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Nancy Dollar @nancydollar.bsky.social · 1d

a little girl in a red jacket is laying on a brick sidewalk covered in leaves

ALT: a little girl in a red jacket is laying on a brick sidewalk covered in leaves

media.tenor.com

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Nancy Dollar @nancydollar.bsky.social · 1d

That little touch of the theme to Succession at the end is brilliant!

the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 1d

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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Nancy Dollar @nancydollar.bsky.social · 1d

As a hard right climate change (x) friend of mine says, climate change is a hoax the glaciers will "grow back" in a few years...

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 2d

And it was not the intent of pilfering tens of billions from the pay equity fund, to meet the budget #NZPol

The Government’s policy change to make many 18- and 19-year-olds ineligible for the Jobseeker benefit will go a significant way to helping it meet its target of reducing the number of people on Jobseeker by 50,000.

Social Development Minister Louise Upston said the intent of the policy was not to make it easier to meet the target (which has grown more difficult because Jobseeker numbers have risen instead of fallen since the target was set).

However, she added that she did not intend to adjust the target to reflect the policy change, a move which would preserve the original ambition of the target. Upston did not say why she would not adjust the target.

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 2d

It's unbelievable that this article

"Government’s books show finance minister borrowing billions to keep the lights on"

does not once mention the $12to$14Billion tax cut cost they are borrowing to cover, nor the Billions they stole from Pay Equity Fund #NZPol

Government’s books show finance minister borrowing billions to keep the lights on

Treasury has revealed the state of the Government’s finances and it shows we’re borrowing just to keep the lights on.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 2d

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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Nancy Dollar @nancydollar.bsky.social · 3d

Gnash doesn't know when to stop digging and when to pull his head in. He'd be high risk on anyone's delegation by the look of those texts alone... and imagine having to go into that level of detail about son and wife to try and persuade them to let you go.

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 3d

If I'd known Shakespeare was a get out of jail free card, I could have told Nicola Willis of Shakespeare's love of using cunt when she took such offence to Andrea Vance's bit

"By my life, this is my lady's hand: these be her very C's, her U's, and her T's; and thus makes she her great P's".
#NZPol

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine how many people have lost their job because of Winston over the years, just for him to time and again face no consequences

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 4d

Winston Peters set the full force of his social media against Benjamin Doyle because he didn't like their handle and that they had photos with their child but go off about attack dogs or whatever Nicola Willis #NZPol

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 4d

Winston Peters strolled around and anti-vax picnic and spoke with people who had chanted and written threats of hanging on gallows of Jacinda Ardern, Dr Ashley Bloomfield and so on, but this was all OK as it was just harmless opportunistic politicking #NZPol

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 4d

#nzpol Sometimes a policy is so stupid it makes you question the very fabric of reality. Decisions so fabulously, almost wantonly dumb, you wonder if we actually live in a simulation. Welcome to the world of removing Jobseeker Support for 18 & 19-year-olds. craigrenney.substack.com/p/a-small-wr...

A small wrinkle in the Jobseeker policy

The government’s recent changes to benefits feel like this: the house is on fire, and this policy is them turning off the smoke alarm and saying it’s fixed

craigrenney.substack.com

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Nancy Dollar @nancydollar.bsky.social · 5d

You won't miss it!

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Deborah Russell MP @beefaerie.bsky.social · 5d

Back when I was lecturing in Applied Ethics, I would tell my students that imagination is an important moral capacity.

No imagination. No empathy. Just nastiness from the current government. 3/3

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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 5d

Waikato water contamination: Schools stay closed for start of term

Waikato schools may need to implement a "distance learning programme" if they can not reopen soon.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 5d

Luxon's suggesting we build an LPG port. The gentailers are stockpiling coal.🤬Craig Renney & Ed Miller discuss how gentailers paid shareholders dividends instead of investing in renewable energy. Our electricity generated per head has declined. He sugg buying back our grid.
youtu.be/jBNhU5m9fCQ?...

Ep24 Should we have publicly owned electricity?

YouTube video by Big Hairy Network

youtu.be

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Nancy Dollar @nancydollar.bsky.social · 5d

Can Luxon tell us who these businesses are, or do they go to another school?

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Nancy Dollar @nancydollar.bsky.social · 5d

And how are they meant to move around the country for seasonal work?
The clue for our clueless government is - seasonal!

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Nancy Dollar @nancydollar.bsky.social · 5d

The current gas shortage is caused by the industry grossly overestimating existing reserves & failing to provide for renewable alternatives.
Luxon gets a four star 💩 💩 💩 💩 rating for trying to repeat this!
And it's only MONDAY!

Nancy Dollar @nancydollar.bsky.social · 5d

Cow poop of the week award! 💩
Oil &gas.
Luxon keeps repeating the lie that Labour’s 2018 ban on new offshore oil & gas exploration is responsible for the current gas shortage.
New discoveries take about 10 yrs to come on stream & there has been nothing in NZ for 20 years.

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Nancy Dollar @nancydollar.bsky.social · 5d

I can't stand the name so henceforth shall be referring to this pots as president turnip.

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Nancy Dollar @nancydollar.bsky.social · 5d

18 year old children expected to behave and accept responsibility like adults until they're not.
This is so wrong!

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Nancy Dollar @nancydollar.bsky.social · 6d

Just like the world doesn't owe him a knighthood just for sitting around doing tiktoks for 3 years.

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Nancy Dollar @nancydollar.bsky.social · 6d

Appalling!
And our so called pm expects a knighthood for being on tiktok 24 hours a day!

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 7d

I am contractually obligated to remind people voting in Canterbury that Greenpeace put out a Nitrate scorecard for safe drinking water and you should use it to inform your vote:

https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/freshwater/vote-clean-drinking-water/

#nzpol #localelections25 #poti2025

www.greenpeace.org

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