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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 4h

Well this "Someone else" is something else eh?

Stuff self-select poll on who should lead National into the next election. Someone else at time of voting has 50% of the votes so far.

Who do you think should lead National into the next election?
Christopher Luxon 12%
Chris Bishop 23%
Erica Stanford 11%
Nicola Willis 2%
Simeon Brown 2%
Someone else 50%

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 10h

Look what I saw today!!!!

A baby tuatara, maybe 10-12 cm long, sunning itself on stony ground.

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Mike Bartley @anothermike100.bsky.social · 4h

Your dog loves you

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

I’m a subscriber to The Onion print edition and trust me, the ads alone are worth it

Fake Apple ad

Remember when those
Chinese factory workers were all committing suicide?
Neither do we!

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 13h

Hi what

Headline: “nature’s labubu: why are gen z unboxing conkers?”

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 7h

We live in an age if miracles and it seems quite the fuck up that a bunch of us would prefer to see other people suffering instead

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Mike Bartley @anothermike100.bsky.social · 11h

I put three of those through the wash...

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Mike Bartley @anothermike100.bsky.social · 11h

I would invite you to check the Atlas Network yearbook from 2008. David Seymour got a "Think Tank MBA"! I wonder if he remembers the lyrics to the song he wrote about school choice in honour of Milton Friedman. 😂

The inaugural class of the Atlas Network MBA. Do Seymour at top right.

Cringe group singing a song about school choice.

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conorloch.bsky.social @conorloch.bsky.social · 12h

Looking to speak to Dunedin musicians for Rolling Stone.

Hit me up if that’s you!

#dunedin

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Tony Hafoka Ao NZ TON @ahafoka.bsky.social · 12h

Here's something for New Zealand parents and teachers of primary age kids. It's free (and Riley and Steve are an awesome daughter / father team!)

#kikorangi
#sealife #marinelife
www.youngoceanexplorers.com/teacher

Teachers and parents, welcome to Young Ocean Explorers!

Explore New Zealand's fascinating underwater world with Riley and Steve Hathaway.

www.youngoceanexplorers.com

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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 12h

New Zealand Tomorrow might be the best local show of the year

The new show demonstrates a genuine evolution for Guy Williams and New Zealand Today....

thespinoff.co.nz

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Mike Bartley @anothermike100.bsky.social · 12h

The local fash have cut and pasted Agenda 2025 into the NZ government.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

And to you all good health.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 1d

Hey you--watch some trash. I don't mean corporate by the numbers slop, I mean some honest-to-goodness, lowbrow, shoestring budget trash. Like arthouse cinema, it's good for you.

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Mike Bartley @anothermike100.bsky.social · 1d

"How can we get rich if we don't steal from you?"

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1d

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

A tumblr post that reads "WHo would have believed that the perfect wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?" Two identical images are then side by side. The first caption is "Piper Kerr, a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904". The Caption for the image on the left reads, "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

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Mike Bartley @anothermike100.bsky.social · 1d

This too shall pass

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Mike Bartley @anothermike100.bsky.social · 1d

Possibly the best reason to visit Kobe.

Giant statue of GIGANTOR the Space Age Robot in Kobe, Japan.

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Mike Bartley @anothermike100.bsky.social · 1d

I think we did "The Pōhutukawa Tree" by Bruce Mason

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1d

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on.

These philistines need to hear from you all.

Thank you

petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

Edvard Munch's 'Scream' but with the text 'I can't believe they're cancelling Art History' in a speech bubble

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 2d

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 1d

just a reminder that if Labour were competent they would be thrashing National in every poll; the fact they’re neck-and-neck with Nats with these widely hated destructive fools in power is an indictment; Chris Hipkins should step down and give it to someone who shows an interest in doing things

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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 1d

My cartoon in today's www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

The Scream is a metaphor for nature & Munch was the receptor for its pain. Here he is, so overwhelmed he's taking time out of the painting only to find more pain in the news...

#NzPol #PoliticalCartoon #ClimateChange #EdvardMunch

Cartoon. Title: Government almost halves methane reduction targets...

We see the Scream, from Edvard Munch's most famous works of art, collapsed in a wingback armchair.

He had stepped out of the painting to take a break from the chaos. The metaphor of the artwork is of natures pain and how he had actually felt it.

But sadly he's entered into a world that is chaotic and deliberately trying to hurt Mother Earth even more.

He has a newspaper slowly sliding out from his hand with the title - Farmers Rejoice.

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Mike Bartley @anothermike100.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine you're a 16 year old boy in Auckland, New Zealand 1979. You don't know what art history is but it sounds better than tech drawing. First lesson you're blasted with an 8' kodachrome of a Caravaggio. Your world just changed.

Please sign this petition.
petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

The entombment of Christ by Caravaggio.

Please sign this petition to help save the teaching of Art History in Aotearoa New Zealand secondary schools.

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 2d

Sharing this petition to save Art History in Aotearoa New Zealand secondary schools.
petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

Enjoy Rita Angus's stunning view of Central Otago, 1953-56/1969, oil on canvas. Te Papa (1972-0030-1)

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