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@leaflemming.bsky.social
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Recovered journalist, writer of too few good sentences. Constantly searching for better sentences. Give me all your sentences.

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 6h
Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict
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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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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 22h
anyone who understands how buffered systems work is petrified by this
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 18h
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’
Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3455 prefers the classics
Two bunnies are standing near a record player, and one starts to play their preferred record, "Something Else" by the Kinks. Next to him, the second bunny is miffed that she can't play her preferred record, "Room On Fire" by the Strokes.
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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You ever notice how if leftists have a majority presence online it's treated as a problem to be solved, but if right wingers have a majority online presence it's treated as inclusive
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
taracomics.substack.com/p/friends?ut... More of a situationship. #birdoftheyear
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Friends?
Last day for Bird of the Year voting
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well I sure am glad that every day New Zealanders will never find out about this.
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leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today our prime minister was told a major cost of living crisis is harming the people he governs, and he responded, “Cry me a river”. Aotearoa, please show this man that trying to sound like America’s all-time worst president isn’t how you win elections here. #nzpol
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Dork Knight Forever @dorkknightrises.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's very funny to me that Americans represent more illegal immigrants in Aotearoa than any other group. It's an incredibly American statistic. #nzpol
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More than 900 Americans have overstayed their visa in last three years
Americans top the list of people who have overstayed their visa in the last three years.
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leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's remarkable and alarming how willing our current government is to straight-up lie, and how rarely they're getting called on it in places their voters will notice. #nzpol
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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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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This ok? Or more important the NZ Govt bond yield is a fraction of a basis point lower than it otherwise would be? That's the choice.
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leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you were wondering why people are being left to die in toilets in our hospitals currently, a quick glance at this graph of health workforce numbers under the last two governments tells you which one stopped hiring nurses and has been lying about it. #nzpol
A graph of NZ health workforce nursing FTEs over the years 2018-2025, with Labour's hiring in red and National's in blue. It's clear at a glance that hiring went steadily up under the last government and has been flat under this one.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Get this! Cleaning up pollution caused by the dairy industry’s nitrogen fertiliser costs NZ ten times more than farmers spend buying the fertiliser in the first place. One of the many ways we subsidise the dairy industry. #TooManyCows newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/01/t...
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Costly, harmful and addictive – the huge hidden cost of our synthetic fertiliser habit
Comment: Cleaning up nitrogen pollution costs 10 times more than buying the fertiliser in the first place, freshwater ecologist Dr Simon Stewart argues.
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leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Bird of the Year voting is now open, and obviously you've already voted for Takahe. Why not celebrate by reading some TAKAHE FOR BIRD OF THE YEAR comics? Here we begin the saga of Titipounamu's terrifying encounter with the competition's smelliest previous winner. taracomics.substack.com/p/hoiho
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Hoiho
Opinions on yellow-eyed penguins
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Vaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement.
Objective: Strengthening of antivaccination movements in recent decades has coincided with unprecedented increases in the incidence of some communicable diseases. Many intervention programs work from a deficit model of science communication, presuming that vaccination skeptics lack the ability to access or understand evidence. However, interventions focusing on evidence and the debunking of vaccine-related myths have proven to be either nonproductive or counterproductive. Working from a motivated reasoning perspective, we examine the psychological factors that might motivate people to reject scientific consensus around vaccination. To assist with international generalizability, we examine this question in 24 countries. Methods: We sampled 5,323 participants in 24 countries, and measured their antivaccination attitudes. We also measured their belief in conspiracy theories, reactance (the tendency for people to have a low tolerance for impingements on their freedoms), disgust sensitivity toward blood and needles, and individualistic/hierarchical worldviews (i.e., people's beliefs about how much control soci hould have over individuals, and whether hierarchies are desirable). Results: In
order of magnitude,
antivaccination attitudes were highest among those who (a) were high in conspir-
atorial thinking, (b) were high in reactance, (c) reported high levels of disgust toward blood and needles, and (d) had strong individualistic/hierarchical worldviews
. In contrast, demographic variables (including
education) accounted for nonsignificant or trivial lev
f variance. Conclusions: These data help
identify the "attitude roots" that may motivate and sustain vaccine skepticism. In so doing, they help shed light on why repetition of evidence can be nonproductive, and suggest communication solutions to that problem.
Keywords: vaccination, conspiracy beliefs, health communication,
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/09/2026
Here's the thing about statistics: there are statistics you do BEFORE you have information and statistics you do AFTER you have information.
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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Most local people are concerned that data centers use up a lot of resources but are unlikely to be good neighbors.
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manuwai.bsky.social @manuwai.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Message to all Kiwis! Especially to those living in the South Island See this! Hear this! Tell your politicians NO DATA CENTRES!! #NZPol
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leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
How it's going under #NZworstgovernment #nzpol
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 01/09/2026
Good choice. Great read.
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/09/2026
$9,000,000,000 to save some drivers 5-10 mins When we have a healthcare system that is crumbling and costing 1000s of people FIFTY HOURS in an ED, or MONTHS for surgeries. "We're not a poor country. We make poor decisions" - Craig Renney, the "should be" Labour shadow finance minister. #nzpol
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leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea is one of the greatest fantasy creations, but the Wizard of Earthsea graphic adaptation getting the graphic novel Hugo while Tongues and Drome didn’t get shortlisted tells you that Hugo voters mostly don’t read comics.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍
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Scotty - I’m the CEO - NZ @scotty-nz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is my new mantra
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leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The next swing right here won't just undo what the incoming government does, it will arrive harder, tear out everything that government builds, and it will come hard for Te Tiriti. So, my friends, that only leaves us with extraordinary legislation, aka constitutional protection of Te Tiriti
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The Price of *Not* Entrenching Te Tiriti | Tina Ngata
We are living under the most right-wing government this country has seen in over five decades.  In three short years, we have seen decades o
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 30/08/2026
One of the things I find most frustrating about modern politics, after the neoliberal reforms of the 1980s, is that it's not as if we've forgotten what came before. We can literally see what Government was able to achieve previously. It's still visible all around us!
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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m a finalist in New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year for the second year running! This year they have selected my chiaroscuro coots. The exhibition opens at Britomart soon, and I'd love your support in the People's Choice award! Vote for up to 5 favs here: www.nzgeo.com/photography/...
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kororā @davejac.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Who wants a heavy handed metaphor
A national party billboard on a chain link fence in front of an empty lot where fly tipping has occurred
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Marshelle Woodward @mwoodward.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That any public service should be run like a business.
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leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The NZ Energy blog is essential reading if you want to know why our economy is, in both senses, running out of gas.
newzealandenergy.substack.com
Between two worlds.
Cracks are appearing in the old energy systems and the new systems have yet to emerge. How much economic damage will we be able to withstand in the time between.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/08/2026
FOLKS - when we stop burning fossil fuels, oversizing agriculture and killing nature, the warming of Earth also stops worsening No floppy optimism here; no hollow appeal to hope. The laws of physics that created this problem also govern the fact we can choose to stop it.
Graph correlating cumulative CO2 emissions since 1850 with global warming to 2050, showing historical warming and colored projections for SSP1-1.9, SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5 with shaded uncertainty bands.
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
its like the Labour spokesperson turning up to a climate adaptation panel today, which was scheduled, & having to say there was no policy & that Hipkins would release some later would feel really bad to be in that caucus i reckon. the amount of obeisance to mr policy bonfire himself is untenable
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Okay girls, in today's self defence class we're going to cover smacking that shit cleanly off his face while loudly and clearly stating his full name and home address"
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Hoiho Penguin needs urgent cross party support now. We only have 117 breeding pairs left. We have to act fast to develop a vaccine to treat the virus killing their chicks. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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‘Violent virus’ wiping out rare baby penguins - expert predicts extinction within five years
The mystery illness is killing hoiho chicks within hours, adding another devastating threat to a species already down to 326 birds.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing.
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Pete Lowe 🌹 @petelowe-exx.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 14/08/2026
📢 IAG NZ warns it may have to withdraw insurance from NZ’s flood-prone areas in the future if the Government doesn’t speed up natural hazard risk reduction
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‘There comes a point where there’s no price you can charge that can cover the risk’
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Bamboo fabric is almost always just rayon. Rayon is made by using chemicals to turn cellulose into a goo and extruding it into a fiber, and the process is usually quite toxic. There's a lot I like about rayon as a fabric, but it's not really sustainable and you shouldn't pay a premium for bamboo.
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thene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...
stick a pin in this metaphor

…because these covers are a microcosm of the entire conflict; Walden's book is mostly built on writing and other objects left by Sylvia Drake, Charity Bryant, and others. Her work includes many elements from these records that Cleves does not refer to in her book, and many of her interpretations of those records are different from Cleves's interpretations, often intentionally so. In addition to her historical basis, Walden's book includes fictional dialogue and story elements that are original to her work, some of which are inspired by Walden's own life.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I am generally skeptical of boycotts. But I don't think one can overstate the degree to which J.K. Rowling has chosen to make loathing of trans people and cruelty about them into her primary identity. Nobody on earth will suffer from skipping the Harry Potter series. Let's not make her richer.
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leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“He didn’t understand how deeply divisive the NZ First and ACT attacks on Te Tiriti would be… He didn’t understand New Zealand‘s economy or its social fabric. He still doesn’t. Yet, he’s still PM.”
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leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Rejoice, my people, for our best hope at a change of government has just headed off a leadership challenge and survives to disappoint and enrage his base right through to the election. #nzpol
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If a warlock wanted to curse a genre he could perhaps 1) make every single written work within its confines feature a foreword by the same sex criminal or maybe 2) have the most lucrative entry be authored by a crazed bigot and hang on a minute
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leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
In this week's episode of TAKAHE FOR BIRD OF THE YEAR, we consider whether competitions might be fundamentally silly. (We do not consider it very long.) #BOTY
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Attitude
Takahē and titipouname debrief
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Takahē is not just a bird that needs your vote on the upcoming Bird of the Year competition, it's a magazine in which I have a non-takahē themed comic.
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leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Worth checking the alt text on this one
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f*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
vote, you little shits. vote because - your landlord will vote - your boss will vote - every nasty little greedy bitcoin bro who thinks women should be assigned to men for sex will vote - anti abortionists will vote - evangelist christians will vote - your racist uncle will vote FUCKING VOTE
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
On point from Hipkins The country elected a spineless empty suit and this is what we get, understand if you vote for any of the coalition parties you are voting for more of this
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