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Brooke 🖤🤍💜🏹 @brookegreenwoodvo.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely losing it at this result hahaha 🤣

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Paparoa @paparoa.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Yesterday, New Zealand Police revealed they didn't start investigating the espionage soldier until after March 15. Several anti-fascist researchers reported his online activity to the New Zealand Defence Force prior to the Christchurch massacre. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/marc...

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 11h

same as in the minor party debate where the panel all declared Peters the winner without mentioning he never got more than 10% on the live poll hard to call this anything except bias towards the coalition, frankly. but what is actually going on here?

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April of the Beast Coast @spaghettisauceress.bsky.social · 12h

“Capitalism breeds competition” suck my fucking nuts

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Rata - Toitu Te Tiriti @ratamiller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hipkins "Christopher if you're in denial about the state of our health system, then you aren't the one to fix it" 🔥 🔥

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 14h

THAT IS NOT THE ONLY THING EDUCATION IS FOR! IT ISN’T EVEN THE MAIN THING!

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E. Juniper Kelsey @ladywildfl0wer.bsky.social · 19h

#WIPSnips No mention of rice, for reasons discussed in the snip! Substituting the generic category of "Cereal Grains," where Captain Flannigan and protagonist Francis Morgan start their watch and talk about how they miss better food after eighty-three days underway. #SciFi #Writing

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“As you were,” Flannigan told them all, and they relaxed again. “How’s my ship?” the ‘Little Laker’ asked Francis while she did her hair up into a bun.
“Nothing new to report. We remain on schedule to blueshift into Alpha Centauri at around two bells, and Midshipmen van Rijn and Traversa should get back up here with tea in a minute or two,” Francis replied with a jaunty smile. “The ship is yours, Captain,” she added.
“Thank you, Francis. You slept well?” Captain Flannigan leaned on the console, having an idle look over the readout. The field lines of the warp drive warbled and oscillated in the globe display beside them.
“All right. Was up early. Blueshift watch, I just want to get in to port,” Francis replied, and Jennifer chuckled under her breath.
“I’d tell you not to be impatient, but I can’t really disagree. I want to stretch my legs too. It’s during these long stints that I miss proper bread,” Captain Flannigan admitted, nodding and raising an eyebrow. “But don’t get your hopes up too much, if anything’s happened at Alpha Centauri we might be delayed.” Her accent was out of place in an Acidalian naval captain as well. Captain Flannigan had grown up in the capital of the Democratic Union of the Great Lakes, New York City, and she sounded it. She had not, as Francis had, been trying to consciously embody the archetype of an Acidalian Navy captain since childhood, and so she didn’t, as Francis did, put on a posh Planitian accent. Worse, almost tantamount to blasphemy in fact, was that Flannigan pronounced the word Lieutenant as if she were describing someone who rented a toilet. Francis hummed ruefully, before the Midshipmen got back with tea for everyone.
“Oh, thank you very much Midshipmen. Personally I’d settle for peasemeal brose,” Francis replied, taking a sip of her tea.

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E. Juniper Kelsey @ladywildfl0wer.bsky.social · 20h

#WIPSnips Substituting "wall" for "line," because the Acidalian Intersolar Colonial Navy uses a line of battle doctrine - except, in a three-dimensional system, that line is more like a wall! #SciFi #Writing

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“All right. Pick your targets with the van, Olivia,” Francis commanded, as the Sojourner rolled into orientation with the line of battle. Now that Now that they were protected abaft and afore by the A.S.V. Constantijn van der Linde and A.S.V. Sidhe respectively, she let herself breathe easily again. “This should mop up nicely,” she mused as she gaze out of the quarterdeck windows to their portside. The Sojourner could manage itself in battle alone, but she was most comfortable exactly where she was. That was true of most Acidalian warships, really. Though the aliens still had the numerical advantage even after their losses so far – nineteen remaining warships to the Acidalian line’s twelve ships, eleven and a half really if you considered the Swan Aphetorus’ meagre armament – the Acidalians had the advantage of the stronger position and formation.
The aliens’ vessels were also, on average, smaller. In terms of weight class, two thirds of the Acidalian line were in fact ships of the line. The alien fleet was almost double the number, but it had nowhere near double the firepower, being almost two thirds composed of the little corvettes. The smaller ships in the Acidalian line – which wasn’t saying much when there were only three frigates present, and five third-rates – busied themselves by picking off corvettes and badly damaged alien frigates one by one, while the Constantijn and her heaviest companions sent volley after volley of long gun fire into the sides of the aliens’ two remaining cruisers.
“Looks like those cruisers are trying to bug out, Commander,” Lieutenant Dimitrijević noted, frowning at the view out the window and at the master display. “Their escorts are moving to cover their escape, but I don’t fancy their odds of getting out of there without a large helping of the Constantijn’s ammunition being shoved up their backsides,” he said.

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 23h

Y'know if Luxon believes access to medical care should be based on need then maybe his government shouldn't be trying to ban medication trans kids need to live

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

Cis guy walks into a women's locker room and immediately proceeds to sexually assault women. JK Rowling: this is trans people's fault.

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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So according to Willis, pay equity for women isnt needed because they’ll be better off because of tax cuts. And fuck all pushback on the nonsensical nature of this. I’m so sick of the media going soft on her and her incompetence.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Ganesh Rajaram Ahirao @ganeshahirao.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#nzpol $1.75bn for road - is OK as allowed to subsidise road, so don't have to prove commercial sustainability😢. $4bn for rail - not OK 'cos can't afford, need to prove commercial viability, don't want to subsidise white elephant💔. Comparing apples with apples😠 Go figure (again) 🤔. Sigh. 🙏🏾.

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Nick Hall @stopgostop.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

When we 🤞 vote out this coalition in November, someone should write a book about the way a minor party can push its policies through when the Prime Minister is weak They can have this title for free ACTs of Cruelty

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Would Davies say this about homophobes? Would he say the characters he wrote in Tip Toe who lynched Alan Cumming had "genuine concerns"? Would he ask for a debate on that?

I know people who are gender critical. The whole argument is so polarised that to some people the fact that she’s gender critical means she might as well be a murderer, which is just nonsense. There are people with genuine concerns, and they need to be discussed. Where is the debate?”

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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is such a good policy because we’re not building the network from scratch. It’s already there and just needs upgrading. We used to build trains and rolling stock ourselves, and we could do it again creating high paid, skilled jobs. It doesn’t need to stack up commercially. It’s the government.

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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

All it needs is a snappy marketing campaign. How about: ‘Travel in comfort from Auckland to Wellington for less than the RUCs on your WankPanzer!’ #nzpol

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Restoring commuter rail will give smaller regions and towns the benefits of more travellers stopping at their town stations, creating more economic opportunities and connecting them to main centres and other towns." @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz #NzPol

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Greens' $4b rail plan: Overnight trains, Christchurch-Dunedin service

The passenger rail plan includes routes from Auckland to Wellington, Christchurch to Dunedin and extending the current Te Huia train to Tauranga.

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Stu Old @stuold.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Anyone who can do this will get my vote. Rail needs to be the way of moving people.

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Jez @jezbrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Having lived in countries that have real rail, I really hope #NZ can do this and get it right. The option has to be better than taking a car or a plane, it has to have that advantage and be built in from the ground up. Look at Finland's system. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

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The Green Party wants to connect these major cities via train

The Greens are proposing a $4.02b passenger rail plan spanning Auckland, Wellington, Tauranga, Christchurch and Dunedin.

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every time some pundit claims that no one would work if their basic needs were met, I think about how, after he retired, my dad would just show up at estate sales with his truck and offer to help folks take their furniture home because he just wanted to keep busy and be around people.

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 01/10/2026

Every time

Scooby Doo “let’s see who this really is” meme. In the first frame is a masked figure marked “high costs for rates and power bills”. In the second frame the figure is now unmasked and reads “years of systemic underinvestment coming back to bite us”

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Simon O'Neill @sjponeill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also... No new ferries No new nurses No new police officers No new fire engines No new firefighters. No new fuel price relief. No new pay equity for women No new smoking-free No new pop-up ED wards It's all 'no news' from National... #Election26 #OneTermGovernment #BinTheBuffoons

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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fact that disgraced National MP Chris Penk is now writing opinion pieces on the election for Stuff News is a real bad look for Stuff News. Why would Penks political opinion be anything but bias? He literally campaigned for National Party THIS YEAR

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Harry Potter fans trying to do their own Petra Parker is frankly an act of violence

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is multiplicative for marginalised women, too, not just in the harassment and violence inflicted but in the social calculus they must perform. More places becoming unsafe, harassment escalating more quickly or more severely.

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E. Juniper Kelsey @ladywildfl0wer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#WIPSnips "Injury," where not only is the word used to describe damage to Sojourner, but Post Captain Flannigan is injured in battle over Alpha Centauri! #Writing #SciFi

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“Incoming!”
“Brace for impact!” Francis called out, a split second before the missile struck the Sojourner’s mizzenhull. It was a simple fact that the mizzenhull couldn’t be very well protected; you couldn’t put much in the way of ammunition in such close proximity to the reactors and engines safely. But they couldn’t turn to face their aft away without exposing it even more first!
The missile exploded.
The whole ship lurched off course, and the engines died. Captain Flannigan yelped as she fell off balance, her grip on the rail failing as she hit the master display and crumpled onto the deck. Francis almost lost her footing herself, and those who were seated at controls almost teetered off their chairs.
“Captain!” Francis yelled, darting over to Flannigan’s side. Captain Flannigan groaned, struggling to get up. That on its own caught Francis’ attention – Flannigan had grown up in full Earth gravity, ordinarily she was downright springy in the Navy’s standard artificial gravity of only 3.8m/s squared. Francis looped a hand under the woman’s armpit and helped her up. “Captain, are you all right?” she asked urgently, her attention split between her commanding officer and their situation. With the engines dead, they were starting to overshoot the convoy. Flannigan almost fell over again, and caught herself on the rail this time.
“Ough- owww,” Flannigan mumbled, putting her free hand to her head. There was a cut on her brow, which was just starting to bloom blood. She stumbled again, and Francis caught her.

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A lot of these dudes convinced themselves the Trump era signaled an end to all the politically correct niceties they'd been bound by, that they were now free to shout slurs and dox rape victims and so on and they're really upset that people still act like they're bad for doing those things.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

omg it's the 2015 ads from Britain!!!! My "this is NZs 2015" theory is bang on. It's the same advert, it's the same fucking advert

A 2015 advert from Britain with noted sex abuser and dead guy Alex Salmond who was the SNP leader at the time with Ed Miliband, Labour leader, in his front breast pocket.

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 01/10/2026

This actually feels worse than when an Oscar-winning director speaks up in favor of A.I. in film. This isn't just detrimental to art or the act of writing itself; this feels very misogynistic, as well, since Romance is a genre mainly written by and for women. Am I off base here?

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E. Juniper Kelsey @ladywildfl0wer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#WIPSnips "Guard," which I've substituted for "cover" because it's used to mean the same here. The A.S.V. Sojourner, with Francis having taken command after Captain Flannigan was concussed, covers the evacuation of the wrecked B.Q.V. Canid Romulus during battle over Alpha Centauri! #Writing #SciFi

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“Quarterdeck, you’ve got an engine!” Lieutenant Malloye reported over the comm, her voice thick with exertion. “Just the central cone’s operational, any more and we’ll cook ourselves!” she informed them.
“Excellent work Lieutenant! One engine’s better than none, get us fully braked so we can cover the lifeboats Mister Medved!” Francis exclaimed, and punched the air gladly. Medved urgently prodded the spluttering engine into life, and Francis braced herself as the Sojourner came to a sharp halt in relation to the collapsing tanker. Thankfully, said tanker was still floating toward the line of battle, it just wasn’t getting any faster about it. Its heading had, however, been jolted off course by the impact, and it was in an uncontrolled spin. From the aft bulk of the Romulus, where most of its habitable compartments where, its lifeboats began to extend on their davits to get clear of the ship. “Flip and roll, Kruno! Open the boat bay doors the moment we’re in position. Lieutenant Ecclestone, dorsal broadside, fire as she bears!” Francis roared.
The thrusters fired and, in one graceful motion, the Sojourner did a somersault, pointing her vulnerable aft away from the battle, and the ship rolled around its keel as she went. When the thrusters fired again to arrest their spin, the enemy was right over all of their heads.
“Do your worst,” Francis growled up at the quarterdeck ceiling.
The blasts of the guns flashed around the windows of the deck as the culverins tilted straight up. Far ahead of them, the Persistence completed its braking burn and, now that it had found its place in the line of battle, turned to join the broadside. An evil little grin grew on Francis’ face. They were drawing closer and closer to a unified formation, more of the convoy were past the line to safety.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And the level of hate she's getting is, as always, off the charts.

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It doesn't help that MPs are treating her with the most underlying sexism "don't be silly little girl" energy I've seen directed at a leader of the *checks notes* third biggest political party. Ofc then the social media hate train follows ugh!

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Michelle Ilia 🌻 @missrainbowpie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

quoting this *specifically* for "you microwaved fruit loop" 🙌

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Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the hardest things about being an author is NOT TELLLING EVERYONE ALL THE COOL SHIT YOU HID IN YOUR BOOK BECAUSE YOU WANT PEOPLE TO DISCOVER IT THEMSELVES. But you are also really passionate about the shit you hid in your book.

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Abdou Bouam @abdoubouam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just a heads up I got a DM on ArtStation, where I was asked to download a .blend file and give a quote. It's a virus, even if it's just a .blend file! **Blender files can run custom python code!**

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 29/09/2026

Nicola’s ferries won’t arrive until 2029, if ever. IREX would’ve been sailing by now and cost less that just one of National’s new RONs, that they now also can’t build. You only have a few weeks left to enrol. If you aren’t enrolled, your vote is like Nicola’s ferries. non-existent. #nzpol

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 29/09/2026

#nzpol ✅✅

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E. Juniper Kelsey @ladywildfl0wer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whelp, my car was broken into during fencing last night and my laptop was stolen. All my 3d rendering stuff is gone because the me of twelve hours ago was too lazy to back anything up. So much work just gone with almost no hope of getting it back. Back up your shit! Don't leave valuables in cars!

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#NZpol Saw this excellent quote-reply to Simeon Brown’s latest attack on Labour. Worth sharing.

David Peez @RebelEkonomista

"The truck driver in Pakuranga helps pay off a lawyer's loan." No, Simeon. He doesn't. Not a cent.

When the government lends a student money, it creates the dollars and credits their account. No tradie's tax was collected and posted to a law degree. When the graduate repays, those dollars are deleted, drained back out like tax. They don't land in the truck driver's pocket either.

So nobody foots the bill. The worker and the graduate aren't on opposite sides of a ledger. Setting them against each other is the trick, and it runs on the same myth as "add it to the tab", that the government is a household counting coins. It issues the currency. The real limits are real resources and inflation, not a truck driver's tax bill.

"Someone always pays." Sure. Just never the person you keep pointing at.

Read more: http://therebeleconomist.substack.com

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They lie because they think it doesn't mean anything, it's just a game, it's just a job, it's basically a joke, totally meaningless and everyone knows it haha no need to be serious or sad about a soul rotting away

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Day two of the campaign and we've got Luxon insisting Labour will have to do every Green, TPM and Opportunity policy while also stating that he would not do NZ First or ACT policy. This will not receive accurate contextual comment that is clearly hypocritical blathering.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

language model programs have no conscious intent or ethical understanding and they never will. you can program them to say they do, but they fundamentally cannot

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 27/09/2026

I appreciate we are preaching to the wrong audience here, but. If you're in a moral panic about a wealth tax & not homelessness criminalised, that's a failure of yours, not the left. #NZPol

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Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 27/09/2026

I don’t want an ACT person representing my kids education after seeing the slop they call lunch. #nzpol This smells like the Taxpayers Union in sheep’s clothing. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

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The new education group that wants to represent parents' voices

A new advocacy group has launched with the aim of giving parents a more organised voice in New Zealand's ongoing debates around education. The Parents' Alliance says it wants to be evidence-based and ...

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E. Juniper Kelsey @ladywildfl0wer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#WIPSnips A snippet from the second chapter of Ghost of Hades' draft, as the frigate A.S.V. Sojourner - under Post Captain Jennifer Flannigan and protagonist Lieutenant Commander Francis Morgan - arrives, after a delay, for battle in Alpha Centauri. #Writing #SciFi

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“Lieutenant Ecclestone, get those culverins ready,” Francis ordered. Lieutenant Olivia Ecclestone was their master gunner, and Fifth Lieutenant. Her gun crews below decks had been ready to fire ever since they’d gone to warp speed again. “Hold your fire until we’re in effective firing range, we don’t want to hit our convoy,” she said.
“Yes ma’am,” Ecclestone confirmed. A great rumbling sounded through the hull as the guns responded to her command, shifting on their swivels ever so slightly.
“Admiral Beecham for you Captain!” Merryn called.
“Put him on!” Captain Flannigan replied, while she examined the master display sternly.
“Captain Flannigan, nice to have you with us!” the voice of Admiral Beecham said gladly.
“Nice to be here. My apologies for our delayed arrival, we got beached in the outer system. How’s the fight going, Admiral?” Flannigan asked, taking up her microphone again just as two alien corvettes went up in flames in the distance almost simultaneously. The flash of light shone through the windows, and Francis watched their LIDAR signatures on the display break up. Both well-aimed shots had been courtesy of the A.S.V. Alacrity’s long guns, one of the two Veracity class third-rates in the line of battle. “I see Piper’s doing well today,” the Captain added wryly. Post Captain Liam Piper commanded the Alacrity.

“He is. The fight goes well, but we’ve got to get that convoy out of there and behind the wall with the rest of the civilians,” Beecham concurred.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I find it fascinating that so many estranged parents view the estrangement as an incident, not as a process. So it's forums full of Boomers going "She stopped talking to me because I said her haircut was bad! She's so UNREASONABLE!", when, in reality, they've been shitting on their kid for decades.

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