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mrjeffhowell.substack.com Kirkiriroa. Gully adjacent. Airbnb valet. Serial pedaler of te Awa. Opinionator of things political. My other car is a canal boat. [pics: as seen in a Paris cafe toilet; the new deck at Balloch Street

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 22h

$6 NZ for this beer

Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 22h

Earned.

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 1d

Proof local body elections have become the exclusive realm of boomer/genx/cookers/racists.
I don’t believe this result reflects wider community views.

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...

Local elections live results: 25 Māori wards to go and 17 to stay, voter turnout well down

Updates from across the motu as the local election results land.

thespinoff.co.nz

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 1d

First to admit six was too many. But they came as a set.

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 1d

Today I chose not to have a croissant & pain au chocolat for breakfast, and to consume six Portuguese custard tarts through the course of the day instead.

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

Right wing gun-for-hire conveniently forgets to mention all those long weeks in 2022 when RW cookers occupied central Wellington and chanted and raged and pissed and shat and arsoned and rioted on Parliament lawns.

But gets given a newspaper column anyway.

Plonker.

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

Wow!

Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

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Questlove - Mixtape by Jeff Howell on Apple Music

Playlist · 300 Songs

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

District councils do, yes.

Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

Safe confident cycling requires more than just infrastructure. Here in Castelsarrasin this demarcated cycle lane crosses numerous driveways. The road rules here state turning cars drivers give way to cyclists, and EVERYBODY follows those rules.

Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

Fucking racist Waikato & Waipa residents get in the sea.

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

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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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

a litany of First world problems etc etc

mrjeffhowell.substack.com/p/lagging?r=...

Lagging.

Bodies & long distance travel really don't mix.

mrjeffhowell.substack.com

Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

Don't ask me for links - you've got the internet.

Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

So Argentina, with its Trumpite leader & Atlas-Network-wet-dream ultra-neolib economic policies has...how do I put this...turned into an ECONOMIC BASKET CASE requiring eye-watering bailouts.

Crazy & scary to think our psycho-killer, Milei admiring Govt will have learned nothing from this debacle.

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

So Argentina, with its Trumpite leader & Atlas-Network-wet-dream ultra-neolib economic policies has...how do I put this...turned into an ECONOMIC BASKET CASE requiring eye-watering bailouts.

Crazy & scary to think this Milei admiring Govt will have learned nothing from this debacle.

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

Look any top notch finance minister could make the honest mistake of confusing debt with “owning” debt. I mean that sounds so similar

Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

“Sure I destroyed the economy to give tens of billions of dollars to landlords and rich donors, but look I found some assets to sell that *could* be spent on fixing school buildings and if you believe that, you’ll believe anything”.

New Zealand Herald (Unofficial) @nzherald.nzcow.com · 3d

📢 Willis said Chorus move does not amount to asset sales, insists economy is improving.

👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

Nicola Willis says Chorus sales money could go towards funding hospitals and schools

www.nzherald.co.nz

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New Zealand Herald (Unofficial) @nzherald.nzcow.com · 3d

📢 Willis said Chorus move does not amount to asset sales, insists economy is improving.

👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

Nicola Willis says Chorus sales money could go towards funding hospitals and schools

www.nzherald.co.nz

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

Checked in with 22yo hardcore Swiftie daughter on Taylor Swift's new album & she's NOT happy

"tradwife/ conservative culture/ lame as fuck/ Dissing her cat-lady image/ Especially for a MAN who plays in the NFL!"
Getting a real sense of betrayal here.
Not sure TS is taking her swiftie base with her.

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 4d

Keith, I’d just like to apologise for any offence I may have caused Sir Peter or Dame Fran in advance of any breaking news story etc etc

Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 4d

Good old Bryce: the exact opposite of the imposter syndrome.

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 4d

Shout out to my Gene Pitney fans out there…

45 hours from Tulsa.

Diary of a journey around the world.

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 4d

Fabulous pic there.

Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 4d

Reserving the right to delete this post when I’ve consulted with my 22-year-old daughter.