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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 7h

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

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Pippa Coom @pippacoom.bsky.social · 9h

This is all the votes up till midday Saturday. Specials still to come to come! Will know final result on Friday.

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 8h

Fingers crossed!

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 9h

So true! And needs translation for those who are having a very hard time, for whom “easy” sounds like a thing devoutly to be wished.

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 9h

That feeling when the special votes tip your local board back towards favouring kid-friendly and bike-friendly streets…

A mashup of the sickos meme and classic Calvin & Hobbes, showing Calvin’s dad all togged up for one of his character-building bike rides, looking back through the window and saying “Yes hahaha yes.”

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 10h

An absolute rockstar of the herb garden. Elvis Parsley, as it were.

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 10h

I knew about brassica hegemony… but I only just learned the other day that celery is essentially big parsley, and WHAT?!

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11h

Absolutely heartbreaking visit to NZ's temperate glaciers on Te Tai Poutini West Coast.

Here's Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere Franz Joseph Glacier & Waiau (Waiho) River in Kā Tiritiri-o-te-moana the Southern Alps.

NZ's glaciers are in fast retreat due to Climate Change (see 2009 position drawn in).

View up a glacial valley towards mountains, with a flat valley floor & snow capped mountains. Lush rainforest frames the valley

This image shows how far the glacier has retreated just in 16 years - absolutely heartbreaking. The place where I took the photo was the terminal of the glacier in 1905

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Pippa Coom @pippacoom.bsky.social · 10h

This is really great news. City Vision (Labour, Greens & independents) has flipped two local boards. This is a win for progressive policies. Communities want climate action, street improvements, safe speeds and bike lanes

City Vision @cityvision.bsky.social · 11h

The preliminary result is now out. We're really delighted to have secured the majority on the Albert-Eden Local Board with the election of Michelle Thorp
voteauckland.co.nz/en/2025-loca...

Local board member results | Vote Auckland

Local board member results for the 2025 local elections.

voteauckland.co.nz

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

Yay we're 'famous'

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 10h

Experts: THE FUCK?

Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 10h

I thought I’d have a go at answering the question: what’s the flow on effect on emissions budgets from the methane cuts?

The answer was worse than I had anticipated

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

Scientists fear weaker methane target signals wider retreat from climate action

After cutting methane targets, New Zealand has a choice: shoulder the burden at huge cost - or cause more warming to the planet.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Doug McVay @dougmcvay.bsky.social · 11h

Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

www.oregonlive.com

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 13h

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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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 10h

I'd have done it for $499 a cone and funnier memes – where's the transparency in tendering!

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The Cat's Whiskers @thecatswhiskers.bsky.social · 11h

Sound up and the Cartman figure is chef's kiss.

Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 12h

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 12h

Sob! Here, have an invisible hanky. <mimes turning empty pockets inside out, shrugs, offers you an actual crumpled beret instead>

Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 12h

The phrase “easy road” stuck out. Like, who wouldn’t take the easy road if they could? Sounds safe/ logical, esp in this economy.

How about “the cowardly and more costly path”? Or an even more accurate and indelible visual metaphor, like “backing the tractor [our country/ our future] over a cliff”.

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 13h

I hope you mimed sadly turning your empty pockets inside out, by way of response.

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Christina Hood @christinahood.bsky.social · 1d

If you are fuming about the derailment of climate ambition in AoNZ, how about helping fund an investigation into where this came from 👇

Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 2d

The crowdfund for a podcast investigating how the idea of quitting the Paris climate accords went from fringe to mainstream is getting closer and closer to the goal. If 25 more people pledge $5 we'll be three quarters of the way there

www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...

Podcast: Quit Paris? How pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords went from fringe media to the mainstream | PledgeMe

Quit Paris? This podcast will investigate how a fringe idea moved from being a fringe position to one advocated by mainstream politicians

www.pledgeme.co.nz

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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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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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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 2d

With polls now officially closed on this local election day…

✊ Kudos to everyone who managed to get your votes in under the wire

🤞And best of luck to all candidates, currently keeping your cool (and holding onto your hats) while we wait for the counts to come in

Democracy ftw, hopefully! #nzpol

a person is laying on the ground in a dark room with a window .

Alt: Indiana Jones escapes by rolling under a heavy stone door, rapidly closing guillotine-style … and manages to reach back in and snatch his hat at the last second.

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 2d

"The book that made me laugh: The Ice Shelf by Anne Kennedy. From the first page... it is a hoot. I especially love the way she skewers writing workshops and literary festivals."

Totally agree with @wendmyway.bsky.social – The Ice Shelf is an iconic, edgy, and oddly underrated instant classic.

‘You’ll laugh, you’ll cry…’: Wendy Parkins on the book everyone should read

Wendy Parkins, winner of best first book at the 2025 Ngaio Marsh Awards, recommends a must-read Victorian 'trauma novel'.

thespinoff.co.nz

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