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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I keep misreading his name as Pirate Jack Captain. Maybe it’s destiny.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵

In my kayak, watching a bluefin tuna leaping beside me.

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Best way is to find my insta or facebook pages and share from there.

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey Bluesky New Zealand!! Can you help spread the message this weekend?! Yeah sure this is just one video, but so many people haven’t enrolled yet and don’t realise they are running out of time. Thank you! 🇳🇿

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

'Twas the night before Hagermas, and all through the motu Folks posted their reckons, some random, some thought through; The liveblogs were hung on the news-sites with care, In hopes that our Nicholas soon would be there.

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thanks for sharing; I’ve been wanting to find a video of it to show people. I was there in person, and it was such a wonderful speech and everyone loved it. Tangata tiriti personified.

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Ko Ess Ahau ☀️😷 @occasio.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We are going to make 40,000 by 11:59pm tonight when petition for govt to stop removing the Treaty of Waitangi from NZ legislation closes. Spread it around and sign please. #kikorangi

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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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I found a Rarity-79 word worth 91 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 865 points · 10 rare words. No one else in Outlier has ever found it. 4 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/BPGYJG

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OUTLIER · Day 107

dpnz scored 865 on Day 107. Can you beat them?

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I found a Rarity-81 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 854 points · 10 rare words. Only 3 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 3 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/YACW9F

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OUTLIER · Day 105

player-0288 scored 854 on Day 105. Can you beat them?

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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species _is_ possible with sustained effort. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Great pivot! See you tonight team. 🎉

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I just signed this petition. Now it’s your turn! 🫶🏼

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Oh gosh, is the whole month-long World Cup going to be this tense?? 😬😬 #nz #fifaworldcup

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Power cut during NZ’s first match in the World Cup?! No worries; just plug my house into my EV truck and away we go. 💥😅 Just paid for itself. #ev #nz #fifaworldcup

Picture shows a black EV truck in a driveway with an orange power cable coming out of the back to power the house.

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

17 degrees outside at 8am on the first day of winter! 😬😳 And I’m hoping we get enough rain to break this mini droughtish period, without washing away all the topsoil/dust, and causing slips and mayhem.

LCD display from a weather station showing an outside temperature of 17.1 degrees celsius.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Red at night, storm chasers delight!

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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

So frickin sick of these people taking our father’s words out of context for their own ends.

An annoying Facebook post that reads: Today in New Zealand, 30 March, 2004, history Michael King was silenced by a fatal car crash at the age of 58. He was the author of 'The Penguin History of New Zealand' which was the most popular book of the year.
Here he is being interviewed about that book as it launched. King made the point that the fashion trend of referring to our country's name as
"Aotearoa" was a State imposition. He pushed back against it.
Ironically, the title of his own book has now succumbed to the very same pressure!

My response: Rachael King
Michael King did not "push back" against the use of Aotearoa, in fact used it liberally himself. Just because he lays out his understanding of the origins of the name, doesn't mean he thought it was not a legitimate name to adopt. Language evolves, and if this one word 'Aotearoa' gives us a Mãori equivalent of New Zealand to use alongside it, why is that a problem? He didn't think it was. Why should you use his words out of context to make a point that he didn't believe himself?

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Erin 🏳️‍⚧️ @queerjoy.nz · 10/04/2026

NZFirst is a party whose name sounds much less benign if you substitute any other country in. You see America First, Germany First, Britain First, it conjures a particular image. Maybe we shouldn't allow ourselves to become so desensitised to the nationalism in our own backyard. #nzpol

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Same… just watched it this evening. We couldn’t even watch anything after it.

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

One other thing, watching Jacinda in action, not an actor playing her but by crikey her with behind the scenes snippets never made it more obvious how much of a leadership vacuum we are in, Jacinda would never have failed us in a crisis, it should be complicity viewing #NZPol

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Thanks Miravox! Yes it’s a huge and diverse electorate 😅 What events in Raglan do you think would good for us to be at? We are just building up our calendar of events around the electorate to attend. Please share our FB page if you can too, and let’s get the word out far and wide!

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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Economists suggesting it could take a decade for NZ to recover from the shock that about to hit us. I really don’t think this Govt is prepared for - or equipped to deal with - what’s ahead. It feels as of, in spite of the performative pressers, no one’s driving.

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Tim Welch @tfwelch.com · 26/03/2026

In my latest for @newsroom.co.nz, I argue the government should make public transport free for at least three months. The $50 fuel payment costs $373M/year and doesn't cut a single litre of consumption. Free fares would cost less and actually reduce petrol demand. newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/27/f...

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Free public transport the fuel crisis response that makes sense

Opinion from Auckland University: Targeted fuel relief doesn’t reduce a single litre of consumption. Free public transport, however, delivers household relief, eases congestion, and conserves fuel for...

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morgan godfery @morgangodfery.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Mr Hooton is obviously correct that diesel rationing must begin at once, and that the consequences of a diesel shortage are catastrophic, and that a “diesel for food” arrangement is New Zealand’s best leverage, and thus the chances of the government actually acting now are low to nil

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Big news folks… I’ve been selected to stand for Labour in the Taranaki King Country electorate!! Head over to my main campaign page on FB to show your support! Live in the area? Come join us! Facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576502848485

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We bought our Leaf from Drive EV, these guys are wonderful! Happy to see a whole more people are going to discover the joys of EVs, even though the reason for it is sobering.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

So Chris Hipkins not only took advice & kept the economy afloat and jobs and businesses alive through #Covid-19, he pushed to keep Kiwis healthy and alive at a time when corpses were piled up across Italy, UK, US, and India. Kudos @chrishipkins.bsky.social #nzpol #newzealand

Early advice from the Minister for COVID-19 Response to Cabinet was that
a strong health response was the best economic response. This was repeated
in the Cabinet papers of 20, 23, 27 and 30 August, and 6 September. The
20 August 2021 paper set out the evidence officials considered supported
that advice.
° New Zealand’s infection and death rates were among the lowest in
the world.
° New Zealand’s unemployment rate was at the pre-COVID level of
4 percent, because jobs and businesses had been protected with the
wage subsidy. Unemployment in New Zealand peaked at 5.3 percent
(whereas in the United States and Canada it rose above 10 percent).
° Economic activity in the March 2021 quarter was 2.4 percent above the
previous year.
° The Government was in a ‘strong financial position’ – net core Crown debt
stood at 31.2 percent of GDP at the end of May 2021, 8.8 percent lower
than the forecast 44 percent (a difference of approximately $40 billion).
‘This gives us options to keep investing to protect New Zealanders and
accelerate our recovery’

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A country surrounded by the ocean, with active geothermal zones, buffeted by winds and basking in sunshine should not be relying on tanker loads of oil, gas and coal shipped half way across the world to run its energy network.

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I love how my phone kept autocorrecting skink to skunk!! 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️😂 I literally never talk about skunks, but I talk about skinks all the time!

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Don’t worry (too much), they aren’t native skinks, they are an introduced, kinda-invasive Australian skunk called the plaque skunk! All except one of our ~140 native species give birth to live young!!

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Ghoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 14/02/2026

This is blackout poetry to me

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018.
How did I do it?

Blacked out lines

CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP.
There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

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Michael Wood @mtroskill.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I’ll be at the Chilli Bar and Cafe from 10am - 11am tomorrow, Saturday 14th, to meet with locals in Lynfield. Drop in for a chat about the issues that matter to you! #nzpol #nz #aotearoa #newzealand #politics #mtroskill #mountroskill #auckland

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Recent events show that climate change impacts can be hyper local, and specific areas seem to be getting hit by the same extreme weather repeatedly. What ideas do you all have on the priorities for an incoming government in building community resilience & preparedness for extreme weather? #nzpol

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Whatkonnerth @whatkonnerth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Another week, another state of emergency! We need a government that is willing to do all it can to mitigate the impacts of our new climate. #nzpol #chooserenewables

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/02/2026

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

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European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women"

The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

So tough to see South Waikato/King Country hit with severe weather again, including tragic loss of life. Look after each other out there! Kia kaha, kia manawanui ❤️‍🩹

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Kim Tairi (ia/she/her) Nā te mea he Māori ahau ia rā ia rā @kimtairi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

How do we engage voters in Aotearoa? Hononga - connection! Where are the relatable politicians? Those who care that folx are struggling, that hospitals, schools, universities are underfunded; that Te Tiriti is a toanga and Aotearoa embraces diversity and doesn’t discriminate! #NZWiL

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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Latest #kakapo breeding “fridge” update from Pukenui. #kakapo2026 #birds

A whiteboard summary of kakapo breeding from 2026. Credit: Andrew Digby

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Those numbers are almost unbelievable! We’re all on the edge of our seats watching this unfold; that is for sharing these updates!

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Time for the 3-30-300 Rule to be Planning Law And funded by a 50% FAR scheme with Central Gov or with any urban renewal 85% EFAR rate FAR and EFAR = Funding or Enchanced Funding Assistant Rate It is a formula NZTA uses with local authorities for transport but can be adapted to Green Infrastructure

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