have handed over $250,000 to the guy who owns our house. 🤣😀😳🤔😧😥.
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You know who is more important than Mum and Dad Investors?.Mum and Dad renters.
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You know what would help the case for isolating at home? Not being in a housing crisis.
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When the problem is dirty politics in your party, the answer is. *checks notes* Judith Collins?!.
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Moved out west a month ago so now I take the train. No less than four separate, very lovely guys I've met have volunteered that they're drug dealers on the train to me. It's a good energy out here.
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False. The premise of That 70's Show was the show was set in the 70's.
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AirBNB era is dead. Sick of 30-message back and forths about keys and why I'm coming and agreeing to make less than 45 decibels of noise at any given moment. I MUST RETURN TO MOTEL LIFE.
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From the Poynter Institute for journalism:.- Name the shooter infrequently and only when his name is critical.- Avoid images of the shooter that could be seen as glorifying him.- Superlatives, like “deadliest mass shooting ever,” could lead to contagion.
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