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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 15h

Regret to inform that multiple correspondents on RNZ's Facebook page suspect that the Green Party staged the whole thing. (By, I guess, hiring an anonymous stunt driver to drive around the barriers in front of an oncoming train, just as they announced the policy.) We live in the stupidest of times.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 8h

Dealing with death of a close friend so not really in mood for this bullshit, but graphic material feat. the ChCh terrorism has been posted by the far-right Counterspin Media yet again to some of its accounts. Given clear harms, I've reported the material to DIA www.dia.govt.nz/Countering-V...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

"The U.S. prison population is declining at an accelerating rate, and prison admission rates are predicted to fall an additional 50% within the next two decades, according to new research from University at Albany professor Shawn Bushway." "the decline is driven mainly by generational change."

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New research shows steep and continuing decline in prison population in the US

The U.S. prison population is declining at an accelerating rate, and prison admission rates are predicted to fall an additional 50% within the next two decades, according to new research from Universi...

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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Not surprised they used AI here, National hate real artists, have cut funding to Ministry of Culture/Heritage, Te Papa, Creative NZ, Heritage, Film commission etc #Nzpol

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20h

🚨 NEWS: A 28-year-old researcher at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected lab accident in Siberia. Nearly 200 people are reportedly under observation and hospitals have been quarantined amid concerns over possible pneumonic plague.

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Russian Lab Worker Dies After Suspected Plague Accident as Quarantines Expand

A 28-year-old worker at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected laboratory accident in Siberia, with nearly 200 people under observation and conflicting accounts emerging from R...

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 19h

All the stuff about the portaloos seems like self parody

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 19h

⚠️ Campaign Alert ⚠️ Amnesty NZ and Tāhono Trust are calling on the next govt to make online spaces safer. Stalking, harassment, fraud, addiction and disinformation are already part of daily life online. The harms are often worst for people who are already targeted by discrimination. #nzpol

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 19h

Similarly, movies used to be all shorts, less than a minute at the beginning, and that's just dated! Well, until it wasn't. Watching 30-second films in a tiny viewfinder? Sounds pretty modern to me!

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Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

fun science fact! crabs look Like That because the appearance of their actual physical form overrides the human visual system, leaving a perfect hole in our perception which the brain fills with its ideal self-image. you have never seen a crab. you have only seen a reflection of your own desires

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 20h

"Well, looks like another day foraging in the sand" "FUCK YES BECAUSE I FUCKING LOVE FORAGING IN THE SAND!" 🪶

A sanderling looking tired on the sand with a ton of sand on their beak

A sanderling with their beak in the front of their beak in the front of their face buried almost up to the eye and you can see the sand being moved out of the way ..

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21h

tremors and jaws are both great movies, and Jaws probably succeeds more as a work of horror. but Tremors is actually perfect. an almost unique example of a film executed flawlessly in line with its vision.

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So i recall someone made a bot that would supply you with Gavin Newsom facts on request and

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Would an AI ever add a portrait of the most annoying person involved in the commission to its depiction of hell?

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Miriam Ross @miriamruthross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do you know what's awesome about our transport policy, you can download, print and make your own Green transport assets.nationbuilder.com/beachheroes/...

An image of a model kit for a Green Party train that you can print, cut out and folder to make your own train

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.

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Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.

The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

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Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looking through some old stuff and found this cartoon I cut out c1996. They just never really have new ideas, just new packaging. (For younger readers - right wing think tank the NZ Initiative formed out of a merger of the NZ Business Roundtable and the NZ Institute in 2012.)

Photo of a black and white cartoon with a bunch of men sitting around an executive board table. A sign in front reads “Quiet please, Roundtable in session”. From left to right they are saying:
“The govt should get out of education and health…”
“We need more contestability in social welfare…”
“the govt should sell ACC and the post office…”
“We should privatise electricity and roading…”
“Seen the polls? Winston could be the next PM”
“That’s disgraceful. What happened to the New Zealand we all knew and loved?”

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

stitches get itches

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

look I'm sorry but you called her "Buck the Sheep" and the song playing over the ad opens LOVING YOU, ISN'T THE RIGHT THING TO DO I don't understand what they thought was going to happen youtu.be/B2cQW_MQRtQ?...

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Buck the System | Kiwibank

YouTube video by Kiwibank

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Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Really important thread for anyone interviewed on the basis of their expertise to read.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In this case, apparently throwing compute at a known problem but still more than one yike

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Andy Gardner @discovery-process.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well, the “H” in Hernandez is silent so it’s more of an “Awks” incident.

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wait do we have our own Hawks incident

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 02/10/2026

It's not my real answer but it did occur to me to wonder if it's just some lines from Hudson that are iconic but this video proves that it's literally EVERY line in the movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrjF...

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Supercut: Private William Hudson in Aliens

YouTube video by Migliopolis

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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey hey! I've made the @thespinoff.bsky.social 🙌 Today's toon is of the leader - Trust NZ party - James is one happy camper. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/02-... Let's get the youth voting! Share far and wide please 🙏❤️🔥 #NzPol #Cartoon #Parody

Cartoon. Title: The Voice of reason?

James lays on his bed in his mums house... and is chatting to his campaign manager about the greatness of the youth not voting. He says "Why hide it? It works better for us when the young people don't vote!" In his room he has all sorts of far right memorabilia. Pepe the frog, the Argentina presidents chainsaw, a MAGA hat and some notable Nz books

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026

This is the dodgiest and most-desperate thing I’ve seen in the bubble so far. Amazon selling their chips to a group of investors and leasing them back - an off balance sheet arrangement done in plain sight. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And they’ll probably buy more!

Amazon is seeking to offload about $8bn of advanced Nvidia chips to external investors through a new vehicle aimed at strengthening its balance sheet, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Seattle-based cloud giant has held talks with investors in recent weeks to gauge interest in the deal, which would allow the company to spin off thousands of Grace Blackwell chips it is deploying in data centres across the US into a special-purpose vehicle.
Amazon will then lease the advanced AI chips back from the SPV, which would tap outside investors through debt issuance. By unloading the expensive semiconductors to investors, the company could adopt a more asset-light approach to its balance sheet.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my ps5 pro has been randomly turning on for days and i was getting kinda stressed because they’re very expensive to replace now but it turns out that this criminal has decided that the cables/old peripherals/misc. bin in the closet is her new bed and she was turning it on via a spare controller

a fluffy white and gray tabby cat perched up on a man’s seated thigh exposing her chin and neck for scratches

same cat now flopped chin-down on the man’s leg for back of neck scratches

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

please understand that all of my jokes are a personal attack on you

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beccadagoo @silly.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Going outside but shaking my head the whole time so people know I don’t agree with what’s going on

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But if we've established that working in line with sinister foreign lobby groups is a problem then I'm sure we have some thoughts

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SoloRPGList @solorpglist.com · 02/10/2026

This November we're hosting our first solo RPG game jam at @itch.io! Solovember 2026: All flavours of solo TTRPG welcome: tactical, journaling games, dungeon crawls, experimental, etc. A fun alternative to NaNoWriMo or to do as part of NaGaDeMon 🧡 itch.io/jam/solovemb...

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Solovember 2026

A game jam from 2026-10-31 to 2026-12-01 hosted by Sero. We've all been waiting all year, and it's almost finally November. Just like SoloSeptember we have another month all about solo and solo-friend...

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If feeding a hungry kid accidentally benefits an "undeserving" kid, I am prepared to live with this devastating outcome.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's also the Bible and it's not even close.

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Whiti Hereaka @whitihereaka.co.nz · 02/10/2026

I know this is probably very “Insta circa 2014” of me but behold this massive and delicious *passionfruit* lamington!

À big cube of cake covered in coconut — tis the majestic lamington!

A majestic lamington with a bite taken from it — although can it really be a bite if you use a cake fork?

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Per other threads, this is apparently a real thing that annoying people say

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just because I'm reminded, one time I was in a hostel for a friend festival and there was this endless voice on the other side of the wall...

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 01/10/2026

Please accept this perfect photo of Maxx who believes himself invisible as my contribution towards your mental health for the day. Also, take a break, drink some water, and double check that curtain isn’t see-thru.

Maxx hiding behind a sheer gold curtain.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/10/2026

Yeah so we all just got tear gassed on the way out of Rocky Horror, be careful downtown

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Saladin Ahmed @saladinahmed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love how many of you guys got married and/or transitioned this is the wholesome shit I came for

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