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Gday, kia ora from Aotearoa NZ. Toitū Te Tiriti. Ngāpuhi/Pākehā. He/him. Rangimariē/Peace✌🏼🍉🥝 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This thread ⬇️ encapsulates my thoughts about work perfectly.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Omg not the disco balls 😭 #KaceyMusgraves #Rhinestoned #MiddleofNowhere #Chicago
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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(Da da da ba du da da ba du da da da ba du da da da da da da) (Da da da ba du da da ba du da da da ba du da da da da da da) (Da da da ba du da da ba du da da da ba du da da da da da da) (Da da da ba du da da ba du da da da ba du da da da da da da) 🎶🎵
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A meme featuring a grainy photo of an older man wearing a white t-shirt peering cautiously out from behind a white front door or storm door.

Above the photo, black text reads:

Me checking outside to make sure I still hate the general public
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Teanau Tuiono @teanau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WT?
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 22/09/2026
We are all Alice this evening!
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Regular reminder that the 'shrink the state' ghouls (that get it) have a simple goal - to ensure that the few benefit most from the resources that belong to the many. The TPU run 'psy-ops'; plain and simple. They use lies and manipulation to turn the people against public and shared ownership.
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Three: “I think one of the grubbiest dirty politics attacks in recent history was the hit job that pushed Maiki Sherman out of her position as political editor at TVNZ a few months ago. The inside story is told for the first time in Chapter 5.”
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The surprise isn't that foreign fossil fuel & tobacco funded astroturf group Taxpayers Union is the subject of Nicky Hager's new book It's that NZ media including The Post, Stuff, RNZ, TVNZ etc keep profiling & interviewing these people and groups #NickyHager #Dirtywork
Newsroom: Chiding in Plain sight
An article on Taxpayers Union and Jordan Williams from 2024
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#nzpol An excellent 🧵 by Felix 🫶💪. Thanks Felix. It summarises Nicky Hager's book launch speech happening now at Unity Books in Wellington. Love your mahi, Nicky. 👏👏👏👏👏
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This stinks to high heaven...Forbes and Ferguson, both very publicly disliked by Seymour and Peters, being sacked despite listener numbers going up? www.nzherald.co.nz/business/med...
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Where's Susie? RNZ host off air amid 'miserable' atmosphere following show cuts
Susie Ferguson on 'a period of leave' as RNZ recruits for a new Saturday Morning host.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Skip intro
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Things that are acceptable to Luxon: Gutting pay equity Telling 8000 people food is not essential Illegally stopping benefits/winter energy payments to 30,000 people People dying in toilets in hospitals People freezing to death on the streets 250% rise in homelessness Highest unemployment in decades
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Lilith Grace Toitū Te Tiriti @lilithgrace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Can I just remind everyone that our current Finance Minster threw away about a billion dollars on the no ferries, and kept her job.
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Brannavan Gnanalingam @brannavan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Nicky Hager’s new book, Unity Books, 22 September 2026, 6pm. No interviews or copies available until the launch
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Aha holy shit its the post saying this even after all the crapping on the greens plans the media have done #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
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Poll: Swarbrick edges Willis in economic trust as confidence collapses
Twenty‑four per cent of voters now trust Chlöe Swarbrick to manage the economy, narrowly ahead of Nicola Willis, as confidence in the Government’s economic plan continues to deteriorate.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dog’s reaction when he realizes his sister was adopted into the same home. Original post
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dame Jacinda Ardern tops New Zealand Aotearoa's most popular politician stakes, years after leaving politics. Next is Chris Hipkins. The other government leaders sit at negative double digit popularity. Luxon is the worst at -30, Seymour at -25 & Winston -16 #nzpol #kiwi
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What underlies it is racism. It's that NZ was a European colony for a long time and Winston Peters is appealing to the boomers and their kids by saying "No Indians. No Chinese. No refugees" as if it's them and not fifty years of Winston in parliament that's fucked the country over.
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Duncan Crombie @the-art-of-web.com · 14/09/2026
"Goodnight moon" #synthart
abstract oil painting in a palette knife style, visible brush strokes, painting on black gesso, an ascending meadow of silver-gold grasses, ancient temple ruins partially visible through shadowed trees, dramatic lavender mountains in background shrouded in sacred mist, bright moonlight, diagonal composition, tenebrism, bright contrasting colours, strong visual flow --ar 5:7 --stylize 400 --v 8.2
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Found elsewhere, worth a share here. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Short film about hope www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/CG...
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#Poetry #Painting #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There were many ways in which the US and its allies could have responded to the horror of 9/11. But by building extreme security states, launching pointless forever wars and restricting domestic dissent, successive governments inflicted more harm on their nations than the terrorists could have done.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Pounamu 🦜 @pounamu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The herald has paywalled it and buried it alongside a “media insider” section. ODT has better coverage www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...
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Podcaster ‘frog-marched’ from Paul Henry’s Dunedin meeting
Podcaster ‘frog-marched’ from Paul Henry’s Dunedin meeting
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
why was someone leaving the event arrested in this instance, while antivax extremists were given the opportunity to crowd out Ayesha Verrall earlier in the week?
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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Jasper must be dreaming about the run we’re about to go on. He’s such a good boy.
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Brad Company @waeherebro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For those in the back: The total amount the New Zealand government has spent on all historical Waitangi Tribunal settlements over the last 30+ years is less than the cost of a single year of the 2024 tax cuts for Landlords.
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is just to say I have given away the money that was in the budget and which you definitely allocated for food for beneficiaries Forgive me the landlords donated so much and for themselves
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Jobseekers surge again, surpassing even Covid. There are now ~50,000 more unemployed since Coalition took over even as 120,000 Kiwis left NZ last year alone, (44,000 net) This is all the result of a "Trickle Down / Free Market ideology" approach that hasn't worked anywhere #nzpol #kiwi
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
MSD talks percentages to minimise the harm. 88,000 people refused food grants because of an admin error. Every person/family they denied went hungry. #nzpol MSD only beat up 4% of the people they meet, 96% of people are unscathed, so they’re not all bad and KPIs were met.
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MSD blames administration error for denying applications for food help
The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) is again in the spotlight for an administration error, this time over a reason for declining Special Needs Grant applications for help with food.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 07/09/2026
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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Anyone debating taxes with Nat/Act/NZF supporters should bear in mind that GST was introduced in 1986 by a rightwing,Rogernomics Labour(Act) govt. It was raised in July 1989 to 12.5% by a rightwing Rogernomics Labour(Act) govt. It was then raised to 15% by the Key/English National govt. So...(1)
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Cam Banks 🇳🇿 ❌👑 @rustysellsword.com · 05/09/2026
The Equal Earth map with Oceania in the centre.
Map of the world in the Equal Earth projection
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Absolute Beginners @absolutbeginners.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Tax Wealth not Wages @progallthethings.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Don't tell chippy a Labour leader said this, he'd faint before getting up and agreeing with National on debt limits, surpluses, rates caps, not having Māori healthcare, social media bans, not taxing the rich or investing in the future. #nzpol
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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Truly, nothing like evolution.
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 01/09/2026
Welcome to Bluesky.
Thanks for being patient. A team member is coming to cancel you.
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AAP FactCheck @aapfactcheck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A foreign-run disinformation operation is concocting fake stories about New Zealand's opposition leader Chris Hipkins three months out from the country's elections. bit.ly/4zNq2vA
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spooky kororā @davejac.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Who wants a heavy handed metaphor
A national party billboard on a chain link fence in front of an empty lot where fly tipping has occurred
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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
HANG ON THE TAXPAYERS UNION & THE MEDIA ARE ALWAYS TELLING US *KIWIS* WANT TO PAY LESS TAX. www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
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Two-thirds of New Zealanders willing to pay more tax for better healthcare
A survey of 1600 people has found two-thirds of New Zealanders are willing to pay more tax for better healthcare - particularly when it comes to cancer.
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Ben McNulty @ponekeben.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
WATCH THIS VIDEO BEFORE YOU CROSS MOLESWORTH STREET 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
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Eliza 7777777🌟 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just logged in to share this meme a friend texted me. Maybe y’all already saw it. But seriously!!!
A comic of a Black woman with a disgusted facial expression snatching the grim reaper's scythe out of his skeleton hands and saying, "GIVE ME THAT!"
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
the taxes line is fully locked in by National - wild (not wild) that media are moving in concert with them willis now claiming Labour want 9 new taxes following Luxon ruling out bed tax he proposed 2 weeks ago (but acc & fuel levies might still go up hehe) next to no focus on collapse of services
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 21/08/2026
…I don’t think you know what work was like in 2001
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Remember 3 Waters? But Racism First it Seems HOLY SHIT MY WATER RATES BILL So about your racism BUT RACISM FIRST they said
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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
You never hear them moan 'where's the money coming from' for anti-submarine torpedoes... Attack drones.. #nzpol
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