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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 1h

The trifecta of angry men is now complete

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 2h

Radio bros gon hate

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 19h

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 3h

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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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 2h

That's a big hole😳

Bangkok sinkhole: Reopening of road postponed indefinitely amid delay in repairs | The Straits Times share.google/ZdRss1w4WKVg...

Bangkok sinkhole: Reopening of road postponed indefinitely amid delay in repairs

Traffic was originally scheduled to partially resume from Oct 8. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 1h

For very smart guys; it’s remarkable how naive the AI guys are isn’t it?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 2h

It’s quite amazing just quite how badly the current govt in NZ has fucked up the economy

So much of it was predictable economics 101 stuff like

“You gotta spend money to make money”

And

“Firing people causes them to be unemployed”

Dead obvious stuff, all of it.

#nzpol

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 1h

I love that film

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Catherine McKenzie @catherinejmckenzie.bsky.social · 5h

Jeepers Wellington, giddy up! Only 27.52% have voted. You've only got two days left.

wellington.scoop.co.nz?p=174681

With two days to go, only 27.52% have voted in WCC elections

Latest voting figures for Wellington show that 44,397 people have voted so far, representing 27.52 per cent of eligible voters. This compares with 24.

wellington.scoop.co.nz

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𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™ @dallasbarnett.com · 4h

keeping this scalp as a trophy. I hope that greasy fuck is stuck with boxes of this shit .

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 6h

This is what happens when you don’t lead on ZB’s terms. Amazing how fragile some talkback hosts get when a woman does well. So emotional!

Nick Mills: Tory Whanau - What a ride; What a disappointment
ON AIR
WELLINGTON
Thu, 9 Oct 2025, 1:52pm
Well, one more day as Mayor for Tory Whanau - the
"accidental mayor," as many have called her - and just like that, her chapter in Wellington politics closes.
What a ride, and what a mess. And, let's be honest, what a disappointment.
From the very beginning, Tory framed her leadership through a lens of identity - "poor me, give me a break, I'm a woman, and I'm new.

Mike's Minute: Tory Whanau is the poster child for ineptitude
ON AIR MIKE HOSKING BREAKFAST OPINION
Mike Hosking, Thu, 9 Oct 2025, 10:33am
The Wellington mayor went out, not really in a blaze of glory yesterday, but more a fireball of misery and bitchiness.
Tory Whanau is probably the local body poster child for ineptitude. She's given her bye-bye speech.
She was a shambles. She may still be back, as she is standing in the Mãori ward.

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 4h

After all of the initial fanfare his impending nuptials have been very quiet. He promised us he’d give up politics for the love of a good woman, did she call the wedding off when he implied she’s not one?

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 12h

We've had days of headlines about Winston's frickin broken window , meanwhile found gov documents show NZ secretly developing communication systems for war with China .. great piece from Nicky Hager. #nzpol

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/s...

Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

The National-led government has been avoiding questions about whether it is joining in preparations for a US military confrontation with China. A series of Official Information Act requests on this su...

newsroom.co.nz

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 9h

"Edwards’ completed research was listed as mostly opinion columns" hahaha

Money-trail aside, Bryce just ain't a real academic. He doesn't seem capable of normal qual research, let alone have the methodological chops to deliver a 'Political Integrity Index'. Clearly, he just couldn't do the work.

Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, um, "mysterious". The director of your integrity projects was an early and regular guest to The Platform, which was funded by the owners of a chain of early childhood centres to advance their political agenda.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

The mysterious unravelling of a high-profile transparency project

Key donor silent as the Integrity Institute deregisters and its lobbying register disappears.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 6h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 4h

This is apparently always the pattern with a National govt. They take power, lay off a whole bunch of people, realise that they can't enact their policies without staff, then hire contractors who cost significantly more than full time staff and need training. A strategy both cruel and unproductive

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 7h

Comment: Minister Judith Collins has relaxed constraints on consultants spend, after the public sector massively over-delivered on promised spending cuts ... and the Govt work-rate slowed accordingly.

Public spend on consultants slashed – but not to those embedded deep in govt

newsroom.co.nz

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 4h

#nzpol

DudeWTF @dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social · 5h

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

And that's why they're throwing shade at the #Greens.

#nzpol #NicolaWillis #ChrisLuxon

Government’s books show finance minister borrowing billions to keep the lights on

Treasury has revealed the state of the Government’s finances and it shows we’re borrowing just to keep the lights on.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 4h

It’s such a fantastic movie

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 4h

And it was not the intent of pilfering tens of billions from the pay equity fund, to meet the budget #NZPol

The Government’s policy change to make many 18- and 19-year-olds ineligible for the Jobseeker benefit will go a significant way to helping it meet its target of reducing the number of people on Jobseeker by 50,000.

Social Development Minister Louise Upston said the intent of the policy was not to make it easier to meet the target (which has grown more difficult because Jobseeker numbers have risen instead of fallen since the target was set).

However, she added that she did not intend to adjust the target to reflect the policy change, a move which would preserve the original ambition of the target. Upston did not say why she would not adjust the target.

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 4h

experiencing a swell of patriotism over our officials repeatedly losing secret government documents at second hand stores

RNZ: Confidential Wellington council documents found by man in mayoral desk bought from dump

Newsroom: Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

Nothing happened for a year. Then in August 2025 a shopper browsing through a pile of op shop goods made a most surprising discovery. The trove of secret documents from the Portsmouth meetings had been accidentally donated to a Hutt Valley Salvation Army store.

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 9h

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A small human (3?) is studiously pushing a small trolley along next to Mum.
Small Human has MANY opinions about what can go in his trolley. Chocolate? Yes. Bananas? Yes. Frozen spinach? NOOOO.
He is a grocery connoisseur and knows what he likes. (1)

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 8h

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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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 8h

'The state-owned electricity companies have seen revenue increase by $1.7b more than expected. This was “largely due to stronger sales revenue earned by the electricity generators and retailers,” the report says.'

WHO PAID FOR THE ELECTRICITY REVENUE?!?!?! #nzpol

a man in a suit is pointing at the camera with the words `` it 's you '' written below him .

Alt: a man in a suit is pointing at the camera with the words `` it 's you '' written below him .

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 7h

Found secret imagines of the girlfriends and the founder of ANTIFA (New Zealand Cell)

[Warning: This post contains a gag that will be utterly inscrutable to anyone who isn't a New Zealander who watched a lot of television in the early to mid-1980s.)

Photograph of the cast of 'Gliding On', a New Zealand sitation comedy (1981-85) set in a government supply office.

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