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Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿

@pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social

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If you are following me, you must like cats. Reposting to help moggies and doggies in need to find a forever home, having opinions on NZ politics, occasionally other stuff as well.

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Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 6h

I can’t wait to retire, for exactly this reason. We only get one life, and wasting so much of it at work is bullshit. (And alarm clocks are an invention of the devil.)

I have so many better things I could be doing!

A way off yet though.

Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 6h

Great news!

Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 6h

Or exhilarating!

Imagine the story he’ll tell the family now he’s home. 🤣

Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 6h

I hope today was better.

Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 9h

THIS. Sick of these selfish cunts.

(The CoC, not the unions, obv.)

Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 1d

“…I think people are getting sick of unions prioritising the politics over patients, or kids in education and parents being mucked around,"

No Christopher Luxon, people are getting sick of YOU prioritising your fiscal policies on your already wealthy mates, rather than on healthcare and education.

Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 19h

Some food for thought.

Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 2d

Finished my most recent article on why allyship is contradictory let me know what you think! open.substack.com/pub/kaimataa...

#nzpol #Maori #ally #communism #indigenous #socialism

White Allies Don't Exist

Why white allyship is a contradiction and what true solidarity requires.

open.substack.com

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Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 19h

A lot to think about. Thank you.

Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 1d

Same.

Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 1d

Same, and I don’t know when there will be a chance to undo this.

Whakamā. 🫤

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Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, not the word I used.

The guy has been a councillor in the last term, and seemed ok, but it is a concern.

I wish candidates had to disclose current/past party association as part of their candidacy.

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Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 1d

Today I learned (when it is far too late) that our new mayor may have historic links to the ACT Party!

Had I known that, I would not vote for him for anything, ever.

I only hope ACT have got too radical for him, and I *will* be asking when I get the chance.

Thought I had weeded out the cookers!

Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 1d

We can afford it, the government chooses not to spend the $$. ☹️

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Whiskers N Wishes Cat Sanctuary @wishesrescue.bsky.social · 2d

Remember Chad from a few days ago? This is his best friend SQUIDGE. Doesn't she have lovely eyes?! They are a bonded pair of perfect, wonderful cats. Adopt them in #Tucson!

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Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 2d

It’s the only way to be sure.

Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 2d

This is 100% the biggest reason I pay my rates. I don’t want literal 💩 backing up all over the place.

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck all the people who voted no to Māori wards

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Whiskers N Wishes Cat Sanctuary @wishesrescue.bsky.social · 2d

One-eyed tuxedo SYLVESTER is a super ultra baby. He loves to sit in your lap purring, or just hang out lounging nearby.

10yo Sylvester is neutered, vax'd, chipped, and wormed in #Tucson. Please come adopt this gentle soul!

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Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 2d

They aren’t tiny, but definitely not pancake-sized.

Best eaten warm. 🙂

Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 2d

Our colonial past is our colonial present. ☹️

Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 3d

The Olive green areas are councils where citizens voted down Māori wards (the little blue blob in the middle is Kirikiriroa, which voted by a whisker to retain theirs).
Coincidentally those Olive green areas also pretty accurately represent land confiscated by the crown after the Waikato wars.

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Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 2d

Burgundy?

a group of women in red robes and white hats

Alt: a group of women in red robes and white hats

media.tenor.com

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Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 2d

Known as a pikelet in NZ and Oz.

Pikelets Recipe NZ | Edmonds Cooking

Pikelets are delicious with butter and jam or jam and whipped cream - or with sour cream, smoked salmon and dill. Try this kiwi recipe

edmondscooking.co.nz

Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 2d

This seems relevant, given my sense of disappointment this weekend.

And, there’s cake! 😊

Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 3d

Pastry as an object lesson…

Dedication, precision, perseverance lead to eventual success even in the face of setbacks and despair. Whether in baking or political activism.

And the recipe for this cinnamon nut swirl coffee cake.

@contrariannews.org

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Cinnamon Nut Roll Coffee Cake

An object lesson

open.substack.com

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Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. And the shit he got when he said it…

We’re not big on introspection, either.

Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 2d

Same. As usual.

🫂

Pumpkin Spice NZ 🇳🇿 @pumpkinspicenz.bsky.social · 2d

Fuxache!