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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mate, you won't be the prime minister if the polls keep going the way they're going and you get invited to join the coalition as the junior partner.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He's ruled them out because he's worried about National heomoragging all their reasonable voters to them.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lmao the violence of the imperial periphery Strava returning to the imperial core Strava

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You may not like it, but this is peak pickup truck.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The lesson of every star war since 2019 is people like it more when it's not still about the same magic bloodline.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well, that's sure some nostalgia...

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I mean, it's how I got into Opeth...

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Judge not on the data centres that are announced. Judge on the data centres that actually get built.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Laughs In Gravity's Rainbow Skill issue.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

To be fair, all these guys know is dressing up fiction as policy announcements.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Moons are mostly named after the consorts or children of the Roman gods the planets are named after. Y'all can't be trusted to say Uranus without snickering, you think you could have dealt with Aeneas?

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kinda wild to see candidates tacking right to an imagined center when gas is on track to cost infinite dollars by election day

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a category error. Lego is not really a kids toy anymore when their bread and butter is $200 sets you can't play with from 40-year-old movies.

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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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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Huh, wonder what happened to petrol prices last time cars looked like this

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

becoming a vulgar rawlsian. the veil of ignorance isn't perfect, but 'is this how you would design things if *you* thought you might end up here?' is a test that way too many people fail. on everything from criminal justice to public transit, across the ideological spectrum.

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some thoughts on Nicky Hager's "Dirty Work: The Taxpayers' Union and New Zealand's Hard Right" which was launched tonight. These thoughts are informed by a research project we did earlier this year looking at NZTU discourses which involved analysing two years of its media releases and other outputs.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

for those outside New Zealand: 2 years ago a veiled far-right astroturf org threatened to sue an investigative journalist for a book he was writing about them. He was not writing a book about them, but this incident meant former staff started leaking to him. He used those leaks to write a book.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

r/crafts has banned all Harry Potter-related crafts due to JK Rowling’s anti-trans bigotry, after a 53-41 vote

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From the crafts community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the crafts community

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mate, they lost nearly $40B in a year. At this point, lighting a crisp $1000 bill on fire every second is more profitable than Open AI.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I should buy a sailor suit

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The most influential thing this very influential film did was banish the credits to the end of the film. Without Star Wars, there would be no Marvel post-credits scene. Would the interconnected metanarratives of that franchise even work without them?

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's pretty simple. money for nostalgia-bait stadium shows for the middle-aged Aucklanders who might vote for National no money for festivals for the young folk that won't

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People tend to be siloed. This is a bit off piste but in tech startup land people are noticing that VC funding is drying up and navel gazing as to why. And I'm like guys, one of your largest (if not the largest) source of risk capital is on fire right now.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This trope also really misses how diverse languages like "French" "German" and "English" were before early modern standardisation efforts. Chaucer jokes about a character that speaks Norman French, but has no idea what people are saying in Parisian French. Caxton has that joke about eyren.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

jokes on you Ford. I've been pushing my shitbox car short distances rather than start it for ages. but also, this is going to see so many dudes get backed over by their own truck when they trip and pull the handle. www.caranddriver.com/news/a736754...

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

burning up your own ship in the boiler like Phileas Fogg to get across the Atlantic in under 80 days in the hopes that the damage you do to get there doesn't matter.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

once again, it's time to play Is! That! Good!

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

looking forward to getting my legal right to live in Europe back, after that whole dumb Brexit thing.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They don't want victory. They don't want power. Hell, they don't even really look like they want to critique power.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I may not have been paying attention, but has any previous government seen this much action for the privileges committee?

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hey Empire RETVRN guys, how's that whole CANZUK thing going?

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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wow. What a great start. Used the CRL today and can confirm the trains were very busy on Tuesday too.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"oh, but we don't have a say. Our wages are set independently by a completely arm's length government committee" As if that isn't also true of all the people on the minimum wage.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How's the election campaign going? Polls:

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

love being a Cassandra: bsky.app/profile/para...

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 07/07/2026

I mean "thing you bought that changes unpredictably for the worse" is basically a Cursed Object

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Windows recently said it was going to do more regular mandatory full-system-shutdown update installs, "for my convenience". Their gaslighting is not helping matters.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

so, another "the effects might be bad, but the causes are very, very good" guy?

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

POSIWID The integrity of the report doesn't matter, it did exactly what it needed to: gave the Mayor technocratic cover to fire a bunch of people.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Crayfish is a wonderful example of an eggcorn - mishearing or reinterpreting a word to fit with your understanding of the world. The original Middle English word was Crevise, from the French Crevice, but it lives in the water, so they must mean it's some kind of fish, right?

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is the sort of nonsense NZ encouraged when we hosted a State of Origin game in Auckland.

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Also, how many of those Starship Trooper mobile infantry being fed into a combat woodchipper do you think are making it back to the imperial metropole to actually cast their votes? literally every veteran in the movie has an amputation.

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