Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 06/03/2024remember when winston peters was part of a national govt that allowed the rugby team from a country that had a literal apartheid regime to tour this country and broke the internationally recognised gleneagles agreement in a cynical move to retain the votes of redneck rural nz voters??? 35017
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 05/03/2024nearly 43 years after the 81 spring boks tour and they’re still saying don’t mix politics and sport. gtfo 1255
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 01/03/2024it’s our 20th wedding anniversary on sunday but one of us will be working so we decided to celebrate today. we were going to go to a flash restaurant for a 4 course degustation lunch but decided to go watch one love and have fried chicken instead. so much more appropriate for us lol 6320
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 25/02/2024the cops can’t even stop teenage boy racers from congregating, how tf they gonna stop gangsters? 1130
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 22/02/2024i don’t mean to brag but today i had my first day off in over a week and it was also one of the kids’ homeschool days. i helped them with their schoolwork, took them for a bike ride, played football and cricket with them, did a quiz, 5 loads of washing and cleaned the kitchen. i had a great day :) 1170
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 18/02/2024yep nz is fragile af. all this white fragility is how we ended up with this govt in the first place lol 2509
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 15/02/2024was just biking home from work on this beautifully warm and sunny day thinking man how lucky am i then a bee flew up the leg of my shorts and stung me on my ass hahaha owww 4160
Reposted by Luke TipokiDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/02/2024It’s not: if we don’t decarbonize fast enough, we’ll need more CO₂ removal (CDR). It’s: If we don’t decarbonize fast enough, we’re screwed. CDR is useless unless we decarbonize drastically. CDR is for residual emissions, not luxury removal. 110227
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 10/02/2024people telling you to boycott starbucks and mcdonald’s then going on holiday to bali lol 1120
Reposted by Luke TipokiE-Tangata @etangata.bsky.social · 10/02/2024“The time has come for us to have a referendum on whether the people of Epsom should be allowed to have an electorate MP.” — Carwyn Jones.e-tangata.co.nzI have an idea for a referendum, too | E-Tangata“The time has come for us to have a referendum on whether the people of Epsom should be allowed to have an electorate MP.” — Carwyn Jones. 410137
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 07/02/2024If it hasn’t been done already, can one of you media people please do an expose of who exactly are the main donors to Act? I think it’s of great public interest to know who’s behind this current clusterfuck 1278
Reposted by Luke TipokiTahetoka | Ómar @amscraig.bsky.social · 05/02/2024Preeeeach. Elizabeth Rata and Don Brash for a starter. You better be working. 051
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 02/02/2024if i ever had to give david seymour a hongi i’d definitely be going in extra hard lmfao 3110
Reposted by Luke TipokiGreg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 22/01/2024These are the good old days. 081
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 21/01/2024*kids making a racket* me: could you be any noisier??? *kids spending next 20 minutes proving that yes they can in fact be noisier* 1130
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 21/01/2024if you’re struggling with the heat at the moment just remember that february is forecast to be the hottest month this summer, and thanks to greed driven climate change this summer is going to look comparatively mild in a decades time 57823
Reposted by Luke TipokiDan "Rebel Scum" Werneck @prof-werneck.bsky.social · 11/07/2023RT only if you are NOT becoming more conservative as you grow older. 14726862757
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 17/01/2024oh shit the first episode of new season of true detective is out 140
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 14/01/2024hari rā whānau @beekaynz.bsky.social! 47 means we’re back in our prime :) 1100
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 12/01/2024laying on the outside couch in my back yard drinking kava & listening to music & chilling tf out 1130
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 10/01/2024nz farmers 1 nz fresh water, biodiversity, carbon emissions -20 you selfish bunch of hillbilly cunts www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...stuff.co.nzCoalition policy announcements a good startAg leaders from various sectors say they are happy with the new Government and the coalition agreement policy announcements in agriculture. 2457
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 09/01/2024kids challenged me to a running race today thinking they’d beat me and i whipped their asses. daddy 1 kids 0 1180
Reposted by Luke TipokiVincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 09/01/2024The real story is that the loss of all but a tiny fraction of the entire collection of 1.4 million images (less than 1% in total) is a disaster for NZ's cultural heritage. We are losing an invaluable photographic history of the country. Journalists should be asking how this was allowed to happen. 57224
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 08/01/2024it is 7.24pm on jan 8 2024 and i have just been officially surpassed by my 9yo in terms of technical ability. life comes at you quick lol 2170
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 07/01/2024less pissing and moaning, more building of guillotines. chop chop 050
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 03/01/2024just biked out to Ngāwihi, wife and kids meeting me here soon with a picnic brunch. Pretty decent way to spend the morning of what is my first day off mahi since xmas :) 8280
Reposted by Luke TipokiBaxtermack🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 30/12/2023Confirmed to me by a Mexican student in our lab. As she put it "It is to do with masturbation" 051
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 30/12/2023having a hard time deciding who are the bigger cunts: people who drive ford rangers, people who drive mitsubishi pajeros, or people who drive toyota prados. but for argument’s sake i’m gonna call it a three way tie 8341
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 29/12/2023my mum went for lunch today and the woman who served her said ‘wow it’s so good to see you i heard you had died i’m so happy you’re still alive’ and mum said ‘not as happy as i am’ lolol 0190
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 27/12/2023to the windooooow, to the wall, til the sweat drop down my balls, allll these bitches crawl LOL 1100
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 26/12/2023it ain’t summer in aotearoa until you’ve had a feed of pāua fritters 2190
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 25/12/2023four months of healthy eating came to an abrupt end today. ate so much sugar this morning i crashed out and started snoring on the couch at 11.30am. then woke up and stuffed myself so bad this afternoon imma be out before the kids. merry xmas, good people x 3380
Reposted by Luke TipokiI've Got The Pāua! @ivegotthepaua.bsky.social · 24/12/2023Meri Kirihimete go knock out your racist uncle mauri ora! 1458
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 24/12/2023not sure if it’s a parenting win or failure but nearly 10yo still believes in father xmas 6330
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 21/12/2023old fragile racist nev didn’t like us using Kirihimete in a work facebook post. old fragile racist nev didn’t bet on me trolling him lol 4321
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 18/12/2023simeon brown is only 32. he should live to see some seriously scary climate related shit. i wonder if people will remember his role in failing to take effective climate action. i hope they do newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/17/g...newsroom.co.nzGovernment quietly defunds transport climate workTransport Minister Simeon Brown wouldn't say whether the Government will completely scrap the targets for reducing private car usage. 5559
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 18/12/2023or, alternatively, it’s because we’ve designed a system where everyone strives to be a bezos or musk cos there’s no money in being a mozart, and ya need that cash to buy jordan’s yo 040
Reposted by Luke TipokiNick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 17/12/2023Will they look at the evidence? Will they listen to experts? Fifty freshwater experts have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, urging him to avoid a "terrible mistake" by reversing current freshwater policies.1news.co.nzFreshwater experts urge Luxon to avoid 'terrible mistake'An open letter calls on the PM to "listen to the wider community – not just the minority of voices" on freshwater policies. 33520
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 15/12/2023little bro has talked me into going to juicy fest with him, not that it took much talking. pretty excited but also getting tired just thinking about it lol 030
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 12/12/2023In general Māori on the Māori roll consider themselves more Māori than New Zealander; for those on the gen roll the opposite is often true. The same applies for politicians on the left (Māori) and right (NZer). If you apply this then it’s clear who best represents Māori i.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...i.stuff.co.nzWho in Parliament has the mandate to represent Māori?Both the political Left and Right spent significant time debating who actually has the mandate to speak for Māori. But what do the numbers say? 020
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 12/12/2023watched leave the world behind last night and never in my life have i related to a movie character more than when julia roberts says ‘and i remembered, what the world is actually like, and i came to a more accurate realisation: i fucken hate people’ lol 2120
Reposted by Luke TipokiProfessor Anne-Marie Brady FRSNZ @anne-mariebrady.bsky.social · 12/12/2023Disturbing to observe Acting PM Winston Peters refuse to answer a question addressed to him in te reo Māori in NZ Parliament today. NZ has two official languages: te reo Māori and NZ sign language. The Waitangi Tribunal ruled te reo is a taonga (treasure) that NZ governments are obliged to protect. 39122
Reposted by Luke TipokiSacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 11/12/2023Top Pacific health leader resigns govt body roles to be a voice of conscience #nzrnz.co.nzSir Collin Tukuitonga resigns from NZ government roles, citing 'no confidence'One of New Zealand's most prominent Pacific health leaders says he has "no confidence" in the government after stepping down from almost every advisory role. 67822
Luke Tipoki @ruralmaori.bsky.social · 09/12/2023why is the default ‘drink’ always alcohol? haven’t you pissheads ever heard of a cup of tea??? 4244