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Auntie Joan

@auntiejoan.bsky.social

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Miserable farm kid who escaped into books. Granddaughter of seditionists, doing my best not to let them down. Tangata Tiriti, grim public servant who’s too old for this shit, occasional plant post 🌱🇳🇿

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Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 1d

Freight train hit a truck in Waikanae - all trains were suspended bout 6.20 but they’ve got them going Paraparaumu south again

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Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 1d

If you are getting up for the train this morning in Kāpiti, you may want to go back to bed

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Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 3d

Hope your crossing is okay 😬

Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 4d

Was expecting the worst but happy to see this

Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 4d

Today is the most cup of tea and a book on the couch day we’ve had in ages, it feels like squalls have been coming through for about twenty hour hours non stop

Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 17d

My elderly mother uses a minimum of three exclamation points per sentence in every message to me!!! It’s totally soothing and friendly!!! Not blood pressure raising at all!!!

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Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 17d

Give me 24 hours, I’ll meet you there once I accept the inevitable

Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 17d

I just said to my partner, yes but the REAL time is 6pm and he said exist in the here and now my love, EXIST IN THE HERE AND NOW

#daylightsaving 🇳🇿

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Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 17d

I think I’ll stay on the friendly family side of the internet with my gardening queries

Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 17d

Excellent and suitable response to my glorious moss pole

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Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 17d

I feel down a moss pole rabbit hole last night and this is the result

Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 17d

Made my first moss pole. Yes, it is the size of a restaurant kebab. That small golden pothos better climb it like a monkey. 🌱🇳🇿

Wooden pole lying on a kitchen bench with the first 10com of moss wrapped around it

Complete pole, lying on bench fully wrapped in messy brown moss

Moss pole installed in a square green ceramic pot, with a small leafy green golden pothos plant at its base

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Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 17d

Carrier pigeon for comms, kākā for hand to hand combat

Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 17d

Someone here said you should go for the bird that would be best in a revolution so they were the obvious pick

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Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 18d

I’m one of those people who keeps thinking ‘but what’s the REAL time?’

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Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 18d

Yeah just pick a lane and stay in it

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Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 18d

Do you reckon we are ever going to stop doing day light saving?

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 18d

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

- Desmond Tutu

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Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 19d

Loving the sun being out on the train ride home on a Friday night

View out a train window of a green foreground with a rocky shoreline and some waves. In the background you can just see an island silhouetted under puffy white clouds

Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 19d

I think I need to stop mourning, keep a silver of optimism, but start adapting to face a future far different than I expected 5 years ago

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 22d

New Zealand prevaricates on whether to recognise Palestine as a state, or not.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Palestine #Gaza

Cartoon. Image shows NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in Gaza’s ruins, talking to a gaunt woman, huddled with her two children. He’s saying, “New Zealand is a very principled nation. We won’t be rushed”

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Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 22d

Toasting mandatory. They have to be buttered though after, dry not good

Auntie Joan @auntiejoan.bsky.social · 22d

Currently engaged in how the hell do I avoid Christmas planning which seems early but I need to get on it before the It is Christmas [insert obligation] people start asking what I’m doing

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 23d

And here we are. DrC going to the lines later this morning. This isn't on the front page of Stuff or RNZ or the NZ Herald. You wouldn't even know it was happening if you didn't have a doctor in the family, an appointment today, or Toast in your skyline. F* these people. All of them.

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 24d

NZ friends, there will be a doctor strike tomorrow and Wednesday unless a miracle happens today (narrator: there will be no miracle because this govt is incompetent). This is a union action. Do not assume because 'doctors are rich' that this doesn't bite or it 'isn't a real labour action'.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 23d

I think the Stuff all day live coverage of Charlie Kirk memorial & 1News leading with the story shows that there's some heavyweight interest in pushing US culture and Republican talking points into NZ living rooms. NMZE is naturally already atuned, posting headlines painting Kirk positively #nzpol

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