Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿

Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿

@auntbenjy.bsky.social

Sci tech person. TTRPG player. “Fuck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming.” ~ Iain M. Banks Ace, ally, Pākehā, Tangata Tiriti. Toitū te Tiriti She/Her Don't do DMs #AoNZ

502 Followers 729 Following 1,776 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 hours ago

Other pro tip: if a charity shop has a loading dock or a system that makes it easier to drop off donations, go there too. They'll have a high turnover.

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Thank you. I appreciate your insight.

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16 hours ago

Of course not. The Labour government did that, and everything they do is wrong.

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Melania hails herself as a 'visionary' at women's event First Lady Melania Trump, in remarks at a White House Women’s History Month celebration, lauded herself as a “visionary” while giving advice to guests.“As a visionary, I know success is not born overn...

Oh jeez, I feel queasy...

www.alternet.org/melania-trum...

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1 day ago

42 people. millions of trans people are being tortured by their governments because of 42 people.

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2 days ago

Ways the govt could quickly help New Zealanders reduce fuel usage, but probably won’t 🤷, for reasons:

⚠️ Lower speed limits
🚌 Encourage PT (eg bring back half-priced fares)
🚲 Encourage active modes (eg pop-up bike paths)
🛤️ Move freight from road to rail (eg ramp up KiwiRail)
🏡 Support work-from-home

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To:
newstips@stuffdigital.co.nz
Date:
12 March 2026, 16:12
Kia ora Team,
Please update this misinformation in your headline immediately, it is absolutely not correct that catching the virus is our new booster and is deeply negligent to give this impression to the public.
Please confirm this has been updated, and see correct info here:
"What many people don't realise is that getting Covid repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage. Each infection raises your risk of long Covid and serious complications."
- University of Auckland associate professor and vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbeing/each-wave-of-
covid-19-means-accumulated-damage-for-our-health-savs-expert The Covid immunity cycle:
Why catching the virus is basically our new booster
Lloyd Burr
March 12, 2026 • 4:00am

I have emailed but if anyone can reach Stuff more quickly that would be great.

This is misinformation - a correction needs to be issued, an apology given, and a process put in place so this doesn’t reoccur.

It is unacceptable and negligent this has been up for a full day during a health crisis.

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Trump Makes 'Most Blasé Admission of a War Crime by a US President in History' | Common Dreams "The ship was unarmed," wrote one war journalist. "That’s why Trump and Hegseth chose to murder them."

Trump Makes 'Most Blasé Admission of a War Crime by a US President in History' www.commondreams.org/news/trump-i...

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Yeah, once you relinquish US citizenship, they're not fond of giving it back

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It took me 5 minutes to determine that Brian Cartmell is a far right extremist with ties to white supremacists and he should be forcibly expelled from the country.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_...

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The secretive Tory donor with the golden visa – and the ear of the Beehive Who is the British billionaire who, during his visit to Wellington in December, met with four ministers in the space of 25 hours?

Don't let this one fly under the radar either

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-...

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Why do we keep letting them in? Don't you have to be of good character?

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Early advice from the Minister for COVID-19 Response to Cabinet was that
a strong health response was the best economic response. This was repeated
in the Cabinet papers of 20, 23, 27 and 30 August, and 6 September. The
20 August 2021 paper set out the evidence officials considered supported
that advice.
° New Zealand’s infection and death rates were among the lowest in
the world.
° New Zealand’s unemployment rate was at the pre-COVID level of
4 percent, because jobs and businesses had been protected with the
wage subsidy. Unemployment in New Zealand peaked at 5.3 percent
(whereas in the United States and Canada it rose above 10 percent).
° Economic activity in the March 2021 quarter was 2.4 percent above the
previous year.
° The Government was in a ‘strong financial position’ – net core Crown debt
stood at 31.2 percent of GDP at the end of May 2021, 8.8 percent lower
than the forecast 44 percent (a difference of approximately $40 billion).
‘This gives us options to keep investing to protect New Zealanders and
accelerate our recovery’

So Chris Hipkins not only took advice & kept the economy afloat and jobs and businesses alive through #Covid-19, he pushed to keep Kiwis healthy and alive at a time when corpses were piled up across Italy, UK, US, and India.

Kudos @chrishipkins.bsky.social #nzpol #newzealand

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Screenshot of a National advert with a photo of Hipkins saying in all caps (in white text): It's official: Half of Hipkins' $60B Covis spend (in red text) not spent on pandemic

But that's not what this pushed advert telling me!
And considering my search history and political leanings, that's not my algorithm suggesting that as something I'd be interested in 😅
How much did THAT cost

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Friends of ours gave up keeping their own chickens because dogs walking off lead would nip in, kill a couple, and return to their owners without them ever knowing. The owners never believed it when they were told either.

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You do realise that everyone who had the original smallpox vaccine is dead😱

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Coincidence. Total coincidence.

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RIP to the legless walking dead

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Going to a restaurant and screaming “FOOD!” at the waiter so as not to elevate my customised desires into primacy.

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A tweet from comedian Tig Notaro dated 8/1/19 that reads “All the wrong people hate themselves.”

Tig Notaro had a similar thought during the first Trump admin:

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this is like

the thesis statement of our times

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They had one. They left it to go steal other people's land

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🎵I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here...🎵

Hurt ~ NIN

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You know that feeling when you're struggling to stay awake? #kakapo chicks Tiwhiri-A3 and Tiwhiri-A4 in Tiwhiri's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. Both around two weeks old, and doing well. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

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5 days ago

A friend is currently dealing with ophthalmic shingles, and is extremely lucky they caught it early. Chicken pox is not benign.

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I've only recently become aware of this plonker. Wish I hadn't.

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Ā fluffy baby albatross practicing flapping its stubby little wings

The world is a big and scary place, but this fluffy baby albatross is practicing flapping its wings on a sunny Dunedin afternoon.

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Free chickenpox vaccination offered for first time to children A free chickenpox vaccination will be offered for the first time to children across England on the NHS from January.

Um, just a heads-up

www.gov.uk/government/n...

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