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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Raybon is a national treasure, perhaps even a New Zealand first treasure: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ive...
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Raybon Kan: I've never talked about it, but Winston Peters also told me to go back to my own country
OPINION: Could it be a Chinese thing not to want to cry racism? To be stoic?
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Simon O'Neill @sjponeill.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Closes 30 June petitions.parliament.nz/0e32836b-625...
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Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This: "We need leaders who understand that they are there to deliver health, prosperity and happiness to as many citizens as possible, not just the wealthy and privileged." #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/06/a...
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Anne Salmond: Hayek's bastards, revisited
Neoliberalism's attempt to make self-interest into a governing philosophy has proven to be a disaster, writes Dame Anne Salmond, but alternatives do exist
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
None of us alive will experience climate better than what we have now. How much worse it gets is up to us.
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2026 Has Already Broken Climate Records. El Niño Could Break More. - Eos
As the midpoint of the year approaches, several climate records have already been broken. Arctic winter sea ice extent reached a record low. Several countries saw record-breaking winter heat waves. An...
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alittleoblivion.bsky.social @alittleoblivion.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Who else has shared shopping list that say things like -vanilla icecream not the fucking French vanilla this time
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alittleoblivion.bsky.social @alittleoblivion.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Boxes come and go but this is Kiki's favourite one ever. She can lie down and hide or peek out the top.
A grey yellow-eyed cat sits up in a box that reaches to her neck so her head peeks out.
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alittleoblivion.bsky.social @alittleoblivion.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I caught the tail end of a great conversation on RNZ Nine to Noon with politics professor Richard Shaw, about his books on NZ colonisation, his own family's role in it, and the rewriting of the school history curriculum. I had to listen to the rest of it as soon as I got home.
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arcticfox87.bsky.social @arcticfox87.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
What It Costs Women To Survive Men www.huffpost.com/entry/women-...
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Every Woman I Know Is Paying An Unseen Tax Just To Survive — And Men Have No Idea
"Every woman I know performs some version of this – not just to stay employed, but to stay alive."
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alittleoblivion.bsky.social @alittleoblivion.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"The thing is, as a Green Card holder there was no form for Everlee to fill out at immigration. It’s sort of impossible to complete the form accurately when the form does not exist. Webworm spoke to a US immigration attorney about this, who also indicated Peters was full of shit".
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alittleoblivion.bsky.social @alittleoblivion.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It was the day after the last election. I had some feelings to process so I made this.
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alittleoblivion.bsky.social @alittleoblivion.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A great piece. "The real problem...was neither mentioned nor addressed...that many families face barriers that mean they do not have the choice of inclusion for their disabled child in their local school, and local schools struggle to access the resources and support they need."
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
someone at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis is holding a painting of the hat 5 year old liam ramos was wearing when he was abducted by ICE in columbia heights. all too much
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 09/01/2026
Andor's Nemik eulogizes Renee Nicole Good. I lifted work from excellent photojournalists to make this video, but it felt really urgent to get the message out and it will take me quite some time to do a credited version. Apologies. (This a repost with a more cogent description and alt-text.)
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 02/01/2026
"There is no reckoning with whether a ceasefire that permits one side to continue killing can be called a ceasefire at all." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The ceasefire itself has done little to improve the conditions of life in Gaza. Israel has repeatedly opened and closed crossings, including Rafah and Kerem Shalom, during disputes over the remains of hostages and the terms of Hamas’s disarmament. Officials spoke of up to six hundred aid trucks a day entering Gaza, but U.N. figures show that the number between October and November was closer to a hundred a day. Though some Israeli restrictions on permissible aid items have loosened, others remain astonishingly specific: Israel still bars school supplies such as pencils and paper. International organizations warn of the risk of falling back into famine if conditions worsen.Meanwhile, Gaza’s death toll has kept climbing. Since the ceasefire began, on October 10th, about four hundred Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, according to Gaza’s health ministry. Israel says that these were targeted operations against Hamas militants. Hamas says that Israel is creating pretexts to avoid honoring the agreement. U.S. officials describe the ceasefire as still holding, and have urged both sides to treat the killings as incidents to be managed and not as a return to war. There is no reckoning with whether a ceasefire that permits one side to continue killing can be called a ceasefire at all.
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alittleoblivion.bsky.social @alittleoblivion.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Hi, I'm Hot Water Beach. Hell of an undertow, don't swim there unless it's between the flags with lifeguards on duty. The water took a pair of jandals and a diamond from my ring that day, a cheap price to pay to keep my life.
A pretty beach on a sunny day, with some strong waves in the middle.
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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alittleoblivion.bsky.social @alittleoblivion.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
To all the parents who had to make a Halloween costume in 3 days mostly with stuff lying around the house. We did it.
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Greg Chernack, CEO, Four Seasons Total Landscaping @gchernack.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.
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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
#oct23strike
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alittleoblivion.bsky.social @alittleoblivion.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
"National have taken the kind of tactics you usually find in real estate advertising and applied them to government statistics".
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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Feel like our priorities on what's urgent may be a bit skewed
Not good enough to take 20 days to count special votesBut recognising Palestinian statehood is not a race
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Psychologists and psychiatrists call this "concrete thinking." It reflects an inability to engage in abstract thinking, and a strong propensity to think of all nouns as depicting physical objects. It's the first way children begin to understand how to describe the world with words.
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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
A great piece from Alex Casey about the noxious soup: "It’s like men’s potential suffering is tragic, and women’s actual suffering is just our lot in life." thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-0...
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Decoding the ‘cult of masculinity’ around Tom Phillips
The support for the Marokopa fugitive reveals several pervasive myths about masculinity, fathers and the court system.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
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Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
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