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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is sarcasm. The Wellington together right wing group, embraced by the Labour Mayor, has ensured it'll cost more and take longer to probably eventually deliver something lesser than the original plans. If you're wondering yes, it's just like why Wellington's ferry port isn't getting upgraded.

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 17/09/2026

It must be nice to get what you shit your pants about on Facebook all the time

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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bang up work from the rates complaints brigade

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Steph 🍉🇵🇸🕊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @steph-tepania.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Newtown pocket friends. My little cat - Waitī - has gone missing. She regularly goes on hikoi, but it's been over a week now. 😭 We think she hangs out around the hospital. If anyone works there and can post her on the bulletin board, it would be appreciated. We're worried about her.

A black cat, with a white bib, sitting in a patch of sun. She's surrounded by cat toys. She's got green eyes.

A black cat, with a white bib, sitting by a fluffy bean bag, on a wooden floor. She's looking to the right.

A black cat, with a white bib, on a concrete block fence. Her ears are pointed back. She's standing.

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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Spotted on Molesworth St. Hopfully the PM can't get to work easier now.

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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This guy was on council for 30 years and Mayor for 3 while the infrastructure under our feet rotted away. He ran on no rates rises. In Wellington not having nice things. And now he’s moaning about everyone paying through the nose to fix the shit he ignored and actively worked against.

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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you think bike lanes make it difficult to cross the road, wait till I tell you about these 1 ton metal boxes hurtling up and down our streets

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Wellington Pride Festival I Tū whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara @wellingtonpride.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

On 13-15 July the Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa’s judicial review against the Minister of Health will be heard in Wellington High Court. Join us in the court room to support PATHA as they fight for our community www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/patha...

Support PATHA at the Wellington High Court 13-15 July 2026

The Professional Association of Transgender Health Providers Aotearoa is challenging the Minister of Health’s decision to ban puberty blockers for trans children as unlawful and discriminatory.

We’ll be there to support them fight for our community. Join us!

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The Wellingtonista @wellingtonista.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Ahhh that goes a long way to explaining why Julie Jacobson pieces are almost always from Diane Calvert’s viewpoint. Good to know Calvert actually helped a constituent

They have been reported to the council and to Wellington Water (now Tiaki Wai) repeatedly, by a number of people including me.
The latest was a small stream that ran through my property and into a neigh-bour's. I was told it was a private leak, that I was responsible and I should get a plumber in to sort it. Which I did.
Trouble is, it was nothing to do with me.
But it took me crying on the phone, roping in a city councillor and doing my own research to find that out, and to eventually find the source of the problem.

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In Wellington Ortega, Logan Brown and Jano got one star. 1154, Cicio Cacio, Hummingbird and Indian Alley got Bib Gourmand. I feel like there are more than a few notable omissions!

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mayor of sc*ry town @missfluss.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

i've had enough. wellington, i'm starting an urbanist lobbying group. writing councillors, pushing for projects, pushing against the managed decline of the city. i already have a meeting place. all i need is you. will you join me?

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Miriam Ross @miriamruthross.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

We need a bigger civic square. So many people standing up for trans rights

Photos of civic square Wellington filled with protesters

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

the consultations will continue until morale improves

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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The website budget everyone is losing their minds over comes out to approx 1.7 meters of Petone–Granada expressway.

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mayor of sc*ry town @missfluss.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

that's 160 years' worth of wellington cycle funding btw

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Ben Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz · 19/05/2026

I can't believe the damage cycle lanes are gonna do to wellington businesses if this plan to cut 9k public sector employees goes ahead.

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The Wellingtonista @wellingtonista.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

But how can this be? There’s a white man in charge now, you mean he hasn’t just magically fixed all the leaks????

Money down the drain
Not that long ago, when The Post was recording its "leak of the week", Wellington Water's then chief executive Tonia Haskell said the organisation aimed to renew 20km of pipes a year.
In the last six months just over 1.2 kilometres of new pipe (wastewater and drinking water) was laid across the metropolitan region. This included 100 metres for drinking water and about 1104 metres for wastewater. At that rate, it would be thousands of years to repair the network.
Across the same time frame Wellington
Water received just over 6000 reports of public leaks across the Wellington, Porirua, Lower and Upper Hutt metropolitan area, athough agency claims more than 1800 (around 30%) were duplicates, largely due t the same leak being reported multiple

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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This post from old mate Henry is the NZ mainstream media in a nutshell. They'll selectively show us the small gathering of cooker protesters, but not the absolutely massive line of people waiting to see Ardern. Those protesters represent a pathetically small and toxic minority of the population.

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

guys Homegrown is shit this year. I haven’t recognised a single one of the songs. also does any know what time Shihad is playing

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The Wellingtonista @wellingtonista.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If you don't have feijoas in your garden, Vonuts do delicious feijoa fritters, and will deliver for free via Delivereasy. Just so you know.

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Simon Ward @simonmward.com · 19/03/2026

Had to see what difference the accurate proportions would be ... turns out a lot.

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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Digging deeper into the report it's clear that most of the support for the SH1 "improvements" is coming from people living in areas that won't be directly impacted. Central, southern and eastern Wellington residents don't want this shit imposed on our city.

Chart from SH1 community engagement report showing CBD, southern and eastern Wellington residents strongly think proposed changes will make things worse

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Wellington Pride Festival I Tū whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara @wellingtonpride.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Come play Werewolf with us at 6.30pm at Pride HQ - 28 Blair Street? It's R18 so you can bring your own adult beverages, and everyone who comes with love and respect is welcome. www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/events/werew...

Werewolf the game - it's a great night for a wolf to come out. But of course, you're not the werewolf. You're just a harmless villager, right?

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Wellington Pride Festival I Tū whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara @wellingtonpride.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

There's 45 businesses taking part in Rainbow Windows of Wellington - but which one is the best??? Have you checked them out and cast your vote yet? Voting closes 5pm on Saturday! www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/rainbow-wind...

wellingtonpridefestival.com

Wellington Pride Festival - the longest-running annual Pride celebration in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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The Wellingtonista @wellingtonista.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

What’s up with the two helicopters over Thorndon???

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Wellington Pride Festival I Tū whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara @wellingtonpride.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Cam is here at Pride HQ ((28 Blair Street) to run a free chair yoga class for us at 12.30. No need to sign up, just come along!

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The Wellingtonista @wellingtonista.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Thousands of people turned out for a glorious and joyful Pride Parade in Wellington yesterday but is there one mention of it on Stuff? Not that we've seen

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The Wellingtonista @wellingtonista.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Ummm okay, I know the restaurant is called Curryiosity but I don’t think I’m THAT curious

Screenshot from uber eats:

Malai Kofta
$22.00
Golden balls in a creamy jacuzzi.
• Vegetarian

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The Wellingtonista @wellingtonista.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Pōneke, someone needs to have a serious talk

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mayor of sc*ry town @missfluss.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

parking day peeps: union reception (128 vivian st) will be open today from 3pm til 5pm. new organising space! come hang out!

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Wellington Pride Festival I Tū whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara @wellingtonpride.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It's ONE WEEK until the Wellington Pride Festival starts, so here is our plea to you today: www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/events

It’s one week to go h til the festival starts so here is our plea to you:

Book something for the festival. Today. Maybe more than one thing! Be kind to all the event producers and let them start the festival a little less stressed. Maybe you’re bad at remembering to do things, so this is your reminder to DO IT NOW. Waiting for your friend group to sort themselves out? Sort yourself out and they’ll follow! Finances tight? There’s lots of free events who’d like you to register in advance. Unsure about the weather? We all are. Waiting for a better offer? You won’t get one. Waiting for a sign? THIS IS IT!

So grab your tickets, register for that workshop, buy a ticket to the yourhball for the rainbow rangitahi in your life (or a supporters donation if not), enter your dog in Pooches in the Plaza, and then tell some more people to do the same. Thanks in advance!

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

There’s always a non-zero amount of poop in the water. The best way to check whether it’s currently at safe levels is via LAWA: here’s a Wellington-specific link. www.lawa.org.nz/search?latit...

lawa.org.nz

New Zealand's most comprehensive source of water quality, water quantity and air quality data.

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Wellington Pride Festival I Tū whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara @wellingtonpride.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

They're good dogs, Bront! And they're back as part of Out in the City at 1pm on 15 March. MC'd by the fabulous Scotty & Mal, and with pooch prizes from Gorman, think your dog's got the best trick or looks the most like you? Register/more info www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/events/pooches

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Wellington Pride Festival

Who’s a good boy/girl/they? Yes you are, yes you are! See Pōneke’s best pups on stage.

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Wellington! I’ve been working on something cool with a couple of lovely collaborators. Good Luck Craft Club is a monthly craft meetup for artists of Asian descent in the Wellington region. Central CBD locations, ticketed workshops, BYOC(bring your own craft) and a community craft box.

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The Wellingtonista @wellingtonista.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

You’re here and you’re queer and you’d like to organise a low key community event of some kind during Wellington Pride (6-22 March)? Cool! Contact @wellingtonpride.bsky.social

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

New "I don't recall saying good luck" just dropped.

Wellington Mayor Andrew Little responded to Leggett's resignation saying he had spoken to the incoming interim chair to ensure recovery continues.

"I acknowledge Nick Leggett's service as the Chair of Wellington Water."

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Wellington Pride Festival I Tū whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara @wellingtonpride.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Absolutely delighted to add a new large Signature Event to the festival on Mar 21. We worked with our friends at Brewtown to create a really special day of queer music artists. Ladyhawke! Bec Sandridge! Dateline! Ardon England! Tahini Bikini! & some ticket $ to us www.brewtown.co.nz/event/out-in...

the promo poster for Out at Brewtown on 21st March, featuring Ladyhawke (dj set), Bec Sandridge, Dateline, Ardon England and Tahini Bikini

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Wellington Pride Festival I Tū whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara @wellingtonpride.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Three spots have opens up in our Queer Cooking Class tonight. Want to joint us? Email eat@wellingtonpride.com now!

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Oh cool, Wellington really is more and more turning itself into a museum rather than being a living, breathing, and—crucially—evolving city

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mayor of sc*ry town @missfluss.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

if we're gonna live forever in the 90s can we convert manners st back into a mall

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Someone needs to explain to the Stuff editorial team that the word for non-productive members of society who rent out commercial buildings is “landlord”, and that “cycle lane” is what we call a lane for bicyclists and nothing to do with property speculation.

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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Almost every “beloved Wellington business closes” has been about landlords. Even the ones about businesses struggling because of fewer people working in Wellington have been because the landlord does not care and will not help.

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The Wellingtonista @wellingtonista.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A sales pitch rather than actual data? Under this government? Surely not!

Economist and urbanist Roland Sapsford, who campaigned against the inner city Wellington bypass when it was being planned, said the scant and unexplained figures NTA had released were "more sales pitch than economic analysis".
The time savings were based on adding all the projected time savings - seconds here and seconds there - together and this tended to inflate the overall number.

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The Wellingtonista @wellingtonista.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

We used to be a great city (for many). We need a new Bernie, Mittens, Lola... someone to unite us

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The Wellingtonista @wellingtonista.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Inspiration for Wellington City Council’s already good social media team!

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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

No one _who lives in Wellington_ benefits from a road tunnel to the airport

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