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Yeah. I know joining the Green Party as a member would give me an actual say in candidate selection processes. But personally I've never wanted to be a member of a political party

I do think it's atrocious that (to my knowledge) the NZ government has neither apologised for conscription nor promised it will never happen again It's those systems, conscription and otherwise, that force people into the military machine that are our true enemy

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Good writing is when someone popular agrees with me

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It feels like much of this discourse boils down to "actually I don't care that Geller is a rapist because I still want to watch more of his videos" But they know if they say it that plainly it will make it too clear they don't give a shit about how his having a platform affects rape survivors

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And if you want to come at me for calling Jacobsen a murderer without specific evidence, I hope you're coming with his military record showing that he didn't kill anyone while working for the NZ military. To join the SAS is to make a commitment that you are prepared to kill people when ordered to.

Giving a high platform to someone who has done this means ongoing harm to the victims Do you think there aren't rape survivors who are silenced when they see defences of Geller? How should Afghani kiwis feel about the Greens putting this ex-SAS guy on their list?

It's been "interesting" seeing some parallels between reactions about Jacobsen and Geller Perhaps they do both have good politics. Perhaps they both regret their wrongdoing. I hope they spend the rest of their lives making amends But you can't un-kill someone, just like you can't un-rape someone

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I expect better from the Greens. Perhaps that expectation is not as justified as I'd thought, but still I do.

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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 02/10/2026

Okay, I'm a bit late to the news here, but the Greens did what!? We have more than enough social murderers in parliament. We absolutely don't need more direct murderers in parliament I'm glad Josh Jacobsen is low on the Greens' list, I'll still be voting for them. But this fucking sucks

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I have been thinking about that moment from Community all evening

Brooke @curly.kiwi · 02/10/2026

I'm hoping so hard that the gif I shared gets DMCAed I think it would be so funny

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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 02/10/2026

You make that sheep mascot for us yet? Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked

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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 01/10/2026

Kiwibank made a new mascot which is a green anthropomorphic sheep, and for some reason they made it sexy. Then they started sending DMCA takedown demands to both (often pornographic) art of this new mascot _and_ completely unrelated furry art involving original anthro sheep characters

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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 01/10/2026

Can't wait for the international coverage "This state-owned New Zealand bank thinks your furry porn belongs to it"

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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 30/09/2026

I guess they wanted to celebrate the anniversary of their puberty blocker ban announcement, which IIRC came on the eve of TDOR? Once could perhaps be dismissed as coincidence. Twice seems... more difficult to believe.

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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 30/09/2026

Okay it's not just me who was confused then

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 30/09/2026

I was stuck behind one of these in a craped parking lot yesterday and all I could see was the flush door handles that become totally useless in an emergency What a deathtrap

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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 28/09/2026

I think that setting only stops the official "Discover" feed and not the many, many, other custom feeds that behave similarly This place has desperately needed better privacy controls for as long as it's existed

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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 28/09/2026

Oh wait, that was citing a 2007 review, but I was complaining to the ASA in the early 2010s. Perhaps they added one in between

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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 28/09/2026

Interesting that it says the Advertising Standards Authority doesn't have a waiver like this. They certainly did when I was actively complaining to them about ads for health fraud scams

I hope Barbara found her cat

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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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Pandemonium! I had the demo as a kid, it was so cool FF7 nearly made the cut for me but I felt like I had to limit myself to one mainline Final Fantasy game

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I knew if I saw one from you that it would definitely feature Halo!

I first encountered it as a demo at the first (and only) electronics expo I've been to, and I got so lost in it that eventually someone had to ask me to leave so others could have a turn 😅

omg Golden Sun! Impossible Creatures!!

Really maybe should have included Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall, and Star Wars: Episode 1 - Racer. But what to take out is the problem!

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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Literally tonight I turned to my girlfriend and said "that was the plasma sound effect" during an X-Files episode

Mine is plasma.wav that was used in every TV show in the late 90s and 00s

Percent like Horse is definitely my favourite of the four. I got sillier with them as the evening went on, and I think it helped

Brooke's poetry | Curly Kiwi

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/

curly.kiwi

A selection of poems by Brooke Hart.

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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 24/09/2026

It's pretty much a guarantee, I would think, that if you've managed to avoid it for this long you are certainly not "excited to try it". What year do they think it is, 2023?

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Did you know Atlassian is now an "AI native" company 🫠️

Fuck I needed that

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Perhaps the CEO should give you a pound of flesh, if he can't afford a thousand dollars

Anyway, I just found out through work about something called "Brook AI" and I am currently filled to the brim with seething rage. How is your day going?

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Encouraging the misunderstanding that your software product is a human is so clearly unethical, and it burns me that the soulless fuckers who made these decisions will never see justice for it

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