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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 7d

Counterpoint: GET FUCKED

Beehive NZ @beehivenz.bsky.social · 7d

A new joint release is available from Hon Simeon Brown, Hon Erica Stanford and Hon Judith Collins KC.

Strike unfair, unproductive and unnecessary

Tomorrow’s proposed strike is unfair, unproductive and unnecessary and should be called off, Public Service Minister Judith Collins says.

www.beehive.govt.nz

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 18d

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

Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 18d

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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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · 25d

Bango

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Sep 20

I rly thought the bitcoin statue was a joke

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Sep 16

Oi wanna come to this next week my beloved hometown?

FDS PRESENTS
TEST KITCHEN
a wee tiny wee last-minute ass very small very chill wee little poetry event

from 6pm
Tuesday 23 September
BOOK HOUND
132 Riddiford Street
Newtown, Te Whanganui a Tara

FEATURING

Always Becominging
Dani Yourukova
Freya Daly Sadgrove
Jordan Hamel
Leah Dodd
Rebecca Hawkes
Tony DiCarlo
test kitchen

TRYING OUT NEW SHIT ON YOU

Enabled by Creative New Zealand Thanks heaps legends

FURTHER INFO

Masking is encouraged and masks will be available

Buying books from Book Hound also strongly encouraged

There will be food and drink including booze

There will be breaks for yapping shit with friends between sets

We’ll have a wee open mic bit at the start (stay tuned)

We will be collecting donations for Gazans under siege by cash and bank transfer
FREE PALESTINE

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Claire Lacey (they/them) @poetactics.bsky.social · Sep 12

The poetry slam tonight in Ōtepoti Dunedin is looking for more competitors. No experience required! It's a supportive, fun event.

Have a poem you'd like to perform? Check out the details:
youngwritersfest.nz/events/otago...

Please share!

Otago Poetry Slam Champs 2025

Since 2013, the Otago Poetry Slam has been an annual highlight! This lively event brings together the most creative poets in the region for a night of dynamic performances and friendly competition …

youngwritersfest.nz

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Sep 12

Limp by Fiona apple!!!

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Sep 11

Gotta say. I would basically die for my Aotearoa poem friends. NO ONE DOES IT LIKE THEM

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Sep 11

Fuxaaaaake you can’t trust anyone

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Sep 10

Good stuff babe

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jo @moerakijo.bsky.social · Sep 9

Love this from @clairemabey.bsky.social

Does reading make better people/people better?

A case for collective reading for compassion

open.substack.com

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Sweet Daniel @dansheehan.bsky.social · Sep 9

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

bnacker @bnacker.bsky.social · Sep 9

Starting to regret inventing the podcast

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · Sep 4

This seems a simple and sensible approach to saving Meanjin:

An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin

openletter.earth

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · Sep 4

It beggars belief that MUP are scrapping Meanjin *entirely*. Could it not even continue as an online journal? And what will happen to the vast and essential archive on its website? The decision is a stunning, appalling act of cultural vandalism which demands complete transparency and accountability.

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sometimes Emma Thompson speaks your gf words, ? Am I best friends with Emma Thompson now

Emma Thompson Girlfriend Words

Thank u Paris paloma the antipodes are feeling very nice

Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · Sep 1

Everyone Paris Paloma has a new song coming out and the intro is my loser headline and it’s spoken by EMMA THOMPSON 🚨🚨🚨 and she knows who I am

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Sep 1

Like

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is a dope read

The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · Aug 31

AI is cheaper than therapy but talking to other people is free

Even if you use AI in order to not burden others, the result is a diminishing of life itself....

thespinoff.co.nz

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Aug 28

Sorry for spelling it like that

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Aug 28

Having a smorl depression but seems to be really receptive to Riverdance, totally fine as long as I’m listening to Riverdance

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Aug 25

Also applies to YOUR FACE

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Aug 25

But now every time you read this book you will remember this beautiful day at kilbirnie pool, and that delicious chocolate paddle pop. And this was a very important lesson for me and I refer to it pretty much every day. Use is love, baby!!! Life happens through it!!!

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Aug 25

Ok my sister used to let me only read her books if I held them open at less than a 45 degree angle, and I inherited this ridiculous trait for a minute, but then my chocolate paddle pop dripped hugely onto a page of my fav book and I had a meltdown and the holiday program guy said to me:

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Aug 24

He is so great

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Aug 24

Something I think is really good lucky and cool is that me and @brocklesnitch.bsky.social both got to meet each other’s nanas before they died. Nanas rock thank you nanas

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Aug 23

What the christ

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