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Hākui K (she/her)
@haakuik.bsky.social
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Te Waipounamu and Tai Rāwhiti iwi, also 2nd gen AoNZer on other side.

ONLY THE BEST!!! is good enough for my children. Or anyone else's. 🇵🇸

Not representing anyone or anything else here, no link to multiple employers.

💖 Ahakoa taku iti he iti matā 💖
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From her FB 🥺
This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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An illustration of Taranaki mounga with the words 'Remember Parihaka Fifth of November'
November 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I don't have an answer, other than "may be incapable of morality" and "I won't get used to this".

I also don't know whether all or only some whānau with Prader-Willi will be affected.

I find wisdom and some comfort in Cole Riley's Instagram account @blackliturgies ❤️

In case it also helps you:
Instagram post from the @blackliturgies account: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin BLACK LITURGIES Instagram post from the @blackliturgies account: INHALE I won't get used to this. EXHALE The children are ours. BLACK LITURGIES
October 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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100% in support of the strikers.
Poster saying: Stand Together OCT 23 STRIKE ACC joins tens of thousands of public servants striking for respect at work, protecting your entitlements and fair and decent pay. www.psa.org.nz/acc PSA Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi
October 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Tautoko!

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Screenshot of an article from Te Matatika (The Press): Mon, Oct 20, 2025 Kia ora Christopher: what the PM needs to hear about striking public servants Rob Campbell | The Post (The image is of Christopher Luxon giving a thumbs up to someone off camera)
October 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Understood - I feel a bit helpless when it comes to that side of things.

This matrix helps me know what to seek out, what to request of journalists, and even what to say to others about people who are certainly acting like populists.

Another part of the same article:
Quick ID: when to switch to harm-reduction coverage Treat a figure as "populist" for coverage purposes if both are true: People vs "corrupt elite" framing in their rhetoric; and Broken reciprocity with the media - criticism fuels them; recognition/normalisation matters more than tone; routine attacks on journalists. Signs reciprocity is broken? Tick at least two: negative coverage recycled as proof of bias; "flooding the zone" with claims; coverage volume exceeds electoral support/salience; misuse of the right of reply. *** Why the usual options backfire In the moment, most of us default to one of three: ignore, cover neutrally, cover critically. Each carries predictable risk: Ignore - the claim spreads unchecked somewhere else. Cover neutrally - you create a phoney "debate" and confer status. Cover critically - you still confer status and feed the "media hates us" script. The fix is not less coverage; it's different coverage.
October 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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This looks like ✨gold✨ to my layperson's eyes. Any whakaaro from expert people?

With big mihi to @froomkin.bsky.social and @jayrosen.bsky.social for sharing this article.

AoNZ we all know which people to check our public responses to. Test it out, let us all know how well it worked.
Reporting populism: the harm-reduction matrix, by Michael Hauser Tov. Available at this link: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/harm-reduction-playbook-covering-populists
October 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Alpine Fault. 75%. 50 years. 4/5.
Aaarghh.

af8.org.nz
Screenshot of text from the AF8 website: While we can't predict earthquakes, scientific research indicates there is a 75% probability of an Alpine Fault earthquake occurring in the next 50 years, and there is a 4 out of 5 chance that it will be a magnitude 8+ event.
September 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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E mārama ai te wairua o te kupu, me waniwani ko tōhona whakapapa...

Learnt this today from Lola Fontain's comment on @sunnmcheaux.bsky.social Instagram post.
Oxford languages definitions of 'nice'; all positive Origins of 'nice': not know ignorant stupid !!!
September 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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If you haven't yet chosen, may i suggest voting kakī 🩷🖤🩷🖤

LOOK at them!

- effortlessly elegant (except during mating dances)
- chill out in the hoarfrost of Te Manahuna
- pride of the south(-ern waders)
Photograph by SGalla32 on Wikimedia. A kakī (black stilt) is crouched close to gravel and stone ground, with its pink legs tucked under and its wings bent forward. It looks like a stealth plane with style. Photograph by SGalla32 on Wikimedia. Two kakī (black stilts) are walking across stony ground with a large boulder and golden grasses in the background.
September 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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"Mana motuhaketia tō hauora"

- Te Arikinui Kuini Ngā wai hono i te po ❤️‍🩹
Screenshot from Goodreads of text on a white background next to a small thumbnail image of the author's face: "You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that answer. You write it You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it." Maya Angelou Image from an Instagram post. Black text on a parchment-coloured background: "I never have been in despair about the world. Enraged. I've been engaged by the world, but never despair. I cannot afford despair... you can't tell the children that there is no hope." - James Baldwin BLACK LITURGIES
September 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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A photo of an elegant kakī or black stilt, an endangered wading bird from southern Te Waipounamu. Black and pink hearts surround the bird who looks pensive. The text above reads 'missed leg day'. The text below reads 'missing your vote'.
September 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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And to the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation, the hugest mihi 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Blue watercolour flowers and twigs, pink heart outlines, text: Ka nui te mihi
September 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Team Kakī! This is our year!
Image of two elegant kakī (black stilts) standing in shallow water with snow-clad peaks in the background. The text reads: What do kakī and the Black Ferns have in common? They are staunch, strong, fierce and beautiful! And much more!!! Please #vote4kaki on https://www.bird oftheyear.org.nz And cast your first vote for kakī/black stilt.
September 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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And kakī! Takahē 💚💙❤️ and kakī 🖤🩷🖤
Image of two elegant kakī (black stilts) with long slender pink legs in shallow water, with snow-dusted mountains in the distance. Text reads: What do kakī and the Black Ferns have in common? They are staunch, strong, fierce and beautiful! And much more!!! Please #vote4kaki on https://www.bird oftheyear.org.nz And cast your first vote for kakī/black stilt.
September 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Blood moon rising over the water horizon seen from the summit road on Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū
September 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Giant hiding-my-face-in-disbelief-and-shame emoji
September 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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More cleanse, in ultra-relaxed tuxedo form this time.
A tuxedo cat lies on her back in utterly relaxed mode, paws flopped. Her white stripe begins at the nose and goes all the way down chest and belly to knee socks on the hind legs (ankle socks on the forelegs). Her eyes are closed, her tail is an elongated comma instead of the usual tight question mark, and she is lying in a stream of sunlight from a large sliding door. She is well-loved and the only trauma in her short life has been closed doors, particularly the fridge, and the occasional terrifying sight of the bottom of her food bowl.
September 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Part 2:
July 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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This oral submission is 🔥

Part 1:
July 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Unfortunately I have an update. This arrived today before I checked anything.

I read their draft translation and the (likely) software has misinterpreted a few things where a licensed translator would not have, we have a code of ethics!

Not at all happy with this.
Screenshot of an email. The text reads: Thank you for making a submission on the Term of Parliament (Enabling 4-year Term) Legislation Amendment Bill. The Justice Committee has decided to seek a translation of your submission. Before publishing the translation, we would like to give you the opportunity to review it. The translation is attached. Please review it and reply to this email with any corrections by Wednesday 11 June 2025. If you do not respond by that date, we will proceed with publishing the translation. If you wish, you may track changes into the Word document. However, please only correct any errors of translation. Please do not add new information or change the meaning of the translation to something that is different from the original submission. Your corrections will be reviewed and (as long as they do not add new information or change the meaning of the submission) they will be incorporated before the translation is passed on to the committee and published. Ngã mihi, Justice Committee staff
June 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Maybe these?
Screen shot of four faux tortoiseshell hair combs with the following text underneath: Mae large sidecombs, shell, set-of-4
June 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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I mean, the dance moves combined with that excellent 'nest' could take you far... ☺️🙌🏽
June 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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This 🫶🏾
Social media post by @nikolaecuza I was always taught by my mother, that the first thought that goes through your mind is what you have been conditioned to think. What you think next defines who you are.
May 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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From a friend who used to live there.
Screen shot with the following text: Imagine having the stones to tell a Black president born into apartheid that there is a white genocide happening in Sth Africa?
May 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM