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Shelley Simpson

@shelleysimpson.bsky.social
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Aotearoa visual artist, working with rocks and minerals to think about the world. Among other things! shelleysimpson.co.nz

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO 🫐 @tom.medsky.social · 27/01/2026
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
To all who wryte storyes & poemes, to everyone who doth wryte scriptes & screenplayes, to those who make art of all kyndes, and to those who designe and performe yn daunse, and theatre -- thanke yow. Whethir you make for a few friendes or an audience of millions, thanke yow. You helpe us all.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Absolutely shameful.
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
#nzpol
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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A pussy and a pair of tits
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
How disgusting. What a waste of space.
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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Winston Peters should be ashamed of himself for putting Benjamin and their whanau at risk.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Shut the fucupcake WP! Go away.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Is it just me, or does RNZ seem much more Christian forward? It’s like LifeFM lite, imho.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Who else is watching the live stream of the moose migration in Sweden?
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
No, even though I have family I would very much like to visit.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This is beyond appalling.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Bukele was livestreaming the event on his official X account and wearing a lapel microphone - “We want to do homegrown criminals next…. The homegrowns.” Trump told Bukele. “You gotta build about five more places.” Bukele appeared to answer, “Yeah, we’ve got space.” “All right,” Trump replied.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Thisbis an awesome game!!!https://metazooa.com/play/game?code=
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Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
PREGNANT PEOPLE PREGNANT PEOPLE PREGNANT PEOPLE PREGNANT PEOPLE Your LGBTQI+ phobia is showing, luxon et al. Causing so much harm.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I’ve been revelling in this too!
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Looking for an image sharing option?! Bluesky Flashes is here! I’m on it - one post in so far!! Looks good though!!
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
substack.com/@lucy456751/...
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Luccia on Substack
😳😳😳😵‍💫🤯 (No words)
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
WOOOOP - Defeated!!!!! Good bye divisive treaty bill.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
So 90% of the written submissions to the treaty bill are against - 8% for and 2% did not state either way. Restores my faith in human kind. Wonderful news today.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This could be the instagram replacement? Seems pretty good to me! pixelfed.social/shelleylsimp...
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
‘Virtually every Cybertruck — those freaky Tesla vehicles made to look like aggression incarnate – has been recalled, because, literally, they come unglued…What a metaphor for this regime: a weak vehicle trying to look tough…’ www.meditationsinanemergency.com/coming-unglu...
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Coming Unglued: Week Eight of the Stupid Coup (and the Stalwart Resistance)
Spring is here and so is authoritarianism, and I recommend your serious attention to both. We may be at this resistance business for a while, so take care of yourself so you can keep taking care of hu...
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Phil Twyford @philtwyford.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The students of Waitākere College have started this petition for the reinstatement of the original school lunches programme. (You know, the locally-made, fresh, nutritious and tasty one that was delivered on time.) Please sign the petition and share this post. petitions.parliament.nz/f4fff921-4e5...
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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Did you see this floating around the interwebs today? Gave me a much needed laugh, especially the facials they chose
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Digging their own grave…. Former Destiny Church youth leader Kiwa Hamiora-Te Hira jailed for six years for sexually abusing boys
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Such a great show!!! Thank you Half Sister!!
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Im tired of kind, gentle, understanding. We’re making great strides in protest. Add this to your list of must-do’s now
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I am so sorry to hear this. Was it the same people who have been violently disrupting other pride events recently?
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It is all possible… www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘All the birds returned’: How a Chinese project led the way in water and soil conservation
The Loess plateau was considered the most eroded place on Earth until China took action and reversed decades of damage from grazing and farming
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Beautiful! Wish I’d seen it but couldn’t from town…
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I wonder what is like to be a 5 or 6 year old kid who is at school, hungry and waiting for lunch, and then getting sent a f@cking frozen scroll? Valued? Cared for? David Seymour should hang his head in shame. What an asshole.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I have been pleased to have been working with the Te Toi Uku team on their new website which launched yesterday! www.tetoiuku.org.nz
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Welcome - Te Toi Uku, Crown Lynn Museum
Te Toi Uku is a thriving community-focused Museum based in New Lynn, Auckland. Our name translates to ‘art of clay’ in te reo Māori, and our purpose is to celebrate and preserve the diverse histories ...
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
That is how it reads…
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Signed.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I am so pleased to see this today. This horrible act of violence has effects that last for a long time for the people who were assaulted and for the people who witnessed what I have heard described as a frenzied attack. And for the wider rainbow community and allies. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Four arrested over Auckland Pride Festival protest
Police say there are further arrests to be made.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The clear eyed truths of Mary Oliver
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Solnit serves hope. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/people-get-r...
meditationsinanemergency.com
People Get Ready
Even though large tracts of America and many old and famous red States have fallen or may fall into the grip of DOGE-MAGA and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall...
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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If Females Could Get Pregnant, There’d Be An Abortion Clinic On Every Coral
Despite the tide of aquatic opinion flowing in favor of reproductive rights for all, marine society still gives male seahorses very little say over what happens to their own bodies. Instead, we are tr...
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Very much appreciate your words of wisdom here in New Zealand as we try and make sense of what’s happening. Thank you!
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
@joost-l.bsky.social
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Yes, I know things are quite shit at the moment, with little immediate prospect of deshittification. But here's Marlon Williams and Lorde's new duet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLej...
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Marlon Williams - Kāhore He Manu E feat. Lorde (from 'Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua - Two Worlds')
YouTube video by Marlon Williams Music
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
So beautiful.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Insane that it is even being considered: community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/do...
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Don't fast track Te Waikoropupū!
Siren Gold Mining has been invited to fast track an application to mine in the Golden Bay - if it goes ahead the crystal-clear waters of Te Waikoropupū could be lost forever. Join me in signing to sav...
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This is the kind of project this government is keen on - an aussie mining company drilling in one of the most magical pristine places in the country. What the actual f$ck www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Siren Gold mining company drilling at Sams Creek, Golden Bay
The drilling - found first by Festivalgoers - is permitted in the area.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
There are good Christians. And then there are the right wing nasty ones.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Yes Phil Twyford… Labour MP calls for Destiny Church to lose charity status www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Labour MP calls for Destiny Church to lose charity status
Te Atatū MP Phil Twyford has written to the charities regulator asking for Brian Tamaki's church to be struck off.
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This a good read…
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting bet...
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The petition now sits at nearly 28000 signatures! A few days to go- please share on your socials!
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Shelley Simpson @shelleysimpson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I hope some one is collecting all these images of foul school lunches.
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