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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 1h

a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands in a room .

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands in a room .

media.tenor.com

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 1h

The Olive green areas are councils where citizens voted down Māori wards (the little blue blob in the middle is Kirikiriroa, which voted by a whisker to retain theirs).
Coincidentally those Olive green areas also pretty accurately represent land confiscated by the crown after the Waikato wars.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 3h

Aww shucks!

Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 5h

Appalling aren't they.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 5h

Unless they like being told that they're idiots. Is Sean Plunket his campaign manager?

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 5h

For these people it's always just been about them, and them only. They cannot see beyond it because they actually think they deserve to be at the top and anything that stops that is always the fault of *someone else*, never a thought to what *they* might have done to turn people away.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 5h

You are most welcome.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 5h

Incredible, eh. Awfully resonant of Muldoon after the Schnapps election

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 6h

Gracious as ever:
Defeated Wellington mayoral candidate Ray Chung, who narrowly retained his Wharangi/Onslow-Western ward seat, said his message to voters was: “This is what you’ve chosen. Live with it.” Of Andrew Little " He’s lying about something."
From The Spinoff.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 6h

Gee that Todd McClay is good at memes, eh.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 6h

That's a nice surprise, well done.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 6h

Performative gobshittery that costs money is their specialty.

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 8h

when a massive number of public submissions are totally antsy about a piece of legislation, and two major political parties say goneburger on our watch

what sort of personality keeps pushing that barrow?

not someone who should be allowed within spit distance of our legislature, thank you

#nzpol

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 8h

A few months ago, Hipkins unequivocally stated they will repeal the RSB within 100 days. You won't hear it on Bluesky #nzpol

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 7h

Mr "99% of the replies to my racist enshittery are bots"

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Lululamarmiteontoast @lalamarmiteontoast.bsky.social · 7h

Fictional God only knows, it's not like we'll be told the truth anyway.
Let's face it every time Seymour opens his mouth a gaslight falls out

A cartoon style picture of a male standing at a podium and gaslights are falling out of his mouth.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 7h

😞The bitter and twisted old white people seems to be mostly who votes.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, he's firing about 100,000 people this week and cutting off vaccines and food to Africa and jailing his political opponents and invading his own cities, why didn't he get peacemaker of the year?
Could RNZ do some rudimentary factchecking on this or would that upset Paul Goldsmith?

Donald Trump says he spoke with Machado after White House criticises Nobel snub

The US president says Maria Corina Machado called him and said she had accepted the prize in his honour.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 9h

Luxon: I am reporting a major ongoing trade deal with the sun to rise in the morning and set in the evening.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 9h

How much moolah is goin' South from the De-regulation of the Guvmint Regulations Bureau ?

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 9h

Fingers crossed for all across the motu.

Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 9h

Does the trade deal with Singapore (which is not a trade deal as much as it is BAU) apply to Twofer Tuesday? Because they sometimes put conditions on that sort of thing.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 9h

This sounds suspiciously like the Parramatta eels, Foxy

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 14h

Oh Gods yes. Me at 17 in 1977 ignoring punk because it was too noisy and fast. Jeepers what an idiot.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 14h

Stand down Luxon, Please.

The Beat - Stand Down Margaret (Extended Version)

YouTube video by Stub TDUK

youtu.be

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 14h

And all the different strands. Mozart to Mos Def It is all good.

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