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Lawrence

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Pฤkehฤ teacher, union rep, burger aficionado, music nerd, dad-of-twins.

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Charlotte ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ 's avatar Charlotte ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ @charlottor.bsky.social
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Angry and upset that all the chat about womenโ€™s rights from the two main political parties is about who can use which toilet and not ACTUAL PROBLEMS like equal pay, caring responsibilities, reproductive rights, eradicating VAWG, mental health support, affordable housing or *anything* real at all

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Foxy esquire's avatar Foxy esquire @foxylustygrover.bsky.social
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Watching America right now is kind of like being in one of the lifeboats that took off first from Titanic. There is actually room for others on your boat but you all know if you try to get close to the sinking ship & save more people, the lifeboat with be overwhelmed & you'll die too

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Just saw a guy - early 20s maybe - wearing a Make America Great Again hat at the cinema. I may have slightly lost my shit and told him he may as well be wearing a Nazi armband, and then told him to go fuck himself

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Idiot/Savant's avatar Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social
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Says she hasn't asked MBIE to stop work on modern slavery. Suggests that MBIE was incorrect in telling a select committee that work had stopped "due to the Minister's priorities" #nzqt

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Idiot/Savant's avatar Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social
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(van Velden is a Libertarian, so horny for slavery)

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Idiot/Savant's avatar Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social
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Says the govt's current practices meet requirements in the EU and UK FTAs. I wonder what the EU thinks of that? #nzqt

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Idiot/Savant's avatar Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social
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Minister now ranting about focusing on issues which matter to business, like cutting people's holiday pay (and classifying them as "contractors", allowing them to not be paid holiday pay at all)

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Idiot/Savant's avatar Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social
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Brooke van Velden says govt hasn't made any decisions on work on eliminating modern slavery, says it needs to be punished "_where_ it has occured" (subtly suggesting that it doesn't) #nzqt

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Lawrence's avatar Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social
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But also, letโ€™s give these guys a charter school, right?

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I am trying to like this show but I am finding it a real snore. I feel like the Targaryens are the least interesting thing about the GoT-verse (in much the same way the Jedi are the least interesting thing about Star Wars, which is what makes The Acolyte similarly dull),

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"$3b is too much so what weโ€™re going to do is spend $200mill to cancel our contracts but then have $7.5b available to replace that deal for a product that will have no long term infrastructure upgrade. We are geniuses." -The Fiscally Responsible Business Party of New Zealand #nzpol

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Lawrence's avatar Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social
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I remember reading some 1990s interviews and Ashcroft was OBSESSED with that Aphroditeโ€™s Child album. Go listen to The Rolling People now.

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This is the song Richard Ashcroft 100% ripped off for the Verveโ€™s (also total banger) The Rolling People

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miravox's avatar miravox @miravox.bsky.social
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Ration them. Ration the hugely.

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The CD sales bins are a goldmine at the moment, lots of great back catalogue stuff for a few bucks, versus an LP reissue costing $60+. I only buy CDs, and rip them to my computer for on-the-go listening. I donโ€™t use any streaming services.

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flappy ๐Ÿฅ's avatar flappy ๐Ÿฅ @funflaps.bsky.social
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Doctor Who: We can go ANYWHERE in time and space! Also Doctor Who: Let's go to Wales again

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Coley's avatar Coley @coleytangerina.bsky.social
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Christopher Luxon and Winston Peters had the opportunity to mitigate some of that purposeful harm done by their coalition partner, perhaps by simply saying that dedicated campus spaces have always existed. Instead, they continued the inflammatory lie that this was segregation.

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Coley's avatar Coley @coleytangerina.bsky.social
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Just to be clear:

The ACT Partyโ€™s decision to bully a university on social media for having a dedicated space on campus for Mฤori and Pacifica students, resulted in those students and staff receiving death threats.

www.nzherald.co.nz/talanoa/auck...

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Lawrence's avatar Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social
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Unfortunately these tax breaks are the only way these big budget films get made in places like Aus and NZ. Itโ€™s a race to the bottom.

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Gary Chiles ๐Ÿšฒ ๐Ÿ„ โ˜• ๐Ÿฆš ๐Ÿฑ ๐Ÿœ ๐Ÿš๐Ÿ˜ 's avatar Gary Chiles ๐Ÿšฒ ๐Ÿ„ โ˜• ๐Ÿฆš ๐Ÿฑ ๐Ÿœ ๐Ÿš๐Ÿ˜ @testtubeone.bsky.social
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Do you smell the aroma of deliberate Government under-funding of public services enabling privatisation by stealth?๐Ÿค”
I do.
Do you also smell the aroma of deliberate aircraft sabotage by angry NZDF crew keen to embarrass a Government that is deliberately under-funding them?๐Ÿค”
I do.
#nzpol

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Andrew Frame's avatar Andrew Frame @napierinframe.bsky.social
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Stats NZ Min Health Kฤinga Ora Waka Kotahe Min Justice Min Education Min Primary Industry Min for the Environment Min of Social Development Min for Culture and Heritage Min of Business Innovation & Employment Climate Change Commission Accident Compensation Corporation Transport Rebuild East Coast

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Stephanie Rodgers ๐ŸŒน's avatar Stephanie Rodgers ๐ŸŒน @bootstheory.bsky.social
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I genuinely think she, and other conservatives, don't like having to *think* about things, especially other people, in their day-to-day lives. Anything that threatens the status quo, including fixing our goddamn roads, is uncomfortable for them. Also, it's a shorthand to diminish the reality of H&S.

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Stephanie Rodgers ๐ŸŒน's avatar Stephanie Rodgers ๐ŸŒน @bootstheory.bsky.social
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A reminder, as our government prepares to "reform" health and safety, that our current health and safety laws were written in the blood of 29 Pike River miners, not to mention workers in forestry, agriculture, manufacturing, construction and literally every industry you can think of

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Stephanie Rodgers ๐ŸŒน's avatar Stephanie Rodgers ๐ŸŒน @bootstheory.bsky.social
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Brooke van Velden is going to keep serving up bullshit about "so many traffic cones" but her real agenda is making it easier for bosses to send 19-year-olds into coal drifts with broken methane sensors and no escape vehicle, to understaff aged care facilities, to put meathooks through people's heads

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Lawrence's avatar Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social
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Those blue National Party-branded Swandris Nicola et al were wearing at Fielddays are the most cringe thing ever

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Also attempted to fake his own death, broke custody etc etc. โ€œgood kiwi blokeโ€.

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Philosophically opposed to police brutality, but would definitely be able to ignore the ACAB for a bit if he he happened to get a bit of the bash on arrest.

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The absolute inbred halfwits from Marokopa saying Tom Phillips has "done nothing wrong" gives you a good idea about why he's been able to disappear for two and a half years.

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Itโ€™s helpful to think of Musk as one of those cats that throws up a fur-ball and then looks up at you for approval.

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This is going to be screenshotted and used in a slide for my year 9 social studies class tomorrow

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M R. X. Dentith's avatar M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com
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There's a Punch cartoon which features the term "fake news" from the end of the 19th Century. Politicians at the beginning of that century were concerned epistemic standards had slipped from the end of the 18th. Romans in the early days of the Empire said things were better during the Republic

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Helen Czerski's avatar Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social
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We really should just call "natural gas" by its actual name: methane. It's a fossil fuel, and burning it adds carbon to the atmosphere. The word "natural" is really unhelpful here, and it needs to go.

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๐•ฏ๐–†๐–‘๐–‘๐–†๐–˜โ„ข 's avatar ๐•ฏ๐–†๐–‘๐–‘๐–†๐–˜โ„ข @dallasnz.bsky.social
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Hi brats, I'm Uncle Dave, and I'm here to tell you little bludgers why you don't deserve lunch.

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Lawrence's avatar Lawrence @suburbanennui.bsky.social
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If you want to get people to hate Shakespeare, make them then listen to Newstalk ZB while people are calling up talking about the importance of Shakespeare.

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I thought I'd be "smart" and deliberately avoid a level 3 Shakespeare paper (did him to death in IB English years 12 and 13) and took Old English instead. This turned out to be quite the mistake.

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connectpoliticditto. 's avatar connectpoliticditto. @cpoliticditto.bsky.social
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Had my first Cybertruck sighting today. It actually looked pretty cool! Saw it on the way home from my lobotomy.

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* also some amusement about the fact he didnโ€™t get the Wordle.

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