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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 2h

Actually this is bullshit. If you leave most of your assets in your country of origin, aren't pursuing citizenship and leave the option of returning permanently open, you are an ex-pat. If you move all your assets to your new country with a view to citizenship, you are an immigrant.

Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 6h

Family Guy race card meme with Ex-pat and immigrant captions

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Andrew (Arumar the Grateful) @arumar108.bsky.social · 1d

Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 6h

If you're not telling me it's at Auckland Art Gallery until the third or fourth paragraph you're probably doing it wrong

The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 7h

Spirals and spiders: Louise Bourgeois is in Aotearoa for the very first time

The landmark artist's very first solo exhibition in this country presents an intimate view of an extraordinary woman....

thespinoff.co.nz

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 9h

Quelle surprise! (but not really)
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

'Excessive': Exec pay at Mike King’s charity soars after $24m public funding boost

I Am Hope has defended a significant increase in executive pay over the last year.

www.stuff.co.nz

AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 18h

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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 1d

Retrospective #25: Almost forgot this one from 2018:

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1d

Me (credit Geoff Cloake) at the Friends of the Aigantighe Art Gallery AGM. Yes, I know I suffer from an unfortunate resting expression.

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1d

The 'government' didn't 'seek' to do anything, although Māori and the majority of all New Zealanders rightly protested the bill.

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1d

That's not strictly accurate. A minor party sought to introduce the bill, which their senior partner was obliged to support to the first reading as part of the coalition agreement but refused from the outset to support any further readings.

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1d

They are probably dairy farmers

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1d

Theophanies the Confessor intensifies...

AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1d

Therefore it makes sense to have it at a Pacific nation.
I'm sorry if reality doesn't suit your performative self-importance and geographic biases.

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1d

No, missing the point entirely -> you
It is next to impossible to have international conferences over zoom when many of the important participants are in completely different time zones, even when it comes to climate change, which is a global problem. The Pacific is one of the most affected regions.

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1d

What with the world being round, there's a little thing called time zones...

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1d

Oh well, back to watching Hart to Hart on Youtube. Aaron Spelling was every bit as much of a genius as Michelangelo or Beethoven, but never gets the credit.

AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, you're not an able-bodied single young urban professional with no possessions, furniture or hobbies? Report to Carousel.

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 1d

The last part seems weirdly specific and needlessly homophobic.

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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 2d

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly that's not a bad thing. Maybe it can get back to the shiny, sharp, witty, celebration of celebrity, money, fine dining, society and style that it used to be. Bring back Felicity Ferret. Life is too short to pay that much money to read about people just like me and things I can afford.

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 2d

Long-running Auckland magazine Metro has confirmed the departure of its editor and three other full-time staff.

Metro Magazine confirms job cuts, including current editor

Long-running Auckland magazine Metro has confirmed the departure of its editor and three other full-time staff.

dlvr.it

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 2d

Please fucking kill me, or at least get Verity a decent book on the history of the French Revolution that I can potentially throw at her... www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Christopher Luxon’s ‘gobsmacking tone deafness’ shows he just doesn’t get it

Opinion: In his head, I think the prime minister is doing the whole tough guy bit.

www.stuff.co.nz

AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 2d

No, but you are forgetting that around 20 million Pakistanis (mostly Sunni like Afghanistan) speak Pashtu, the Pakistani military know exactly what militants in sandals "gonna do", and while as competent as comparable militaries, Pakistan is less fussy about the rules of engagement.

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 3d

Much as it turns my stomach to say so, yes Trump deserves a modicum of credit in getting the Gaza peace process to this point, strongarming Bibi to the table and using Egypt, Qatar, Türkiye, and Saudi Arabia to lock in Hamas. But that is all.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

Breaking news: Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton has died at age 79.

Keaton may be best known for her 1977 starring role in the rom-com classic “Annie Hall,” directed by and costarring Woody Allen. She won her first Academy Award for the performance. https://wapo.st/4nIx6D7

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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 3d

No. NZ doesn't have a liberal party (that's Australia) and while there is a conservative party it's never made it anywhere close to Parliament. The National Party is Neolib centre-right but more or less socially liberal, however it's currently in coalition with minor libertarian and populist parties

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