Kathryn Dick
@excellentwretch.bsky.social
Educator; playwright; Ōtepoti is my home. 🏳️⚧️ally
"Too school for cool!"
"Too school for cool!"
I thought Andrew Coster was a good guy. Instead, he was just one of the guys.
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I thought Andrew Coster was a good guy. Instead, he was just one of the guys.
@CheckpointRNZ
Lisa Owen, do you listen to yourself?
Asking a 23-year-old who has volunteered to come on air and talk to you, "Do you REALLY want a job?"
FFS
Lisa Owen, do you listen to yourself?
Asking a 23-year-old who has volunteered to come on air and talk to you, "Do you REALLY want a job?"
FFS
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
@CheckpointRNZ
Lisa Owen, do you listen to yourself?
Asking a 23-year-old who has volunteered to come on air and talk to you, "Do you REALLY want a job?"
FFS
Lisa Owen, do you listen to yourself?
Asking a 23-year-old who has volunteered to come on air and talk to you, "Do you REALLY want a job?"
FFS
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I am privileged to have fewer enemies than Audre Lorde, and at least one of the enemies is my own brain, and even still ... holy shit this is a great line with so much to unpack and course correct with.
October 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I am privileged to have fewer enemies than Audre Lorde, and at least one of the enemies is my own brain, and even still ... holy shit this is a great line with so much to unpack and course correct with.
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I ended up on swifty TikTok and the comments are absolutely killing me. "9th grade slam poetry", [a photo of boiled chicken], "album for cop wives", "If Taylor wrote this that's bad, if ChatGPT wrote this that's worse, and if Travis wrote this I'm actually kind of proud of him".
October 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I ended up on swifty TikTok and the comments are absolutely killing me. "9th grade slam poetry", [a photo of boiled chicken], "album for cop wives", "If Taylor wrote this that's bad, if ChatGPT wrote this that's worse, and if Travis wrote this I'm actually kind of proud of him".
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The word of the day is:
💔 māteatea 💔
māteatea: (verb) to be ignominious, humiliating, shameful, inglorious, abject
and:
māteatea: (modifier) ignominious, humiliating, shameful, inglorious, abject, dishonourable
and:
māteatea: (noun) shame, distress, disgrace, scandal, embarrassment
Auē rā!
💔 māteatea 💔
māteatea: (verb) to be ignominious, humiliating, shameful, inglorious, abject
and:
māteatea: (modifier) ignominious, humiliating, shameful, inglorious, abject, dishonourable
and:
māteatea: (noun) shame, distress, disgrace, scandal, embarrassment
Auē rā!
Glimpsed while Winston exposed Aotearoa to international shame and condemnation, MFAT officials looking glum, with one sporting a Flying Nun sticker on their laptop.
September 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The word of the day is:
💔 māteatea 💔
māteatea: (verb) to be ignominious, humiliating, shameful, inglorious, abject
and:
māteatea: (modifier) ignominious, humiliating, shameful, inglorious, abject, dishonourable
and:
māteatea: (noun) shame, distress, disgrace, scandal, embarrassment
Auē rā!
💔 māteatea 💔
māteatea: (verb) to be ignominious, humiliating, shameful, inglorious, abject
and:
māteatea: (modifier) ignominious, humiliating, shameful, inglorious, abject, dishonourable
and:
māteatea: (noun) shame, distress, disgrace, scandal, embarrassment
Auē rā!
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Reading much tonight on Charlie Kirk, who he was, what he said and believed -- from both admirers and those deeply opposed. It does not matter. None of it. What matters is that political violence made routine against any voice, left or right, marks us as a failing, dying republic.
This is horror.
This is horror.
September 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Reading much tonight on Charlie Kirk, who he was, what he said and believed -- from both admirers and those deeply opposed. It does not matter. None of it. What matters is that political violence made routine against any voice, left or right, marks us as a failing, dying republic.
This is horror.
This is horror.
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Was the privilege of a lifetime to work with these folks. They each did amazing things under huge pressure day-in-day-out for more than two years.
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, a group of scientists and researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand dropped everything they were doing and rolled up their sleeves to help the response. This response ultimately saved around 20,000 lives 🧪 🧵
September 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Was the privilege of a lifetime to work with these folks. They each did amazing things under huge pressure day-in-day-out for more than two years.
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I can't tell you how much I loved this.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I can't tell you how much I loved this.
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If I believed in hell, Hobson's Pledge would burn in it.
August 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
If I believed in hell, Hobson's Pledge would burn in it.
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One day after Crimson Education's Beaton appears on Q&A to denounce NCEA, Erica Stanford announces she is cancelling it, ignoring expert advice.
The next day John Key, business partner to Beaton, flog off their new course How flaming corrupt are the National Party?
#nzpol
#nzpolitics
Scoop: RENL
The next day John Key, business partner to Beaton, flog off their new course How flaming corrupt are the National Party?
#nzpol
#nzpolitics
Scoop: RENL
August 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
One day after Crimson Education's Beaton appears on Q&A to denounce NCEA, Erica Stanford announces she is cancelling it, ignoring expert advice.
The next day John Key, business partner to Beaton, flog off their new course How flaming corrupt are the National Party?
#nzpol
#nzpolitics
Scoop: RENL
The next day John Key, business partner to Beaton, flog off their new course How flaming corrupt are the National Party?
#nzpol
#nzpolitics
Scoop: RENL
If NCEA were a woman, I'd say she's being gaslit.
( I said this in response to a question on what I thought of the media response to the changes.)
( I said this in response to a question on what I thought of the media response to the changes.)
August 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If NCEA were a woman, I'd say she's being gaslit.
( I said this in response to a question on what I thought of the media response to the changes.)
( I said this in response to a question on what I thought of the media response to the changes.)
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Why is RNZ covering the details of Kiri Allan's arrest two years ago?! This relentless hounding of women in public life (esp if brown) is appalling
July 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Why is RNZ covering the details of Kiri Allan's arrest two years ago?! This relentless hounding of women in public life (esp if brown) is appalling
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Make no mistake:
Alligator Alcatraz IS a concentration camp, and they absolutely ARE planning genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing.’
As a white person, i don’t know what I can do to help, but if all I have is my voice, I will make sure it’s heard.
Alligator Alcatraz IS a concentration camp, and they absolutely ARE planning genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing.’
As a white person, i don’t know what I can do to help, but if all I have is my voice, I will make sure it’s heard.
July 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Make no mistake:
Alligator Alcatraz IS a concentration camp, and they absolutely ARE planning genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing.’
As a white person, i don’t know what I can do to help, but if all I have is my voice, I will make sure it’s heard.
Alligator Alcatraz IS a concentration camp, and they absolutely ARE planning genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing.’
As a white person, i don’t know what I can do to help, but if all I have is my voice, I will make sure it’s heard.
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My final RSB comic for Greenpeace! An updated Coat of Arms for a corporate-run country. Only four more days to make a submission: www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
June 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
My final RSB comic for Greenpeace! An updated Coat of Arms for a corporate-run country. Only four more days to make a submission: www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
“I am astonished” said the Acting PM…astonished, I tell you. @davidseymour.bsky.social
a black and white photo of a woman in a white dress standing in a room .
ALT: a black and white photo of a woman in a white dress standing in a room .
media.tenor.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:20 AM
“I am astonished” said the Acting PM…astonished, I tell you. @davidseymour.bsky.social
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“We found this individual possessed a second, far more lethal string of words locked and loaded, and I’m terrified to think how the situation would have shaken out if he’d been able to say even one of them aloud,” said Kristi Noem theonion.com/kristi-...
Kristi Noem: Sen. Padilla Had Even Deadlier Opinion That Failed To Go Off
LOS ANGELES—Stressing that she had significant reason to fear for her life during yesterday’s confrontation, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters Friday that she believed Sen. Alex Padilla had an even deadlier opinion that failed to go off. “We found this individual possessed a second, far more lethal string of words locked and loaded, […]
theonion.com
June 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“We found this individual possessed a second, far more lethal string of words locked and loaded, and I’m terrified to think how the situation would have shaken out if he’d been able to say even one of them aloud,” said Kristi Noem theonion.com/kristi-...
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We didn't. This was orchestrated.
Outside New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern is regarded as a liberal paragon among world leaders. Why did her own country turn on her?
Why Did New Zealand Turn on Jacinda Ardern?
A new memoir by the former Prime Minister revisits her time in office but doesn’t explain the confounding transformation the country underwent during COVID.
www.newyorker.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We didn't. This was orchestrated.
Screaming SCREAMING at Demelza Leslie on the tele for introducing Dame Marilyn Wearing as the MP who threatened to cross the floor in the Muldoon govt … rather than the person who has spent a lifetime devoted to WOMEN and ECONOMICS. Show some respect.
May 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Screaming SCREAMING at Demelza Leslie on the tele for introducing Dame Marilyn Wearing as the MP who threatened to cross the floor in the Muldoon govt … rather than the person who has spent a lifetime devoted to WOMEN and ECONOMICS. Show some respect.
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ACT are celebrating a significant funding cut for public media
In a time where public media is needed more than ever. If you're in a position to do so, consider subscribing to media outlets or individual journalists whos work you value
In a time where public media is needed more than ever. If you're in a position to do so, consider subscribing to media outlets or individual journalists whos work you value
May 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
ACT are celebrating a significant funding cut for public media
In a time where public media is needed more than ever. If you're in a position to do so, consider subscribing to media outlets or individual journalists whos work you value
In a time where public media is needed more than ever. If you're in a position to do so, consider subscribing to media outlets or individual journalists whos work you value
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A thing to do is amplify Greens policy (see @maramadavidson.bsky.social) and @tepaatimaori.bsky.social policy.
Talk about it with your mates. Plaster it over your social media.
The Government is trying to normalise wealth inequity, conservatism, misogyny - amplify and vote for those pushing back.
Talk about it with your mates. Plaster it over your social media.
The Government is trying to normalise wealth inequity, conservatism, misogyny - amplify and vote for those pushing back.
May 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
A thing to do is amplify Greens policy (see @maramadavidson.bsky.social) and @tepaatimaori.bsky.social policy.
Talk about it with your mates. Plaster it over your social media.
The Government is trying to normalise wealth inequity, conservatism, misogyny - amplify and vote for those pushing back.
Talk about it with your mates. Plaster it over your social media.
The Government is trying to normalise wealth inequity, conservatism, misogyny - amplify and vote for those pushing back.
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Budget 2025 is a disaster for our environment. Conservation investment is MIA while 75% of native species face extinction. The Govt is gambling with $133B in natural assets and our economy. This is environmental neglect, not leadership. We demand better.
www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/no...
www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/no...
No nature, no economy: Budget 2025 misses the $133b point
Forest & Bird says the Government’s lack of investment in New Zealand’s environment in Budget 2025 is deeply concerning given the importance of the environment to our economy and society.
www.forestandbird.org.nz
May 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Budget 2025 is a disaster for our environment. Conservation investment is MIA while 75% of native species face extinction. The Govt is gambling with $133B in natural assets and our economy. This is environmental neglect, not leadership. We demand better.
www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/no...
www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/no...
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Inside Hipkins are two wolves; one that deeply believes in the centrist voter and neoliberalism and one that can actually cook sometimes. He needs to let Chef Wolf out more
May 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Inside Hipkins are two wolves; one that deeply believes in the centrist voter and neoliberalism and one that can actually cook sometimes. He needs to let Chef Wolf out more
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It's ridiculous to me that the Government believes they are unable to tell the likes of Meta and Google what to do when it comes to preventing harm to all New Zealanders through online scams, but they are happy to assume they can demand they establish the ages of every user in NZ.
Why banning social media for NZers under 16 is a bad idea – and will affect adults too
Analysis: It's not clear that outright prohibition will achieve what is hoped for.
www.rnz.co.nz
May 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It's ridiculous to me that the Government believes they are unable to tell the likes of Meta and Google what to do when it comes to preventing harm to all New Zealanders through online scams, but they are happy to assume they can demand they establish the ages of every user in NZ.