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Bear Jewess 🟦🎗️ @388shark.bsky.social · 7d

Where are the international security forces?

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 9d

Just FYI if your planning on moving remainder of mum-in-law into a retirement village after 4 massive days on the road working, hungover & in 30°C, don’t.

I’m fucked.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8d

👇👇

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Norah 🦋 Mami’s Small But She is Mighty 🔥 @thenoraheffect.bsky.social · 8d

This song has lived rent free in my head for the better part of 40 yrs 🥰

Good morning 👋🏽

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 8d

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carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 9d

His priorities are not America or it's people.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 8d

Yo NZ media & sycophant wannabe ‘look at me I’m doing journalism’ & most of all dog whistling commentariat, repeat after me.

STV isn’t a leftist tool.

It just returned a RW conservative Otago Regional Council in a RW conservative rural area.

How you gonna explain this one, ya fucking muppets.

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kiwikatnz.bsky.social @kiwikatnz.bsky.social · 8d

High in the mountains of #Ecuador 🇪🇨 lives a sage-like fluffy #rodent, the Ecuadorean #Viscacha, a critically endangered alpine wonder. Few remain alive due to #climatechange and #meat #agriculture 🥩🔥. Be #vegan for them #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-aoV

Ecuadorean Viscacha Lagidium ahuacaense

High in the remote granite outcrops of Cerro El Ahuaca, #Ecuador the Ecuadorean #Viscacha Lagidium ahuacaense is plump and fluffy #rodent sporting sage-like long whiskers. From their high perch the…

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 8d

Praying for this amazing man.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 8d

TAB have stopped taking bets on news headlines 2028, ‘Mayors who promised zero rates increases ousted as infrastructure crumbles & rubbish piling up on streets’

‘Why are the parks & playgrounds in a state of disrepair says voter who voters for parks to be in a state of disrepair’.

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kiwikatnz.bsky.social @kiwikatnz.bsky.social · 8d

Council to notify massive Coromandel bottom trawl ban, picking fight with Govt newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/10/w...

Council to notify massive Coromandel bottom trawl ban, picking fight with Govt

Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says the Waikato Regional Council proposal is an abuse of the RMA process and he's taking advice on his next moves, reports Andrew Bevin.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14d

Repeat after me & scream it from the fucking rafters

It's a Class War!

'I'm wealthy & I'm sorted' claims NZ's Prime Minister after making no apology for massive capital gains selling his real estate, all the while saying young people don't deserve welfare. What a hideous hateful bald cunt - fake christian fuckwit.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING

Judge Karin Immergut has called a 10PM ET hearing on Trump's effort to circumvent her National Guard order by calling up California troops and sending them to Portland.

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kiwikatnz.bsky.social @kiwikatnz.bsky.social · 14d

#Deforestation for #mining #palmoil 🌴 soy and meat 🥩 in #Brazil's Atlantic Forest 🌳 threatens #primates important to ecosystem seed dispersal like #muriquis 🐒 Resist and help them survive! Be #vegan #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-8ZZ

Declining primate numbers are threatening Brazil’s Atlantic forest

#Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, is facing severe threats due to deforestation and habitat fragmentation. This has led to a sharp decline in prim…

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kiwikatnz.bsky.social @kiwikatnz.bsky.social · 20d

Thousands more cows: Why they’re allowed and where they’ll go newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/29/t...

Thousands more cows: Why they’re allowed and where they’ll go

Canterbury’s milked dairy herd could increase by more than 18,000 cows – some in areas where water quality is already poor

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kiwikatnz.bsky.social @kiwikatnz.bsky.social · 22d

Coalition's Palestine cop-out puts pragmatism above principle newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/28/c...

Coalition's Palestine cop-out puts pragmatism above principle

Comment: The Government opts for the status quo in the face of an ever-deteriorating crisis in Gaza, Sam Sachdeva writes.

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 22d

"Many states have come to the conclusion that they need to recognise the state of Palestine to give it a chance of ever materialising. That's the issue, and New Zealand hasn't put its weight behind that."

"the Prime Minister should have fronted at the press conference last Monday” …
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'Sad charade': Former PM slams Govt decision on Palestinian statehood

Helen Clark has criticised New Zealand's decision not to recognise Palestinian statehood, calling it a missed opportunity

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kiwikatnz.bsky.social @kiwikatnz.bsky.social · 22d

Southern #Pudus are timid and wary tiny #deer 🦌one of the smallest in the 🌎, they hide in the undergrowth of #Argentina's forests 🇦🇷 They're 'Near Threatened' by #poaching and #deforestation. Raise your voice for them #Boycott4Wildlife ✊ @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-aoq