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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 16h

You should go and see Rachel. She's very good, but also, the balls it takes to do a post like this - in a climate where comedians are encouraged to post nothing but wins, forever - merits your attendance on its own.

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 17h

So we're at the 'bashing beneficiaries' stage of the election campaign, eh? Tired ideas from right-wing politicians who want to punish people who they see as below them. Margaret Thatcher would be proud of their efforts. What next? Vouchers that can't be used for certain things in the supermarket?

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 19h

This never get’s old…

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If I'm having a shit sleep and I'm awake in the middle of the night I'll often relisten to this rather than doomscrolling. It's fantastic.

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm 52 so, hopefully, I have a few years left. In that time I want to live my life like Stevie Nicks staring at Lindsey Buckingham as she sings "I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you". Goals, it's always good to have them.

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've started to hate tech and the internet, but every so often I'm reminded of the joy of going down rabbit holes. In this case: Read random review Watch The Other Bennet Sister Be really impressed by Ella Bruccoleri Look up on Wikipedia See she's a musician Listen to 'I Have A Lark' (beautiful!)

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I Have A Lark

Marry Me Emelie! · I Have A Lark · Song · 2024

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's one thing to be in the audience of a televised debate knowing you might be seen on screen at some points. It's quite another to have mainstream media stories written about you with multiple screenshots and a call to identify. Feels a bit weird and creepy to me.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Leeeesten very carefully I shall zay zis only vunce", very much into Ian Wright's outfit channelling Michelle of the French resistace tonight (and I mean this is a good way), proper shirt collar unlike the gaping horror of your average football pundit, 9/10

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You can buy a huge media conglomerate with money you don't have using leveraged debt you'll never pay off and then immediately start firing its workers, but people will still say that capitalism is compatible with democracy and is capable of "reform" or "regulation"

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magical fox @bellofthebird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

on the train. doors close. pigeon is on the train. conductor eyeballs pigeon. ‘no fare, no ride’ escorts pigeon off the train. small children are absolutely delighted. as am i.

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In an election this tight, every vote matters But National changed the rules that always allowed Kiwis to register in a relaxed way in the 2 weeks prior to election This was voter suppression It is deeply undemocratic- potentially cutting 175,000 voters Get registered vote.nz/enrolling/en...

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

I think the Auckland CRL has shown Kiwis love trains. And now the Greens step in and say “What about the CRL, but for the whole country?” And people, who remember love the CRL, are saying “Yes! Choo choo motherfucker!”, and hopefully choo choo motherfucker we shall. #nzpol

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I resisted because I wasn't sure I needed to see a TV show about The Other Bennet Sister, but boy was I wrong. It was delightful and I cried (obviously) and Ella Bruccoleri was brilliant as Mary. My one annoyance? Ruth Jones as Mrs Bennet. Her character was one note annoying and it felt too much.

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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is it just me?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My man looks like Billy Ray Virus

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

While Trump is merely a corrupt, racist, misogynistic, sexual predator and would-be dictator, his core guiding ideology is his narcissistic self interest. JD Vance on the other hand is, at his most essential, a Christian Nationalist and a Nazi.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You know it's going well when Seymour is inadvertently promoting a Capital Gains Tax by not reading the sub heading of his screenshot.

David Seymour FB post

Cc Green Party

Netherlands ditches wealth tax over exodus fears

Dutch PM scraps plan to target paper profits instead introducing a more conventional capital gains levy

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 01/10/2026

Imagine proactively stepping in to kill someone. Absolutely fucked.

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Phil Wheeler @phil-wh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yep. Completely mind-boggling mystery, this one.

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been wearing a smart watch for so long that I can't quite imagine life without one. But I need to quell my tech addiction, so I've used some airpoints to buy this beauty! Old school. Not analogue, but takes me back. Wish I could have got a calculator one, though!

A retro-style Casio digital watch, in gun metal grey.

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not content with racism, misogyny, exacerbating the climate crisis, making people redundant by the boat load and hoarding wealth, the technofascists are also committing fraud. When are we going to stand up to them?

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I really loved Resident Evil, especially the bit where the large audience at the Embassy booed loudly at the ad for the boy wizard franchise. Love you Wellington horror fans!

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 28/09/2026

claude just went rogue and liked a bunch of my wife's best friend's vacation selfies from 2018

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

If I’m reading this right, Anthropic has no choice but to IPO now because it doesn’t have the money to cover its computing / infrastructure obligations next year

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Ailsa Pehi @ailsaaotearoa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What point is a surplus when people can't eat? Taxes are paid to support people. At what cost has it taken to get a hairs breadth from surplus? Canceling ferries by text is not good fiscal governance when it cost the people too much. Taxpayer money wasted. Surplus??? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

stuff.co.nz

Less debt, bigger surplus coming in pre-election fiscal update

The Pre-Election Fiscal Update (PREFU) shows an improvement to Treasury’s May projections, but Finance Minister Nicola Willis says it is not a license to spend.

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you needed any more proof these numbers are just pulled out of someone jacksie. Made up bullshit to justify the desire of a handful of technofascists to own the world.

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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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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Nerd Reich by @gilduran.com really gets into the details of just how bad Peter Thiel is. Perhaps his citizenship should be revoked as his work is inarguably against the interest of NZ? (Yes, I know stripping of citizenship is a slippery slope. We should make him give it up with Aotearoa hate.)

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyone having troubles with @deck.blue after changing handles? Version v2.24.3+1066. Changed handle to current handle; Accounts still displays the old handle. Notifications loads; Home, You, Likes and Media spin indefinitely.

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jesus. I'm used to wrestlers dying young, but Pac? Holy shit. One of those geniuses who did things that I cannot fathom. My condolences to all who knew and loved him.

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm going to take it. It's not a full-on cryptic crossword - I haven't been able to develop my skills to that level, but I think this is the first time I've been first!

Puzzle Solved
Time: 04:36
Your personal best is 04:36
Your Rank: 1 or 136

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you’re going to let Tucker launder his reputation on your channel, at least ask him: hey, so Oswald Mosley? You think he’s good?

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...

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Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism.

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't have any credibility anyway so I'm not going to lose anything by saying I really like the first two tracks from U2's new album Carnaval De Luz. Can't wait to hear Torn featuring Dolly Parton! This may be the first vinyl U2 album I buy since Zooropa.

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Ruby Tui belted out Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi at Eden Park, and 40,000 fans sang with her. Four months later, Harry Styles sang the first line of the song at his concert in Auckland and the crowd sang the rest back to him. This was who we were. And this is what Jordan Williams set out to destroy.” #nzpol

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#nzpol @bodycartoon.bsky.social on the mark in today's Herald

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I quite enjoyed the first season of The Paper (and I really like Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore and Chelsea Frei) - but the second season was just awful. Like bordering on the unwatchable.

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm on the third book of the series. I love it so much and find myself thinking often about living the same day again and again...

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 23/09/2026

It's such a fucking weird sales pitch. They aren't saying "hey, we need support so we can decommission this stuff in a controlled way" or something. Instead, it's "we have no idea how bad this stuff could be, but we think it might kill us all, anyway we need more money to keep doing it, lol"

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You want a license to be fucking assholes without any consequences, in other words. #nzpol

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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have opened this up to all immediately. NZ diesel prices & mortgage rates set to spike pre-election; US eyes diesel export ban, which would lift NZ wholesale diesel costs, just as US bond yields that drive NZ fixed mortgage rates also surge. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/ready-for-...

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Ready for $4/l diesel & 6% fixed mortgage rates?

NZ diesel prices & mortgage rates set to spike pre-election; US eyes diesel export ban, which would lift NZ wholesale diesel costs, just as US bond yields that drive NZ fixed mortgage rates also surge

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026

an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/

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This Could Change The Way Victims Get Justice

David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The combination of fascism and stupidity really leaves us in the worst fucking timeline.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All of the three parties in the coalition have indulged in providing a streamlined gateway for anti-evidence groups to get their fringe ideas written into policy. The most anti science, anti research, anti expertise government we’ve had in living memory. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

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NZ First’s health policy copy-pasted from advocacy group’s website

New Zealand First released a health policy on Sunday that is largely copy-and-pasted from a charitable trust called Make New Zealand Healthy.

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Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You know the old joke about how to eat an elephant? One mouthful at a time, right? Somehow the majority of us, those who oppose technofascism and everything those billionaires stand for, have to start eating them. One mouthful at a time. The only problem is, I don't know where to start munching...

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