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Reminds me of something said by then health spokesperson for her party, later Minister for Internal Affairs, Brooke van Velden. She's a member of our Libertarian party, if it wasn't obvious from the idea of "blowing out" the value on human life.

"When it came to COVID, we completely blew
out what the value of a life was, completely, I've
never seen such a high value on life." That's a
quote from ACT health spokesperson Brooke
van Velden speaking during a political panel
discussion at the recent Health Tech Week.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Happy Necromunday, here's a lady with a big hammer

House Escher Matriarch kitbashed from one of the Blades of the Matriarch bodies. One leg up on an incongruous tactical rock, thunder hammer resting on her shoulder, pointing and yelling at someone who needs their kneecaps removing

Rear view of the same model to show the little bit of sculpting work required to add the missing detail to the shoulder of the thunder hammer arm which is normally hidden by the sculpt.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kria's a nice sculpt; I turned her into a leader for my own Escher gang

Escher Queen converted from Kria the Huntress by fitting her with the sweet coat and shock whip from the Escher gang kit, and a Forge World upgrade head and plasma pistol

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The logo looks wrong, too.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He seems real invested in the legality of marrying 17 year-olds, too

No one is "advocating" for child marriage
nor even marrying at 17. Just recognizing the
reality of it and that it's not immoral or even
necessarily wrong.
And 17 is not child marriage. That's
reallv dishonest to assert. It's iust blatant
equivocation. It's cant - an appeal to emotion

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's a damaged statue, which definitely doesn't have anyone hiding inside it

The warhammer plus subscribers' mini 'Umbral Six'. A Vindicare Assassin perched in the shattered head of a statue depicting a Sister of Battle.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Chaplain on bike has a pretty nice one with an integrated halo, if you can get it. Though then you're left with no helmet for the biker.

Black Templars Chaplain kitbashed from the Marshal by giving him a skull helmet and replacing his axe above the wrist chain with a crozius.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Makes sense, given how focused their messaging is on a vote for Labour bringing in their ~crazy coalition partners~ while pointedly ignoring that they're in the exact same position.

National party campaign ad: a billboard split vertically into red and blue halves. On the red half, the text reads "9 new taxes Labour Coalition" on the blue half, the text reads "No new taxes National" without mentioning that they are in a coalition government right now. Some local wag has changed the "No" in the blue half to a 10.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Collector's editions are for the whales, obviously, but you're looking for a pretty big fucking whale at this point.

The limited edition Space Marines Codex, at a crisp $826 New Zealand Dollars.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I did what I always do when I've never heard of a piece of media and went over to TV Tropes to have a look, and excuse me, what the fuck are these names?

List of names of characters in 'The Brotherhood' including, but not limited to "Rhage", "Zhadist", "Murhder", and Brian.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Black plague? How about the Red Death?

Old and janky photo of a Chaos Lord with the Mark of Nurgle. I can't remember what he's called in Age of Sigmar these days. Pay no attention to the fact that I apparently missed the fly on his bracer.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

TradeMe, why do you even have an AI search? What is it adding to the task of searching listings?

Some sort of competition being run by trademe (a New Zealand site for buying and selling 2nd hand) advertising bonus entries for using "AI Search"

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Well, it's got yellow *on* it

Reaver-Class Titan 'Fury Intractable' of the Legio Gryphonicus, armed with a power fist, melta cannon, and carapace-mounted turbo laser.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Unsurprised I (Kiwi) ended up in New England, slightly troubled by the tinge of Florida.

Heat map of the USA showing the area my dialect sounds the strongest like

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Never send a machine to do a human's job

Picture of a human hand making a "jerk-off" motion. The image is captioned "[DISMISSIVE WANKING GESTURE]"

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'd been using one of my Praetors as a Legion Champion for #horusheresy, but I've decided I need a more permanent solution.

Legion Champion for Horus Heresy made from the Loyalist Overseer Consul with the helmet from an Ultramarines Praetor and sword from the new Cataphractii Terminator kit.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Well, they do kind of have that in Infinity, but unfortunately it's William Wallace so the pun doesn't work.

William Wallace, from Infinity: the Game by Corvus Belli. He's a cyborg recreation of the famous Scot, built as a leader for the faction that combines the remnants of the EU, UK, USA, and Russia.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Similarly, while Portofiro clearly isn't the *safest* place in the world, it doesn't seem too bad if you're careful. Especially since multiple people are willing to give random strangers work under the table.

Zoomed out view of the Bootlegger's Bazaar area in ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you see this, post your riders!

Three Ultramarines on Scimitar-pattern jetbikes armed with multi-meltas

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ready to give a forces of Hell a good whack upside the head. #trenchcrusade

Prussian Stoßtruppen for Trench Crusade, armed with grenades and a trench club.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Got one of the all-time sicko Clone runs in StS2.

Run history screen from Slay the Spire 2 for an Ascension 10 Ironclad run. Note the 128x Perfected Strikes.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

No... it seems to have some correlation with how tall the image is, because wider images don't have the same problem for me, but I don't know how to fix it either. It's an annoying workaround, but maybe type the alt text in Notes and then paste it in?

Screenshot from a Galaxy S22 showing alt text being added to a portrait photo in Bluesky. The Samsung keypad is creeping over the text box.

Screenshot from a Galaxy S22 showing alt text being added to a landscape photo in Bluesky. The Samsung keypad is sitting nicely below the text box now.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I think they're mad that not enough Israelis are protesting the genocide in Gaza. Which is fair enough, but the vibes seem pretty rancid. Especially the weird use of currency symbols to spell "Jewish"...

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just mute his name if you don't want to see it

A tweet from the official DOOM video game account. It reads "you control the buttons you press"

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Men are pigs [statement] vs men are pigs [imperative]

Anne Hathaway as Penelope in 'The Odyssey' (2026)

Samantha Morton as Circe in 'The Odyssey' (2026)

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

If you never got a virus from this application, we cannot talk to each other

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My practical is "hit that guy with this big chainsaw I've got"

An Ultramarines Praetor in Cataphractii armour, pointing offscreen at something that's going to get chainsawed.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I don't have any real intent to play 40k, and if I did it probably wouldn't be "Ultramarines again but larger." That said, this conversion idea kept bouncing around inside my skull and I had the bits to do it, so I picked up an Armageddon Captain and exorcised it from my brain.

The Space Marine Captain from the new 40k Armageddon box. He's been converted to have an axe from the Victrix Honour Guard and a Horus Heresy Invictarus Suzerain shield.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Taking the absolute piss.

The baggage train carts for preorder on the New Zealand Warhammer site, for a crisp $156.00 NZD.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

That's pretty clearly just the light hitting the inside edge of the claw...

Close-up of the head of a claw-hammer, with red lines crudely added to show where the light is hitting in the poster being discussed.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

'Shiny' isn't my usual beat, but I have painted the occasional giant golden man.

Obryn the Bold from Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire. A Stormcast Eternals Liberator in warm, golden armour with purple shoulder pads and leather details. He has been lightly kitbashed to have a great axe instead of the normal hammer.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The shape of one of the shields made my brain itch in a certain way, and then I realised what I was looking at. How cool to hearken back to the older generation of WoC to sell the idea that we're in the past of the Old World (and create some breathing room with the AoS Chaos, too, no doubt).

The 5th edition plastic Chaos Warriors. All hunchbacked and scrungley

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'll second the Tyrant Philosophers series.

The cover of 'City of Last Chances' by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The first book in the aforementioned series.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I'm okay with paying more tax if it means children are fed, public transport is affordable, and people can get seen at the emergency room.

That one Norman Rockwell painting. You know the one.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Well, that sure cleared things up

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I ran across Nomen Ryne, a villain in one of the Dark Heresy sourcebooks, and thought "Arch Heretek" was the coolest title ever. At some point I dropped the "Arch", because everyone kept shortening it to that, but I preferred "Heretek" if it was going to be shortened at all.

The Arch-Heretek Nomen Ryne from Dark Heresy first edition (he might be in 2nd, I don't know). He is a cyborg dressed in tattered brown robes, wearing a mask that looks like a pale, expressionless face with closed eyes. Four mechadendrites curl around him, two with small claws, one with a syringe, ans one with a human brain floating in a jar of green liquid.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Might have to put that one in my Immodane deck. She's even called the Pyrohammer!

Imodane, the Pyrohammer 2RR
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Whenever an instant or sorcery spell you control that targets only a single creature deals damage to that creature, Imodane deals that much damage to each opponent.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

favoritepokemon.vercel.app

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I think it looks pretty solid, only a couple of suggestions Have you considered Unmarked Grave? It's more of a reanimator card, but it's just another tutor for Gale, since it finds any nonlegendary, not just creatures Out of the Tombs might be worth a look, too, if you feel like living dangerously

Out of the Tombs

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two eon counters on this enchantment, then mill cards equal to the number of eon counters on it.

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If you can't, you lose the game.

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