Reposted by M R. X. Dentithkyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wild claim to make in the face of Greens setting multiple discourse shifts over the last month and, as Sacha alludes to, the overt censure of Green policy announcements *alongside* giving David Seymour and Winston Peters constant headlines and columns of verbatim press release. 24313
Reposted by M R. X. DentithSacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026'The Greens have basically been invisible'. And why is that, Jenna? #NzPolstuff.co.nzNational and Labour abandon their principles - so voters abandon themANALYSIS: When Labour and National speak, all the public seem to hear is a faint white noise of political failure writes Political Editor Jenna Lynch 37114
Reposted by M R. X. Dentithkyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Thing is that Peters, Jones and newer candidates like Laws and Ikilei are ALREADY dangerously extreme AND likely far more motivated and networked to do real damage Covering the dregs is also important, but Laws and Ikilei in particular have been getting *positive* coverage by NZ msm despite it all 25019
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 29/09/2026Labour leadership might want to reflect that the Green vote going up might possibly be due to Labour trash talking the role the Greens would have in a future coalition. People want MPs like Chloe in a senior finance role 2222
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 28/09/2026The climate crisis has finally got to the point where my Mother (mid-80s) has gone from 'I wish you'd provide me with grandchildren' to 'I'm glad you aren't having kids given what the world will look like after I'm dead'! 0140
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 28/09/2026Just a reminder that Ben Thomas is somehow a valuable part of the Spinoff's podcast network, which really should call into further question the Spinoff's editorial policies 14716
Reposted by M R. X. DentithLululamarmiteontoast @lalamarmiteontoast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ben Thomas prior press secretary to the National Party & current political editor of the National Business Review doesn't know how to search/read Hansard but I, a 63 yr old school drop out ex cleaner managed? Ben Thomas either has a bad case of selective framing or is a lazy researcher #nzpol 15917
Reposted by M R. X. Dentithsingular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026this seems bad without context. so i looked it up. and if you guessed that this was misleadingly out of context, well, you were wrong. it's exactly what it sounds like 2377
Reposted by M R. X. DentithDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11141481417
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 28/09/2026What is Peter's talking about with regard to Hipkin's stooping to low language? 100
Reposted by M R. X. DentithCraig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Your friendly reminder that Ben Thomas isn't a "political commentator". He's a for-hire spinner whose c.v. skews heavily right. No matter how disingenuous or straight-up dishonest, he's NEVER going to speak any inconvenient truths that will mess with his money. #nzpol 36617
Reposted by M R. X. DentithJosh Addison @monkeyfluids.com · 28/09/2026Hey, it's another new episode! Yet again, @mrxdentith.com and I refrain from dodgy Scottish accents and barely mention Highlander 2 at all! I can't think of a stronger recommendation.zencastr.comLockerbie: The Disaster: The Podcast: The Podcast · Zencastr VideoIt's been close to 40 years, and the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie remains the deadliest act of terrorism in the UK. It's an event with many conspiratorial angles, which were discussed i 042
Reposted by M R. X. Dentithsamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27/09/2026I grew up in Cambridge, MA but spent a decent amount of time in Paris as a kid, as my grandparents lived in the 15eme, and let me tell you the pharmacie signs blew my tiny Cantabridgian mind 3358
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 27/09/2026Apparently a cobra was seen in our office building last week. 480
Reposted by M R. X. DentithGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 26/09/2026FFS - the expertise of one of these thinktank guys is an undergrad degree, the other an MSc. Even worse, journalist reporting on the story is a fellow at an AI journalism organisation funded by AI-obsessed EA/Less Wrong/Rationalist philanthropy bros. It’s AI the grift-cycle. 1134
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 26/09/2026#ResidentEvilVillage, like its predecessor, is very good at giving you just enough ammo to get through a battle and then leave you in a very cautious state before the next checkpoint 000
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 26/09/2026#StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds has never been quite as good as its first and second seasons, but season four was, overall, better than season three, and the finale was great 010
Reposted by M R. X. DentithJosh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 25/09/2026Pols journos sneering that “everyone knows about the Taxpayers Union” and ”it’s just lobbying” are telling on themselves; the fact is that the public *doesn’t* know about the TPU‘s antics and that is because of the failure of mainstream journalists 618653
Reposted by M R. X. DentithTze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Lunchboxes guys, lunchboxes 34115
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 25/09/2026The minor changes required for publication for this article are turning out to require more effort than maybe a major revision would have, mostly because the review was so efffusive and the suggested changes so good that I really want to do them justice 161
Reposted by M R. X. DentithRussell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Chris Penk getting his new column off to a great start by reviewing a book he hasn't read and declaring that it belongs "in the fiction section". I hope Stuff's editors are proud of themselves. 1625865
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 25/09/2026A student has noted on this worksheet I am marking that as a Marxist they find the idea of ghosts annoying 4152
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 25/09/2026Reviewing books they haven’t read is pretty typical for conservatives. Ignorance is, for some, people a virtue 1102
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 24/09/2026I’m halfway through “The Captive’s War” trilogy (on the assumption that halfway through book 2 is largely the mid-point) and whilst I’m enjoying it, there’s no standout characters (like Amos) that we got in the Expanse series. Everyone is just a little too one note 011
Reposted by M R. X. Dentithmikes barnes @mikesbarnes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026we're entering day 4 of me not giving a fuck about will stancil's take on philosophy, and day 584 of me not giving a fuck about will stancil at all 081
Reposted by M R. X. DentithMorgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Nicky Hager book is unusual because its main thesis seems to be "they are just doing all this bad faith money-for-racism stuff in plain sight and the media don't seem to perceive it as bad" Media: "Hmm this Hager book has no revelations in it, we knew all this already, oh well carry on as normal" 315850
Reposted by M R. X. DentithJulie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you think about it ACT is in fact the least economically efficient of all our Parliamentary political parties. Highest vote to donations/spending ratio. Makes you think. 710628
Reposted by M R. X. DentithCEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The media when the right smear Green MPs: anonymous sources have raised serious questions that must be addressed and they should resign The media when Nicky Hager writes a book using sources from inside the TPU: obviously these anonymous sources mean we should dismiss this immediately 012749
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 24/09/2026You know, if this is happening (and evidence says it is) its being driven by a culture of secrecy at the top of the organisation. We have a word for that: conspiracy 1287
Reposted by M R. X. DentithEmma @porcupineq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The fact that a portal to hell didn’t immediately open under the desk where Ryan Bridge, Josie Pagani & Simon Bridges were sitting is proof that there is no god. 0133
Reposted by M R. X. DentithNatalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026epistemologists, here's your chance to ruin someone's mentions 0186
Reposted by M R. X. DentithM R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 23/09/2026Toby Manhire’s repeated question to Nicky Hager of “Wouldn’t your book have been better if you had given the lying liars a right to respond with lies in your book?” is yet more evidence that journalists in Aotearoa seem to think civility is everything 28522
Reposted by M R. X. DentithMark @maetl.bsky.social · 19/10/2025The NZ political reporting culture has been so focused for so long on masterful gambits, they are unable to contextualise blatant lying and deception as bad and dangerous qualities in leadership situations. 37723
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 23/09/2026Toby Manhire’s repeated question to Nicky Hager of “Wouldn’t your book have been better if you had given the lying liars a right to respond with lies in your book?” is yet more evidence that journalists in Aotearoa seem to think civility is everything 28522
Reposted by M R. X. DentithTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026telling my disbelieving students what it was like for my generation to live without AI, 18 months ago 28611
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 23/09/2026Assignment 6 of #SapphireAndSteel starts off with Sapphire wandering around what seems to be a deserted petrol station, and already it is much more atmospheric than the previous story. 120
Reposted by M R. X. DentithGary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New rule: Any media reporting on David Farrar must be accompanied by this photo of Farrar dressed as Jimmy Savile. #OneTermGovernment #nzpol 58725
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 22/09/2026Didn’t Jordan Williams intimate that the last Nicky Hager book was going to be about him and his onion? 030
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 22/09/2026If the new Hager book evenly vaguely suggests the existence of a conspiracy, then I guess I will have to devour it ASAP 190
Reposted by M R. X. DentithPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man 8475801743
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 21/09/2026If I ever retire, I shall devote myself to being yet another person who claims to have solved the mystery of the Voynich Manuscript! 260
Reposted by M R. X. Dentithรℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026ed sheeran is wrong. they're not abandoning him. they're jus not picking a side. they're being apolitical. they're refusing to be activist family and friends.standard.co.ukDevastated Ed Sheeran claims his own family ‘abandoned’ him amid Gaza row‘I'm feeling all of my friends and family and people I know abandon me,’ said Sheeran 2647075
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 21/09/2026A major argument against piracy is that the comments section on YTS is largely people being as racist, sexist and transphobic as inhumanly possible 020
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 21/09/2026Last night I watched #TeenageSexAndDeathAtCampMiasma, an excellent film A24 passed on. A24 really seems to be burning every bridge it can find 141
Reposted by M R. X. DentithTze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I can't be the only one curious about how the traditional NZFirst Grey Power base which is a huge consumer of conventional life-saving evidence-based medical science interventions & drugs, is getting on with the antivax nutriceuticals-pyramid-scheme cooker MAHA wing 148821
Reposted by M R. X. DentithCEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Fucken Pagani once again rolling out the US Democrat strategy of 2024 which is "insist trans rights, genocide and climate are niche issues that elide class when every single one of those issues is a class issue. Instead focus on triangulating into a position where you concede on all three and lose" 24610
Reposted by M R. X. DentithM R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 17/09/2026The game I designed, 'Prestige!' is available now on Itch.io to download for free to print-and-play. There is a physical version coming from 'The Game Crafters' but a) it will be pricey and b) I have to see the physical product before I can authorise it. So, go to Itch! horansome.itch.io/prestigehoransome.itch.ioPrestige! by horansomeA game of daring heists, deadly murders, and devilish extortions! 11710
Reposted by M R. X. DentithJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying 854127841