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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, one name really stuck out, as being likely to show every ‘entitlement’ trait possible 😏

I did snigger.

I still know a few of those who got elected, despite moving away in 2013. Welli is such a small world…

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 2d

Would that be Tony’s sister?

My kids went to school with Tony’s, a good couple of decades ago now…

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like he didn’t get in; from my quick scan of names of possibles to respond to that description ;-)

Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 2d

Horizons RC

www.electionz.com/LGE2025Resul...

www.electionz.com

Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 2d

GWRC here

www.electionz.com/LGE2025Resul...

www.electionz.com

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 2d

*cartman voice*
“Respect mah authoritay!”

www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/s...

Speaker wants to meet Te Pāti Māori over contempt concern after disruption

Oriini Kaipara’s extended speech and two haka in the House prompted Speaker Gerry Brownlee to suspend proceedings yesterday.

www.1news.co.nz

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 2d

As any military strategist knows, port cities are always particularly vulnerable to amphibian assault.

Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 3d

’He is not the hero we deserve, but he is the one that we need right now.’

The Portland Frog, a guy in an inflatable frog costume, facing off against ICE troops in riot gear.

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 2d

It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)

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Kim Rhodes @kimrhodes.bsky.social · 2d

I am old, tired and jaded. I gave up my place to those younger and better equipped, I told myself.

So why did I just buy an inflatable frog costume?

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 2d

I remember when asset sales were gonna lead to mum and dad shareholders and now we just have mum and dad paying $500 power bills in the winter. The right wing ideology is a scam. It’s a pyramid scheme. It’s useless. It improves nothing.

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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 2d

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Daniel @danentropy.bsky.social · 2d

Sell a public asset, fund services for a day

Apply a wealth tax, fund services for a lifetime

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 2d

Kia kaha, the waiting is the worst part!

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 4d

Tory, I’m so proud of the way you did this with mana and grace.

The usual suspects from the past tried to make it impossible for you, and you proved them wrong.

That portrait is awesome, and you’re definitely leaving with your head held high!

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 4d

I still have friends in Welli, right?

I know some of you use the library - drop off your voting envelope there, when you’re taking your books back.

Just make sure to get in there before midday, mmmhmmm? 😏

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 4d

Wellington. please vote, the city needs you.
According to "Inner-City Wellington" it looks like only around 1 in 5 people have voted! I know you voted, but have you checked on your friends? Link to voting drop box locations.
Maybe a cheeky re-post too.

wellington.govt.nz/your-council...

Places to drop off your vote

Locations for orange voting bins and post boxes in Wellington.

wellington.govt.nz

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 4d

Sarcasm is our shared love language, Tze Ming.

This govt just keeps on giving, doesn’t it?

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 4d

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/s...

Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

The National-led government has been avoiding questions about whether it is joining in preparations for a US military confrontation with China. A series of Official Information Act requests on this su...

newsroom.co.nz

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 4d

Punitive policy, producing perverse incentives:

“…a household which earns $65,528 in a year can bring in an additional $13,942.76 after tax from an 18- or 19-year-old’s Jobseeker payment.

[But] if either of the parents earn one more dollar, the household as a whole loses nearly $14,000 in income.”

Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 4d

My analysis: The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/08/g...

Govt to meet 9% of Jobseeker target by taking teens off benefit

The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit.

newsroom.co.nz

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 4d

Where is this published, please ?

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 4d

Party President frantically checking on Simon Bridges whereabouts…

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 4d

Another good piece of writing about the Aerospace Summit blockade on the Spinoff here:

thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-1...

Dozens of protesters arrested at Aerospace Summit in Christchurch

'We need to stop hiding behind this thin veneer of space exploration,' said one of the organisers. <br />

thespinoff.co.nz

Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 4d

You might have seen news reports about the blockade of the Aerospace Summit in Christchurch yesterday, and JuCo mouthing off.

Peace Action response here:

peaceactionwellington.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/r...

Response to the Minister of War and Space, Judith Collins, on the Aerospace Summit

Today’s blockade outside the Aerospace Summit in Ōtautahi/Christchurch was a massive show of desire for peace, justice and an end to New Zealand’s complicity in the US empire’s endless warmaking.&n…

peaceactionwellington.wordpress.com