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DrFrazzled

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Starting to get fed up with the state of things.

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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 1h
🤯 amaze amaze amaze
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 19h
“AI” won’t solve Indigenous peoples’ healthcare gaps. @emilymbender.bsky.social and I speak with Keoni Mahelona, CTO of Te Hiku Media, about his work on Indigenous data sovereignty, and why it’s worth being skeptical when the “AI" industry says it cares about preserving Indigenous languages.
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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
events.humanitix.com/rock-the-vote Ōtepoti rangatahi - get in!
events.humanitix.com
Rock The Vote - Live at Southern Lights
An outdoor music festival to encourage youth voter enrolment . raise the youth vote! all ages / alcohol free
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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#NZPol
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026
Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud
60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera
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Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#81: Driverless
A screenshot of a headline to a Guardian column by Adrian Chiles. It reads "Driverless cars are taking us on a road to nowhere."

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It was just rotten bad luck, that was all. If I had been a little speedier in cracking Lady Hurlington’s jewellery safe then we may have been making our merry way back down the trellis when she and her brute of a husband returned from their late dinner. As it was, the Colonel caught us rather red-handed and it was only by the swiftness of my reactions that I avoided being run-through by the regimental sword he kept above the fireplace. Poor ‘Blinky’ Blenkinsop, my companion in crime, was not so lucky; the Colonel pierced him right in the breadbasket, with a triumphant cry of ‘Take that, you bounder!’ The pompous oaf’s celebration did however give me the moment’s grace I needed to grab a heavy candlestick from the table and deliver a hefty blow to his muttonchops. While he clattered to the floor and her Ladyship fell into a faint, I managed to drag poor old Blinky down the stairs and out the front door - straight into the midst of the thickest fog London had ever seen.
Blinky was bleeding heavily, claret colouring both his evening dress and mine. Behind us I could hear shouting voices and the whistle of a bobby. I knew I had to act fast.
A black shape drew up beside me. A taxicab. Without thinking, I opened the door and thrust poor Blinky in, then tapped on the cab window. “Piccadilly, driver, and don’t spare the horses”. Before I was even inside the taxicab’s door we were moving.
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Spared from the immediate attentions of the constabulary, I set about attending to Blinky. Using my silk scarf, I attempted to plug the wound in his belly. He groaned loudly at my touch.
“Hush now, Blinky,” I told him, “We’ll have you fixed up in no time.”
He just shook his head.
“No,” he moaned, “Deserve all that’s coming. Time to pay the piper.”
“What rot!” I scoffed, “The piper can go hang.” But I knew what he meant.
Our last job, robbing a diamond merchant’s in Hatton Garden had gone badly; a night watchman had surprised us and I, thinking only of our survival, had delivered him a terrible blow to his skull, one from which he had subsequently perished. I know that this was preying on poor Blinky’s mind.
“Be quiet now,” I said to him, “save your strength.”
While he rested, I peered through the taxicab’s window but could see nothing; mere shapes and shadows, insubstantial. At one point I sensed that we were moving over water, though I could think of no bridge that would take us to Piccadilly.
I leaned out of the window, tapped again on the cab.
“Driver?” There came no answer. Unnerved now, I stepped out onto the running plate - the road but a vague blur beneath me, almost like fog itself - and peered through the driver’s window.
No man sat at the wheel. We passengers, myself and Blinky, were the taxicab’s only occupants.
I lifted my head, looked out into the fog. We were no longer in London.
We were, it appeared to me, no longer anywhere at all.
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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thinking of getting a new T Shirt made for all the wāhine out there suffering from imposter syndrome: “If a dickhead like Luxon can be PM you can achieve anything”
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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oY3C...
m.youtube.com
Dunedin: Brand New Day
YouTube video by Dunedin NZ
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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Further enshittification
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Sir Michael @sirmichael.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Are there downsides to AI? Yes. But there are even more positives: CONS -Makes everything more expensive -Will kill us all PROS -AI is easy to spell -Summarises texts for some reason -We were all going to die sometime anyway See? 3 pros and only 2 cons. Hopefully this assuages everyone's concerns
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 09/09/2026
“For heaven’s sake, Elroy! Now look where the earth is! … Move over and let me drive!”
“For heaven’s sake, Elroy! Now look where the earth is! … Move over and let me drive!”
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What is consciousness? What is sentience? These are philosophical question that have been asked since the dawn of time. How lucky we are to live in a time where 7 people in Northern California realised the answer is “being able to predict the most statistically significant next word in a sentence”
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Chris @seismicshed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Not only is this a phenomenally talented young woman, her band fucking rock too. That is not easy.
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E-Tangata @etangata.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“People like David Seymour like to frame what we’re doing as selecting medical students based on race. No, that’s actually the issue we’re trying to correct — historically our admissions processes have selected an overwhelmingly Pākehā student cohort.” — Professor Papaarangi Reid.
e-tangata.co.nz
David Seymour is afraid of MAPAS because it’s working | E-Tangata
“People like David Seymour like to frame what we’re doing as selecting medical students based on race. No, that’s actually the issue we’re trying to correct — historically our admissions processes hav...
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a GOTTLE O’ GEER”
Anthony Hopkins and a ventriloquists dummy.
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth
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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What's wrong, Sheffield? You've hardly looked at your unfinished Ronnie O'Sullivan mural. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Sheffield artist defends "unfinished" Ronnie O'Sullivan mural
The mural on a snooker club wall has gone viral - but artist says "touch-ups" are still needed.
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Made me lol
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 17/08/2026
How to win at most all things:
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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
❤️🎶
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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Everyone who works harder than me is guilty of romanticizing their academic calling. Everyone who does less work than me is a lazy hack. Only I know the exactly correct balance between being exploited and phoning it in
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Jasmin Taylor @meshedlight.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ōtepoti: a last minute request from local group Save Dunedin Live Music they've got a survey that'll help them get input from community & advocate to DCC to support live music scene If you complete survey tonight, they can do their report by tomorrow 👍👍 Survey: savedunedinlivemusic.com
savedunedinlivemusic.com
Dunedin Music, NZ Music, DCC Dunedin, Otepoti Music, Otago Music
Visit the post for more.
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Damien Owens’ tweet from 2022:

“I’m 50. All celebrity news looks like this:

‘CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT’

but I’ve changed “celebrity” to “business”
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 13/08/2026
The wealthiest man in human history—who clearly performed several Nazi salutes on Inauguration Day 2025—is directly responsible for the deaths of up to 14 million people, including 4.5 million children, by 2030. He's not "quirky" or "weird" or "awkward". He's a fucking monster.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I enjoyed this. ordinaryabundance.com
ordinaryabundance.com
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A pattern of interference and racism.
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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
James Acaster’s “I just wanted to get away with it” bit is getting more use than I’d have hoped
youtu.be
James Acaster can’t stop laughing about the Harry Potter TV series 🧙‍♂️ | Off Menu Podcast
YouTube video by Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is a national chrisis
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
One of the worst cases of historical gaslighting is British people making up the word soccer and then giving shit to anyone who uses it.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Presumably if you select “Middle English”, your doctor immediately offers you bloodletting and a poultice made from frog blood
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Robert Patman @robertgpatman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The outburst of the NZ Foreign Minister in the country's Parliament seems to be symptomatic of a deeper problem - diplomatic incoherence: www.odt.co.nz/news/world/f...
odt.co.nz
Foreign policy rethink needed to undo reputational damage, Prof Patman urges
Foreign policy rethink needed to undo reputational damage, Prof Patman urges
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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What’s up babe, you’ve hardly touched your Cronenbergian worm armadillo with a side of sphincter.
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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Oh for goodness sake. Rage bait alert.
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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Terrible
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 04/08/2026
public libraries ftw
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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I get most of my exercise these days from shaking my head in disbelief.
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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This made me think we should start a feminist political party called Witch Party. Who is with me?
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Lana and Lilly Wachowski make a great documentary about how much people enjoy working in data centres
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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Incredible stuff from Avalon Nursery.
Guys I’m sorry about my last few posts picking on Agapanthus & Yuccas. I understand lots of you like these plants so I do apologise. I will admit, there is a time and a place for all plants including those two. And that time is never and that place is hell. Bye
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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
☹️
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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Know the signs, enroll online: vote.nz
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Dr Gary Payinda @garypayinda.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If you're anywhere near #Dunedin, this Health Debate will be worth attending. f.mtr.cool/bnttwhosjk #BHN
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Tom @tdawks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A good name for a bus stop, and also a fun party game for bishops.
A photograph of a London bus stop. The stop is called Tooting, The Mitre'.
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DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🧑‍🍳💋
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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Your daily reminder that our individual prospects are a raffle at birth
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This might be it. Finally, after all these years. The sentence that turns me into an axe murderer.
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