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ApocalypseElf @apocalypseelf.bsky.social · 5d

Hey @dimsie.bsky.social you know onion mugs, well I have crown lynn vege cups & saucers now. The 1960s were wild

Grey green cups and saucers with white veggie pattern

Grey green saucer with white veggie pattern

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Cory, on Rails 🚂 @aitkesandpains.bsky.social · 4d

Kiwirail are bringing back the ChCh- - Dunedin Southerner Train for the Labour weekend 🚞

I hope the Southerner does well and is made a permanent fixture, I got to take it in May and it was an amazing trip!

The full Southerner train ready to depart for Dunedin at the Christchurch railway station platform, May 21st 2025

The beautiful historic Dunedin Railway Station lit up at night, 23rd May 2025

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Murr @neoodist.bsky.social · 6d

I've had heavy winds and computer issues to contend with today, but sharing this song in support of everyone in AoNZ in the mega-strike. I think we need 21st century protest songs. Happy to post a blue sky on Bluesky.

ht - Credit: Photo by Christian Keybets on Unsplash.

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Aotearoa Covid Action @covidactionnz.bsky.social · 6d

Solidarity with the striking workers. Let's look after each other's health while standing up for fair pay and fair working conditions.

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Aotearoa Covid Action @covidactionnz.bsky.social · 7d

Striking? Wear a mask.

From Sir Mason Durie's Te Whare Tapa Whā model for health describing health and wellbeing as a wharenui/meeting house with four walls sitting on the land (whenua). The two walls here are:
Taha tinana - physical health/the body.
Taha whānau - belonging - community & family.

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 8d

❤️I support Doctors, Nurses, Dentists, Therapists, Teachers & Principals

❤️ I support full staffing, fair hours, equal & fair pay for NZers

❤️ I support public hospitals & public schools

❌ I do NOT support privatisation, PPPs or sale of public infrastructure, services or assets

#nzpol #NZ #strike

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Aotearoa Covid Action @covidactionnz.bsky.social · 8d

Collective action, collective care

#wearamask #strike #covidsafe

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 9d

Possibly the most epic sunset I've ever captured. A mothership lenticular cloud above the Māniatoto plains looking at Pātearoa Rock & Pillar Range, Central Otago New Zealand

#Nikon #GreatNZRoadie #Weather #NZ

paullecomtephoto.nz
(available on my site)

A monumentally large swirling lenticular cloud glowing most of the colours of the rainbow from the setting sun in the west. Stinking hot late summer evening that was about to crap itself. High country grass plains with a range of mountains in the background

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Murr @neoodist.bsky.social · 9d

While the government may be pushing back saying this is about money, it includes nurses' concerns about staffing levels and safety. Healthcare in NZ needs protecting rather than dismantling and privatising.

What you need to know about this week's mega strike
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

New Zealand's nurses, teachers and others set for mega strike - What you need to know

Explainer - There's a huge strike coming. Who's taking part, why are they protesting and what's so 'mega' about it?

www.rnz.co.nz

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 9d

When the Tui sits in the Kowhai tree
and the sun tips the mountain tops with gold
when the Rata blooms in the forest glade,
and the hills glow with sunny tints untold.

#Photography #Spring #Aotearoa #Kikorangi

3:2, Portrait, Colour: A Tui in a Kowhai tree clearly I'm not a Bird photographer, but he was so close..... #Nikon #NZ

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Prof Brendan Crabb AC @brendancrabb.bsky.social · 9d

“Whichever figure you use, the numbers are enormous, rivaling conditions like ADHD and autism as one of the most common chronic diseases in American youth today.” - we really have created an enormous problem, yet don’t seem ready to face it. 1/

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 12d

“I’m battling with the school because they don’t believe anything is wrong with Dakota. They don’t believe he has long Covid. They don’t believe long Covid exists.”

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation

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Aotearoa Covid Action @covidactionnz.bsky.social · 10d

It's not just about salary, it's about working conditions. At ACA we believe teachers and students deserve clean air classrooms, adequate sick leave, and access to vaccines and antivirals. We don't accept the "new normal" of constant sickness and teachers quitting the profession due to Long Covid.

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Barry Hunt @barryhunt008.bsky.social · 10d

Guess what we did yesterday

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Clean Air Classrooms #CleanAirForLife @cleanairclassrm.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations to the lucky London schools 👏🎉

Thankyou Mayor of London @london.gov.uk
For leadership to protect children
#HealthyAir is #SafeAir

Every Child
Deserves a
#CleanAirClassroom 🌐

#CleanAir is a Human right

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11d

I want every single child to breathe clean air in and around their school.

This new £2.7 million City Hall initiative will provide indoor air quality filters to at least 200 schools across all London boroughs, benefitting tens of thousands of children.

Air filters to be rolled out to 200 London schools

The Mayor of London has launched a £2.7 million programme to improve air quality in schools by installing indoor air filters across the capital. At least 200 schools will receive High Efficiency Part...

airqualitynews.com

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 11d

This is shocking bullshit. I know some people don’t understand how the sun works but honestly opposing solar power is up there with daylight saving making your curtains fade faster.

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 11d

Solar power is booming — and so is the backlash. Across New Zealand, the fight for the sun is heating up.

The solar wars heating up rural New Zealand

Solar power is booming — and so is the backlash. Across New Zealand, the fight for the sun is heating up.

dlvr.it

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12d

Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.

Kanchha Sherpa, last member of first Mount Everest expedition, dies at 92

Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 13d

Glad to see something evidence-based examining side-by-side immune system dysfunction and comparisons between HIV and Covid. Not glad to see the results 😭

Hand this to dismissive multi-infection people wondering why they're "sick all the time" or "can't get rid of brain fog."

Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 13d

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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Sarah Pallett @sarah4ilam.bsky.social · 13d

The Drs are striking because the woeful state of our health system is endangering patients (and them) and they simply can’t stretch themselves or their resources any further. It’s a last resort.
It is NOT them who need the lecture on ethics.
#nzpol #solidarity

Simeon Brown accuses doctors of crossing 'ethical line' with mega strike

There were audible cries of disbelief during Simeon Brown's speech to senior doctors.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Kaz @serenity22.bsky.social · 14d

More misleading BS from min of Ed, Stanford. #nzpol

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Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 14d

Views from bus.

Whau River as seen this morning from upstairs on a WX1 electric double-decker bus on the Northwestern Motorway (SH16).

#publicTransport #Auckland #TamakiMakaurau #bus #somethingBeautiful

Boats moored at Whau River mouth. The sky is blue with few clouds. The water is calm with few ripples & the moored boats reflect the golden morning light.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14d

NZ Kea - the world's only alpine parrot.

This cheeky soaking wet local of Arthurs Pass just sits outside the store/cafe waiting for naughty tourists to do the wrong thing & feed it.

Nestor notabilis - the NZ Kea, The kea is the world's only alpine parrot, native to the South Island of New Zealand. These highly intelligent and mischievous birds are found in both forested and mountainous regions, from the lowlands to the high alpine areas of the Southern Alps.

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xX💖🌹Xx_dolly_Angelic_xX🌹💖Xx @dollyeldritch.bsky.social · 15d

Sad and frustrating 😞

"Open Polytechnic is preparing to end its delivery of education programmes in prisons. If this goes ahead, it will cut off access to learning for people who already face huge barriers to education. It also means three full-time tutors will lose their roles,[...]"

Tertiary Education Union – Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa | Let’s not close the door on prison education

<p data-block-key="94q67">Open Polytechnic is preparing to end its delivery of education programmes in prisons. If this goes ahead, it will cut off access to learning for people who already face huge ...

teu.ac.nz

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 15d

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on.

These philistines need to hear from you all.

Thank you

petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

Edvard Munch's 'Scream' but with the text 'I can't believe they're cancelling Art History' in a speech bubble

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Deborah Teramis Christian 🌈 🎲 🇺🇦 @teramis.bsky.social · 15d

"If you start seeing people resigning or getting fired, or you start seeing stories that seem off...especially if it involves the left going too far on a topic Bari Weiss cares about, it’s worth asking yourself why that might be...”

John Oliver Warns Viewers to Keep a Close Eye on CBS News in Wake of “Alarming” Bari Weiss Hire

The 'Last Week Tonight' host described the newly appointed editor-in-chief as someone "who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading...

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 15d

#nzpol Signed as a former high school Art and Art History student.

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 15d

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on.

These philistines need to hear from you all.

Thank you

petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

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