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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 21h
There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.
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Brad Company @waeherebro.bsky.social · 3h
PSA: If Cocaine use in NZ has really increased exponentially in the last 3 years, IT SURE AINT BENEFICIARIES BUYING IT! Lets test Politicians and Landlords and Millionaires weekly. #nzpol
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 06/10/2026
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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 5h
This is an absolutely horrifying read. There must be justice for this.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 5h
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 5h
This never get’s old…
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 3h
Just piss off, you desperate creeps. You've done this before, and it was a total waste of time and money. 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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Rowan Kavner @rowankavner.bsky.social · 1h
Teoscar, probably: "All yours, bud."
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 6h
Piers Morgan “Mohammed, do you condemn the Hamas attacks on October the 7th?” Mohammed Hijab “Yes, I do. Do you condemn Israel killing over 1000 kids?” Piers Morgan “I believe Israel has a right to defend themselves” That answer should be on the tombstone of his career.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 8h
Keen to vote for the environment in the upcoming 2026 New Zealand election but don’t know how? Greenpeace has got you! Vote for the environment this New Zealand election www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
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Vote for the environment this New Zealand election - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Keen to vote for the environment in the upcoming 2026 New Zealand election but don’t know how? We've got you!
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Katie Pai @katiepaiau.bsky.social · 17h
Anyone in Pōneke recently installed a heat pump hot water system? Any recommendations? And would you be willing to share how much it cost? Ballpark? We need to get rid of our old gas and need to transition but no room for indoor cylinder.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 18h
Oh look bang on time Winston trying to undermine the other bit of LGBTQ progress we all got done when he was on his arse out of Parliament fuck you man
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h
Naval drone hits oil tanker off Russian resort city Sochi, triggering massive blaze
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Naval drone hits oil tanker off Russian resort city Sochi, triggering massive blaze
Russian officials said a Liberian-flagged tanker was attacked and a crew of 23 Indian nationals rescued An oil tanker off Russia’s Black Sea coast was struck by a naval drone, triggering a huge fire and black smoke cloud that blanketed parts of the resort city of Sochi, Russia’s transport ministry has said. The transport ministry said a Liberian-flagged tanker had been attacked and that “crude oil is burning openly in the waters of the Black Sea”. Continue reading...
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 18h
Our conversion practices prohibition legislation is more popular than New Zealand First or Winston Peters has ever been and it will long outlast him.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pay attention to this: it's a big deal.
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Ko Simon toku ingoa :tinoflag: @simonchulse.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18h
Do any #NZ tweeps want to buy our tickets for the Lake #Taupō #cycle challenge off us? We have come to the realisation that with the price of petrol we won’t be able to afford it. #Bike #Cycling #Bikes #Wellington #LowerHutt #Aotearoa #BikeTooter
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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 07/10/2026
just think: boycotting the Harry Potter show means hurting JK Rowling AND the Ellisons now
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 18h
Fascinating article on why campaigning against cycling and walking doesn't work for the Tories in London. From Conservative Home (!). conservativehome.com/2026/09/29/a...
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Andrew Gilligan: Popular among activists, scrapping ULEZ doesn't add up - either politically or financially | Conservative Home
On the subject of motoring in London, there’s a long history of utter Tory refusal to look the electoral facts and numbers in the eye. You don’t have to agree with me on this. So please, let’s start t...
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Cargo Bike Ben @cargobikeben.bsky.social · 18h
Correct headline should be “End of parking subsidy in Liverpool saves council tax payers over £1m”
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Liverpool parking charges bring in more than £1m council says
The figure has been revealed following a Freedom of Information request from a group of businesses.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18h
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.
fastcompany.com
50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 18h
Musk murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and has an active Nazi CSAM machine running at all times, and that's just one facet of the insanity that has become our lives.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 19h
Radio silence from all the right wing pundits who mainstreamed this man's abhorrent brand because he said the word "masculinity" enough times to warrant attention
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One of the most heinous examples is Matt Walsh suggesting that, actually, Jane Doe raped the frat boys because they were also under the influence. I thought it bore a certain resemblance to some of Andrew Johnson’s comments on slavery. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
But Walsh isn't satisfied with victim blaming. He goes so far as to assert that, given the consumption of drugs and alcohol, the fraternity boys couldn't possibly be held responsible themselves:

I'm not kidding when I say that the Cornell frat guys should file a counter suit accusing the woman of raping them. According to her own testimony, some of the men were drunker than she was. By her logic, and the logic of her supporters, they were even less capable of consent. She was the rapist in that case. There's no way out of our current madness except by holding feminists to their own standards.When I read Walsh's comments I see a level of male supremacism that leaves my jaw on the floor. It also reminds me of a quote from President Andrew Johnson delivered to Frederick Douglass when pressed about protecting freed slaves:

If I know myself, and the feelings of my own heart, they have been for the colored man. I have owned slaves and bought slaves, but / never sold one. I might say, however, that practically, so far as my connection with slaves has gone, I have been their slave instead of their being mine.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wrote about the Cornell rape case, specifically about how MAGA responses to it highlight the male supremacism on the American right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
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The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right
For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.
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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 18h
You know that thing where people used to post photos with a hidden cat? That, but for tuatara. Feel free to squee when you see it.
Without giving too much away, there is a scrubby hillside, and there is a tuatara. It’s quite small.
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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Which would you rather slash to pay for more Pharmac meds? 1) Foreign aid to poverty stricken people and disaster areas 2) subsidies to Big Tobacco 3) subsidies to oil and gas companies 4) RONS 5) an LNG terminal
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18h
Nothing to see here...just the President of the United States inviting the country he illegally declared war on to "take out" 2 major American cities. If that's not treason, what is? 🤬 Law enforcement won't hold him accountable, but we WILL! The beginning of the end is on November 3rd. #VOTE-BLUE 🌊
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 18h
“Now mines may have to work out how to reduce emissions from their export customers,” said the CEO of the Minerals Council. So sad that these companies might have to have some corporate responsibility thrust upon the poor dears 😢 🎻
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h
David Ellison denies he has ‘politicized’ Skydance despite close Trump links
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David Ellison denies he has ‘politicized’ Skydance despite close Trump links
Ellison admits ‘good relationship’ with administration in remarks to reporters about newly merged media company
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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 19h
#NZpol I mean... there's nothing much you can add here really is there?
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Krystal Chandelier @krystalchandelier.bsky.social · 19h
Well there you have it. I rescind all my generosity towards TOP. This 100% confirms they are a Trojan horse, created by RWers to provide a teal party to sap votes from the left. This is the deputy leader, not some backbencher. He wants to vote for Nats. #nzpol www.tickaroo.com/e/GYui53TulW...
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Opportunity's deputy says he'd vote National if he couldn't vote for his party
Opportunity's deputy says he'd vote National if he couldn't vote for his partyDeputy Leader of the Opportunity Party Daniel Eb says he would vote for the National Party if he couldn’t vote for Opportu...
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 19h
The current El Niño event is building up to an unprecedented strength: Corrected for the ongoing warming the sea water in the indicator region of the Pacific is extremely far above normal, and early in the buildup.
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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 22h
Unless it's a homeless person who has to "move along" #nzpol
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‘We’re not into compulsion’: National rejects Labour’s policy for touring artists
Labour announced a policy on Sunday to make it mandatory for international touring artists to have a local support act when they play in New Zealand.
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Me & Coffee ☕️ @thembird.bsky.social · 22h
#nzpol This is not charitable generosity. This is rich fuckers who are doing their best to block a wealth tax are asking the rest of us, who can't avoid paying tax, to fund their pretend generosity! Just pay your fair share, you ghouls. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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ACT vows to scrap donations tax-break limit
The ACT Party is promising to scrap a cap on charitable donations being able to receive tax benefits.
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fabianardaya.bsky.social @fabianardaya.bsky.social · 19h
On Kiké Hernández, the Dodgers’ postseason “monster” who announced his annual arrival in October and launched the Dodgers back to within one game of returning to the NLDS: www.nytimes.com/athletic/766...
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 19h
7 October 1897 | A French Jew, Roger Lucien Levy, was born in Boulogne. In May 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
Vintage portrait of a man in military uniform, wearing a beret.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights Calling wood “renewable” doesn’t make the CO2 released when it’s burned disappear. If forests take decades or more to recover that carbon, how should we count those emissions? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why Jared?
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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 20h
If you want one, you've got a 1 in 100 chance Party vote Green💚 #nzpol
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*Limited Rerun* Vintage Sweatshirt PRE-ORDER - 2026
That's right folks... They're back!  We are doing a pre-order for a very limited rerun of 100 sweaters. This is the last time we will sell these this election cycle. This pre-order will run from Octob...
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A Dutch environmental group claims NZ has broken its climate change commitments made in the EU free trade agreement, and has filed a complaint through the European Commission. NZ govt is looking around for someone to blame. My #Cartoon today #NZpol #EUfreeTrade #ClimateChange
Cartoon. Title: “Patriot Games” PM Christopher Luxon and Trade Minister Todd McClay as schoolboys, looking surly. Luxon is saying, “Breaching the European Free Trade agreement?! What I want to know is who dobbed us in?!” McClay is saying, “Oooh, ha, watch yourself Chlöe” as she falls over his outstretched foote.w
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 19h
Just through helping a friend who got scammed trying to buy a rubbish bin. The site she got caught by, brabantia-nz[dot]com, is the top Google result for the term "Brabantia NZ". One of a large cluster of scam sites, most seem to use vvservicecare[dot]com as the order confirmation email address
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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 21h
Ready now for the IHC election forum - interested to see what each of the parties have to say about disability and the promises they will make... #nzpol #IHC
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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 20h
Boom! 🚇 The City Rail Link is already helping make Auckland city centre into a 7-day city: Saturday 9pm ridership is now equivalent to pre CRL midday ridership 💥. Next month night frequencies are improving too, and getting a little later on Friday and Saturday nights, a good start. More please!
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Kane Korso @godevils2.bsky.social · 20h
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the tech bro who uses AI to play fantasy football for him is being dragged online. no one has ever been quite so mad frankly.
"but you've automated your hobby"
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no, fantasy football is not my hobby. it's more of a social obligation.
my actual hobbies are gainful and awesome and mostly involve being outside. not fixating on team news and sportsball RNG. i have more time to do them because I use Al for all the boring stuff in my life.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 20h
Stay classy, San Diego
Padres fan flipping off Chourio
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Josh Thomas @joshthomas.bsky.social · 20h
lowest postseason ERAs in Dodgers history, min 50 IP 1. Sandy Koufax - 0.95 2. Orel Hershiser - 1.71 3. Fernando Valenzuela - 2.00 t4. Yoshinobu Yamamoto - 2.13 t4. Kenley Jansen - 2.13 6. D. Mountain - 2.70
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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 21h
My Braves-Dodgers Game 3 recap: Yamamoto and Enrique play the classics.
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Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before: Yamamoto, Hernández Bring Dodgers to Brink of NLCS
When the Dodgers finally got to Sale, it wasn’t Ohtani or Betts who provided the key hit: It was Enrique Hernández. Because of course it was. Who else could it have been?
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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 21h
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