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hysterical hobbit

@haydenp.bsky.social
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Dad in both jokes and bod. Mahi is in the family violence sector, #itsnotok. I also occasionally write like poetry and shit. West Aucks via Kirikiriroa via Iuropi

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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I know I'm #old, but my kid's friend just asked me if we had flavor in the olden days. Wow.
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Turns out time flies whether or not fun is involved. It might be that time is a plane and I'm in economy class
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
School holidays expose me to conversations i don't normally get to hear. Currently there are three 7 year olds are at the table discussing which is scarier, spiders or eating poopsicles.
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I have not felt like a G6 in a looong time
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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
yes we've all been frothing with the coup, meanwhile Mani Dunlop is out here reporting on this fuckery and what it means. www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/04/20/a...
teaonews.co.nz
ANALYSIS: Government set to reduce Treaty in legislation to lowest possible standard - what it means
Sweeping changes to Treaty clauses across 23 laws could lower te Tiriti to its weakest legal standard, reshaping how it influences decisions in health, environment and beyond.
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Why does paying for my kids swimming class need two step authentication? Like if someone else wants to pay for them to learn how to not drown, let em
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Why are office kitchens like the matrix? There are no spoons
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
#NZpol Iran war: Ministers to meet amidst report South Korea could halve NZ fuel supply - “South Korea provides about half (47%) of New Zealand’s refined fuel following the closure of the Marsden Point refinery.”* - subscription only for now
thepost.co.nz
Government closely monitoring reports South Korea could cut off half our fuel
New fuel security group to meet for first time tonight amidst reports the source of 47% of our fuel could stop sending it.
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Living Streets Aotearoa @livingstreetsnz.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Scrapping the Clean Vehicle Standard would significantly worsen air pollution. "RNZ has learned that a targeted consultation carried out for that review has just ended, which included asking submitters whether the standard should be 'abolished'."
rnz.co.nz
Government considering scrapping entire clean car standard
An EV advocate says if the proposal goes ahead, Kiwis will be sold "the high-emitting leftovers" that manufacturers can no longer sell in Australia.
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Y'know how the news always has captions with people's names and job? I want that for British drama. Idk who the fuxk this is, I'm 4 episodes in and he could be the lead in a new hat or a brand new guy.
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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
#nzpol Child poverty data from Stats NZ out today. All political parties except Act agreed to the Child Poverty Reduction Act 2018, creating legally mandated targets for child poverty reduction. Right now, we are missing even the looser targets the government has set. A 🧵
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Teanau Tuiono @teanau.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This is not a routine border security arrangement. The EBSP would go far beyond existing information-sharing. It would enable automated, bulk matching against New Zealand databases by US agencies.
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This is not the way I want to engage with politics, but signing submissions when I have little energy for other things feels like something at least #nzpol action.greens.org.nz/emergency_ma...
action.greens.org.nz
Emergency Management Subs
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
More petitions cos there's more BS #nzpol greenpeace.nz/381g20
greenpeace.nz
Ban Seabed Mining
Join us in calling for a ban on seabed mining before it's too late!
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Add your name. #fightback at every turn (even though I'm tired and would like a nap #nzpol greenpeace.nz/stop-the-fas...
greenpeace.nz
Sign the Fast Track Wrong Track open letter
An open letter of warning to any company using the fast track approvals process to dodge laws designed to protect people and nature.
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
12 dead at Bondi Beach. Horrible. In Nz we have a breakfast tv interview w/Jewish council rep Juliet Moses. In a 5min interview, she manages to blame free Palestine protests and even Chloe Swarbrick. Honor those lost. Care for the families, don't use their names to justify occupation #nzpol
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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Image included in a Facebook post by Newstalk ZB noting "Govt rejects all of Climate Change Commission's emissions target recommendations".
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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Hayden Donnell - a very insighful journalist. One of the best we have in Aotearoa.
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The spinoff have great writers that cut through the spin quickly and with good humor. Another example of short term thinking to win votes vs actually getting shit done #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/10-...
thespinoff.co.nz
Rates rises are due to people voting against rates rises
Buckle up, it’s time to ignore our crumbling infrastructure for another generation.<br />
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I can't understand how this didn't get more traction? Minister in bed with oil companies known for ripping off nz and its yesterday's news. He should resign, right? #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
rnz.co.nz
How the oil and gas industry helped rewrite New Zealand’s drilling rules
A paper trail shows just how far ministers went to accommodate the industry's wishlist, including giving it access to draft laws.
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
White ribbon day #nzpol
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WHO @who.int · 19/11/2025
New data show that violence against women remains a global public health crisis. The new Violence Against Women estimates provides the most comprehensive picture yet of intimate partner and non-partner sexual violence bit.ly/3K4vCV9 #EndViolence #NoExcuse #16Day
Illustration of diverse women and a child in a wheelchair united against violence with the message to open the door and take a stand.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The third in Jutta Kill and Simon Counsell's series "Crooked Carbon Business" looks into the Katingan REDD project in Indonesia. Buyers of carbon credits from the project include Shell, VW, Tokyo Gas, PetroChina, Delta Airlines, TotalEnergies, and Boeing. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/crooked-ca...
reddmonitor.substack.com
Crooked carbon business: Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation project, Indonesia
Shell has bought millions of carbon credits from this project in order to claim that fossil fuels are “carbon neutral”.
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Matt @mattthetechie.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/time-10... What an achievement #nzpol #toitutetiriti #globalpol
nzherald.co.nz
'Shook the world': NZ's youngest MP collects Time magazine award in New York
Time magazine considers our youngest MP one of the world's most influential rising stars
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#Petitions Gah I wish these things made more of a difference!! petitions.parliament.nz/212f27b2-98f...
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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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
More petitions. #climateactionnow c.org/bRCmZ7CF5r
c.org
Sign the Petition
Include Cruise Ship Emissions in Global Carbon Accounting
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A #poem of mine is up on newsroom which is quite a coup for someone who is notoriously anti news and rooms newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/31/t...
newsroom.co.nz
The Sunday Poem, by Hayden Pyke
Lines on a flat tyre and a general sense of things falling
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Her book was such an eye opening experience for me as a kid from the other side of the world. What a life! Rest easy #Assata www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Assata Shakur, black Liberation activist exiled in Cuba, dies at 78
She fled to Cuba after being convicted in the killing of a police officer but denied the shooting.
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 18/09/2025
Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol
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South Dakota Department of Propaganda @southdakota.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Meme with two sections. Top shows a blurred audience and a banner that reads People no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life, survey shows. Bottom shows caption the working class above two side by side cartoon panels of a male starship officer in a gold uniform. In the first he rests his face on his hand, looking unimpressed. In the second he covers his mouth as if pretending to be shocked. The joke suggests workers are not surprised by the survey.
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Thank you for coming to my TED talk #nzpol #freePalestine #neolibdeeznuts #fucktommy
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Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 14/09/2025
After learning that these guys have NEVER won before I have done a thing. #boty
A campaign poster for Bird of the Year 2025 promoting the takahē, which is pictured wearing a red and white pom-pom beanie like the one worn by Wally/Waldo and partially hidden by leaves and foliage. The subtitle reads "Aotearoa Hide and Seek Champion 50 years running".
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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
What fucks me off the most about the Tom Phillips situation is that there are men out there who think its their god-given right to have everything go their way & when it doesn’t, they do whatever the fuck they want. This is NOT uncommon behaviour in New Zealand.
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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
How to Deny Entitlements and Make Homeless People #NZPol
Monthly trends in emergency housing applications in New Zealand from early 2021 to early 2025

The "Total" line, representing overall emergency housing applications, shows a significant decline over the period, particularly from late 2023 onwards


The number of "Grants" and "Declines" for emergency housing applications remained consistently low and relatively stable throughout the period shown
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Really good read from #rnz on tik tok and algorithms. Both reassuring when we're fed those alarmist narratives and still scary. www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/i...
rnz.co.nz
Four phones, three weeks: Everything we saw on teen TikTok
We set up four brand-new social media accounts with teenage personas. Then we scrolled.
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hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The wonderful crowd at Newsroom put one of my #poems up in their Reading room section plus a pic of my very handsome dog (disclaimer I am also in the photo) newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/31/t...
newsroom.co.nz
The Sunday Poem, by Hayden Pyke
Lines on a flat tyre and a general sense of things falling
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Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Sex work is 1000% more honorable and socially beneficial than working as an ICE agent.
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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We can't wait to share takahē 114 tomorrow! Including book reviews of these incredible titles 🤩
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Everyone stop, this is important
A black and white drawing of three dachshunds arranged vertically, each holding a different optical illusion object in its mouth, and the dogs themselves drawn as if a single line optical illusion. The top dog holds a Penrose triangle, the middle dog holds a Necker cube, and the bottom dog holds a Penrose trident. The dogs’ bodies are elongated in an exaggerated cartoon style. The artwork is signed “@IndieTheIntrovert” in the bottom right corner.
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I like when an article or whatever quotes something with a typo and they put the little [sic] next to it. Like oooo sassy
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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A meme with an image of ice agents standing nearish but not accosting a person covered completely in book pages leaning against a brick wall. The caption reads, breaking news. Clever migrant wears the Epstein files to hide from Trump administration.
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol
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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
We can't stop our reliance on fossil fuels or properly tax industry so we better make asthmatics feel guilty for taking MEDICINE.
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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
NZ’s gas supply is collapsing — and the govt’s big fix? More drilling. But experts (including Shane Jones’ advisors) say it likely won’t work, and there’s no backup plan if it fails. My story here www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
rnz.co.nz
Why drilling for fossil fuels is not expected to fix our energy crisis
The government is touting oil and gas exploration as the answer. But there are grave doubts it will work.
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
“Is our children is learning?” [sic]🤔
Screenshot of an online poll at Stuff.co.nz, asking “Is scrapping NCEA is a good move?” 

Love that extraneous copula; perfectly fine in e.g. Gaelic or French, but presumably a fail for literacy standards in English…

(Checking and rechecking my alt text for any inadvertent typos…)
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spooky kororā @davejac.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A block of butter is $10
"NZ First seeks to legislate 'New Zealand' as country's official name"
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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
With Resources Minister Shane Jones away, that leaves Energy Minister Simon Watts (also Climate Change Minister) the minister in charge of passing the law that will restart offshore oil and gas exploration. Does this make him the only Climate Minister in the world to spearhead new fossil fuels?
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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Kiwis: Food costs! Coalition of Chaos: Te reo road signs K: Our health system! CC: Shoplifters K: Power prices! CC: Employees earning over $200k K: Climate crisis! CC: Passport design K: Unemployment! CC: Voting reform K: Homelessness! CC: Scaffolding K: Te Tiriti! CC: Trans people in sports
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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
#nzpol Nurses and health care workers are out campaigning today for safe staffing, decent contracts, and a properly funded public health system. They support you when you and your family need help the most. Support them today.
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