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Deranged liberal and Bluesky Elder: public-sector researcher on terrorism and violent extremism, and I am such, such the biggest nerd.

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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 13h
Maybe the overnighter can keep flights down from Auckland MPs... Save the world people
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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 15h
Should retailers be doing the same in NZ? Yes. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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Prominent Dutch retailer bans Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses
One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday (all times local) it had suspended sales of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns, in ...
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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's 2026 and the Israel lobby is *still* going with "the situation is too complex, you wouldn't understand". In this case, it forms the basis of a ludicrous BSA complaint against an interview on RNZ with Médecins Sans Frontières.
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Broadcasting Standards Authority dismisses complaints against RNZ interview with Médecins Sans Frontières
The Broadcasting Standards Authority has ruled in favour of RNZ over a Saturday Morning interview with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
PLEASE SHARE! i have a bunch of new followers so i am going to soft launch this: the third edition of my organizing guide "40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Legal Tactics for Grassroots Activists" is being released & I'm trying to raise $1,000 to buy bulk copies for free distribution. 
fundrazr.com/f2mBV1
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help fund free copies of the 3rd edition of "Forty Ways to Fight Fascists"
The third edition of "40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Legal Tactics for Grassroots Activists" is now out, and I am raising funds to get even more copies to distributors.
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have reviewed thousands of grad school applications over my career & always advocated against looking at overall undergrad GPA & instead at the trajectory in the last two years. That’s because I saw a pattern on so many women’s transcripts as they experienced something in their first year 1/
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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Timeline cleanse
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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Read alt text
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one
Photo of Charles Darwin's hand-written journal entry from 1 Oct 1861 and digitized text of same

"But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."
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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"In February 2003, Jeremy Corbyn stood at a rally in Hyde Park & warned that an invasion [of Iraq] would “set off a spiral of conflict, of hate, of misery, of desperation, that will fuel the wars... and the misery of future generations.”' www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/iran-has-d...
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Iran has driven the US out of Iraq after 23 years of occupation
The US military has completed its withdrawal from Erbil Air Base in Iraq, finally ending Operation Inherent Resolve.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Sounds great.
According to experts I interviewed, the internet is about to get more frustrating. These agents may cause a cascading chain of problems that shake the foundations of digital infrastructure. Chances are good that you're about to live through an era of online chaos. 
The internet was built for humans with limited time and patience. AIs don't have those restraints. You'll probably have to fight with robots over concert tickets and booking appointments. Small businesses could drown in machine-made pestering. AIs don't look at ads, and websites that rely on them are already crumbling. You'll be buried in endless loops of proving you're human. And if you use these AI tools, some may betray you.
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Andrew Jull NZRN (he/him) @andrewjull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why the feck is The Spinoff using Curia to poll Mt Albert? Should they really be sending money Farrar's way? May be time to start questioning my regular donation. Eight things we learned from The Great Mt Albert Debate thespinoff.co.nz/politics/01-...
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Eight things we learned from The Great Mt Albert Debate
The biggest revelations shared and sharpest shots fired as the contenders for this sought-after seat went head to head.
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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's crazy that 150-odd years ago the US fought Oct whether to abolish slavery, now they're fighting over whether to keep it
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Bryce B @brycebucher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
its crazy that with generative ai we have engineered a new fantastical way of polluting the general concept of human culture. Its like a parasitic organism attached to the spice of life.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last month, “a 20-year-old Haitian man in Springfield, Ohio, walked into oncoming traffic after the Trump administration ended his Temporary Protected Status and ICE fitted him with an ankle monitor.” His name was Pierre Damas Bel.
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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Watching Silence of the Lambs for the first time since 91.
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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We've just heard the terribly sad news that Phil Gifford has passed away. Chris Bourke says, "Gifford was a giant in New Zealand journalism for half a century...What is missing from the reports of his unexpected death, on Tuesday, aged 79, is that he was also one of NZ’s best music writers... 🧵
Phil Gifford, 2022
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Biggest improvement in housing affordability for 40 years”
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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Almost finished reading The Conspiracists by @noellecook.com It's quite the journey. If you have an even passing interest in the ways conspiracy drives extremism this is compulsory reading. Noelle's handling of her research subject is so gentle, so empathetic that I found it really deeply affecting
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
RT @bogwitch.bsky.social Yeah, that checks out
Pic of old English lettering

Caption: What your favourite obsolete English letter says about you.

Pic shows 7: thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G and Long S

All say underneath:

You are a nerd.
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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So one of the world's staple food are brassica. The internet tells me that globally we grew 75 million tonnes in 2025 (mostly cabbage). Happy to be corrected by the gardeners out there, but my experience is that growing brassica requires one key thing. Stable temperatures
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Michael_J_Parry @michaeljparry.com · 30/09/2026
I love that sort of perseverance
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This took me 2 years off-and-on to finish & dig up all kinds of new info. Academic articles don’t pay so if you’d like to support publishing like this, please sign up for my Patreon. For $2+/mo you get exclusive content & support independent antifascist research. www.patreon.com/spencersunshine
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Get more from Spencer Sunshine on Patreon
Get more from Spencer Sunshine on Patreon. Join for free or become a member for just $2/month. I have been creating research and analysis about the Far…
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Lyn Chapman @lynchapman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kapiti Island as a wildlife sanctuary has been another " low key" success. Citizen predation trapping has also seen our variety of birdlife flourish here in Porirua. It is a joy. My late father would be beyond delighted.
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Stealthgirl 🫘 @stealthgirl21.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Once again, political cartoonists tell the truth by keeping things simple.
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 29/09/2026
My latest: Why are hitman movies such a perennial genre? I make the case that they're workplace competency porn. medium.com/the-berger-d... #booksky #movies #thepopeshitman #thrillers
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The Hitman Genre as Workplace Competency Porn
It’s nice that they’re good at their jobs.
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...
image of 6 pentagrams around the text "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism - see link above"
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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In agreeing with everything in this thread, I'd simplify it down to a single teachable point we must, absolutely must, yeah our boys. Sex is a thing you do *with* someone, not *to* them.
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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good to see @manucaddie.bsky.social still keeping them honest
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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 29/09/2026
Formal complaint that NZ climate backsliding breaches Europe trade deal newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/30/f... #nzpol
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Formal complaint that NZ climate backsliding breaches Europe trade deal
The Government's top law officer warned that if ministers blocked Mike Smith's Fonterra lawsuit, the next case would target the Crown directly. She's been proven right, reports Jonathan Milne.
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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.
ironholds.org
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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How am I as old as this and only just realised that odd-number months have even-number days and vice versa...
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gravewalker @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not entirely clear to me why the BBC News should be devoting chunks of time to coverage of the execution of a woman in Tennessee. Actually, sorry, it is entirely clear, because the BBC has forgotten that it is, first and foremost, a UK channel and not an American one.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love it!! 🤣😂🤣
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 28/09/2026
came across this classic ASW and i gotta say: STILL GREAT www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id...
I figured out how to be happy / but I can't tell you. / You not knowing is a big part of it.
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TallFroGuy - Shape Decider @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
8 hours for rectangle that makes you money. 8 hours for rectangle that makes you sleepy. 8 hours for rectangle that makes you sad.
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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"Fresh Butternut Pumpkin Whole".
"Fresh Butternut Pumpkin Whole" truncated to "Fresh Butt ... hole".
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Stinky Jim @stinkyjim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tonight on Stinky Grooves - Low End Activist meets Seekersinternational (x2), Prince Riser + Disrupt, (x2), Noda & Wolfers, Christoph El Truento, Ghost Dubs (x2), Smart Alec & Cleffor Cloggs, Turbo Sonidero, Microhm + Imaabs (x2), Luca duran(x2) + Rosa Pistola + Kelman Duran + Gavsborg 1/2
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That would be entirely consistent with our finding some years ago that Google searches for male enhancement terms (e.g., "male enhancement pills" "penis enlargement") are strongly correlated with evangelical adherence rate in a state, even with numerous controls. doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Autumn on the York River A.J. Casson 1959
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Steph Phi @freestylesteph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My take on Nicky Hager’s book Dirty work - a small group of deeply unserious well funded trolls set about destabilising the fabric of Nz society - opening barely healed wounds of racism - amplifying & funding extreamist racist views and doubling down to destroy lives & careers for sport
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Lady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An actual cartoon from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
debbie sounds like fun
Handwritten door sign reads “All Girls With Long Hair - Must Be tied UP.
Thank you
DEBBIE”
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
True this.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 27/09/2026
It literally kills people time.com/3549442/dayl... public health researchers and officials have trying to do away with it for ages, but... It benefits retail.
time.com
Daylight Saving Time Deaths Accidents: Is the Time Change Dangerous?
The disruption associated with Day Light Saving Time is an accomplice in hundreds of traffic deaths each year.
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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From what we've been allowed to see there appears to be levels of destruction as great if not greater than what happened to Berlin, Dresden, and Stalingrad in WW2.
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