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Nic E
@neasthope.bsky.social
She/Her. Pākehā Mum, poet, teacher, tangata Tiriti, Planet Earth lover-protector. Adorer of dogs, birds & wormfarms. Chloe, Marama & Hana for PMs. Born @
323ppm carbon dioxide. Mostly hopeful. Might be 5-7 minutes late.
https://gannetink.home.blog
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November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Kia ora Catherine Delahunty.
#hewhakaputanga
#tinorangatiratanga
#nzpol
November 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Bob Brown - inspiring read for the morning 🌞
"...we need to get back to seeing life as a flowing and innovative thing on the planet, not as something that is exclusively being created for our own existence."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
#activism
#bobbrown
#greens
#environmentalism
Bob Brown: ‘Being an environmentalist is sensible. I like defying the growth mentality because it’s irrational’
At 80 years old, the trailblazing environmentalist on the state of activism, optimism and why he is comfortable with the concept of his own ‘perpetual annihilation’
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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If you'd like 25 minutes of hope & unity, watch @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social giving his victory speech as Mayor-Elect of New York City🚕🍕🗽🇺🇸

It's wonderful to see a leader elected with such a positive view of the possibilities & responsibility of civic leadership.

Very best wishes from Auckland NZ 🇳🇿
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Can we play this next?

youtu.be/vltC-O7PDYQ?...
Herb Alpert - Rise (HQ Audio)
YouTube video by BackToTheHits
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/04/w...
Learned some new things about colonisation / housing theft / manufactured inequality and the present day renewal of papakāinga.
#nzpol
When everyone lived in an affordable home
Pre-colonial Māori didn’t have a housing problem. The Crown created one. Can the past give us clues to fix housing today?
newsroom.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The yellow-legged hornet has distinctive dark legs with bright yellow tips. In contrast, common wasp species in New Zealand, such as the German wasp (Vespula germanica), typically have uniformly yellow or yellow-striped legs. It is also much larger than honey bees & common wasp species.
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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WHAT THE FUCK JUDITH
October 29, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Turns out it’s not just the winds at gale force today, so are Char’s public rants 🤣😂🤦‍♀️ Felt good to get that off my chest…ffs. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NewZealand

“Nicola thinks a CGT is a terrible idea”
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"

Cicero, Orator, 120
August 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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not to bignote but um five or six of the things I have worked or advised on have won prizes or been longlisted. so there.
holla I am looking for manuscript assessment proofreading and editing mahi mostly because I'm pohara but also it stops me from losing my mind to entropy when I engage with other people about their work
October 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Happy Labour Day to the people of Aotearoa New Zealand #FlickThePricksIn26
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
🤯
Unhinged + toxic
The White House's East Wing construction rubble was taken to East Potomac Golf Course. It was reported that the rubble will be used to create mounds on the golf course.

Read more: bit.ly/4oa2tXA
October 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Faark, here's one for my Social Studies students on Tuesday!
#nzpol
#corruption
#freudianslip
Luxon admits their fast-track is corruption #freudianslip #nzpol #kiwi
October 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Too early to be screaming inside
😱☹️
#nzpol
These motherfuckers .. ISTG..
October 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Strongly advise against lighting solid fuel heaters over the next couple of days. Whilst you may think "Oh it's an enclosed burner, it'll be fine", heavy winds can draw embers up and out of flues.
Just rug up and chuck on a heat pump or other electric heating if you can.

Seriously.
October 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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“Hardship & Hope published through Bridget Williams Books and Pakukore which she co-edited, explore the everyday struggles whanau across the country are facing and analyses the systems, institutions and policies that perpetuate cycles of poverty.” #nzpol
Rebecca Macfie: Unpacking poverty in Aotearoa
It was while researching her two latest projects that Award-winning journalist Rebecca Macfie came to realise the privileges colonisation had bequeathed her own family.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.
Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned
newsroom.co.nz
October 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The enshittification of the Nobel Peace Prize. Wow & woe!
October 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Congratulations Ingrid Horrocks
#nzlit
Join us to celebrate All Her Lives: Nine Stories by Ingrid Horrocks. The book will be launched by Emily Perkins.

🌿 Thursday 9 October, 6pm
🌿 Unity Books Wellington
🌿 Free event – all welcome!

Cover: Sarah Wilkins

www.facebook.com/share/19atXe...
October 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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These are the sorts of things you can do if you're serious about art, creativity, and growing an economy
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM