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The Onion @theonion.com · 2h

Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reminder for the 🧶🇳🇿 crowd that Maree Buscke runs Knit August Nights in Napier, and Alia Bland and third VFF cofounder Libby Jonson are knitting and crochet pattern designers. Crafting communities need to be places for solidarity and connection, not wellness grifting anti-democratic cons

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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One thing is you don't need to do like a whole monologue about why harrassment is bad. You can just say "really?" in a disappointed voice or "come on, man."

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For old times' sake, let us celebrate the Greens' poll results in accordance with the conservative rightwing tradition of Posting Hot Photos Of Me, Specifically

Me, a fat white brunette woman, in very pretty lilac and black strappy lingerie, striking a fabulous pose balanced on one knee and one hand, looking up at the ceiling with the other hand outstretched. A new one for Leo Molloy's weird attempted kompromat files because if there's one thing the right can't stand, it's a confident fat leftwing woman who gives them uncomfy feelings in their tum-tums.

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyone else reminded of the time Sean Plunkett tweeted "anyone feeling for Harvey Weinstein", was crushed, got Big Mad and then insisted "but I never said WHAT people might be feeling for him" Like, please explain what you actually think "cry me a river" means, Audrey

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm taking psychic damage from all the "leftie" AI slop images shared by people who somehow don't know what Christopher Luxon actually looks like Dude is a *weird looking man* there are *so many bad photos of him* you don't need to post weird Shein-ripoff homunculi versions to make your point

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The story of early Christianity is wall-to-wall "we were persecuted, but we stood up for our faith even when they threw us to lions" and these Temuvangelists are out here like "please don't ask me about gay people, if I tell you what I really think you won't vote for me" Cowards, bigots, and liars

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today's debate was so completely disconnected from reality that I have to actually stop and unpack what happened before I can post about. The debates are getting worse, the lies bigger and more blatant, and I'm so, so angry.

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Q from the floor about LGBTQ+ x disability, New Cons refused to answer it and tried to hand off the mic to me. Audience heckled him and said we want to hear what you have to say! "Well we're a Party of faith and I'll leave it at that" Audience started heckling "And! And! Own up to your views!"

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All the major social media platforms are refusing air the ads for Gibney's film about Musk. Thankfully, that doesn't prevent US from sharing the ad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not only is it telling that all these groups are basically the same five agitators with different tour bands, we must remember that they had to form a fake parents' advocacy group because they are utterly unpopular losers

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Younger internet users should understand that "nuh shut up my awful behaviour was just a social experiment and by reacting normally, YOU actually failed" was all the rage on the internet ten/fifteen years ago It was a lie then and it's a lie now

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

From the archives

Screenshot of a tweet:

Lena @DeaExLena

"Being a woman isn't just a feeling" cry the TERFs, but what the hell else would it be? Did Shania sing "Man, I Feel Like I've Got Two X Chromosomes and A Uterus"? She did the fuck not.

8:36 PM, Sep 2, 2018

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forming a new religion based on worship of the pantheon of Bluey Puppets: Browny Bear - Justice Unicorse - War Floppy - Night Chattermax - Chaos Kimjim - The Home Mr Monkeyjocks - Hubris Bob Bilby - Travel Octopus - Learning Dragon - Creativity Turtleboy - Lost Things Bartleby - Family

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Alison Mau @alisonmau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The funding sitch is a whole other thing.. turns out less than 1% of funding from philanthropic orgs in Aotearoa is targeted to family and sexual violence. Shitty but true. Fortunately we have plans for a diversified funding model but for now..💙 givealittle.co.nz/org/tika

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Tika

Tika is an independent way to report sexual harm. When your report connects with others, take legal action together. Safe, private and free.

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 25/09/2026

Pols journos sneering that “everyone knows about the Taxpayers Union” and ”it’s just lobbying” are telling on themselves; the fact is that the public *doesn’t* know about the TPU‘s antics and that is because of the failure of mainstream journalists

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

but i kept being told that this wasn't real, NZ weren't actually involved, it was always the "US part of the business" etc etc etc by supporters of RocketLab This is a very significant shift in NZ defense policy, and certainly doesn't lend itself to independence www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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New Zealand agrees to put almost $24 million into military satellite US is building

New Zealand has agreed to put almost $24 million into a military satellite the United States is building.

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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

DMs open

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Followed by a loud round of "so who can say what's true or not, what really matters is How They Played The Game" from far too many people who also like to get indignant about the respect they deserve as Real Journalists

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 22/09/2026

with new zealand in an election year i would like to formally remind everyone that i am *not* right wing blogger david farrar. i am re-issuing this handy guide from six years ago about how to tell us apart. please RT: www.webworm.co/farrier/

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kororā @davejac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@oldmatecans.bsky.social if you haven’t seen the back

is the book we have been waiting for.
we've got the racists, we've got the country hicks, we've got the culture war TERFS;' he'd list them off in this way. 'And these, he would conclude, 'are the things we're going to use to change the government!'

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mayor of tr*nny town @missfluss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the streisand effect to be hence known in new zealand as the williams effect

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 22/09/2026

Let’s not forget that one of the main reasons the Taxpayer’s Union has enjoyed such oversized influence is the news media giving them an endless platform, to the extent that Stuff partnered with them on the “Ratepayers Report”, which was a thinly veiled TPU email harvesting operation

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For serious though, once again we see clearly that the right do not have good ideas or good people, just a shitload of money and power, and even with all that, they can't withstand a single whiff of criticism or pushback

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Um, actually Nicky Hager isn't a journalist ... apparently an entire chapter of his new book is about Jordan Williams being a misogynist shit, which I think you'll find is the Oxford New Zealand Dictionary definition of "not news"

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Live your life in such a way that you don't lose sleep over Nicky Hager releasing a new book 😇

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'm going to laugh so hard I explooooooooooooode

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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Burton uncovering the book poster. The poster is revealed giving the title of the new book, Dirty Work: The Taxpayers' Union and New Zealand's Hard Right. By Nicky Hager. Potton & Burton.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 21/09/2026

Researchers have discovered that the more you tell yourself what to do via rainbow-coloured blocks of “focus time”, the more your brain will rebel and restrict you to playing House Flipper until your eyes bleed.

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Study finds colour-coded calendar not going to save you from yourself

A recent study has reportedly found that the beautiful colour-coded schedule you made to help you get your life together is not a substitute for a working frontal lobe. Researchers have discovered…

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another Farrar involved lobby group this time to "counterbalance to teachers unions and principals associations when it comes to designing and advocating for education policy" which immediately makes the dodgy claims "no child should be held back due to fairness" www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

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Parents ‘have no one’: New group promises to stick up for parents in education battle

It is designed to counterbalance the teachers' unions and principals' associations.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

'Twas the night before Hagermas, and all through the motu Folks posted their reckons, some random, some thought through; The liveblogs were hung on the news-sites with care, In hopes that our Nicholas soon would be there.

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Parenting milestone reached: first school request for all kids in class to be checked for nits

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is absolutely true. Centrist politicians have essentially fetishised "tough choices" into being an end in itself. If you don't have to throw someone under the bus to achieve some broader strategic goal (even if you're not certain what that goal is), it's not grown-up politics.

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Kelly Whyte @kellywhyte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm sure it's obvious to anyone; if they cared about nutrition, we wouldn't have Seymour slop. If they cared about healthcare, we wouldn't have the current staffing crisis. If they cared about research, they wouldn't have cut funding to the bone. Look at what they do, not what they say. #nzpol

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New Zealand First reveals plan for 'bold shift' in healthcare

New Zealand First has released its plan to "Make NZ Healthy", promising to put prevention at the centre of healthcare if re-elected.

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Transphobia, genocide and climate disasters are literally being funded and exacerbated by intensely unlikeable billionaires. If you don't know how to make that relevant to the working class, that's really just a you problem

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It IS irritating that the supermarket issue is being framed as Labour vs National when the Greens kicked the whole thing off with actual policy ... but it's also a great example of the power of the Greens to spotlight an issue and make it a credible part of the political discussion, AND ...

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fucken Pagani once again rolling out the US Democrat strategy of 2024 which is "insist trans rights, genocide and climate are niche issues that elide class when every single one of those issues is a class issue. Instead focus on triangulating into a position where you concede on all three and lose"

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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It looks like at least five people will read it if I do a #HagerBook launch live thread. I am planning to take my laptop to the book launch and will do my best to keep up with proceedings. Follow me before Tuesday if you want to receive it.

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Another one for the "but we HAVE to put scare quotes around the words racist or sexist, because Those Are Subjective" rebuttal file

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Relatedly I would really love it if we could stop having pissy little swordfights every election about how many cops the major parties promise to recruit. Hire more social workers, fund mental health properly, institute a living income for everyone and THEN we can talk about law enforcement

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A relative was injured on holiday in Aus. Not only was the health system faster and more reliable, but a doc at ED did additional, not-strictly-necessary scans to check for possible future complications - BECAUSE they knew it would be basically impossible to get that done here in any timely way

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My wife went to ED last night in extreme pain. She waited over 8 hours before a doctor saw her. There's no ultrasound person at the time, so they gave her panadol and sent her home and told her to contact her GP ASAP (it is now Sunday). She asked whether she should come in if it happens again-

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