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D Jukic She/her
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Enthusiastic amateur gardener. Dalmatian. Croatian. Pākehā. Tangata Tiriti. Parent. Partner. Baba. Teta. Cis. She/her. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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They are trying to tap into the public's impatience.
They themselves don't give a shit about the waiting.
The reason they don't want it slow is because they don't want it done well. They want the results to be challengeable. They want us to lose faith in the democratic process.
February 11, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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We always receive them relatively quickly anyway and these changes wont affect the timing.
February 11, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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It’s that the votes are counted that’s the problem.

It’s like actually having to deliver goods and services to a reasonable standard after you’ve been paid.
February 11, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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It's doubly stupid because we get a good preliminary count within about 4 hours of the polls closing. Usually that's going to give us the info we need. We can wait for the precise details.

And if it's so close that the preliminary results are ambiguous, then we should absolutely take our time!
February 11, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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Also like lol in Belgian where it can genuinely take over a year for a govt to form after an election
February 11, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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This weird obsession right wingers have about how long it takes to count votes in NZ is so weird man what difference does it make? We are globally insignificant our election results don’t move the markets. You got something important to do that hinges on election results just go live your life 🙄
February 11, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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Stunned silent, I am actually lost for words!
February 11, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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Nah. It's worse😠😡.
February 11, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Not 'struggling'.

Not 'hard up'.

Not 'skipping meals'.

*Starving*

In Aotearoa. In 2026.

This is so immoral and disgusting that opposition parties should be 20 points ahead in the polls by now.
'It's just not enough': Salvation Army warns families are starving
February 11, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Families are starving in NZ in 2026 and the heinous crew who run the Govt are cutting money from food banks & other social services to fund the multi billion dollar gas industry, tax cuts that favour the wealthiest, landlords & the tobacco industry #nzpol

Back on track to Dickensian times.
'It's just not enough': Salvation Army warns families are starving
The Salvation Army's latest State of the Nation paints a dire picture of worsening child poverty and unemployment.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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'It's just not enough': Salvation Army warns families are starving
'It's just not enough': Salvation Army warns families are starving
The Salvation Army's latest State of the Nation paints a dire picture of worsening child poverty and unemployment.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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Not 'struggling'.

Not 'hard up'.

Not 'skipping meals'.

*Starving*

In Aotearoa. In 2026.

This is so immoral and disgusting that opposition parties should be 20 points ahead in the polls by now.
February 11, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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#BHN Tonight at 9pm
- Sallies State of the Nation shocking results
- Winston Peters' new "baubles of office"
- Cynical COVID inquiry announced to help the government this election

#nzpol #nzpolitics @chewienz.bsky.social
youtube.com/live/EVxdPC9...
#BHN Sallies State of the Nation | Winston's new baubles | Cynical COVID inquiry announced
YouTube video by Big Hairy Network
youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Reform politicians are happy to throw insults from a distance.

But when it comes to debating their ideas? No show.

Richard Tice pulled out.
Farage won’t face me.
Now their candidate in Gorton & Denton has ducked our candidate Hannah Spencer.

Vote Green.
February 11, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
February 11, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Don't forget to vote for your favourite bug!

Bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz

🪱 🐛 🦋 🪲 🐞 🕷
February 11, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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"People want to know who is funding political parties, who is possibly pulling some strings and they just want to know who has access to power." | New Zealand's corruption-free reputation takes hit for fourth-year in a row - survey www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
New Zealand's corruption-free reputation takes hit for fourth-year in a row - survey
Transparency International's latest Corruption Perception Index had New Zealand fall two points.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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Anti-trans hate is an industry. Not a movement, not a moral concern, not an organic uprising of worried parents — an industry, deliberately constructed, lavishly funded, & strategically deployed to protect the interests of the powerful men who finance it
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
The Projection Machine: Epstein's Intellectual Network and the War on Trans People
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
culture-centered.blogspot.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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fuck this news story is exactly how I think news stories should be presented. Te Ao is the only outlet I have push alerts for cos it delivers content like this.

What's unfolding is real shit.

www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/02/11/p...
Proposed Resource Management Act overhaul set to breach Treaty - experts warn - as submission deadline looms
Māori advocates warn the Government’s RMA overhaul risks breaching Te Tiriti, stripping Treaty protections and causing long-term damage to environmental and Māori participation rig
www.teaonews.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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RMA: "Treaty principles would no longer operate as an overarching consideration, instead replaced by high level goals and limited consultation requirements."

“Māori don’t hold up development. Slow, bureaucratic processes do.”

Tina Porou says the reforms undermine decades of progress.
#nzpol
February 11, 2026 at 6:25 AM
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During a congressional visit, Congressman Joaquin Castro discovered that babies as young as two months old are being held at the Dilley, Texas Family Concentration Camp. (February 10, 2026)
February 11, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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Hand of the market at work innit? The market pays the politicians, the politicians make laws that help out the market.
February 11, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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I tend to think the NZ government's proposal to build an LNG facility for electricity resilience is fairly silly...

But it's always nice to get some perspective on how much stupider things could get.
February 11, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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“Resources minister Shane Jones is jubilant” that should tell you whose target. Just oil and gas (again),…

“…but could be even more valuable to the sector than the $200m set aside for the Government to take equity shares in gas fields”

#nzpol
February 11, 2026 at 5:37 AM