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Lotographia on various other social networks. Person of Pōneke, Aotearoa. They/He (in that order). Green Party supporter & volunteer. Lego collector. Trying to build a website and write a book and failing at both. "David Thomsen".

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 7h

No but I have one in order, not sure why this needs a headline tho

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 9h

WHEN DID THIS CHANGE COME INTO EFFECT

I need to go look back through everything I have ever said

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 10h

Also I just googled 'meaning of nonce/nonse' and apparently NZ English and UK English have VERY different meanings of the word 😬

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 10h

omg I am such a nonce I thought it was tomorrow, that's why I was chasing it up 🙄

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks, I plan to rock up anyway for the open day, but in my email I said that two of the slots would work for me so it would be useful to know I got my first option or second option slot 😅

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 11h

I am sorry but the order of my gobe just should not concren these people

Headline in RNZ with a picture of two men shaking hands. Caption reads: "Singapore and NZ PMs concrened about new gobal order"

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 12h

I sent an email to events.natlib last night but haven't heard back, do you know if I'll hear back by the end of the day?

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. He's also truly responsible for the occupation at parliament, if we follow the same standards he applies to Chlöe.

If he wants to play this game he is going to lose so badly.

Winston Peters meeting with the people who occupied parliament, set the grounds on fire, threw bricks at police, and intimidated the residents of Thorndon. By his own standards he is explicitly condoning their behaviour.

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 1d

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 1d

I love when they wind up Gerry

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 1d

I'm pretty sure the Bluesky community alone would be willing to crowdfund the value of this awesome painting.

🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 1d

As a lifelong Wellingtonian, 1) I think it's entirely appropriate that our first wāhine Māori mayor gets a painted mayoral portrait and 2) $7000 is fuck all for a painting like this. What a bargain.

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 2d

I have just watched your speech and the media doesn't report your grace, just your fire. I think it's fair to say you spoke with both grace and fire 💚

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 2d

ralph wiggam dot gif government

Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 2d

This government are fools, absolute fools #NZPol

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File pictureNew rules limit benefits for teenagers to those whose parents who earn less than $65,000 a year. Photo: 123rf.com
New rules that limit benefits for teenagers to those whose parents who earn less than $65,000 a year will create perverse disincentives to low-income families taking on more work, commentators say.

The government announced at the weekend that parents need to earn less than $65,529 for 18- and 19-year-olds to qualify for Jobseeker benefits.

The income limit would be set at the cut-out point for a couple with children receiving the Supported Living Payment and would be adjusted annually.

Craig Renney, policy director at the Council of Trade Unions - who is also on Labour's policy council and a former adviser to then-Finance Minister Grant Robertson - said that amount was equal to two parents working 27 hours a week at minimum wage.

What's going to happen to home loan rates? Listen to No Stupid Questions with Susan Edmunds
"That's around three days at work per week each. If the parents earn one dollar above the cap, then their child gets nothing. But if one parent works one hour less - giving up $23.50 a week, then their child now gets $261 a week. The household is much better off if the parents work less.

"In fact, the parents can work 11 hours a week less and the household would still be better off. With secondary benefits kicking in, such as Accommodation Supplement or Working for Families (WFF) - assuming they have other children - then this might even stretch further."

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 3d

I am so done with this bullshit.

NZ First mingled with a crowd who set fire to the grounds of parliament.

The Greens marched with a hīkoi that did not leave a scrap of litter on those same grounds.

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 3d

They're really trying to Charlie Kirk this brick through Winston Peters' window, eh? Diminish the actual weight of incident by making it into the fault of whoever they feel like discrediting at the time, while failing to reflect on how their own behaviour might have ever incited violence.

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 4d

Fun fact: When I was 18-19 I had extremely little real world experience and would have been easily exploited by unscrupulous business owners.

Luxon telling teenagers to leave their support networks and go be transient gig workers is extremely Luxon.

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 4d

Path #1: "The economy isn't that bad"
Path #2: "The economy is in a state, but it isn't Willis' fault"

Is this some kind of pick-a-path adventure? Because if it is, like, you've actually got to pick a path.

News article featuring a picture of Nicola Willis. Heading says "Opinion: Nicola Willis is right - the economy isn't that bad". Subheading says: "Blaming the current state of the economy on Willis' leadership ignores aspects of the bigger picture, writes Dennis Wesselbaum".

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 7d

so fab 😭

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 7d

The "you guys are getting paid?" meme, but instead the text says "you guys have brains that brain?"

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 7d

a close up of a woman 's face with the words movieclips.com visible in the corner

Alt: Character from the film The Birds looking at The Birds

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 7d

I don't know which particular Pakeha dudes you're referring to but I fully agree with the sentiment

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 7d

I don't know why they think it's a big deal that this entity is a virgin, I already spend eight hours a day with a virgin (Windows 11)

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 7d

I am at the "periodically checking my enrolment details" stage of distrust for this government.

And yes it is the government rather than the electoral commission that I distrust. The commission had always been fine until this government came along and suddenly leftist voters started having issues.

Electoral Commission

Enrol, check or update your details here.

enrol.vote.nz

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 8d

Like, I absolutely hate what they are currently doing while in power, but I acknowledge that they legitimately have that power, even if that power is based on deception.

But if they keep messing with the electoral system like this I will be unable to acknowledge their governance as legitimate.

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 8d

What the shit! Preventing people from voting outside their electorate?!?

The fact that they were even CONSIDERING this idea, even if they never pursued it, shows how little they care about democracy. They will fuck up any shit they can in order to stay in charge.

Sorry about ranty but livid 😡

Michael Bain @mikejbain.bsky.social · 8d

This coalition of callous cant’s are the worst government we have ever had. As if removing voter registration 2 weeks before an election, now blatant suppression. #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

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