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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 6h

look I'm sorry but you called her "Buck the Sheep" and the song playing over the ad opens LOVING YOU, ISN'T THE RIGHT THING TO DO I don't understand what they thought was going to happen youtu.be/B2cQW_MQRtQ?...

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Buck the System | Kiwibank

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KiwiNewsBot @kiwinewsbot.bsky.social · 4h

Auckland congestion charging: Three turnips with fees of $2 to $7 each way revealed

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 6h

Mamdani just announced a scavenger hunt around New York City focusing on the history of organising in the city and I feel like a dog when someone says all their favourite words

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Iyari Pasquad: Dachshund's Curious Expressions

ALT: Iyari Pasquad: Dachshund's Curious Expressions

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 8h

Government-owned bank struggling amid high interest rates.

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 7h

Someone tell them where Bezos’ yacht is

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 7h

I know I have pretty strong feelings around protection orders etc but I think it’s actually outrageous that a judge thinks letting local voters decide if Skinner should remain in office is a disproportionate consequence for him www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

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Nelson councillor Tim Skinner discharged without conviction after appeal

A long-serving city councillor fighting to save his name and job has been discharged without conviction after appealing his family violence matter.

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 9h

Run. Cold. Rain. Wind. Burger. Beer. Home. Medal.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h

Goes great with reports of serial sexual harrassment/ abuse of women in AI subculture; "we're concerned about human rights for our machines, not for YOU."

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AI Community Linked to Disturbing Culture of Sexual Assault

An investigation has uncovered numerous cases of sexual harassment and rape allegations at prominent AI "hacker houses."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 20h

Their mission is the pursuit of human rights for their technology designed to deprive you of human rights.

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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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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 02/10/2026

I use this example to talk about how science works (and how it doesn’t) in my book “Fakten sind auch nur Meinungen” from 2024, but unfortunately it’s not out in English so far. You can find it in German or Korean, though, anywhere you get your books (plus there’s an audiobook version in German)

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Axing jobs funding, trying control funding decisions politically, etc., don’t make science "work better" – they *hinder* it. There is a place to *add* to core science funding support to link it to industry, but doing that at the *expense of* the core pipeline ensures future science is gutted.

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And whoever is in our next govt needs to fix this fast, we’ve already lost good people and expertise, and that’s not easy to get back. The longer this stays messy, the worse it gets

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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To say I did not have high hopes for this government would be an understatement, but I am nonetheless agog at the utter dogs breakfast they have turned the science funding system into in 3 short years

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OMG OMG OMG when I read the name of that Dutch NGO guy I immediately knew something amazing was about to happen to @fran4dunedin.bsky.social, but I totally underestimated how far the amazingness would go

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#nzpol The fact that the current coalition deliberately undermined initiatives to reduce our vulnerability to shocks like this ought to be a far bigger deal than it is.

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Michel Mulipola @bloodysamoan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

STOP. DROP. ENROL! STOP what you're doing DROP into www.vote.nz ENROL TODAY! or help ENROL your friends and family 18-24yo rangatahi of Māngere are sitting at 45.16% enrolment rate. That's over 5000 rangatahi still not enrolled

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I went for ONE Friday afternoon beer with colleagues and this is what I come online to???

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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 02/10/2026

Coalition $5,290,987 Opposition $1,327,090 Opportunity's $491,660 not counted in either

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

After five minutes rigorous research, I found the story and it is the oncology equivalent of "22 year old buys five properties after saving his paper round money" news.unsw.edu.au/en/meet-the-...

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Meet the man who designed a cancer vaccine for his dog

When his dog Rosie was diagnosed with incurable cancer, Paul Conyngham refused to give up. With the help of AI and UNSW scientists, he designed a one-of-a-kind experimental therapy, and gave us a hint...

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone is out here complaining that it’s so hard to get people to agree to do a peer review these days but it just took me FIFTEEN MINUTES to log in to a reviewer portal and then I got dumped on a “elseviers new reviewer experience” page instead of right to the manuscript

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Confused White Cat Asks Why

ALT: Confused White Cat Asks Why

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here’s to everything big and important happening all at once to me personally

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Peter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Worth remembering that if it costs the government $4.5b to reverse the gender pay tax, then it costs the women affected $4.5b to leave it in place.

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Again: $4.5b still costs less than National's Holiday Highway PPP to the border of Northland

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One day we’ll have a conversation about the things we normalise politically, culturally, systemically that has the end result of women MPs being targeted - and women and girls worldwide. From gutting of pay equity to refusal to hold predators accountable in every single sphere - our choices add up👇

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Luxon says extra security measures needed for under-attack female MPs

The Prime Minister said gendered abuse was 'utterly unacceptable'.

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah I’m one of those dog people 🎂 🥳 🐶

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After being raped by a man on my hall sophomore year, I couldn’t leave my dorm room for weeks and failed several classes. I had to take out student loans so I could retake those credits. We almost never talk about the financial toll of campus sexual assault on survivors.

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When your dog has to take a birthday cake to daycare

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 30/09/2026

A lot of panic and hand waving from right-coded political people about the prospect of Chlöe Swarbrick as Minister of Finance... Honestly can't see any reason why. Why would they suggest Nicola Willis is somehow uniquely better suited? Chlöe is clearly very smart and well informed. It's silly.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today’s front page in Scotland 📰 New satellite pictures lay bare Israel's destruction of Gaza

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TFW everything is happening all at the same time even if most of the things are good things

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What Is Happening? Woman's Panic

ALT: What Is Happening? Woman's Panic

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Michaelmas! In some parts of Ireland on this day, rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.

A drawing of mine of a goose looking concerned, with a tag around its neck that reads "This month's rent, with thanks".

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Michaelmas

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We do that. And then instead of joining us, men prefer to tell us that it’s “not all men”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

People of All Genders Empowered to Maintain Delusion That They Have A Chance With Gillian Anderson

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 29/09/2026

Using Spanky McNomates maths "the debt is $16 billion dollars higher. In 2023, we were told we were told we'd have a $2b surplus now." That'a an $18b hole (where hopes & dreams for decency in his heart subsides).

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today’s loss of faith in humanity brought to you by almost no bystanders stopping to help someone (not me) after a minor but damaging car accident

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I HATE paid toilets, basic biological functions should not cost I feel even more strongly about this when I have to pay to go change my period products (already expensive enough!) or if a seagul shits on my hair and I need to pay to use the toilets so I don’t smell of digested fish

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently...

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can someone add Winston peters yelling at the leopard seal to go back to where it came from to one of these photos

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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's all up..

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