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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 15h

The Spinoff website has been redesigned and I'm proud to deliver an auspicious launch to our new business section

Headline: Kiwibank is desperately trying to stop people saying they want to fuck its sheep mascot

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 15h

This gave me a good laugh. (from @accordionguy.bsky.social 's "Saturday Picdump" of tech-related memes, cartoons, etc.)

A military execution by firing squad. The condemned person is tied to a wooden post in front of a wall. The condemned man is covered in black ink, with overspray on the wall behind him leaving a negative shadow on the wall. Ten or so feet in front of the prisoner, a large squid lays on the ground, a spray of squid ink stretching between it and the prison.

To one side, two soldiers stand. One, an officer, holds a piece of paper in his hands, looking at it closely.

Caption: "Damn autocorrect."

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 15h

My biggest worry is that in both NZ and the US Labour/Democrats will win the November election then do fuck all with it. They think centrism offends no one, but it also achieves nothing.

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Reading "Life After Cars" and was blown away by this fact. A light rail station being added to a rural area in Japan reduced health care costs in that community to the tune of $600 per person per year!! 🤯

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 16h

The Queen’s Christmas Message.

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“Wild? I was absolutely livid.”

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

First impressions are that this does indeed taste of blue. Imagine a smurf inserted down your throat by the Luftwaffe. Like a German engineer had a blueberry explained to them by someone with psychotic tendencies.

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“I don’t have enough fingers!”

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Gavin Shoebridge @kiwiev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's dinner sorted? 😄

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can’t see what feature this camera offers that would make you want to buy it.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trump refuses to turn his camera on at the G7 summit

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

WARNING: Moose will try to diagnose what is wrong with your broken vehicle.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 01/10/2026

People are going to clown on this but we need to remember that planning for local context is important: a city with Los Angeles, California’s semi-arid Mediterranean climate only gets sunshine ~300 days a year; so it’s important to make sure you can never ever find shade in the middle of the day.

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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎯 'A man raped her' instead of 'she was raped.' Have you ever read a headline that reads "A bank was robbed by a suspect?" Nope. It's "A suspect robbed a bank."

Christina Ricci in front of a patterned wall with the text: Maybe we should start talking about how many men out of 3 will sexually assault someone... instead of how many women out of 3 will be assaulted. Lets shift the ownership..

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ll never agree with the death penalty but what really blows my mind is that Christa Pike was sentenced in 1996. She’s been on death row for 30 years then suddenly they decide now’s the time. Did someone drop her file down the back of the cabinet?

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So like the Secretary of Health, the President, the Secretary of Education… Wait, I’m seeing a pattern here.

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tasty Cheese implies the existence of non-tasty cheese.

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reminds me that when I first saw the show “Suddenly Susan” (1996) I assumed from the name it was about a trans woman.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
X.com
I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When bullies make you look incredibly cool when they're trying to give you all wedgies.

Big red letters on a black background saying "RADICAL" above photos of Rawiri Waititi (TPM), Chris Hipkins (Lab), Chlöe Swarbrick (Grn) and Qiulae Wong (TOP)

Underneath "RESPONSIBLE" in blue letters on a white background and the entirely Pākeha white front bench of National looking like they're being held at gunpoint, all wearing fake smiles hiding their sad dead souls

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why is Hipkins *like* this?? Generational level loser "No one else should be lining up jobs [other than me]" is outrageous win the election first, mate. Maybe ceasing your attacks on women in the Green Party could help with that

article thumbnail on Stuff

headline:

Hipkins slams Swarbrick for lining up jobs ‘before anyone has even voted’

text from Stuff article

"He criticised Swarbrick for listing ministries, saying she had gotten ahead of herself.

"No one should be measuring up the Beehive for new curtains just yet. There is still a lot of campaigning to go. We we should all be focused right now on earning the votes and the trust of New Zealanders, not deciding what jobs we're going to have before anybody has even voted," he said.

Although, Hipkins did say what job he and Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds would have.

"I will be the prime minister. Barbara Edmonds will be the minister of finance. Those are non-negotiables for the Labour Party. No one else should be lining up for jobs yet until we see what the voters choose," he said."

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#NZpol Saw this excellent quote-reply to Simeon Brown’s latest attack on Labour. Worth sharing.

David Peez @RebelEkonomista

"The truck driver in Pakuranga helps pay off a lawyer's loan." No, Simeon. He doesn't. Not a cent.

When the government lends a student money, it creates the dollars and credits their account. No tradie's tax was collected and posted to a law degree. When the graduate repays, those dollars are deleted, drained back out like tax. They don't land in the truck driver's pocket either.

So nobody foots the bill. The worker and the graduate aren't on opposite sides of a ledger. Setting them against each other is the trick, and it runs on the same myth as "add it to the tab", that the government is a household counting coins. It issues the currency. The real limits are real resources and inflation, not a truck driver's tax bill.

"Someone always pays." Sure. Just never the person you keep pointing at.

Read more: http://therebeleconomist.substack.com

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So is the economy doing well or not? #NZPol

RNZ
Nicola Willis gets pre-election reprieve as Treasury paints brighter picture of government books.

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Worthworths to cut 130 jobs in New Zealand and move them to Australia.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” How an Archeologist changed KURT VONNEGUT’s life.

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

First one that comes to mind, I’ll probably remember another one later.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 27/09/2026

Meanwhile in NZ the 26km Warkworth to Te Hana expressway costs the Crown of $3.6 billion (rising to 9b over the years) & a return of 0.70cents per dollar. So we would rather build loss making roads than fund wealth creating artists. We are doing it all wrong.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

back my book kickstarter ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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🔞 Cat the Dog 🏳️‍⚧️ @henshinroisin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So many leftists be like "Yeah sex work is real work!" But then treat sex workers (especially trans ones) like they're jokes, perverts, objects or even predators. Kill the fascist in your head.

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Never been to a drive-in, I think it’s a uniquely American thing.

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Obviously an Einstein-Rosen bridge.

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Blood boys OVER we’re out here Renfieldmaxxing now

He’s on a quest to live forever.
Mr. Emanuel’s morning routine involves waking up at 4 a.m., stretching for 40 minutes and then doing breath work, sauna, meditation, an ice plunge and infrared light therapy before ingesting a protein shake and a cup of live worms to fight off “the bad bacteria in my gut.” He describes a recent lunch with his old CAA boss, Michael Ovitz. Mr. Emanuel writes: “He goes to the gym; he thinks that means he’s taking care of himself. But it doesn’t. I scold him. He hasn’t gotten his blood work done in years, he isn’t doing ice plunges, he isn’t doing daily breath work, he isn’t fasting. And he needs to be eating worms.”

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