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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 8h

I had the bufffalo curd semi freddo which was very refreshing but the bonbon eaters loved theirs.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 8h

Farmers never pay. They whine and whine and the taxpayer bails out hem out one way or the other.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 8h

Frog memes are the gift that keeps on giving.

MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 8h

Father Larry does not hold back. Hard to stand when a fighting priest gets righteous wind in their sails.

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 11h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Zachary “Mushroom” Hunter @bonforage.bsky.social · 1d

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 8h

Just had beautiful lunch at Tussock Hill on Huntsbury Hill. Beautiful view over Christchurch, beautiful food including divine Wakame sourdough and a dessert menu that looks like this. Great place.

View from Port Hills looking across Christchurch

Dessert menu from Tussock Hill restaurant.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 10h

Hooray for the unipiper. Lang may your lum reek.

Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 11h

TIL that Portland has a "famous Unipiper"

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11h

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 10h

The minute it all goes tits up for farmers they’ll be whining, pity me, oh mental health, oh hand out for taxpayers money.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 17h

This is a pretty good summing up, depressing as it is, of the local government elections. Agree they need to be under the electoral commission.

Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 1d

Ok after an afternoon of results, texts, calls, messages on other apps and emails, I have some thoughts on today’s Local Election results

1) Voter turnout is depressing. 32%ish on average across AoNZ is pathetic.
2) The Māori Wards referendum should never have happened - it was a racebaiting farce…

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 17h

The only thing I will say about this creep, this thing is “ The Antichrist is you mate!”

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 18h

And also your shit won’t flush. No one ever mentions sewage in local body rates dramas but if the shit is stinking you pay anything to deal with it. See Christchurch.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 1d

Currently working their magic in Portland.

alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 2d

All the best for your treatment. The fainting couch will be worth its weight in gold.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 2d

What fresh horror this way comes?

Eloquentsonia @eloquentsonia.bsky.social · 2d

Corin Dann is leaving Morning Report. Time for a shake-up? #WhoCaresAnymore

www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Morning Report's Corin Dann appointed RNZ’s new Business Editor

Dann joined Morning Report in 2019.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 2d

Dave Brown @DaveBrownToons @Independent cartoon after #SirDavidLow on #Trump #Blair #Netanyahu #IsraelGaza #Ceasefire #Gaza - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 3d

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 3d

I’d have had to be tranquilised if I’d been up there.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 3d

The cruel face of the farming lobby. Greed, eff you and you can’t make me ethos rolled up in a package that stuffs the environment, animals and future farming and tourism.Clean and green overwhelmed by these awful people. Sad for any farmer doing organic, free range, your mates are stuffing you.

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 3d

Andrew Hoggard says he will allow cancer-linked glyphosate to be increased by 100 x in our food production.

He's also ignored a High Court order telling farmers to remove cruel farming practices around pigs - extending the 2025 due date out by 10 years. This is ACT #nzpol #kiwi

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 3d

Yes that would be a good way to look at it.

MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a lot to think about. Daughter had just turned 12 when she had major spinal surgery. Lots of emotions. The consequences of not doing it were big, it helped I knew someone whose child had gone through it a year or two before.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 4d

Someone was surveilling the Christchurch conference centre this morning. The drone hovered for a bit then swooped around. New police toy, who dis?

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 4d

It wouldn’t be a day in NZ if either Queenstown or Auckland business owners or farmers were whining to the news cameras. Over entitled greed.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 4d

Won’t provide decent worker housing, won’t pay decent wages, will whine endlessly for news cameras.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a lovely book, so powerful and sad.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 5d

Good luck.

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