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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am once again asking you to vote for the tītī wainui for Bird of the Year

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am once again asking you to vote for the tītī wainui for Bird of the Year

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Tha e caran fadalach ach lorg mi neach-labhairt eile ann an Wellington son @sngaidhlig.bsky.social!

Two people taking a selfie to mark an evening of speaking in Gàidhlig, making plans for further blethers as part of World Gaelic Week

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Major @majorarschloch.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Guys being Dudes

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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Go-Man Vs. the Star Dragon OUT NOW! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

(God I am so fucking happy I am not straight, like loving women would be great, they're amazing, they're the best part but dealing with everything else sounds like a nightmare, thank you thank you thank you gay god for choosing me!!!!)

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

What did you do to make Kererū Skinner judge you like this?

A canvas bag with a kererū on it. The Kererū looks like it's staring down at the viewer judgmentally, like the Principal Skinner "pathetic" meme from The Simpsons

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Totally forgot this platform existed until like two minutes ago, sup gonna put an album out later this year

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Don't ask me why but all quails are nonbinary

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Interpellation? Hell no, me and the homies ignore all hails

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greg @greg.nz · 29/10/2025

can't beat wellington on a good day? well, not with that attitude you can't. don't give up, I believe in you

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This is why I distrust the “screen free parents” groups. Not because I don’t think social media and phones can be issues. I do. But because they are weirdly well funded and refuse to discuss social issues, digital rights and how schools catalyse harm. Brianna was killed by another child not a phone

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 27/10/2025

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

$Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.$

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

this must be the shittiest shitsville we've had in a while in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara. how long have these storm winds been going for now?

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Duolingo Ad: “where’d you go?” 🥺 You laid off some of the few remaining native speakers of my ancestors’ critically endangered language in favor of genAI you uaine gòrach comhachag

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Peace Action Wellington @peacewellington.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Your right to protest is under threat. Join us for the launch of PROTECT PROTEST a coalition established to defend protest as a tool of democracy and liberation. Wednesday 15 October at 4:30pm at Government Building Lecture Theatre 1 (GBLT1), Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka VUW.

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I wonder what David Seymour is quietly getting up to atm now that the media spotlight has shifted to Winston for the last few days

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Still over here waiting for the genAI bubble to burst

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Allison @handle.invalid · 01/10/2025

Those flotilla people are so brave

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Geordie Rogers @geordierogers.co.nz · 15/09/2025

It's not a coincidence that our bus patronage numbers are hitting all time highs. This term we've delivered more bus lanes than the seven previous councils combined

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

hello this is maybe a silly thing maybe not but if anyone who hasn't voted for Bird of the Year yet could include a vote for the tītī wainui? My parents and I had a traumabonding experience two years back spending a whole day trying and failing to save one. It was literally a flightless fairy!!😭

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pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The media sells us the lie that the Greens are dangerous radicals (the only party that provides fully costed evidence-driven shadow budgets) and Act are normal (repeated jokes in speeches about killing people, boasts about dangerous driving).

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.

bugs bunny in the bit where she does gossamer's nails in a super gay way

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

“As the illogic of capitalism and colonialism fails everyone but the elite, we must learn from Indigenous ways of seeing, being, knowing, and doing.” www.greenpeace.org/internationa... #indigenouspeoplesmonth

greenpeace.org

Indigenous Peoples Month: A Time to Recognise & Align with the True Stewards of the Environment - Greenpeace International

Messages of solidarity, defiance, and hope from the world’s great tropical forests

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

"What came first / the chicken or the dickhead" living in my head rent-free today thank you Arctic Monkeys

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/08/2025

"You can't strike, you're too important" from a judge or government should instantly make you side with the people striking. They're *that* important but they get treated like shit? Nah. Naaaah. Let the government force better conditions.

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

yes please I've gotten sick three times this winter, a new record 🙃

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André "Normal" Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The framing of this story is terrible, because it tries to make the story about teens, when the actual story is that only the elderly answer cold calls while *everyone else* assumes (often correctly) that they're scam calls. "Old people use cellphones irresponsibly" doesn't appeal to RNZ's audience.

Teenagers no longer answer the phone: Is it a lack of manners or a new trend?

Despite teenagers seemingly having their phones glued to their hands - they won't answer them when they ring.

New Zealand / Life And Society 22 minutes ago

Controlling the conversation

“I never answer calls unless it's my mum, or an emergency, like a surprise test at school, or a friend who freaks out about something,” says 15-year-old Léa with a laugh. Behind this seemingly trivial comment lies a deeper change than meets the eye. Phones, long considered the quintessential voice tools designed for live conversation, are now used less and less to actually make calls.

Scam Scum: We're All Victims

2 Aug 2019

Last year, New Zealanders lost $33 million to scams. Madison Reidy looks at how that's impacting our economy and what we're doing to stop it. (AUDIO)

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

If MPs are being policed in the House this way for standing up for Palestinians, we are not far behind. Do your protesting while you can.

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I did this thread on twitter back in the day, but now we're so back. WELCOME TO WELLINGTON

A presumably broken umbrella sticks out of a rubbish bin in Pōneke Wellington. Tawhirimātea is as vengeful as ever!

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Glenn McConnell @glennmccnz.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

As nurses protested this week, I spoke to Naomi Waipouri about why she was striking. She said patients are being let down due to understaffing - and she saw that last week, when her cousin died. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

stuff.co.nz

'It's personal': Tearful nurse at protest just lost a relative

Naomi Waipouri tells Stuff a cousin had a heart attack and it took 5 hours for healthcare services to respond. "So I'm standing here not only as a nurse, but as a support person for my whānau."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

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Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Uninstalling all scrolling apps from my phone while not deleting *all* those accounts has actually produced a really happy medium where I can check them periodically but only from devices which are not in my pocket 90% of my waking hours. Do recommend.

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Coley @coleytangerina.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This number of submissions (likely exceeding 150,000) should inspire pride and awe at the power of grassroots opposition to our country’s right wing surge. This is especially thanks to the expert organisation and dedication of iwi Māori. www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/07/07/t...

teaonews.co.nz

‘Throw it in the Bin’ Legal experts and iwi leaders reject Regulatory Standards Bill

Critics warn the bill could have far-reaching consequences for how governments govern amid many other issues.

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

ICYMI, Lawyer Tania Waikato had to lock down her social media due to threats made against her b/c she spoke out against the Regulatory Standards Bill and enlisted security when making her sub. This is the result of targeted online attacks by a certain Minister #nzpol waateanews.com/2025/07/10/a...

waateanews.com

Lawyer Requires Personal Security to Oppose Controversial Bill

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Sgrìobh mi rud (a' toirt a-steach òran!) air obair còmhla ri mo shinnsir 's ar coireach ann an colonachadh ann an Aotearoa. I wrote a thing (including a song!) about working with one of my ancestors to grapple with our complicity in the colonisation of Aotearoa.

thetipunaproject.co.nz

CÓMHRADH RI NIALL: A CONVERSATION WITH NEIL — The Tipuna Project

JULY 2025 BY DANI PICKERING

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Tha tinneas air a bhith orm an t-seachdain-sa 's tha e air milleadh na planaichean agam air fad airson Matariki 🤒 Ghabh mi falbh-obrach airson bliadhna ùr Māori fiù 's, 's airson dè? Cha b' urrainn dhomh fois a ghabhail, dha-rìreadh 😑

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Amanda Thomas @amandathomas.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Wellington region: Together for Māori Wards - Local Election Organising Hui. Saturday 5 July 10am-1pm Tiriti Action Group invite you to join us for a local body election organising hui in support of Māori wards and meaningful partnerships with Mana Whenua. Please RSVP👇🏼

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

There it is, ACT are running local candidates to get party command and control to oppose climate change measures through local democratic mandate.

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Rinn mo charaidean 's mise facal ùr creole sa Ghàidhlig agus te reo Māori: hoacharaid. Air sgàth 's nach urrainn dhuinn a-riamh roigheadh a chuir air dè facal a chleachdadh. Carson nach cleachd an dà chuid?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The gym has made its weights out of styrofoam and gym goers are lifting them with a forklift. Everything is so much easier... as long as the point of a gym is to make weights go up and down with zero effort on all sides. ... that's the point of a gym, right?

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

One of the most admirable things about the 2019 HK uprising is they figured this out pretty much *from the start* and avoided 100 years of left-liberal infighting.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

They're going to try memory holing this later so you won't remember resistance. They did it with Ferguson over a decade ago, so thoroughly that a lot of Americans don't recall it. They did it with the BLM protests 5 years ago, less success but we'll see by 2030. They'll try again. Don't let them.

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E-Tangata @etangata.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

“The compulsory Te Tiriti education at the University of Auckland is not a burden. It’s a necessary starting point for migrants, especially for caste-privileged Indian migrants like Dr Parmar, to begin undoing the toxic ideologies we bring with us.” — Mohan Dutta.

e-tangata.co.nz

Why ACT's Dr Parmar is wrong about Te Tiriti rights | E-Tangata

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dawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 04/06/2025

apparently, "die mad" has an origin story and it is GLORIOUS

a Tumblr post with the first documented use of "die mad about it" and her original paragraph that ended with it.

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Dunno how some of you continually churn out online content these days, what follows took me four years of postgraduate study and 87,705 words to whittle down to something remotely shareable. Co-dhiù: here's my entire PhD thesis condensed to ten slides! (inspired by @chercywong.bsky.social)

My thesis in ten slides!

Settlers against colonialism? Education and organising in the Tiriti workers' movement

Dani Pickering (they/them, Pākehā-Gàidheal)

Research #inspo

For my thesis I studied non-Māori Tiriti work, which I define broadly as any efforts by non-Māori to bring effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

I was inspired in part by own activist experiences in which Pākehā settlers (myself included) wring our hands over how we can do our bit for Tiriti justice. Often, these conversations arrive at a consensus that we simply "need to listen to Māori". While true, taken by itself this sentiment can also absolve us of the responsibility to make our own intellectual contributions at the T iriti table, where there is much work to be done.

I was (and am) concerned by the epistemic exploitation of Māori this dynamic implies.

Movement-relevant theory

I was really determined with this research to make sure it was actually *useful* to Tiriti workers them/ourselves. Much "activist" scholarship I'd engaged with before had certainly had a critical veneer, but little by way of usability to somebody actually doing that movement's work on the ground.

To avoid a similar outcome, my research was co-designed alongside Māori and non-Māori Tiriti workers alike, who helped ensure that my work could balance the academic requirements of the PhD with the strategic needs of the movement.

What I/we did

- Interviewed 25 Tiriti workers across a range of ages, genders, sexualities, ethnicities and locations across Aotearoa. Many--not all--of these considered themselves "Tiriti educators"
- Conducted a thematic analysis on transcripts of these interviews
- Invited participant input between iterations of this analysis to help steer it in a movement-relevant direction
- Wrote an 87,705-word thesis about it

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

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