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Ross Geller's Signature Gesture

I think I've gotten less than $3 from one other random settlement eons ago that I did not care about but uhhh yeah I'm taking that money from Mr. Bezos 💅

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Alt: Ross Geller doing a sign that is meant to be the same as the middle finger, but isn't, so it can be shown on primetime television

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Apparently, the FTC took Amazon to court over their subscription practices, and won. I just received a check for $51 USD from the settlement?? Missus Moneybags over here, amiright?? 😎

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Cats is a very good stage show that Tom Hooper butchered because he doesn't understand musicals or Cats, and yes I know Les Mis won a bunch of awards, but it did not deserve them.

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Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 19h

We just watched Chicago, and it's bananas to me that we went from such a well adapted musical to Tom Hooper's Cats so quickly.

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I ate 2 avocados this week and I'm very happy about that 😌 Thinking back to the millennial avocado on toast thing... I can buy 4 avocados at Pak'nSAVE right now for less than half the price of 1 weekday coffee that I buy in Pipitea.

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Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 20h

The other day, I was walking around central Welly, and there was a young man in a nice outfit walking around with a handmade sign. It said something to the effect of, "Enthusiastic & looking for work," with his phone number in big digits at the bottom. 😔 Idk, it just felt bleak.

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Ciara 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ciaraarmstrong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 22h

Also, given Meta's proclivity to harvest all of our data, I can't imagine being disabled and wanting one of these. Especially in places like the US where you can have your disability benefits taken away if someone helps you buy groceries. Their own privacy rights will be utterly unprotected by Meta.

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Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 22h

Yeah I agree with this. These aren't accessibility devices, they are mass market products. Meta loves using disabled people as a clutch to prevent bans of unsavoury product features, but if they cared about disabled people, they would have worked w/ them to make a product designed for their needs.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 01/10/2026

this video of Chlöe Swarbrick, who leads the Greens in New Zealand's parliament, is worth your five minutes' time

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 30/09/2026

Absolutely fantastic to see these large businesses being really clear that Marcroft’s bill is harmful and creates complexity rather than addressing it newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/30/m...

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Major export and construction firms warn against legal definition of women

Fletcher Building leads a group of big employers saying a members' bill seeking to define men and women creates operational risks and uncertainty. Andrew Bevin reports.

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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 28/09/2026

Garffeld Pt 15

3 panel Garffeld comic: panels 1 and 2, Nergal is sitting next to Garffeld who thinks, "Nergal thinks himself a comely cat; a picture of vanity. I hate vanity."; panel 3, Nergal thinks, "Envy is no less a sin deserving of hate in the eyes of God."

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...Brian Roche & Nicola Willis know this. They are willing to embed NZ government systems further with foreign tech companies so that they can fire public servants. Just for some arbitrary cap on numbers. And they do not care that this will come at great expense to the country when it fails.

...Everyone knows the Silicon Valley company playbook of under-pricing during the landgrab phase only to jack up prices once tech has been thoroughly embedded in society. This is a repeates pattern AND AI is in a known and well-discussed bubble... (Cont)

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 30/09/2026

A reminder that this is all being done in the name of saving money despite the fact that a) the current government is refusing to fund the NZ science sector to build our own sovereign AI models, which means that b) we are beholden to the prices US companies decide to set... (Cont)

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Sold 50 of these bad bois overnight, so uh, yeah, it's popping off. I actually do have a cap on the number that can be sold in certain sizes due to warehouse inventory of blanks, so if you're after a 4/5XL, I'd hustle your bustle.

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I feel this, too 😔 you're not alone

Ok so basically, what I'm learning from Dirty Work is that any clearly bad faith campaign in NZ is more than likely straight from TU/Jordan Williams/National-adjacent fuckheads and we should be screaming DIRTY WORK from the rooftops every time they dare to sneeze.

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*I'm aware this was probably done via email lists, as per TU, but email campaigns still cost money, and sometimes, a lot

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Sure is a lot of unsavoury information about InternetNZ elected board member, Jonathan Ayling, in Dirty Work. Boy, I wish I knew how much money FSU, TU, and or any other group in the Jordan Williams show spent to get him and Brown elected.

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Omg that bored kid, though ahahaha Literally how I feel about raising the super age, buddy, I'm totally with you

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 30/09/2026

I'm not the biggest Firefly fan these days, but occasionally I sing 🎶 you can't take the sky from meee 🎶 to myself And uhh Yeah, so the billionaires literally want to take the sky from us now.

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Yeah, um, I think the words I am looking for here are "JFC" This is what Sydney's skies would look like tonight under these conditions.

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 29/09/2026

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A detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.

A flatlay of green t-shirts, featuring a detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.

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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My BIL was bragging that if you asked ChatGPT for the best attorney in his field in his state, it would say him. I said that ChatGPT was probably telling him what he wanted to hear, and he said no because it recommends him to other people too, and told me to try it myself.

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natemare before christmas @natescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you know how much has to have gone wrong for me to not like the internet

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Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 29/09/2026

Left my headphones at home nooooo 🫠

Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 29/09/2026

Someone will post a low effort AI slop poster and the replies will be full of extremely low effort replies, and none of those are ever hidden

Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 29/09/2026

Getting increasingly bewildered by the replies Bluesky decides to hide because low effort? Rude? Idk, but more and more perfectly reasonable replies to posts are getting hidden. It's so bad, every time I see the "hidden replies" section, I expand it because 100% of the time, they are fine.

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When abuse or harassment happens it creates work and a resource drain - logging the incident, informing police, screenshots and writing up exactly who what and where. This is cutting into my lunchbreak at my regular job I have on top of being a candidate.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

If I’m reading this right, Anthropic has no choice but to IPO now because it doesn’t have the money to cover its computing / infrastructure obligations next year

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Erin 🏳️‍⚧️ @queerjoy.nz · 28/09/2026

The lunchslop will haunt my dreams.

An image selection catpcha complete with "I'm not a robot" box.
It says "select all squares with Rustic Potatoes", and an array of nine not very appetising school lunch pictures is below. Some of these do in fact contain Rustic Potatoes.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is me, but specifically for boomer leftie AI Peanuts slop. If I have to see Snoopy with a speech bubble instead of a thought bubble one more time...

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Omg I posted this and then I saw Audrey wrote this in her article I can’t believe I am a victim of the “he just tweeted it out” phenomena truly can’t stop laughing I really thought I’ve been imagining this what a dweeb I am.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And I get the same vibe from AI proponents; They simply don't understand art, and think it's beneath them. They don't understand the appeal, they come from a techbro mindset and think art is a solved equation and anything that isn't photorealistic or extremely high detail is failing at the goal.

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It was directed at anyone; some folks don't know they can ask their library to order in books they don't have. You didn't say you bought one from Unity, though. You implied that people should be able to pirate it if they don't have a copy. Or at least that's how I read it; feel free to correct me.

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Use your library, and if they don't have copies, ask them to order some. It's really as easy as that.

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