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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 41m

Thoughts and prayers to Sean Plunket who, it seems, is entering the "Find Out" stage of broadcasting.

NZ Herald article preview with the headline:
'We're going to war': Broadcasting watchdog claims authority over The Platform; Sean Plunket hits out

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Pat Brittenden @patbrittenden.bsky.social · 49m

Have arrived!
@chewienz.bsky.social
@xkaosmagex.bsky.social
@iamprettyawesome.bsky.social

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 3h

Come vote for "Someone else" with me to mess up Bishop's numbers! #NZPol

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Chris Bishop received the highest percentage of votes with 38%.
Erica Stanford and Christopher Luxon followed with 18% and 17% respectively.
"Someone else" received 21% of the votes, which is the second-highest result.
Nicola Willis and Simeon Brown each received 3% of the votes.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 21h

Happy 100th Birthday Margaret Thatcher.

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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 22h

#BHN TPM v Toitu Te Tiriti gets ugly | New ferries ordered | Violence is the way...apparently #nzpol

www.youtube.com/live/G2flH64...

#BHN TPM v Toitu Te Tiriti gets ugly | New ferries ordered | Violence is the way...apparently

YouTube video by Big Hairy Network

www.youtube.com

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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 1d

They wont confirm costs because its "commercial (politically) sensitive.
Mark my words we are paying more, for less lifespan and less capability. This shower of clowns want you to believe that new zealanders dont deserve nice things while they firehose public money to private pockets

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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 1d

Temu ferries.
Un fucking believable.

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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 1d

Do you think he has a special person that stuffs his Turkey gizzard neck in to his collar each morning, or that his staff take turns?

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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent shot of his completely damage free ear as well

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 2d

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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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 1d

capybara is a very socialist animal

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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 1d

god I love this

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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 1d

#BHN TPM sit down with Mata | Peace in the Middle East? | More poor economy polls for National #nzpol

www.youtube.com/live/kXklqUx...

#BHN TPM sit down with Mata | Peace in the Middle East? | More poor economy polls for National

YouTube video by Big Hairy Network

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

One of the Govt's top priorities www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

After 5 months of the heralded ‘tipline’, just 204 road cones are confirmed gone

In Whanganui, information from the Government’s own Road Cone Tipline had actually led to more cones being put out than taken away. In Wellington, 110 complaints resulted in just two cones being remov...

www.stuff.co.nz

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Sue Tyler @styler.bsky.social · 2d

I’m enjoying the retaking of frogs. I always felt incredibly sad for the original illustrator of pepe who had his creation stolen and exploited

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Teanau Tuiono @teanau.bsky.social · 1d

A dispatch from the War on Roadcones

After 5 months of the heralded ‘tipline’, just 204 road cones are confirmed gone

In Whanganui, information from the Government’s own Road Cone Tipline had actually led to more cones being put out than taken away. In Wellington, 110 complaints resulted in just two cones being remov...

www.stuff.co.nz

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Ed @actuallyedwin.bsky.social · 3d

On this day...

"1917 – First World War: New Zealand troops suffered more than 2,000 casualties, including more than 800 deaths, in the First Battle of Passchendaele, making it the nation's largest loss of life in one day."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_B...

First Battle of Passchendaele - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 3d

Everything that makes Aotearoa New Zealand unique is related to Māori culture. Welcome to the country, that's a pōwhiri. We are gonna thrash you at sport, that's a haka. Traditional meals, that's a hāngī. Matariki that's our New Year

If you don't like Māori stuff maybe you're in the wrong country?

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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 3d

There is so much power generation potential lost to naked roofs. PV panels on every roof, good for the occupants, good for the grid, good for resiliance.
Wins across the board

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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 3d

Such an epic fumbling of an absolute gift.

"Hrrrm, 40 000 people marched about this, I wonder if I should incredibly imeffective about this"

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 3d

The Olive green areas are councils where citizens voted down Māori wards (the little blue blob in the middle is Kirikiriroa, which voted by a whisker to retain theirs).
Coincidentally those Olive green areas also pretty accurately represent land confiscated by the crown after the Waikato wars.

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 3d

Ok after an afternoon of results, texts, calls, messages on other apps and emails, I have some thoughts on today’s Local Election results

1) Voter turnout is depressing. 32%ish on average across AoNZ is pathetic.
2) The Māori Wards referendum should never have happened - it was a racebaiting farce…

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 3d

To ask a pakeha majority to remove representation of an indigenous minority is ongoing white supremacist colonisation. #nzpol

TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 3d

Preliminary results of the 2025 Māori wards referendums

#nzpol

Map showing preliminary margin of support by council for the 2025 Māori ward referendums

CC BY 4.0 TheLoyalOrder

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 4d

Nicola Willis promised affordable tax cuts and zero borrowings - OR she would resign.

Instead, Willis borrowed $12,000 million i.e. $12 billion & has created another $8 billion hole in the budget. She's now down $20 billion and counting #nzpol #kiwi

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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