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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 6h

Gonna time travel to 2015 and tell them the only good thing in the 2025 world is saluting frogs

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 5h

#nzpol Excellent news.

Rodders from NZ @roddersclassics.bsky.social · 6h

Jami-Lee Ross, gone and (nearly) forgotten…

Jami-Lee Ross has again been rejected by voters.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 4h

#NZpol Not holding my breath, but I’d love to see Winston Peters apologise to the protesters and Green Party members he attacked over the burglary*

“Hudson told Stuff his client wanted to be clear that he was not part of any protest activity outside Peters’ house”

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Man accused of burglary at Winston Peters’ house pleads not guilty, keeps name secret

The man pleaded not guilty and is not allowed to go within 1km of Winston Peters’ home.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 3h

Ditto, thank you Paul

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 4h

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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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 14h

#nzpol
As ever, Anne Salmond is on point

"When Act mounted its despicable Victim of the Day campaign, delivered by Act’s parliamentary staffers at the taxpayers’ expense and attacking individual scholars as ‘deranged,’ that was another attack on institutional autonomy and academic freedom."

Anne Salmond: Academic freedom and its enemies

In NZ there are chilling moves towards illiberal democracy. While they are being strongly resisted so far, political leaders and others must wake up.

newsroom.co.nz

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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry to hear that Jeff.
Here, I made you some cakes 😊 x

a black forest cake with cherries and whipped cream on top

ALT: a black forest cake with cherries and whipped cream on top

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Suzi and Rose @suzirose.bsky.social · 12h

“They fear the future, they dream of a world that never was and never could be, they’re exclusionary, they’re humourless – they’re this coalition.”

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 17h

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned

newsroom.co.nz

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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 8h

98.7% of 166k submissions against!!!

Rights Aotearoa @rightsaotearoa.bsky.social · 11h

🔽🔽🔽Emergency media release 🔽🔽🔽

The F&E select committee reported back yesterday.
98.7% of 166k submissions against the Regulatory Standards Bill.

But the Govt is going ahead.

"This is an attempted constitutional coup d'état by other means." - Paul Thistoll

www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...

Media Release: Rights Aotearoa calls for united Opposition commitment to repeal the Regulatory Standards Act in the first 30 days of any future left-wing coalition government, should the Bill become l...

The select committee's report, released yesterday, represents only cosmetic adjustments to legislation that remains fundamentally unconstitutional, anti-democratic, and catastrophically harmful to hum...

www.rightsaotearoa.nz

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 10h

A beautiful Freudian slip there at 0:46

"We will not be delivering"

At least she was honest there. Increasing Crown debt by $27.7 billion in six months while cutting services, and not having a pandemic to worry about is definitely "not delivering"

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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 8h

Fuck 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 15h

I'm doing live updates on the local election results this afternoon on RNZ, if you want to be the first to know how much of a crushing victory 'did not vote' had across the country

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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 14h

Yum!

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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 14h

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kiwisockpuppet.bsky.social @kiwisockpuppet.bsky.social · 1d

The three billion you gave to landlords could also have gone towards hospitals and schools #nzpol

New Zealand Herald (Unofficial) @nzherald.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 Willis said Chorus move does not amount to asset sales, insists economy is improving.

👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

Nicola Willis says Chorus sales money could go towards funding hospitals and schools

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 1d

1. Anne Salmond: Hunger Games in the Beehive
Radical libertarian ideologies are generating extreme inequality and ripping the social fabric of NZ, writes Anne Salmond. Don’t we want to be a place where talent wants to live?
newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/04/a...

Anne Salmond: Hunger Games in the Beehive

Comment: Radical libertarian ideologies are generating extreme inequality and ripping the social fabric of NZ, writes Anne Salmond. Don’t we want to be a place where talent wants to live?

newsroom.co.nz

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 18h

“Sure I destroyed the economy to give tens of billions of dollars to landlords and rich donors, but look I found some assets to sell that *could* be spent on fixing school buildings and if you believe that, you’ll believe anything”.

New Zealand Herald (Unofficial) @nzherald.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 Willis said Chorus move does not amount to asset sales, insists economy is improving.

👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

Nicola Willis says Chorus sales money could go towards funding hospitals and schools

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 17h

This is the sort of thing that AoNZ needs to have ready to go in case of our increasingly regular natural disasters.

TerraWatts2010 @terrawatts2010.bsky.social · 17h

Paired Power’s modular microgrid targets is assembly-free remote industrial and agricultural applications and rural electrification for Indigenous communities. 🔌💡
www.ess-news.com/2025/10/09/g...

'Grid in a box' combines storage and solar PV modules for a microgrid in a 20 ft. container - Energy Storage

Paired Power’s modular microgrid targets is assembly-free remote industrial and agricultural applications and rural electrification for Indigenous communities.

www.ess-news.com

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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 15h

Ya can’t park there!

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 17h

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned

newsroom.co.nz

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 15h

Last few hours to get your vote in for local elections, Aotearoa!

a poster that says friends do n't let friends not vote

ALT: a poster that says friends do n't let friends not vote

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 15h

Other than the mayor, which seems a reasonably foregone conclusion, genuinely uncertain of the parameters of the Council Wellington is going to get.

Could be a slight shift to the left, drift to the centre, or an increase in the hard right bloc.

Still 2 1/2 hours to vote if you want a say!