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Anne Zablocka
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Pōneke, ex Govt. editor now living the dream in an idyllic upholstery workshop in Ōtari/Wilton surrounded by native birds. She/her One half of www.burlapandbright.co.nz
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Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚
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The Luxon Govt’s bonkers plan to build 17 Big New Roads that we don’t really need will cost us at least $44 billion.

That’s enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over or to massively improve public transport and cycle infrastructure in all our cities. #nzpol

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...
$5b-plus blowout for eight Roads of National Significance
The Government's 17 Roads of National Significance will cost it at least $44 billion – enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over. Marc Daalder reports.
newsroom.co.nz
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes
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Quite an unfortunate place to drift off into an ellipsis.
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Nationalism is a shibboleth. The challenges we face are daunting. But we are not going to overcome them by hunkering down behind of imaginary lines scrawled on a map by medieval warlords. Our problems are transnational, and the solutions are too.
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Folks, wishing everyone a restful & restorative Labour weekend, wherein we give thanks to Sam Parnell & the Labour movement & unions for the 8 hr day:
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I don't find this view pervasive among the public. Most people know things are bad & want info + pressure applied to decision makers

Media/Pol circles however *absolutely* seem to believe this- it's one of the main claims thrown at me by journos. Why do they think that despite clear evidence?
You know, there’s this pervasive view that people don’t care about climate change / are bored of it / find it overwhelming but I wrote this story this week and social media went crazy over it. People care!!!! They really care are they need a way to channel it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
New Zealand guts climate policy it bragged about on the world stage
The law was once held up internationally as a model of transparency. The government just weakened it.
www.rnz.co.nz
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It's like she's doing Pokemon Go but with Nazi war criminals.
I feel like I am going mad.
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You’re never too old to make worse friends than Slater
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People watching is consistently one of my favourite things each week 🥰
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Judith Collins calling open fascist Kristi Noem a friend and posing for photo ops with her would have her hounded out of politics in any reasonable democracy - and a functioning, non-propagandistic media would lead that charge

Unfortunately we have neither of those things in NZ
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The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
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Some sort of investment fund? This economically illiterate 1970s state capitalism policy pales in comparison to my strategy: spending every last dollar this country has on 10 roads
Would it be best for me to ring Te Papa tomorrow and ask them? Thank you!
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If he's genuinely worried about birth rates, he'd advocate for enhanced paid maternity leave, affordable housing, and universal childcare. Instead, he's scapegoating women's liberation. Predictable and tiresome.

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Yes definitely, it’s in there.
Does anyone in Pōneke know where I could take a dead Kererū (flew into our window 🥺😔) for someone to make use of its feathers?
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Great to see The Post finally celebrating Wellington’s progress. It’s amazing what a difference a week makes! 😂
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One time I asked ChatGPT to generate some code. It gave me complete dogshit which didn't even compile, so I paste just the error message and nothing else. It then responded with an entire paragraph praising "my" code, followed by hyping me up telling me how close I am to getting it perfect.
You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.