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Liz Beddoe

@lizbeddoe.bsky.social
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Social work. Pro-abortion. Politics. 🇵🇸Cats. Good food. Pākehā. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. She/ her. Obsessed with pūtangitangi.

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Liz Beddoe @lizbeddoe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
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David Seymour is afraid of MAPAS because it’s working | E-Tangata
“People like David Seymour like to frame what we’re doing as selecting medical students based on race. No, that’s actually the issue we’re trying to correct — historically our admissions processes hav...
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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
100%. Access to early screening, GP appts & support, where people live now, makes far more difference long term to outcomes than a fancy one-off private hospital in a singular location. ACTs foolishness is what happens when wealthy ppl seek control instead of listening to experts.
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
While Simeon Brown was implementing a freeze on nurse numbers, nurse graduates were desperate for work. Nursing graduate applies for more than 100 jobs without success www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
rnz.co.nz
Nursing graduate applies for more than 100 jobs without success
Nursing graduates who have applied for hundreds of jobs and have not found work say it's devastating to hear there's a shortage of nurses.
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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I know it doesn't help to tell people that they've been the benefactors of this deferred maintenance for decades, and the chickens are coming home to roost, and that stings, but it's still the truth
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#gaza #genocide #freepalestine
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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/08/2026
I cannot begin to count the amount of technology tools I have been told in the last 20 years that I need to teach my students how to use because they were the future. 95% of them are gone. A tool is a tool.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Liz Beddoe @lizbeddoe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It’s unrelentingly horrible.
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Joanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I hope international media outlets will now give equal time, coverage and outrage to white academics who have plagiarised and made stuff up. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
His family said it was "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son" after the academic was found dead in London on Friday.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Not enough money to save women’s lives???? Ditching pay equity was bad but this is criminal ffs. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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Women weren’t told they needed cancer tests - because it ‘had not been budgeted for’
Women’s health advocates have called the scale of the cervical cancer testing notification failures “staggering”.
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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Glad to see in the latest issue of ANZSW Journal: a critical (and scathing) commentary by @lizbeddoe.bsky.social and @eileenjoy.bsky.social, responding to a particularly infuriating (and fallacious) special issue of a US-based social work journal: doi.org/10.11157/anz...
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A critical commentary on a journal special issue—US hegemony, genocide denial, and anti-DEI perspectives: A response from Aotearoa | Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work
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Cilla Wehi @cillaw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I will also be using these ‘contact us’ buttons. A timely reminder of how women academics experience feedback.
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Great commentary from @lizbeddoe.bsky.social & @eileenjoy.bsky.social critiquing the rise of the idea of classroom neutrality (in this case in social work, related to Palestine & critical theory/DEI) - attacks which are intense in but limited to the USA, also being levelled at scholars in NZ.
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View of A critical commentary on a journal special issue—US hegemony, genocide denial, and anti-DEI perspectives: A response from Aotearoa
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Liz Beddoe @lizbeddoe.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
theconversation.com/cultural-saf...
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Cultural safety in healthcare is not ‘ideological’ – it is saving lives
Several health conditions affect Māori and Pacific people disproportionately. Culturally competent healthcare addresses these ethnic discrepancies.
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa @papa.org.nz · 14/07/2026
Even though the move-on order legislation hasn't passed, its carceral and anti-homeless provisions are so awful that they're terrorising the homeless to such an extent that they're leaving city centers in advance. www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...
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Move-on order fears already pushing rough sleepers out of city - social service provider
Fear surrounding the incoming move on orders is already pushing rough sleepers of out Auckland's central city, says a social service provider.
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Te Ao Māori News - 🤖 (unofficial) @teaonews.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Criminal justice advocacy group People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) says having new frontline police officers on the streets will not make New Zealand communities safer.
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Extra police officers won't make NZ safer says advocacy group
Criminal justice advocacy group People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) says having new frontline police officers on the streets will not make New Zealand communities safer.
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Andrew Jull NZRN (he/him) @andrewjull.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Extremely bad news today; Medical Council has rolled over and ceased work on drafting statements on cultural safety. Political interference from ACT and Simeon Brown successful. If Labour supports changes to Health Competency Assurance Act, I will spit fecking tacks. www.mcnz.org.nz/about-us/con...
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Consultation – Draft statements on cultural competence, cultural safety, and hauora Māori
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Dr Prospera Tedam @profprosperatedam.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Delighted to have received this with over 100 entries on a range of topics by scholars from around the world. @jofinch.bsky.social @lizbeddoe.bsky.social @sarahmdonnelly1.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social @elainewilson.bsky.social @dr-abdullah.bsky.social @declancoogan.bsky.social
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Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The biggest problem academia faces is that we are "lions led by donkeys" - universities assemble astonishing talent, but all too have leaders drawn from a management class of self-serving, cv-stuffing clowns. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Sydney academic used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to ‘cut corners’
Sydney Morning Herald removes piece by Cath Ellis, despite Western Sydney University saying her use of AI was ‘appropriate’
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Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand Aotearoa @alranz.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
ALRANZ is proud to announce that our Co-President, Alma De Anda is a list candidate for the Green Party of Aotearoa NZ! ALRANZ fully supports Alma's campaign & we're proud that she is running to be a fierce advocate for bodily autonomy, human rights, and the environment.
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Liz Beddoe @lizbeddoe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Happy International Working Women’s Day to all. Paid or unpaid we all work.
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 06/02/2026
No Jack, tell us how you really feel
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This week's lies, damn lies, and green shoots award goes to Brad Olsen (via Susan Edmunds). This is a particularly disgusting use of data - like so bad that the article should be removed. Let's have a look... [🧵 1/n]
The sector with 17,000 more full-time jobs
3:33 pm on 5 February 2026 
Susan Edmunds	Susan Edmunds, Money Correspondent
susan.edmunds@rnz.co.nz
Image of cooks in a restaurant kitchen.
Accommodation and food services saw the largest increase in jobs over the last year, up just over 25,000, with around 17,000 more full-time and 8000 more part-time roles. Photo: 123rf
Unemployment has hit its highest level in a decade, but beneath the headline numbers some sectors are faring much better than others.
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sallyposts/mall ghost @sallypoastes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
They don't do Facism for Dummies because it's all for dummies
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Dr Prospera Tedam @profprosperatedam.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We welcome abstracts that speak to the themes in this call- please circulate @lizbeddoe.bsky.social @carlenefirmin.bsky.social @cynokpokiri.bsky.social @jofinch.bsky.social
Call for papers !
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The fact the current Govt is full of racist, misogynist climate denying, abusive regressives who attack women they feel threatened by isn’t helping. It’s patriarchial misogny in action, amplified by Govt MPs, & other scared men stuck in adolescence in a society that doesn’t demand they grow up.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Man, Du Bois had some bangers, but for me, it doesn't get much better than his scathing indictment of the "Christianity" of the United States. Certainly this was all true of the nation in his lifetime. But in my lifetime, his criticisms have never felt so true of the nation right now.
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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The Free Speech Union didn't exist when black ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union didn't exist when LGBTQ ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union didn't exist when disabled ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union existed when racist white ppl were asked to keep their racism to themselves.
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Liz Beddoe @lizbeddoe.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte
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Sue Bradford @suebra.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
We may be an ocean away, but there are many of us in Aotearoa quietly cheering on every one of you Americans who are standing up, speaking out & taking action today against your govt's latest acceleration towards full-on fascism & war. Solidarity & strength from the deep south of the planet. #nzpol
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 05/01/2026
somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work. lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply
Dear Author,

      I am Honglin Bao (www.hbao.info), a data science PhD student in Knowledge Lab (https://knowledgelab.org/) at the University of Chicago, working on a study about “The Capabilities and Potential of AI for Automating Scientific Idealization: A Large-Scale Human-in-the-Loop Study” (under UChicago IRB25-1372). As AI plays an increasingly significant role in scientific discovery, this project aims to evaluate how far AI helps scientists extend their work in new directions – or if it is not useful in this regard. This is a research project – it has no commercial purpose. I will share the final draft, technical details, and aggregate results from scientists once the study is complete.     
      We came across your preprint "Principles of music perception" and applied custom AI models on it in accordance with the terms of the preprint license, which generated five new extensions (i.e., ideas proposed by AI based on the same context as your paper). Our pilot study of 400 scientists (excluding you) indicates that around 60% found at least one of the proposed extensions thought-provoking and actionable. However, the remaining reported that AI only generates seemingly plausible but vague sentences.
      We solicit your help in evaluating whether you think AI is useful or not, since we believe you are the best judge of new ideas proposed from your own paper. No matter where you stand regarding AI and science: From principally believing that AI is prone to producing fake and morally problematic science to finding it useful, or something in between, we hope to receive evaluations that reflect a spectrum of views.
      The AI-proposed extensions are included in the survey link below. If you consent to review them and participate in the survey, we would appreciate it if you could do so within the next 14 days (it will take you < 10mins). If you do not consent, we will not use your research in this study. If you find these ideas valuable, you are welcome to purs…Please remove my data from your study. I want nothing to do with this — and I would also point out that if you had done appropriate background work in the selection of articles you fed to the plagiarism machine, you would have found that the preprint of mine you used is way out of date and has been updated substantially since it was first posted.

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Samuel Mehr
School of Psychology, University of Auckland
and Child Study Center, Yale University
Be a citizen scientist at themusiclab.org!
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I am asking #NewZealand to please check their garden shed, outbuilding or sheds for for a missing Prime Minister, last seen.. uh .. somewhere Please contact authorities if found, do not spook him, dont worry he isnt a danger unless you are an economy #nzpol
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a man says go get him in front of a police car
Alt: a man says go get him in front of a police car
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Liz Beddoe @lizbeddoe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Oh to be a cat and blissfully unaware of the state of things.
Two sleepy cats, one tabby, one torty.
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Marama Davidson @maramadavidson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Don't copy paste an Imperial response like other world "leaders" who are abandoning their independent foreign policy to cuddle up to Trump. Have some moral courage Luxon!
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AHL5daqvw/https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AHL5daqvw/
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Having literally worked as a ministerial press secretary over the holiday shutdown before: there is no excuse for this, whoever's on duty has all the emergency/personal phone numbers they need to get the right people online to issue a prompt response to an international incident of this enormity
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
a) I'm really not sure these rates are accurate. b) The reason NZ's rate is so high is so we can as all get on planes and fly over where we are our country used to be. Marvel at the Act of God which moved us off the coast of Perth.
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Liz Beddoe @lizbeddoe.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
More AI bullshit. Fake books and weird mash-ups, the trademarks of AI.
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Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
“From Bondi, we must learn Jewish and Palestinian safety and liberation are intertwined” #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/society/22-1...
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From Bondi, we must learn Jewish and Palestinian safety and liberation are intertwined
Antisemitic violence is wrong in the way all forms of racist violence are wrong.
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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Zero surprises that the brainless transphobic health minister in NZ ignored all expert advice and evidence and banned puberty blockers for trans youth. Literal blood on his hands. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...
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Liz Beddoe @lizbeddoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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On The Fence About Dying with Dignity: Social Worker Responses to Assisted Dying in Aotearoa New Zealand
The End of Life Choice Act 2019 marked the legalisation of assisted dying (AD) for the terminally ill under certain circumstances in Aotearoa New Zealand (henceforth referred to as Aotearoa). This ...
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Liz Beddoe @lizbeddoe.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
theconversation.com/interpersona...
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Interpersonal violence in NZ is a public health crisis, not just a social one – new research
New Zealanders who have experienced interpersonal violence are more likely to end up in hospital for both injury and illness.
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Liz Beddoe @lizbeddoe.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/31/i...
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Is this a 1980s Apartheid moment for our universities?
Academic Ritesh Shah wonders if universities staying neutral on human rights abuses in Gaza achieves the opposite of their desired preservation of academic independence.
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Here's a talk I gave as a keynote for the BPS @qmip.bsky.social conference (July 2025) - the result of @vicclarke.bsky.social & I recognising we needed to "dive in" & grapple with the beast that is GenAI & qualitative/(reflexive) thematic analysis www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...
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Dr Braun(love) - or: how I learned to stop worrying and love GenAI (yeah nah)
YouTube video by Virginia Braun
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Mass protests against an international criminal and Epstein associated rapist travelling to Scotland.
Mass protests against Donald Trump, line of protestors hold sign that says “Scotland against Trump”
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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Winston Peters' transphobia is back in the news, so here's our recently published (open access) research on recent moral panics about gender in Aotearoa. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The title of the paper set on the colours of the trans flag: "Anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-gender: The transphobic turn of the “freedom movement” during COVID-19" by Max Soar, Sophie Beaumont & Alex Ker, set o
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Liz Beddoe @lizbeddoe.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
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Liz Beddoe @lizbeddoe.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Long time social work academic and activist investigated for standing up for Palestine. www.ifsw.org/ifsw-educati...
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IFSW Education Commission Defends the Right to Speak for Justice: Standing with Professor Lavalette
It is with great concern that we have learned that Professor Michael Lavalette has been summoned by the police for an interview under the Public Order Act, following his public expressions of solidari
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Funny what people reserve their outrage for. A. Children getting blown to bits in cold blood? B. Scootering into an RAF base to spray some paint on a plane? Decisions, decisions ....
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better @betterthantoday.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
sensational
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