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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 1d

will the portland frog get milkshake ducked

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James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

the WHAT

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James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly true

the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 2d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Gateway to hell’: young reporter’s harrowing two years in besieged Gaza

Malak A Tantesh’s grim experience of living with perpetual fear and uncertainty amid Israel’s war after 2023 Hamas attack

www.theguardian.com

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James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

What a beautiful kitty ☺️😍

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 1d

To ask a pakeha majority to remove representation of an indigenous minority is ongoing white supremacist colonisation. #nzpol

TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 1d

Preliminary results of the 2025 Māori wards referendums

#nzpol

Map showing preliminary margin of support by council for the 2025 Māori ward referendums

CC BY 4.0 TheLoyalOrder

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James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

My mayoral votes were, in order:

1. Scoot
2. Alex Baker
3. Andrew Little

I wasn't particularly chuffed that Andrew was going to romp home to the title, but I'm glad he's been gifted an even more progressive council to guide his decision making.

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 1d

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William Alexander is scheduled to arrive back in Ōtautahi on Monday 13 Oct at 3pm

We’re meeting in the Airport International Lounge at 2.45pm to give him the welcome that he deserves

Come along and join us!

Will’s partner, Ava Mulla, has been deported to Germany

#NZPol

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

Grim 😬

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

Living the dream!

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

...well it was a major theme of Ray Chung's campaign, despite him forming a political party to campaign against party politics 🙄😒

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James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

I am fucking DELIGHTED. Sad you're not in my ward so I couldn't give you a vote myself, but delighted nonetheless.

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Joel MacManus @joelmacmanus.bsky.social · 1d

The new Wellington City Council will include 5 Labour councillors and 4 Green councillors, plus Andrew Little, giving the two party "coalition" an increased governing majority - 10 out of 16 votes, compared to 8 under the previous council.

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 1d

Should stop the shitfuckery from the Far Right

Joel MacManus @joelmacmanus.bsky.social · 1d

The new Wellington City Council will include 5 Labour councillors and 4 Green councillors, plus Andrew Little, giving the two party "coalition" an increased governing majority - 10 out of 16 votes, compared to 8 under the previous council.

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Donny @dgschell.bsky.social · 1d

Gay sex is getting too complicated...

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James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

I–

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 1d

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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James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who was medically catheterized several times over the past few years... No thank you.

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James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

They're FUN

James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

As a Wellingtonian... My ward was extremely uninspiring. Part of the reason I didn't get my votes in until this morning cause I just wasn't enthused.

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James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

I have not... But Gibson Girl would be a vibe

James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

a woman in a blue and black dress is standing on a red carpet and says and what about it

Alt: Ariana Grande on a red carpet saying "And what about it?" than sassily turning away from the camera with a hair flip and walking off

media.tenor.com

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James Fluker 🇳🇿 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights @jamesfluker.bsky.social · 1d

Thirst trap with an INSANE lore drop... I respect it 🫡

Jacus @jjacus.bsky.social · 1d

In the bathroom where my grandmother found my grandpa cheating on her with her brother. So naturally I had to take a selfie in her memory(she also is dead)

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