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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 3h

Lead poisoning would explain a lot of the wackadoo nonsense coming from people who've gone down the "wellness" to cooker pipeline.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 13h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 6h

Aside from the fact that Chris Bishop is a pile of malevolent dung in a suit, I refuse to have three white men called Chris in a row as PM, it's absolutely intolerable #nzpol

Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 6h

God fucking help us.
#nzpol

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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 8h

Shoe shining! Chimney sweeps! Lamp lighting! Need I go on?!

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 8h

Traditionally, of course, paper runs were done by bicycle, on quiet streets that were safe for children.

So perhaps the minister is inadvertently onto something here? 🤔🤔

Grant Brookes (he/him/ia) @grantbrookesnz.bsky.social · 10h

Simeon Brown tells young jobseekers to “get a paper run” on RNZ this morning 🙀

He is so out of touch, he thinks neighbourhoods still get a daily newspaper delivered
#nzpol

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 17h

Also while I’m fine with how pink it was, the fat on that lamb absolutely should have been rendered down

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 20h

Olly is also super queer so I’ll allow it

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 21h

I got hate crimed today when my tattooist asked me if it was at all possible for me to stand straight and then laughed at me

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 21h

That rap he did in the car should have been the soundtrack to that breakdancer

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22h

Many of y'all have heard me say this, but my answer for the "within your own lifetime" variant of this question is that I have a detailed and practical plan to time travel back to replace my past self to set up the conditions such that PayPal never achieves success because that fixes SO MUCH

Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 1d

Over drinks with fellow archaeologists at a conference some decades ago, we discussed who we would hypothetically time travel to remove from history. Columbus and Calvin were the two universally chosen. Hitler was nearly unanimous but one person thought removing Goebbles was better.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 22h

he's SO CRINGE OMG

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 1d

The movie is watching YOU

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s not the worst part of it all but it sucks that James Deen being a rapist has taken the fun out of the Lemon Stealing Whores video (as the most random start to porn ever)

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 1d

Omgggggg the memories. I went to so many Pluto gigs, I was so obsessed and now I look at them and I can’t connect at all

audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 1d

"Pluto immediately had success on student radio with 2 poppy acoustic tracks, 'She's Jive' and 'Hey Little'.
Yet their real aim was the multi-layered rock sound they achieved on their second album, Pipeline Under The Ocean (2005)..." www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/pluto @garethshute.bsky.social

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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 2d

No it doesn't.

A picture saying 'Nursery rhymes with Justin Fletcher'.

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday they put my boobies in a sandwich press and today I am being stabbed thousands of times with needles

I should get a job, this is too much hard work

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mayor of tr*nny town @missfluss.bsky.social · 1d

and stop referring to the government as "Wellington". if Wellingtonians actually got to run the show we'd be a very different country.

Kieran @nug.monster · 1d

why are you talking about it as if it's up to you, you worthless cunt. You're never getting another term and I 100% guarantee you're out of the country the day after you're out.

Christopher Luxon 'very open' to Electoral Commission running local elections

Currently, local elections are run by the councils themselves.

www.rnz.co.nz

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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 2d

room for an extra couple of dogs...

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libertine hermit, fuck 2025 mode @jondauthor.work · 2d

I genuinely want this brought out full size at the next Luxon stand up with the question "if Labour was advancing a Green/TPM bill with this kind of response, would you not be furious?"

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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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 2d

Do check weight limits on the mattresses - and if they don't publish them, contact them to ask!

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 2d

And if you're thinking, huh?, wait, I thought he missed the vote on that firearms bill –

– you're correct.

Seymour also missed that vote, in that same year, because he was late, because he spent too long bragging to reporters on the tiles about how hard he was going to vote against it.

Headline: David Seymour hoists himself with his own petard, providing small moment of levity. Apr 2, 2019.

The Government MPs maintained big smiles throughout Question Time, handing a bucket of lollies passed down the front bench, National MPs - including the man obliged to lose to Seymour every election, Paul Goldsmith - could be seen openly laughing, with Maggie Barry wiping what looked to be tears from her eyes.

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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 2d

Look, it's the least of our worries given the NZ govt's decision to weaken climate change targets

BUT

as a committed pedant i cannot let David Seymour claim unchallenged that he was the only MP to vote against the current target.

Because he didn't - he missed the vote, lol. The bill passed 119-0.

screenshot: ACT misses climate vote, allowing bill through unanimously

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 2d

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 2d

Ahhh yes, the famous Hunter Vasser centre in Whangarei…

You can get your LCQ from anywhere, anytime...
The online Licence Controller Qualification (LCQ) can be done anywhere in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Whether you're at the at the Hunter Vassar Centre in Whangarei, on a yacht in Auckland Harbour, at Mooloo Stadium in Hamilton, in your Holden at the Palmerston North Speedway, on the Maunga
overlooking New Plymouth, while fishing on Lake Taupo, at a café on the main street in Gisborne, on the waterfront in Wellington, travelling by bus between Blenheim and Nelson, after getting some kina in Kaikoura, in the square in Christchurch, in the Octagon in Dunedin and way down south in Invercargill - eating some awesome Bluff oysters.

hundertwasser art centre correct spelling

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 2d

I hope y’all are as organised as Antifa with your Sajoween costume preparations!

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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