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The Walking Blind @walkingblind.bsky.social · 15h
If anyone still needs proof that our Trumesque coalition of shit for brains government should be given a second term maybe this shocking news will “shake” you up enough to ditch the “devel you know” forever. #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Quake and tsunami monitoring centre closed for hours due to staff shortages
The Public Service Association (PSA) says Government cuts have left New Zealand less prepared for natural disasters after the National Geohazards Monitoring Centre was temporarily closed because of st...
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 17h
50% of that gain should have been taxed
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The daughter of Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, works for a US lobbying firm with a $35K-a-month contract to represent Republika Srpska. Here she is with its interior minister, a figure aligned with the pro-Russian government. www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A friend just wrote me about what is happening right now with AI decompiling games and applications (e.g., Adobe Photoshop) and it has really shaken me because the implications for the free market are staggering Basically closed source software is over forever and it happened overnight
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Open-Source Guru Raymond: AI Ends Closed-Source Software
Open-source co-founder Eric S. Raymond explains closed-source software is effectively over thanks to AI-powered reverse engineering.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles’ daughter posts a pic at a training camp with a pro-Russian militia in Bosnia that specializes in destabilization… totally normal stuff! “The photo raises Q’s about White House links to the pro-Russian politician”🤔 www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...
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💙 Emma 💙 @emmago.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026
This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WOW. I was one of the 120 restructured out (I left in January) and now the entire Planning Department got the axe (which explains why the GM and Corporate Planning Manager left earlier in the year) The the CE suddenly up and leaves half way through his term www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/waikato-d...
nzherald.co.nz
125 staff leave Waikato council during restructure process
Staff were informed of the outcome of the restructure the same day the CEO resigned.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It would be *so* helpful if you could RT the post above about my workshop sale. I’m still trying to get back on my feet after being really unwell. Any RTs help put my classes in front of more eyes. Thankyou so much 🌿
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I love being home. The best people I know live there. And for what we pay monthly to be here, I want to get my money's worth.
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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ok it’s becoming clear they want to be in coalition with National 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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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...
For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.
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Lauren Dracula 🧛‍♀️ @beavisetc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We have been living in the Black Hole Sun video for about a decade now
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Family First NZ was rightly called a far-right organisation by @globalextremism.bsky.social It is anti-vaxx, anti-Te Tiriti, anti-trans, anti-LGBTIQA+, & a climate change denying Christian nationalist platform. It is with this known entity that Winston Peters did a *one-hour* interview with. #nzpol
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They call it development. But development doesn't trigger droughts, starve farmers, and drive gorillas to extinction. That's ecocide. #CongoBasin
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 08/10/2026
Perfect response from Chlöe Swarbrick and the @greens.org.nz.
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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...
rnz.co.nz
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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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Translation of this chart: people with $20,000+ in spare change are about THREE times more likely (2.89) to support the current political situation, as to be interested in helping change it. Are billionaires immoral? Dunno, but the data sure suggests the casually wealthy may be a tad biased. #nzpol
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 07/10/2026
That there are parties & industry insiders not only ignoring this but actively maligning this here in New Zealand tells you how much we need to kill the dominant do nothing narrative. Not just kill it, stab it with a wooden stake, seal it in a lead sarcophagus & fire it into the heart of the sun.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 07/10/2026
NEW: Meta is refusing to remove horrible AI-generated videos of graphic child abuse, including a baby being roasted in an oven futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Meta Is Refusing to Remove AI-Generated Facebook Videos of Graphic Child Abuse, Including a Baby Roasting in an Oven
We sent Meta 19 Facebook accounts sharing AI-generated videos of graphic child abuse. 24 hours later, it hadn't taken them down.
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The picture Hager’s trilogy paints of the last 20 years is not of democracy corrupted by a few bad apples, but of the brutal conflict between the interests of ordinary people and those of the rich and powerful.” #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
How New Zealand’s right turned culture war into political strategy
Nicky Hager’s latest book argues the tactics of New Zealand’s organised right have changed, but the interests behind them have not.
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Salvador @sa2vador.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Legit huge
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/10/2026
OpenAI came to Australia to apologise. It will leave without answering these key questions | Toby Walsh
theguardian.com
OpenAI came to Australia to apologise. It will leave without answering these key questions | Toby Walsh
We don’t accept drugs killing a few people because they cure most patients. Or a few planes crashing because most land safely. AI should be no different
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Kārikiōrangi @sharonm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And there it is: voting for Opp is voting for National or someone not Labour. The fact he even engaged with the question - during an election campaign! - shows a breathtaking degree of incompetence that would be a liability if part of a coalition government.
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Kiwi on your left @kiwionyourleft.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The techbros are doing "I don't kill people, my gun kills people". If we let them get away with this, we give them permission to do anything.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Watch this.
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Daisy L.A.
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨 South Korea has shipped 176,000 tons of fuel to Russia, mostly diesel, using sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tankers in July and August 2026. This is why the South Korean government created a fake scandal attacking Zelensky over North Korean POWs. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Fuel from South Korea being shipped to Russia as Ukraine war grinds on
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds more than 150,000 tonnes of fuel was shipped to Russian ports in July and August, some using sanctioned tankers
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy is putting Jamie Beaton, from John Keys Crimson ‘education’ on air. Why are they promoting a sham school that is pushing AI as a solution and is a very dodgy operation tied to a very dodgy ex-PM named in the #Panamapapers and Peter Thiel? It’s #dirtywork in Aotearoa #nzpol
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Põhja Ohakas @eex97623.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Point made, nobody harmed, but yikes that was close!😱 NZ Greens announcement – promising funding for urgently needed solutions to the many risky level crossings along Auckland’s Western Line – illustrated in real time at Morningside this morning. (Also, note the many modes of travel! 🚊🚗🚶🏻‍♀️🚲🛴) #nzpol
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A 24 year old farm worker was killed by heat in Mississippi. No worker should be killed on the job, but we still have no enforceable federal heat protection rules. 1/
A screenshot of the Mississippi today headline: Farm worker, 24, dies of heat exposure in North Mississippi

Obed Azahel Hernandez Perez from Mexico died while harvesting sweet potatoes, according to the Chickasaw County coroner
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“.. Asked specifically where he diverges from Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei, Altman said, ‘we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.’” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 04/10/2026
US removes B-1 bombers from UK base amid security concerns reut.rs/4y0WLeI
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US removes B-1 bombers from UK base amid security concerns
The United States removed its B-1 bombers from a UK air base one ​week after several men were arrested there on ‌suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, a Pentagon official said on Sunday.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🤑 I don’t think there’s enough public awareness of RFK Jr’s grift The extreme & very kooky anti-vaxx activist group was paying him $500,000 a year to peddle anti-vaxx BS, there’s the massive fees he got from suing the HPV vaccine maker, the profits from peddling conspiracy theory books, etc., etc.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Hard pass
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ABSOLUTE INSANITY GOING ON IN MIDDLE EAST Night Minimums up to 33C, world heat records for October smashed and re/smashed. And guess what ..it will get MUCH worse WEEKS of July-weather with Mins 30/35C and maxes >45C. BY FAR; THE MOST HEAT EXTREME EVENT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is not a "creative way to work around Congress," NYT, this is part of a constitutional crisis. Congress decides how money is to be spent, not our demented king.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Kim Wincen @wincenworks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Get in loser, we're doing a vibes based evacuation.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 01/10/2026
this video of Chlöe Swarbrick, who leads the Greens in New Zealand's parliament, is worth your five minutes' time
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/04/2026
Nobody knows more about Epstein than @jkbjournalist.bsky.social. She’s absolutely right: the American people can’t lose sight of the fact that the Trump administration is covering up for pedophiles. Keep the pressure up. Follow the money.
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tell me Trump isn't a #PayToPlayPresident when this is who he is hobnobbing with while everyday Americans can barely afford food, gas and health care. We need a government that is of, for and by the people not the billionaires and trillionaire. Vote his Republican enablers out.
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Bee @dailybee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'Before the tender began House of Science chief executive Chris Duggan was also added to a group helping to write the science curriculum, on Stanford's recommendation [...] she stood to gain materially from being on it.' #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2026/10/01/l...
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Labour calls for investigation into $40m school science kit contract
The House of Science had repeatedly lobbied the Education Minister for funding – but Erica Stanford insists it’s all above board.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“She received communication from her alleged attackers mother requesting that she refrain from pressing charges. She alleges he sent her $1000 in an effort to silence her” They did everything to silence Kendall, but she persisted LSU allowed her rapist to remain on campus so he could play sports:
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LSU Student Alleges Sexual Assault By Football Player - EBONY
LSU student Kendall Francis accuses a football player of sexual assault; university’s mishandling and reduced sanctions spark outrage as a criminal investigation unfolds.
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