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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We learned in our tikanga course that traditionally women got their moko kauae when they started menstruation.

Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was at the NZEI Te Riu Roa Hui-a-Tau this week. Our president has moko kauae. So many other wāhine had moko kauae too. It's pretty normal now.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is so racist it doesn't make sense to people who aren't racist. Like, seeing a dude with a facial moko smiling at you should not make you freak out (also I DREAM of Chippy being in TPM's pocket, he'd have better policies) #nzpol

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Such good underlying messages in Susie's farewell comments. In its deseperation to appease the monied far right, Radio NZ really is slowly eating itself. Thank you to Suzie and all the other journalists and researchers who put truth before politics. 🫶 #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/...

rnz.co.nz

'A wild ride!': Broadcaster Susie Ferguson leaving RNZ

The veteran broadcaster who held a post at Morning Report before Saturday Morning leaves after 16 years.

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can guarantee eating them is worse. My stomach did gymnastics last time and I couldn't get to the toilet fast enough at the 3pm bell.

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've shared this on Save Our Schools NZ and in two other fb forums. Hope this gives you a boost.

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It was a touch and go afternoon.

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Half of the kids at my school would rather be hungry than eat them. Only 20-30 choosing a school lunch each day out of about 550 kids. When we got basic Subway sandwiches, 90%+ of sandwiches taken each day, 100% of hot lunches. Pita Pit days about 50%.

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I stopped eating them in Term 3 2025 after having a huge tummy ache for the afternoon block and a toilet explosion at 3.05pm. I took two mouth fulls of a lunch staff were asked to trial in Term 2 this year, and it was foul. Lasagne is not made with pasta spirals. It is a lie.

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thank you both for your service, I hate it. Seriously though, props for highlighting this culinary and cultural crime against young humanity… people need to know!

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I got 3/15. I'm at a school that gets these lunches. 20-30 kids out of 550 choose to get one of these shitty lunches each day. I'd say half our kids choose to eat nothing than eat that shite.

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Nick Baker @nickbaker.digital · 28/09/2026

I was contacted this morning by Stuff asking if I would have a chat to discuss the quiz. I declined as the images speak for themselves and all I am doing is collating those images. However, more than happy for the quiz to be spread far and wide so please share with your networks.

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Nick Baker @nickbaker.digital · 27/09/2026

This is your school holiday assignment. Complete the school lunch quiz by matching the image to the name - a quiz based on the school lunch images sent by @ninjakitty.bsky.social this past school term. There are 15 images in total. forms.gle/et7qDL4VGBJH...

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The Aotearoa New Zealand School Lunch Quiz

The images show 15 school lunches delivered to a school in August 2026. Your task is to pick the name that was assigned to each one.

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Nick Baker @nickbaker.digital · 28/09/2026

Also please share this page which contains all of the images and shows the quiz images were not cherry-picked to show the worse. (Don't consult this page until after you've taken the quiz of course!) www.nickbaker.digital/nz-school-lu...

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NZ School Lunches — Nick Baker Digital

This is a gallery of images of daily school lunches provided in New Zealand from July 23, 2026 along with the title of each lunch.

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@sandragreynzctu.bsky.social spoke to NZEI Te Riu Roa Hui-a-Tau this morning and asked the questions below. I tautoko these questions. If you're on Facebook, follow Save Our Schools NZ to be part of the discussion on ensuring free quality public education for all.

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 10/09/2026

Just to keep the record straight. Remember this when Willis tries to tell you about Labour's "recklessness" and how they saddled generations with debt. note: they didn't, but they did borrow to save lives and jobs and keep businesses alive in a pandemic, not to fund their tax cuts. #nzpol

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I already have regrets about today

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The man has been charged with "harming people in a family relationship". I guess we can't be too rash and call it MURDERING YOUR FAMILY from the outset. I know the police have processes to follow, but this sticks out like dog's bollocks.

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Exactly. I may have made my assumption because of that exact sentence in the article and from the hundreds of women and children who have died from domestic violence during a separation.

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#nzpol It's far too easy for the politically cruel classes to make financial, accommodation, and health attacks on our vulnerable people and systems. Vote for this to change. If you don't vote for change, it could be you or your loved one next on the list for service and support cuts.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just remembering how before the internet you had to find stuff to do, and a lot of the day was "is there anything even on TV" (and in NZ there often wasn't because we had 3 channels in the early 90s), and there you were, reading books and magazines and sighing and staring into the middle distance

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Imagine if we had wind in Aotearoa New Zealand. *stares at the camera*

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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Remembering how Jamie Whyte, the leader of ACT in 2014, wanted to legalise incest? As well as being hard right, ACT have always been dodgy as #nzpol

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I spoke to Serena Solomon from RNZ about smart glasses. Yes, they're being used for voyeuristic behaviour and making social media content out of unsuspecting women/girls. There's some law for possible redress, but the tech is outpacing privacy laws. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/life/lifesty...

rnz.co.nz

Worried someone may film you with smart glasses?

Smart glasses could make it easier for perpetrators of voyeurism to commit crimes.

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Woman and two children killed in Rotorua home. What's the bet that this is a domestic violence situation, where the man and woman are separated, but he can't handle that and now he's done the worst to them because he isn't man enough to accept rejection. www.rnz.co.nz/news/regiona...

rnz.co.nz

Woman and two children killed in Rotorua home

A woman and two children have been killed at a house in Rotorua.

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yep. His contempt for basic human decency was laid bare with the number of times he answered a question with “so what”?! There is not a single shred of integrity in his entire sack of flesh & bone.

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Anne Marie @anniemc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Most Definetly, shades of Luxon marketing waffle. Applied for the job now doing her best as she tries to sell herself and the party to voters in her business hat.

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Jim Marr @jimmarr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Goldsmith showed how intellectually vacant/dishonest he is when he denied compulsory voting in Australia was relevant to considering the effects of similar, or longer, enrolment periods in Australia

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Of course!! I'm a font of babble!! 😅

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

But he gets more power in National. By standing in Epsom and gifting it to Seymour, he achieves this. Do likely a "conspiracy" with ACT to make it so. 😉😉

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I cover that further down my long thread.

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Q from the Opportunities Party scrambling to explain how the Party Board can override caucus decisions... especially since one of their biggest donors is on the Board. #nzqanda

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

'Collapse' is deeply bad when clinicians say it. 494 patients in 24 hours at Middlemore, when 280 was the record last winter.

nzherald.co.nz

Auckland hospital hits 'terrifying' record as patients treated in corridors

Healthcare workers say the 'broken' system is 'on the brink of collapse'.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“A Living Wage would allow me to put a little more aside for the future instead of having to scrimp and save just to get by each week. Most importantly, it would mean it’s not only the students who value my work. It would show that the university recognises my contribution too.” #nzpol Sign&share🙏

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Liam Boardman @liamjboardman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Pretty goddamn telling how Chris Penk fucking over his own political career and having to leave politics as a result is being hyped up as this great tragedy, when NZ's first non-binary MP having to leave politics due to threats to their and their family's lives was just the price of doing business m

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“We keep talking about the health system being ‘under pressure’, ‘stretched’ or experiencing ‘high demand’. “Those words no longer adequately describe what is happening. We are on the brink of collapse.” Hey Opposition - Middlemore collapsing seems like something to loudly, you know, oppose? 🤔

nzherald.co.nz

Auckland hospital hits 'terrifying' record as patients treated in corridors

Healthcare workers say the 'broken' system is 'on the brink of collapse'.

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

He's a fascist, plain and simple. The only reason that man is in National is because he wanted power (same with Luxon to be honest) and was prepared to lie to get it. And now they're a hollowed-out party full of far-right destroyers because everyone thought the same

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Goldsmith likes Luxon because Luxon has no connection to Māori, unlike John Key. John Key realised wholesaling pissing off Māori and allies is bad politics and not a road to re-election. Christopher Mark Luxon is stupid enough not to see it.

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Joanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Richard Dawkins, who has previously led online attacks on Māori scholars, is one of the more prominent online trolls who mounted a vitriolic online crusade against Prof Jason Arday. He is now on X trolling a Muslim scholar at Cambridge. The howls of white rage continue unabated.

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You may get the impression I have no time for Goldsmith. You'd be right. As much as we blame ACT and Winston for all the anti-Māori crap this government has done, Paul Goldsmith has always had an anti-Māori agenda, one he couldn't enact under John Key, but Christopher Mark Luxon has. #nzqanda

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There seems to be a possibility that Goldsmith may run in Kaipara... the seat that Chris Penk has said he would no longer contend. Looking at National's numbers, this may be Goldsmith's only route back into Parliament. #nzqanda

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Jack asks Goldsmith if he'd sell TVNZ. No plans currently. But don't trust that weasel. Did Chris Penk work alone? Goldsmith claims Luxon is a great PM, because he's a reformer, got the India FTA, and is a strong leader. 🙄 "You have 11 portfolios but you had no idea what Chris Penk doing?" #nzqanda

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