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aethylred.bsky.social

@aethylred.bsky.social
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Making really big computers, won’t go to Mars until it’s unionised. He/Him

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Ciara 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ciaraarmstrong.bsky.social · 6h
Wish I could talk to Chlöe or Marama for 5 mins. Just wanna let them know if they form a government, & during negotiations they made getting rid of relationship means testing for the permanently disabled/chronically ill a non negotiable, & got it across the line, it would change my life. #nzpol
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 7h
Live: Hipkins says Opportunity supporters 'giving their vote away', Peters 'shouldn't even be in Parliament'
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Live: Hipkins says Opportunity supporters 'giving their vote away', Peters 'shouldn't even be in Parliament'
A new poll shows the coalition has slightly extended its lead over the left bloc thanks to a surge in support for New Zealand First, while both the major parties remain languishing in the 20s.
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 12h
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 8h
You want me to vote for a party that’s gagging to go with the Nats lol WTF. Yes I got a flier today. I don’t get a lot of political fliers in my neck of the woods so it was exciting for 0.2 seconds.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 9h
From Reddit:
My wife works in a government lab, they just got the notice this week that all internal documentation has to update references of Al to SI. These people are so embarrassingly fucking stupid.
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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 10h
Ossoff and El-Sayed took different tacks tonight vs their opponents—El-Sayed was more of a subtext of “you dumb fucking racist jackass” while Ossoff’s was more “if you fell down at a gas station I’d toss a lit match on you”—and I don’t think either of those is a bad choice tbh
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 9h
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 9h
184 new cuneiform tablets ✍️ (total), dating to c.1400 BCE. “Preliminary examination of the texts has revealed references to military activities, epidemics, the death of an infant princess & requests for assistance sent to the king by Hittite military commanders” www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/184-...
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184 cuneiform tablets discovered in Hittite royal archive
Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Kayalıpınar in Türkiye have discovered a Hittite royal archive containing 184 cuneiform tablets and fragments. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 10h
Comment: No party – left or right, large or small – has ever walked away from post-election negotiations because its bottom lines have been compromised.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 17h
Forty percent of American Nobel laureates this century in chemistry, medicine and physics have been immigrants, many arriving as students.
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 11h
There’s every indication that TOP will be as flexible as
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 13h
Make The Onion Satire Again
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 11h
The the capitalists forget the bread and circuses in the analogy were state funded.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 12h
Town (Newcastle-under-Lyme) Council By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 46.2% (+18.0) ➡️ RFM: 26.7% (-0.4) 🌍 GRN: 12.3% (-9.2) 🌳 CON: 11.8% (-4.3) 🔶 LDM: 2.9% (-4.0) Labour GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2026.
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Ginny Di @ginnydi.com · 12h
Support D&D and MtG workers UNIONIZING!! 💪 Sign the petition by Oct 13 to add your voice to the demands so Wizards can see that the community supports their employees being compensated fairly and protecting against AI: actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...
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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!
The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the…
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 13h
The machine made to say yes said yes? …and sent them to the Nopelord?
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 13h
Have they considered why no one does this anymore? Or are they a member of that group of actual scientists who insist on “doing their own research” even though someone else already has, published it, defended it, wrote the text book and outlived their peers who disagreed (and is probably a woman)
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 14h
Them: I searched the literature. Can I use your irradiatior to administer $RIDICULOUSLY_HIGH_DOSE? Me: Your literature is at least a decade old. We don't have such Strategically Significant Sources anymore. Thanks to DHS, almost no one does. Them: Oh. What do you have? Me: Nothing which can do that.
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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 15h
Remember kids: A vote for TOP is a vote for National #nzpol
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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 14h
Yeah, nah. Vote Green.
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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 15h
"We have principles, if you dont like them we have others" part 2 #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Qiulae Wong says no tax reform next term 'worth considering' in potential deal with National
Christopher Luxon points to Wong's land tax when ruling out Opportunity.
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 15h
Our internet is on a plan that don’t exist, they were grandfathered in after successive merges and is better than most current offerings. Our power was similar until we had it rejiggered for solar
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Ben Smith @mrbensmith.bsky.social · 19h
How's it going? Going good, thanks. roguetrooper.com
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Did you know if we had heavier taxes on corporate profits it might encourage corporations on investing in better goods and services and hiring more staff at higher wages to reduce taxable profits. It would discourage enshittification
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
But if the Ukraine is in the EU, then they are also EU farmers
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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tldr: @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social are the only party with a fully ratified arts policy. Here, I looked it up for you: www.greens.org.nz/arts_culture...
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Arts, Culture and Heritage Policy
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sadky, it’s not publicly accessible
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A word at the end of the day about people saying "I'm okay with drug testing if all MPs have to do it". No. That is *not* where we want to go. Part of the danger of National's stunt policy is that it sets us off down a slippery slope where the privacy and human rights of *everyone* are infringed.
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
<cough> bsky.app/profile/aeth...
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mmm, yup, that should go back
A toilet door in the hallway and not in the toilet. Has a brass plaque of a pissing boy and a had written note to keep the door shut so the Goose the cat doesn’t fall in when drinking.

Though it’s usually Odin, who has one eye and is a half wit.
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New vinyl, but there’s something missing…
Out newish integrated bidet on a nice new vinyl floor I laid today
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Curry pizza at 10,000km
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 07/10/2026
According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.
Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
However, I often fail to correctly name products or services so they don't pop up in analytics
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do not comply with the prissy fucking wowsers in advance
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demon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 01/11/2025
tapping the fucking sign now that bluesky is actively censoring EVERYTHING even remotely, possibly rude that this will lead to language softening, which literally rewires your fucking brain to downplay violence/issues
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
PD Mart faces court over alleged unsafe goods
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PD Mart faces court over alleged unsafe goods
The Commerce Commission is warning retailers that product safety is non-negotiable as it takes bargain retailer PD Mart to court over allegedly non-compliant goods.
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have actually had that discussion with a manager that they do pay me to drink, what I do with the money once it's mine is my business and not their's. "Ugh, during work hours" "Dave, we're at a vendor shmooze"
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pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When they were cutting the cables from public EV chargers, did we care? No, but when they go for the farmers...
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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 07/10/2026
Today's chart after ACT and NZFist got a flurry of donations The system is rigged #nzpol
Sum of large donations in 2026 by party

Act:  $2,372,033
National:  $2,291,750 
Labour:  $890,301
NZ First:  $832,999
Opportunity:  $491,660
Green:  $405,194
Te Pāti Māori: $114,00
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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The headline buries the lede: ❌️ Cutting benefit rates after 2yrs ❌️ Incr stand down to 26wks (up from 13wks) ❌️ Incr minimum residence period to qualify benefits from 2yrs to 5yrs These are awful, horrifying policies that will drive povery and misery #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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National promises random drug testing for jobseeker beneficiaries
National is promising to introduce random drug testing for those on the jobseeker benefit to ensure they're "ready for work".
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Evidence bsky.app/profile/aeth...
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I can’t do bitchy. Just wizard AF.
Old man and his beard rises from his couch to scourge clouds
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm so fucking sick of all these fucking dickheads. Fuck
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Winston Peters wants ban on conversion therapy overturned, says abortion can be 'murder'
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Winston Peters wants ban on conversion therapy overturned, says abortion can be 'murder'
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says he hopes the country's ban on conversion therapy is overturned.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🐉+🪰 Yes, the dragonfly was drawn with this very brush. 🧐🔍
Detail from a silhouette drawing in black ink of a dragonfly, photographed with a penny and the traditional Chinese brush it was drawn with. The detail is very tiny and intricate. The penny could eclipse the dragonfly entirely with room to spare.
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I can’t do bitchy. Just wizard AF.
Old man and his beard rises from his couch to scourge clouds
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived on blue sky
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Hark
ALT: Hark
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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 07/10/2026
Neanderthals were talented hunters AND home decorators. Evidence from a Spanish rock shelter includes new tool types and evidence for windbreaks and other domestic arrangements. “Now we can start to imagine the spaces they were living in,” says archaeologist @annemiekemilks.bsky.social. @science.org
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Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers, first-of-its-kind tool trove reveals
Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives
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