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runningwhio @runningwhio.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry for your loss, B. Very sad. Wishing your nephew a speedy recovery x

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Sue Tyler @styler.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone have a lead on someone local in wellington who does laser cutting. I'm not looking for one of the big shops - i get about 3hrs of laser cutting done 4-6 times a year . I'm pretty small and am hoping to find some lovely small owner operator setup. with my CFS i can't stand at a machine & DIY

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runningwhio @runningwhio.bsky.social · 1d

Every bill is going up, ppl on benefit get fuck all of nothing as it is, but they'll stick the boot in. Transit to performative workshops for ghost jobs costs $5 each way at a minimum. Putting up barriers to access to strip people of dignity.

Steve @kiwistevemc.bsky.social · 1d

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

“Upston said [they’d have to] attend one or more employment-related training courses.”

Why? Will this magic up jobs for the unemployed to apply for?

Piss off, will you, with the beneficiary-bashing. Sanctions won’t make the jobs magically appear.

New benefit sanctions will help beneficiaries find jobs, says Social Development Minister Louise Upston

Those failing an obligation for the first time will either have to do job-search activities or attend employment-related training courses.

www.rnz.co.nz

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runningwhio @runningwhio.bsky.social · 1d

Evil people

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2d

#WATCH | Netanyahu signals a retreat from the Gaza ceasefire agreement, stating that the war will not end and that the Rafah crossing will remain closed until his conditions are met: the return of all captives and bodies, the dismantling of Hamas rule, and the disarmament of Gaza.

(Gaza24Live)

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

“Big tent” I mutter to myself, trying not to gag at the sight of the nude white man holding a sign that reads “LIBERTARIANS AGAINST *DICK* -TATORS!” Tears stream down my face; my clenched knuckles turn white; I can feel my jaw cramping from my clenched teeth. “Big tent.”

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

Any Wellington friends got Aloe Vera plants that are dividing and can spare some for me?

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 3d

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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runningwhio @runningwhio.bsky.social · 2d

Just came home from some time with friends & my current favourite baby, so I'm a solid 4

Cath S @cathsheard.bsky.social · 2d

I’m a solid 2 today…

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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 3d

Several cities in Korea have old bits of town where the people have painted murals on the outside of their houses. I wasn't expecting it but am utterly charmed

Blue painted house with two moons each with a figure in it.

Spiderman figure plus cobwebs on painted on one side of the house with flowers around the corner

Painting of a girl and a ghost sitting on an inside bench with a small cat looking out the window at the sky

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runningwhio @runningwhio.bsky.social · 4d

I likened performance plans to abortion at work today (it's up to you whether u choose to have one or not, but it should be an option for you) and that's on making it mundane

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 4d

i see mike king and "i am hope" is in the news again recently. just resharing this amazing piece @jessmcallen.bsky.social wrote for webworm last year: www.webworm.co/rockstar/

The Making of a Mental Health Rockstar

Does Mike King’s popularity come with a big dose of impunity?

www.webworm.co

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 5d

Even saying "two executives" appears to be generous. It's 1.32FTE so it's one executive (King) and a part-timer doing about 1.5 days a week.

Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 5d

This stinks more than a soggy gumboot , King's execs get 527k which is what some other charities run on per year if they haven't been cut altogether by this cretinus gov..

#nzpol

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Mike Riversdale @mikeriversdale.co.nz · 6d

"Democracy eh!"

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.

#NZPol #RSB #Aotearoa #NewZealand

REGULATORY STANDARDS BILL SELECT COMMITTEE REPORT:

166,000 SUBMISSIONS TOTAL

0.7 % Supported
0.6% Unclear
98.1% Opposed

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Rohan MacMahon @rohmac.bsky.social · 6d

Stuff front page right now… what a juxtaposition.

#climate #nzpol

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 6d

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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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 8d

More than 500,000 marched for Palestine in London on 11th October. The reaction of a Labour Government- Bridget Philipson speaking to Trevor Phillips (12th Oct). 'We're bringing in restrictions to curtail the marches'. A Labour Government??
wp.me/p15p2Q-fgR

Over 500,000 marched in London on Oct 11. The 32nd national demonstration for Palestine. The BBC: ‘local London news’

Over 500,000 march in London on 32nd national demonstration for Palestine. BBC ‘local news’ Over 500,000 people marched in central London on 11th October on what was the 32nd national demonstration…

wp.me

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 8d

Remember the old rightwing argument that all we needed to do was put a price on climate emissions and let the market do its thing? Well the necessary step was for the Govt to put a price on emissions. The current far right NZ Govt just announced it will never put a price on emissions.

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runningwhio @runningwhio.bsky.social · 9d

Portland Frog says #notallfrogs to the Pepe-loving group ❤️

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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runningwhio @runningwhio.bsky.social · 10d

Jelly in gloomy drizzly welly

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te pua o te rēinga (🫴🏼🎃) @cucumber.bsky.social · 10d

last day to vote tomorrow at noon beautiful people 🙂

te pua o te rēinga (🫴🏼🎃) @cucumber.bsky.social · Sep 18

voted for te whanganui a tara 👍🏻

orange ballot bin at the library. adorned with stickers

Ngā pōtitanga ā-rohe
Local body elections
VOTE HERE

VOTE
FOR PōNEKE

vote by noon oct 11

there’s a picture of a cat on a column next to the bin

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 10d

Generally a sunny-side up sort of person but yep, this is brutally accurate on the state of things. (Snap election when?)

the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 10d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 11d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Sheldon @brokenstarfish.bsky.social · 11d

Welcome to another episode of “Plotting or Begging?”

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12d

BREAKING: Israeli forces have killed 126 Palestinians in 271 raids across the Gaza Strip over the past five days, including at least 75 in Gaza City, according to the besieged enclave’s Government Media Office.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/taonkh

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