iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Aotearoa Greens Global @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So. Got friends or whānau overseas? Remind them to enrol. Overseas NZers are impacted by our government's decisions and they deserve to have a say. With 200 people leaving Aotearoa every day we need help to reach them. So please... share our CALL TO ACTION💚✅️ www.greens.org.nz/a_call_to_ac...

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A call to action for friends of overseas New Zealanders

We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is going on my office door, I think.

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know it will differ from country to country, but has anyone done a calculation of the impact of contribution to a political party/campaign vs direct donation to those who need it? Assumptions would need to be that donations improve win odds, and that parties follow through on promises

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think mine was probably "adults in positions of power", then "letting adults down", then "the other children"...

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

They did not, in any possible way, disappoint.

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Jacob Wysocki and Lou Wilson and Jess McKenna and Kimia Behpoornia and Jeremy Culhane and Oscar Montoya and Kurt Maloney, OH MY!

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

If you're in Hamilton East, stay clear of Grey St - mostly closed, I think a police chase ended badly, 20+ police cars plus ambulance etc.

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Genuinely, the EU is probably our best chance against the US tech giants. And that's pretty terrifying, as much as it is a glimmer of hope.

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Two minutes. A full two minutes is how long I waited, having arrived at work, pressing the space bar on my keyboard, waiting for the screen to turn on, before I realised it would work much better if I took my laptop out of my bag and plugged it into them.

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The best description I could come up with was that he looking like a cross between a North American opossum, and a Womble. Like these images, but more puppy-ish, and he literally flipped from standing onto his back for belly scritches.

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This isn't wrong, although there is absolutely power in collective action, which does have an effect. However, if you are boycotting AI for its power/water use, remember also to boycott cloud storage, streaming video, tiktok, gaming, and search engines...

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Alex @ademands.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This is from a local paper in the US… I think the context was a string of tornados.

“Obama: I’ve never seen devastation like this” under a picture of the William and Kate wedding.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.

cover page of The Telegraph's May 4-10 edition creatures a large photo of Kate and William kissing at their wedding atop a large headline that says: Osama bin Laden is dead.

Smaller text above the photo of the couple says: “A day filled with romance, pageantry, and playfulness”

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I'm not aware of anywhere else in the world where full-time academics are on 9-month contracts. It's a real thing! The schools just say that for 3 months of the year, there aren't classes, and stop paying them... The US is... I don't have words.

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I admit I'm not as checked in to the discourse, so I may have missed it, but I'm frustrated that I haven't seen people coming up with ideas for what ethical, healthy AI systems, with clear guardrails and protections, could look like.

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Oooooooof. That's saying the quiet part out loud...

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Nothing summarizes the modern right better than this

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A friend of K's kid just got into a PhD, and they described it on FB as "enjoy your 4 year PhD, because it will be the 5 best 7 years of your life", and I both laughed and cried...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

One of the most successful things the tech industry has done since the 1990s is lead the citizenry to believe that because a technology can do something means that something can’t be legislated away. And since the 2010s they used their lobbying powers to defang the legislators who know otherwise.

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The more I see of these conversations, the more I realise they are designed to seem real to men who believe that a perfect conversation is one where they drive it, and their companion finds additional reasons to believe they are right.

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Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I had so much fun writing this piece for Te Pūnaha Matatini. As someone who is food oriented; naturally, I thought about how transdisciplinary research was like a potluck where everyone could bring a plate to the table www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/transd...

tepunahamatatini.ac.nz

Transdisciplinary research is like a potluck

Why transdisciplinary research matters for understanding complex systems.

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Just A Grandmom🇺🇸 @grandmompa.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

❤️📚❤️📚❤️📚❤️📚❤️📚❤️📚❤️

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 01/05/2026

One of my favorite Oscar Wilde anecdotes is that he once did a reading and Q&A in a mine. With miners. Like down a mineshaft. He had this crazy idea that everybody of every occupation deserved and could benefit from art and information

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Reminder that a big reason your doctor is like that, is that modern medical school schedules are based on the frenzied pace of a cocaine addict.

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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is quite the graph (from newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/30/t...)

Sum of large donations in 2026 by party

1. NZ First $475,000
2. ACT $432,480
3. National $280,000
4. Opportunity $150,000
5. Labour $122,333
6. Green $93,014
7. Māori $40,000

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Just a delightful read. I really hope it does find its way to a full book.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 22/04/2026

This is Fitz and June. Fitz just got here and thinks this place is pretty great. June was here first and thinks it's time to return Fitz. 13/10 for both (TT: muester)

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 04/02/2026

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Reader, they put this on a shirt for me for my birthday...

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I have a medal to award to the Wikipedia editor responsible for this.

A Wikipedia heading saying White privilege, with a sub heading "see also: white defensiveness"

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Almost missed the 3rd anniversary of The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist being published but thankfully social media reminded us of the cake @hmberents.bsky.social made to celebrate its launch.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Easily one of the greatest single pages in comic book history.

5 rows of panels, single panel each row. The setting for each on is two elevators.

Panel 1, Superman and Louis come out of the left elevator, Batman and Catwoman come in though an empty elevator shaft

Panel 2
Supermand: How, .. How did't I see you?
Batman; You ... took the Elevator?

panel 3:
Batman; You're not supposed to see me.
Superman: if I flew here ... I'd ... to get in this floor ... I'd have to break a window.

panel 4: both groops look at each other.

panel 5:
Lois lane leans forward and shakes Catowmans's hand syting "Oh hi, I'm Lois, you must be Catwoman"

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm not surprised. But also WTF #nzpol

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Nothing is going to make me happier than this today

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

My history of supporting perennial also-ran sporting teams continues...

A headline that reads "Four-time champions Italy fail to qualify for third FIFA World Cup in a row"

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Not here caping for AI, but I'd also be fascinated to know how much formalised widespread education has also led to a homogenisation of language and thought...

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

i love the "public toilets in bratislava" article because it was written by one anonymous guy who took it upon himself to photograph every public toilet in bratislava

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

You wouldn't know we had just gone through 36hrs of deluge, except for the band of silt in the channel being taken out of the estuary...

A photo of a beach and sea, looking sunny and pleasant, with a band of brown water further out to sea.

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I love live music, so much. Why do other people have to be there?

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 30/12/2025

While walking down the street with my wife, a random old guy on a bench yelled out "YOU GALS TOOK YOUR PRETTY PILLS TODAY, DIDN'T YA? YEEAH YOU TOOK ALL OF 'EM!" And that's why we call my HRT "pretty pills" to this day.

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

This has felt like a long, hard year. I have some hope for 2026. That feels like a very dangerous approach.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 10/12/2025

Worth noting that passing on your extended family's private details without their consent is also not ok. So people will need to ask their relatives permission to share their phone numbers and emails with the US government... who is going to do that?

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Aotearoa Greens Global @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

📢We are calling for a cross-party inquiry into the student loan repayment scheme for overseas-based New Zealanders. Please sign our petition to the Education and Workforce Committee. There HAS to be a better way. It is in the government’s interest to find one. action.greens.org.nz/student_loan...

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We need an inquiry | Overseas NZers Student Loan Repayment Scheme

We need an inquiry into the Student Loan Repayment Scheme for New Zealanders living overseas!

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