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APAC IT Manager for a global business, which has absolutely nothing to do with my posts. An eclectic mix of any damn thing I want.

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FIX MOJANG BEDROCK ANTI VIRAL SPIRAL @adventurewetpaint.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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GTRoberts @gtroberts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Magenta Kaos of Bright Hairy News @xkaosmagex.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you have opinions on supermarket prices, you should vote. If you have opinions on school bus routes, you should vote. If you have opinions on education at any level, you should vote. If you have opinions on anything in this country, you should vote. #nzpol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida...
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Candidates in the 2026 New Zealand general election by electorate - Wikipedia
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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
But they can cancel pay equity, ferry and related infrastructure upgrades, science funding rounds, climate change legal cases, nutritious locally run school lunch programs…
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Apart from the sop to Wayne Brown (pointlessly offering to study a Meola Reef bridge), this is just more of them trying to get out from under the idiotic plans ordained by Simeon Brown, without having to say so. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Live: PM and infrastructure minister speak to media at post-Cabinet conference
The government has announced a detailed business case for a new Waitematā Harbour crossing in Auckland.
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Jesus. Putting intl forestry companies ahead of the people, bridges, farms and coastlines of Tairāwhiti? This one thing sums up everything I hate about this government #vote #nzpol
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GTRoberts @gtroberts.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The World needs you to be elected!
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's honestly so crazy to me that we're facing a technological revolution that could displace millions of jobs in the middle of a housing affordability crisis and every day we talk about whether a trans woman is playing sports or if someone has a non-Anglo name.
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GTRoberts @gtroberts.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Came here to reply with the same thought! @countbinface.bsky.social must be elected. It really is that simple.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
AI can never replace real stock images Someone dreamed these up and had the courage to hire actors and make them real
Stock pic of a man caressing a skeleton with a bad wig. Is it his wife? We'll never knowStock pic of a doctor digging something out of a guy's ass like he's reeling in Moby dickStock pic of a guy in a suit with a balaclava holding an axe and a clockStock pic of someone about to run over a kid
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.
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Ben Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz · 13/08/2026
Remember how i said I was seeing endless National Party ads? Turns out it was not just a vibe. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Racist removes expertise and representation from another oversight body. #NzPol
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Health minister quietly slashes Māori representation on Nursing Council to one seat
Fears of political overreach as Health Minister Simeon Brown replaces Nursing Council board members, reducing Māori representation from six to one
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GTRoberts @gtroberts.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
the voting results were excessively disappointing :(
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"DNS is critical national infrastructure for NZ" ...whihc makes it a problem when a foreign-funded political interference op tries to take it over #FuckTheFSU
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GTRoberts @gtroberts.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The whole agm was painful :( "we" needed progressives to turn up and vote against these frustrating fsu people, but nope... people did their RT's and likes and thought that was enough it seems :( seriously disappointed in kiwis right now. i hope this isn't a hint of whats to come later this year.
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GTRoberts @gtroberts.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It was *super* disappointing that not more progressive voters turned up and voted :( Even blimmin a FSU getting onto the board was excessively annoying.
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My lasting image of Lindsey Graham will always be when he theatrically declared “Count me out. Enough is enough!” after January 6th — and then got back in with Trump more than ever before for Trump 2.0
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Lindsey Graham: “Count me out. Enough is enough”
Graham concluded by saying that “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are lawfully elected and will be the president and vice president of the United States on January the 20th,” earning applause from his coll...
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🧵This story is insane in so many ways that others are more qualified to analyze. Can only add that viz US foreign policy, Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, acting as viceroy of Venezuela is derelict, unconscionable, & impeachable. The SecState's time is scarce, valuable, and not outsourcable. 1/
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/07/2026
The wrongdoing in the GA election was POTUS pressuring state officials to "find" the exact number of votes he needed to win. This whole operation is just POTUS and the FBI abusing their power to continue that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E...
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Trump–Raffensperger phone call - Wikipedia
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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
If like me you are freezing in your house right now because it costs too much to turn on the heat - sign below 👇 This has almost 30,000 signatures and might just send a message to our don’t-care government that we don’t want power oligarchies in NZ - we want to be able to afford heating in winter.
campaigns.consumer.org.nz
Petition: End high power prices now
Back our four-point plan and help us fight for cheaper power.
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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 19/06/2026
the presence of meta AI in whatsapp, and the lack of a setting to disable it, was *much* more of a concern to us as parents than social media
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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is very sad and entirely predictable. Didn't even last two months. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
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Mr Singh @mrsingh.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
He's the voice of home owning white retirees without degrees who don't have any black or brown people living nearby.
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Libby Hudson @libbykerensky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Furthermore, I think high turnouts here and in some of the local elections (e.g. some wards in Sheffield) suggest that there is a strong anti-Reform/Restore vote.
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Jas K @chesterkop @chesterkop.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Sky news presenters are devastated & shocked reform haven't won. Sky news is reform official broadcaster so Beth & Sophie will start the "rigged election" breaking news by end of day
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Memo to pretty much (but obviously not quite) everybody in the media…
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Mitzi Macintosh 🌈🦄✊🏼🏳️‍⚧️ @graemebrowning.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
So there’s a meteor hurtling towards earth that is called “Climate Change” and not only are most of our governments ignoring it, we’re going to accelerate it and make the rich richer while 99% of the population get screwed over.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/06/2026
Truly though: why is this a war? What is the rush? Why scramble madly to suffer the socialised harms of a building where the benefits are both offshored and privatised? None of this makes any sense, it's just 3000 CEOs yelling because the people around them are yelling www.afr.com/companies/fi...
How Melbourne is set to beat Sydney in the war for data centres
Melbourne appears to be getting an edge over its northern rival. But other cities are pitching hard too and the backlash about energy and water consumption is rising.

Joyce MoullakisAssociate editor
Jun 12, 2026 – 12.37pm

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Melbourne and Sydney are in a fierce tussle for data centre primacy as both cities home in on the huge swaths of investment on offer, and the economic benefits that can flow from that.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Nigel Farage. A proper football fan who hasn't moved an inch in almost two years.
Farage with a pint in a football shirtSame picture
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/06/2026
Here's something you can't stick a piece of tape over: the widespread and fully socially permitted assumption that if you wear pervert glasses in public they are going to be smacked off your face by the largest and most physically intimidating person in the vicinity
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/06/2026
World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds
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World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds
JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say The world’s largest banks committed $906bn in financing to the fossil fuel industry last year, an “unfathomable” increase in investment locking in years more of coal, oil and gas production as the world continues to overheat, a new report has found. The surge in new fossil fuel lending, up $64bn or nearly 8% on 2024, shows that the world’s largest 65 banks are making decisions incompatible with international agreements to restrain rising global temperatures, according to the coalition of environmental groups behind the new analysis. Continue reading...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/06/2026
This article never actually addresses who Joyce is talking about, which is people who are not visibly white / Caucasian. It also doesn't mention that One Nation is a racist, white nationalist far-right party and that they're saying as part of that agenda
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Barnaby Joyce claims people who ‘look like’ recent arrivals dominate auctions. Who is he talking about?
Statistics show fewer than 1% of homes are bought by foreigners, as race discrimination commissioner warns against blaming migrants for housing woes
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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
lmao far right content makers are getting almost all of their revenue from rich benefactors and supplement sales, not paid subscribers. It's smoke and mirrors.
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This is a critical point: *today*, even in countries that don’t introduce policies & measures to support it, consumers can unilaterally enact electrification and demand destruction
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Glenn @mountaingoat55.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Everyone calls Trump a pedo and he never sues.
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
If the Epstein files were false, why hasn’t anyone named in them sued the Epstein estate for defamation?
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Trump is not protecting elections. He's trying to rig who can vote. SAVE Act will force citizens to dig up documents over & over and let DHS meddle w/ voter rolls. Call senators today. Keep the bill off the floor. Vote no on attempts to revive it. #SaveActTaxesYourVote #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The Axis of Epstein is going to attack Iran. #EpsteinFiles #TrumpIsAPedophile #DontBeDistractracted
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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
LOL. Americans still doing the 'war for freedom' bullshit. Nothing says 'freedom' like being dead under rubble.
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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 18/02/2026
📢 Outgoing Tower chairman Michael Stiassny says NZ has had ‘multiple wake up calls’ and while some progress has been made to address the impacts of extreme weather events, ‘it has been haphazard, inadequate and painfully slow'
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'Climate change crusader' & Tower chairman Michael Stiassny cuts loose at annual meeting
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
They are moving from Colorado.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
LEFT: Someone who appears in the Epstein files over a million times. Epstein called him his "best friend." RIGHT: Someone never mentioned in the Epstein files—even once. And she never met him. So guess which one is being hauled before our corrupt, cover-upping Congress to testify about Epstein.
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GTRoberts @gtroberts.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Or maybe an easily available number that you can show?? this could even be tattooed on your arm/wrist for "easy access" /s (FFS they're soooo obvious with what they what)
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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I identified four (4) NBA teams part-owned by a firm that sold a property to the Department of Homeland Security for a planned ICE detention center. And I explain why more owners could follow in the warehouse to megajail business. it's the new [eyeblack]:
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An NBA investor in four teams profits from immigrant athletes — and immigrant megajails
[eyeblack] identifies four NBA teams tied to an investor that made $120M selling property for a planned ICE detention center, and explains why more owners could follow.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
GOP Sen Lummis says she’s changed her mind after the new Epstein revelations today: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
Important thread 👇
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Even as authoritarian spin, this is hilariously bad
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Chris Minns and the NSW Police running lines about "the crowd really took part in some type of contagion of groupthink" and "small videos being put up ... out of context"; but somehow despite the "rolling melee of violence" there were no injuries to police www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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Live: Minns admits clashes 'don't look good' but defends police after Herzog rally clashes
Twenty-seven people were arrested, including 10 for assaulting police, on Monday night at a demonstration against Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia.
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