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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Being able to take a train into the Powerstation to see a band is such a game-changer

Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have hated the music of Pink for literal decades, and I am so pleased I now have some political justification for not liking her

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I have now had to have multiple conversations with my mother-in-law that the “tears of joy” emoji is not the appropriate emoji to use when replying to a message telling her that someone she knows has died. MULTIPLE conversations.

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That thing when your kids have friends over and their parents just DON’T pick them up until well-after arranged pickup time.

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Trying again with House of the Dragon, and I still do not give a shit about any of these characters. It’s like if Harry Potter only had Slytherins and they just wander around trying to out-Slytherin each other

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 22/06/2026

All this talk about Labour ruling in/out Greens tax policy seems to misunderstand what elections are for. It’s like this All Whites team agreeing to draw with Egypt as long as Egypt draws with Iran later on. Everyone should just go hard out with your policies and then see how the chips fall.

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It is an old line, but it remains true: every dollar invested in early childhood support saves around 13 dollars in criminal justice costs later on. A society that keeps expanding its prisons is admitting its social policies are not working. #nzpol

rnz.co.nz

It costs a million dollars a day to keep low‑risk defendants on remand. More prisons aren’t the answer

Analysis - The government has framed its $503 million budget spending on prisons as necessary to maintain public safety. Is that really the case?

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Isn’t this the entire Uncle Rico subplot of Napoleon Dynamite?

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Holy moly. Luxon on tv tonight denying his office ever saw the draft climate law given to his office by Fonterra & Z Energy; the companies confirm they handed them over. Language of our draft legislation almost identical. Banger of a story www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361... #nzpol

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Just 2 to 3% of NZers are paid in the same bracket as MPs, the rest of them probably don't get to claim $1000 a week accommodation allowance and I suppose one could say that is unfair? Or we could all shout SHAME! at the hypocrites. They have no concept what it's like to lose 15 or $30 a week #NZPol

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Parmjeet Parmar getting all upset about a haka when she literally wanted Te Pati Māori MPs imprisoned for the parliament haka last year …

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Fuck David Seymour generally, but also how great is it to be able to get proper cold medication again?

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I drove through Newmarket today and there were a LOT of confused people wandering around who looked extremely surprised to find the shops not open.

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Andrew Jull NZRN (he/him) @andrewjull.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Harmful marketing is an overlooked social determinant of health. Marketing plays an essential role in sustaining harmful consumption. Children are exposed to unhealthy marketing 76 times per day. Are we willing to confront marketing for its role in harmful industries? #nzpol

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Just watching the news and seemingly every single country in the world is doing *something* about the fuel crisis - public transport subsidies, reducing tax on fuel, four day working weeks, evening curfews, rationing … … and we are doing sweet FA.

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I hate that the Fed Deli isn’t “late night” any more. Just got out of the Bic Runga show and really wanted coffee and pie. I don’t understand why you can’t get late night coffee in Auckland anymore. It’s like we’ve devolved since the 90s.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Good piece by Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, 1News Māori Affairs Correspondent, on the chilling effects brought about by billionaires propping up racists, and their lawfare. | Opinion: What I learned from Julian Batchelor’s defamation case against TVNZ www.1news.co.nz/2026/03/27/o... #nzpol

1news.co.nz

Opinion: What I learned from Julian Batchelor’s defamation case against TVNZ

Anti co-governance campaigner Julian Batchelor lost his defamation case against TVNZ. Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, the reporter at the centre of the case, explains why that matters.

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Brooke Van Velden was literally campaigning in the Tāmaki electorate last week. I feel like there MUST be more to this story.

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Snootiest ever service for a Rodney Wayne Shampoo N Things today. Went looking for a specific brand of gel for my kid, got a lecture about how the brand I was looking for was a “chemist brand” and not a “professional brand”. Like, lady, it’s just goop. It’s not some hand-carved artisanal antique.

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ɔıN @hazmat.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Well that's the first time in my life that I've ever seen diesel prices start with a 3 #nzpol

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Really hard to work out whether the dystopian future we're living through right how is going to end up being more like Terminator or more like Mad Max.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

If time travel isn’t a thing how come George Michael managed to appear in this photograph captured in Robert Frank’s book The Americans 1958, Fishkill NY (Newburgh) 1955.

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Of all the weird shit served up by the algorithms on FB today, the grossest was an ad for a few free chapters of a book by former corporate raider and now convicted pedophile Ron Brierley. HARD NOPE.

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Why is every motherfucker in my immediate neighbourhood using a weedeater or a leaf blower or a petrol mower AT THE SAME TIME right now?

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

My very brief Laneway review: * Wisp - really great 90s-throwback shoegaze, worth getting there early for * Alex G - I really like his music but didn’t feel like a “festival band” and was a bit underwhelmed * Lucy Dacus - absolute class act, would see her again in a second

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The Free Speech Union didn't exist when black ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union didn't exist when LGBTQ ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union didn't exist when disabled ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union existed when racist white ppl were asked to keep their racism to themselves.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I don't know about all of you, but I am finding it difficult to process Venezuela, Greenland, Minneapolis, and the Fed all at once.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The new Trump line is that if you "disrespect" a law enforcement officer, he is entitled to murder you... unless it's Jan 6, of course, in which case the protester is entitled to murder the law enforcement officer.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Returning to an old favourite. The pink line is the official GDP data (% change for year vs previous year). The wild swings are due to Govt *subsidies* (e.g. wage subsidies) being deducted from the official GDP stats. The blue line shows the unadjusted data; far better reflects reality.

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Yeah it’s day-fucking-seven. I want a follow up to this article in October.

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Supermarkets: “It’s January 8th, TIME TO START SELLING HOT CROSS BUNS”

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

It’s January 8th. Is Luxon back at work?

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Just a few weeks ago our “hard working” PM was bemoaning NZ’s long summer shutdown. Yet he’s been completely absent from fronting on either Venezuela or the Manage My Health data breach. Is he still uncontactable / on holiday?

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I know everyone is on holiday, but I’m surprised no NZ journo has done a story on Amanda Palmer’s attempt at playing a show in Auckland this week. Both Waiheke venues “mysteriously” canceled and now it’s a “secret” show somewhere in the CBD tomorrow.

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The first 90 minutes of taking down the Christmas decorations - taking down ALL the decorations. The second 90 minutes of taking down the Christmas decorations. Untangling this one set of lights.

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Gosh I’m glad I found out that the portal that holds my health data may have been breached via the news rather than direct communication from them ManageMyHealth investigating possible cyber breach www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

rnz.co.nz

ManageMyHealth investigating possible cyber breach

The personal health portal ManageMyHealth is investigating reports of a cyber breach.

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I chose not to go camping this summer because the weather looked awful. I have chosen to not go camping every other summer of my life because camping sucks.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

The entire Disney universe is just a gaslighting of Goofy. Your best friend buys someone who looks just like you and has them run around naked in the backyard? And you just continue on at the function like everything is okay?

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Celebrities posting and then deleting tributes to Brigitte Bardot is my favourite late-2025 thing.

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Witnessed my first “person standing in a carpark to hold it for a person driving around” and let’s not normalise this huh

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Other than “stand around awkwardly” what exactly are you supposed to do when there are tradespeople in the house?

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Apparently this is not a new thing, but some edgelord flag is flying a confederate flag in *St Helliers*. I mean, FFS …

Picture of some dickhead’s house with a confederate flag on a flagpole.

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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

[Guy whose dick fell off because there's a girl in star wars] I would probably do well in a civil war

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

chloe swarbrick and craig renney should do a debate and show everyone how much of a farce the tpu one is

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This whole Ruth Richardson versus Nicola Willis thing is just an attempt by the right to somehow make the (clearly incompetent) Willis look “reasonable” by comparison, right?

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A third of all men in Auckland appear to be wearing a Metallica tee shirt today

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

this is hardly the most salient point in the article but they only withdrew the charges against Ms Z *this week*? fucking hell

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Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

You know what would be a really popular law? A total ban on Christmas decorations in shops before December 1st. This is my pitch for being Prime Minister of New Zealand.

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