Scout
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Mostly just tired.
🖤🤍❤️ Toitū te Tiriti ❤️🤍🖤
Mostly just tired.
🖤🤍❤️ Toitū te Tiriti ❤️🤍🖤
It's exhausting reading about TPM drama when as a member, not once have I ever been approached about local hui, opportunities to have my voice heard outside of AGM, etc. We have processes but god they're naive and lacking the grit and rigour needed for living in a Pākehā world.
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It's exhausting reading about TPM drama when as a member, not once have I ever been approached about local hui, opportunities to have my voice heard outside of AGM, etc. We have processes but god they're naive and lacking the grit and rigour needed for living in a Pākehā world.
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Ōtepoti: Palestine solidarity
Rally for Palestine
Saturday 15th November
2-4pm
Upper Octagon
image: same info, illustrated with Palestinian flag at the bottom & a background photo of a person holding up a sign "Stop the genocide", amongst a crowd of people
Rally for Palestine
Saturday 15th November
2-4pm
Upper Octagon
image: same info, illustrated with Palestinian flag at the bottom & a background photo of a person holding up a sign "Stop the genocide", amongst a crowd of people
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Ōtepoti: Palestine solidarity
Rally for Palestine
Saturday 15th November
2-4pm
Upper Octagon
image: same info, illustrated with Palestinian flag at the bottom & a background photo of a person holding up a sign "Stop the genocide", amongst a crowd of people
Rally for Palestine
Saturday 15th November
2-4pm
Upper Octagon
image: same info, illustrated with Palestinian flag at the bottom & a background photo of a person holding up a sign "Stop the genocide", amongst a crowd of people
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Now #SecretSantaAoNZ has kicked off, I’m going to have a think about some good clues I can give my Santa. I’ll probably post around the time we get paired up.
Want to play with us? Go to secretsanta.nz for details and sign up!!
Want to play with us? Go to secretsanta.nz for details and sign up!!
a man in a green elf costume is sitting at a table in front of a shelf filled with toys .
Alt: Will Ferrell, in a green elf costume, is sitting at a table in front of a shelf filled with toys, playing with a Jack-in-the-Box
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Now #SecretSantaAoNZ has kicked off, I’m going to have a think about some good clues I can give my Santa. I’ll probably post around the time we get paired up.
Want to play with us? Go to secretsanta.nz for details and sign up!!
Want to play with us? Go to secretsanta.nz for details and sign up!!
Genius move from me to tackle the big questions right on bedtime - the find out about it tomorrow board.
November 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Genius move from me to tackle the big questions right on bedtime - the find out about it tomorrow board.
My friend died. I'm sad. They meant an awful lot to me. The world without them feels like a very bleak kind of a place.
November 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
My friend died. I'm sad. They meant an awful lot to me. The world without them feels like a very bleak kind of a place.
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The Children’s Minister lied about the harm the state is inflicting on children to make the Govt and herself look better. It’s beyond unacceptable. It’s morally bankrupt.
#nzpol
#nzpol
Children's Minister accepts state care harm statistics didn't provide full picture
The government has this week celebrated the first recorded drop in harm in Youth Justice and Care and Protection facilities, but that's just one of four categories tracked by Oranga Tamariki.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Children’s Minister lied about the harm the state is inflicting on children to make the Govt and herself look better. It’s beyond unacceptable. It’s morally bankrupt.
#nzpol
#nzpol
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RIP North & South, but anyway. Just thinking about this article from 2021 describing how price gouging has been normalised in NZ. And this was BEFORE a whole lot of the inflation shocks and upheaval. NZers aren’t angry enough at the people responsible for it all.
northandsouth.co.nz/2021/08/26/w...
northandsouth.co.nz/2021/08/26/w...
The High Price of Absolutely Everything
Price Gouging. Market Monopolies: The real reason New Zealand is so expensive
northandsouth.co.nz
October 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
RIP North & South, but anyway. Just thinking about this article from 2021 describing how price gouging has been normalised in NZ. And this was BEFORE a whole lot of the inflation shocks and upheaval. NZers aren’t angry enough at the people responsible for it all.
northandsouth.co.nz/2021/08/26/w...
northandsouth.co.nz/2021/08/26/w...
Absolutely tremendous amount of power outages across Southland, good grief
October 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Absolutely tremendous amount of power outages across Southland, good grief
It's real important, clearly, that we are policed at the mega strike in Ōtepoti. Imagine deciding that teachers, nurses, doctors, firefighters, education and health support staff require police supervision just cos it's a strike.
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It's real important, clearly, that we are policed at the mega strike in Ōtepoti. Imagine deciding that teachers, nurses, doctors, firefighters, education and health support staff require police supervision just cos it's a strike.
Parenting an autistic kid is wild. I just walked in to the lounge to hear Google rattling off a list of serious ailments all causing death. Asked what was going on. "I was just seeing what would happen if you were stung by a box jellyfish."
October 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Parenting an autistic kid is wild. I just walked in to the lounge to hear Google rattling off a list of serious ailments all causing death. Asked what was going on. "I was just seeing what would happen if you were stung by a box jellyfish."
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Come on FENZ get Fire(fighter) wise!! Support your local firefighters on strike this Friday! Sticking for safer working conditions and fair pay! Talk more over at my substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/come-on-gu...
October 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Come on FENZ get Fire(fighter) wise!! Support your local firefighters on strike this Friday! Sticking for safer working conditions and fair pay! Talk more over at my substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/come-on-gu...
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SHORT NOTICE CALL TO ARMS FOR DUNEDIN FOLKS
October 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
SHORT NOTICE CALL TO ARMS FOR DUNEDIN FOLKS
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1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.
October 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.
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Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
www.aftonbladet.se
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
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I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.
October 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.
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The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.
October 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.
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Margin is a 100 votes!!! And they are still counting, so not final yet. 🫣
October 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Margin is a 100 votes!!! And they are still counting, so not final yet. 🫣
One of those days I could really use my own support worker.
I gotta go special vote and pick meds up from the pharmacy. I'm too wiped out to get myself out and about to do either.
I gotta go special vote and pick meds up from the pharmacy. I'm too wiped out to get myself out and about to do either.
October 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
One of those days I could really use my own support worker.
I gotta go special vote and pick meds up from the pharmacy. I'm too wiped out to get myself out and about to do either.
I gotta go special vote and pick meds up from the pharmacy. I'm too wiped out to get myself out and about to do either.
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Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.
October 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.
I finished my masters!! Yay!
MSD cut off my Supported Living Payments and my payments stopped this week because in the flurry of OSCAR subsidy letters and finishing my masters and being constantly sick, I missed a review letter. Boo
MSD cut off my Supported Living Payments and my payments stopped this week because in the flurry of OSCAR subsidy letters and finishing my masters and being constantly sick, I missed a review letter. Boo
October 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I finished my masters!! Yay!
MSD cut off my Supported Living Payments and my payments stopped this week because in the flurry of OSCAR subsidy letters and finishing my masters and being constantly sick, I missed a review letter. Boo
MSD cut off my Supported Living Payments and my payments stopped this week because in the flurry of OSCAR subsidy letters and finishing my masters and being constantly sick, I missed a review letter. Boo
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“The world doesn’t owe you a living”
Vs
“I’m entitled to my entitlements”
Vs
“I’m entitled to my entitlements”
October 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“The world doesn’t owe you a living”
Vs
“I’m entitled to my entitlements”
Vs
“I’m entitled to my entitlements”
Holiday casualties of Sept/Oct 2025:
- 2x flooded bathroom ("I wanted a swimming pool")
- 1x snapped kitchen knife ("I was trying to get into the lock box")
- 1x heavily scratched lock box
- ♾️x punched Pāpā
- 10x removals of the Google home to prevent unauthorised YouTube use ("but it's a habit!")
- 2x flooded bathroom ("I wanted a swimming pool")
- 1x snapped kitchen knife ("I was trying to get into the lock box")
- 1x heavily scratched lock box
- ♾️x punched Pāpā
- 10x removals of the Google home to prevent unauthorised YouTube use ("but it's a habit!")
October 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Holiday casualties of Sept/Oct 2025:
- 2x flooded bathroom ("I wanted a swimming pool")
- 1x snapped kitchen knife ("I was trying to get into the lock box")
- 1x heavily scratched lock box
- ♾️x punched Pāpā
- 10x removals of the Google home to prevent unauthorised YouTube use ("but it's a habit!")
- 2x flooded bathroom ("I wanted a swimming pool")
- 1x snapped kitchen knife ("I was trying to get into the lock box")
- 1x heavily scratched lock box
- ♾️x punched Pāpā
- 10x removals of the Google home to prevent unauthorised YouTube use ("but it's a habit!")
I have about $8000 in extra student debt because my parents refused to fill out the forms with their income and it took a year to persuade Studylink to waive it at the ripe old age of 20 but yeah, means testing jobseekers for 18 and 19 year olds is a super smart idea that will go perfectly fine
October 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I have about $8000 in extra student debt because my parents refused to fill out the forms with their income and it took a year to persuade Studylink to waive it at the ripe old age of 20 but yeah, means testing jobseekers for 18 and 19 year olds is a super smart idea that will go perfectly fine
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As a historian, I don’t require my government to have the same level of knowledge I do, but I do ask of them the listening to those who have the knowledge. Our refusal to recognise Palestine is a national shame.
October 2, 2025 at 10:11 AM
As a historian, I don’t require my government to have the same level of knowledge I do, but I do ask of them the listening to those who have the knowledge. Our refusal to recognise Palestine is a national shame.
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It’s always crazy to that the govt will wield their enormous power and punish people for being poor or bully children by withholding lunches but not do unhinged badass things like kick the Israeli ambassador out.
October 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It’s always crazy to that the govt will wield their enormous power and punish people for being poor or bully children by withholding lunches but not do unhinged badass things like kick the Israeli ambassador out.