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Shansen - famously the founder of antifas wife @srhansen.bsky.social · 2h

Oh man, it would be so funny to personally hand him a comically large invoice for the damage done to the grounds.

Remind him that his cooker mates burned down a playyard and pissed and shat on the Cenotaph. Using his logic - he did it.

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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 3h

"The government is spending an extra $1.6 billion on superannuation, because of an ageing population."

This is exactly the sort of thing it is impossible to budget for, poor Nicola. Snakes and snails! #nzpol

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 2h

We should be hitting him up for the Parliament grounds clean-up too. Including the children's playground that got burnt

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 3h

The good South American sugar.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 3h

They should be two video game characters. Ant is strong and hard working but has a overwhelming liking for sugar which leads to trouble while Dec is handsome and brave but not quite the full deck of cards.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 3h

Nope I don't.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 5h

#NZpol

"What's up?" sayeth Bsky.

Andrew Hoggard being an utterly irresponsible person with power that'll affect us for years is what.

This is indeed who ACT are.

Destruction, degradation and decades of cleaning up their mess - if we even get a chance to after they've finished.

A disaster zone.

Clipped from my Blogpost on ACT:

"Whether fuming about the place of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, criticising the Human Rights commission (calling for its total abolishment because it is a “Far Left” organisation), riding the “law and order” outrage platform the hardest of any Party, all of these politically charged complaints ignoring the wider socioeconomic conditions of the country, a more complex understanding of gangs (comparing Ōpōtiki to Somalia is the latest utterance of Seymour), all the very tensions we are seeing that they would do much to exacerbate, before positioning themselves as “victim” of their very own, destructively myopic views, rolling back safeguards on the environment and letting the always failed, fictional safeguards of “letting the market decide” when market-led “solutions” are a lot of why we’re in the strife we are in the first place, and that may even disrupt our relations with trading partners if we’re bluntly honest…

ACT is essentially a distressingly successful Right-wing grievance movement acting on behalf of the rage of the hyper-privileged of this country, all packaged up and masquerading as a political Party."

ORIGINAL BLOGPOST REF
https://exhalantblog.wordpress.com/2023/06/17/act-ing-on-instincts-that-are-giving-a-serious-headache-to-the-right-as-much-as-the-many/

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xX💖🌹Xx_dolly_Angelic_xX🌹💖Xx @dollyeldritch.bsky.social · 4h

Christian authoritarian fuck couldn't point out love and care in a love and care factory.

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 8h

#nzpol

GOOD NEWS ALERT 🚨

Today the government relented to pressure from the @livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social and retained the requirement for contracted workers to be paid at least the Living Wage rate in Government Contracts. Around 5,000 workers will likely benefit from this decision

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 5h

This is the guy who said he'd "move heaven and Earth to get you (children) a good education" and then cancelled school building projects. Which they have re-instated. So, not really, eh.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 10h

Happy birthday !!

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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 1d

Where's the $170m gone?
#nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/24/1...

$170m promised for EV chargers yet to materialise

The National Party promised to "supercharge" electric vehicle infrastructure but critics say it’s more of a trickle.

newsroom.co.nz

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 14h

Look, these Hard Working Kuwees can't be expected to think of the future. There's money to be made from despoiling the environment. Soz grandkids (not soz).

Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 14h

We saw it in Palmy a bit after 9. It was a big 'un all right. So bright too. Thanks for the HU

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cryoutloud26 @cryoutloud26.bsky.social · 16h

thestandard.nz/national-cra...

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Ed @actuallyedwin.bsky.social · 1d

Big Moon visible after 9pm in Auckland.

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 1d

#nzpol Sharing, just incase you missed these awful comments made by Winston Peters in Dunedin and reported back on 3 October.

archive.ph/2025.10.03-0...

archive.ph

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Char @kiwichar.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NewZealand

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect!

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 1d

He'll be re-reading "Six Steps To Positive Leadership" by Margaret Thatcher, tonight.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 1d

Look, he was talking about another orchard in another town. You won't know them.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 1d

The Muppet Christmas Carol without the jokes.

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deb te kawa nō aotearoa @debtekawa-ao.bsky.social · 2d

I lived in Molesworth Street during the 2022 occupation. It wasn’t “peaceful”; it was filth and menace. People shat and pissed on our lawns. Emergency workers were blocked from reaching neighbours. The smell lingered for weeks.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 1d

Oh that guy. There's a cliff named after him in Whanganui. Probably fell off it.

natlib.govt.nz

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 1d

Was this before he wrote "A Tale of Two Cities"?

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