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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 1h

If you wanted to support Australia's "Right To Know" website right now, something you can do is sign up for their Pro version.

(might even be a business expense for some of you)

www.righttoknow.org.au

Make and browse Freedom of Information (FOI) requests

www.righttoknow.org.au

Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2h

Be careful interpreting political polls.

As much as it's nice to see Aotearoa reacting to our government being awful, nz political contentment is heavily influenced by how the All Blacks are doing than actual politics.

And they recently lost to South Africa.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 3h

I get that many people can't see that an image is AI gen. What i don't understand is how offended they are when you tell them.

Knowing how to spot it (and seriously it's pretty obvious in some images) is a skill you gotta have these days. And if u not gonna learn it, accept you'll get it wrong

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 4h

Spent way too long checking if this was AI gen

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 15h

I did it!

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 17h

People act like their needs are produced magically by shops. For so many people, the concept of getting it yourself is nefarious... Like, the producer is allowed to pull it from the whenua but not us normies.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 17h

Anyways, now I know how all these things are made, and where to get some. All my needs, they come from nature. Whether you grow yourself or outsource the growing. It's all from the whenua.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 17h

But when that wasn't enough to avoid plastic I ended up buying the ingredients. When those only came in plastic, I grew the ingredients.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 17h

I start with plastic free in about 2018. It made me think a bit harder when getting groceries and everything else. Nudged me into buying different brands, mostly local not supermarkets.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 1d

Here we go Wellington. You're gonna be more boring

Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 21d

When every renter has their vote cancelled out by landlords vote, and young people have to leave to afford to buy, and anyone who works in social services or policy has moved to Australia....

Can predict the Wellington election result as the most boring 50year olds favourite white man centrist.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 1d

I thought breaking someone's home window was already illegal.... No law changes needed.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Protest at Winston’s house: Where the line was crossed, and how the law is set to change

Protests outside Winston Peters’ house are the latest in a long line of increasingly personal incidents involving politicians.

www.stuff.co.nz

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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 1d

Senior doctors and dentists to join massive strike this month

The union has voted in favour of a four-hour strike.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think they have any money tho.

Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

so, this is what i do for a job now. I look after a bunch of websites like this one:

theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/repre...

This show how often an MP turns up to parliament, and how they vote on everything.

and i'd really like to launch an NZ one -- but no idea how to fund it.

Find out how Joanne Ryan votes on issues that matter to you

Discover how Australian Labor Party Representative for Lalor Joanne Ryan votes in the Australian Parliament

theyvoteforyou.org.au

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 3d

The Ihumātao protest was already illegal, and didn't need this law to make it so.

OTOH, Ihumātao also shows that the law means nothing if there are enough protestors, which is something perhaps we all need to remember.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 3d

On the face of it, it seems reasonable - don't protest outside private people's homes blah blah blah...

however, this includes private land & immediately would have meant legitimate protest like the important & significant Ihumātao protest of 2019 would have been quashed by this bill.

Pls submit

beckydubs @beckydubs.bsky.social · 3d

Fucking hell. This wasn’t on my radar. #nzpol thank you Emily Writes

‼️Submissions close at 2pm TODAY Oct 6th! ‼️

This amendment makes it an offense to protest *near residential areas.

This is fascist suppression of free speech 101.

www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

Radware Page

Loader page.

www3.parliament.nz

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 3d

$65000 a year is barely enough for one person, let alone enough to support another adult or two as well.
#nzpol

Andrew R @andrewr4.womcats.com · 3d

Cowardly announcing policy on a Sunday that underlines the total failure of this government’s policies.

Jobseeker: Parents earning more than $65k must support 18-19yo children www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Jobseeker: Parents earning more than $65k must support 18-19yo children

First announced at the Budget, the government had not at the time decided where to draw the line.

www.rnz.co.nz

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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 3d

god help me. this is just cruelty. these are human beings, you monsters.

'The world doesn’t owe you a living’: PM says 4300 teens will lose Jobseeker benefit next year

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 3d

Hey Wellington. Get you some seedlings for the garden.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 3d

Hey @auchmill.bsky.social are you a seed saver too?

Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 3d

✅Walk dog
Sow more chillies
✅Roast coffee beans
▶️Make mutton stew
▶️Finish sock
Build cold frames
Build another garden bed
Move rhubarb
Sow lettuce
Vacuum car
Wash car
Start ginger beer bug
✅Make banana bread
✅Eat banana bread
✅Buy a week of meat at butcher ($70)
✅Coffee ✅tea ✅more tea
▶️Read
Nap

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 4d

www.facebook.com/share/p/17La...

Sustainable Tarras

“In case you can't afford that ODT subscription, here is today's article on the "Living Museum" in the Shepherds Creek valley in full.”

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 4d

Photo I took in August 2005.

How quickly we forget, and head for the same old same old.

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