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Ken

@kenzime.bsky.social
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Not here for pointless arguments, and if you want that my method is block early and without regret. Living the dream in the deep south Pacific. Probably lots of dog photos, beach and bush. I swear, a lot. I make a lot of typos.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 10h
This is great but I wish when articles touted how much shorter-lived methane is in the atmosphere compared to CO2 they would point out that methane degrades to CO2.
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Greenhouse gases hit record levels in New Zealand's atmosphere, new data shows
The greenhouse gases that cause global warming have increased to new record levels in New Zealand's atmosphere, new data shows.
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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 11h
To say I did not have high hopes for this government would be an understatement, but I am nonetheless agog at the utter dogs breakfast they have turned the science funding system into in 3 short years
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 8h
Also.... "When any other country gets to 96.3 percent renewable electricity, then you might want to throw some stones at us. "But until then, I'm not that interested in what Laura Clarke or anybody else says, frankly." Stone the motherfuckers...
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 16h
I am NOT sharing this with my darling.
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Pat Brittenden @patbrittenden.bsky.social · 17h
#BHN In September, a combined 1,064,000 NZers interacted with at least one piece of our content, on our main three platforms...that's about 20% of the country Not bad for a couple of smelly, unshaven, clowns sitting in their mum's basements 😂😂😂 #nzpol #nzpolitics @chewienz.bsky.social
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 18h
Exactly 😤😡
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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 18h
This is a good headline! It refuses to amplify the false claim by using "wrongly", and includes the truth in the headline for everyone who doesn't read the full story (which is mostly everyone). It's also compelling clickbait for those ad guys. Now do this all the time!
The Post:
Christopher Luxon wrongly suggests allegation about Greens came from media - it came from his minister

Henry Cooke

The Post
October 2, 2026
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 16h
I was first working in HVAC in the early 90s and I remember CO2 being around 350 ppm or so, i can remember 390 ppm and thinking "fucking hell, thats moved a lot" We're well over 420 ppm, and every year seems to hit a new record of emmisions. Sorry kids, I have been trying my best.
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GeekeryNZ @geekerynz.bsky.social · 19h
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Geneva 🇨🇦 @geneva1111.bsky.social · 20h
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 18h
School holidays In town Too many people Verging on carpark rage If i make it out of this last one I will be home free. Wish me luck....
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 20h
Is there some sort of game release or similar today? There was a big pre opening queue outside a shop and its the first time I've seen it in real live. People with chairs and all. Im feeling like grandpa simpson and no longer with it!
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Guardrails for A.I. My #cartoon today #AI #Trump
Cartoon. Title: “All We Need” Three frames. First frame: President Trump sitting in the Oval Office, addressing the viewer, “The only guardrail A.I. needs…” 2nd frame: Trump tapping his head, saying, “Is a strong and smart (HIGH IQ!!!) President” 3rd frame: Trump has fallen asleep and is dribbling. In the background two people are leaving the room, and one is saying, “Right, you heard the man! We’ve gotta find a strong and smart President!”
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can’t speak for NZ’s electoral history, but can authoritatively say that nothing like what I'm studying at present around the far-right's influence operations, coordinated messaging, & related funding (propped by billionaires) was this evident in the lead up to the 2023 general election. #nzpol
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All this bullshit is fucking draining.
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Peter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Worth remembering that if it costs the government $4.5b to reverse the gender pay tax, then it costs the women affected $4.5b to leave it in place.
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think im going to stop reading things now. Or get back into opiates, not sure.
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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No new taxes... #NZpol #Listener #cartoon
Luxon: "No new taxes"Cartoon depicts PM Luxon on an election podium in fron of an audience. Luxon: "No new taxes."
Various audience members heckle: 
"Or nurses
Or Police
Or Ferries
Or houses
Or equal pay
Or libraries
Or Bridges
Or ideas."
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But he said he was going to end that within 24 hrs if he got elected, didnt he do that?
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh, cool, nothing could go wrong.
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time to pull the plug, the US is done.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Opportunity‘s bottom lines are wobblier than the lines on a Squiggle. All the party has done is confirm what everyone I argued against said: they’re probably willing to swallow anything to be part of government. So, as someone who just resigned from the party: I was wrong about them.
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So Elon Musk is saying that AI is going to usher in an era of not just universal income but high universal income. Can someone explain this to me in a way that a simpleton can understand? Where does the money come from? Cos sure as shit wont be from the billionaires.
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another couple of observations, modern car headlights are obscenely bright when dimmed, i flashed a couple of cars thinking they were blasting when they weren't, and had the same happen to me. Dickheads who drive at 80 then speed up to 120 in passing lanes should be shot. Roadworkers are cool.
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some brief reflections on another Ōtepoti -Ōtautahi road trip. No trains... Again. Hundreds of trucks... Again The road is FUCKED. Loads of potholes, bumpy, patched, everything you'd expect from years of overweight trucks smashing it. James Meager, you have done nothing for us. SHAME.
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's never "AI agent breaks containment, cures cancer, does a bit of tidying up and puts the kettle on", is it?
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shame on everyone involved in creating a timeline where a company with a $42 billion operating loss and which spends $8 billion to make $4 billion can con enough land visitors into a $1 trillion IPO while claiming it is gonna kill us all
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I thought this was the KFC queue the day we came out of covid lock down.
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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"Fresh Butternut Pumpkin Whole".
"Fresh Butternut Pumpkin Whole" truncated to "Fresh Butt ... hole".
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hat tip to @bauhausandmies.bsky.social I didnt have a student loan to pay off, I was told I was too dumb to go to uni so I didnt get one. But like them, I am also happy for my taxes to get rid of other people's student debt. Full disclosure, I have 3 kids with debt, but it makes no difference.
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Bauhausandmies 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇿 @bauhausandmies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I paid my student loan (a hefty $90k thanks to interest being applied from day one) and I would happily support a government paying off other people’s student loans. Just because I don’t benefit directly from the policy doesn’t mean it shouldn’t happen.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 26/09/2026
can't a guy walk down the street anymore without being harassed by artificial intelligence
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
fucker sounds like he's trying to wipe us out
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have snuck back into the scene of my crimes, now, can you spot my deliberate mistake?
A wooden creation with a couple bits of glued up edging which can never fit together because one short side was glued to the wrong end of one of the long sides.
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My judgemental side was on blast for the first half of this one.
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My childish pleasure right now is annoying the shit out of the physio by repeatedly complaining about my painful paella tendons. They think i do it because I think its funny, but I actually do it to piss them off because they are torturing me.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 27/09/2026
I'm just happy/sad/thankful/angry that the Strait is open/closed/partially open/mostly closed so that the tankers can/can't traverse through it I'm really tired of/happy about all the winning/mostly winning/some winning we're doing every day/week/month in the war/not war/conflict in Iran
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today because I have been temporarily banned from the workshop I am making pies. Steak and cheese, steak and smoked cheese, and steak and jalapeño. My pastry skills are not good, but I think they will taste ok, they bloody better after a whole bottle of red wine went into the filling stew.
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yesterday I had an unplanned interaction with the healthcare system. Some observations from a rural dwelling perspective. Our healthcare provider is in a smallish regional centre, and is a GP/hospital. It currently takes around 4 weeks to get a GP appointment. I had a very sharp chisel encounter
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What is even the point of this bullshit? If I wanted nonsense numbers I would have asked myself. The fact that Google just lets this be an acceptable level of response is unbelievable. I suppose once we have covered the planet in AI compute it will learn how to convert f to c, or scrape better.
An AI answer to a question about surface temperatures which confidentiality states "...between 150°F and 400°F (650°C and 200°C)..."

150°F is around 65°C
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ah yes, the party of libertarians promises increased state surveillance. A party of principles.
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Im not sure why this post-apocalypse vampire novel that I've read at least 5 x already is so comforting but im mot complaining.
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Alison Mau @alisonmau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The funding sitch is a whole other thing.. turns out less than 1% of funding from philanthropic orgs in Aotearoa is targeted to family and sexual violence. Shitty but true. Fortunately we have plans for a diversified funding model but for now..💙 givealittle.co.nz/org/tika
givealittle.co.nz
Tika
Tika is an independent way to report sexual harm. When your report connects with others, take legal action together. Safe, private and free.
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I mean, I've got very little to actually complain about, but i wish I could be this blissful.
A black and brown dog fast asleep on a comfy dog bed, on her back, not a care in the world.
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Also, every single piece of software seems to get worse, more glitches, filled with "features" that are not wanted, or needed. Physical media just needs to be looked after, not updated, or refreshed, or turned off and on again, or have the cache cleared ..... *My head explodes in rage*
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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why is everything so fucking stupid at the moment? There are guys in the "manosphere" who dont wipe their arses because its "gay". And these stinky fuckwits wonder why women wont talk to them.
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