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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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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every with 2014 election trauma please ensure your go bags are ready, your therapist invoices are paid and you have enough gas in your car.

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butterb0x.bsky.social @butterb0x.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I've only just gotten on the Doctorow bandwagon, but this guy is both prolific and wonderfully insightful. Highly recommended reading.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/t... 2/

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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.

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butterb0x.bsky.social @butterb0x.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A hilarious take that big tech pushing AI into everything has been a "gift to all of us". God damn the pusher man.

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Companies must adapt to rising AI costs, tech commentator says

The cheap or free use of AI tools is over.

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Hamo @hamo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The Bodged-it Budget

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Satan @666therealsatan666.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

These are Vietnamese Mossy Frogs.

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Jason Danner @jpdanner.com · 08/05/2026

Hobson’s Pledge is throwing their weight behind the FSU’s attempt to win #InternetNZ board seats. pastebin.com/tX1rKcJ5 If you’re an existing InternetNZ member ensure: your membership is up to date and if not please register prior to May 10th here: members.internetnz.nz #kikorangi #nzpol

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Hobson's Pledge Email - May 8 - Pastebin.com

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

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Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

You're not longing for the 90s, you just want to solve mysteries while having sexual tension with Gillian Andersen. It's a universal feeling.

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Oh it's our old friend learning to sit with discomfort

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It’s World Homeopathy Awareness Week. The less aware of it you are, the more good it will do you.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The timeline

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NZEI Te Riu Roa @nzeiteriuroa.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Running the government is a lot like playing recorder – it doesn’t work if you suck. #makeitstop by letting those in power know just how many people care about primary education in NZ. Share this film, sign our petition, or just make some noise for teachers & educators at makeitstop.co.nz

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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

It's really frustrating that web searches are almost entirely unhelpful when trying to find references to certain subjects. Here's a better search: a deshittified google tool: https:// udm14.com/

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&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code

A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

So women are now quite literally holding up the New Zealand economy in under-paid work marilynwaring.com/publications...

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Counting for nothing: What men value and what women are worth: Marilyn Waring

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Something I want us to reeeeeeeeeally think about on the left in Aotearoa is how happily the right throw out legislation that had bipartisan support when it suits them. On climate, on equal pay, on housing. Maybe we don't need to moderate and minimise our best policies in pursuit of fake consensus.

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Marama Davidson @maramadavidson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

At our Auckland rally today. Instead of tryna define us, just pay us.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Have you ever… My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Policing #Māori

Cartoon. Title: “Have you ever…” The picture is in four frames. Each frame has an older Pākehā man talking to a young Māori woman. In the first frame the man is pointing to himself, saying, “Look, Tamatha, I’VE never been afraid of the Police.” The second frame he’s saying, “My FAMILY has never been afraid of the Police.” The third frame he’s saying, “My FRIENDS have never been afraid of the Police.” Then the last frame he looks pleased, and he’s saying “See? So, YOUR whole argument is just ridiculous!” As she walks away.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Accurate, and more generally for far-right everywhere.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/03/2025

Rock Identification xkcd.com/3068

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism

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Peter Sime @petesi.me · 25/03/2025

Natalie expertly weaves her way through populism, psychology, economics and philosophy to explain why conspiracy theories are so prevalent. I can't boil down three hours, but reasons include inadequacy, resentment, populism, shame, racism, sadism, distrust, and envy. Worth the time. #nzpol

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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Luxon: Trusts Donald Trump Doesn't trust Māori with Three Waters

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I assume this is intended for playing in an office to make a passive aggressive statement about the working environment.

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

When I hear Trump say he wants a negotiated peace, I think yeah - he wants a piece of Canada, a piece of Greenland, a piece of Panama and a big piece of Palestine

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Neil Kaye @neilrkaye.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Just to say, if you are 30, more than half of all human fossil fuel emissions have occurred in your lifetime #dataviz

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

This week's column is about the billionaire-funded network that delivers the same political outcomes all over the world. It's about how democracies are transformed by the network into new aristocracies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies | G...

The Atlas Network’s dark-money junktanks are behind neoliberal policies around the world, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

"Jones said banks will be forced to finance fossil fuel expansion, with New Zealand First introducing a bill giving regulators power to remove a bank's operating license if it refused to do business with mineral firms."

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Environmental groups express concerns over mining exports plan

The plan involves more mining, including of gold and coal, and forcing banks to finance fossil fuel expansion.

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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

In which Paul Conway delivers a speech that is quietly devastating about NZ's low-wage, high population growth, more-hours-worked & low-investment model. The chart deck calling bullshit on Luxon’s ‘just drive faster & work longer’ economic growth talk thekaka.substack.com/p/the-chart-...

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The chart deck calling bullshit on Luxon’s ‘just drive faster & work longer’ economic growth talk

RBNZ Chief Economist exposes limits to growth from low investment, low wage, high migration & just-work-more-hours nature of economy, which PM wants to speed up by driving faster & working longer

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

“Not only is this target too weak to protect our kids and grandkids from a disastrous future, but there is no plan to achieve even the targets we already have.” Govt updates Paris climate change commitment with laughable new target www.thepost.co.nz/business/360... #nzpol #ClimateCrisis

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Government releases fresh 'Paris' climate change pledge

Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says New Zealand doing our fair share, while Greenpeace blasts latest commitment as an ‘absolute joke’.

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Vitalik Buterin @vitalik.ca · 24/01/2025

On the risks of politician coins:

The risk of politician coins comes from the fact that they are such a perfect bribery vehicle. If a politician issues a coin, you do not even need to send *them* any coins to give them money. Instead, you just buy and hold the coin, and this increases the value of their holdings passively.

Furthermore, there is deniability: holding the coin is, in terms of financial effect, a linear combination of donating to the issuer and gambling. Hence you can have the intention of doing the former but when challenged claim that you are doing the latter.

You can even hold the coin privately, and show that you are holding it to whoever you need to show; you do not need any zero knowledge proofs, you just send a test transaction.

This is all risky to democracy, for reasons very similar to what I wrote in https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html , https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/09/11/coordination.html and elsewhere. TLDR: the economic arguments for why markets are so great for "regular" goods and services do not extend to "markets for political influence".

I recommend politicians do not go down this path.

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Andrew Redmond Barry @pointinghigh.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Cool, I’ll check it out. Behind The Bastards did a good takedown of him (and Thiel too in another ep.) open.spotify.com/episode/2n0l...

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Part One: Curtis Yarvin: The Philosopher Behind J.D. Vance

Behind the Bastards · Episode

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Living in a 15 minute city is great; I walk a mile in any direction and find myself back at my apartment, with only minor changes. Sure, the noises from the dog park get deeper. After the tenth iteration or so I can't read the signs anymore. But the stranger in my apartment welcomes me every time.

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It's not called the whiteangry tribunal

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 15/01/2025

Opinion: Against a backdrop of disconcerting decisions affecting the environment, Gary Taylor urges that we slow down this year and get it right newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/16/t...

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The environment's most important year for decades

Opinion: Against a backdrop of disconcerting decisions affecting the environment, Gary Taylor urges that we slow down this year and get it right.

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Sam[uel] Smith @sgowsmith1988.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin

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James @james.tarnation.lol · 07/01/2025

why are they called porn bots and not intrusive thots

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ceej @ceej.online · 05/01/2025

please stop suggesting I solve my problem by changing my behavior. I do not want to do that

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

To the bullshit machine, a true and a false statement are literally nearly identical:

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

CEO: we’ve invented an orphan crushing machine, it makes $1mil for every orphan it crushes! SHAREHOLDERS: yaaaaay! CEO: uh oh looks like it makes slightly less money each time SHAREHOLDERS: we will obviously need to crush more orphans to compensate

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I’ve made my submission on the NZ Treaty Principle’s Bill - I’ll make a similar statement in the NZ regulatory stds but it’s extremely concerning that a small extreme libertarian party has been enabled to lead this attack on minority Indigenous Authority and rights www.facebook.com/share/14oaqQ...

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