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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Relative to income a block of butter costing $8.60 on minimum wage is equal to the Frontera CEO paying $1055 a block. The prime minister would pay $91 and our two right-wing knowalls, Peters/Seymour pay $60. The fact that these four men can't do math normalization is staggering. #nzpol #bhn

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

National is now fiddling with a suite of its own historic knee-jerk legislation and presenting it as ground-breaking work: RMA, NZCEA, open-plan schools. #nzpol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Tess in her ride ready to head to the river.

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

America - now's the time to talk about retiring the Colors of the US Marine Corps. #uspol #USmarine #USMILITARY #ICE

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Symbol of Soviet mentality may have to be decommissioned. 🤣

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

America - when your dictator is a drama queen. #USpol #mockTrump

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Added a fire brick from the historic Bunner coal mine to the collection of interesting stuff. I unearthed the brick while breaking concrete in the backyard.

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Reasonable chance Epstein's client list is backed up on a laptop. #musk #uspol #epstein #trump

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Wow... the US Olympic equestrian team flanked by the synchronized swim team at MacArthur Park. Both teams seemingly choosing burka over pink thongs is a bold choice. #USpol #ICEmeme #mockICE

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Karoline Leavitt still stabbing Jesus with her lies about the Betrayal Bill. The world is watching. #uspol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Frying up fritters tonight: Corn, silverbeet and parsley with parmersan egg and 50/50 corn flour and regular flour. Simple, nourishing, economic and OMG rather tasty.

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

About soggy fruitcake rumors - some people say Trump's a soggy frutcake... I don't know... but people do say that... a man phoned me... strong man... tough man... with tears in his eyes... said... Trump's a fruitcake.... soggy one... I said I don't know.

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Plans not promises - isn't it time that we stopped voting for talk and promises by politicians. If they can't put forward plans with funding breakdowns that can be understood then we are simply voting in a beauty pageant where dress, style and eloquence are the only criteria. #nzpol #uspol #ukpol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Feels a bit like America grabbed Bunker/Buster munitions when they really needed Mountain/Buster-Bunker/Busters.

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The right-wing lies to cover their flimsy grip on a precarious position.

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The US Supreme Court is where it is today because of two moments in history: 1/ Mitch McConnell lied 2/ RBG wouldn't retire

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

So... Iran keeps all the uranium and nobody can shot at it without breaking the ceasefire they wrote. Brilliant 👏 👏 👏

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I let Tess choose the walk tonight. First she went on a smell tour of trees and posts checking her social media for likes (she's coming on heat). The she took me to the lake (I'm like noooooo). but she didn't jump in just selected a log and took me to the field to chuck for her. Joy #retriever #pets

A golden retriever chews on a large stick while laying on grass.

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Peppers now cracking open 35-year-old jars of listeria #USpol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

If you paster tells you there is a witch in the congregation - understand he has raped someone. #uspol #evangelical #jesus

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I heard that Jesus was on the streets in Auckland today burning flags and stomping on the least amongst us. #NZpol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Attention Winston Peters, Seymour, Luxon: plagiarised American right-wing racism makes you either a racist government or really stupid.

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Lichen flowers (I think) noticed in a sub-alpine rocky outcrop in NZ while taking a break from politics. Reminded me how arse the right-wing is though. #gardening #flowers

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Some old brewing gear for renovation... looking forward to this. #homebrew #beer #distillation

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Bare in mind that Fox News is like a tennis ball... cheap, good rebound, floats well, covered in slobber. #uspol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

So, the primary secter is hauling in export earnings which means they need tax favors while charging export prices to domestic customers and shrugging off responsibility for their industrial pollution. Meanwhile, Westland Milk Products posts an "unexpected" $35m loss. #nzpol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Raining... the fire's roaring... and this #nzpol

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Steve Woodsmall, PhD @drstevew.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Except it’s not funny

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Tess carried it home like Bigfoot's thigh bone. #retriever #pets

A golden retriever dog with a huge stick in her mouth.

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Te Pati Māori - 33% is actually awesome. Seeing Peters hands tremble while he blathered and Seymour's thin lips tighten in Parliament was legendary. Salute. #nzpol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

There is nothing inherently wrong using AI to read submissions. All the submissions need to be publicly available (unredacted) and the AI model publically identified (provided) so that the results can be independently replicated. #nzpol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Nark on a road cone because.... what I would say to you is.... ummm.... #NZpol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

The spare PM has been outlining his latest hallucinations. #NZpol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Finally... another spare PM arrives from Temu. #NZpol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The assumption that a business owner is qualified is naive #nzpol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

So where's them ferries at? Are the contracts signed? Keels Laid? #NZpol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

NactFirst are slow boiling their base with a poverty-trickles-up policy. #nzpol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Test run on the newly acquired air still. Lemon verbena in gin. Chucked a handful of leaves in about 200ml of gin and 500ml water. Discarded 20ml at the start and stopped when the total collection hit 40%. Got near enough 200ml back. Quick way to try new recipes. #distilling #moonshine #homebrew

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Ngāti Karen's budget today is likely to be modeled on a meth addict's rent savings.

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

NactFirst is going down as the most wasteful govt to have ever uttered the word "saving" in NZ's 700-year history. #nzpol

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Ian - happy old kiwi @trakabat.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Your golden retriever may require a bigger water bowl than other breeds #retriever #pets

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