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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 05/11/2024

Hey guys the Trump stock just started cratering

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

The absolute gall of the Waitangi Tribunal interfering with an important plan to deceive the public by secretly introducing a controversial bill weeks earlier than previously announced. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Gavin / G. B. Ralph @gbralph.com · 04/11/2024

Calling all bookish Kiwis 🚨📚🇳🇿 Public Libraries New Zealand are running a library user survey "to help public libraries better understand what you value most about the services and activities they offer." The survey took me 2–3 mins. You can complete it here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/PDZGKKV

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Library Wellbeing Outcomes/Community Impact Survey

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

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Ol’ ɔıN @hazmat.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

“ I'd just say to that member, if he cares a lot about conflicts, I wouldn't call a sister-in-law a 'distant relative'." From his own mouth. Fucking dickhead doesn’t even listen to himself speak #nzpol

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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's sister-in-law works for tobacco company

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has admitted his sister-in-law works for a tobacco company but says he has not discussed tobacco policy with her.

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Who's old enough to remember when all of the right-wingers were outraged that Tova dared to ask her if the boot camps would be permitted to use physical force against their rangatahi, including Karen Chhour who called these & related questions "revolting" www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

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Minister defends proposing bootcamp providers have use-of-force powers against kids, but can’t say who they could be

She wouldn’t say what safeguards may be included against these powers.

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Tom V @tomwv.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

The rest of us use a ball

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Tom V @tomwv.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

If you want to know why ppl like John Key back ppl like Trump you need look no further than this

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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

NZ Parliament just put this up on YouTube. Wouldn't it save the NZ Taxpayer if they just contracted "The Compass Group" to provide MPs the same meals they provide to the kids? #nzpol

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Recruitment - Catering

YouTube video by NZ Parliament

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

I'm calling it - this is the most extraordinary thing I've seen on the internet

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.

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Tom V @tomwv.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

It's becoming a truism with this government that the more noise they make about fixing a claimed problem, the more their policies achieve the opposite effect

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

ARE WE NOT PERMITTED ANY JOY?!!

Headline: new bubble wrap will no longer pop when you squeeze it

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

imagine you wake up every day in room-sized bed. you are gently lifted from the covers and dressed in warmest sweaters each morning. your favourite foods are brought to you. you have no bills, no job, no responsibilities. but you are a chihuahua, so you are blind with rage.

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Tom V @tomwv.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Holeee shit that is the first time India has ever been beaten 3-0 at home #BlackCaps

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Weird how there is lots of coverage of Spain’s flooding on NZ news but nary a peep about this. Can’t qwhite put my finger on it.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

The neighborhood I live in was completely wiped out. All my childhood memories and university memories are gone. Here in Gaza, we are suffering psychologically and physically, and everything in us is being harmed.

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New Zealand @aotearoa.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

On this day in 1898, New Zealand became the first country to adopt a standard time. At noon, all the clocks in NZ that were connected by telegraph to Wellington struck 12 at the same moment.

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Tom V @tomwv.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Rage Rage Against the dying of the light

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Tom V @tomwv.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

A workmate and friend, aged in his 60s had a heart attack while driving home the other day. He died this afternoon. RIP Ross. Worked his whole fucking life, then just dropped dead All that shit you're planning to do when you retire. Don't miss living now to achieve it.

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

The bill, introduced by a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu's party, passed its preliminary reading on Weds and will be further deliberated in Knesset committees. These people are desperate to rule over millions, without representation. Or drive them away. What do they want us to call that?

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

I am in awe of Palestinians' caapcity to turn even the most unbearable horrors into poetry.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

DAAAD! Moms doin weird shit again!

A four-panel black and white comic shows a boy and a figure covered by a sheet resembling a ghost.

1. Panel 1: The boy, smiling, touches the sheet-covered figure and asks, “Going as a ghost this Halloween, Mom?”
2. Panel 2: The figure replies, “No, I’m going as you,” still under the sheet.
3. Panel 3: The boy stands outside a door, looking embarrassed and shouting, “Don’t come in, Mom!” Meanwhile, the sheet-covered figure inside makes “fwop fwop” sounds.
4. Panel 4: The boy, blushing and sweating, defends, “It’s not what it looks like! I’m uh… making my bed!” The figure continues making “fwop fwop” sounds under the sheet.

Text at the bottom credits Erik Blomberg and Mr. Lovenstein (MRLOVENSTEIN.COM).

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

This paragraph was a hell of a ride

Book text:
My husband plays the trumpet, which is a sort of loud pretzel originally invented to blow down the walls of fucking Jericho and, later, to let Civil War soldiers know it was time to kill each other in a river while you chilled eating pigeon in your officer's tent twenty miles away, yet some-how, in modern times, it has become socially acceptable to toot the bad cone inside your house before 10:00 a.m. because it's "your job" and your wife should "get up." What a world! If one was feeling uncharitable, one might describe the trumpet as a machine where you put in compressed air and divorce comes out, but despite this-despite operating a piece of biblical demolition equipment inside the home every bright, cold morning of his wife's one and only life—the trumpet is not the most annoying thing about my husband.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

so many ppl have left twitter they should call it ex

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

i knew a girl who put her phone down once, she died. right there on the spot, dead.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

we are just one mates-with-Tories contract away from a public health service provider telling us to inject bleach

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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

So in less than a year, this Govt's: - made it easier to smoke & vape - let in the big online gambling companies - given gazillions to a charlatan who promotes alcohol as being beneficial for mental health Surreal times.

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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK IS HAPPENING

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

When, as a member of the community I stood protective vigil outside the local mosque in the wake of the Christchurch attack there were both police and gang members peaceably there. There was nobody wearing swastikas, and if there had been I don't think they would have been welcome.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

It’s one thing to demean someone for their national origin or ethnic background but to judge someone on the content of their character? I dunno man that shit is fucked up and you need to apologize

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Tom V @tomwv.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

There is an enormous difference between government spending that returns to local communities, and funneling public cash to corporates. The value difference between government funds going to locals vs international corporates must surely be quantifiable and factored into spending decisions.

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Andrew Frame @napierinframe.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

And who was behind racially agitating the Three Waters debate and toxic astroturf campaigns railing against Māori co-governorship that scuttled Three Waters and drove the costs from manageable central government coffers to all these already struggling local government bodies?!

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Tom V @tomwv.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

A minister of the current government being misleading and disingenuous?!?!?! Say it ain't so 😱

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Anne @101 @murphyrules101.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

A South Island Robin seen on Ulva Island. #NZ #photography #birds #StewartIsland #Ulva

A small grey bird with a white front and a keen eye looks with some curiosity at the photographer. Perched on a slim branchmagainst a blurred background.

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Tom V @tomwv.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Stuffs polls are regularly so egregiously leading it's an embarrassment. Their questions almost guaranteed to be leading ones. Todays question is a classic example. No one is objecting to simplifying a process as far as possible, but many of us have an enormous problem with how they want to do it

Image of a poll question asking whether a simplified consent process is a good idea with no mention of what is proposed

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

I think this is true and important— you can’t fix everything wrong in the world, and the best way to make a real difference is to concentrate your efforts in one arena. That doesn’t make it easy to do. If you’re a caring person, you really do care about all of it.

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Jason Murphy @jasemurphy.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Wonderful data story by the ABC on grocery prices and hwo they move. I've never heard of data journalist Madi Chwasta before but they are a star! This is a vital story, beautifully told. 1/6

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Tom V @tomwv.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Imagine telling the prisoners rescued from Nazi concentration camps at the end of WWII that their grandchildren would become the camp guards 80 years later.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Former Sky News lead Adam Boulton: “Are we witnessing part of a slow motion coup in the US? Tech Billionaires buy up media and then gag them if they are not pro-Trump, while some use their resources to campaign for him. He in turn will give them more power and money if elected.”

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 24/10/2024

& I appreciate it's the sub editors who often come up with the headings, but aren't they the very thing that's meant to make me hover over the 'take my money' button - when in fact they're doing the opposite.

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

This is absolute gold #nzpol

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Tom V @tomwv.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Did they consider making donations to Shane Jones?

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Tane Woodley @tanewoodley.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

A right wing government overturning the left wing elected council of a left leaning city is not democratic in any way, shape or form. It's raw power overturning the expressed will of the people, in response to a manufactured crisis. Another norm weakened, another part of our democracy undermined 😕

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