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Bruce Rees

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veganism and socialism, fuck AI.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes Sam. There will need to be a sacrifice for the AI future…
static.klipy.com
The Wicker Man: Oh God, Oh Jesus Christ!
Alt: The Wicker Man: Oh God, Oh Jesus Christ!
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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 03/10/2026
FUCK YEAH #nzpol
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Auckland-Wellington sleeper train part of Greens’ $4.02b passenger rail pitch
The Greens are proposing a $4.02b passenger rail plan spanning Auckland, Wellington, Tauranga, Christchurch and Dunedin.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The coalition's Conservation Amendment Bill will: ⚒️Make it easier for mining companies to violate public conservation land for private commercial exploitation. 👎Change the purpose of our conservation law away from protecting nature. ✍️Take action and sign the petition now please 🙏👇 #nzpol
greenpeace.nz
PETITION: Hands off conservation land!
The PM is trying to open the door to selling off conservation land. If the wild places of NZ were mined, logged or sold off, we can’t get them back. Aotearoa is NOT for sale. Sign the petition now.
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𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™ @dallasbarnett.com · 29/09/2026
Daaaaaayum. #nzpol
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NZ Election 2026 | 100% Pure S*itF@^kery
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NACT1st has deliberately allowed our healthcare sector to become understaffed. . #NZpol #Listener #cartoon
Patient: "I WAS FORCED TO GO TO WORK EVEN WHEN I WAS SICK."
Cartoon depicts a scene in a crowded hospital where a nurse is pushing a very sick patient. Both appear ill.

Patient: "I WAS FORCED TO GO TO WORK EVEN WHEN I WAS SICK."
Nurse: "SAME."

Refers to a RNZ report : "Some nurses working in the emergency department at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital say they have been asked to come to work despite calling in sick.
They say they have repeatedly raised concerns with management about the pressure on staff over the past two months, but little has changed."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/indonz_featured/1291868/middlemore-hospital-nurses-reportedly-asked-to-work-despite-calling-in-sick
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google maps has finally updated its Satellite photos of Gaza and it shows the most complete destruction of a city ever. A Genocide.
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Craig Wright-St Clair @craigwrightstclair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#nzpol #Fonterra #TooManyCows
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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New rule: Any media reporting on David Farrar must be accompanied by this photo of Farrar dressed as Jimmy Savile. #OneTermGovernment #nzpol
David Farrar dressed as Jimmy Savile, for fun.
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Apparently our "business leaders" have signed an open letter opposing the pro-consumer policies of all the parties except Act. Which is a roundabout way of saying – based on votes at the last election – that they are going against the wishes of 92% of NZers www.thepost.co.nz/business/361...
thepost.co.nz
Corporate heavy hitters tell MPs: ‘hands off our businesses’
Fifty-one business leaders sign open letter protesting political promises to break up power companies, supermarkets and force the sale of a bank.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 21/09/2026
Chris wants you to forget everything Chris has said for the last 3 years because he now agrees with Chris. CHRIST
Hipkins spent the last 3 years rightly criticising the nearly $3b tax cuts for landlords.Chris Hipkins now agrees with the nearly $3b tax cut for landlords.

YOU SPINELESS MEALY MOUTHED WET NAPKINS CUNT
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Zooey Neumann @zoomoo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jesus wept
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Brett @brettcd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This pearl of wisdom now 6 months old... #NZPol
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'Be cool, be calm': Winston Peters says war will be over faster than people think| Herald NOW
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters joined Herald NOW to discuss the latest on Iran war, as US says 'most intense' day of strikes to come. Video / Ryan Bridge TODAY
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
okay this is actually huge. I've complained a lot about Labour being limp, so I think it's important to pump them up when they're actually making shit happen www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Labour proposes splitting Foodstuffs and Woolworths from their wholesale arms
Labour would force Foodstuffs and Woolworths to run their wholesale operations independently from their retail stores, if elected in November.
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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cry me a fucking river you cunt #nzpol
Te Pāti Māori co-leader’s C-bomb in House ‘unacceptable’, Luxon says
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#nzpol ACT's unspoken goal is to turn the majority of us into lowly paid feudal labour for the moneyed class. Vote them out. Vote them all out.
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 12/09/2026
Comment: Cleaning up nitrogen pollution costs 10 times more than buying the fertiliser in the first place, freshwater ecologist Dr Simon Stewart argues.
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Costly, harmful and addictive – the huge hidden cost of our synthetic fertiliser habit
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Can't even pretend to care enough to do the bare minimum gesture towards human rights and international law #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1...
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UK, France, Canada to ban imports from Israeli settlements - NZ critical but stops short of joining
Britain, France and Canada will ban imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, with a UK minister accusing Israel of turning a blind eye to the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians ther...
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is what privatised health care does, and what NACT want for Aotearoa.
Comparison of Canadian and US health data.
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In today’s HeraldOnSunday
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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I think the $435,000 Deloitte charged for this error filled report should be refunded in full #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Mayor says ‘large chunks’ of Wellington council Deloitte report written by AI
Wellington mayor Andrew Little has said in a radio interview that a significant amount of a $435,000 Deloitte report on the council's staffing levels was written by artificial intelligence, as the rep...
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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species _is_ possible with sustained effort. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots
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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is pretty wild lol isaiprofitable.com
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Is AI Profitable Yet?
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Tina Makereti @tinamakereti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Holy fuck. We’re back to this shit again for #Seymour’sSlop school lunches 😩😩😩 #nzpol
Label states Country-style Chicken Meatballs & Spuds but blehNot even sure what colour the peas are 😖
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350 Aotearoa @350nz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🚨 #BREAKING: Bathurst Resources has just submitted the biggest coal mining application NZ has ever seen, right in the heart of the Denniston Plateau. They’re hoping it will slip under the radar amid a global fuel crisis. But New Zealanders are furious at the war-profiteering fossil fuel barons ...
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
5000 TEMPORARY jobs. 5000 people don't work IN the data center www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
rnz.co.nz
Data centre build could create 5000 jobs, report says
A new report on the potential growth of data centres in New Zealand says a large-scale construction programme could create about 5000 jobs, with a significant proportion in electrical and mechanical t...
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Cory Aitken - Alliance List Candidate @aitkesandpains.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The only sort of Data Centre I want to see funded 🏛️
Hokitika museum building, built in 1908 with a £2000 donation from American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
One of the important things to remember - despite the noise from the sector - is how insignificant the forestry industry really is. Let's start with the fact that forestry and logging is only 6.9% of Tairāwhiti's GDP and only employs 565 people [A short thread] #nzpol
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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 10/08/2026
Today's chart after National got $40,000 and NZ Fist $50,000 The system is rigged #nzpol
ACT $1,732,163
National $1,303,284
NZ Fist $573,000
Opportunistic $491,660
Labour $401,511
Greens $343,194
Te Pāti Māori $40,000
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
National, lagging in the polls, promise “real fucking misery this time round.” Electorate responds favourably.
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Winston's answer to his racism is to change the rules about who can become an MP. Luxon's answer to his incompetence is to change the rules about who can become the government. So much for 'personal responsibility'. #NzPol
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Cool Hand Fluke @nzrossvideo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Regardless of how awful they are, this govt finds ways to be worse. Possibly one of the most amazing Pacific discoveries for a long time and they tried to get out of paying for the excavation. Assholes
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
What happened w Hank Green is what I've seen happened with multiple friends and colleagues: brains cooked by ChatGPT etc. It's worse than meth for you and should be banned. Don't fuck with millions of years of learning evolution and brain function. Bad monkey! No banana.
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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Todays #Seymour’sSlop, brought to you by Mylanta #nzpol
Apparently, it’s Rustic Cottage Pie. They should’ve been more honest and called it “Lipstick on a Pig”.Yes, that’s mixed vege, mince, and the white stuff I’m supposed to be mashed potato.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We wonder what attracted convicted false imprisoner Boy George to defending the nation of Israel's genocide? By @willem-moore.bsky.social
thecanary.co
Boy George releases sick song defending Israel’s genocide
We wonder what attracted convicted false imprisoner Boy George to defending the nation of Israel's genocide?
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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
#Seymour’sSlop for Monday. Description in ALT text #nzpol
A label reading Beef Meatballs & Vegeful Sauce on Pasta above something in a foil dish. The brown things look like 💩 and the pasta must’ve been boiled to within an inch of it’s existence
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Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand @greens.org.nz · 25/07/2026
The Greens are calling for a one year pause on new AI data centres - so New Zealanders get to have their say on how to protect our resources, environment and communities. Sign our petition today: action.greens.org.nz/pause_ai_dat...
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Right ... so Mercury Energy, 51% owned by the Crown, has $53m to spend on a stake in a data centre, but somehow can't make the generation investments necessary for power prices to be lower for New Zealanders? Utter sociopaths #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/business/361...
thepost.co.nz
Taxpayer now has $27m interest in Southland data centre venture as Mercury buys in
The majority stated-owned power firm says it expects the planned $3.7 billion data centre near Invercargill to be the country’s “most advanced”.
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A while since I read anything as ridiculous, dumb and irritating.
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Could AI be conscious?
Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
🧊✈️ SEATTLE ⛓️😲 👉 Young men & boys in shackles are herded by hired thugs from a chartered Eastern 737 to a waiting bus, to be transported to GEO Group's Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington 👀
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Virginia Cattell @virgcatt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Go Susan #nzpol
No fact-free lunches
I would have expected Jonathan Ayling to seek facts before forming opinions.
His assertion that the strongest societies are not those where the Government does most is simply false.
All five Nordic countries are consistently in the top 10 in the world on the happiness scale, based on data from 140 countries.
Finland has been number one for seven years. All are among the highest taxed globally and all provide child benefits, parental leave, health services, hospitals and care for the sick and elderly, paid for by the Government.
Their emphasis is on the wellbeing of the entire population, with high levels of social support and generosity.
This evidence indicates that strong societies come from making sure everyone's needs are met, not just those who have the nous and the money, with others ending up homeless and hungry. Those are the facts, Mr Ayling.
Susan Grimsdell, Auckland Central.
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 08/07/2026
Sorry mate, you lost on the opening sentence. This priveleged sorted pick is nothing like "so many New Zealalnders". That fucker hasn't mowed his own lawn in decades, guaranteed. Also, WHY IN THE FLYING FUCK is this even a story!?! #nzpol
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Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Using my polite grown-up voice to say something quite obvious, LLMs are confidence machines for bosses, middle managers and corporate consultants. newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/08/w...
newsroom.co.nz
Why large language models are an economic dead end
Comment from Otago University: Dr Olivier Jutel deconstructs the generative AI hype, exposing the unsustainable economics, cooked corporate numbers, and tech-stock over-allocation
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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Springfield is even now launching its monorail, we are at risk of being left behind
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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Just as spending hundreds of millions to procure no boats should've been career ending for our Finance Minister, so should our Associate Minister of Education serving our rangatahi inedible slop in order to save a few bucks. #nzpol
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 29/06/2026
How much longer do Labour stick with Hipkins? It's clear nobody likes him or his lame nothing policies. Heck, even Luxon (the most useless git ever) is polling higher and drunk racist uncle Peters isn't very far behind him. Is Labour deaf? Or stupid? Read the room FFS. #nzpol
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/06/2026
I‘m sorry, but this reads like somebody with an addiction that genuinely needs help. If a friend told me they were talking and acting like this I’d be really worried!
Matt Van Horn, a serial entrepreneur and father of four, never turns his laptop off anymore. He has more than a half-dozen artificial intelligence agents running at all times in Anthropic's Claude Code.
Every 10 minutes or so, they ask him what to do next.
He keeps his laptop running at his kids' soccer practice, while dropping them off at school and in the hotel during vacations.
When he goes to sleep, one agent steps in to babysit the others.
Van Horn is one of many founders whose work has been transformed by AI. As he builds his latest company, he's used AI agents to help contribute to hundreds of projects on GitHub. But he and many other AI evangelists are also working longer hours than ever before as they grapple with anxieties about how Al might advance without them if they log off.
After 15 minutes of conversation with a Bloomberg reporter, he notes that most of his agents are probably waiting for his next prompt. "I don't have a therapist, but if I did, they'd be like, It's OK, Matt," he says with a laugh. "They said that agents were supposed to do our work for us, but I've never worked harder in my life. I just have 100 times the output that I had before."
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
protestors outside the ACT Party conference today 🫡🫡
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lukewigram.bsky.social @lukewigram.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Kill the bill #nzpol www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
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Potaka announcement not enough, scrap Conservation Bill says Greenpeace - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Greenpeace Aotearoa says the Conservation Amendment Bill is rotten and must be scrapped entirely, as public outcry over the proposal forces the Conservation Minister to take his proposal to make it ea...
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Greens up on every measure in IPSOS polling
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Greens up on every measure in IPSOS polling
Additional data from the latest IPSOS Issues Monitor shows the Green Party gained public confidence on every concern the survey measures.
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