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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿

@auntbenjy.bsky.social
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Sci tech person. TTRPG player. “Fuck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming.” ~ Iain M. Banks Ace, ally, Pākehā, Tangata Tiriti. Toitū te Tiriti She/Her Don't do DMs #AoNZ

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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 2h
Brave browser. I like it but sometimes detects as using an ad blocker:
screenshot of browser testing results "Out test indicate that you have strong protection against web tracking. Blocking tracking ads (Yes), blocking invisible trackers (Yes)protecting from fingerprinting (your browser has a randomized fingerprint)
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 23h
Stephen Miller privately fears ‘prison cell’ awaits him despite Trump pardons: reports www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...
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Stephen Miller privately fears ‘prison cell’ awaits him despite Trump pardons: reports
Stephen Miller has privately voiced a fear that pardon power won't be enough to protect him once President Donald Trump leaves office.A new Zeteo profile of the White House deputy chief of staff, high...
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 23h
We are coming up on 7 hours left to get exclusive pre-launch discounts and freebies just by hitting the 'notify me' button! #Murderbot www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...
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Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!
The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
What exactly do we mean by values? Because my values and Druncle Winnie's are not the same...
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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"During his political career, Rob Muldoon developed a good relationship with some gangs, especially Black Power, helping them to find accommodation and form work trusts. They treated him with respect, and Black Power performed a haka at his funeral." #nzpol
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Down tools on Wed 🪧📣 #NZpol
Image is a poster/banner: “TEU UNITED ON STRIKE. Strike date: Oct 21.”

Text below says: “On Wednesday 21 October, from 1.15pm to 5.00pm, university and polytech members across Aotearoa will walk out on strike together. Staff in institutions up and down the country, across both sectors, will stand side by side for secure work, decent pay and safe workplaces.”
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Christchurch Call Foundation's statement on potential livestreamed execution of the convicted perpetrator of the attack at Fort Hood in 2009 christchurchcallfoundation.cmail19.com/t/y-e-fduiik... #nzpol
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Husband has a PhD. Contract researcher. Not funding science has hit us hard. We're surviving on my 3/4 of a job, but if we had to pay rent or a home loan, we'd be lining up for food parcels. *So* glad we chucked all our income into paying off the house. Saving for retirement is not happening.
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Edited meme from Shrek "Some of your kids may die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make"
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Actually, looking at the 2023 numbers, it wouldn't have taken much for Hernandez to beat Woodhouse in the candidate vote. Makes more sense now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunedin...
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Dunedin (electorate) - Wikipedia
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I have no expertise in this area, but with Dunedin being safe labour, doesn't voting 2-ticks increase the chances that Nats would get it? Feel free to tell me I'm stupid, but I'd like to do the right thing here and I can't figure out what that looks like atm.
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What The Fukc Is Happening? @dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#TaurangaCityCouncil can remove all of #ManuCaddie's signs it wants from it's streets. But it can't get them off the internet. Shall we help a fulla out? Repost! Please. #nzpol #DavidSeymourisDangerous #DitchTheACTParty2026 #DitchThePricksIn26
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
'My fault I suspect was in asking a question and expecting an answer', said John laughing as Winston proved combative (end). www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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Winston Peters on NZ abstention on UN pandemic vote
New Zealand was among five countries that did not vote for a UN declaration designed to strengthen national, regional and international co-operation in the event of a future pandemic. Winston Peters s...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 13/10/2026
Biologist Pierre Joliot, photosynthesis pioneer and grandson of Pierre and Marie Curie, dies at 94
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Biologist Pierre Joliot, photosynthesis pioneer and grandson of Pierre and Marie Curie, dies at 94
The son of Nobel laureates Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie made groundbreaking discoveries in plant physiology, particularly in photosynthesis. He passed away during the night of October 9 to 10.
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
For me it was the parade of actors who had done bit parts in Shortland Street...
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Awwww, but Donny, you bought Kristi *2* private jets
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Me: Hear a song in the supermarket, Shazam it, find it was released in 2012.
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Inko Gneto @inkogneto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I was a picky eater 55 years ago. When I moved out of home and discovered the food didn't have to be grey mush, my *dad* refused to eat anything I cooked for them. Kale is still bleugh, BTW.
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
He mad 😠
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Me too but to be fair, my home town has changed a *lot*
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Think about this next time you mock me for watching true crime TV...
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think there is a Dr Seuss book here: Gad sad. Gad Saad sad. Sad Gad Saad had sad. . . .
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No. Don't go. Whatever will I do? Yadda, yadda, yadda...
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Looks like their only policy is punching down on trans women. Happy not to vote for them
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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you're an older or disabled NZ voter, please consider what ACT Party policies would mean for you. ACT plans to raise superannuation age by 3 months each year, cut disability benefits by $653M, pause contributions to NZ Super Fund, + cut support for migrants. #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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ACT sets out plan to raise retirement age, cut debt, spending and disability benefits
The ACT Party's fiscal plan promises to cut debt and spending, raise the superannuation age by three months every year, and cut disability benefits by $653 million.
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Double whammy for us...I should be medically retired now, and my unemployed (scientist with a PhD) husband is the go-to carer for our AuDHD son. Instead we are surviving on my 3/4 of a job, and can't afford to save anything more for *actual* retirement.
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Also: "Oh, dear. I've redorkulated" ~ Professor Frink
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"That's where I saw the leprechaun... He told me to burn things" ~ Ralphie
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And why did you muck about with NCEA to the point that kids with learning disabilities have zero pathways to getting any qualifications at school?
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Botch Yellowbell
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Couldn't happen to a nicer charity 🤢 newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/09/s...
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Liquidators reveal Destiny Church-linked trust owes $4.2m
As Brian Tamaki's controversial church shifts between rented venues, debts owed by a linked charitable trust mount. Alice Peacock reports
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Age yourself with a childhood crush. More like a Tween crush, but...
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Kerr Avon: I'm Not Expendable
Alt: Kerr Avon (Blake's 7): I am not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going.
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He's the reason we can't have nice things 😠
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pivoting towards an Australian definition of Liberal™️
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dunedin has no dermatology service. Stupid AF... petitions.parliament.nz/02bdeb53-767...
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Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They really need to stop giving them ideas
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Anneleise Hall @anneleise.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Well put together analysis of NZ as a site for 'apocalypse planning' and the wider Epstein Class cartel and influence network, good to have the timeline of all this and the links in one place. #NZPol #EpsteinClass open.substack.com/pub/smithkst...
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The Little St. James of the South Pacific
Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, and the path to “Apocalypse Insurance” New Zealand
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
😜
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Had to smile at the Happy Hens/Cthulhu juxtaposition in #3 😁
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Current govt had to make deals with devils to get into power at the last election. Lazy/ineffectual/wealthy-and-sorted PM lets an Atlas acolyte RW party with 8% support dictate social policy, but he actually *wants* to do the evil stuff so... We're hoping to ditch them in November. Watch this space
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 08/10/2026
I wrote this because I think we have to be clear about what Peters means when he says he wants to relitigate the ban, and who the intended target of that harm is, and how this is the third time this term NZF have directly acted in line with UK anti-trans movements.
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Make medical marijuana Rx *cheap* then. The number of people I know who have to self-medicate for pain because they can't afford it...
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Son's old school backed onto a reserve. You can sometimes see putiputi in the flax bushes there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lsO...
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How To Weave A Putiputi (Flower) Out of Harakeke (Flax)
YouTube video by EcoMatters Environment Trust
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Rem Wigmore - Wolfpack out now! @remedy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Preaching to the choir I know, but Kiwis please please enrol to vote vote.nz/enrolling/en...
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You first, mate. Buh bye.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Jesus, they're evil. Have they ever tried having a chronic illness and trying to find a job? If you mention it you won't get interviewed, and if you don't mention it they treat you like you've been hired under false pretenses.
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