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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You expect Episcopalians to care about places that are against their own existence? Sorry if I don't care about places like Russia where I might get snitched on for being myself.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People losing their minds over the idea of Chloe Swarbrick being finance minister is in the same vein as this country not having had a female transport minister since Jenny Shipley.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So many pop acts seem to have seemingly-endless strobe lights at their shows these days. You would think there would be more consideration for those with epilepsy or other light sensitive conditions, but it really seems not to be a thing at all.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So it begins. Spotted through the window of Farmers this morning

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fellas, is it intolerant to be in a cult?

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The lesbian bar discourse was made for the disc horse

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We need this man’s book recommendations.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Official signage from the Department of Conservation.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And to think that the last National-led government sacked an entire council & replaced them with commissioners at ECan because they thought water issues because they thought consent and nitrate issues could be sorted by central govt. Fifteen years on, communities are seeing the fallout.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This reminds me of the time a woman told me her organisation was “beginning to start the process of organising” something.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

so how long until you can call someone a cunt in parliament and get away with it? didn’t think I’d see it in a national newspaper, and yet this country voted it quote of the year.

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Glee: Quinn Fabray on the 'C' Word

ALT: Glee: Quinn Fabray on the 'C' Word

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Trying to figure out what I meant when I wrote something that looks like “beefing lawyers deter counsel” in my notebook last week. #journolife

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Benedict Ong is, weirdly, not the only NZ elected representative to leak allegations against *themselves* to the media but he’s surely the only one has done it so frequently.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m just trying to think of good kākāpō numbers and not the fact they’re removing scientists off Macquarie Island so they don’t have to face with the psychological effects of anticipated mass die-off of elephant seal pups from H5N1.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Pastafarian History Day is every day. Maybe be someone who is Zoroastrian, a homosexual or part of the Friends fandom or even someone who has flatulence. You should reevaluate your Pastafarian privilege Bobby. You never had to fight for your right to coexist in society.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I was reminded today that one of the doctors at my GP is called Dr Crooke and I think that’s the best name a doctor could have.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I feel like Rose Matafeo has taken on Taskmaster NZ because she knows how much it’ll annoy Ed Gamble. He’s got the podcast and won the season they were both on but SHE’s Taskmaster on Jnr Taskmaster and can compete in two Taskmasters. 😂

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Milo getting picked up by ICE after publicly advocating for “on the spot deportations” while he was already overstaying his visa, is just a beautiful leopards faces moment. Also getting dobbed in by Laura Loomer that he may have been in Louisiana for a Ye concert is the cherry facts on top.

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New from @vantortech.bsky.social. Absolutely astonishing images of the China-Nepal Gyirong Port/Rasuwagadhi border post. Literally nothing is left. (Before 19 April, After 27 Aug)

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wow it’s almost as if people warned this exact thing a) was already happening and would b) just happen more frequently if the law got changed. (The left article is RNZ today, the right is from the Pacific Media Network, Jan 2025)

"There's clearly an issue, our job is to fix it...I apologise for it, I'm sorry that it's happened," he said.
"It's really disappointing to see that there are further issues there."
Luxon said he was focused on ensuring people got the money they were owed, and that the underlying problem was fixed.
MSD said everyone had been paid back, and there were no longer processing delays.
Luxon last week told Parliament he was confident that no beneficiaries had lost payments due to processing delays.
"My statement was correct at the time," he said on Friday, adding that he had only found out about the problem on Friday morning.
Meanwhile Social Development Minister Louise Upston refused to comment on her statements in Parliament.
On Tuesday she was asked whether benefits had wrongly been suspended due to processing delays.
Upston said no, but changed her answer to
"possibly" after multiple further questions.
RNZ asked whether Upston would clarify her statements.

Louise May, National Policy Advisor for the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), said the changes would increase the risk of benefits being cut or cancelled.
"In the CAB, we witness the difficulties job seekers often experience in trying to make their applications and navigate the system," May said.
"We regularly help people who have had their benefits cut or cancelled through error or mishandling of their case or because they happened to miss a phone call or appointment.
"Increasing the interactions people must have with Work & Income and tying sanctions to those interactions exposes people to greater risk of harm."

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Stuff hiring Chris Penk as a columnist smacks of desperation and a bit of ‘they didn’t know who he was in Parliament, they’ll forget who is again in five seconds’ lack of reflection.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Someone was playing word association games and hit print.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

LawNews really buried the lede focusing on the Pitcairns.

With admissions to practise also in the British Indian Ocean Territory, the British Antarctic Territory and Kazakhstan's Astana International Financial Centre, Barugh is one of a number of New Zealand lawyers who can ply their trade in different jurisdictions. Yet while many lawyers operating in more populated countries see a substantial body of international work come across their desk, Barugh's cases are refreshing yet infrequent novelties.
"I've had two Pitcairn matters, so I was quite surprised. Per capita, that's not bad out of a population of probably less than 40.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Someone is holding an event in Auckland for Charlie Kirk next month and it’s … a whole other level of wow.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Respectfully, it doesn’t munt anything. A coalition agreement is a negotiation between two or more parties, whether we like the outcomes. The ‘agree to disagree’ clause is necessary here because National is the major coalition leader, not because the ban in the coalition agreement (it wasn’t).

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I sometimes forget my girlfriend didn’t grow up in New Zealand, but she was singing Ruldolph the Red-Nose Reindeer to our cats, and she LAUGHED when I concluded it with “like the All Blacks!” (We’re now down a Rudolph-rabbit hole.) acedino.medium.com/regional-var...

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Regional Variation in “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is known for its impromptu call-and-response lyrics. I examine regional variation in the additional…

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm deeply ashamed of my profession. Its treatment of Jason Arday - right across the board - fills me with disgust and horror. The tormenting of a highly vulnerable man was seen as monetisable entertainment. This is a stain that won't wash off. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...

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Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty

The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Really odd to watch the Government pass its bill shutting down Smith v Fonterra with basically no mainstream media coverage (besides one RNZ article). Extra weird because Mike Smith is literally in the SC this week taking his separate case against the A-G over the govt’s climate inaction.

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

National must be worried and desperate if they've got Chantelle Baker shilling for them on Facebook now 🤔 😱 #nzpol

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

All that and Anna Fifield wasn’t game enough to even dare mention her former employers’ hiring a political strategist as editor to the Dom Post.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There was higher voter turnout for a race between a facist and a bin than there has been in New Zealand local government elections for years. #nzpol

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I’d say there’s a slim chance ex-submarine pilot Chris Penk turns up in NZFirst within five years…

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So yes, the worst people you know are fighting. But all of them dislike the thing they're arguing about for almost exactly the same reason, which is why I am pro-HDCA and why you can't support any party here, except in demonstrating the HDCA works and is valuable free speech legislation.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oh and THAT is why the Free Speech Union wasn’t piping up. Oh the whole things a shitshow.

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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Chris sacked Chris for plotting to replace Chris with Chris to stand against Chris #nzpol

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you call a press conference and then don’t allow any questions it is the epitome of ‘a meeting that could have been an email’. #nzpol

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Paddy and/or Stuff not realising that the move-on orders haven’t become law yet is frustrating because it ignores the bigger picture that homeless folk have always been moved on by Police, regardless of this coalition’s proposals.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I have never seen this photo before. It is the most beautiful “picture tells 1000 words” for this coalition.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Honestly gutted to hear this. I had been wondering what happened to him as I used to see him around town all the time and then he just seemed to vanish, but no death notice appeared - until today. Good to know he was being cared for in his final days. He was a character 💔

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Regardless of any outcome, it’s amazing to see Netsafe seemingly did its job for once

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Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“I think that's a negative view, to be honest. Like we’re entrepreneurs and business people, and I get it. You know, if you're not retooling and radically disrupting your business, you ain't doing the job.”

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

So has @comingupcharlie.bsky.social got more of these guys to reveal? Like some sort of Nazi NZF Pokémon?

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Okay but my main issue with Luxon’s speech is he contradicts himself by saying no ceo cares about the govt, then in the next breath goes on about business leaders, POLITICAL LEADERS and community leaders working together… who does he imagine these political leaders to be? Only local govt?

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Commented that “hammer throw feels like a very Scottish sport” and I wasn’t far off - it was apparently first recorded as being played in Ireland. #CommonwealthGames

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

*NATIONAL MP ON THE PICKET LINE ALERT* (feat Ōtaki MP Tim Costley)

The Professional Fire Fighters Union posts a photo of MP Tim Costley leading a march of firefighters in the rain. One of the protesters is holding a sign reading “broken trucks, broken promises, broken system”.

Their post says “FENZ, don't you think you look bad enough already?
FENZ bosses blocked Tim Costley MP from taking photos or posting to social media while visiting New Plymouth Fire Brigade today.
Tim is officially the first MP in the country forced by FENZ to get written permission just to step inside.
Instead of being silenced, Tim joined us on the picket line
You can't censor the reality of our fire service.”

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’m sure Chloe could spend my money better than I can.

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Greta @gretayeoman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Justice Crook joins Justice Tantrum. We really are getting the best judiciary this year.

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