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dimsie.bsky.social
Danielle, Petty Hate Machine
@dimsie.bsky.social
4.8K followers 4.2K following 24K posts
I have too many dogs for a sensible person
One of the Aotearoa NZ Twitter exodus
Mother: Invercargill, father: Simmesport La. Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Cajun, Pākehā, feminist, parent
MA in history, PhD in dork
Terfs and right-wingers can get in the bin
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dimsie.bsky.social
Uh. I don't think that Nuzzi piece is "ironic" guys
Jacob Bernstein Reporter 59m ago Last month, I hopped on a plane from JFK to see Olivia Nuzzi in Malibu. We went hiking and ate at diners together. I spent hours sitting shotgun in her Mustang, listening to great music and having fascinating and meaningful conversations with her. She is a writer's dream and a writer's nightmare. Both because she is a very good writer herself and because she is a startling, complex person.
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
uhhhhhh they don't seem to be doing too well with any of this (also: "we really really hate the gays")
This kind of life rejects pride and rebellion and all behaviour stemming from this, such as homosexuality, sexual immorality, and sexual perversion, lust, incest, idolatry, envy, murder, strife, drunkenness, deceit, malice, gossip, slander, insolence, arrogance, boasting, promoting evil deeds, disobedience, greed, covetousness and all forms of moral depravity.
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
This is the best-named celebrity pet of all time: a female pitty called "Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad", owned by Paul Leary of the Butthole Surfers
Black and white photo of a man kneeling down to pat his dog
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
dimsie.bsky.social
Yeah I think the deck was past due a blastin'
Deck planks. Some are much, much cleaner than others
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
Gore Aunt's lovely dog has been put down. RIP Holly, you were the sweetest girl.
Holly fetching a stick out of Lake Wakitipu Holly gazing with loving eyes at a meatball
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
dimsie.bsky.social
Thought you might like to see it when he was working on it. These are from Xmases 2022 and 2023 (it's taken him AGES)
Exterior of an old butcher shop with a golden ute parked in front of it A big unfinished room with a workbench and a cocker spaniel in it Another angle of the big unfinished room with a workbench and a view out of a window that says "Weekly Specials" in red paint backwards A view of a ceiling painted black with wooden frames my uncle created that go around industrial metal pole things that the butcher used to hang meat on. It's hard to explain!
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
dimsie.bsky.social
I write emails, etc #nzpol
Kia ora, Could one of the office staff who reads these emails relay to the Prime Minister that his embarrassing attempts to be a kiss-arse to the wannabe authoritarian President Trump make us look utterly pathetic as a country and the vast majority of us do not support it. If the ethics-free Mr Luxon aspires to befriend that evil pudding-brained rapist, tell him to resign as Prime Minister first and do it on his own time. He isn't representing me. Worst,
November 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
Right, OK, so we're going to get a "stack" of high-paying jobs to come here because our kids score slightly higher in the PISA? What are these jobs? CEO of Spellchecking? Chief Financial Officer of Times Tables?

Also did he just tell unions to "get in behind" like sheepdogs...?
“There is a stack of high-paying jobs out there in the world, and we need them to come to New Zealand. And what’s been happening is actually our standards have been slipping versus lots of other countries.” Luxon said he does not remember unions “going after” Labour leader Chris Hipkins when he was Education Minister, while standards were being dumbed down and children were underachieving. Strengthening the curriculum was the “single biggest thing that we can do to set ourselves up for the future”, he said. “So, you know, the unions, there’s a consultation period, be constructive, don’t be political, get in behind, but where were you when the last six years calling out the poor performance?”
November 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
Your FACE is a golf asset you ethics-free prick #nzpol
Speaking with Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking this morning, the Prime Minister said he thought it was possible Trump would accept his offer. “He knew a lot about the golf assets that are here in New Zealand, you know, the golf courses. He has heard about them. They generally are in the top 10, 15 in the world. “If he’s going to come down to Australia and New Zealand and this part of the world, then, you know, we should certainly welcome him here.”
November 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
Girl, same
Package that says Fish Master Atlantic Mackerel Cold Smoked Headless in Vacuum
November 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
dimsie.bsky.social
Day of the Dead turned out to be a top tier spring day, so we went to Kakamātua at golden hour as a family and finally spread the ashes of three (3) dogs in an out-of-the-way spot
Little bushy beach corner under a pohutukawa tree and ferns
November 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
AAAARRRGGGHHH www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplac...
A white mix-breed dog with pointy ears and a black nose lying on a couch looking winsome. Tiny white German shepherd vibes
October 31, 2025 at 1:57 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
My fave thing about the pouwhenua at the Arataki Visitor Centre is that tourists are going to bowl up there and we're like "welcome to Waitakere, Region of Penises"
Pouwhenua in front of a double storey wooden visitor centre. The sky is blue and the centre is surrounded by trees. There are six figures on the Pou and each of them has a prominent penis
October 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
dimsie.bsky.social
Audrey Young having a series of absolutely ludicrous takes one after the other #nzpol

"Intriguing", yes, that's clearly it, the best word for her, no other option available
Van Velden is an intriguing minister. She is resolute and genuine in her ambitions to make life as easy as possible for businesses to conduct business and employ more people. Yes, she considers different perspectives, but they tend to be the differences between big businesses and small businesses or sole traders. She seems uninterested in a shop-floor or union perspective and leaves engagement with them to officials.
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
Audrey may want to glaze him but it appears the Herald's photo editor... did not #nzpol
Bouquet Goes to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. His first meeting with the most powerful and mercurial leader in the world could not have gone any better Photo is Luxon exiting stage right looking like a div while Trump shakes South Korea's leader's hand
October 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
My mother is eighty today. Eighty!! What a star
A black and white portrait of a smiling brunette in the 1960s. She has a beehive esque hairstyle. I may be biased but she is stunning
October 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
dimsie.bsky.social
A hazy high tide walk for Rita and her best friend, Ball

(Tiny Dog was also there but she was more interested in peeing on all the different parts of the beach)
A panting tuxedo staffy dog looks up at the camera with an orange ball at her feet. There is water, driftwood and dunes in the immediate surrounds and green headlands in the distance. The beach has black volcanic sand
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
I found a @juliefairey.bsky.social in the wild! With working legs! (And junior associates)
Julie is wearing an amazingly colour coordinated red and black outfit
October 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
Hahaha the explanation
RNZ republishing the photo explaining it is a reference to Seymour Skinner
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
Incredible sign, photo stolen from @suburbanennui.bsky.social #nzpol #nzstrike
This is the Comic Sans of Deals
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
dimsie.bsky.social
#nzpol #nzstrike
Purple dinosaur with a sign saying Senior Nurses Are Almost Extinct
October 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
dimsie.bsky.social
My friend @suburbanennui.bsky.social with his epic sign #nzpol #nzstrike
Am I so out of touch? no, it's the teachers, doctors and nurses who are wronflg
October 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
dimsie.bsky.social
Snort part two #nzpol
Talbot Mills graphic showing that more NActFirst voters support the strike than oppose it
October 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
Snort #nzpol
Firefighters' union reps at a table, the other half of which is meant to have government negotiators at it. But they aren't there
October 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
dimsie.bsky.social
Ohhhhhhhh my god there's a book within the book where Mysterious Dark Tenant of Wildfell Hall tells her story in her own words! I am in love with this!

Anne Bronte with an exasperated description of a mansplainer ftw:
In vain I attempted to drive him away by giving a loose to my exasperated feelings, even to positive rudeness: nothing could convince him that his presence was disagreeable. Sullen silence was taken for rapt attention, and gave him greater room to talk; sharp answers were received as smart sallies of girlish vivacity, that only required an indulgent rebuke; and flat contradictions were but as oil to the flames, calling forth new strains of argument to support his dogmas, and bringing down upon me endless floods of reasoning to overwhelm me with conviction.
October 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM