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Trying to live life in the little places. Interstitial and liminal spaces.
Like ants, sometimes with an ‘r’…
Pinned
Anyone up for playing the #JuCo appreciation cup?

Voting instructions for round one, and links to each item in 🧵
#JuCoCup #NZpol
But social media bubbles are the root of all evil because we don’t talk to each other or something?

(This is lovely)
Somehow we wound up getting professional wrestling, the clergy, and concealed carry bros.
Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
February 5, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Wow. Just wow.
These are the voices — real voices of real people who know how policies impact them — that I want to see this election year.
Can we make it a thing? #nzpol #realnzpol
Darren Shields (aka the "weekend spearfisherman" as Shane Jones called him) has replied. This reply illustrates how much Shane Jones is disconnected from the New Zealand voter in general.

#nzpol
February 5, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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😢
January 30, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Legendary legends doing legendary shit ❤️✊❤️
Holy shit. So this just happened at Minneapolis's legendary First Avenue club. That's Tom Morello introducing Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHe...
Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis - First Ave 260130
YouTube video by Nate Reiter
www.youtube.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Love him 🤣
Hope the fire guy doesn’t get in trouble but 🤣🤣🤣🤣😊🤣😊😊😊🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 (watch the fire guy at the end)
January 31, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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Remember when I wondered if we would ship 100,000 whistles in January?

Well, with the power of protective rage and collective compassion, we doubled that. 💞

Get whistles/help print/support us: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
January 30, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Debating what to say about this but maybe the best tip is to click on the quotes of it and see what everyone else has said… 👀
Breaking: the Government is negotiating with the US to provide access to our critical minerals, while a memo before the Waitangi Tribunal says a backdoor deal violates obligations to Māori
NZ in talks with US on Trump minerals deal
newsroom.co.nz
January 30, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Skid marks or a derailment, depending on your transport metaphor… 🤷‍♀️
January 30, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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Have to update this
January 29, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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David Seymour: "[Do not let them eat cake], let them 'economise' their spending on bread"

- literal thing that happened in parliament today
January 29, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.
Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.

Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
January 28, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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Damn this dude definitely doesn't look cool as fuck. I wish I was the guy in the big jacket taking a piss in the corner instead, that's what a man looks like- ashamed in khakis.
January 28, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Would love to see JUST ONE PIECE of analysis that properly puts womens’ financial struggles not down to their own inability (blah) but to where it really lies: with the selfishness of men
"Women, on average, earn less than men and take more time out of work. Time out of the workforce has quite a big impact on people's lifetime incomes and lifetime savings."

retirement was a struggle for women who were alone, or those in second relationships where finances were kept separate.
#nzpol
Why single people are feeling the financial crunch
Single older people are bearing the brunt of rising prices, and women may be particularly hard hit.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 29, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Slavery is good, ACTually… #NZpol
January 29, 2026 at 2:05 AM
✊🔥 ✊🔥 ✊🔥 ✊🔥 ✊🔥
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.

Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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Every time Luxon talks about Labour needing the terrible radical Greens this should be put to him for response.
January 29, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Q: Which is more rapacious?

A: Not the actual rapists, ha ha ha
Describing the rapid increase in slave numbers as being because slave owners allowed them to have the families ‘they wanted’ and also using the word ‘rapacious’ but NOT about those slave owners remains … a choice.

#NZpol #ACT
2013: Recently former ACT leader writes a column arguing that slavery was better for slaves than democracy: www.nbr.co.nz/a-southern-s...

2026: ACT refuses to support anti-slavery legislation, forcing Grand Coalition
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I suppose consistency is a kind of virtue
January 29, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Describing the rapid increase in slave numbers as being because slave owners allowed them to have the families ‘they wanted’ and also using the word ‘rapacious’ but NOT about those slave owners remains … a choice.

#NZpol #ACT
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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Working with #kakapo, this is the best thing you'll ever see. When "candling" an egg you hold your breath, hoping to see this: beautiful embryo development in a fertile egg. This is Tiwhiri's second egg, about 8 days old. About half of eggs are infertile. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds
January 28, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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In today’s NZ Herald
January 28, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Nicky Hager says Judith Collins is “clearly and demonstrably not” fit for the Law Commission role

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Nicky Hager: Judith Collins not fit for Law Commission role
The journalist behind Dirty Politics has questioned Collins’ appointment.
www.thepost.co.nz
January 28, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Good grief the prescience 💔😭
on Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 28, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims.

We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear.

Never again means never again for anyone.
January 28, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt
January 28, 2026 at 2:37 AM