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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 39m

Yeah, we don't hear about the fact that the govt had to bail them out just after he left.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 8d

My favourite Jilly Cooper story is recounted in Graham Hoyland's 2013 book Last Hours on Everest. What a trooper.

"We lay in a tent for three days in a blizzard. After the first morning we had each told our life stories, and we lay there gazing at the roof of the tent, wondering what to do next.

Luckily Mark had brought a copy of Jilly Cooper's Rivals, a breathily written romance, and Brice had a penknife. We carefully cut it up into three parts. Mark, as owner, was allowed to read it in sequence: A, B, then C. Brice got B, C, then A, but I - as the youngest - was lumbered with C, A, then B, and struggled to comprehend both the plot and the characters.

On our return Mark contacted Jilly Cooper and told her the story. She was delighted to have been able to satisfy three large men at once with only one book."

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 4h

Everyone thought I was a Fish-bender while I ran around as a Beef twister, missing my old life as a Sampler of drugs and aspired to be an Examiner of underclothing, but the truth is that I spent Fifty-two years as an imbecile (classically trained as an Emasculator). Ah, the dreams of a Cow-banger...

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, this is so tough.
I'm glad hospice is able to help you.

nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 2h

Less than I thought.

I've obviously been saying lots of variations of bloody hell that's some bullshit. 😊

I'd have thought there'd be a few more fucks and fuckings in there though.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 3h

More waves crashing on the sandcastles of hopium. I'm famously pessimistic, but the data continues to surprise me to the downside. It's relentless. We've not seen anything like this for 45 years. Compounding, mutually reinforcing, job-killing dynamics. (1/2)

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 3h

This $300,000 was clearly as useful as the $100,000 NACT threw away on the road cone hotlines & the $500,000 to Sunny Kaushal to stop talking about retail crime. #nzpol

'Extremely wasteful': Cook Strait ferry ministerial advisory group paid $300,000

$300,000 spent on the Cook Strait ferry Ministerial Advisory Group has been criticised as wasteful, as a contract for new ships is yet to be signed.

www.newstalkzb.co.nz

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 5h

All because these petty partisan fuckheads couldn’t stand the idea that “the other party” had done a decent deal for New Zealanders.

Fucking coalition of losers. LOSERS.

Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 9h

Hyundai should take the Coalition muppets to the cleaners for breaking the contract.

#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

New Cook Strait ferries to be built by large Chinese shipbuilding company

The two new 200m ferries will accommodate 1500 passengers, and include both road and rail decks.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 16h

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You can turn that off by heading to: Settings → Privacy and Security → Allow others to be notified of your posts and toggling it off.

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 4h

Tagging the @profanity.accountant to see if I am profane.

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Joe Hislop @joehislop.bsky.social · 5h

For years scientists have been saying it’ll be cheaper to prevent climate change than to pay for the consequences of ignoring it. And here we are.

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 4h

He's the boss, he's the pip/ he's the championship!

Instant earworm.

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 4h

It's sooo pretty. And it looks extremely cosy.

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 5h

Yep. It's incredibly reckless and always expensive and damaging to the company. But people keep going for it anyway.

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 5h

😊 Funny, Boss Cat doesn't have the same ring at all.

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 5h

A cartoon from the past.
It was my fave when I was wee.

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Pmax @pmax.bsky.social · 7h

Sure, the ferry cancellation was a disaster for NZ financially and the reduction in scope of the project will cause irreparable damage to our infrastructure but the new contract will enrich China so on balance it's a net positive, gotta give Willis the W on this one.

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 6h

the degree to which i feel like i am living in the pre-title montage of a post-apocalyptic movie cannot be overstated.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 8h

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 6h

I'm not a comms person or a politician, just an outside observer, but this seems to me to be a matter of urgency for Labour.
The intensity of this kind of questioning is only going to ramp up, so Labour politicians need to plan ways to fend off the right wing framing and shift the narrative.
#nzpol

nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 6h

And he doesn't have to accept right wing framing and narratives about the Greens and TPM. They should have strategies in place to fend off this kind of bullshit without buying into it.

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 8h

Re-upping this thread in light of @ben.gracewood.nz uncovering that there is no record of David Seymour ever being told (as he had claimed) that alcohol warning labels hamper craft brewers ... a non-issue that would require us to break from our international agreements to fix ...

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 6h

was anyone else curious what a $90,000 Rolex looked like? well: www.partridgejewellers.com/rolex-cosmog...

It’s a Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, which Partridge Jewellers sell for $90,200

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 6h

Awks.

🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 18h

The photographer deserves a medal.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 6h

Eek!!

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 6h

And he doesn't have to accept right wing framing and narratives about the Greens and TPM. They should have strategies in place to fend off this kind of bullshit without buying into it.

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 6h

Yes! These are not good faith questions, they're attempts at gotchas. He doesn't have to engage with them. He's not privy to or answerable for TPM's internal issues.

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