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Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 33m

Labour/Green majority though - he can whine all he likes

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Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 34m

Labour/Green majority though - he's well outnumbered 😎

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 39m

Horizons Regional Council:
No to Māori constituencies

Just racists all the way down 😞

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1h

Can you imagine the hue and cry??

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1h

Levin is a horrible, in-bred back water, is why. They just returned the pale stale geriatric male mayor who's done nothing for decades already and will continue in kind.
Manawatū District is all ute-driving, National-voting farmer bros 🤮

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1h

*SO GLAD* I'm out of there!!

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1h

Disgraceful, horrible people 😞

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1h

Rural, white, male 🤢

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1h

Female mayor doesn't always equal good mayor - Masterton just elected a bitter, hard, relentlessly pro-money ghoul who will be deadly for anything good that's left on that council

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1h

Gone here too 😥

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1h

We must be the outlier in the southern North Island - watching PN/Pōneke/Kapiti/Hutt/Whanganui retain theirs 😞

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1h

AND another term for our do-nothing "mayor" - SO angry 😡

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 2h

Typical racist effing backwater 😡😡

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 2h

Auē taukuri ē!!! 😥 😞

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 2h

What an absolute shitshow @stuff.co.nz

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 5h

Fkn *hate* those guys 😡

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting.
When I began school in 1960-mumble, the first class groups were Primer 1-4 - pronounced "primmer" - followed by Standard 1-4 and Form 1-7 🤔

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure he'll manage to get another week's grift out of it 😒

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1d

Please read this - it's *really* important and terribly unfair - and if you're able to help Karina, the link is here:
givealittle.co.nz/cause/help-k...

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

Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid

A group of young Kiwis prove what international studies show: that long Covid has a particularly debilitating effect on young people. But how much medical support is there for them?

www.1news.co.nz

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1d

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1d

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Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1d

"Ust"?? 🫤

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Catherine McKenzie @catherinejmckenzie.bsky.social · 4d

It's almost that time of the year for seymour to think about blowing up the Ministry for Pacific Peoples again and/or animals dying from the fright or injuries that fireworks have caused.

If you would like a PDF poster that you can print out to A3 or A4 and attach to your property please d.m me.

Cerise and black text on white background "We care no fireworks here"

White text on purple to cerise fade "We care no fireworks here"

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1d

Home 🥺

Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 1d

I found and read her book "Travelling with Augusta: Preston-Gorizia-Venice-Masterton, 1835 & 1999" because some of the documents mentioned in it reside in an archive of my acquaintance...