Todd Taiepa
todtai.bsky.social
Todd Taiepa
@todtai.bsky.social
Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Whare. Toitū Te Reo, Toitū Te Manaakitanga, Toitū Te Tiriti. Self-determination not selfish-extermination. Pathways that protect and enhance the elevation of everyones mana. Mauri tū mauri ora. Restoring ancestral lifeways.
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There's no food they haven't gentrified, offal, what we used to be cheap cuts of meat, canned corn beef, tins of tuna, these used to be things you could get cheap & make a nice meal with. There is nothing left. Sausages, even polonies are expensive now. Fucked if I know how people feed their kids
June 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
@jeffcannata.bsky.social Just heard on the Patreon feed the issues around your book. I live in New Zealand and was so pleased to receive the two copies of your book that I ordered. Then recently I received, completely unexpectedly, two more SIGNED copies! Mind blown & they are fantastic. Well done.
June 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Bishop. What a blithering shambles.
That he expressed those his thoughts out loud in public while on the piss shows his contempt for others expressing and enjoying themselves. Tosser.
May 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Ngāti Kahungunu maintains the sign is a 'perfect opportunity' to introduce reo Māori to the masses.
Iwi ‘appalled’ by pulling of reo Māori stop-go sign
Ngāti Kahungunu maintains the sign is a 'perfect opportunity' to introduce reo Māori to the masses.
www.teaonews.co.nz
May 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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It's amazing that southern plantation mansions are popular resort and event destinations. People get married there! It's like having your wedding at Auschwitz!
May 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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The reactions of trapped animals are horrifying for sure, but also note the scale of collateral ecological and environmental destruction. This is what the Trump administration wants to allow and encourage in marine protected areas, including the Pacific Islands Heritage National Monument.
I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
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May 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
So American tourists will travel overseas and buy a lot of products like personal electronics, clothes and toiletries, to excitedly take home because of how comparatively cheap they will now be. Which is exactly what it used to be like when we all travelled to the US in the 1980’s.
April 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Good luck working out the import taxes on this one #HerrTrumpf!
April 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Let me get this right - in NZ all the American stuff I’m not buying is not going up in price?
April 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Look. What say to you is this.

The homeless are a burden kianga ora can't afford.

Just like the sick are a burden our health system can't afford.

Or hungry children being a burden our school lunch programme can't afford.

We've got $3 billion for landlords though.

#nzpol
April 4, 2025 at 6:13 AM
So how bad does a global trade war have to bring to bring the domestic cost of NZ butter, cheese, meat and other agricultural products down?
April 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Hey one of the largest disability support providers in the country has COMPLETELY RUN OUT OF MONEY and no one is hearing me SCREAM IT FROM THE HILLTOPS. Please boost this and please send it to your MPs.
Yesterday I was told that even though my kōtiro now qualifies for NASC, we would not be able to access any supports because the funding body has completely run out of cash. I needed to do something productive instead of spiral so I wrote. kahukurascout.substack.com/p/at-least-o...
At least one large disability support provider has completely run out of funding to provide support to autistic people.
"I'll tell you right now, you're not getting anything"
kahukurascout.substack.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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March 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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If I were an opposition MP I would be absolutely hammering the message that Nicole McKee and the Government are trying to get cops killed. Get it through to the "blue lives matter" right wing voters that the government hates cops.
“Police are identifying "straw buying" so that is where a legitimate firearm owner buys a gun and then sells it to a criminal, someone who isn't licensed, that is now the most popular way criminals are getting firearms,"

So maybe not the time for less gun control 🤷

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
Police Association warns frontline officers are weary of gun crime
Gun violence rocked the North Island over the weekend, with four separate shootings including a fatal attack in broad daylight.
www.stuff.co.nz
March 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Basically…
March 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Exciting (informal) announcement:

We are bringing Aotearoa Secret Santa back (again) this time to Bluesky, it seems we are destined to resurrect & breathe life back into the much loved game

Mid Winter will coincide with my 50th Birthday, so we are making that Opening Weekend

More details soon...
March 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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I think people are extremely on edge, and horrified by how quickly society has slipped into this banal techno-fascism, and scared about how far it will go, and that makes people brittle and impatient, and if I were a better person I would extend grace to people because of that, but, you know, I’m me
March 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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This is a wonderful story from Te Ao with Moana. Not only the waka emerging from the Chatham Island sands – which may be the most import find in Polynesian archeology – but the people around it. Young Nikau is a bit of a star. Find 20 minutes to watch it today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cnt...
A waka found on the beach could be the most important discovery in New Zealand archaeology.
YouTube video by Te Ao with Moana
www.youtube.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Largest indigenous event in New Zealand runs all week. Had ana amazing time there with Ye Kura o Ngā Tama Tāne o Papaioea. International followers do yourself a favour and search ‘Te Matatini’. Do us a favour and repost some of the video content to your followers. Mauri ora!
February 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again
Prediction: the Nаzi salute will become common within 2 years. RWers will half-аss it for plausible deniability, memeify the backlash, then start fully doing it "as a joke" "to troll the libs" "for being hysterical enough to think we were doing it in the first place"
February 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Its lovely when our children quietly sing Māori songs when they are just chilling and doing something else.
February 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM