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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's really simple now. Are you okay with genocide and annihilation, or not? There's no threat except from the USA in this particular situation. This is all the Trump Admin, right now. This is simple. Threatening to annihilate an entire country is evil. You can't argue otherwise.

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

There is absolutely no excuse for this in our country. I'm beyond soaked and disgusted.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This is the guy Kristi Noem said was injured and had to be taken to the hospital?

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

And the article only briefly mentions the most outrageous part- there’s no plans to hire the appropriate specialists in Wellington for the next 4-6 years

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

This might be my major achievement of 2025. The biggest fail is accidentally adopting a second cat.

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

About six months ago, my partner got the best gift of his life - our friend's old hearing aids. It cost under $100 to get them reset and refitted at the local hearing clinic. If you have upgraded, you can do no better thing than donate your old aids to a friend or a clinic.

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

On my regular road commute between Dunedin and North Canterbury, I used to stop over in Palmerston for a coffee, and if I was lucky enough to get there in time, a lamington. One day, ownership had changed, and my enquiry was met with: "The lamington is dead". One regular customer lost for ever.

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This is a shocking situation, fixing it would save many lives in the south.

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Tonight I'll be reading my tattered and scribbled copy of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" to my children and grandchildren for the 46th time. From one small child my audience has expanded to 12+. The riotous chat after-party is the best part - altogether best idea I ever had.

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Weird experience of the day video calling with my cousin in England. We were like brother and sister very early in our lives and have only ever met once, briefly, since, but we can talk for hours on end. Without the internet none of this would be possible.

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Ideology over facts is what the right accuse the left of, but every damn decision of this fucked up coalition has been about “feels” of these policies and and their sky-fairy beliefs- nothing to do with fact, science or expertise. No way to run a country.

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Blown away that my stepson stepped away quietly from alcohol three years ago and never mentioned it to us until yesterday. I'm so proud of him.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there. Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.

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Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns

Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This is a white supremacy, ideological, ACT party indoctrination camp, not a rich & creative all world view balanced curriculum. If you want your sons to end up like Andrew Tate & daughters to become 1940’s housewives then sure, this is the school for you! 🤬 #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

stuff.co.nz

A new school built on ‘western civilisation’ is coming to Wellington

The former Free Speech union boss says he’s excited to have a school that could “remember the virtue of civilisation that has come from the West”.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 30/10/2025

yesterday on RNZ I talked with Kathryn Ryan about cuts to NZ science funding and the risk of losing talent www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... here's some correspondence about the opposite problem: kiwi scientists who want to return home to work, but can't, given the bleak funding environment #nzpol

Hi Sam!

I'm XXXXX a postdoctoral researcher in XXXXX.
I'm from NZ, was born and raised in Auckland, and did my PhD at the XXXXXXXXXXX.
I've never lived anywhere else other than NZ, I used to want to build my scientific career there.
And now, I don't ever see that happening.

It feels like I have to choose between science and living in NZ. Maybe I was naive? I don't know, I thought maybe we learned lessons from the pandemic about how research was important and had benefits to humans? Let alone the fucking economy??

Anyway, pardon my french.

Thank you for saying what you said. I'm proof of it, and there are so many others in my shoes.
You better believe we will all be voting from wherever we are in the world.

Ngā mihi nui,

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XXXXXXXXXXX - Postdoctoral Researcher

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cameron @famousceleb.co · 29/10/2025

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My new trickle down theory: The govt shits on the poorest, then the middle class, eventually the shit hits businesses and the economy collapses.

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Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Israel, with Western assistance has carried out mass murder and starvation for years (and continues to strike Gaza), so the West now just acts as if it’s all 'nothing to see here, let’s just move on and forget what happened' while implementing further pain on Palestinians.

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The final stage of violent fascism: "disappearing" political prisoners

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

If it wasn't enough for John Key to make his millions in banking, or by being PM to his personal advantage, or by taking plum directorships post his PM stint, he's now filtering off millions of our education funds into an elite academy that most of us won't get any benefit from. #NzPol #cronyism

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

It's incredible to me that we had people calling for public executions of politicians during Covid, but we now have people dying in hospital corridors and carparks because of a government-engineered health system collapse and apparently none of those same people are bothered by it. #aonzpolitics

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I'm just going to put it out there: The new recipe sultana pasties are an insult to consumers, as the chocolate macaroons have been for some time. The pasty is far the worst "new formula" Aotearoa biscuit, with its crumbly half baked sugary filling bearing no resemblance to the former flaky interior

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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The talking points *AGAINST* capital gains tax has begun and was in play on Morning Report today. One listener wrote in: "Taxing capital gains is penalising those who provide a home for others".(Paraphrasing) Really? So supermarkets that "provide" food to customers are "penalised" when they...(1)

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 17/09/2025

Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

100,000+ (& rising) human beings are homeless in AotearoaNZ. AGAIN the national party ghouls are selling 177 social housing homes. This is yet another wealth grab devoid of empathy, care, responsibility or even basic critical thinking. What society are they building? #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Snuffing out every lingering ray of hope for the disability community

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I didn't normally post personal stuff (except pictures of my cat) but I just found out my sister has died this evening. Please don't post anything on social media until you know close family have been informed. Several of us found out the same way and it sucks.

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Thought of the day is that in order to make policy decisions you should be required to live in a rental that remains freezing despite the heat pump, be restricted to meals bought on a work & income budget/pittance and have several people every day tell you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.🤔

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Appalling racismfrom Rata as usual

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te pua o te rēinga @cucumber.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

i’m begging a reporter to ask nicola young about ray chung and then follow up with a question about this:

excerpt from a spinoff article recounting young’s experience interview by sean plunket

https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/21-05-2025/from-tikanga-to-protocol-luxons-war-on-the-maorification-of-aotearoa

"I have not," she said. "I have spoken to people about it, but I haven't seen it."
"The series of events as I described them, would that be what you have heard?"
"Pretty much. Yes. There are a few versions, but pretty much."
Within 10 seconds, Young had both "confirmed" a rumour and acknowledged a slew of defamatory remarks against her colleague. "There are a few versions" is a hallmark of a rumour and yet Young
has used that line to suggest that it is, in fact, true.
Towards the end of the interview, once again claiming a media coverup, Plunket asked: "Do you think the public need to know what went on?" Young responded, " think people have got the rough idea, they don't need to know any more. It's all a bit tawdry."
But people did not have a "rough idea" of "what went on" at all. They had heard a detailed and unverified rumour by Plunket, and heard Young largely endorse it.

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Deborah Russell MP @beefaerie.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

These are the pay equity claims that the government wiped out in just two days to make its budget balance. It's appalling that tax breaks for tobacco companies are being funded by cutting women's pay rises and backpay. (Also listed in alt text)

Education
- ECE teachers
- Early Intervention teachers
- Primary and Area teachers in state or state integrated schools
- Secondary teachers in state or state integrated schools
- Support workers, youth workers in residential schools, Education Service
- Education Advisors (Learning Support) MoE
- Psychologist MoE employed
- Service Managers MoE employed
- Early Learning Teachers
- Tertiary Education Library Assistant
- Tertiary Education Administration and Clerical
Public Service
- Public Service Administration/Clerical Claim 1
- Public Service Administration/Clerical Claim 2
- Corrections Psychologist
- Corrections Probation Officer and Senior Practitioner
Health
- Social Service Workers (5 NGOs)
- CSWs 1 (1.7.22)
- CSWs 2 (20.11.23)
- Front line Managers and Coordinators
- Plunket Administration/Clerical
- Plunket Nurses and Clinical
- Community Midwives in Primary birthing units
- Hospice Nurses and Health Care Assistants
- Primary Care Administration
- Primary Care Nurses
- Access Community Nurses
- Labtests Awanui
- Nurses in Residential Care
- NZ Artificial Limb Service
- Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa
Local government
- Librarian and Librarian Assistant in Councils

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

We've seen bullying in local government recently. But it starts at the top. I launched this petition because our Deputy Prime Minister belittled people for exercising their democratic rights. His behavior sets the tone and empowers others. This must stop. #nzpol

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PM Luxon: Uphold Codes of Conduct - Call David Seymour into line

Responsible leaders welcome advice from experts when they are creating laws and policies. They know good decision making means planning for the long term, considering diverse points of view and making...

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The media is running a scurrilous Dirty Politics campaign against Ray Chung and Independent Together by accurately reporting the things they've done and said

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I'd rather have this than cruelty and austerity

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Why aren’t we talking about the VALUE of healthcare, instead of the COST. Why aren’t we talking about the VALUE of education, instead of the COST. Why aren’t we talking about the VALUE of housing human beings, instead of the COST. The VALUE in humanity has always outweighed the COST. #nzpol

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I'm so angry that my family hasn't been properly protected. My youngest grandchild has covid right now for the third time.

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Oral submission times for the Regulatory Standards Bill have been slashed. This Government doesn't want to hear from you.

Oral submission times slashed
Regulatory Standards Bill

Graph:
Oral submission hours for fast-track Bill: 100 hours
Oral submission hours for Treaty Principles Bill: 80
Oral submission hours for Regulatory Standards Bill: 30

Your voice is being silenced

Authorised by Duncan Webb MP, Parliament Buildings Wellington

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

It's always all propaganda. Governments do not like to waste money on bureaucracy.

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Kate Mahoney @katypi.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Just a reminder: fascism is the intersection between State and business, where business interests will always override the interests of the people.

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