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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If National lose the election, and bring in no list MPs, and Bishop loses his electorate seat, who do they roll Luxon for? #nzpol
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This guy got people from around the world to teach him their favourite dance moves. 📹Ed People
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I feel like in ye olden days she would have got a stay of execution/acquital due to "act of god" due to this... is that still a thing? Archaic laws often don't get rescinded as they don't often come up
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I feel seen
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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember when Ardern resigned before her preferred PM polling had dropped to 30%? And now we get to choose between Mr 19% and Mr 14% Fucking egotistical white dudes insisting they are the best choice despite it being glaringly obvious that no one wants them as PM.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
time is flying / on our way to dying
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
if you can lose 9 billion in a day with no discernible real world impact maybe this is an example of the entire economy being an illusion
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Leah McElrath @handle.invalid · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
forbiddenstories.org
The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“It is ironic, to say the least, that if Jordan Williams had not publicised the non-existent book, these inside sources would most likely never have contacted me and the book we are here to launch today would not have been written.”
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ha ha.
Hager said if TPU chief executive Jordan Williams had not publicised the “non-existent book” through his press release in 2023, inside sources would not have subsequently contacted him, and Dirty Work would not have been written.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"We're terrified AI will kill us all. Also, we're giving it a lab to make viruses." www.reuters.com/world/anthro...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program
At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab — or ​place for physical experiments — in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
on AI extinction risk - I am old enough to remember life before ubiquitous computing and the internet. We can turn them off and survive, AI can't.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
on AI extinction risk - I am old enough to remember life before ubiquitous computing and the internet. We can turn them off and survive, AI can't.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
drinking oneself to death might be the only way to be drunk enough to survive these times without going insane
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
this is genuinely a pretty interesting summary read: "More than 760 000 students took the PISA science, mathematics and reading test in 2025 across 91 countries and economies, representing around 33 million 15-year-olds across the world..." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
oecd.org
PISA 2025 Results (Volume I)
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 evaluates what students know and can do in science, reading, mathematics and computational problem-solving, assessing how effectivel...
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Unevenly distributed future already here, part argh www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1...
rnz.co.nz
UN rights chief 'horrified' by reports of fully autonomous killer drones in Ukraine
The United Nations rights chief has voiced alarm at reports of fully autonomous drones killing people in Ukraine, calling for an urgent ban on weapons that can kill without human involvement.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this seems like it could be popular in an ongoing cost of living crisis without reprieve www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Greens vow to break up supermarket duopoly, set up publicly owned 'KiwiMart'
The Green Party is campaigning on establishing a publicly owned supermarket chain to break up the duopoly and drive down food prices.
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
carbonbrief.org
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
great guy to have in charge of the nukes when Trump chokes on a big mac on the gold plated toilet
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#jargon
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
online chat help life. get transferred from AI chatbot to a "human". now >90% sure this "human" is in fact another AI layer. insanely aggravating and incredibly bad form.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
*But as soon as she somehow becomes the DJ girlfriend who detonates nuclear bombers, man, you really cannot beat this iconic image for a DJ-girlfriend who blows up nuclear bombers
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026
They used to call this malware.
cultofmac.com
ChatGPT just learned to watch everything you do on your Mac
ChatGPT Computer History tracks your Mac activity to build a searchable timeline, no screenshots involved.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge systems and practices for climate survival - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge systems and practices for climate survival
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Unexpected. Globally, wildfires are decreasing; the ones that are happening are in the West, and worse than usual, so are getting lots of coverage apnews.com/article/wild...
apnews.com
Wildfires are more extreme in Europe and North America, but global burning is oddly decreasing
Experts say the world is experiencing two opposing fire trends because of human impact. Wildfires in Europe, Canada and the U.S. are high, and flirting with record levels in Europe.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
So, I now know someone who froze to death on the streets of my city. This is a bad watershed moment.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Oh shit. The Aegypt Quartet by John Crowley remains a personal high water mark in what fiction can attempt and achieve. Incredible writer. Sad there will be no more. Vale.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
remember when the internet was a source of neat things and wonder? floor796.com
floor796.com
Floor796
A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is *horrible* and concerning. Make sure you're opted out of everything, and tbh, get your stuff out of Google Docs for storage. And Google photos. Everything they give you 'for free'.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
No. Hard fucking no. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
rnz.co.nz
New EFTPOS terminals remove the need for cards or phones
Kiwis could soon be able to make purchases using their face or hand, without the need for a card.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Summaries on my AI dictaphone today include: "Life-Changing Decision Dilemma", and "A Frustrated Call For Autonomy". Fun times.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
the blessing and curse of being resilient is you can take a lot of the ongoing pounding uncertainty of being
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
reuters: 

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I found "Pacing the Frontier" parochial and blinkered. So I created racingthefrontier.com - a satirical and humorous take in favour of open models.
racingthefrontier.com
Racing the Frontier
Racing the Frontier — an open letter from 1,201,301 humans and AI researchers who believe humanity’s future should be built in the open.
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
the unrelenting deep fuckery of things continues apace
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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Your daily reminder that in 1991 we set social welfare payments at less than the cost of staying alive - on purpose - and fundamentally this hasn't changed. It's a feature, not a bug.
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Dimitra Rizou @ahoyuniverse.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My cartoon for issue 1640 of @privateeyenews.bsky.social, out now
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Billy (often a Moose) @coachbilly.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
current (ongoing) waiting time for call back to get triaged for emergency doctor appointment at Mum's doctor today - 5hrs 20mins. had to take day off work to be available to make this happen. #snapshotsofabrokenhealthsystem
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/06/2026
Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I mean, Vance isn’t wrong that his administration has completely eclipsed the corruption and political criminality of even the worst presidencies of the past.
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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Hi, I'm the friend. Questions and feedback welcome
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Welcome to the UK, where soon 17-year-olds will be legally allowed to drive, join the army, work a full-time job, have sex and even vote but not watch YouTube past their bedtime.
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