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Bauhausandmies 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇿 @bauhausandmies.bsky.social · 6h

American Fundamentalist Christianity is fucked.

"Do a back flip!" Yelled the rest of Cabinet.

"I can see my house from here" mused Willis from in the helicopter.

"Spot of odd weather they're having, innit?" Said the RW voter from their private island in the bay.

"Anyone see me push?" Asked Luxon as he went back in the helicopter.

#nzpol

Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 21h

Govt to cut #JobSeeker benefit for 18 & 19 year olds who’s parents earn over $65,000, even if the teens have a disability or health condition. With #CostOfLiving & the job shortage they’re cranking up stress levels to 11, all to meet a target.
My #cartoon today about hard-nosed #NZpol

Cartoon. Title: “Job Seeee-e-e-e” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon at the open hatch of a small plane, high above farmland. He’s leaning out, and holding up a parachute pack, labelled “Job Seeker” He’s calling out to someone falling from the plane, “And I’ve kept your parachute because you kids from low-income homes need some motivation” Then he adds, “Don’t let that disability slow you down!”

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 16h

Oh, so the govt wants tech companies to branch into military technology, but a 20 year old does it in his living room and it's a no-no?

Whatever happened to supporting local businesses?

Or is this another office Kash set up and forgot to tell anyone?

#nzpol

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 17h

Home-made, 3D printed guns seized in Auckland police raid

A 20-year-old man was arrested.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 16h

Fifth reason - eventually things will just get better.

When pigs fly? Guess we could sell rides across Cook Straight and boost the economy that way.

#nzpol

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 19h

The flimflamer accusing others of flimflamming?

Does he think we're going to swallow his?

Why do I feel gross after saying that?

#nzpol

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 20h

'Flimflam': Peters vows to keep grilling Fonterra over sale of Mainland and Anchor

"Please don't give us some flimflam and think we're going to swallow it."

www.rnz.co.nz

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 19h

Let me guess, everything Chorus has installed is included in the sale?

So it would be yet another piece of our country's infrastructure being maintained by a private company?

Sure glad those landlords got a tax cut though. Can people cross the Cook Straight yet?

#nzpol

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 19h

Government mulls possible sale of Chorus

The Finance Minister says with the completion of the ultra-fast broadband fibre initiative, there's no longer a policy reason for the Crown to own Chorus.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 1d

"I can't tell if this video is AI. Is anything real anymore!?"

Really? Now you think you're being lied to?

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 1d

So, any word on those kidnapped Kiwi in Israel?

Or did people stop caring about your broken window?

#nzpol

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 1d

'Giving it away': Winston Peters lays into Fonterra over sale of iconic brands

The NZ First leader is demanding answers over the sale of brands including Mainland and Anchor.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 1d

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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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, if we're gonna be pedants, is the King County the Waikato?

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 1d

So I've just a nose on Google (a very reputable source) and it says Parliamentary Services are funded through the govt, and the fund is administered by the Speaker of the House.

So Brownlie allowed it?

Sometimes I think civis is confusing on purpose, ya know? 😅

Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 1d

Oh. That's convenient. Are we paying to be told this as we're driving down Te Rapa Rd? Cause I've got a few notes on the design at the very least.

At least his ones about relevant holidays are festive...

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 1d

So, a few things here.

16 isn't a lot for the whole Waikato.

More stores have shut than opened in those 3 years, and more are closing.

2025 isn't over yet.

But more importantly, who the bloody hell is paying for this shit and why?

#nzpol

Billboard for Hamilton West MP Tama Potaka, showing the difference between ram raid numbers in 2022 and 2025 in the Waikato. There were 16 ram raids in 2022, and 1 in 2025.

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a black shirt is making a funny face with his finger .

ALT: a man in a black shirt is making a funny face with his finger .

media.tenor.com

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking of Simpsons references.

#nzpol

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, they're technically right. We shouldn't be able to cause we shouldn't know as much as we do.

Strange that we do...

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 1d

Either Bishop hasn't had a loved one in a similar situation as this, or he has no empathy.

*Coughing fit from years of smoking*

Yeah nah, probably both...

#nzpol

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, if I was in the situation this govt has created for young people in this country, I'd be watching plenty of Instagram livestreams for some other addresses.

At least then the burglary charge wouldn't be bogus.

#nzpol

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 2d

I bet Willis wishes she had captions for her audiobooks.

#nzpol

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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 2d

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently Shakespeare invented calling someone "an egg" as an insult, I had no idea he was a New Zealander!

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 2d

That's one egg.

That's another egg.

Another egg.

Oh, another egg.

These'll become chickens, surely.

#nzpol

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 2d

National falls below 30% in latest Curia poll, left bloc could form government

Both Labour and National have taken hits, but the centre left bloc could form a government, according to Curia's polling.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 2d

Wait, AND she got the reference wrong!?

Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Nicola Willis?

She's making me scrub up on my Shakespeare. Doing a better job teaching English to the country than Stanford.

Or is this Art History?

#nzpol

Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 3d

"Um, actually, it's Shakespeare."

Good one Willis. That BA in English Literature is finally coming into good use, aye?

#nzpol

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, 250 years is a good innings, no?

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 2d

"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"

Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 2d

National promised the messiah and Aotearoa ended up with this dude
#nzpol

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