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I have never wanted to dress up in an animal costume (I wear glasses) but now I find myself scrolling the online shops.

I sometimes do work for publishing houses. This was a request that came to me the DAY that it was due and had NO assets for me to use: this is me taking a pdf of the book and making this from complete scratch! It would be good if you hired me actually! I can do stuff! This looks like a real ad!

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

The coalition government in a nutshell.

‘They fear the future, they dream of a world that never was and never could be, they’re exclusionary, they’re humourless – they’re this coalition.‘
- Chris Finlayson #nzpol

Lovely warm and moving at pace line of people casting their special vote in the library in Kilbirnie right now. Not too late to go past your library if it has special voting or - more likely because if you are on Bluesky you have probably already voted - drag a friend or family down to vote

YouTube video by Random Video Archives cat on my lap TikTok song

You're in-cat-pacitated!
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streaming on twitch in 5 minutes waow

Horrible. So sad for the workers and families. 😢 Instantly made me think of Pike River

Zarah Sultana says she and Corbyn have reconciled and can co-lead new party MP insists ‘show is back on the road’ and compares relationship to that of Liam and Noel Gallagher Zarah Sultana has said she and Jeremy Corbyn have patched up their combustible co-leadership of a new leftwing party, with the MP comparing the duo to Liam and Noel Gallagher. Speaking alongside Corbyn at The World Transformed political festival in Manchester, the Gallaghers’ home city, Sultana insisted they could cooperate over the organisation still only known, unofficially, as Your Party. Continue reading...

Zarah Sultana says she and Corbyn have reconciled and can co-lead new party

Comparison of UK 2025 eligibility for flu vaccine (all types of clinically vulnerable people) vs Covid-19 vaccine (only over 75s, living in an old people's care home or immunocompromised due to specific illness e.g. HIV, AIDS or treatment, e.g. cancer. Most people with organ diseases, blood diseases, e.g. sickle cell anaemia, illnesses such as COPD, diabetes, or learning disabilities are not eligible for Covid-19 booster vaccination.

#Flu v #Covid #vaccine eligibility.
1. Which is hospitalising more people now?
2. Which is leaving more people long-term sick & disabled (2m+ #LongCovid, UK)?
3. Just as the government is punishing people for being sick and disabled?
Private vaccine: £100
Logic?

Thanks to @catinthehat.bsky.social

This is where we will end up too, if we don't start dealing with the imported culture wars of the right wing more effectively.
#nzpol
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It doesn't have to be like this. There's no one who's immune to covid -eventually it will find you even if you are asymptomatic. And anyone can get long covid. At any age. After 5 infections or just 1 infection. There's no safe number of covid infections
#covid

Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid A group of young Kiwis prove what international studies show: that long Covid has a particularly debilitating effect on young people. But how much medical support is there for them?

“I really want people to know that no one is immune to this, anyone can get long Covid. I didn't think it would happen to me.” Read it and weep:
www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/o...

Heads up NZ primary school educators: the refreshed, refreshed maths and English curriculums you’ve invested so much time getting your heads around this year are being rewritten overseas.

You’ll be expected to teach to them next year.

19-year-old charged after sending death threats to Green MP who since resigned Detective Inspector Warren Olsson said the nature and volume of the threats met the threshold for investigation and subsequent prosecution.

Thought so. I shall wait for all of the social media posts from various political actors clearly condemning this political violence and unacceptable behaviour against Parliament's first nonbinary MP.

#nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

#NewZealandKlaxxon

Kinda wish he'd go back there. Imagine how he is with his neighbours here?

Make sure you download it so they can't wipe the information

selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/02d9e31a...

"Starring
Christopher Gollum
Saruman Peters and his dipshit sidekick
And the Eye of Seymour
Directed by the Atlas Network"

#nzpol

While this young man should of course face justice, the mostly middle age men who incited this violence should too, but it's unlikely they will


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last day to vote tomorrow at noon beautiful people 🙂

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

19-year-old charged after sending death threats to Green MP who since resigned Detective Inspector Warren Olsson said the nature and volume of the threats met the threshold for investigation and subsequent prosecution.

Quick, someone ask Peters to condemn THESE threats!
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Packs a lot into one short video. Nicely summarises the shitshow that is the #coalitionofchaos
#nzpol

Wondering if there will ever be another legendary satirist comedy stunt group like Chasers - will never forget them getting into APEC through security.

Pollies so bought by the gambling industry that they kicked out of their sports club the guy who was a top professional athlete

It's funny, in a "laughing at" sort of way

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Make me feel like im not wasting my time compiling all these links by following for free, everything is available for free at all times

ICE officials in Portland told Kristi Noem that "it's worse at night."

Dolly Parton Shares Video Confirming Sister A Shit-Stirring Bitch

Dolly Parton Shares Video Confirming Sister A Shit-Stirring Bitch https://theonion.com/dolly-parton-shares-video-confirming-sister-a-shit-stirring-bitch/

Partnership announcement Smart Air

We are honoured to partner with the Safer Air Project through our Air+ initiatives to bring clean air to everyone at the event. We hope this conference will help shift policymakers' views on the importance of indoor air quality in our society. We greatly appreciate the efforts of the Safer Air Project in driving this important change. – Anna GuoCEO and co-founderSmart Air

We’re very happy to welcome Smart Air as sponsors for our November advocacy event. They've also very kindly offered to provide us with some portable air filters for the day, ensuring the air will be safer for everyone to share - a contribution we’re very grateful for.

German fisherman convicted and fined after posing as a Kiwi The photographer posed as a Christchurch local to get access the best trout fishing spots.

The photographer posed as a Christchurch local to get access the best trout fishing spots.