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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They can make all the shiny ads they like, but Ford's new models suck.

Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Kiwibank mascot, Orange Guy voting mascot, Briscoes lady ... I think Kiwis are just horny for ads. I can't be the only one who wants to fill every hole of the Pak'n'Save stick figure man, if only to shut him up.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Now that's a headline that hits at multiple levels. medium.com/@carmitage/b...

Headline: Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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Gavin Shoebridge @kiwiev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New merchandise idea has a couple of flaws

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

*If you have never heard of "Processing," these Processing artists at Ars Electronica are, like, 110 percent Processing. #CodeArt #Processing #TwentyFirstCentury youtu.be/5Z8N9tghPRE?...

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A Quarter Century of Processing | Ars Electronica 2026: Negotiating Humanity

YouTube video by Processing Foundation

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's said that if the Minister looks back, the OIA response will be trapped in the underworld forever.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 24/09/2026

They may think they’re winning. But they can’t stop us baby.

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

but i kept being told that this wasn't real, NZ weren't actually involved, it was always the "US part of the business" etc etc etc by supporters of RocketLab This is a very significant shift in NZ defense policy, and certainly doesn't lend itself to independence www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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New Zealand agrees to put almost $24 million into military satellite US is building

New Zealand has agreed to put almost $24 million into a military satellite the United States is building.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The chart's 2026 figure of $1,300/hour works out to about $2.7M a year. That only matches the CEOs of the biggest listed companies, not upper management in general. No official NZ series tracks mid-level managers back to 1970. The chart gives no source for it. ... Share truth, not lies.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1975 to 1980: the chart shows a drop from $5.50 to $5.20. In reality nominal wages rose fast in that high-inflation period: the average weekly wage rose to $157 by 1979.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The labels on the Y axis are garbled. Labels don't sit where the points are. The increments between tick marks are inconsistent. No cited data sources in the image. Google Gemini watermark. Share truth, not lies.

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026

an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/

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This Could Change The Way Victims Get Justice

David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pretty sure it's two-sided, just not as personal on the other side. It'll be People LIke You* she doesn't like. *for all the values of "people", "like", and "you" that you can imagine.

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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 23/09/2026

Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm surprised there aren't more politically-motivated hacks and infodumps. My 2010s experience of politicians and lobbyists is that their opsec was weak. Perhaps that changed.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)

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Smoking Smoking Cigarette

ALT: Smoking Smoking Cigarette

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is an absolutely brilliant story of how foster care regulations came to be cruel and impossible, and how they were fixed. open.substack.com/pub/eatingpo...

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How to Peel a Banana

Riding the cascade of rigidity to the third horizon

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bitter divorced subeditor at RNZ, much?

Radio New Zealand article with headline: Dunedin man loses $500,000 in 18-year romance scam

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That's around 20-odd jobs per data centre.

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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Finally a good election sign! #nzpol

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

At least it's not teenage boys. That's the ACT Party. #nzpol

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Menelaus: I been hacked. all my wife gone. please help me.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

American baby boomers: "our parents told us we were weak because we hadn't fought Nazis, so we brought them back for you."

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I dunno, "unhygienic greasy wank" is a pretty good metaphor for some of the governing we've had lately.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Valid choice! It'll be like Christmas every day for them whenever they remember you and giggle at your double entendres. "Remember when we took Aunty to the fireman races and she looked around said 'mmm, I'm thirsty!' so loudly one of them blushed? Turned out she just wanted a G&T!"

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sounds like the sort of thing an old person would say! We moved culture and language away from our parents to make it ours, and now the same has happened to us. It's the way of the world.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

No. That is not real. No human ever said those words.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

OMG yes. Or anyone really, these days. I visibly eye twitch whenever someone says it at work. VISIBLY.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That's quite the erection. In civil engineering terms, I mean.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That's a great way to traumatise a lot of older people! "Your uncle George didn't eat that pudding very gracefully. It looks like he's been playing a rusty trombone." "Nana! That has a rude meaning these days!" "I said what I said, G."

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I say this with love, as a Gen Xer who has come to grips with "hook up" no longer being safe to use in a non-sexual sense. Kids, it used to just mean "meet up with" before it meant "have a one-night stand with".

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My god, sack the writers

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 18/09/2026

Me (to a little boy beside me in a cafe who is wearing a yellow coat): Nice coat. Little boy: Thank you. It means when night comes I can hide as a star.

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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hindsight is actually how they got Bambi's mother.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally the police have something to go on.

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Julie Anne Genter @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz · 17/09/2026

Just leaving this here.

Screen shot of post article with headline “Poll: Chlöe Swarbrick beats Nicola Willis in Economy as voters sceptical of growth plan”. Image photo of Chlöe Swarbrick, Barbara Edmonds and Nicola Willis on a panel.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I admire that man so much. The way he talks about grief was very good for us to hear, and it came around when we needed to hear it.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/14/n... says Auckland council is appealing central government's fast-tracked approval to develop 3854 houses on a flood plain. At the same time, National candidate said poor planning is exacerbating climate related disasters. 🤔 newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/14/n...

Analysis: As a newly appointed High Court judge, Justice Rachel Sussock will no doubt want to enforce her authority on the hearing that begins before her this morning. Because otherwise, Auckland Council’s appeal against the fast-track approval for developer Chris Meehan’s contentious Sunfield community in south Auckland could spiral off in all kinds of directions.

In what could be an awkwardly timed test challenge to the housing projects being shovelled through the Government’s new centralised consenting regime, the council is appealing the decision to approve the 3854 new homes proposed to be built on a flood-plain near Takanini.

It will be watched closely by councils around the country, and also by parties contesting November’s national election – because this goes to the heart of the Government’s abandonment of all pretence of localisation. National was elected on a policy of giving back voice to local communities; the opposite has been true.

After the interview was published this morning, Budd shared it on his Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.

Several hours later, he posted again to claim his comments had been taken out of context, saying: “Rest assured, I do believe that climate change is manmade.”

“My comments were specific to what I learned at Harvard’s Real Estate Management Program. There, I learned that poor urban planning is exacerbating climate related disasters. We have evidence of this here in NZ specifically.

“My background is in real estate and that is the lens I was bringing to the conversation. Of course, higher emissions worldwide are causing more climate disasters. You only need to look at our own backyard to notice that.”

Asked by Newsroom about Budd’s comments, Luxon said he had not seen the detailed remarks but welcomed the Whangārei candidate’s clarification.

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PHANZA Professional Historians of New Zealand / Aotearoa @phanza.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Aotearoa History and Heritage Alliance, including PHANZA, has released an open letter on the deeply damaging and far-reaching impacts of proposed cuts at Archives NZ and the National Library. Read the letter at the link below and please share widely. phanza.org.nz/wp-content/u...

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