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Andrew R
@andrewr4.womcats.com
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Often irreverent. Moving further left as I age. He/Him.
Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland /Aotearoa / NZ
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Never forget the collective pearl clutching of the political class when Tamatha Paul dared suggest that some people didn't feel safe around the police.

What say you now, Labour, Nats, media commentators, etc?

#mcskimming #nzpol #acab #fuckthapolice
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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jennykaynz.bsky.social
Reminds me of how #NZpolice covered up crimes of cops and convicted rapists Schollum and Skipton, and Assistant Police Commissioner Clint Rickards evaded conviction. Louise Nichols never got justice. Rickards got a $300k payoff and OKed to practice as a lawyer.
#NZpol
www.odt.co.nz/news/nationa...
Nichols disappointed over Rickards decision
Former assistant police commissioner Clint Rickards' progression towards becoming a lawyer has disappointed the woman at the centre of a high...
www.odt.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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It’s such a shame that positions of power attract the worst of people - whether it be police, politicians etc. I know they also attract the best of people - but it’s so damn depressing
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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styler.bsky.social
I love how the Nz police are trying to to pretend the problem is a couple of people. Like those men who were found innocent of assaulting louise nicholas but did jail time for assaulting other women. And the cops who covered it up. It’s a lot of individuals
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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publicaddress.bsky.social
Crikey. First NZTA designs for retrofitting a busway to the northwestern, including a bus station between the Point Chev shops and the motorway and a dramatic-looking elevated busway to go over(!) St Lukes Rd and the existing eastbound on and off ramps. greaterauckland.substack.com/p/more-progr...
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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11.11, 11/11
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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akelacooper.bsky.social
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates--scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. in fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. the poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Strategy :

Luxon floats asset sales.
Politicians push back including Winston Peters
Luxon steps down saying it’s time for fresh blood to lead National
Media fawn over fact that National took decision action when public sentiment showed assets sales were wrong path.

Maybe?
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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foxylustygrover.bsky.social
Good news everybody! ANZ has posted a record $2.53Billion profit, just when we thought everything was dire and no one had any money we find out that ANZ is absolutely coining it!!! #NZPol
November 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Halloween Friday night
Collapse Saturday …. Hmmmm
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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thechiller.bsky.social
Jesus fucken Christ. I ordered some undercrackers, lads. Nothing came. No despatch email, no delivery confirmation, nothing.

So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly).

AND THEN THE FOXES

THE FOXES

(breathe)

ATE

MY

FUCKEN

PANTS
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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dallasbarnett.com
Get in, fellow groovers.
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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musicalchairs.bsky.social
Hmm, so inflation is 3% and Govt is paying a touch under 2.9% interest on its debt. Govt is also getting a fat return on its financial assets... which outweigh its debts by around $70bn. Meanwhile, we can't afford to invest in the country and Treasury are sounding alarm bells!
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Had to substitute Blockbuster for whatever the chains were in NZ - Video Ezy or Civic? Or the one near Charlie Grays.
midnightx.bsky.social midnight🦇🏴‍☠️🕸️✡️ @midnightx.bsky.social · 3d
(i got a zero lolz)

THE FABULOUS WEIRD CHECKLIST
Give yourself I point for each thing you've NEVER done.
THE FABULOUS WEIRD CHECKLIST Give yourself I point for each thing you've NEVER done. 1. Operated a rotary phone 2. Slid a floppy disk into a PC 3. Typed on an actual typewriter 4. Snapped photos with a film camera 5. Played music on a CD 6. Rewound a cassette tape with a pencil 7. Dropped the needle on a vinyl record 8. Rocked a Walkman like a rebel 9. Blasted tunes from a boombox on your shoulder 10. Watched a movie on VHS and prayed it doesn't jam 11. Sent or received a fax like a business wizard 12. Recorded songs from the radio like a mixtape hero 13. Rented a VHS at Blockbuster on a Friday night 14. Heard the screech of dial-up internet 15. Looked up someone in a phone book 16. Sent a postcard with actual handwriting 17. Used a paper map and didn't get lost 18. Owned a proper dusty dictionary 20. Had a whole encyclopedia collection
November 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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haggiskiwi.bsky.social
Pretty sure $4m could have bought a 🛞⭐, but dunno where the other $2m could be better spent 🤔

Oh, that's right...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Lifeline to cut operations if funding shortfall not plugged
A mental health support service says it will have to reduce its operations if it cannot plug a $2 million shortfall.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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andrewjull.bsky.social
NZ Professional Firefighters Union doing a geat job on a daily basis showing up David Seymour for the liar he is. #nzpol
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Fine dining under the stars
Michelin $6m
Crying, dying under darkened skies
Lifeline $0

#nzpol
November 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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foxylustygrover.bsky.social
While tourists dine under stars, the homeless sleep under them

Andrea Vance
November 9, 2025

Vance at her perfectly cynical but utterly empathetic best #NZPol
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Opinion Auckland Culture Sport Puzzles Sunday Star-Times Regions While tourists dine under stars, the homeless sleep under them Andrea Vance Andrea Vance November 9, 2025 Share Play Video 1:45 Christopher Luxon makes promise about homeless in CBD VIDEO CREDIT: David White Andrea Vance is National Affairs Editor for The Post and Sunday Star-Times. OPINION: It’s the poverty, stupid. And yet the Government seems oblivious - perhaps wilfully so - to why more people are sleeping rough. Auckland’s rough sleeper numbers have doubled in six months. The same pattern is emerging in Christchurch and Wellington. It’s no mystery, nor is it a law-and-order problem. Try a collapsing economy, policies that make it harder to get emergency accommodation, a housing system that punishes the poor while rewarding investors, overwhelmed food banks and mental health failures. The problem isn’t anti-social behaviour - it’s that people can’t afford homes. And yet. This Government’s solution is to move the symptoms out of sight. Ministers are mulling ways to move on rough sleepers from Auckland’s city centre. Property owner, landlord and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon thinks the streets look bedraggled and with the City Rail Link and the convention centre about to open, he needs the city to “look its best.” At the same time, Tourism New Zealand is spending $6.3 million to bring the Michelin Guide to Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. Officials think the gourmet stars will light up the economy by drawing an estimated 36,000 high-spending tourists to our shores. The government is moving fast: clearing the slums for the sommeliers. Last week, Police Minister Mark Mitchell and Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith confirmed work is under way to empower law enforcement – police, Māori Wardens, or other agents – to ask homeless people to move on from public spaces. Luxon insisted no Cabinet decisions have been made. But Mitchell, caught letting the cat out of the bag, confirmed that Goldsmith is drafting a bill with input from a retail advisory group. That group isn’t dominated by social workers or housing advocates; rather dairy owners, liquor store operators, Michael Hill managers, and lobbyists Retail NZ. Mitchell says the aim is to take them to a place of safety. But funding cuts means that place doesn’t exist. Emergency housing is full and mental health and addiction services are stretched. I get the political calculation. A move on law is easy to sell: a tidy fix to make inner cities feel safer and more orderly, with just enough punitive scapegoat-ery to satisfy the base. It’s the kind of cheap idea governments turn too when they’ve run out of them. Like the policy that kicks in this month, targeting young people, the very demographic hardest hit by unemployment. From November 2026, many 18-and 19-year-olds will be ineligible for Jobseeker Support if their parents earn above $65,529 a year. It’s meant to incentivise them to find work, despite youth unemployment hitting 15.2% and the NEET rate rising to 13.8%. The policy could affect over 4,000 teenagers. The logic is perverse. The Government punishes young people for being unemployed while presiding over an economy that cannot generate enough full-time work. Meanwhile, rents – at least on paper – are finally softening. (Although, Median weekly rents remain eye-watering: $650 in Auckland, $567 in Wellington, $532 in Christchurch.) But rents aren’t falling isn’t because we’re all suddenly feeling flush. It’s largely a result of young people leaving cities, a cooling rental market, and slow wage growth. Even with tiny dips, the vast majority of people struggling to find shelter cannot suddenly afford a home.
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Post you from a different era

This was me dressed up ready for the school ball in 1985!
Me ready for the school ball in 1985
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I really do enjoy Luxury Marmite Sandwich on Instagram. The school lunches one is well worth a watch.
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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My mum is turning 80 in December.

My partner and I just came to the realisation that when we first started going out together, my mum was the same age as I am now.

And now I feel old and I also know I’m old 🤣

Plus my eldest is turning 31 on Tuesday 😱
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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virgcatt.bsky.social
Well said, Susan
#NZpol
Letter to the editor about Lifeline funding crisis vs money found to bring Michelin to AoNZ
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Wordle 1,603 1/6

🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

I’ve been using this start word for a very long time. I use colourblind mode too
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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witchnwords.bsky.social
Oh wow

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/once-were...
Once Were Warriors director Lee Tamahori dies aged 75
He later directed major Hollywood hits including Die Another Day.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Just had the first swim of the season - beautiful.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM