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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A song by my father-in-law, www.terrysarten.co.nz, inspired by the famous 'first they came for' poem. He asked me to post this here, and I'm happy to: it's chilling and horrifying seeing the violence and death that the American government is using against it's people.

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Ginger 🐻✨ @gingerbearart.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The council convenes once more #deathblart

Comic, Page 1: P1: Outer space, showing several distant planets and a star, focusing on a foreground ringed planet that appears to have oceans and continents with large visibly man-made alterations, including bridges and a central trench of city circling the planet. Narration: "There are 11 billion sentient life forms on this planet. Uncountable artificial intelligences, consciousnesses stored in the core, more arriving every day" P2: A hand touches the top of an alien-looking casket. Narration: "One less, now." P3: The face of an alien person with an expression of grief, with pupil-less eyes, distinctive cheek markings, a metallic hoop around their neck, and a cloak, referred to from now as "MC". P4: Another person appears behind the first, with a floating holographic display of information in front of their face. Other person: "I take it you are aware of the duty the late Vhixyr is trusting to you?" MC: "Yes, I was told long ago."

Page 2: P1: MC is pictured silhouetted from behind, standing in front of a far-future city, full of other citizens and glass transport tubes in the sky stretching into the distance. Narration: "Out of over 11 billion, me." P2: (Blank) Narration: "Despite Vhixyr's insistence that I was just the best fit, I always wondered-" P3: MC's foot stepping on a panel. Narration: "I wondered if my dear grandparent harbored some secret resentment," P4: MC standing in front of a doorway, raising a hand to a glowing panel on the wall. Behind the doorway is swirling shapes and light. Narration: "...or if they just thought I was the only one who could forgive them for this life-long burden?" P5: MC walking on a transparent bridge through a void filled with swirling light. Narration: "But really, all that mattered-" P6: (Blank) Narration: "Is that there are five of them. ...of us."

Page 3: P1: Two arch-shaped desks with small cylindrical devices with 3 bulbs protruding from them, and a fan-shaped holographic display behind them showing a wave-form. MC: "I wasn't expecting your equipment to look so... ancient?" P2: A zoomed out view of the room, showing MC speaking to a larger smiling alien with an arch-shaped structure on their back, referred to from here as Council 1. Council 1: "For taking vibrations in the air. Ancient traditions, after all." P3: From behind MC, still speaking to Council 1, who is pointing at their own mouth. Council 1: "And I see you've been practicing your oral language!" MC: "No small effort - but we need to be able to speak this way for a full cycle after all." Council 1: "You get used to it." P4: Showing MC now. Council 1: "I trust you have now... viewed it, as well?" MC: "...of course." P5: Zooming out, showing both MC and Council 1, and another person in the back of the room by a large holo display. This person (Council 2) is slim, wearing a dark sleeveless shirt and a large brace over their shoulders. Council 2: "As of now, Earth has reached 89.3% of its sun-cycle." Council 1: "Then we will begin."

Page 4: P1: From left to right seated at the desk in front of holo displays, Council 2, Council 1, and a third Council member with a robe and a U-shaped brace framing their head, all with somber expressions. Council 1: "Today we welcome Thonriel, third grandchild of Vhixyr, to the order of T'ddub. Thonriel has the terrible and honorable charge of speaking first today, as our order convenes for audiograph number 0X7B65D. -ahem- So... what did you think?" P2: Thonriel (MC), wearing a grim expression and slamming their hand down on their own desk. "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is still a bad movie."

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Not paraphrasing, not commentary, actual literal words from his mouth to representatives of much of the world.

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

New business venture - fake hands with the wrong number of fingers that you can hold onto up a sleeve in a photo for plausible deniability that you were ever there and the photo was AI generated.

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We are more than just a little Diet America, quiet acts like this move us closer. Trans rights forever.

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

S - snake shape / noise Si - Spanish yes Sir - knight Sire - king Siree - king daddy Sirees - conclave of king daddies Sireest - Mt daddy

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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions @nzctu.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

"Ending the chilling effect of pay secrecy will allow employees to discuss their pay more freely, and allow any unfairness or discrimination in pay to be remedied." #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

rnz.co.nz

Legislation that lets workers talk about salaries likely to pass into law

Labour MP Camilla Bellich's bill has passed its second reading

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Hey, something about these trump tariff letters - were they actually sent? Or is truth social now official channel for international relations?

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

It really is the case that Trump thinks that buying things from elsewhere is losing trade, everything must be made in America. The US trade position cannot be resolved because it is incomprehensible. Also Trump is all poster brain now.

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I don't think it should be allowed to be itchy and cold.

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Is there a law against citations for inspirational quotes? Work email sent around today with this quote, after doing some digging looks like the only source for this quote is a facebook post by Jim 7 years after his death.

Inspirational quote in front of misty mountain with the text "Either you run the day or the day runs you" - Jim Rohn. Source unknown.

Screenshot from a facebook post by the official Jim Rohn account, 16 April 2016. This post is a quote of Jim Rohn, literally putting in quotation marks "Either you run the day or the day runs you" with attribution to Jim Rohn, which is odd and would be hilarious if you posted your own quote with your own attribution but that's unlikely as Jim died in 2009. Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rohn Link to facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJimRohn/posts/10156806383245635

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Yeah this reads grim. Venture capital positing the diversity of Auckland as attractive to medical experimentation by larger tech companies as the c-suite have the ear of a government already willing to remove regulations for any promise of economic benefit.

WNT Ventures fields hundreds of business pitches each year – including what its co-founder says feels like “an AI pitch a day”. For offshore companies interested in big datasets, especially in the health sector, New Zealand offers a unique testing ground.

“We have a really good, diverse population for trials, and that’s a good benefit for springboarding some health technologies,” Alvarez said, mentioning the high levels of ethnic diversity within Auckland as another potential attraction.

But current restrictions in the experimental health field meant New Zealand was losing out on potential innovation, she said.

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

"Oh no my special excellent super good pretend brain is also undone by shitposts"

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Bet the next starship explosions will go even better now that Musk can dedicate more yelling time to his companies.

Big big old fireball that used to be a rocket

Speaking after the demo, Mr Musk said: "I think I probably did spend a bit too much time on politics," a telling 13-word comment in reflection on his time as Donald Trump's senior advisor. Last month, Mr Musk, 53, conceded his time in this capacity would have to reduce fo he can concentrate on other projects. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/spacex-starship-bursts-flames-after-35416547

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This is just so cool been reading @dresdencodak.com for 20(?) years go do it it's good for you.

Panel from recent dresdencodak.com comic of Kim in a shockingly relaxed yet threatening pose, combing fingers through own hair and looking up at a soon to be unfortunate, saying 'run'

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Finished Expedition 33, good game, should play, now have a hole in heart. What with this and 1000xResist earlier I've been spoilt for great narrative games. Back to balatro until I find the next one I guess.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 27/05/2025

They used to make commercials about this

You wouldn't download everything every artist has ever made and put it into environmental destruction clippy, in the you wouldn't download a car meme format

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Is the inspirational quotes industry just a scam? Why can I never find sources for these so-called famous quotes?

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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 02/05/2025

This petition to stop NZ First's stupid sex definitions bill has been open for nearly a week and has 1.2k signatures The hate group's petition that spawned this bill took four months to get 2.2k signatures Let's show just how little hate there is petitions.parliament.nz/cc70b2c2-cfd...

petitions.parliament.nz

Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

What is love, if not a series of escalating parasitic infestations?

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 28/04/2025

LRT with every of these “NFTs deleted; now worthless” stories coming out I need you to remember that we were told it’s the future, it’s inevitable, its the future of money and your house will be registered on it and your car will be registered on it and if you don’t get it NOW you’ll be left behind.

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The thing about 1000xResist is I don't think I can spoil it. Tried telling my wife about it but there's just too many small things that you need for context later. It's art, and who you are is part of it, just like the best paintings or music or film or book or life.

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Michael Leibel @michaelleibel.com · 21/04/2025

Is Henry Blodget ok

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

What the actual hell, NATO?

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Wading back into the river of posts like a bad-take berserker

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Luxon is a buffoon who seems incapable of deep thought or consideration for others. Just a small example.

Act is not the only party to have used AI-generated imagery in a campaign ad. The National Party used several images during its national election campaign, which Prime Minister Christopher Luxon defended as a better option than using stock imagery of real people.

“I don’t see the difference in those two things,” Luxon told RNZ.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/17/acts-happy-maori-ai-image-sparks-internal-change/?utm_source=Newsroom&utm_campaign=a37494362a-Week+In+Review+20.04.2025&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_71de5c4b35-a37494362a-98034722&mc_cid=a37494362a&mc_eid=bf5c89f8ad

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Haha fuck yeah military subs for the government best timeline 100% Tesla knows how to get things out of the sky what the fuck is happening

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Seems like escalation on the language used by American envoys here from pre ceasefire. "Bombs don't kill people, being a hostage does" is wild. www.aljazeera.com#flips-637157...

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

What worries me is that Seymour seems pretty good at couching his ideology in the phrases that need work to show how messed up they are, work that many have no time for. But his version of 'meritocracy' is rooted in patriarchy, racism and bigotry.

‘If we’re going to win the culture war that really matters, which has nothing to do with pronouns or bathrooms or anything like that but, “Are we a people who seek and celebrate success and push people up, or a culture that pulls people down?” … we need to make this country a place that is a tribute to and a host for human action.‘
Act leader David Seymour, pool quote from https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/17/seymour-seeks-to-spark-a-new-culture-war/?utm_source=Newsroom&utm_campaign=cded1586ac-Daily_Briefing+17.04.2025&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_71de5c4b35-cded1586ac-98034722&mc_cid=cded1586ac&mc_eid=bf5c89f8ad

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I drank from the garden hose and I'm fine. Some people didn't. Why? No real reason. But we don't make them hold the hose while we drink anymore so it's fine.

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Man who says sorry for helping create brain breaking algorithms decide to make more algorithms to work with brains. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Omniscience is already in the market. "We've already got regulatory clearances in the US and Australia ... we focus on using AI to decode your brain. And things like mental illness ... essentially, just faults in your circuitry. We build tools that can find those faults."

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

It is a good sign when politicians identifying basic shapes and colours like a toddler is the exception rather than the norm

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It is becoming unbelievably difficult to stay both informed and sane

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

"Pregnant People" seems pretty sex-specific to me, perhaps our government could get its head out of America's culture war bullshit. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

rnz.co.nz

Coalition directs Health NZ to stop saying 'pregnant people'

Associate Health Minister Casey Costello has told the agency "only women and people of the female sex can get pregnant".

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Must be fun being a financial reporter, line go up, line go down, why? Shrug.

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Hey chat be honest: started playing 1000x resist, is this going to destroy me emotionally?

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

the Amish were right pack it in everyone we are done here

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

There's one giant spoon hiding in the rest of the spoons and if I'm not careful I pull it out and it shouts "imagine fitting me in your face, fucker"

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Experts theorize that if we all closed all our open tabs the needed compute demands would fall 49% globally

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Rise up ye downtrodden, take thy pitchfork and by doing so your freedom.

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

We now have the graphs showing the ability of the group to be stupider than the sum of its parts as we see the market whipsaw around the suggestion that things, while still terrible, aren't as bad as they could have been (for now).

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

So Walter Bloomberg was right?

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Markets are crazy. Surges on the possibilities of deals? What about the reality of the current situation, and even if all tariffs went away the damage that would have remain? finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st...

finance.yahoo.com

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq surge on hopes for Trump tariff deals

The prospect of US-Japan tariff talks lifted hopes for other trade deals even as China escalated its face-off with President Trump.

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Perhaps at a certain point other countries will do something to stop the burning that is America, as the ruling class there are happy shouting about how cool and refreshing the fire they're rolling around is

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Alex @flanofcrows.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If it's an ingress and an egress is it just a gress?

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