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'In his defence, Luxon only received that report last week'???? Who writes this stuff?

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Time to put Writers on Mondays in your diary on repeat! On 8 July we feature first essay collections by Airini Beautrais and Flora Feltham—women working out how to live their lives and how to write about them. 1215 Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa, free!

www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

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I was thinking the same thing. 14 years. 💔

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Happy return of prescription charges day! 😭

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Tom Gauld 's avatar Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social
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Beware of the book festivals! (My latest Guardian Books cartoon)

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Pip Adam's avatar Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social
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So hard not to crave the counterfactual where any one of the highly qualified younger people is debating Trump.

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Bill Manhire's avatar Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social
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Written in the 1950s by Mary — a 12-year-old at Oruaiti school in Northland #infrastructure
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Telephone Wires

In the far away distance
I can hear the telephone wires
Singing in churches
Like pakehas.

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This sentence breaks my heart 'Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro will deliver the report to Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden.' To think of all that pain and work being put in the hands of someone who has proven they don't care about anyone. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Mask Up Comments and Opinions's avatar Mask Up Comments and Opinions @commentsandopi2.bsky.social
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"There have been 8943 new cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand over the week to Sunday, and 25 further deaths attributed to the virus.
Of the new cases, 5389 were reinfections."
I'm sorry, but wtaf! Given under-reporting that's got to be approx 25k cases in a week.
#MaskUp #AoNZ

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Jason Kemp's avatar Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social
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I’ll just leave this here again. #nzpol New ferries

“The two new ferries would have meant double the passenger and vehicle capacity and triple rail capacity, while reducing the carbon footprint by about 40 percent.”

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You know that thing where you decide to live off toast cause you have no money, and then you buy a really expensive pair of shoes cause you want them? That's what this government is. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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These are not serious people. CL saying loudly and desperately and over and over, 'Isn't it great!' Like if he repeats it enough and with enough volume it will become true. It's heartbreaking.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa 's avatar Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social
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The absolute state of it... | An ex-gun lobbyist is revising New Zealand’s gun laws, tightened after the 2019 mosque attack

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Paul 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Paul 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pault.bsky.social
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Everyone, the anti-trans group LAVA are suing Wellington Pride over Pride not granting them a stall a couple of years ago.

They have a givealittle for legal costs: givealittle.co.nz/cause/wellin...

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Very Very Common Mike Dunford 's avatar Very Very Common Mike Dunford @questauthority.bsky.social
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Speaking as someone with a PhD, I find the idea that anyone would be impressed by the idea of "PhD level intelligence" absolutely hysterical.

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David Slack's avatar David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social
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Christopher Luxon's NZ is open for business! Don't miss out! Join the pylon!

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flappy 🐥's avatar flappy 🐥 @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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Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly (IIML MA19) is on the shortlist for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize!

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明's avatar Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social
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Ooooh new issue of Satellites is out (limited run of issues inspired by the Aotearoa Asian Arts Archive), including a new essay by @vicciho.bsky.social on the future of HK film under the NSL
GET AMONGST IT

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Adele Buck's avatar Adele Buck @adelebuck.com
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*extreme dudebro voice* "Oh, you're a fan of deregulation? Name 5 food-borne diseases you love."

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D Jukic's avatar D Jukic @dejanajuk.bsky.social
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It can be confronting but home truths often are to us Pākehā who grew up with the lies. #NZpol

“As a nation, we’ve explicitly based our identity on the myth of racial harmony. Even though our economy is built on stolen Māori land and our form of government is a violation of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.”

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Johnny Cans's avatar Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social
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It's only taken fourteen years for someone to point out that the household finance analogy for government spending is fucking nonsense, and only because even the incoming govt apparently believes it www.theguardian.com/business/art...

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Giovanni Tiso's avatar Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social
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IMPORTANT: The response by the inclusive Education Action Group to today's appalling announcement by Willis and Stanford on special school funding.

(Not enough characters in the ALT field to make it accessible, but you can read the whole statement here: www.facebook.com/IEAG.NZ/post...)

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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"Carceral aesthetics are dangerous: They center, consolidate, and act on behalf of the carceral state. They disappear, through dominance and foreclosure, the questions, the ideas, and the people who challenge the prison–industrial complex." inquest.org/big-screen-a...

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His movies were part of his violence - parasocially grooming a generation to fall in line and normalise older men with younger women. But people still try to argue for their merit. 🤦

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Luxon saying he 'understands' people living in the hardest of conditions is so tough to listen to day after day. #WhatImSayingToYou

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Craig M. Ranapia's avatar Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social
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Monthly pass granting Tim Costley unlimited rail travel between Wellington and Waikanae: $383 Cost per month of Tim Costley's self-dealing as his own landlord: $3,033 Someone should get Nicola Willis on the case - she's good at numbers and austerity.

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Giovanni Tiso's avatar Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social
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"For one hundred thousand years people lived side-by-side in tribal societies without depth of field. Then, the Renaissance happened. Suddenly, with the introduction of perspective, the average person could move in a third direction."

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Gabe Ortíz's avatar Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social
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From the new Cyndi Lauper documentary 🏳️‍🌈

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Writers, you could spend a year of writing time in this room with a view if you apply to be the Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington / Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence 2025. Applications open now!
 www.aplitrak.com?adid=ZXJlY3J...

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Claire Mabey's avatar Claire Mabey @clairemabey.bsky.social
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I’m so excited to share the cover of my book out 1 July with Allen and Unwin 🐦‍⬛✨📚 so grateful to Zoe Gillet for her cover design and to the brilliant Graci Kim, Rachael King, Elizabeth Knox, Anna Smaill and Hera Lindsay Birds for their lovely words for the cover! More shameless promotion soon!

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jon crunktian's avatar jon crunktian @jon-christian.bsky.social
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computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong tech CEOs: let's add it to every product

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Pip Adam's avatar Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social
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Please help support Byron. No one should have to deal with this as part of their job.

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Byron C Clark's avatar Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social
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The goal is to cover the fees of the lawyer I have hired for a hearing, anything raised over and above what I need will be donated to the Manaaki Collective, who provide funding for home security and other help for people targeted by the far-right. ko-fi.com/byroncclark (2/2)

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