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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 8h

This is what happens to me when I've had #Parsnips

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 8h

A mum comforts her little boy on the bus. He is crying about something. She says, ‘It’s ok. Have a good cry.’ Man nearby: Well done. We’re so bad at letting boys just feel sad.

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 16h

Which New Zealand band is most obsessed with mathematics? The Chills, …they’re multiplying!

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Will de Cleene @zippygonzales.bsky.social · 18h

Don't forget what a complete cunt Columbus was. theoatmeal.com/comics/colum...

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Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) - The Oatmeal

Happy Bartolomé Day.

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Will de Cleene @zippygonzales.bsky.social · 19h

European seafarers were limited before the invention of clocks to determine latitude. Polynesians used astral navigation centuries earlier to become what Sir Peter Buck called the Vikings of the Sunrise.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 01/10/2026

this video of Chlöe Swarbrick, who leads the Greens in New Zealand's parliament, is worth your five minutes' time

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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There’s a garage near the Wellington Station with a beautiful brown Silver Shadow that comes out driven by a moustachioed gent in brown tweed, and if you happen to walk behind it you can’t hear anything while the subsonics liquefy your peasant innards Rolls are loud in frequencies we can’t hear

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What's especially great is that the truck has such a shit awful range of vision that the driver can't see the bollard has slowly risen, if this were a child slowly walking into the road the driver would absolutely never have seen it

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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If Trump is bent on renaming a possibly liberated Hormuz Strait after himself, it will always be known as Trump’s Truth Bypass. Jenifer Nicholls, Windsor @theageaustralia.bsky.social letters

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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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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DATE: what are you thinking about ME: fall should be spelled fa// DATE: ME: DATE: fell should be spelled fe_ _ *we kiss*

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So these were taken on my walk to work, from an inner suburb to the city fringe (Karori to Kelburn, for locals). I grew up in the area, and I absolutely would never have seen these birds in people's front yards 30 years ago. Wellington & its people made a choice to bring them back & we succeeded.

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Brett @brettcd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm from Nuzlind and I endorse this ad. #NZPol youtube.com/shorts/bRP1k...

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NZ Election 2026 | 100% Pure S*itF@^kery

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's always an XKCD: xkcd.com/2030/

xkcd.com

Voting Software

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ah no. Genuinely sad news. Easily the best Speaker the House has had since Lockwood Smith. A person of huge mana.

nzherald.co.nz

Former Speaker of the House and Labour MP Adrian Rurawhe dies

Rurawhe was Speaker in the last term of Government.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

Honestly a lot of the “look at what AI can do for you!” things can be replaced with a basic shell script.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a shame, and a significant loss. She's a wonderful journalist, and this is the worst possible time for voices like hers to be made redundant. #nzpol

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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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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I got myself a batch of OIA documents from the Ministry of Education about school attendance. One of them presents David Seymour with a rather awkward problem. It begins on 11 February 2025. Intrigued? #nzpol

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

— Vous pourriez augmenter les dosages ? j'ai encore des sentiments !

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Ganesh Rajaram Ahirao @ganeshahirao.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#nzpol Wealth pre-tax (excl house) = $11,250,000. Tax 2.5% on $1.25m = $31,250. Wealth post-tax (excl house) = $11,218,750. Cry me a river. 🙏.

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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Heavens no! I would never trade slaves! Of course, I did build much of the slavery infrastructure, yes, and I take a small stipend from each transaction, but actual slavery? Never! And I can't believe you'd ask such a thing."

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Neil @realneilc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bell hooks was right as always, and on top of that, America always uses kids as pawns. Denying kids school lunches to make cruelty the point. Using "kids online safety" as a Trojan Horse for feeding more data to Big Tech and denying resources to kids in the LGBTQ+ community

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If children had any political power, instead of being treated like property, we wouldn't be in such a mess. Exhibit A: Attacks on Critical Race Theory started in schools as "parents' rights" and book bans-- within 7 years, this morphed into an anti-DEI purge of adults in workplaces and academia.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

horror movie about an acapella cult that does organ-harvesting

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 27/09/2026

Guys I didn’t realise before how important this work was but the people behind taxpayersunion.org.nz deserve all your time and attention, please don’t pass up this click

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GT @mahora.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Daylight saving singular. Don’t make me scream!

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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is GOLD!!! Ngā mihi nui @abelsteve.bsky.social Ka whawhai tonu mātou AKE! AKE! AKE! #nzpol

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 26/09/2026

I've finally seen the light. I urge everyone to visit taxpayersunion.org.nz and see the good work that they've been doing on behalf of the hard-working taxpayers of New Zealand

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Laurie Fleming @laurief.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Whadya think - trevally and mussel pie for dinner tonight?

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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's important to remember that The Taxpayers Union are not just awful people, they also do awful things. #nzpol

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Peter de Lory

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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Don’t be left sitting on the sidelines, make sure you’re enrolled to vote!

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This tiny fix solves a problem you never realized you had, and once you see it, it makes perfect sense.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My favourite part of the Britain's best cooking, sewing shows, etc are the contestant introduction.

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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“I think the people behind this dirty work are deeply lacking in integrity and have far more influence than they deserve.”

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Laurie Fleming @laurief.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Australia has the Great Sandy Desert and the Great Dividing Range.

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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“…the coalition ministers have tolerated and benefited from these unscrupulous groups. They should be held accountable by the public.”

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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

*takes long drag on a spaceman cigarette* How do we nominate Nicky Hager for the Billy T James award? I can't think of anyone else who's made so many New Zealanders laugh in unison this year.

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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Loads of lefties on this site decrying Labour for being a centrist party when it actual fact the inalienable laws of MMP require there to be centrist parties to enable blocs to form. It makes perfect sense for Labour to claim the left-of-centre centrist spot...

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

new toon: large language muddle www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

dailykos.com

Large language muddle

A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Luxo is one of my chickens, and I have worked out how he thinks via close observance of his endless stream of bullshit. Sometimes he lays his eggs up in the macrocarpa tree but if you know how he thinks and acts, you will find them easily

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