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Cui bono? #unprecedentedTimes so now what? Greenie vegan banshee, nutrivore, attachment parent of 2 teens, child of 2 countries tech writer idling on 2-stroke engine. Factivist -more fair than kind. Crops not corpses. She/her

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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · Aug 7

Cui bono? #nzpol

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Nandor Tanczos @nandortanczos.bsky.social · 47m

MĀORI WARDS
40% of areas chose to keep Māori wards. Some by a wide margin.

A better result than I expected, given the demographics and embedded racism in our country.

In areas that lost, I'd love to know whether the numbers have improved since any previous referendum.

Aotearoa on the move.

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 26m

Good interview and shocking that world leaders including Biden, Trudeau, and Macron did not take her calls when she sought aid in protecting Afghan women.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her

The global icon of women’s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen wi...

www.theguardian.com

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KOMakesThings @komakesthings.bsky.social · 2h

I finally finished my next Youtube tutorial! This time it's a detailed guide on how to make your own Didymus Plush replica, just like the one from Sarah's Bedroom in Labyrinth!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfO5...

How to make Sarah's Sir Didymus Plush from Jim Henson's Labyrinth

YouTube video by KOMakesThings

www.youtube.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2h

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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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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 1h

We’re gonna build a Death Star!

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 2h

The two subdivisions of Albert-Eden could be retitled "woke" and "not woke". We go City Vision and the Epsom people, who are not like us, go C&R, so there's a deadlock on the local board. Damn, Mark Graham and Michelle Thorp weren't far off though. A few hundred votes.

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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks to the North Shore for having me back as your councillor. I’m proud to be the highest polling councillor on the Shore again and with the highest vote tally of any councillor in Auckland this time around.

Please read my long post here: www.facebook.com/share/176XZv...

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 2h

She was an absolutely wonderful actress- and a rare and fascinating person. Thoughts with her children and sisters. Rest in peace Diane.

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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 4h

Bottom feeder youth, get fucked

Get off the PlayStation and TRY HARDER NOT TO BE UNEMPLOYED
#nzpol

Thousands of teens to lose Jobseeker Support | Now You Know | The Spinoff

YouTube video by The Spinoff

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 3h

Just remember that this guy was gifted AoNZ citizenship by John Key, he is a fucking disgrace. #nzpol

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This is what happens when you become a billionaire, once you've bought everything that can be bought and own everything you always wanted to own the only thing left to do is talk shit, get your face in the media, and score as many ego points as possible.

The man is dead inside, empty.

Peter Thiel reportedly linked Greta Thunberg and AI skeptics to the Antichrist

In a four-part lecture series on his views of religion, billionaire Peter Thiel reportedly said Luddites are the Antichrist.

go.stonking.com

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 4h

Well, that didn’t go how I hoped it would. To say I’m a little disappointed in the NZ voting public’s decision on Māori wards is an understatement. Here’s a thought about aspiring to the bare minimum (& given our #nitrate problem even that might be too much)
My Stuff #cartoon today #nzpol

Cartoon. Title: “A Traditional Local Body Election Blessing” Image shows a fairy with a wand, dressed in orange, beside a levitating voting box. She’s saying, “May all your municipal dreams come true!” And then, “And if you can’t have that, may your reticulated water be potable”

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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 13h

I get a birthday e-card every year from someone's Aunnie and Umpy!

JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 13h

Low bar, but absolutely valid!

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 14h

Got an ad for a fashionable potato sack that ships in 24 hours, for the cult leader who's in a hurry and needs to shame her followers when they try to escape

Brown, sack-like, floor length dress. The model is not smiling.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 14h

Order Has Been Restored 🙄
I said sarcastically to my family this evening

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 17h

#nzpol with Andrew Little and the new Labour Councillors, celebrating the victory in Wellington. 31,000 doors knocked on, 8,000 phone calls made. Wellington is in safe hands and has a brighter future.

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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 17h

CnR plus ACT omg 🤮 Orākei!

JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 17h

😄 Ray 'grace' Chung

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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 18h

I tried! Me and about 50k Aucklanders again… 😪

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

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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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 19h

Great news!

JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 19h

A loss to all of us!

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Cath S @cathsheard.bsky.social · 19h

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