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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12h

Got invited to an election night party so need to ask, is anyone selling packs of "I voted" stickers were the electoral commission mascot looks ridiculously sexy? (Foreign readers please understand this is a normal part of democracy in my country and not weird) Crossposted with @openvibe.social

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 11h

I listen to a fair amount of hardcore punk... PISS may be the hardest core punk I have heard in a long time. Goes hard. Hits like a freight train. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk1V...

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PISS - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 14h

Pretty sure this is just a middle of the road play for their traditional retired, joyless curtain twitcher scold vote.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 14h

It's also why I never vibed with American-style drinking games. What do you mean we have to construct an elaborate ritual where we have to take turns, and drink only as a punishment? Can't we just sip our pints and shoot the breeze?

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 14h

yeah, we literally have a "drink cheap beer day because today is the day for drinking cheap beer" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crate_Day

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Crate Day - Wikipedia

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 14h

no, I slipped and fell face first on an ice axe. blood quantum phrenology nonsense has always been weird.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 15h

I cannot throw stones. I got an ice-axe scar on my face as a souvineer from my own time in uni clubs.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 15h

yeah, why would I join a weird club to drink cheap beer out of a plastic cup? by the time I started university I'd been working in a bar for six months.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 15h

wait... just realised the German University sabre duelling clubs is the origin of the "James Bond villain with a facial disfigurement" trope...

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 16h

gussets are such an underrated component of jumper construction. My inherited gurnsey fits so well because it's actually shaped in a way that lets my arms move naturally.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

based on the roadside testing results, uppers sure seem more popular than downers.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

been really marked how all the mollymauks hanging around to try and snatch some crumbs of attention from this announcement have been talking exclusively about unemployed "stoned" people.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

William-Hogarth-Georgian-engraving-moral-panic-ass policy

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Tran Girlismo: The Real Podcast Simulator @trangirlismo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

DUDES ROCK

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

despite what the Local Government Act says, our city is actually run by one crank who owns an ice cream shop.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Having visited Stewart Island last week, it was wild that the ~300 households have ~600 cars, on a road network that totals about 30km, and where the furthest distance it is possible to drive (from a trailhead in the bush to another trailhead in the bush) is about 7.5km.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Discovering this month thay Wellington libraries have Popeye available on Libby was a great mood booster.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the rural Otago cinemas were not showing Coyote vs Acme, but that is next on the school holiday list

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The new shaun the sheep movie is good, and has the official Gormshuil seal of approval as he loudly guffawed throughout the screening.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The major parties are putting up worse-than-1996 numbers. worse than post-Rogernomics and Ruthenasia, we just changed the whole electoral system because we're sick of you levels of popularity.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

- planned a complete route and had a co-driver read out turn-by turn directions from a paper map - followed the road signs - got close-ish using familiar landmarks and cardinal directions and then iterated until the destination - got lost and pulled over and looked at a paper map

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm sick of people pretending that being good at a structured high-school style debate in any way correlates with someone's ability to run a country or a government.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ya'll couldn't pay me to watch a "debate" where two weirdos talk a bunch of pre-prepared lines past each other and go into a flap every time someone asks a follow up question.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

plus, since the 2005 amalgamation, "Christchurch City" has also included all of Banks Peninsula, which is a bunch of fields.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I see people surprised that Christchurch has the lowest tree cover of almost everywhere in NZ, but like, most of our cities are surrounded significant areas of bush: the Waitakeres, Remutakas, Town Belts etc Christchurch is in the middle of a bunch of fields

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

forget crypto or gold, I know what speculative asset investment my household is making.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People had already turned the fun hobby into just another way to gamble in an app. Now that it's effectively become a second job for a lot of people, they're abrading off every last bit of the "fun hobby" that doesn't contribute to more profit.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I mean, the two are related though. Stalin did an ideological purge of his military too, and look how well that worked out.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

brings me no joy to say that Fukuyama nailed it

But supposing that the world has become "filled up," so to speak, with liberal democracies, such that there exist no tyranny and oppression worthy of the name against which to struggle?
Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier gen-eration, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and pros-perity, and against democracy.

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Una mujer y dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛ @losgatos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If this is now $1B for 11km of road, that is what the new Dunedin hospital is meant to cost. ELEVEN KILOMETRES of ROAD or one brand new hospital for 300k people. #ohffs #nzpol

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

it would be interesting if this was actually a choice, and not a command.

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

oh, the cheap fast fashion slop company is the only one doing well? why do we think the cheap fast fashion slop company is the only one people can afford to buy from?

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I just have the weirdest history of cars... and I drive a Nissan Leaf now.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 30/09/2026

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A chart showing new EV & PHEV sales over the years. The market absolutely fell out when the new National govt had a fucking insane idea to stop incentives to get EVs, then when Trump thought he should start a war instead of going to jail for being a Pedo & fuel prices went through the roof, EV sales have risen again

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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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seasonally appropriately spooky 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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seasonally appropriately spooky 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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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

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seasonally appropriately spooky 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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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am one of those mens clothing weirdos, but if you are a New Zealander and you wear a tuxedo after your school ball you do not understand our culture.

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seasonally appropriately spooky 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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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Having got further in the book, I think these people vastly overestimate how much any normal human not on twitter even knows who the lady from "the apprentice" chapter is and what she gets up to (you know, the Transphobe Lady, I just don't want to summon her like beetlejuice).

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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah, it has felt a lot like all our professional politics knowers going "I don't see the value of this accessible mass market non fiction treatment, I knew all this already from reading the primary sources and talking directly to the people."

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seasonally appropriately spooky 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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