Steph Matuku

Police fired their guns just three times last year New data shows police are drawing their weapons more frequently than in the past, even as firearm and Taser discharges remain rare

I do sometimes complain about New Zealand feeling boring but it has its upsides.

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Nature is healing 🙏

It’s not just that unemployment is up 28% since the govt took office it’s that they engineered it! If you have the faintest clue about how the economy works you know that cutting public spending impacts the private sector immediately. The govt is the private sector’s BIGGEST customer.

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This NCEA thing feels like a distraction, like they're cooking up something supersonically bad elsewhere.

Omg! Clever! I would have thought my algorithm would serve me something else.

I want those wall ducks!!

It's me! Thank you Kelz, mwah! xxx🎊🙏💕

See?!

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

😅 that must have felt great

As a School C kid fumbling my way through NCEA with my own kids, I think we should just abandon school altogether, and send them into the mines

Wow, that's a supersonic mark!

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So connected!

My absolute favourite thing this year is Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson 💕

Between today and the end of the year there are about 151 days.

If you write 600 words every day between today and the last day of the year you’ll have a draft of your novel.

"NZ First seeks to legislate 'New Zealand' as country's official name"

A block of butter is $10

It's all a blur!

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It's my birthday next week, and my friend asked how old I was going to be. I said 53. She got out her calculator, and apparently I'm turning 52. I just gained a year of life today.

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Tsunami alert at 6:30am 😭 I live on a hill.

That's so neat, thanks! I hope the kids are enjoying them ✨

I sprinkle them willy-nilly; they are fairy dust.

Amazing! Was it Falling into Rarohenga?

💕🙏 aw!

It's one way people will know that my writing isn't AI 😅

Those covers are 🔥

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I dont do punctuation by the rules. I do it by vibes.

*waves*

Washing out 🌞
Washing in ⛈️
Washing out 🌞
Washing in ⛈️
Washing out *dies*