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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saying ka kite to this little piece of paradise before we head back home to springtime Aotearoa 🏝️☀️ ✈️ 🌨️🏙️

badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Left work early for a weekend in the countryside. Arrived at the farm, swapped my cardi for my Swanndri and my shoes for my Red Bands - inadvertently became a National Party member 😱 (PS two ticks Green ✅✅) #NationalNotFitToGovern

My lower body sitting next to the outdoor fire, featuring Red Bands and my blue Swanndri.

Screenshot of National Party members wearing the same blue Swanndri

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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Kia ora. Ngati Kahungungu have launched a petition ‘Do not remove or amend Te Tiriti principles or references in legislation’ It can be found here. petitions.parliament.nz/ddbe7598-59d... If you support it, please sign and consider sharing with whanau, friends and colleagues

petitions.parliament.nz

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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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Listening to Toby and Mike discuss household solar. I really want solar but can’t get the ROI to stack up. 3brm 2 adults PHEV in Auckland. Electricity around $250/month in winter, below $200 in summer. Gas for instant hot water <$500/year. Are we just massive outliers?

podcasts.apple.com

The electric election: Mike Casey on a solar revolution

Podcast Episode · At Large with Toby Manhire · 31 August · 35min

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The neurodiverse nibbling came to visit so of course she and I had a neurospiciness contest to organise the chaos that was my sewing box while we waited for her mother to finish borrowing the sewing machine 🧠✨ 🌈🧵

Reels of cotton arranged in colour order

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The one I pinch myself about is Temple of the Dog, a last minute (very expensive but so worth it) opportunistic decision to attend, mere months before Chris died. Epic night.

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Andrew Jull NZRN (he/him) @andrewjull.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Anybody supporting the B4-16 ban, this is what you, as adults, will face (it is not just under-16s that will have to verify their age). It will breach S14 of the NZ Bill of Rights Act 1990, endanger isolated young ppl who find their communities online, and give big tech more access to your data.

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Last year Ozzy died and then dominated #TheRock2000. I wonder if Dolly will make the top 10 this year?

A publicity photo of Dolly Parton promoting her album Rockstar. She’s wearing tight leather pants and jacket and is holding an electric guitar

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last picture of the sky from your camera roll.

A cloudy sky out my kitchen window, with a pink magnolia tree in the foreground.

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Steel beam coming through the windshield while I’m driving at 70mph (I swear every doctor in the Arizona small town hospital came to look at me and the photos of the car/beam and shake their heads in disbelief at my bruised thumbs)

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just saw ‘Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant’ at #NZIFF Hilarious, insightful, fantastic! Highly recommend what will no doubt become a classic like Bad Taste or Black Sheep. In cinemas in September - go see it! youtu.be/3jGYW1fzIw0

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Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Umbrella Entertainment

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Well, that’s pretty darn cold for Tāmaki Makaurau

A screenshot of the MetService app showing ‘feels like -4°’

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Got my Auckland Council rates bill today, which included some excellent comms. I’m pretty happy with how my rates are invested for the benefit of all Aucklanders, although if we bumped up Built Environment a bit more, maybe we could have more of these awesome multimodal street upgrades? 🤞

A screenshot of a pie chart showing what percentage of rates revenue goes to different functions. Community 28%, transport 37%, built environment 2%

A screenshot of Greater Auckland’s image of the Victoria St upgrade, prominently featuring the new tuna (eel) sculpture (which is public art so probably comes out of the community bucket but the street upgrade that enabled it is built environment)

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

LOUDER FOR THE NEW ZEALAND FIRST COOKERS

The Inquiry found that New Zealand’s initial response to COVID-19 was balanced and appropriate, and that New Zealand broadly did well responding to the pandemic. The report also highlighted the process for approving COVID-19 vaccines and monitoring safety was robust and effective.

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Tũhono light trail by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei ringatoi in downtown Tāmaki Makaurau ✨🇳🇿 www.instagram.com/tetoangaroa/

Tauihu by Arama Tamariki-Enua

A light artwork representing one end of a canoe

Skylid by Graeme Tipene

A circular concrete slab with carved patterns, with additional projected light patterns

Mangōpare by Arama Tamariki-Erua

Light artwork featuring the hammerhead motif

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Harbour Bridge and the Silo Park gantry lit up for Matariki ✨🇳🇿

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Tāmaki really turning it on for this brisk Matariki evening ✨🇳🇿

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Waitematā sparkling, taken from on high on the WX1, while I listen to the dulcet tones of The Muttonbirds’ Anchor Me at #5 of the #Waiata100 ✨🇳🇿

A view of the inner Waitematā harbour with a slight reflection of my phone and bus seats in the window

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I think we should start measuring government programmes in Hayden Donnell's 'metres of roading'. Lowering the age of bowel cancer screening to 45? 5 metres of road. A year of Three Waters? 63 metres of road. Reading recovery? 13mm of road.

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I should add…I don’t believe we should have a night shelter, because appropriate and supported emergency housing with a longer term pathway is the much better response, but govt should be aware and helping, not growing the problem!

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Oh the irony. A headline showcasing Luxon’s ignorance at the lack of appropriate social services to reduce homelessness in Auckland, accompanied by an advert for National ‘fixing the basics’. 🤬 #nzpol

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Petition link at the start of the thread, but this is the key point #nzpol

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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 21/06/2026

A friend of mine has built this very cool tool which will show you the impact the various parties' tax policies will have on you. Well worth checking it out. yourtax.nz #nzpol

yourtax.nz

Compare your tax under every party

What each party’s announced tax policy would change in your household’s week, compared with current law.

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Scenes from my Quaxing this morning in a foggy Tāmaki Makaurau

Avondale is somewhere over there behind the fog

Delicious Parmesan and chilli knot and fresh baked sourdough (in the paper bag) from Fort Greene, with my bike in the background

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

This tool made it so easy. Thanks to whoever put it together #nzpol

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Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

As an economist, the Greens' have been way better at proposing economically sensible policy than anyone else. It was a big (but not only) factor in my supporting them.

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I don’t mind the cold and rain so much, but the worst part about winter is it being ‘wet cat season’ - sopping wet cats demanding cuddles, ugh 🐈‍⬛🇳🇿

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I hope I don’t end up regretting cycling to work today (forecast says thunder and gales are due after I should be home again)…but the sunrise is a stunner!

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Mainstream media is incapable of meeting the moment. Well-intended journalistic principles have been thoroughly gamed, resources have been starved, journos crushed with broken incentives, and ownership has been co-opted. Illiberal forces know this is their opportunity and they are going for it.

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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The absolute nerve of these people, stuffing this nonsense into our mailbox this week, days after publishing a budget that offers little to anyone other than those who are already wealthy and sorted #nzpol

A National Party flier featuring the headline ‘National is supporting Kiwis with the cost of living’

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Nicola Willis's new household budget savings plan is to reduce the household income by 25% whilst costs go up by 10%, and then say it's the fault of the household having too many people in it...even though it's the same number as it was before

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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Awesome mahi. This may be a useful link to include too. It explains the science in a way people responding in good faith could easily digest and understand. Andy, of course, is not one of those. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

scientificamerican.com

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic

Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Talk of ignorance! Jenny Marcroft should go back to school and learn about the reality how hormones alter bodies. A trans woman who has been on female hormones for two years or more won't have measurable "male advantage" in sports. #NZpol www.transresearch.org.au/post/trans-w...