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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 7m

Psst, new show just dropped on Netflix - 'True Haunting'. For downtime between the pottering about.

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 31m

What! This is awful news.

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 1h

98.7% opposed, so naturally it's going ahead. 🤷‍♀️

Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 1h

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in.
📝166,000 submissions.
❌98.7% opposed.
Yet National are going to continue supporting it.
🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

Regulatory Standards Bill:
Select Committee Report:
166,000 submission total
0.7% supported
0.6% unclear
98.7% opposed

AUTHORISED BY DUNCAN WEBB MP, PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS WELLINGTON

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 2h

I only like it when that number doesn't exceed my bank balance.

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 6h

Thank goodness. She's a real weird one, that one.

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 6h

Decult Voices - Beyond Belief
youtu.be/NZMhsGHTn30

DECULT VOICES - BEYOND BELIEF │Full Documentary

YouTube video by Decult New Zealand

youtu.be

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 7h

Science is woke.

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 8h

Winners, losers, big losers and gigantic losers from the 2025 local elections
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13-...

Winners, losers, big losers and gigantic losers from the 2025 local elections

Winner: the endless cycle of underinvestment in core infrastructure. Big loser: the pipes.

thespinoff.co.nz

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 22h

Tell him he's dreaming

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 1d

Whyyyy did my phone autocomplete with 'Parliamentray'? That's not even a word. 🤦‍♀️

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 1d

I would never want to squash the immense value of his worldview into the narrow boxes of Parliamentray politics. Activist, artist, inspiration and mentor are his gifts.

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 1d

Tāme Iti on Q+A this morning ahead of his pukapuka coming out this week
youtu.be/gaC7nHGw8Mg

Mana: Tāme Iti on art, activism, fight for Māori rights | Q+A 2025

YouTube video by Q+A with Jack Tame

youtu.be

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 1d

In this piece Marli Olive Wesley, a Sāmoan-Fijian American writer and analyst unpacks the appeal of right-wing conservative American figures like Charlie Kirk — and what it reveals about faith, survival, and misplaced allegiance in Pacific communities.

#nzpol

Faith, survival, and misplaced allegiance | E-Tangata

“We are a people who have endured land theft, blackbirding, nuclear testing, deportation, and exile . . . Yet again and again, we align ourselves with those who uphold the very systems that shrink us....

e-tangata.co.nz

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 1d

* which he always is

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 1d

Shane Jones is unhappy, which is always is when someone else can override his destructive impulses.

Council to notify massive Coromandel bottom trawl ban, picking fight with Govt
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/10/w...

Council to notify massive Coromandel bottom trawl ban, picking fight with Govt

Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says the Waikato Regional Council proposal is an abuse of the RMA process and he's taking advice on his next moves, reports Andrew Bevin.

newsroom.co.nz

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 2d

This is sad news, I'm so sorry.

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 2d

There's progress results
www.electionz.com/LGE2025Resul...

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 2d

www.lgnz.co.nz/local-govern...

2025 local election results

www.lgnz.co.nz

Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 2d

From about 2pm.
www.lgnz.co.nz/local-govern...

2025 local election results

www.lgnz.co.nz

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 2d

I would have eaten Rosie's Roses.

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 2d

Such an embarrassment. Can we just take back his citizenship already...

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 2d

Nice orange guy, not fascist orange guy!

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flaneuse1.bsky.social @flaneuse1.bsky.social · 2d

Vital words from @timothysnyder.bsky.social

🔽🔽🔽

snyder.substack.com/p/when-anti-...

When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video)

Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"

snyder.substack.com

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 2d

Half a day left to vote and 33.42 of eligible Ōtautahi voters have done the thing.

Something has to change. We need the orange guy on TV and other ads telling us when and how to vote, how/where to do a special vote and generally encouraging us to do democracy. What we have now isn't working.

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 2d

"But don't worry, we're not racist, because we're screwing everyone else too."

100% pure shitfuckery.

the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 2d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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