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I’m a makipai, so don’t tell ngā ngeru. #NZPol #History #Culture #Museums #Leadership #Co-governance #Movies #Fashion #Climate and anything else that takes my fancy.

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The Cat's Whiskers @thecatswhiskers.bsky.social · Nov 19

Astonishing turnout

Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · Nov 19

This timelapse of Hīkoi mō te Tiriti in Pōneke today is awe inspiring.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlu7...

Hīkoi mō te Tiriti - A Time-lapse of the Hikoi Protest rolling down Manners St Wellington

YouTube video by The Traffic Fox / Traffic Updates HKW

www.youtube.com

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 1h

Because of course he did. What a creep. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein in No 10 on advice of Peter Mandelson, documents reveal

National Archives papers show how then MP pushed for 2002 meeting between PM and ‘young and vibrant’ financier

www.theguardian.com

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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 1h

Congrats to anyone who gets anything done at all. Congrats to everyone else as well. It is the life.

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 2h

www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

'Lee Miller was the bravest person I ever knew': The pioneering photographer who captured the horror of World War Two

The unflinching gaze of the fearless US artist and war photographer bore witness to both beauty and brutality. Now she is the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Britain.

www.bbc.com

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 1h

Mould done.
Washing on the line.
Bed still unmade.
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A black cat on a bed, with the bedding on the floor, waiting.

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 14h

There's a certain irony in the right wing hijacking Pepe the frog as their mascot, and now frog costumed people standing up to fascists.

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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 1h

Lots of attention on this Marc Benioff article, which is excellent and full of jaw-dropping quotes.

It reminds me of how he was when I did a story for NPR about him secretly buying hundreds of acres of land in rural Hawaii. Things got weird.

www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1...

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 12h

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.

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 3h

Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

boy the tiktok ban has really turned out to be one of the most singularly stupid things ever passed, huh? as if these people needed more help controlling the entire information environment

what a shitshow

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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MelodyFoxes @melodyfoxes.bsky.social · 8h

May be there are only two genders; being yourself and not being yourself.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

It always looks silly from these guys but this basic logic where the most marginalized people are actually elites representing “the machine” is also the shared understanding people running newsrooms and universities believe as well.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 1h

Nine squares out of thirty for the Licorice Allsorts afghan! Unblocked, unwoven ends but we are on our way!

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Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 1h

Marco De Jong helps shine further light on how intertwined NZ’s military is with the white supremacist military machine of the US, and how those links keep growing.
#nzpol

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/10/n...

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Ed Hyde @edhyde.bsky.social · 1h

Generally mild-mannered @clrenney.bsky.social ripping the government a new one 🔥

Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 5d

#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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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 1h

The Outer Space Treaty forbids the weaponisation of Space.

Unless you want the Russians to engage in nuclear FOB rules again.
FOB being Fractional Orbital Bombardment ☢️

PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 2h

Collins lust for killing machines is rather worrisome
#nzpol

NZ defence strategy explores space weapons export potential

Defence Minister Judith Collins insists NZ-produced technology could compete internationally.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1h

"they are stealing your money and using it to fund their out-of-control thugs" is just a straightforwardly true description of what trump intends to do here

John @johnlk.bsky.social · 4h

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

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Bridget Williams Books @bwbnz.bsky.social · 2h

📚 'The Welcome of Strangers' reviewed on RNZ!

On RNZ’s Nine to Noon, historian Jonathan West described Atholl Anderson’s 'The Welcome of Strangers' as nothing short of a 'tour de force'.

🎧 Listen to the review on RNZ’s Nine to Noon:

www.rnz.co.nz/national/progr...

Book review: The Welcome of Strangers by Atholl Anderson

Jonathan West reviews The Welcome of Strangers by Atholl Anderson

www.rnz.co.nz

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 2h

Yo NZ media & sycophant wannabe ‘look at me I’m doing journalism’ & most of all dog whistling commentariat, repeat after me.

STV isn’t a leftist tool.

It just returned a RW conservative Otago Regional Council in a RW conservative rural area.

How you gonna explain this one, ya fucking muppets.

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 12h

One final bit of good news - 234600 people across the motu voted to remove Māori wards, 245800 to keep them - 51.1% of all votes were to keep them, 48.9% not to. The majority of the country that voted were in favour so suck it coalition!

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Tracey Thorn @traceythorn.bsky.social · 2h

Same. I was a million miles from New York City, but I bought a suit jacket to try and look like Annie Hall, and I never stopped loving Diane Keaton. Properly sad she's gone ❤️

Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 2h

Oh man, I loved Diane Keaton— Annie Hall had such a huge influence on me as a teen, everything about her style & her energy, the clothes she wore & the way she talked! She just felt like such a model of New York City intellectual life, jittery & adventurous & original

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Graceful Six Humoured 🫦 @saturnexalted.bsky.social · 3h

It's not about institutional power. Obviously these trappings have always been in opposition to institutions, and institutions have reacted accordingly by withholding power in response. It's the power of being monstrous; inherent to the holder, and because it is not given, cannot be taken away.

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 3h

Word

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 22h

He looks like Steve Buscemi playing John Waters dressed as Randy Macho Man Savage and he's talking shit about other people?

*no disrespect intended to the three distinguished gentlemen I've mentioned, obviously. He's a Temu version of their trinity

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 6h

As a fashion historian, I will die on this hill: the point of having blue hair and nose rings (or spiky nails or stripper heels or tattoos or an all-black wardrobe) is not to look pretty or cool. It's to look (and feel) powerful--something many young American women crave right now. And it's working.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 6h

You weren't even better off being a rich white baby born in 1850 than a black baby born today. Cornelius Vanderbilt II had seven kids. One got sick and died at 5. One died at 21yo from typhoid. One died at 37 aboard the Lusitania. One died at 45 from cirrhosis.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

But you shouldn't be too surprised when they say stuff like this:

"You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today."

I don’t want to take any guidance at all from the secular society around us. And the reason I don’t is they killed 60 million babies. I don’t want to hear any more lectures from these people about slavery. You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today.

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Douglas Horrell @cleftcraft.bsky.social · 17h

Ōtautahi has elected the last mayor of the 20th century, rather than the first mayor of the 21st.

Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 18h

V sad to see a thoughtful woman with a forward looking well evidenced plan for the future outdone by a gruff dude with a truck

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