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PEEBleguese PEEBleguese @thehumancentipeeb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was once caught dogging and caused the entire US B1 bomber fleet to leave the nearby RAF airbase
The legend Sir Bob Mortimer on would i lie to you
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Restoring commuter rail will give smaller regions and towns the benefits of more travellers stopping at their town stations, creating more economic opportunities and connecting them to main centres and other towns." @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz #NzPol
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Greens' $4b rail plan: Overnight trains, Christchurch-Dunedin service
The passenger rail plan includes routes from Auckland to Wellington, Christchurch to Dunedin and extending the current Te Huia train to Tauranga.
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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The craziest thing about elections is seeing how many grown adults have been tricked into thinking that their tax money going towards public services that serve them is a bad thing and not the point of taxes. People proudly living worse lives because theyve been convinced a better life is "woke"
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nothing angers me more than when a rich person says they are happy to be taxed more and people say “why don’t you write a check to the government” motherfucker they want everyone in their tax bracket to also write a check to the government because that’s how maths works you fucking numpty.
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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." --- Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism.
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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"It is morally repugnant – to Hager, to his TU informants, to many others – that you would deliberately stir up hatred in a society, simply because it was an effective way to achieve your goals." Great read by Simon Wilson on Nicky Hager's book simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com/p/dirty-work...
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Dirty work and the disinfecting sunshine it deserves
Nicky Hager’s new book ‘Dirty Work’ reminds us how much we’ve lost in the last three years
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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm never going to get my head around RW neoliberalism convincing folk that they would get better public services from private, profit-focused, suppliers than they would from state owned enterprises... Absolute bollocks.
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My eyes could not roll harder. a) Soares wrote his doomer book with the Harry Potter fanfic cult guy. b) The comparison is not playing Carlsen or Federer fairly. It's shooting them in the head. Then it doesn't matter how good they are at tennis or chess. www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...
“The kill switch sort of works if you know how to use it, and then it only works if the AIs are still only running on the computers you think they’re running on. You’ve also got to be very wary of the AIs sort of playing along while you hand them all the power,” says Soares.

As Soares puts it, debates over exactly how the AI beats humans if it ever becomes a competition between us and them can miss the point. If we make something vastly more intelligent than us, it will simply win.

It’s the same way I can say with certainty that if I played Roger Federer at tennis or Magnus Carlsen at chess, I would lose.

The actual moves they use to beat me are harder to predict, but the outcome is never in question. If we build something smarter than us, it will shape the world, not us.
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Patrida Sutton @patridanz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The TPU keep referring to Hager as a Left wing activist when he's previously been very critical of Labour re GM and the Corngate scandal, while the TPU are genuinely hard right wing activists. Words matter. #nzpol
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M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 23/09/2026
Toby Manhire’s repeated question to Nicky Hager of “Wouldn’t your book have been better if you had given the lying liars a right to respond with lies in your book?” is yet more evidence that journalists in Aotearoa seem to think civility is everything
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
interesting thing to post 30 minutes before Nicky Hager announces the TPU had a role in rolling Maiki Sherman
Ani O'Brien frantically trying to poison the well around Nicky Hager's upcoming book, which paints her as a catspaw of the far right
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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The guy in The Princess Bride does not list all the classic blunders but I guess one is doing Nicky Hager damage control when Nicky Hager was not thinking about you.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Like… no shit Sherlock. Corporations need to be prosecuted for the harmful effects of their products. OpenAI have done so many criminal acts, at least get them for the bleedingly obvious ones. Sam Altman should be someone’s prison bitch. gizmodo.com/bessent-says...
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Treasury Secretary Says OpenAI Managers Are to Blame for Hugging Face Breach, Not AI Agents
So should we start holding OpenAI accountable for it or are we waiting for something?
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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Stop voting for parties that promise tax cuts.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I couldn’t believe Jack Tame actually platformed that corrupt (Atlas Network, Astroturfing, Fake Union), prick at all. He & his merry band of misery merchants are the reason why NZ isn’t thriving & inequality has been rapidly increasing. Shit work NZ Q&A. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
That.... that's not how cricket works. The bowler isn't trying to get you to hit the ball. He knows that right.
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Alice Soper @alicesoapbox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So that Green supermarket policy must have gone down very well with certain focus groups huh
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Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand @greens.org.nz · 14/09/2026
Let there be no mistake. This government has gutted critical environmental safeguards as dictated by powerful, polluting lobbyists who will make huge profits as a result.
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White Flight From the Mouth of Infinity @leyndellsoviet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great Man of History theory is reactionary bullshit, but we're learning in real time that Flailing Oaf of History theory is extremely valid and explains much of our current world.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BRANZ is an internationally well-respected research institute that’s *independent* of any government department—folding it into MBIE for vague cost-cutting reasons is stupid. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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Decades of building industry research at risk
The future of our world-respected building research association is looking shaky with a government move to cut the dedicated levy that funds it.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I cannot tell you what absolute fiction this is. AI is heading for a crash and this cackhanded Terminator narrative is being engineered to save them. The fact that the unsubstantiated testimony of a former employee has been the top story on BBC News all day is absurd and irresponsible.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When pictures speak a trillion words… “Oh he’s so cheeky & whimsical, he definitely gets my vote” 🙄🤦‍♀️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ
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Carl B Latro @carlblatro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Chewie arrested for taking notes on his cellphone at an ACT party public meeting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFUJ... #nzpol
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#BHN Chewie finds himself at Central police Station for asking the wrong questions at ACT meeting
YouTube video by Big Hairy Network
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
incredible that wikipedia now has higher ai standards than nearly every school in america
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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Honestly Labour, fuck you at this point. Like just get fucked. The world is burning and you're all in with the blowtorches just to appease a few people who will never vote for you anyway. What a piece of shit party you are #nzpol
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He waka eke no more – after 18 years, Labour not committing to pricing for agricultural emissions
Labour leader Chris Hipkins said his party will find other ways to reduce emissions.
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Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"150-odd rich listers, many of whom fund ACT, accumulated $27bn in the past year while homeless people died outside MPs offices" elizabethallen.substack.com/p/is-now-the...
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IS NOW THE TIME FOR THE BFP PARTY?
The Bottom Feeders Party
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Anne Robbins @hincmariana.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An ancient listing, flagged in an old cutting from the Guardian, for a job at Southeast Missouri State University, to teach philosophy and religious studies. Startlingly frank.
An old newspaper clipping, apparently from the Guardian:

ENCLOSED is an announcement of a tenure-track position in philosophy at the rank of assistant professor. We hope to fill this position rapidly... We are more interested in looking at candidates with real teaching experience than in newly minted PhD's, who might have unrealistic expectations about the possibilities for academic growth at an institution such as ours. Southeast Missouri State University is a regional university which serves students in the southeast portion of the state including St Louis.
Our students tend to be poorly prepared for college level work, intellectually passive, interested primarily in partying, and culturally provincial in the extreme. We offer a major in philosophy, but do not usually have more than two students officially declared as majors at any given time... We also offer a rellgious studies minor; most of the students who declare this minor are shocked to learn that Moses might not have written the Pentateuch and regard higher criticism as secular humanist propaganda.
The academic environment at
SEMO is distinctly non-intellectual - somewhat like a Norman Rockwell painting— and the candidate cannot expect to attract students by offering courses that assume innate curiosity about ideas and books, or intellectual playful-ness, or independence of moral and political thought.
Job advertisement written by the chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the Southeast Missouri State University
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yelling so loud he can hear me from New Zealand "NO YOU'RE A CUNT WHO DESERVES IT".
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Timothy Gassin @timothygassin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If a community organisation did something like this, they'd never get a govt contract again.
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Mayor says ‘large chunks’ of Wellington council Deloitte report written by AI
Wellington mayor Andrew Little has said in a radio interview that a significant amount of a $435,000 Deloitte report on the council's staffing levels was written by artificial intelligence, as the rep...
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
bluesky absolutely has a hall monitor formerly precocious reply guy issue and it def hits everyone but one thing i think not everyone realizes is how much more often people of color are getting talked down to, over, corrected, and condescended to on here. by the worlds *most* annoying people.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The cost of the PPP Warkworth boondoggle would have; - gold plated iRex and battery electric ferries - full Dunedin Hospital build - fed every schoolkid around the country for a decade - funded the flu jabs for U-12s - half price public transport for U25's AND HAVE WALKING AROUND MONEY SPARE
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Greater Auckland @greaterauckland.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The NZ government rushed to sign us up for one more "Road of National Significance"—but with zero transparency on what it'll actually cost us all, by the time it's paid off. So @connorsharp.bsky.social has done the grim maths. Hold onto your hats, folks! 😬 www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/09/01/w...
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Warkworth to Te Hana deal to cost us over $9,000,000,000? - Greater Auckland
A few weeks ago, I asked This differs from the ‘nominal value’, aka the amount of money that is actually paid (without adjusting for change in value due to inflation). In the MCERT documents, the brea...
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
For what feels like the hundredth time, this should be a *much* bigger story. The coalition govt has made successive decisions here that will needlessly cost us billions of dollars. Bookmark it for the next time some chud blathers on about the cost of bike lanes.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Liam Dann just out here feeding the NZ public a whole load of neoliberal disinformation in an election year, presumably for RW shits & gigs. 🙄 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ
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Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Stopping 18-19 year olds "languishing on welfare" by making them ineligible for welfare is very "trees are the cause of forest fires."
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Counterpoint: ACT is demonstrably not the party of cost-benefit analysis. The right has looooong-abandoned economically-grounded evidence-based policy because the results shit all over their ideological preferences.
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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: Lawrence of Arabica
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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: Noncitizen Kane.
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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: The Undergraduate
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The most damaging political idea I've seen in my lifetime is the idea that government should be run like a business
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And doesn't this say every fucking thing about him. A song about how hard it is to be a working stiff and a woman in a system where rich guys have all the power, played obliviously by exactly the sort of guy it was describing, who also oversaw the biggest govt fuck-over of working women in decades
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Kieran @nugmonster.cryptoanarchy.network · 26/08/2026
"Instead, Luxon got free rein to deliver an uninterrupted, 30-minute long speech, starting with a tribute to Dolly Parton. "This morning I played 9 to 5 to my team at 8 o'clock in the morning at our special meeting," he said." bro. Did you or any of your idiot staff listen to the lyrics?
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Frankenstein's Dad @secretmalcolm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Imagine if your disruptive technology was a spellchecker then somebody else made a spellchecker so for the sake of your billion dollar valuation you had to pretend your spellchecker was on the verge of developing god-like intelligence
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Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Since the coalition was elected, landlords have received benefits equivalent to more than 25 years of Treaty settlement redress. #nzpol
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Landlord tax break cost rose by $800m to $2.9b
National’s pre-election fiscal and tax plans costed the policy at $2.1b.
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Government which promised "no new taxes" promises that all internet use will require an ID card, which may cost money, and is absolutely a tax on your time and privacy.
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The health system is actively collapsing, and both major parties are basically promising not to fund it. They have nothing to offer aotearoa but austerity and decline.
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s funny* that our hospitals are at 200% capacity with the flu and people think it would have been fine with rampant Covid in 2020. We have to flatten the curve now too but we can’t have that convo. *not funny, tragic and actually scary Also, Covid is just the flu and the flu is doing this.
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Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
$216m — Cabinet's contingency for Casey Costello's 50% heated-tobacco tax cut — could have funded school lunches at Labour's level for two years, or kept Kāhui Ako running instead of scrapping it. Cabinet's own paper admits consumers may see none of the tobacco benefit. #nzpol
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Govt set aside $216m to pay for heated tobacco product tax cuts
The government has agreed to set aside $216 million it may need to pay for tax cuts for heated tobacco products (HTPs).
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bmrmb @rogers.co.nz · 20/08/2026
From you Barry Boomer from fucking YOU!!
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