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Beckie

@fitkiwi.bsky.social

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Online Menopause Fitness & Nutrition Coach, LGBTQI+ ally, F1, surfing & tennis fan. #ChronicAtrophicGastritis #MentalHealth #tremordisorder #Ataxia Wellington, NZ @fitkiwibecks (Instagram) Sweet Health and Fitness (Facebook)

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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 5h

I feel seen 😬

Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 23h

@nottodayeric

welcome to tonight's episode of so you think you can sleep

Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 5h

Really enjoying my time in Ōtautahi and I'm getting in a mega tonne of steps. Did the city tram loop today and tomorrow afternoon, I'll take a ride on the gondola.

The rebuild looks outstanding!

Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 5h

Firsts after losing someone are pretty hard Beck, sending you a big hug xxx

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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Ōtautahi, I'm in town from this afternoon until Friday. I'll be free tonight for dinner and lunch tomorrow if any of you are free. Flick me a DM 😊

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 2d

Dear friends, please read this. 😔

We owe it to our one and only living planet, not to turn away. To be uninformed is to be powerless indeed. We have to face reality, no matter how painful, to have ANY hope at all of driving the positive change we need.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 2d

The next time someone says the Atlas Network is just a figment of our left wing paranoid imagination show them this X post:

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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so happy you love it! 🩷

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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 2d

That's fantastic!

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 3d

"You won't be sick like this forever," someone says to me, as if I don't have a sick-like-this-forever disorder

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t wait to see the regulatory impact statement that outlines the impact of this decision on everyone who isn’t a farmer

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Government lowers methane target, rules out methane taxes

The government is lowering its biogenic methane target for the next 25 years and is ruling out agricultural taxes on methane emissions.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 3d

Mind blowing.

The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol

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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 4d

They've never been left. They're a tiny bit left of of National but still very conservative. The only true left parties are the Greens and TPM.

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 4d

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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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 4d

🤢🤢🤢

Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 4d

Very disappointed for Alex, but I don't regret voting for him.

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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 4d

Rhetorical question, why do we keep re-electing stale, pale, male, conservative mayors and councillors?
I'm over it 😬😕

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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations Rebecca, I'm so happy for you 💚💚 Looking forward to a catch-up when you have time!

Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 4d

The colours are gorgeous 🩷💙

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 5d

Govt to cut #JobSeeker benefit for 18 & 19 year olds who’s parents earn over $65,000, even if the teens have a disability or health condition. With #CostOfLiving & the job shortage they’re cranking up stress levels to 11, all to meet a target.
My #cartoon today about hard-nosed #NZpol

Cartoon. Title: “Job Seeee-e-e-e” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon at the open hatch of a small plane, high above farmland. He’s leaning out, and holding up a parachute pack, labelled “Job Seeker” He’s calling out to someone falling from the plane, “And I’ve kept your parachute because you kids from low-income homes need some motivation” Then he adds, “Don’t let that disability slow you down!”

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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 4d

You gave it your best shot Tory. Despite the haters and abusers, you did an excellent job as mayor and I'm sure you'll excel at whatever you do next ❤️❤️

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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 4d

You won't believe it, but in the same week, both my smartwatch and smartphone have carked it.

I have a backup smartphone, but the thought of having to do yet another Smart Switch isn't something I have the spoons for this weekend 😬😬

Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 6d

Come on Wellington, I know you're frustrated and disappointed in our council, but we need to try and improve things. Despite not having many palatable options for mayor and councillors in the Southern Ward, I was able to pick a preferred mayor and 1 councillor. Not ideal but I tried.

Catherine McKenzie @catherinejmckenzie.bsky.social · 6d

Jeepers Wellington, giddy up! Only 27.52% have voted. You've only got two days left.

wellington.scoop.co.nz?p=174681

With two days to go, only 27.52% have voted in WCC elections

Latest voting figures for Wellington show that 44,397 people have voted so far, representing 27.52 per cent of eligible voters. This compares with 24.

wellington.scoop.co.nz

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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 6d

Ditto, people make me angry and frustrated. Give me a dog or cat refuge and I'll be happy.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 6d

#NZpol

"What's up?" sayeth Bsky.

Andrew Hoggard being an utterly irresponsible person with power that'll affect us for years is what.

This is indeed who ACT are.

Destruction, degradation and decades of cleaning up their mess - if we even get a chance to after they've finished.

A disaster zone.

Clipped from my Blogpost on ACT:

"Whether fuming about the place of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, criticising the Human Rights commission (calling for its total abolishment because it is a “Far Left” organisation), riding the “law and order” outrage platform the hardest of any Party, all of these politically charged complaints ignoring the wider socioeconomic conditions of the country, a more complex understanding of gangs (comparing Ōpōtiki to Somalia is the latest utterance of Seymour), all the very tensions we are seeing that they would do much to exacerbate, before positioning themselves as “victim” of their very own, destructively myopic views, rolling back safeguards on the environment and letting the always failed, fictional safeguards of “letting the market decide” when market-led “solutions” are a lot of why we’re in the strife we are in the first place, and that may even disrupt our relations with trading partners if we’re bluntly honest…

ACT is essentially a distressingly successful Right-wing grievance movement acting on behalf of the rage of the hyper-privileged of this country, all packaged up and masquerading as a political Party."

ORIGINAL BLOGPOST REF
https://exhalantblog.wordpress.com/2023/06/17/act-ing-on-instincts-that-are-giving-a-serious-headache-to-the-right-as-much-as-the-many/

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