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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Just found out you're here courtesy of Batshit Crazy Cookers... so that's a good excuse to be here rather than on FB
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
"Ancient Mariner Peters" lol!
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Long Covid Support Aotearoa @lcsupportaotearoa.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Heartfelt thanks to our young people with #longcovid who took part in this, sharing their stories #kiwi #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/o...
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Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid
A group of young Kiwis prove what international studies show: that long Covid has a particularly debilitating effect on young people. But how much medical support is there for them?
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Stop elected officials carrying out online bullying campaigns. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...
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PM Luxon: Uphold Codes of Conduct - Call David Seymour into line
Responsible leaders welcome advice from experts and when they are creating laws and policies. They know good decision making means planning for the long term, considering diverse points of view and ma...
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Best leader we ever had. Now we have a clown circus.
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‘Empathy is a kind of strength’: Jacinda Ardern on kind leadership, public rage and life in Trump’s America
Young, progressive and relatable, the former prime minister of New Zealand tried to do politics differently. But six years into power, she dramatically resigned. In an exclusive interview with the Gua...
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I'm a librarian and you're right, Mr Luxon. But not for the reasons you think. newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/14/i...
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I'm a librarian and you're right, Mr Luxon. But not for the reasons you think.
Opinion: The extraordinarily complex job of a librarian almost always requires a master’s degree. There isn’t a single male-dominated profession with comparable skills that requires the same, so why, ...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
In honor of World Migratory Bird Day, fuck off and fly away from all the bullshit dragging you down.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Cloven Hooved Horned Satan sitting in a library reading books to kids   since we can't do drag storytime anymore....i thought we'd try something else
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
From the booklet "NZ Womens Land Service 1940 - 1946", edited by Joan Butland.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
NZ's Long Covid blind spot nothing short of a crisis newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/29/n...
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NZ's Long Covid blind spot nothing short of a crisis
Analysis: Post-infection syndromes like Long Covid are nothing new – but pandemic-scale waves of a novel virus exposed just how ill-prepared we are to handle them.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Dire wolves remain very extinct open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...
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Dire wolves remain very extinct
Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
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#PenguinsAgainstTrump: Penguin resistance to Trump's tariffs has begun
Since Donald Trump has slapped a 10 per cent tariff on an Australian territory with no human inhabitants - only penguins and seals - a new viral resistance has been gaining traction online...
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Darth Vader marches down a corridor, Imperial officers and Big Bird in tow. Meme text says: When you're accidentally included in a war plan group chat
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
If there is a pandemic when Luxon is in charge we are screwed.
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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I'm on two diets now. There wasn't enough food in just one.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Dude from The Big Lebowski
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
He was lucky ICE didn't make him disappear. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
ICE is working up to be the new Gestapo, a capitalist version. Don't go to America to work, study or on holiday, or you'll be disappeared. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
www.1news.co.nz/2025/03/02/h...
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Helen Clark questions NZ's continued involvement in Five Eyes
It comes amid traditional allies and partners of the United States showing increased concern about how long-standing relationships are being handled by President Donald Trump.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Also, when I lived in Taiwan back in the 'oughts we were always aware of the fact that Chinese warheads were pointed at us. But the idea was that America would hold them at bay. That is not to be counted on now. No matter how many good Americans are around, they still let an idiot be president.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Taiwan's still coming to grips with the last mainland Chinese invasion back in the 1940s, which was propped up my America. Huge blackout on the history of the Chiang Kai Shek years, with recognition of the torture and murder committed by the regime only veeeery slowly coming through.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Right up until the bit where they invade Taiwan because America is weak and owned by Russians now. Also the way China is building up new bases through the Pacific? That's a bit beyond sabre rattling.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
China IS that stupid. It's putting warships in the Tasman sea for live fire operations and not alerting Australian and NZ governments, putting passenger aircraft in danger. Now NZ is calling for greater spending on defence when we've got hungry kids to feed. Thanks a fucking lot, China.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The national gallery censored parts of an artwork about silencing Indigenous and oppressed peoples | First Dog on the Moon
How did people who appear not to know what art is for get put in charge of art?
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
@jenene.bsky.social you're a bloody legend. Thanks for standing up for us. Your mahi is greatly appreciated <3 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Covid-19 five years on: What it was like being one of the country's first cases
Jenene Crossan contracted the virus in 2020 while heading home from a business trip before New Zealand's borders closed.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Tax hate groups masquerading as churches #NoHate chng.it/Xw6Cc6zb7MT
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Can you spare a minute to help Julia Mount?
Revoke Destiny Church's Charitable Status Due to Hate Crimes Incitement
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Not that Luxon will take the hint.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
"I’m not saying, ‘Don’t express frustration.’ I’m just saying, take a step back and think, ‘Am I doing this with grace?’"
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‘Cancel culture? We should stop it. End of story’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on backlash, writer’s block – and her new baby twins
It’s been 11 years since she published a novel. In that time, the author has lost both parents, seen Trump become president twice – and finally returned to fiction after a bruising reaction to her com...
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Sounds like a great deal. Who can resist hygge?
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The view from New Zealand. The brackets are bullshit, though.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Short and sweet by Sy Montgomery, "What the Chicken Knows" is an excellent exploration of my favourite little floofy dinosaurs. The eaudiobook version (read by Sy) is like having a friend in the room reading to you about a topic she loves. #SyMontgomery #BackyardHens
Book cover "What the Chicken Knows" by Sy Montgomery
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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 03/02/2025
financial advice
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I am white and live in New Zealand and even I have heard of him! Genius hero dude.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
My garden hopes so too! No vegetable garden this year... it's starting to look like a lawn. An unmowed lawn at that! Argh. Can't win 😅
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Weekly Anthropocene Interviews: Jason Pargin, Cosmic Satirist of Hope open.substack.com/pub/sammatey...
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The Weekly Anthropocene Interviews: Jason Pargin, Cosmic Satirist of Hope
Jason Pargin is an acclaimed novelist, satirist, and social commentator.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A good way to encourage a love of the ocean amongst the next generation. Plus it's great exercise!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/02/2025
Taiwan’s next generation takes on its fear of the deep
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Taiwan’s next generation takes on its fear of the deep
A cocktail of protectiveness, fear and superstition has led many Taiwanese to stay away from the ocean, but that is starting to change, one swimming class at a time A dozen excited 10-year-olds are bouncing in their chairs. The small classroom’s walls…
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is awesome. From a custom knife forging shop in Edom, Texas.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 30/01/2025
If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I did a tensy tiny bit of gardening yesterday and tried to pick up a small rock from a wall I'd built containing MUCH bigger rocks. My body was all "lol no, picking up a rock is soooo last decade."
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Just finished reading the excellent "Where Every Ghost Has a Name" by Kim Liao. Family history through Taiwanese history, and a chilling reminder of the pain a totalitarian government can inflict. I loved the reminders of places I lived in and visited, but got tears over what people went through.
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Where Every Ghost Has a Name: A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence
A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Don't try it in New Zealand. Whatever local council is in the area would be evicting you after a neighbour dobbed you in and council finds out you didn't pay the ridiculous amounts of money needed for cabin consents #TinyHouse
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Fariha Róisín chronicles what happened to (pro-Palestinian) writers Aisha Gawad and @iamlisako.bsky.social at the Albany Book Festival.
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Aisha Gawad and Lisa Ko on What Really Happened at the Albany Book Festival
When Aisha Gawad first Googled Elisa Albert, she immediately noticed the author’s public Instagram page. Gawad was researching who the moderator would be for her upcoming panel at the Albany Book F…
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Some great culinary ideas for your next dinner party, too!
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“The Democrats didn’t do enough on Gaza, so I withheld my vote to make a statement.” “Well, Trump won and now he’s gonna destroy Gaza.” “Yep. We’re paying the price for the Democrats’ incompetence.” “‘We?’ The Gazans are paying the price, not us” Pause. “I needed to make a statement.”
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Still recall a "futures" convention saying their payment to me for doing an event would be a half-hour lunch with Musk. I laughed so hard I was crying. When they asked what was so funny, I hung up.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Ugh. Everything.
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Pookasaurus @pookasaurus.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Reti recedes, Luxon lauds and Trump triumphs open.substack.com/pub/bradyblo...
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Reti recedes, Luxon lauds and Trump triumphs
NZ’s political landscape was shaken to the core earlier this week when CEO Christopher Luxon sacked Minister of Health Shane Reti.
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