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Juha Saarinen

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Vulnerability chronicler pursuivant.

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Patrick Morgan @patrickmorgan.bsky.social · 10h
New Zealand has more cars than USA and Australia, per capita. Why is this problem invisible? How could we fix it? Join us on Friday as we discuss with Prof. @ianwalker.bsky.social from Swansea University. Get your free tickets events.humanitix.com/motonormativ... @cyclewgtn.bsky.social
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Motonormativity: How we struggle to see the problems of car dependency
Motonormativity underpins car dependency and all the harms that entails. Prof Walker looks at how it arises, how it is shaped, and what we might do about it.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 2h
I had to look up what B&B pickles are and "The name dates back to the 1920s and 1930s, popularized by Illinois farmers Omar and Cora Fanning." Also: burgers are my least favourite food.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 2h
www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions... I've seen this stuff many times over a long time now, and it should be illegal to force employees to become contractors who have to buy their own gear. Economic dependence that Australia's moved away from.
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Auckland bin collectors dumped, offered chance to buy their own rubbish trucks
Almost two dozen rubbish truck drivers in east and south Auckland have been dumped, with some offered the option to buy their own trucks and become contractors instead.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 3h
You might very well think so, but we just enjoyed the cucumber.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 4h
Probably should've done an un-canning thing to show the big, 100 g cucumber and the mustard seeds that gave it a big flavour lift, plus the little spike to use for fishing everything out. Either way, delicious.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 6h
Looking forward to this German snack. Sliced up on burgers
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 13h
Won't that cause a giant Glad Wrap bubble though, which could pop?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is how we should see these magnificant animals, not hauled up on a boat or in fillets on a slab. We should no more catch or kill this rare and stunning megafauna than we should trap or kill tigers or whales. Here are some more of Rupert’s photos from yesterday, with his kind permission.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 06/10/2026
US televangelist Jim Bakker, ensnared in fraud and sex scandal, dead at 86 reut.rs/4rNR6qV
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US televangelist Jim Bakker, ensnared in fraud and sex scandal, dead at 86
U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker, who built a multimillion-dollar empire and lived in opulence before being disgraced by a sex scandal, fraud conviction for bilking followers and divorce from television co-host Tammy Faye, died on Monday at age 86.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeh the Venezuela wasn't all that.
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Point made, nobody harmed, but yikes that was close!😱 NZ Greens announcement – promising funding for urgently needed solutions to the many risky level crossings along Auckland’s Western Line – illustrated in real time at Morningside this morning. (Also, note the many modes of travel! 🚊🚗🚶🏻‍♀️🚲🛴) #nzpol
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW ZEALAND MENTIONED! (a long way in)
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Secret chambers in Tutankhamun’s tomb could hold the burial of a lost Egyptian queen – we may get answers soon theconversation.com/secret-chamb...
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Secret chambers in Tutankhamun’s tomb could hold the burial of a lost Egyptian queen – we may get answers soon
There is growing interest in the possibility of hidden spaces next to the king’s tomb.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A Poirot as well.
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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
mockup wikipedia battle graphic - Battle of Fairford
w/dates, location Whelford just outside RAF Fairford
Result: Total rout of US forces

Belligerents infobox
One side: US Air Force, RAF, NATO
other side: 5 lads looking for red diesel
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sounds like it. Will be careful from now on.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Spring gardeners warned of Legionnaires’ disease risk after 135 hospitalised, 36 Canterbury cases". Did not realise that that disease was quite so easy to catch.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don't actually know what the rules and regs are currently. Australia has similar problems.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 01/10/2026
Turns out KillSec, that pro-Putin hacktivist group turned RaaS, was run by a sixteen year old, allegedly. www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...
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Teenager suspected of leading KillSec ransomware group as law enforcement seizes servers and leak site – Three arrests and eight searches across four European countries in an operation targeting a gro...
On 30 September 2026, law enforcement took control of KillSec’s leak site, securing at least 110 terabytes of data against further unauthorised access. The cybercrime group used the site to threaten o...
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sounds like there's no retracting the prior orders to vote split so that should be interesting for National.
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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is my last day in Ōtepoti so I will conclude with my data viz on Ōtepoti beard trends. As you can see, between the age of 50 and 55 the trend line somehow goes beyond beard before doing a hard reset.
Line chart with title "Ōtepoti hair trends".

Y axis has label "Estimated Facial Hair" with markers "moustache" and then "beard".

X axis has label "Estimated Age" with markers from 20 to 70.

Trend line is hairless up to the age of 25 then gradually rises past moustache and then beard before resetting to hairless at the age of 55.
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Briiiiiiaaaaannnnnssss!! @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 03/10/2026
Getting ratioed to hell over there
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Me too. Ideally, people shouldn't feel that desperate either, as I don't think there's much money in metal theft.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Man charged over copper theft at Grafton substation, Kāhui St David’s 1905 pipe organ among widespread damage www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/... Lots of sucky metal theft everywhere at the moment.
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'Massive damage': Man in high-vis charged after inner-city copper cable theft
A resident said most apartment power meters appeared to need replacing.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some very ebullient grapes sizzle over the more pedestrian plums in this beautiful still life from 1762 by Luis Egidio Melendez. It's his day today.
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/10/2026
The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, according to a study that probed “terminal instability” during the Sun’s death.
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Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable and Will Be Completely Destroyed, Study Finds
The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, according to a study that probed “terminal instability” during the Sun’s...
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Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looking through some old stuff and found this cartoon I cut out c1996. They just never really have new ideas, just new packaging. (For younger readers - right wing think tank the NZ Initiative formed out of a merger of the NZ Business Roundtable and the NZ Institute in 2012.)
Photo of a black and white cartoon with a bunch of men sitting around an executive board table. A sign in front reads “Quiet please, Roundtable in session”. From left to right they are saying:
“The govt should get out of education and health…”
“We need more contestability in social welfare…”
“the govt should sell ACC and the post office…”
“We should privatise electricity and roading…”
“Seen the polls? Winston could be the next PM”
“That’s disgraceful. What happened to the New Zealand we all knew and loved?”
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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm a left-of-Labor voter, which has often meant voting 1 for the Greens. You'd be right surmising my politics are pretty anti-war too. But failing to aid Ukraine's defence against invasion is loathsome and the purported principle invoked is one that does not meet the moment
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New Greens leader: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance
David Shoebridge believes the Greens can win votes by campaigning to scrap the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact and legalise recreational cannabis.
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cost of fixing storm-damaged Whangārei roads balloons to more than $23m
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Cost of fixing storm-damaged Whangārei roads balloons to more than $23m
The cost of fixing storm damage inflicted on Whangārei district roads earlier this year has risen to more than $23 million - of which almost $11m has been spent clearing one giant landslide.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How to deceive a human being. Featuring Elizabeth Holmes, Richard E. Grant, the unblinking CEO of Manchester City, the Labour party conference and Oxford Street. Read all about it in my brand new newsletter! countbinface.substack.com/p/how-to-dec...
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How to deceive a human being
A handy alien guide to some dos and don’ts
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ahem; the politics wasn't why you voted for him, was it now?
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badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Timeline cleanse
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Could we swap one of the debates for the election for a jumpstyle dance-off between the leaders?
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Virginia Cattell @virgcatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Beautiful Four Last Songs - Madeleine Pierard with the NZSO
Madeleine in bright red dress receiving applause with conductor Sir Donald Runnicles
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.
Graphic showing a single lane 9 m wide track for metros, a 35 m wide road for buses with four lanes, and a 175 m wide road for cars with seven lanes, making the point that one single track of Metro replaces seven lanes of car traffic. Mobility in cities is about space.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@stilgherrian.com Do you have moments like these: thespinoff.co.nz/society/03-1... where you are from?
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Kiwibank is desperately trying to stop people saying they want to fuck its sheep mascot
But for every lustful post killed by a legal threat, another 10 take its place.
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
look I'm sorry but you called her "Buck the Sheep" and the song playing over the ad opens LOVING YOU, ISN'T THE RIGHT THING TO DO I don't understand what they thought was going to happen youtu.be/B2cQW_MQRtQ?...
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Buck the System | Kiwibank
YouTube video by Kiwibank
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What can I say? We know what the people want 🚂 💚 From earlier this year: the sold-out Hamilton-Tauranga train 👇
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026
Andy Kaufman's New Special www.tumblr.com/oldshowbiz/8...
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Delwyn Dickey @delwynd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I went from Auckland to Wellington and back on the overnight train on a school trip at Primary school. We had sleeper carriages - it was great fun! Must be more than 50 years ago. Auckland-Wellington sleeper train part of Green Party’s $4.02b passenger rail pitch www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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Auckland-Wellington sleeper train part of Green Party’s $4.02b passenger rail pitch
The Greens are proposing a $4.02b passenger rail plan spanning Auckland, Wellington, Tauranga, Christchurch and Dunedin.
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is my clip and GIF of the election. Both as a creator of joy and a prediction of what is to come. Entitled boys trying to take down the 💚GREENS💚.. (National, Labour, NZ last and no FACTs) #nzpol
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton theconversation.com/the-dawn-of-... if only I had had something like that for pub brawling
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The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
Powered robotic devices designed to enhance the wearer’s physical capabilities are being developed for an increasing range of uses.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Even though we know better now (and idiots deny it), mastering chemical energy is an amazing feat. I am sage and parsley like that on Saturday evenings.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
YOLO?
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JennYFromHR @jennyfromhr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
MinterRudd sending out DMCA notices though
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ah. You mean motorising? Gotcha.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The PC cases weren’t mine I should add.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yeah nicely organised and painless
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Anti-government posters seen around Wellington, New Zealand
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