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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes I think about the fact that my parents will have gone through life without ever having to send teams message to someone.

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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 11h

So many good points here (the background readings for the whole course are super interesting as well).

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 11h

It's critical to remember we have NO civics education in New Zealand. Ppl do not necessarily know how MMP works, how a coalition works, or how to best make their vote reflect their values The more you can make talking about politics normal and chill, the more ppl feel they're allowed to be curious

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Whiti Hereaka @whitihereaka.co.nz · 15h

Terri is awesome — you should read this article and her debut novel “The Valley of Unlikely Acquaintances”.

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 15h

Chloe Swarbrick says she wants Finance. The reaction from the right has been very emotional. I feel for them. “Do you really want her steering the economy?” they say... Very little explanation of what, specifically, she would get wrong. Luckily Lacan has a theory about that. #nzpol

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 16h

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade thinks the reversal of the oil and gas exploration ban breached the EU Free Trade Agreement. How do we know? Because they accidentally leaked their own legal opinion in Sep 2024. newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/01/g... www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h

The jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.)

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h

Time for this classic again.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 17h

The NZ Govt travels the world telling people how they take their climate commitments seriously. But at home they dismantle every policy that constrains emissions and subsidise more emissions. So we've joined international efforts to hold them to account. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

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Greenpeace joins complaint to EU over NZ climate policy reversal - Greenpeace Aotearoa

The complaint addresses Government reversal of climate policies, which Greenpeace has labelled a 'race to the bottom on environmental regulation'.

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LIP @l11p.bsky.social · 19h

ok i'm imagining chloe doing the thing ruth richardson said required leveraging feminist identity politics & standing up against establishment expectations. don't really care who is Finance Minister but feel like you're just describing stuff chloe could do.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We have a number of photos of Johnson's Grocers and a write up of the history of the store in #CanterburyStories including views of the maximalist interior and trademark white dusters worn by the staff. ^MT www.canterburystories.nz/stories/indu...

Black and white photo taken on 8 April 1987 of Johnson's grocery staff, fully laden shelves behind them, © Christchurch Star, CCL-StarP-03868A.

Sepia toned photo: Mr Johnson with his green grocer shop taken in November 2010, again the shelves are fully laden and stacks of food products fill the space. Mr Johnson is wearing the trademark white duster that all the staff wore. Photo by Stephanie Defregger, Entry in 2021 Photo Hunt, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, CCL-PH21-StDe-001.

Colour photo of the street frontage of Johnson's grocers including black boards and delivery bicycle. Johnson's wonderful grocer's shop taken in 2009, An entry in 2012 Photo Hunt, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, CCL-PH12-112.

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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Peach Sometimes @ehjc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There was a bit of hubub earlier in the year about a memoir so I read it and wrote some thoughts then left it mouldering in my drafts. I have decided instead to hit publish. famous-knots-of-history.ghost.io/lindy-west-v...

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Lindy West vs The Internet

(I wrote most of this in a fugue state after reading this book months ago. Just so you know) I've been reading Lindy West's writing for a long time. I own a copy of Shrill. I've been reading feminist...

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

at least we made it to friday

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What I picture when people say escrow

The cool S design people used to draw in school with crow wings

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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

OMFG if I see one more person suggest that people talking about Covid in 2026 want permanent lockdowns I’m going to lose it The asks are clean air in public places, treatments for long covid, masks in places like healthcare + normalization of masking elsewhere, expanded vaccine access, sick leave

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chris. @azedand2knots.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am really bad at life but it seems too late to pick a different hobby.

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Sam Orchard @samorchard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The book that @tofeklund.bsky.social and I wrote is available for pre-order, and will be out early next year. Really pleased to get to do some cool research into all things queer comics www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-com...

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 27/09/2026

as someone who has been really critical of a lot of the initial breathless "teehee, weird sex" reportage, i really appreciate this thread for nailing the actual fucked up immoral thing that is happening; you CANNOT consent if your employment or job success are on the line

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Day two of the campaign and we've got Luxon insisting Labour will have to do every Green, TPM and Opportunity policy while also stating that he would not do NZ First or ACT policy. This will not receive accurate contextual comment that is clearly hypocritical blathering.

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From what we've been allowed to see there appears to be levels of destruction as great if not greater than what happened to Berlin, Dresden, and Stalingrad in WW2.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 27/09/2026

Why do the avatars on the Meta Pervert Pendant look like characters from a 2011 Dutch children’s TV show whose title translates to “Happy Penis Man Friends and Mister BumBum”

Mark Zuckerberg announcing a lil penis guy dressed as a 2008 hipster (from the Fleet Foxes “everyone in Silverlake is pretending they like roughing it in the great outdoors now” era) by way of Michael Cera (got the outfit but couldn’t grow the beard). The penis guy lives in your cleavage and spies on everything you do.

Mark Zuckerberg announcing a lil penis guy themed like Turtle from “Entourage.” The penis guy lives in your cleavage and spies on everything you do.

Mark Zuckerberg introducing a lil penis guy with a short shaft and an oversized head, as an effort to make dudes with fucked up lil dicks (including many of Zuck’s friends, like Elon Musk) feel represented in his product. Zuck himself is a nevernude who has a perfectly smooth patch of skin where his genitalia should be, like a Ken doll, so he doesn’t really know what a penis is supposed to look like.

Mark Zuckerberg introducing a lil happy butt guy. He is countering accusations of his VR glasses being “for perverts” with this new proposal that you should wear a lil butt guy on your chest and let it spy on everyone.

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When @graemeedgeler.bsky.social says you're "the worst Speaker I can recall" you know it's bad. Gerry Brownlee, Parliament's ineffectual policeman, wraps up chaotic term newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/24/g...

Brownlee is the worst Speaker I can recall. A single ruling during the committee stage of the fast-track law is sufficient for him to earn this title. A basic and long-standing rule in the House is that the admissibility of amendments in the Committee of the Whole is a decision for the Chair and that this will not be interfered with by the Speaker. The Chair ruled out National’s list of projects to add to the law. The Government asked for the Speaker to be recalled, and to get the government out of a jam, the Speaker intervened, undermining the Chair and decades of practice, just so the Government didn’t have to wait to use the Parliamentary options open to them. Completely unjustified and the worst Parliamentary action I can recall a Speaker taking.

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Barbarella Stormforce @barbarasturmfels.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A thing to remember about the Green Party's proposed wealth tax is that wealthy people will still be wealthy after they've paid the tax.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Might fuck around and do unto others as I would have them do unto me

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

wishing a very fuck daylight savings to all who celebrate

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excited about our Antistatic research project about people's experiences with once-ubiquitous technologies & what happens when they disappear. First up: the landline. We just expanded the project website big time! Take a look & get in touch if you might want to collaborate: www.everyobject.org

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Every Object an Archive

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What all #Meta product announcements look like to me by now. #charm #muse

Fake Bloomberg post:
Meta Harm

Meta Debuts a Device that Liquidates your Internal Organs to Provide
a Sustainable Source of Protein for Mark Zuckerberg's Pet Salamander.

Meta Platforms Inc. just unveiled its new gadget, which is already proving popular among
AI fans who are keen to relinquish not only all their human rights but also their lives...

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hell yeah

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

omfucking GOD ad;klfpijodfsjioadsnlcdscm;ds;kldsa;kl,.vcxkm;fjlierj;kd

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nicky Hager book is unusual because its main thesis seems to be "they are just doing all this bad faith money-for-racism stuff in plain sight and the media don't seem to perceive it as bad" Media: "Hmm this Hager book has no revelations in it, we knew all this already, oh well carry on as normal"

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah fuck them up, Ombudsman

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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“We have completely detached our sense of what makes a good solution to a problem” This is a really good post and I greatly appreciate it. I’ve talked a bit before about the lost art of symbolic AI but more recently I’ve drifting towards framing of profligate use of scale in the 64 bit era.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 23/09/2026

One thing I appreciate from the (currently ongoing) Death of Online Anonymity online conference is the discussion about how LLMs (and widely accessible consumer AI generally) are power tools for deanonymizing people online. This is going to be a major problem for online harassment.

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Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think the thing that infuriates me the most with this reporting coming out now is that when I raised concerns about what I saw, I was shut down. Glad it's coming out now cos it validates why I was so distressed. Seymour/Stanford have too much control www.rnz.co.nz/news/educati...

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More claims of Education Ministry staff trying to avoid OIA come to light

More whistleblowers have contacted RNZ with fresh allegations of Education Ministry managers actively trying to avoid scrutiny via the Official Information Act.

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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In those twelve years the NZ media has targeted multiple brown women politicians, including publishing made up stories about the sex life of Wellington's former mayor being spread by bad faith actors. It's not just that the NZ media don't care, it's that they're active participants in this.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ok that's 3 minutes, keep moving, got a lot of sad teens here.

Just 3 minutes with a mini horse or donkey improves teens' moods, study says

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Kieran @nugmonster.cryptoanarchy.network · 23/09/2026

Given the TPU's ties to Act, let us not forget that Act also had a sexual harassment problem that resulted in a number of women leaving their youth wing. Who investigated those allegations within the party? Tim Jago.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Pisces: Today you will feel charismatic, confident, funny, intelligent, sexually attractive, and then you’ll wake up.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Vanushi Walters speech? not fucking around it seems.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

While we're all a-sickos-ing at Williams being treadmilled into panic, we should reflect on Aaron's point here that both Ardern and Hipkins never stood up for their policy and it's cost us all billions of dollars.

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 22/09/2026

NZ's best literary profilist interviews Wellington writer, lawyer and cultural critic Brannavan Gnanalingam

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Portrait of an author's 'quiet masterpiece'

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spread the word - the IIML’s online journal Turbine | Kapohau is open for submissions of poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction until 1 November. We want to read your work! (Please check submission guidelines before sending)

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Current Issue - TURBINE | KAPOHAU

EDITORIAL Welcome POETRY ada duffyMauatua Fa’ara Reynolds🔈Miriama GemmellRebecca HawkesAnna Hoek-SimsJacksonHebe KearneyErik KennedyTrevor LandersMitch MarksHelena Leon MayerElliot McKenzieRuben MitaH...

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