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PhD need to thaw the brain exercise the pen cook dinner do the laundry & CLEAN THE TOILET (that’s a metaphor)
Kids gone now
Oldies too 😢 damn Covid 😞😷
PlanetNerd Shrink
Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿
(same name on the dying bird and extinct elephant)
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This ⬇️ from Kim Workman is particularly apposite in election year. In the 1990s, Finland went from having one of the highest prison rates in Europe to one of the lowest, without any increase in crime rates. The Nats prefer the US prison system #nzpol
e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/...
Kim Workman: My life in the criminal justice system | E-Tangata
“My first response to going inside Kohitere was one of anger and disbelief… Anger that no one understood that the offenders of today were almost always the victims of yesterday.” — Tā Kim Workman refl...
e-tangata.co.nz
February 14, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen
February 14, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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That $6 billion climate resilience fund would be useful right now if NATIONAL HADN’T SCRAPPED IT!

At least the landlords got their handouts though.

#nzpol #ClimateEmergency
February 14, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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I wanted to re-up this in light of the most recent climate disaster (yesterday). There is so much needful that needs doing, and both of the major parties have committed to either not doing it, or doing the opposite.

This must change.

#nzpol #kikorangi

www.emilywrites.co.nz/time-to-end-...
Time to end the enshittification of New Zealand
I live in the great green heartland of New Zealand; a biologically ruined grassy waste created to serve cows. And when out in this countryside – dead rivers rich with brown foam, man-made fountains of...
www.emilywrites.co.nz
February 14, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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February 13th 2026
Osteospermum
February 14, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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Acting like he’s SO not into the whole portrait thing but clearly very into posing! Also proud of his crazy armor & that beard. By Jacopo Bassano, whose day is today.
February 14, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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It’s not actually thinking. Please, stop this.
February 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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Masterful understatement from Waikato man.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
February 14, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Poonado weather warning!

Brown Alert 🚨
February 14, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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Actually South Coasters stay indoors and wash down your houses if you live close to the beach after the storm. Awful 3rd world stuff. #nzpol
February 14, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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Ugh, batten down those hatches Te Whanganui-a-Tara and, if you're around the south coast pop in a mask so you don't breath southerly-blown poo particles
February 14, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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A single image that captures NZ's dominant belief system and economic model #nzpol

www.reddit.com/r/newzealand...
February 14, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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#NewZealand manages to be ahead of...Albania

2023 we were doing so well. Sigh.
February 14, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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Quick, dirty and expensive. The govt is going to build a $1 billion liquid natural gas (LNG) import terminal, instead of investing in clean energy. And as for the levy…if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
My #cartoon today #NZpol #FossilFuels #Climate
February 14, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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Maybe it's just typo for "Levee"?

🎶So, bye-bye, MAGA American lie
Corporate gravy as a levy, but the levy was sly
And them good ol' boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin', "This'll be the day that I lie
This another day that I lie🎶
#nzpol
No wonder they expect a Chatham House rules arrangement
where everything was off the record (unless explicitly otherwise) in the new 'Pint Of Order' bar in Parliament.
(Pint? The Weights & Measures Amendment Act of 1976 made NZ Metric- "1/2 Liter of Lies" would be a more appropriate epithet)
#nzpol
February 14, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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This is a really good analysis of Luxon’s Waitangi speech. This Government is going out of its way to reshape public opinion on Te Tiriti #nzpol
February 14, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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Cool now step down as CEO of Infrastructure NZ as well
February 14, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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NZ folks! You can make the swap to a good ethical KiwiSaver that builds affordable housing, and we might both win things: simplicity.referral-factory.com/u8JLoKOx
February 14, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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To be clear, “total coliforms” are not a group or kind of bacteria; coliforms are the gut bacteria that you find in poo, and a high “total coliforms” number in the water sample indicates there’s poo in there. Worrying that the Council spokesperson seems confused about this.
Christchurch City Council issues boil water notice for eastern suburbs
A public health alert has been issued for peple living in New Brighton, Burwood, Wainoni, Aranui and Southshore.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 14, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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Sitting in the garden watching this absolutely delightful spherical little unit.
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Once again weather is wrecking stuff rescued a few dahlia at mine and know how lucky we are in the scheme of things. Please vote for the planet
@greens.org.nz
February 14, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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Tonights picking 😍😍
February 14, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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Definitely one of my favs
February 14, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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Mister 6%.
February 14, 2026 at 7:26 AM