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Mind of Sid James in Jenny Agutter's body. Descended from Frenchified Vikings. Former Egyptian Archaeologist. English. Tangata Tiriti. She/they. 🏳️‍🌈

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · Jun 9

It's that horrible damp cold in Te Whanganui-a-Tara today, the graveyard clamminess that seeps into your bones, that creeps under your clothes, the feeling of mould edging its way, silently, into your lungs, the wooden shack miasma that never quite seems to dry out

#NZgothic

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2h

Israel bombed south Lebanon overnight

This is what Israel means by ceasefire

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 5h

The Olive green areas are councils where citizens voted down Māori wards (the little blue blob in the middle is Kirikiriroa, which voted by a whisker to retain theirs).
Coincidentally those Olive green areas also pretty accurately represent land confiscated by the crown after the Waikato wars.

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 11h

Well fuck - Selwyn has elected a majority of Council with links to VFF, Act, and Trump fans. Maybe put that on the no fly list for the next three years

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 3h

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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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 6h

3) the huge swell in Saturday voters makes me more concerned about incoming disenfranchisement changes to same day enrolments for next year.
4) Selwyn should carry a travel advisory warning from now on, same with Cambridge and Hamilton.
5) the lack of civics education here is really showing.

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 6h

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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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 1d

> 10000 university jobs lost in 2024-25

"People could, even if they lost their job, get a job at another institution. That's not happening now"

"They're probably looking not only at the end of the a job, but really the end of their career in academia."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 4h

Hope everyone learnt their stupid damn lesson from this:

1. taking money from the crazy toxic people will get you billboards everywhere, but also cover you in their stink

2. giving toxic money to people stupid enough to take it just gets you the worst candidates money can buy

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21h

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.

www.skypeascientist.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 9h

He MIGHT get ousted by special votes as he's only a few hundred votes in the lead in his ward

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 9h

True

Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, no Muollo is a relief.

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 9h

I love the fact that his justification for his piss poor result in the local elections is that Wellington City voters are uninformed and don't know what they're voting for.

Of all the ways to show how spectacularly you are off the mark, to suggest Wellington is politically ignorant...amazing

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 9h

Has Ray Chung ever considered that Wellington's voters, in the city that has two Green MPs, and usually votes Labour or Green, might, and this will shock him, actually want Green/Labour policies?

This is indeed what we have chosen.

Live with it, Ray.

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womblingweka.bsky.social @womblingweka.bsky.social · 10h

Marlborough, so depressing. With councillors' names like Cyril, David, Brian & John you can get the gist of age, gender & ethnicity. And the area famous for being one of the earliest places of Māori settlement in NZ voted to reject Māori wards 😞Not surprising given the ACT candidates got in 😭

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Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 11h

Selwyn Waikirikiri has voted in ALL of Paul's red flags 🙄 #nzpol

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 9h

He's such a turd. He's just being a baby because most of Wellington dislikes him intensely.

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 9h

One of biggest disappointments of my life has been the realisation that a lot of people are really fucking dim.

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 9h

'Better Wellington'

Nobody likes you.

Nobody likes your candidates.

Nobody likes your ideas.

Please, take the hint and fuck off.
betterwellington.org.nz/strongest-te...

Strongest team in over 20 years contests Wellington City Council elections – Better Wellington

betterwellington.org.nz

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 9h

Wellington's Independent Together coterie of thinly-veiled Better Wellington candidates, all promoting self-interest before 'Party Politics' aka progressive investment, can now kindly FUCK OFF

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Joel MacManus @joelmacmanus.bsky.social · 10h

The new Wellington City Council will include 5 Labour councillors and 4 Green councillors, plus Andrew Little, giving the two party "coalition" an increased governing majority - 10 out of 16 votes, compared to 8 under the previous council.

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 11h

Might need a bit of a dust

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