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She had a blackbird hopping around directly next to her and didn’t go for it. Watched her roll around on the grass for a while longer then get up and meander away. She is #NotOurCat so not a lot we can do about it other than keep an eye on her when she visits for her daily belly rubs

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 1h

Because the actress hired to play his wife hasn’t been paid for the last photo shoot

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 1h

And how many of those jobs on Seek are for the same role? I keep seeing multiples of the same job

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 2h

www.facebook.com/share/p/17tX... #nzpol

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 2h

Louise Upston wants 10,000 unemployed New Zealanders to piss in a cup. It'll cost $1.5 million. Naturally, I turned to Freud and Lacan to understand why National is so damn interested, again, in other people's urine. Thread time!🧵 #nzpol

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 2h

Watching out the window at the birds in the garden being totally unfussed about the small black cat hunkered down watching them hop around on the back lawn 🌱

Small black cat lying down at the edge of the lawn watching birds. Bird in front less than 2 metres away completely ignoring the cat. Potted fuschia and other shrubs in the foreground

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 15h

A word at the end of the day about people saying "I'm okay with drug testing if all MPs have to do it". No. That is *not* where we want to go. Part of the danger of National's stunt policy is that it sets us off down a slippery slope where the privacy and human rights of *everyone* are infringed.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah so that’s attempted murder.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 20h

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 20h

What’s the bet they tell MSD they have no $$ to fund it and it has to come out of their existing budget

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 20h

Nearly 15% of working population on jobseekers, 80,000 above National's target as Coalition's job cuts, record biz failures & cost of living results in 220,000 Kiwis on jobseekers while ~160,000 so far leave permanently. Their answer: cut benefits, cut youth off benefits & drive more into poverty

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 20h

Time is a flat circle

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 22h

Beyond the current numbers which is why I used future tense

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Anneleise @anneleise.bsky.social · 23h

"10 former MPs from across the political spectrum, convened to hear evidence that Parliament never considered, finding that the changes amounted to a “flagrant and significant abuse of power”. " #NZPol

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Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Silvereye on Kōwhai #nzbirds 🇳🇿 🪶

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 23h

The headline buries the lede: ❌️ Cutting benefit rates after 2yrs ❌️ Incr stand down to 26wks (up from 13wks) ❌️ Incr minimum residence period to qualify benefits from 2yrs to 5yrs These are awful, horrifying policies that will drive povery and misery #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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National promises random drug testing for jobseeker beneficiaries

National is promising to introduce random drug testing for those on the jobseeker benefit to ensure they're "ready for work".

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One of the interesting things is how much 'employment' under the below policy approach is indicative of individual worth & value (in fact, morality). Thus 'unemployment' is constructed as a problem of individual/personal failure, and so the policy 'solutions' are then designed to counter this.

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Our suicide and domestic violence rates are going to explode

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They legislated to make it easier to fire workers, and now they're promising to punish people for being fired.

lowering the rate of payment for those who had been on the benefit for two of the previous three years, from 1 April 2028. There would be a smaller reduction for households with dependent children.

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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If it's ok for National MPs to get pissed on the job and abuse staff members, a wee toke is the least they should allow for people who can't get a job in the market they've crushed.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This never get’s old…

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Meantime I still haven’t received my water bill from Tiaki Wai

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Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m losing track of how many times Hipkins comes out and says “We won’t commit to reversing the current govt’s [XYZ] policy” despite Labour previously, and justifiably, being extremely vocal about how bad each policy is. Better starts when? #nzpol

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Hipkins non-committal on reversing three major benefit changes

Chris Hipkins has admitted Labour is not committing to reversing a law change that meant 18 and 19 year olds could only receive the Jobseeker benefit if they were from very low income families.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Amazing this didn't get a lot of media coverage as it reveals that LWDW is going to cost ratepayers a lot more in the next five years before the Comm Comm start price regulation because the gap between revenue and infrastructure is massively. Oops.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just a reminder, if you're seeing crochet on clothes at fast-fashion stores and you're not paying a lot for it, the person who did that crochet is not getting paid a lot either. There is no machine-made crochet, unlike knits. A human is doing that with their hands.

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A while ago Scott picked up 2x free cuttings of a Christmas Cactus from one of his mum’s neighbours. They both had a wee stick poked into the soil, 1x white & 1x pink. I wasn’t expecting such a pale pink on this first of the 2 to flower. Must pot them up properly 🌱

Christmas cactus cutting planted in an old yoghurt pot on the kitchen windowsill. Pale candy pink flower blooming, buds developing

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is on top of the millions of dollars in server charges caused by AI bots hammering Wikipedia’s servers to scrape the entire encyclopedia.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Let us eat one last cookie, and then we will stop.”

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The fake site is very convincing. If you buy something from what appears to be a genuine merchant site and the order confirmation comes from vvservicecare[dot]com, call your bank immediately. Another red flag is the site trying to nudge you into a different payment method than the one you've chosen.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just through helping a friend who got scammed trying to buy a rubbish bin. The site she got caught by, brabantia-nz[dot]com, is the top Google result for the term "Brabantia NZ". One of a large cluster of scam sites, most seem to use vvservicecare[dot]com as the order confirmation email address

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I recall mum promised to only eat the broken animal biscuits then getting up one night to find her breaking them all in half

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If I have a new contract to issue and have to get them set up in our finance system I have to ask them to provide extra documentation to verify their GST number. If it was included on their NZBN record this wouldn’t be needed. Plus ppl get pissy when we have to go back for extra documentation

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A large part of what they propose would be solved if the NZBN folks made it opt out to display a company’s GST number instead of opt in

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pondering - is it the socially conservative fundamentalist Christians within the National Party who are out of touch and out of step with the rest of NZ??

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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ah my plant is skills are sadly lacking. Very overly though they have them planted all over

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BWHAHAHAHAHAHSHAHA

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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Watching Luxon trying to be prime ministerial is like watching a Neanderthal wander aimlessly around a nuclear reactor, smearing it with mud and hitting it with sticks, whilst proclaiming ‘what I’m saying to you is I’m doing a really great job of running this thing’ #nzpol

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NZ Transit Buzz @nztransitbuzz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#RailNews: A commemorative plaque celebrating the opening of New Zealand’s largest ever infrastructure project was put on hold over fears the National Party would roll Christopher Luxon as its leader. Via The Post: www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

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Auckland's CRL still has no commemorative plaque and it’s partly National's fault

Transport staff had a serious quandary on their hands: Would Christopher Luxon still be PM by the time the City Rail Link opened?

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This week's #TwentiesTuesday garment is this gold silk panne velvet wedding dress embroidered with artificial pearl beads. The dress was worn by Maud Cecil for her marriage to Richard Greville in London in November 1927. The maker is unknown. V&A collection. #fashionhistory

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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Would you not expect protests in Wales if you replaced the bilingual Welsh & English road signs with English only? Would you not expect protests in Northern Ireland if you replaced the bilingual Gaelic & English road signs with English only? Why expect any different in Aotearoa New Zealand? 🇳🇿

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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says Māori protests against government 'pretty unfair'

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says the government plans to work for Māori and non-Māori alike, and protests are "unfair" for a government that's only been in power a week.

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can’t go after rich money-hiders if you don’t have enough staff. #nzpol

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