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Patsy Wakefield

@wakeynz.bsky.social
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Transplanted Dunedinite, Wellingtonian. Feminist, Tired Disability activist. NZ left supporter. Support Te Reo

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Oz Wiltshire. @ozwiltshire.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Today's thought: If you hit a woman, don't call yourself a man, call yourself what you are, a craven coward.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Ghost Fire @lookingglass98.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I agree!
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Workers First Union @workersfirstunion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Save the date: October 17 ✊✊✊
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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the last 12 months #TPU = Jordan Williams’ #TaxPayersUnion have been pumping out press releases every 2days! #RNZ is the number 1 media outlet to platform their far-right #AtlasNetwork #Zionist ideology as fact. #DirtyPolitics #Racist #nzpol #election2026 #PartyVoteGreen✅ youtu.be/P7paBl0KzGk?...
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#BHN The Taxpayer's Union is very good at getting their messaging included into news items
YouTube video by Big Hairy Network
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Kids are learning about ancient Egypt so HAD to show them this video with their grandma Iman. 😂❤️
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You couldn't make it up. via @bernardchickey.bsky.social #nzpol
2. The Post-$* leads this morning with detail of how Health NZ has underspent
$690 million hospital infrastructure in the first nine months of the current financial year. See Front Page of the day below
3. Lifeline says health sector underfunding was responsible for 60% of the calls to its hotline not being answered, RNZ reported last yesterday.
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LadyBlue4evr💙Radical Liberal Scum @ladyblue4evr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well, there you have it.
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 05/09/2026
Thread of the day
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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 30/07/2026
Go @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social, doing the mahi and getting young people enrolled, and plenty on the Māori roll✊ Vote @greens.org.nz, for all of us💚 #nzpol
teaonews.co.nz
Green Party’s Tania Waikato defends controversial voter campaign targeting young Māori
The Waiariki candidate says criticism of images featuring young Māori women in bikinis and shirtless Māori men is far outweighed by online engagement and new Māori roll enrolment
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Christine Ryan @cryan1974.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
NZ Post fails again. Parcel left on my ramp. Unable to open front door. I rang and was asked if there were instructions as to where to leave parcels. I'd forgotten and the person said there actually was. The driver ignored them...
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Businesses want to kill and maim workers.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.
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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
If they weren’t making life so shit for us all I would laugh at just how shallow the talent pool of the right is #NZPol
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ML @mlpoole.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
If this is true,: WTF?
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 10/06/2026
a few hours ago, a judge in wisconsin ruled that everlee wihongi's 2014 marijuana charge has been vacated. this means ICE now have *zero* legal grounds to keep her detained. please RT, and thanks for carting about this story: www.webworm.co/hugewin/
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A Huge Win For Everlee
David Farrier reports Everlee Wihongi's 2014 marijuana charge has been vacated and she may be freed from her ICE prison as early as next week.
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macktrix&treats @mackagain.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I'm sick and tired of being the only mother fucker that cooks in my home. I live alone, but still.
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Jennifer Ward @jenospeno.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The honours committee, chaired by PM Luxon, approved Alan Simmons, co-leader of the Outdoor and Freedom Movement, a vocal contingent within the anti-mandate protest and one of the groups that forms End the Mandates NZ, for a Kings birthday honour 🤔 www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-pos...
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Parliament occupation leaders blame 'plants' for escalating violence
“We know there are agitators in the crowd who are planted,” a co-leader of a vocal contingent within the protest group says.
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Miriam Ross @miriamruthross.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Documents reveal "a corporate lobbying blitz by major forestry companies, industry groups and international investors, who argued the post-Gabrielle rules were costly, unworkable and driving investment offshore. The Government ultimately sided with the sector" www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
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The slash backlash: How forestry giants just softened post-Gabrielle environmental rules
Inside the corporate lobbying blitz that rolled back post-cyclone safety laws to protect logging profits over public safety.
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Kieran @nugmonster.cryptoanarchy.network · 02/06/2026
Also very nice of 1news to not name Matt Burgess, former NZI economist, and just continually call the prime minister's chief of staff "the staffer"
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Timothy Gassin @timothygassin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Here govt can just act as a bulldozer for 3 years unchallenged - no way to stop then in parliament, no court can rein them in (and if one tries, they just override by legislation), and no constitutional provision that can't be changed by a simple parliamentary majority.
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Yes, but it’s been central to their activity since the outset. Read ‘Denocracy in Chains’ by Nancy Maclean. She didn’t know of the Atlas at the time of writing but it’s about Charles Koch (oil billionaire Atlas funder) and James Buchanan (president of the Mont PelErin Society)
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
As opposed to…. Take your house 🏠 Take your wealth 💰 Take everything else 🫠 -NZ National Party 🙄 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ
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NZ Transit Buzz @nztransitbuzz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
#StationNews: KiwiRail has shared photos of the completed murals at Palmerston North Station, painted by Feilding artist Joe Mcmenamin. Joe painted 22 murals on the block walls behind the platform seating, which feature native flora and fauna and rail safety messages.
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Nate DG - Creekside 4 life @natedg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Hipkins seemed to have.a theory ofnthenelectorate that Ardern and Robinson went too far to tje left. When in fact there was 1) a unjustified backlash against covid policy at the time 2) criticism on messaging around some good policy 3) a failure to show results. We are seeing same issues
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RIDGE @1av8ter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Texas Crowd ERUPTS Against Ken Paxton 😳 #Texas #Politics #Shorts
YouTube video by Lamont Tyson
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 03/06/2026
Food and healthcare aren’t privileges, they’re human rights. Every civilian, everywhere, deserves both. But Trump & Republicans keep choosing bombs over basics. With a war powers vote in the House today, we have a moment to demand our leaders choose life instead. #FundHealthcareNotWar
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This privileged prick is a visceral representation of why nobody trusts the “crown” 🤢 anymore. When the people making the laws don’t follow them, these made up laws look more corrupt. A rich CEO I worked for bragged about cheating the system to get free parking. These pricks LOVE cheating! #nzpol
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 31/05/2026
Stay slippery Sharpen your claws Choose your own accessories Hoard your treasures And above all Remember to roar 💜 #TransArtMay
Drawing of a dragon-like creature with long snaky tail and wings. It has horns that are turning into tree branches covered with pink dogwood blossoms. They are clutching a mystical orb with the claws on the end of their tail. The dragon is colored in shades of pink and blue to echo the colors of the trans pride flag.
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My best English professor was obsessed with Tarkovsky and I am annoyed about it to this day (I am 40 😂😭). I did write a lot of really antagonistic papers about toxic masculinity tropes though and honestly making him give me As on those was pretty fun
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
You Can't Keep A Good Book Down.......💪🏻
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
MPs jobs require them to travel to Wellington for work and its normal for work to pay for accommodation. But like for any other job that requires you to travel, you can’t just book any hotel. Your work gives you options to choose from and this “MP renting their own paid off house” rort needs to end.
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Politician with a house doesn't want anyone else to have a home #nzpol
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are outside, looking at a bright yellow butterfly that flutters about them.
Green: They say that the first butterfly is a sign of how the summer is going to be.
Blue: How so?
Green: A white one means a very happy summer, a dark one means misfortune. Bright wings, bright prospects.

Blue watches as the butterfly lands on the tip of Green's nose.
Green: I like it because the first butterflies to appear are the yellow brimstones. Summers are good by default.

As the butterfly leaves them, Blue and Green look at each other.
Blue: You believe in omens?
Green: Only the good ones.
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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Fixed it. #nzpol
Seymour says 'time for RNZ to agree with me more' as CEO
exits.
Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour says it's "probably time for RNZ to change its direction" following news...
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Willis’ speech comparing our number of govt departments to Aussie is missing a major key point that Aussie has federal depts, and each state has its own set of depts that run things at a state level. Then there are the local governments. Hardly a relevant comparison.
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Mojo Mathers 🇵🇸 @mojomathers.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“A modified vehicle is the difference between employment and isolation or a service dog may be the difference between safety and vulnerability.”
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Got our solar panels installed this AM. They came at 8:30am and we're gone by 1:30pm. 13 panels and 10kwh battery. We can't export to the grid yet (the network operator has been flooded with new requests) but we charged our car with the sun this afternoon. Great feeling, strongly recommend.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
9th anniversary of the Grenfell fire is approaching. 72 people died, thousands more scarred. Main causes remain unaddressed. Lust for higher profits Unaccountable corporate power Performance related executive pay Failure of regulators Indifference of govts to the cry of the people Nothing changed.
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Successive governments have failed to learn lessons of Grenfell Tragedy
The conditions that facilitated the tragedy remain unchecked
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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Because we dislike heavy, oversized modern dinnerware, I buy vintage sets from time to time. Last one was getting down on plates so I picked up this - just vintage Noritake but 78 pieces for $100. Should last a decade of daily use.
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I don’t know what tax bracket you have to be in to care about govt spending or debt but I know I’m not in it. Literally could not give a shit. I’m in the tax bracket where I want kids to be fed, homeless people to be housed, people to be able to access and receive quality healthcare timely.
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Of course Greenpeace and others have been calling for policies to reduce fossil fuel exposure for years. We were right then and we're right now. Here's an update on things that would actually help with the current global fossil fuel crisis. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
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Renewables First, Not Fossils First: Policy Response to the Fossil Fuel Crisis - Greenpeace Aotearoa
The attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran have created a global energy crisis, as oil and gas exports from the Gulf are restricted and global prices rise.
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f*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I have had enough of the job applications that make you write a 17-page novel on their clunky portal, validate your identity with a photo of your passport & licence, ask the same question 3x, make you upload your CV & cover letter 2x, then when you click submit it says "this listing has expired"
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Peter Ashford @peterashford.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Mondays are just a bad idea. We should ban them. At least get a moratorium until we can find out what the hell is going on
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Ex-Texas husband is marching around the place gathering things I think could not possibly blow anywhere and putting them inside (Although perhaps a full gas bottle COULD blow somewhere in our new normal)
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