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FookyFBSandcat

@funkypuffin56.bsky.social

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Music (Open Eared Passion, not genre specific) Wildlife & Beauty in the World, Birds 🐕&🐈‍⬛ The State of Things Books, Film ADHD, Chronic Pain, #LongCovid, ?hEDS ,MH MH Ex Reg Nurse Green Wing Chris Morris Peter Cook etc... Aotearoa/NZ

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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 3h

This is what 13 Hiroshima bombs looks like

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✨🌟 ⭐️ LoveKat ⭐️🌟✨🟦♿️🧬🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🌎☮️🕊️🟪 @lovekat41.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t understand the hate people have towards Greta Thunberg…anyone want to explain it to me? I see a passionate advocate shining light on a humanitarian need to help save an entire population of people from being ethnically cleansed and genocided, when others don’t even try. What am I missing?

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 3h

Cheers of celebrations filled the streets in Gaza as news broke of a ceasefire after two years of devastating Israeli Genocide.

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FookyFBSandcat @funkypuffin56.bsky.social · 4h

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 6h

OMG the National Party totally screwed up the vote on the Broadcasting Bill. First they didn’t have signed proxies for the conscience vote. Then they didn’t have the 20 members in the house required for a conscience vote - so the vote is a nullity. Politics 101 learn to count !!!

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FookyFBSandcat @funkypuffin56.bsky.social · 6h

Im reconnecting w happier (younger lol) times via 90s, 00s uk comedy presently. Its a /my dopamine fix . If you want some ill send links..... have you seen uk Ghosts by the way?
Its good

FookyFBSandcat @funkypuffin56.bsky.social · 6h

Simpler times *sigh*

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve just realised why I’ve always thought Starmer looked familiar … Royston Vasey …

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 7h

Tell the truth dirtbag #NZPol

Luxon

"We care about you, we love ya, but we don't want you showing up on our statistics."

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FookyFBSandcat @funkypuffin56.bsky.social · 6h

Some ppl might recognize em from Britans Got Talunt, probs? 🤔
I think 'Byker Grove', set in Newcastle, was their first tv thing in 89 followed by a stint as teeny poplads #PJ&Duncan 🤣😬🥳
youtu.be/PY5zwufNYk8?...

PJ & Duncan - Let's Get Ready To Rhumble (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Phoenix Music International Ltd

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 7h

Do you know who Ant and Dec are? No spoilers please

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 8h

#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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FookyFBSandcat @funkypuffin56.bsky.social · 7h

He looks nice 😒

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 12h

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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FookyFBSandcat @funkypuffin56.bsky.social · 7h

Theyre not here (nz)are they ? 😱

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FookyFBSandcat @funkypuffin56.bsky.social · 7h

Yes

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 9h

Gotta keep that database of Māori kids...

It is sadly another example of the regime saying "fuck you" to the courts whenever they make a ruling it doesn't like.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 9h

"Legislation will now be drafted, and the changes will go through a legislative process in due course."

The longer that takes, the better then.

You hear that, public servants? malicious compliance and foot-dragging time!

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 9h

WTF?

www.beehive.govt.nz/release/gove...

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 12h

"I will not ignore it. And if that makes me a dog, so be it.
Fuckin' woof."

Emily Writes www.emilywrites.co.nz/dogs/?ref=em...

Winston Peters, the victim.

Winston Peters needs you to know that he's a victim. He's a victim. And his dog is a victim. His house is a victim. What he has been through is worse than anything anyone else has ever been through. W...

www.emilywrites.co.nz

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ⓘ Kaiwhiu ⓘ @aotearoa-nz.bsky.social · 10h

So, when..?

Politics 1News
"Nicola Willis: I'd quit as finance minister if my tax cut plan fails"
September 15, 2023

If elected, Willis would quit as finance minister if tax cut plan failed.

It comes as three independent economists released their own modelling this week, which claimed National’s policy had a shortfall of around $500 million. (Source: TVNZ Breakfast)

#NZPol #NickyNoBoats the #WorstMinFinEva

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 9h

Government to starve teens and their parents of resources to meet targets is par for the course, they kicked people out of energency housing onto the street to meet energency housing targets, people are being refused specialist health appointments to meet health targets…the list goes on #NZpol

Govt to meet 9% of Jobseeker target by taking teens off benefit

The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit.

newsroom.co.nz

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MadSheahan @themadshe.bsky.social · 12h

Nats ACT will be very keen to see law changes that support Big Pharma and Big Tobacco, especially the latter who need more growth areas beyond pouches and vapes. Lab-Green-TPM really need a joined up plan that serves community not business.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 12h

... not only very similar to those of the Law Commission in 2011 and the Mental Health and Addictions Inquiry in 2018, but the Board of Health committee that led to the 1975 law in the first place. For half a century, politicians, for political reasons, have not heeded that advice. It is past time.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 12h

The NZ Drug Foundation has a major new report pressing the case for a replacement of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, which turns 50 this month. Thing is, its recommendations – for a complete realignment to health, not criminalisation and punishment, are ... drugfoundation.org.nz/topics/polic...

Safer drug laws

We need safer drug laws for Aotearoa New Zealand - our new report sets out a pragmatic, evidence-based way forward.

drugfoundation.org.nz

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