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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 8h

Currently working their magic in Portland.

alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 10h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 1d

All the best for your treatment. The fainting couch will be worth its weight in gold.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 1d

What fresh horror this way comes?

Eloquentsonia @eloquentsonia.bsky.social · 1d

Corin Dann is leaving Morning Report. Time for a shake-up? #WhoCaresAnymore

www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Morning Report's Corin Dann appointed RNZ’s new Business Editor

Dann joined Morning Report in 2019.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 1d

Dave Brown @DaveBrownToons @Independent cartoon after #SirDavidLow on #Trump #Blair #Netanyahu #IsraelGaza #Ceasefire #Gaza - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 3d

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 2d

I’d have had to be tranquilised if I’d been up there.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 2d

The cruel face of the farming lobby. Greed, eff you and you can’t make me ethos rolled up in a package that stuffs the environment, animals and future farming and tourism.Clean and green overwhelmed by these awful people. Sad for any farmer doing organic, free range, your mates are stuffing you.

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2d

Andrew Hoggard says he will allow cancer-linked glyphosate to be increased by 100 x in our food production.

He's also ignored a High Court order telling farmers to remove cruel farming practices around pigs - extending the 2025 due date out by 10 years. This is ACT #nzpol #kiwi

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 2d

Yes that would be a good way to look at it.

MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a lot to think about. Daughter had just turned 12 when she had major spinal surgery. Lots of emotions. The consequences of not doing it were big, it helped I knew someone whose child had gone through it a year or two before.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 3d

Someone was surveilling the Christchurch conference centre this morning. The drone hovered for a bit then swooped around. New police toy, who dis?

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 3d

It wouldn’t be a day in NZ if either Queenstown or Auckland business owners or farmers were whining to the news cameras. Over entitled greed.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 3d

Won’t provide decent worker housing, won’t pay decent wages, will whine endlessly for news cameras.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a lovely book, so powerful and sad.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 4d

Good luck.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 4d

Boy I wish One NZ was as quick to act on graffiti reports! We have on of their cellphone towers near us and the box beside it has been tagged on two sides. Nearly two months of back and forth and no action. Suspect a lot is chatbot. Useless.

cmdr-unifex.bsky.social @cmdr-unifex.bsky.social · 4d

So... Looks like One NZ folded to political pressure at the merest hit of attention. The only weapon I have to make a statement is my wallet.

I've been with Vodafone/One for more than 25 years. Looking for advice on who to switch to for mobile and internet. #NZPol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

One NZ cuts actor from ads over protest outside Peters' house

The activist, who gave out the home address of Foreign Minister Winston Peters and encouraged other pro-Palestine protesters to join, is also one of the faces of One NZ’s advertising campaigns.

www.stuff.co.nz

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 4d

The ugly face of agricultural lobbying. Support free range if you can.

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 4d

Officials say farrowing crate changes could be done by 2030, but Andrew Hoggard extended it to 2035, a move criticised by the Greens: "He's the minister of animal welfare, he's not the minister of pig farming.“

Minister of animal welfare delays farrowing crates changes - by 10 years

Officials say farrowing crate changes could be done by 2030, but Andrew Hoggard extended it to 2035, a move criticised by the Greens: "He's the minister of animal welfare, he's not the minister of pig farming.“

dlvr.it

MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 4d

Nice. Might be just outshone by the trailer I saw in the Chch red zone. Homemade bathtub with shower head on a pole and strapped in and sitting up like ruler of the universe a little Frenchie 😊

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 4d

Coffee catch up with friends and a couple of errands including dropping off voting papers at supermarket and buying the winning lotto ticket. So easy.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 4d

For all we know it could have been an agent provocateur stirring up trouble to taint the pro Palestine protestors.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t hold back Paul.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 4d

Morning laugh.

Bloom County Outland @bloomcountyoutland.bsky.social · 5d

Willy Nilly

#bloomcounty #billthecat #opus #goodmorning #comics #oliver #outland #SteveDallas

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 4d

TV1 news just now had a great chyron Badycam! Police wearing Badycams.

MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 5d

No word on the guns but this guy posted on FB about guns, presumably his collection. Not very smart, put a target on himself.

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 5d

The man’s body was found at a home in Beckenham, Christchurch on Saturday morning in what police have described as a “perplexing” case.

Gun collector’s ‘unexplained death’ investigated by police

The man’s body was found at a home in Beckenham, Christchurch on Saturday morning in what police have described as a “perplexing” case.

dlvr.it

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 5d

I wish more people would focus on the do a poo thing. As a Christchurch eq survivor not being able to flush your poo without consequences is essential. Need grounded council to understand this.

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MonzaGT @monzagt.bsky.social · 5d

I saw Prime Minister and VFF staged a sign holding protest right outside Clarke’s parents’ house. Highly visible to those in the house.Targeted but intimidating, especially as children in the house. I don’t think that should be allowed.

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