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Some Guy Called John @justsomejohn.bsky.social · 9h

I was a little too slow skipping the ads on the latest episode of It Could Happen Here, which is how I learnt the service that auto places region specific ads into podcasts is doing a fantastic job wasting the ACT Party's money.

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Some Guy Called John @justsomejohn.bsky.social · 20h

The latest in a series of screenshots I like to call 'Sports Headline or Niche Furry Porn?'

A headline from the website stuff.co.nz reading 'Watch: Roosters edge Knights in NRL grand final thriller'

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Andy Little @andylittle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's so funny to see the right paint Chloe Swarbrick as a dangerous radical. I hope it leads more people to learn about crazy Green policies like 'people should be able to afford food' and 'public transport shouldn't suck ass' #nzpol

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rimu bhū’ī (they/them) @rimubhooi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some people online seem to fundamentally misunderstand so let me clarify: if there was a political party further left of the greens many of us would vote for them instead 😀👍🏽

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Maggie Mae Fish 🐟 @maggiemaefish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I also believe in restorative justice but I don't think that means you get to become a pillar of a community and garner an audience and an income that relies solely on everyone including yourself staying silent about your actions. In the VIDEO GAME SPHERE no less.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Greens just mop the floor with every other party in terms of lucid, prepared, compassionate, visionary policy … and yet till get jeered at as ‘those wacky Greens’ by their generally lazy, crowing, complacent counterparts in the other parties.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In the beginning, the amazing Green policy announcements that shape political conversations were spaced by weeks. The most recent are three days apart. We could see a double-event before the election. #nzpol

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My diagnosis of the last 30 years of Labour & National politics is that National has lied that its spending cuts won't affect services and Labour lies that it can pay for meaningful service improvements without increasing taxation. Two sides of the same visibly false coin.

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Transphobia, genocide and climate disasters are literally being funded and exacerbated by intensely unlikeable billionaires. If you don't know how to make that relevant to the working class, that's really just a you problem

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Some Guy Called John @justsomejohn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As someone who loves getting lost in an intense body genre experience, Zach Cregger's Resident Evil is a superb popcorn horror. As someone who can be a pretentious horror film nerd, theres so much good craft on display in Zach Cregger's Resident Evil. Shout out to the lighting and set design teams.

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Some Guy Called John @justsomejohn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📌“He was quickly over run and the elephants trampled him into the earth and all that we found was basically a very large blood stain around the clothing he was in.” Good news is hard to find these days, friends. Enjoy!

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Poacher tried to shoot rhinos but was trampled to death by elephants instead

An armed rhino poacher in South Africa’s Kruger National Park was trampled to death when a herd of elephants charged as he lined up a shot for the animals’ lucrative horns

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Some Guy Called John @justsomejohn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Old films look and sound better than new films" factoid is actually just survivorship basis. The average old film was pretty average. Sergio Leone, who lived in Italy & produced over 10,000 beautiful images per movie, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Me in 2050: …and that’s how Macklemore became a civil rights icon. My son, Dale Jr.: Wow his music must’ve been incredible. Me: Dale Jr.: Like so many good songs. Me: Dale Jr.: Was he the A Change Is Gonna Come Guy? Me: Dale Jr.: Me:

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Some Guy Called John @justsomejohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

95% of the time I find a piece of art that seems tailor made to appeal to my specific interests: No-one I know IRL listens to my recommendation, the fandom remains small, if its a TV show it gets canceled after one season. The other 5% of the time: 14 Emmys.

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Some Guy Called John @justsomejohn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Aotearoa has been producing some top tier genre films recently and I'm glad to say Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant is another banger addition to the list. A gross out body horror comedy with dry kiwi sarcasm, creative effects, unsubtle metaphors, and heaps of slime. What a weird, unique film.

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Brad Company @waeherebro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For those in the back: The total amount the New Zealand government has spent on all historical Waitangi Tribunal settlements over the last 30+ years is less than the cost of a single year of the 2024 tax cuts for Landlords.

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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The state of it

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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh hey it's the Opportunistic Party's number one donor donating to fash parties again. Gee I wonder why he supports TOP 🤔

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1/200 Media @1of200.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New Article! Chris Hipkins Must Resign ✒️ The Coalition government is a coalition of death. They’ve scrapped any attempt to mitigate climate change, they’ve underfed & jailed children, they’ve thrown poor people on the street, & Hipkins seems to be doing everything to ensure they win a second term

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Chris Hipkins Must Resign — 1/200

The coming election should be the easiest win imaginable for the Labour Party. Instead, per the latest right-wing poll, they’re set to lose . This is attributable to Labour leader Chris Hipkins. He h...

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Some Guy Called John @justsomejohn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

After too much of thought my actual problems with Disclosure Day are that it's ideas about: - Aliens are stuck in the 1970s (and are too America-centric) - Conspiracy Theories are all pre-9/11 - the media ecosystem ignores the fact everyone has been stuck in different reality tunnels since 2016

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Today's announcements Greens: let's feed people, support local growers, create jobs, and look after the planet Act: fuck the planet, every man for himself

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Some Guy Called John @justsomejohn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637

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Nick Hall @stopgostop.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yet again the Greens show that they are the only party with concrete plans to improve the lives of every Kiwi The others all rely on “maintaining the status quo, and hope”

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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nationals entire campaign strategy is just lie relentlessly with billboards and Ai slop because the truth would be to admit theyve made the cost of living worse, taken the economy backwards, failed on ferries, failed cops, failed on housing, excused racism and delivered just 54 nurses in 3 years.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yes it can! That’s literally the point of the government!!!

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AJ Fitzwater ⬛🟪⬜️🟨 @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My favourite place in the city! In an age of attacks on books from many places, seeing an indie store expand is heartening.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

At least in Terminator, the humans all eventually agree letting Skynet kill everybody was bad

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Some Guy Called John @justsomejohn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Me (to my friend as we leave the 25th Anniversary screening of The Fast and The Furious): Man, what a deeply 2001-ass movie. Them: Complimentary? Nostalgicly? Me: Derogatory.

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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Party Vote Green Party this election. "The difference in NZ is you can still protest Labour by party voting for the Green party & Still end up with a Labour Green coalition that would be proportionally more progressively left wing." [ bsky.app/profile/nzhe... ] #nzpol

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don't think it's very complicated. Ever since Kogan took over, things slowly got worse, then got MUCH worse with a terrible new website & transformation into an aliexpress/temu junk reseller rather than a store. Hard to find what you want & unclear who you're buying it from. Dreadful.

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How Mighty Ape lost nearly $93m in annual revenue — and its Christchurch warehouse

When Mighty Ape opened a 5500sq m distribution centre near Christchurch Airport in November 2023, the move looked like an expansion story.

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I've said it before but it bears repeating - if you're calling for young people to be banned from social media but you're not trying to give them a habitable planet, housing, food, or any of the material conditions that underpin health and wellbeing, then you're quite frankly full of shit

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Some Guy Called John @justsomejohn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This album is so good, Seethe might be my song of the year

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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 19/08/2026

leftist horror: what happens when your body is not your own? squriming and wriggling against your control as you try to restore it to what once was right-wing horror: what if a trans person killed you. wouldn't that be fucked up or what

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Dude fired all the public servants in the capital fucking city and enabled like 1,500 businesses to close down and is now whingeing about the vibes being off here. It’s your fault. You are to blame.

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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations the other week, and by the time we add the unemployed, the under-employed, the discouraged and withdrawn, and the economic refugees that have left the country, the actual unemployment rate is about 11.3% #nzpol

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