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Annie
@beingaboutnz.bsky.social
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Tangata Tiriti; ally; recovering DONM; likes coffee; PapersPast; yellow (and apricot) pōhutukawa; woke like Jesus
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Easy-peasy! @patrickreynolds.bsky.social @cityvision.bsky.social #kerrinleoniformayor
Photo of local body voting papers with check marks beside Kerrin Leoni for Mayor of Auckland, and Patrick Reynolds for Waitematā and Gulf Ward member.
September 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Quote from Anonymous, age 6: "I have a lot of upset feelings but they will go away."
September 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Small human reminds me of this:
"When I fall.. I just call it a dance move." Oliver, 3 years old.
September 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Quote from Kyleigh aged 6, on @livefromsnacktime: "Seriously, don't talk to me right now. I don't want to get sassy this early."
August 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Cartoon in which a TV news reporter is standing thigh-deep in flood water, saying "No one could have predicted this." Meanwhile, a little way back, another man, also standing thigh-deep in the flood water, wears a t-shirt with 'National weather service' on the front, and holds in his hand a layoff notification letter.
July 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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#livefromsnacktime 🧀
"This day is trash. I'll eat all the cheese I want." - Willow, 3 years old
July 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Twonks cartoon in two panels. First panel has a presenter in front of a large screen with an image of three mushrooms and the slogan "These go well with pasta." Second panel has same presenter, identical mushrooms but the slogan reads "These will kill you."
July 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Found this on Insta...
July 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Also still fizzing from my #MWSecretSantaAoNZ gifts, and especially these hand-painted stones. Such artistry and thoughtfulness. 🙏🙏🙏
Two hand painted stones, one with a pastoral scene of paddocks with Taranaki maunga in the background, and the other of an orange pōhutukawa blossom in the foreground, and several yellow ones set behind it.
June 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Kia ora Kikirangi whānau!
Do we know anyone driving from Palmie to Auckland sometime soon, who could bring a potted plant up for me? Ngā mihi. 🙏
Small tree planted in a grey pot, sitting on a low table.
June 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Serendipitous doesn't begin to explain the significance of what the #MWSecretSantaAoNZ elves have wrought. My giftee sent me hand-painted stones. How were they to know that stones are my thing? When my mother scattered her mother's ashes, she brought me back a stone...
My Secret Santa hand-painted these stones for me. One is from a photo I took of Ruapehu on road trip with a girlfriend, and the other is of the glorious orange/apricot and yellow pōhutukawa I adore. Both thoughtfully varnished for indoor-outdoor use.
June 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Oh wow!!! What my #MWSecretSantaAoNZ Secret Santa did with only a handful of clues was above and beyond! Ngā mihi nui for your kindness, thoughtfulness, generosity and creativity! Yuletide blessings in spades! Refer to alt-text for more...
Yummy, yummy pink "apartment socks" as I'm calling them, with green button embellishment as a nod to my favourite colours and colour combo... Whittaker's artisan dark chocolate (yes, self-explanatory)... sparkly earrings - I love and will wear on behalfof both of us... and hand-painted stones of great significance...
June 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Gonna keep us all in suspense till later... #MWSecretSantaAoNZ!
June 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Spotted in a bookshop...
Looking down the aisle in a bookshop to a partially obscured child sitting on the floor immersed in reading a book.
June 1, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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@whaeavee.bsky.social Look what I spotted!
auctions.webbs.co.nz/auctions/cat...
May 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Top half of cartoon: shopping basket labeled Monday that's full of fruit and veg and muesli, i.e., all things healthy. Lower half of cartoon: shopping basket labeled Friday that's full of wine, chippies, pizza, chocolate etc.
May 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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You called it!
Screenshot of Radio NZ news app with photo of Auckland harbour bridge with stormy seas and threatening grey skies. Headline reads Live: Tens of thousands without power across Auckland, Northland
April 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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With some easy substitution to the AoNZ context, does this resonate?
An aeroplane with 'world economy' on the side, and Trump in the pilot's seat, doing a steep nosedive, with one passenger saying to another "Don't worry, the captain used to run his own airline."
April 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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For you lovely #PukapukaDailyReaders 😻
Cartoon entitled Cat Book Club. Shows four cats sitting around someone's lounge sharing their comments on the chosen book. Comments, respectively are: "It was fun to lie on", "I enjoyed rubbing my face across the spine", "Ooh, I did that too" and "I could not fall asleep on this thing."
April 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Big night tonight! 🦋
March 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Yes - but this Jesus.
Drawing of Jesus sitting with his arms around two transgender youth showing deep empathy. Cartoon by Naked Pastor.
March 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Cartoon of cats singing a parody of The Proclaimers hit song about how far they'd walk to throw up on the rug and not the hardwood floor.
October 4, 2024 at 6:31 AM
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This is where my mind went:
Young girl dressed in white flanked by two senior men standing in a metal tub thigh-deep in water, about to be dunked as part of a full immersion baptism ritual.
September 19, 2024 at 7:52 AM
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September 17, 2024 at 7:31 AM
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September 12, 2024 at 11:42 AM