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Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · 22d

I took the gamut of 'useless' subjects, including three weeks of art history, so if you don't want to read my hot take I'll understand.

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I took art history for approximately three weeks in 1993, at the beginning of my seventh form year.

When the tantalising details run out, the breathless headlines are exhausted and the camera turns away, kids could still be in danger. Now is the time to call for an inquiry. This cannot happen again.

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Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · 26d

When the tantalising details run out, the breathless headlines are exhausted and the camera turns away, kids could still be in danger. Now is the time to call for an inquiry. This cannot happen again.

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A letter

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Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Aug 30

I self-identify as a battleaxe. 😂

It's a faffy, faffy thing, going au naturel.

Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Aug 30

"I almost can’t believe the brazen and nutty shit an inattentive world lets a middle-aged lady get away with."

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Hey hey! I'm grey!

Thought for the day, 28 August 2025

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Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Aug 28

Maybe we just stop bearing the unbearable.

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I'm not watching the Loafer's Lodge trial.

Thought for the day, 20 August 2025

Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Aug 20

If you are a dad, a man, I implore you. You're better than this miserable stereotype - and you know it because you live it, every day you love your kids and respect their mother. Stand strong, get loud.

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Here's a curious thing.

Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Aug 3

The year was 1991.

It was the last time the Red Hot Chili Peppers would have an original musical idea. Terminator 2 came out and we loved it, because back then an apocalypse by rapacious humans and unfettered machine intelligence seemed like a bad thing.

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Average

The year was 1991.

Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Jul 26

Thank you! ❤️

This one goes out to all the dropkicks

Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Jul 26

"Dropkicks may not always be elegant, especially panicked ones just before the full-time whistle, but they can still win matches."

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Some people in this life have their shit together naturally.

It was Ray Chung who pushed me over the edge.

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Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Jul 14

I'm not interested in boobs. We've elected enough of them already.

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Ray of hopelessness

The angry dudes got something right. We don't have one person, one vote.

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Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Jul 13

Everyone likes the rules when they’re winning the game.

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Fuelled by grumpiness, I set out to explore claims that Māori have special electoral privileges. I discovered privilege, alright - but it's not for Māori.

Thought for the day, 7 July 2025

Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Jul 7

Remind me again why when it comes to professional ethics, the ones at the top are so proud of their unaccountable race to the bottom?

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Honestly, I've had the most extraordinary day.

This sounds like it's going to be boring or just about numbers, but I hope you'll be surprised. As always, I'm writing in my personal capacity.

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Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Jun 29

David Seymour was right, kind of. These may not be the words you want to hear right now. Stick with me a little longer.

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Heroes and zeroes

For months, I’ve been working on a piece about firearms, and I need to thank my paid subscribers especially for giving me the space and grace to do it.

Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Jun 21

Bless you, Brian Tamaki. I see your thugs marched today against both gays and immigration.

Did you think we've been importing gays? Because parents like me have been manufacturing them locally.

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Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Jun 14

The problem with the topic of firearms is that it’s just so big. I keep tumbling down rabbit holes. Here’s one rabbit hole I think is important.

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Fit and proper

How quickly we forget that most of us were immigrants once, if you go back.

Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Jun 12

We watch these people hated and hunted while our own ancestors, just the same as them, look down from the pictures on our walls.

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Immigrant song

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Three things have bothered me these last few days, although they're really just symptoms of a bigger thing.

Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · May 27

"I want so much for our boys not to run it straight, but to run it straight back."

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Our disposable boys

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It's not a House. It's a home.

Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · May 15

OK, no. I don't know what you'd pay for jousting sticks.

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I'm catching up with today's news, and I'm disappointed (if completely unsurprised) that we've missed the opportunity for a conversation about the role of tikanga in Parliament.

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Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · May 13

"Look, I don't have a problem with the C word. But like any responsible user, I appreciate there's some careful etiquette around it."

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See you next Tuesday

Look, I don't have a problem with the C word.

Thought for the day, 12 May 2025

Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · May 12

On holding the line, online.

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Pondering.

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What if we just let ourselves fall in love with the land?

Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Apr 27

Who's a dick? It's actually me. Nadine's book talk is 26 May. Post duly corrected.

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An entwinement with the kupu of my friend.

Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Apr 21

As the mum of much-loved takiwātanga kids, I was going to make a thoughtful and nuanced response to RFK's comments about autism destroying whānau.

But it basically boiled down to this.

Bro, Kennedys don't get to lecture the rest of us about shit families inheriting unfortunate characteristics.

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Anna McMartin/The End is Naenae @annamcmartin.bsky.social · Apr 20

When I felt like I'd hit rock bottom, a friend I hadn't even met was there for me.

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Three years

This post is for Dan.