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@davidsimpch.bsky.social
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bisexual gay guy. earth science student.

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🇵🇸 Bouba's Delivery Service 🇵🇸 @johnnyfilmo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A quote from the Spinoff's coverage of Labour's campaign launch: "The crowd was so hyped up that when Carmel Sepuloni and her co-MC asked the crowd to do a call and response of “when I say Chris, you say Hipkins”, it actually worked."The tweet "Just got back from the centrist rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting "Better things aren't possible""
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1/200 Media @1of200.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1/200 Campaign Season E26 - Homelessness and Move-on Orders w/ Moko We talk about the encampment in the red zone of Ōtautahi/Christchurch where he lives. We discuss the situation, Moko’s long history of being unhomed and working to help others in the community. w @krkelly.bsky.social
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1/200 Campaign Season E26 - Homelessness and Move-on Orders w/ Moko — 1/200
Our guest Moko talks about the encampment in the red zone of Ōtautahi/Christchurch where he lives. We discuss the situation with the encampment, Moko’s long history of being unhomed and working to hel...
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✧°・:* izzie *:・°✧ @winterwhe.at · 29/09/2026
fun fact: new zealand has the highest rates of homelessness in the OECD because we've been in a real estate bubble since like 1980
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NO ONE should be lining up jobs before the election, except for me of course, a man who has only become less popular since i lost an election 3 years ago
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i actually have to get off twitter everyone is getting more homophobic and insane
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
made a meme for @painterm.bsky.social
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 17/08/2026
Fyi, you don't have to be a permanent resident to vote, just a resident. Sooooo if you're a resident and hearing this you should strongly consider not voting for TOP as they will be removing benefits you are currently eligible for and not necessarily give you the replacement.
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It's always telling when people talk about 'men' as a category separate from 'nonbinary and trans people' with no overlap!!
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
on the evidence of this, no, the trans community does not need this writer
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
interestingly this is effectively the case for UoA. there is one second year geography paper and from what i've seen everything else, including post-grad papers, has been cut.
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
have opportunity announced what their plan is for disability allowances and accommodation supplements? because at this stage the UBI seems like a cut to benefits and student allowances with extra support for everyone else.
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Steve @kiwistevemc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Jus’ sayin’…just putting it out there… #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/andrew-li...
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Andrew Little has stood down as Labour leader
Little made the announcement after a brief meeting this morning.
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
call me mr jones the way something is happening here but i don't know what it is
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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I have once again made a meme, this time to illustrate National's official position on coalition negotiations thespinoff.co.nz/politics/31-...
I can excuse racism but I draw the line at taxing land
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
do we know if old growth forests are better carbon sinks than younger forests because we're often considering commercial forestry or is the same true for natural secondary forests
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I do not trust the Beatles biopics with portraying Yoko Ono I do not think the Beatles biopics deserve Yoko Ono
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
having to install a mcafee program to uninstall a mcafee program feels very suspicious to me
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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 23/07/2026
"decisions about whether or when minors access transgender medical care should be made by parents, not politicians" actually they should be made by the minors in question, who are human beings. if you don't need parental consent to experience one kind of puberty why should you need it for the other
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Why do bash “dead-beat” directors for not being faithful to their source material but we never question if the source has bad vibes? Or if it's just unpleasant to be around?
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cozy @bimbotheory.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Some people are calling this gender affirming care as a haha gotcha but this is actually directly in line with a radically anti-transsexual politics because it’s its mirror opposite—propping up the cissexual gender binary through medical intervention.
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cozy @bimbotheory.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I am always adrift on both sides of lesbian/bisexual discourse beacause I think that all that matters is what you do and not what you “are”, so sex or a relationship between two women is lesbian and sex or relationship between a man and a woman is straight regardless of identities.
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Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Whoever is in power after the election will inherit these abhorrent military projects & alliances. Te Pāti Māori has explicitly talked of ending them. I hope others follow. #nzpol
Excerpt from RNZ article:
Project Arcadia aims to build a shared battlefield command system that gets the US and its core Five Eyes intelligence partners up to the sort of attack speeds seen in the Iran war.
Defence Minister Chris Penk's office said cabinet's approval for funding Arcadia would be sought as part of digital modernisation work.
"This will upgrade existing NZ Defence Force systems used to communicate with Five Eyes partners, and allows information between the partners to be shared more easily and securely," his spokesperson said.
The Pentagon called Arcadia "the operational imperative for our time" that aligned with the priorities of War Secretary Pete Hegseth.Facebook post by Te Pāti Māori earlier this year:

TE PĀTI MĀORI WILL:

WITHDRAW AOTEAROA FROM MILITARY AGREEMENTS

Oranga Whenua Oranga Tangata Oranga Tiriti

@MAORIPARTY.ORG.NZ |

@TEPATIMAORI

māori
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
[politics understander just read the niemoller poem] oh hell yeah thats loads of people before they come for me that will buy loads of time , sick
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
at the end of the day we live incredibly energy intensive lives to avoid manual and/or tedious work. some of this meaningfully improves our lives but a lot of this doesn't. automating every facet of our lives on a finite planet isn't neutral.
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LIP @l11p.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
every new article about top is like : (heroically) i would like to be in power
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Allison @handle.invalid · 15/02/2026
Trans rights are economic rights
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 08/06/2026
spotted in auckland, new zealand. see www.webworm.co for updates
free everlee tag
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
getting poorer every day so the government can give money to landlords, tobacco companies and american arms manufacturers
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I am actually losing my mind. How is generationally unpopular Chris "policy bonfire" Hipkins still the leader of the Labour Party. How do you not have the common sense to resign when you lose an election that badly? Why has no one in the party actually managed to roll him?
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Jennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
happy pride, shoutout as always to the 1978 gilbert baker pride flag which had pink and turquoise stripes for SEX AND MAGIC AND ART, and in this house we support gay sex and gay magic and gay art
Baker pride flag with the explanation of the symbolism of each color.
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I posted this on twitter, but updating your birth records is so worth it and is probably only going to get more important for us. If you're not sure if you can afford it dm me ❤️ I can at least help a couple of people out who need it.
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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
one of the major clues that social housing tenants haven't in fact won the lotto is that they need social housing
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"The lesson was supposed to stick" is a weird way to frame this when literally nobody who pushed this war ever experienced a single consequence for it. Lesson for who, exactly?
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard
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It's me, Nico. @nicasio.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Horrifying doesn't even begin to cover it. This is, legally and practically, torture. They will deny HRT even to those who can no longer produce their own sex hormones, which can and will have dire medical consequences. They will drive people to suicide.
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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
swordfighting tactics, germany, 16th century
a ink drawing of a man tackling another man swinging a sword by grabbing him around the waist and putting his face in his crotch
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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"If you want a computer that won't be obsolete in a few years, buy an MSX. If you want one of the best-selling MSX computers in Japan, buy a Toshiba HX10." (Source.)
A full page photo of two computers, side by side; dense ad copy down below. The left computer has a towering 1:5 ratio monitor; the right computer has a squat 4:3 monitor. The left computer reads in vector font: "I'm a Toshiba HX-10. I've got the best bits from every other home computer..." And then it goes on for many hundreds of words about its features, comparing itself favorably to the Commodore 64, the BBC Micro, the Acorn Electron, and the Oric Atmos. The right computer, a not-so disguised Acorn, reads: "Wow. With a specification list like that, no wonder you've got 64K memory."
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
i often think about this review
Letterboxd screenshot
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022

Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.
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finlay @davidsimpch.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"one of if not *the* most pro-trans political party in the world" lmfao
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Teanau Tuiono @teanau.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Tere tohorā, tere tangata. Where whales journey, people follow.
pmn.co.nz
Green MP pushes to give whales legal rights under NZ law amid declining numbers
Recognising whales as legal persons could force major changes to how oceans are managed, as a new bill links conservation, climate change, and Pacific values.
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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drrawiritaonui.bsky.social @drrawiritaonui.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Coalition Government impact on Māori unemployment undermining a generation of rangatahi Māori. Luxon's solution - put a marmite sandwich and apple in the lunch box of young Māori and everything will be okay.
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 31/01/2026
This is objectively such a funny thing for him to say. Yeah cool great go for it actually
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Don’t ever let people forget this.
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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“Forestry in Tairāwhiti is a low-job, high-damage industry that survives by shifting billions of dollars of costs onto communities while exporting profits offshore. This report proves the current model is economically irrational, socially unjust, and environmentally catastrophic”
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eel, i @eliacugini.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
people constantly hound rape victims for not prosecuting their rapists, saying they’re somehow responsible if the person rapes someone else. meanwhile if you try to prosecute, and you have actual audio evidence that you’ve been assaulted, it could still be used to put YOU through a trial
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