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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

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Brittney Bush Double Play @brittneybush.bsky.social · 1d

Acceptable king

King Salmon from the Mariners Salmon Race.

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Natty🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏐🏈🐕🐴📎 @grillnatty.bsky.social · 3d

Good safety tips for Saturday

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 3d

This is what Marsden Grants in Humanities (now scrapped!) and a decade of research can achieve — "a compelling and significant contribution to understanding the reordering of power that shaped Aotearoa in the nineteenth century". www.bwb.co.nz/books/garris... @bwbnz.bsky.social 👏 #NZHistory #history

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3d

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niambh.bsky.social @niambh.bsky.social · 3d

How teenagers communicated before the internet.

A girl in a plaid patterned school uniform holds a green telephone receiver. A noticeboard, french windows and a plant in a macrame holder can be seen.

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niambh.bsky.social @niambh.bsky.social · 3d

Pre internet, teenage communication device.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 4d

My Listener interview with Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm, about meeting for the first time to play Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse, the real women at the centre of 'Pike River'. The film is, on every level, outstanding. Out on October 30, go see it. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

Robyn Malcolm, Melanie Lynskey, and Lucy Lawless on why the Pike River movie had to be made

The three NZ acting greats bring starpower to a film with a Jacinda Ardern cameo.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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niambh.bsky.social @niambh.bsky.social · 4d

Megastrike 23rd October: The Detail: New Zealand goes on strike, again www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta... #nzpols This will be amazing, I will certainly be there in support.

The Detail: New Zealand goes on strike, again

Tens of thousands of workers have had enough and will down tools in a week's time for a nationwide walkout.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 5d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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niambh.bsky.social @niambh.bsky.social · 6d

The many expressions of Zuko the cat. #catsofbluesky #petsofbluesky

Black cat with green eyes sticking out tongue

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niambh.bsky.social @niambh.bsky.social · 6d

Well this is frickin' alarming: 13 year old girl changes schools due to misogynistic bullying in class www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

13 year old girl changes schools due to misogynistic bullying in class

The teen says the behaviour of some of the boys at school was racist, homophobic and sometimes explicitly sexual.

www.rnz.co.nz

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niambh.bsky.social @niambh.bsky.social · 8d

Cool!!!

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

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niambh.bsky.social @niambh.bsky.social · 8d

Whoop whoop!!! Westland's Jacquie Grant poised to become NZ's second transgender mayor #nzpolitics #nzpols #pride #queerpride #transpower

Westland's Jacquie Grant poised to become NZ's second transgender mayor

"I think people are more interested in what's between my ears than what was between my legs 55 years ago."

www.rnz.co.nz

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niambh.bsky.social @niambh.bsky.social · 9d

Why did you think they weren't conservative? There's still lots of leasehold land there controlled by powerful white farmers...they are not giving up their colonial trophies easily.

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niambh.bsky.social @niambh.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations!

niambh.bsky.social @niambh.bsky.social · 10d

Big day on the ferry for Junie the Cavoodle #dogsofbluesky

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12d

#WarRavagedPortland

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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 13d

Oh, you are SO full of shit.

Where were you when Peters played a starring role in a co-ordinated campaign against Benjamin Doyle?

Where were you when Seymour joked about blowing up government departments, or mounted another online attack at yet another critic? #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Nicola Willis urges Greens to 'call off' protesters outside Winston Peters' home

Senior government ministers are accusing the Greens of condoning "indecency" after a window at the Foreign Minister's house was smashed.

www.rnz.co.nz

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niambh.bsky.social @niambh.bsky.social · 13d

niambh.bsky.social @niambh.bsky.social · 14d

Junie on the beach #dogsofbluesky

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niambh.bsky.social @niambh.bsky.social · 15d

The City to Sea Bridge and the legacy of trailblazing Māori architect Rewi Thompson www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

The City to Sea Bridge and the legacy of trailblazing Māori architect Rewi Thompson

The fate of the bridge described as a turning point for Māori architecture has swung back and forth over the past few months.

www.rnz.co.nz

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