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Brooke

@curly.kiwi
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Nerd in Aotearoa. Tries to do the right thing. she/her

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 4h
unexpected allies but welcome ones to be sure
Gimli and Legolas meme

Gimli: I never thought I'd be fighting alongside Fletcher building, silver fern farms and Orion

Legolas: how about alongside people who say "fuck Jenny marcroft and transphobia"?

Gimli: Aye I could do that.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
NO ONE - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELTEN WHOS TORRENTIND SOME REAL SHYT, "NO ONE WANTS TO WATCH AI MOVIES, IF I GAVE A SHIT WHAT THE COMPUTER WANTED, I WOULDENT OBSESSIVELY BLOCK ADS AND REFUSE TO UPDATE MY SOFTWARE" - MAYBE I WOULD BELIEVE THE COMPUTER KNOWS WHAT I WANT TO WATCH IF IT DIDNT USE 20 YEARS OF STEALING MY DATA TO TRY TO SELL ME THE SAME THING I BOUGHT LAST WEEK - MAYBE I WOULD BELIEVE AN ALGORITHM WOULD ENTERTAIN ME IF EVERY SOCIAL MEDIA SITES ALGORITHM WASNT DETERMINED TO SHOW ME DUMB BULLSHIT TO MAKE ME MAD - MAYBE I WOULD BELIEVE THAT "AI" COULD MAKE SOMETHING OF WORTH IF IT HAD EVER DONE SO EVEN ONCE AFTER READING EVERY BOOK AND WATCHING EVERY VIDEO IN EXISTANCE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 26/09/2026
This is a fun one. Plenty of games have shaped me in different ways, figuring out which ones _don't_ make the cut was the hardest part here No particular order. Made at my9games.net
Oblivion, Final Fantasy X, Chrono Trigger, Pokémon Silver, Monster Hunter Freedom 2, Kerbal Space Program, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Outer Wilds.
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 25/09/2026
For quite a while now, I've been wanting to make my personal website more expressive. Well, here's a small start curly.kiwi/poetry/
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Brooke's poetry | Curly Kiwi
A selection of poems by Brooke Hart.
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molly @mollyfied.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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molly @mollyfied.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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molly @mollyfied.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
because it wasn't on bluesky and i need to watch it every day or i grow weak
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 23/09/2026
One of my absolute least favourite minor aspects of this specific dystopia we're living through is how many "AI" companies give their products human names The Alexas, Claudes, and Siris of this world deserve better
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 22/09/2026
Hey, who else remembers Jordan Williams' leaked messages about women to Cameron Slater in 2013? You know, the ones where he joked that women should be murdered if he didn't think he could fuck us Bet this will be an interesting chapter to read
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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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Dustin Knight @kitsunewarlock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pop music for people who don't dance. Folk music for people who don't protest. Rock for people who don't rebel. Romance for people who don't love.
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 21/09/2026
Just ran into my first case in the wild of a programming library who's "Getting started" documentation literally just says "Step 1: use an LLM". They simply did not bother to write documentation for humans I can't say this exactly endears me to Playwright. Fucking yikes actually
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026
To be the boss is to sit alone at your desk, haunted by the suspicion that you are not in the driver's seat, but rather, you are in the back seat playing with a Fisher Price steering wheel.
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 13/09/2026
Why did nobody tell me Auckland Zoo has a dinosaur exhibition!? They have like a dozen or more _beautiful_ animatronic dinosaurs, including two of my fav (parasaurolophus). This would have blown tiny Brooke's dinosaur-obsessed mind
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mayor of tr*nny town @missfluss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
ya yes please :D ko-fi.com/riversurgery...
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here's our expert, a man who willingly helped build the Lying Thief Machine!
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you decide to work for a company like OpenAI to begin with, I think it shows that your capacity for moral reasoning and your ability to accurately assess the consequences of your actions should be met with extreme suspicion. Why would I listen to someone depraved and untrustworthy?
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 08/09/2026
As a big fan of both tactics and mech games, I can definitely second this recommendation
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 08/09/2026
I'm sick to death of seeing slop on my timeline. Why the fuck are some of you apparently hell-bent on sharing AI-generated right wing political ads? I feel like it's been an election year for the past decade, I'm so tired
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Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔 @br3nda.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wished that this site existed, so I spent the last week building it. Track which way an MP votes on various issues across their whole time in Parliament: hotair.nz
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Hot Air
Hot Air links every New Zealand MP to what they've actually said and how they've actually voted in Parliament — built from the official Hansard record, so you can look past the press release and see the voting history for yourself.
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estroJenna Seven @jenna7.tgirl.gay · 07/09/2026
-Jenna
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 05/09/2026
I watched Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma last night and I can't stop thinking about it. It was so good! I don't think I've ever seen anything like it before
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 01/09/2026
Surely there's a joke in here somewhere about Peters inevitably playing the hat game with this request
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mayor of tr*nny town @missfluss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
once surgery is paid i'll keep this open to offset the amount i'll be paying for the loan. things will be a little tight bc i won't be able to work at all for a while and after that i can't go back to manual labour bc tbh i've been pushing it doing it this long with my disability
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/08/2026
Hey #pretendpanel, slightly unrelated to my writing but also not because she is a muse to me... if you have a spare few bucks, it would mean a lot if you could donate to my girlfriend's health fund 🙏😇💜 curly.kiwi/fundraising/
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 27/08/2026
It's amazing just how many things are actually skills that strengthen with use and atrophy if unused
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mayor of tr*nny town @missfluss.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
accountant has sent through a loan offer the good news: it probably means i'm gonna be able to get a loan the bad news: the interest rate is 21.99% which is $193.17/week leaving me $62.89 to live off for the next 7 years this fund will end up being my living costs fund: ko-fi.com/riversurgery...
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 25/08/2026
On the note of maybe leaving, does anyone know of a good tool for automating the deletion of posts past a certain age? A search just now turned up a paid tool (no thanks) and a Python CLI tool that seems like you have to run it manually each time. Not sure if I've missed any other options
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 25/08/2026
I know it's still a while away, if it happens at all. But if age verification becomes a thing here I will be gone I know Bluesky does it for other regions already, hopefully they won't activate it for us until/unless it becomes a legal requirement
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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I sure I've told this story before, but many moons ago I asked @rmi.bsky.social for advice on setting up Internet access for rangatahi that would prevent digital harm and his advice was "there's no firewall that works better than creating a community that sets expectations of behaviour"
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mayor of tr*nny town @missfluss.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
help a disabled bitch in her quest to make her body fight her in one fewer way? ko-fi.com/riversurgery...
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 20/08/2026
Sorry, upstairs is off limits
Milo and Cass the white and tabby cats lying face to face across the entire width of a step on a staircase.
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 20/08/2026
God I check out of work meetings so quickly when people start talking about how great LLMs are. I'm so fucking tired
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mayor of tr*nny town @missfluss.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
if you think i'm brilliant, you can show me in a way that matters here: ko-fi.com/riversurgery... if you want me to go fuck myself, you can enable me to do so here: ko-fi.com/riversurgery...
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 19/08/2026
I'm blown away with the response I got to this last week. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated to help me out I'm going to need to keep asking for help so you'll see this link a bunch more before March. If you have anything you can spare, I'd really appreciate it ❤️ curly.kiwi/fundraising/
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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026
AI RANT (cont’d) The most troubling thing about this is, Originality AI is apparently used by agents & publishers alike. Dear agents and publishers, PLEASE DO NOT FORGET: AI “detectors” are slop machines same as the slop machines whose output they purport to analyze. 🧵4/5
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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The left joke about sending the same $20 round mutual aid funds, right wing grifters do the same but it's passing the same hacks round various boards.
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mayor of tr*nny town @missfluss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
i have to get a new psych assessment done for surgery and it's gonna cost $650 uhhhh help ko-fi.com/riversurgery...
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 14/08/2026
> Paula Penfold: Why doesn’t she just log off? > Ani O'Brien: that would be like telling someone who worked in a hospital not to go to hospitals. The Ani O'Brien interview on Stuff is too fucking funny, this reads like a dril post
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 13/08/2026
At school, when the other kids asked me "Have you seen the Matrix?", it wasn't said in a "have you visited a cinema while this movie is on the screen" way It was uttered with the sense of asking if you had peeled back the veil of reality and seen this secret truth
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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 13/08/2026
A tiny bit of good news TERF extraordinaire Jan Rivers got a whopping 9 votes in her bid to get elected to the InternetNZ board. Out of 3,104. The lowest of any candidate That's right, no one likes you, get fucked 🖕 internetnz.nz/assets/Archi...
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Kate Pearce @secvalve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
And if the left doesn’t organise (and turn up) around INZ better next year and trends continue then constitutional thresholds fall. Then things can be rewritten. Get involved, stay involved.
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Kate Pearce @secvalve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Let this remind you that what matters in democracy is. - enrolling to become eligible to vote - turning up to vote - casting a valid and effective vote
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Final bullshit motion by David Ward is up for a vote. Remember to vote against. #FuckTheFSU
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Hell Of A Lot More Reporting motions are going to make Internet NZ spend more time and money on reports than before. Repeal of some of these reporting arrangements should be on the agenda following their one year of implementation.
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
So the FSU has DDOS'd InternetNZ. Fucking hell.
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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My "These motions are politically neutral and have nothing to do with an ideology" tshirt raising a lot of questions etc.
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greg @greg.nz · 13/08/2026
this will be very telling, since the FSU's marching orders are to vote this down. if its passes, they are toast.
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greg @greg.nz · 13/08/2026
ok team lets rumble 'em
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Oh Ho, we're half-way there Oh Ho, voting when aware
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