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Jennifer Duval-Smith

@jduvalsmith.bsky.social
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Art / nature / connection / sniping at the patriarchy / 🇳🇿 #kikorangi

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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 23h
What use is screening for cancer if we cant do anything about it #nzpol
National pledges to increase Pharmac's budget and extend free cancer screening‘Overwhelmed’ cancer specialists warn of five-week delays, ‘backlog pile’
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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 23h
Risky behaviour... #NZpol 2022
Two NZ pedestrians crossing tracks in front of a speeding train are nearly struck by a train labelled 'Climate Crisis'.
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Someone in Government has to wake up each morning with nature as their only job. Economic development against conservation is fast becoming a false choice, because the storms, floods and fires now arriving send the bill for every natural buffer we remove.” #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/there-is-...
nzherald.co.nz
There is an $11b benefit that belies the Govt's flawed conservation reforms
OPINION: Pitting economic development against conservation is becoming a false choice.
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hate it.
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
well that's cute
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why does this make me well up.
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Jay 🏞️🔜 Howloween @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🐦‍⬛❕HUMAN EXPERIENCE Stickers have been restocked on my ko-fi!! :> ko-fi.com/s/3ecf690ed7 #formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart
A picture of a 3-inch anti-generative AI rainbow holographic sticker with a formline design on it. The design has a black border with sparkles lining it. Text within the border reads “you cannot automate the human experience.” The formline design depicts a decapitated robot head with vacant eyes. Next to it are two ravens, with one raven perched on the head with a piece of the robot’s antenna in its beak.
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Woohoo!
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🄴🄻🄱🄾🅆 @aotearoaelbow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
National wish to maintain the status quo. #nzpol
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
❌ The whole world is doing it tough ❌ No, we are pretty much going it alone with our crush the economy and set ourselves back a decade or two strategy. Orr started it, Robertson helped it along, and then Willis doubled-down on stupid - letting let the TPU, Act and NZI loons call the shots. [Ends]
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angloczech.bsky.social @angloczech.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Statistics from the UK showed that people in manual labour retiring at 65 die are likely within 9 months. For each year they retire early they live an extra year. Work till you drop, so Luxon can take his MP's pension for the next 35 years. #NZPol
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's thrilling to see the solar energy coming into our house for the first time, even though overcast! #switchedon
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Prime Miniature?
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
one of the best
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I trained 300 wolves to eat humans and put them hungry in my poorly-fenced back garden, and they escaped and ate your grandma! Please wake up to the existential risks of wolves before we put them in charge of driving buses!
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fonterra makes $3.4b profit after sale of Kiwi brands to France. Farmers share in $20b in cash returns while outgoing CEO Miles Hurrell, Nicola Willis's old boss, nets $8.2m Fonterra sent NZ law requests to Luxon's Chief Policy Advisor in secret & National implemented it #nzpol #BHN
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
National and ACT continue to outpace the left 3 to 1 on big money, taking in a whopping $20 million of official donations in the last years #nzpol This excludes the secondary big money coming from affiliates such as Taxpayers Union and Hobsons Pledge
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026
an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/
webworm.co
This Could Change The Way Victims Get Justice
David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Catherine Law's (OIA concealer) PhD supervisor is Elizabeth Rata. Elizabeth Rata is Erica Stanfor'd's key education advisor Rata and Stanford have a stated common goal: To stop the success of decolonisation in Aotearoa New Zealand. The OIA concealment from one of Rata's people is no surprise
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Whistleblower video of Catherine Laws instructing Ministry staff to conceal from OIA
YouTube video by Mountain Tui
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Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NDAs in sexual harassment cases only protect harassers — ban the bloody things 🤷‍♀️
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The missed opportunities to provide safe spaces for kids out west every time there is a major roading upgrade really ticks me off. #nzpol We get the intensified housing (a good thing) but no new parks, green spaces, cycleways, or PT, linger spaces or accommodations to meet the population increase.
Poster on a pole reads: 

THINGS KIDS HAVE SACRIFICED FOR DRIVERS:
-PLAYING ON THEIR STREET
-SAFE SCHOOL STREETS
-WALKING TO SCHOOL
BIKING TO SCHOOL
-WALKING TO THE PARK
-RANDOM PLAY
-CROSSING THE STREET
- PLAYING AT NIGHT
-INDEPENDENCE
-QUALITY STREET LIFE
-AIR QUALITY
-A PLANET
-THEIR LIVES

THINGS DRIVERS HAVE SACRIFICED FOR 
KIDS:
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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is an excellent summary of the modus operandi of the ACT party over the last couple of decades. It is also a very depressing read. Please - vote Labour, Greens or TPM and keep them out of government #nzpol
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The Age of the Arsehole: ACT returns to its roots
Paul Henry is not a gaffe waiting to happen. He is a service ACT is buying — and the donors paying for it have never had it easier.
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My key takeaway from the past 24 hours is that there may be other new cats to identify
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Goodness me!
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Come paint with me in a heritage garden! I've got a lovely day-long botanical art workshop coming up at Highwic House in Newmarket. 10.30-3.30 Saturday 26 Sept. If sunny we'll work under the fruit trees among the borders, if wet we'll be in the stag bedecked Billiards Room. Link attached.
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Welcome to Heritage New Zealand
Welcome to Heritage New Zealand
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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"While her opponents might attempt to paint Swarbrick as an economic ingenue, she spoke fluidly about skills development and training, renewable energy, equity, PPPs, effective tax rates and the wealth divide, and infrastructure investment" #nzpol
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Chlöe Swarbrick: Why wouldn’t I want to be finance minister?
The Greens co-leader tells a business audience she wants some “control of the envelope” of her party’s policy priorities in a future government.
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My bees are swarming #notaeuphemism but feels significant.
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Campaign Cut-through: Political polls have a science problem #nzpol
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Campaign Cut-through: Political polls have a science problem
From Otago University - Comment: Political polls shape election narratives, but opaque panels, hidden funders, and low scientific standards mean their results are rarely reliable, argues Dr Ben Gray.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Picture of the character saw gerrera the rebel leader from star wars overlaid with a post that reads 

People who become right wing 
because they get annoyed by leftists are weak willed, most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day.
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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I don't think we collectively are reeling enough from the number of police officers and police staff being charged with offences that are essentially image based sexual abuse (of women/girls) by abusing their power or equipment #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...
rnz.co.nz
Auckland police officer pleads guilty to making, possessing intimate visual recordings of three women
A police officer secretly filmed a woman having sex with him before stowing the illicit clip away in a hidden app on his phone.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New Zealand First has precisely 14 immigration policies. That they're all UK-far right Reform policies with a splash of Trumpian deportation makes me think that number is not a mistake. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Exclusive: More deportation powers, visa cap referendum among NZ First policies
The party also wants to hold the immigration portfolio if it is re-elected.
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Any tips for the not crying while speaking at a funeral situation?
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I cannot take this piggy little orchid seriously. #confessions of a botanical artist.
Vanda hybrid orchid looks like a little pig with the expression on the column
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Act is presumably claiming that the video it has released of last night's meeting bears out its version of what happened. It absolutely doesn't. Henry engages with @chewienz.bsky.social and even says "good question". He's already moving on when security swoops. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/med...
nzherald.co.nz
Watch: 'That's not true' - Act releases new video of Paul Henry v podcast host confrontation
The podcast host was removed from venue by security and later arrested by police.
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I think this is only on FB?Carpool Coalition does Bird of the Year. absolute genius www.facebook.com/share/v/19U3... #nzpol
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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Going to unpack this all in a bit #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Labour promises to set up AI regulator, copyright rules if elected
Labour is promising to set up an AI office, an online safety regulator, copyright rules that ensure creators are paid for their work, and impose rules on data centres.
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Where we're at now. 'Let them eat...nothing': "An analysis of the documents showed the ministry increasingly used the reason over time, declining applications on the basis food was non-essential on more than 8000 occasions." www.1news.co.nz/2026/09/07/m...
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MSD told thousands food was 'not an essential need'
The Ministry of Social Development declined Special Needs Grant applications on that basis on more than 8000 occasions.
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Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔 @br3nda.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wished that this site existed, so I spent the last week building it. Track which way an MP votes on various issues across their whole time in Parliament: hotair.nz
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Hot Air
Hot Air links every New Zealand MP to what they've actually said and how they've actually voted in Parliament — built from the official Hansard record, so you can look past the press release and see the voting history for yourself.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A big ask, no pressure & I know people have better things to do but if about 15-20 people buy this from Blackwell's in the next few hours it's likely I'd have the number 1 & 2 books in their chart & that might be enough to finally persuade an American publisher to get my books out over there...
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
From bad to worse! The Luxon Government has retained the clause in its Conservation Amendment Bill, which undermines the very purpose of conservation law. This Trumpian bill undermines the fundamental principle that conservation land exists to be protected, not exploited. #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Conservation bill clause puts economic growth ahead of conservation, critics say
The government has kept a controversial clause in the latest draft of its Conservation Amendment Bill, which critics say undermines the purpose of conservation law.
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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's just embarrassing. My son just came back from a mini OE tour all over UK/Europe and all his old friends mentioned our sad little slump to the right
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Workers First Union @workersfirstunion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
1/3 They shift NZ profit off-shore, they shift NZ jobs off-shore. We can't rely on this Govt coalition to act to keep jobs/wages/money in our economy, so please let Woolworths know how you feel: workplace.relations@woolworths.co.nz #nzpol
a headline reading "unbelievable."
text reading "130 NZ jobs on the line.
To save Woolworths $4.1 million... when they made $163 million in profit* from us last year.
Tell Woolworths that NZ workers deserve better: workplace.relations@woolworths.co.nz"
small print reading "*www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/1134393/wrong-for-woolworths-to-bank-big-profit-consumer-nz-says"
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 31/08/2026
This should be a criminal matter.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/12/2025
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
'Finding a part time job for a kid is like winning the lottery' - parents worry about Jobseeker benefit changes
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'Finding a part time job for a kid is like winning the lottery' - parents worry about Jobseeker benefit changes
Parents say the Jobseeker benefit can be a lifesaver for their families if their teenagers can not find work after high school.
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