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Chaotic soft bear residing in Pōneke. She/her.

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𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™ 's avatar 𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™ @dallasnz.bsky.social
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I bet Swarbrick has read every page.. j/s.

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Mark's avatar Mark @maetl.bsky.social
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This enthusiastic and informed participation is one of the great strengths of our communities of practice in Aotearoa. It dissipates if people lose faith and trust in the process.

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Mark's avatar Mark @maetl.bsky.social
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If nothing else, it has caused a huge problem with trust and democratic participation. Why would anyone—teachers, scientists, etc—put in all those extra hours again in future when their work can be thrown out so easily?

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Mark's avatar Mark @maetl.bsky.social
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Something big we haven’t fully processed or reflected on is the massive amount of time and effort people around NZ have contributed towards long term curriculum changes, science system changes and local govt reforms, amongst others. All rejected by current govt. The deep engagement meant nothing.

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Craig M. Ranapia's avatar Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social
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Let's start as we mean to go on and not give Starmer a pony and a hand job just for doing the easiest and obviously non-evil thing possible - like killing a plan that wasn't just morally repulsive but obscenely expensive, unlawful and totally ineffectual at its own stated aims. Still glad he did it

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Steffen's avatar Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social
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Bishop thinks it's embarrassing that we're proud of building award-winning homeless shelters. Says something's gone wrong when the Auckland City Mission was the Supreme Winner at the 2022 Property Awards.

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Steffen's avatar Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social
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What fucking champion told Chris Bishop it was a good idea to aspirationally reference San Francisco in a speech on housing affordability?

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Eddie Clark's avatar Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social
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I know full well that proportional systems have their own pathologies, but nothing like this. What a deranged way to elect a legislature.

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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Things a NZ public school should not do: fill their newsletter with excited pics of a fun opportunity that only kids with money to donate to a sports fundraiser were allowed to attend during standard school hours. “Learning” was the alternative punishment for the unpaid. C’mon NZ.

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Shifty Cow's avatar Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social
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My repeat prescriptions cost me a little over $82 this week.
$32 for the doctor via Manage My Health, and $50 at the pharmacy.
Fuck National so very much. #NZpol

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Ken's avatar Ken @kenzime.bsky.social
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MMP has saved us from this sort of sillyness

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Cinderella Mechanicus 's avatar Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social
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I'd feel happier about Nazi-adjacent TERF Posie Parker losing if Kier Starker wasn't just spitting TERF talking points. Guardian readers don't need to vote for Parker, they can just vote Labour.

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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Wow amazing how the Saudis keep showing up in these stories where they offer illegal support to far right politicians.

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🐻Iona🐻's avatar 🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social
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I love that this is even something that needs to be corrected. This entire results process is so unhinged.

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Byron C Clark's avatar Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social
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Kelly-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker received 196 votes in the electorate she stood for, meanwhile, this woman won the seat with over 24,000 votes

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KJ Charles's avatar KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com
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I just googled my constituency to see if we'd declared yet and Google served me up the latest results for Hendon FC, so there you go.

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Johnny Cans's avatar Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social
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Terfs always claim they're speaking for a silent majority but ALWAYS ALWAYS eat shit when they try to get elected.

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Silke's avatar Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social
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Can I also take a huge shit right into the face of the NZ Herald, who was specifically asked not to name our friend in articles about her death, which they CHOSE to ignore, and name her anyway.

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🐻Iona🐻's avatar 🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social
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The man is literally funding and supporting genocide. Shut the fuck up.

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Pavel's avatar Pavel @spavel.bsky.social
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.

AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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libertine hermit's avatar libertine hermit @jondauthor.work
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getting reports the new british PM is... Chris Hipkins?!

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Stephanie Rodgers 🌹's avatar Stephanie Rodgers 🌹 @bootstheory.bsky.social
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Will never stop yelling about this, sorry. "FRONTLINE" WORKERS REQUIRE THE SUPPORT OF "BACK OFFICE" WORKERS TO DO THEIR GODDAMN JOBS WELL

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Idiot/Savant's avatar Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social
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When 36% is a landslide, and a 4% increase in vote share gives you 200 more seats (and twice as many as last time), something is fucked with your electoral system. And then the media establishment paints this is _voters_ being volatile. The UK needs proportional representation.

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🐻Iona🐻's avatar 🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social
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This recipe also halves no problems and I've on a few occasions replaced the cow milk with oat or almond with no material difference in quality.

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Wendy Xu's avatar Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social
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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

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🐻Iona🐻's avatar 🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social
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"we'll use CrapGPT to produce substandard marketing material and charge you a premium for it" These agencies are straight up telling on themselves.

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🦝Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝's avatar 🦝Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.bsky.social
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I’m telling you, fame cooks your brain

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Oliver - living in a Cult of Cuts (insert *)'s avatar Oliver - living in a Cult of Cuts (insert *) @olimnz.bsky.social
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CW: I'm going to get all sweary.

BASTARDS!
BASTARDS!
BASTARDS!

Have a read of this and tell the Government what you think of them via your MP.

Possibly legal (I hope it gets challenged) but morally and ethically WRONG!

#NZPOL <<< even this is in caps.

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Craig M. Ranapia's avatar Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social
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THIS THIS MFING THIS WITH SPRINKLES AND HOT BUTTERSCOTCH SAUCE ON TOP! You want to be entertained? Learn to knit. Take in a show. Buy a dangerously grunty vibrator. But please stop treating politics like a parlour game where there are real stakes for real people on the line here.

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Ben Ross 's avatar Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social
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Take a hint from New Zealand where the Labour Party had a majority and did fuck all because they were too timid with their Centralism Incrementalism This allowd a Hard Right Tory government to enter and screw the place up

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Tash 🍉's avatar Tash 🍉 @tashmahal.bsky.social
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Hark! What fuckery thru yonder screen breaks! Why, it be Jenny-May partaking in cosy lil' shit chat with this ardent supporter of a genocidal regime slaughtering, torturing and displacing Palestinians!

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist's avatar Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com
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Astounding victory predicted for UK Labour, can’t wait to see what they’ll fail to do with it.

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Craig M. Ranapia's avatar Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social
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Happy America Telling The Rest of the World How They're Doing Democracy All Wrong as the Rest of the World Say "LOL! Fuck Off' Day to those who celebrate.

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libertine hermit's avatar libertine hermit @jondauthor.work
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good thing there isn't an island nation to use as an example where a historic labour victory lead to an absolute decimation a few years later

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🐻Iona🐻's avatar 🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social
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At this point I truly don't give a shit which way Americans vote. Both options are a complete fucking blight on the rest of the world.

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🐻Iona🐻's avatar 🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social
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I cannot be the only person who wants to slap Americans talking about pogroms and internment camps under Trump while their bro Biden is literally funding and enabling that shit to happen right now in Palestine.

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🐻Iona🐻's avatar 🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social
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This. Plus any separate the art from the artist nonsense. Just keep it to yourself.

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