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terinz.bsky.social
Storyteller and curious observer. Ex-journalist, early online + adopter, communications, ghostwriter. Lived + worked in five countries. Now country + coastal, photographer, paddler, walker. Kind to people and animals.
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17-year old Aussie kid Gout Gout is on fire, blitzed his heat in the iconic Stawell Gift race from a staggered one metre handicap start. Can't wait for tomorrow's final. He's going to be a huge athletics star...after he finishes school! www.smh.com.au/sport/athlet...

There is no justification at all for Israel to resume the war in Gaza. Israel's march of folly continues. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"Palestine’s Arab neighbours are not the only ones sitting on their hands. A Europe and UK so keen to defy Trump’s developing plan to carve up Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin are doing absolutely nothing to stop the slaughter in Gaza." www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/rama...

Gosh.

Helen Clark commenting … #nzpol

The suspension of all US intelligence sharing with Ukraine would also allow Russian forces to intensify their drone and missile strikes against the Ukrainian rear, affecting millions of Ukrainian civilians and the growth of Ukraine's defense industrial base (DIB). isw.pub/UkrWar030425

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

Even Hoskings has had enough? 😂😂Did Luxon ever answer the question or just blather on 'till the end? www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

For once I'm agreeing with Luxon, "extremely ill-advised" does kind of sum it up -https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360576654/mark-mitchell-david-seymour-should-have-gone-police-watchdog-instead-writing-letter-support

Excellent example of stating the obvious!

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

More from “You Thought It Was an Onion Headline, But It’s Actually True…”

Once the cyberbarons fully occupy and effectively seize control of the Treasury and other key government agencies, it won’t be long before they relegate Trump to a rubber-walled romper room, wheeling him out for occasional bursts of what passes for charisma to humor him with the illusion of power.

"Trump's litigation-as-bribery scheme seems almost quaint while Elon Musk is tearing the wires out of the govt. Even in the face of that existential danger, however, this new world of media shakedowns, run by the most powerful person in the world, is alarming."

"if the cap fits..."

Who died and made him boss is my next question. Or maybe that’s the question to come.

So there’s lots of CRAZY stuff going on, which makes seemingly CRAZY reports seem more plausible. It would be great if we all still take a breath and double-check to make sure things are real, so everyone can focus on the real stuff. I will now go and immediately not follow my own suggestion.

Jan 6 must be fully & conclusively adjudicated in a court of law if this country is to ever move forward. They can't just wish it away unless we let them.

Are you paying attention? Don't get distracted by the tragic plane crashes...

Nobody is going to regret a trade war with Colombia more than Don Jr. Nobody.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Exactly why @bsky.app is so important. Engaging on this platform is important. As is growing this platform. Which one of these men joins Tom Anderson and MySoace in the annals of history first ? Their greed is our opportunity.

Just emailed off my RSB submission. It's an emphatic no from me.

The most that can be said about the present moment is that there is disagreement within the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party about which faces to eat in what order.

What a pathetic shambles and attempt at passing the buck. And she had the chutzpah to stand there and tell the media that "I've delivered". Not from my viewpoint at the top of the Mainland she hasn't. Shame on Nicola and dear lord here comes Winston yet again with a shiny new title. This mob.

What a wild week. "It is critical now to reflect on what the devastating tale of Syrian governance and civil war mean. Syria under the Assads was neither unique nor the work of just a few local brutes". www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

You just can't keep a good fashion trend down... the orcas have brought back the dead salmon hat look from the 80s. 😂 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

An excellent ode indeed, thank you author “O King, How do you feel your first year On the Golden Throne has gone?”, Inquires an eager scribe. “What I would say to you,” answers the King..." newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/01/a...

Nichols: You have the makings of a not so slow motion authoritarian takeover of the United States government. And people ought to be really concerned about this.

The economists' letter to the Government today is essential reading so I've opened this one up immediately for full reading, listening and sharing. Thanks again to paying subscribers for their permission in advance. open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

"The message against the coalition Treaty Principles Bill should be simple: the Treaty protects all New Zealanders from corporate exploitation. David Seymour is playing the long game...we can beat Seymour at his own game." newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/20/l...

Bloody good work there, @rodemmerson.bsky.social

Seymour's version Vs the real version

the-opinionist.ghost.io/tenei-te-tan...

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

My kids very pakeha, very middle class school has sent a message to say they will mark children as a “justified absence” if they want to go to the hikoi in Te Whanganui-a-Tara on Tuesday. Very happy with that.