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essjax @essjax.m.essjax.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

These folks had the corner of their wall blasted off by a bolt of lightning, and they fixed it beautifully. #Kintsugi

A corner of a brick wall has been blasted away. The owners have filled in it with something like concrete, but with a beautiful golden flash of lightning.

Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Can someone help me understand the implied messaging in that racist ad from renowned racism group, Hobson's Pledge, in all the papers?

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: spacey.space/@spaceflight/117362546… Surprised they have any time and capability at all what with their intensive efforts to alienate themselves from their entire supply chain, any cooperation efforts from its neighbours and the bottomless pit of money they're continuing to […]

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: techhub.social/@Techmeme/1173616714… So Reddit isn't killing RSS feeds as the headline suggests, AI is killing RSS feeds because companies are choosing not to let ravenous AI agents eat up all their data and sell it on under their own services.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

If Nicola Willis is arguing that she can't afford to apply income tax cuts before the books are back in surplus this year, how was that argument different in their last term when it was a pre-election pledge they made before even seeing the PREFU? […]

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theseege @theseege.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

COVID may worsen existing health problems long-term, study suggests | CIDRAP www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-m…

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: pouet.chapril.org/@dallo/1173511374… When you decide you don't want to be part of the ICC then your war crimes can go unpunished. Countries like Russia and the USA who don't want to be held to account in their global citizenship should be disregarded within the global […]

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

This is not fixing things or building an aspirational vision for the future. It's a blind continuation of the cruelty and pointless starvation of basic public services every New Zealander deserves to expect from its government […]

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

So let me get this right... SpaceX's "successful" orbital launch of Starship lost an engine in flight, was cut from a planned six orbits to two (and SpaceX isn't saying why), neither part is reusable, and the top part blew up on splashdown.

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Dave Moskovitz (((❤️))) @davemosk.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

EDUCATORS CALL FOR ELECTION TRUCE ON CONSTANT CURRICULUM CHANGE - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station waateanews.com/2026/09/28/educators… The Aotearoa Educators Collective is calling on political parties to stop rebuilding the […]

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@byroncclark/117345… If this is their thinking, perhaps they should've had better leadership from the get-go that was able to assert some semblance of competent authority instead of having the country's direction driven by those smaller parties. Costello […]

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Yeah awesome. Go get yourself on the central government ballot and out of regional council politics forever you absolute clown car wreck of a human. Nobody in their right mind will vote for you ever again. Ong has been nothing but disruption, grandstanding and hysterical diatribes since the day […]

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

In case people didn't already see the full scale of hostile ideology progressed by this government, here's a comprehensive list of every legislative attack on Māori over the last 3 years: www.emilywrites.co.nz/te-tiriti

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I'm reading the latest Fight For The Future post from @grimalkina where she talks about identity threat. I feel there's a deeper dimension to this feeling of threat beyond simply the identity crisis presented by AI. A theme I'm hearing frequently from colleagues is the level of fatigue they feel […]

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

My barista has been quietly experimenting on me by adding more and more shots over the course of this week and I think by Friday I will be able to see the subatomic fabric of the universe.

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Flooding in Chiba again. This report shows the Takasaki River overflowing into Sakura City. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIhh...

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千葉・佐倉市で高崎川が氾濫　広範囲で冠水　土砂崩れなど通報も(2026年9月22日)

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Ah yep. That'll be the cold front coming through then... 😅

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Remember when every new product being launched in the early 2020s was called "lightning"? These days everything's being acronymed "SMART". Running your airport on AI is probably totally fine and super safe, right? […]

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

The double standard between barely mediocre middle-aged white dudes and literally any woman with far greater credentials would be comical if it wasn't so blindingly and consistently reinforced. Cry him a river I guess.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/1173… We should absolutely be paying attention to our indigenous communities overseas for signals on how our own might shortly be impacted as well.

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Bunneh Usagi-Chan @bunnehusagichan.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Atheist Cat sleeps in on Sunday, but not #Caturday !

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Evil corporation intent on adding as much microplastic and corporate misery into the environment as possible advertising for an engineering lead. There is no amount of money in the world that would compromise my morals enough to want to make the utterly evil Nick […] [Original post on mstdn.io]

LinkedIn job ad for Zuru, the environment-destroying corporate trash panda owned by New Zealand's own discount super villain Nick Mowbray and family. 14 soulless ghouls have already applied apparently.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Oof, just deleting all of that data with seemingly no way for some of the affected orgs to get their data back is just horrible. Microsoft made a quiet change to a popular software grant. Small nonprofits lost everything […]

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eff. @fabjx.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

anyone can gaze these days

Closed metal lid with a plaque saying "Accessible Void".

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Hell of a thread from Dylan Reeve on Bluesky about unsealed records from Microsoft/OpenAI regarding the wholesale theft of IP and the death spiral all content sources have been set on as a consequence of unregulated tech giants.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

"Cry me a river"?! Fucking really? He actually said that on the record in the house. Cry me a river. This fucking government, honestly. Astounding indifference and neglect.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Absolutely thrilled to see my former pupil Georgie McEwan achieving her goal of making it into the Otago Sparks. So excited for her. A strong talent from the Albion Junior Cricket Club beginnings. www.otagocricket.co.nz/newsarticle/…

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Sparks Complete 2026/27 Squad with Maiden Contracts for Burleigh and McEwan

Otago Cricket Association has completed its Sparks squad for the 2026/27 domestic season, with emerging all-round...

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technolo… Wait but how did blowing a factory up on the ground lose all the data when it's in the clouds??

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Aotearoa based games studio, Dinosaur Polo Club, have released an update for their mobile game, Mini Motorways, with full language support in te reo: www.pocketgamer.com/mini-motorways/… Follow them on BSky […]

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/117259677… You're late for work again! We expect you here at 7am sharp! These shelves aren't going to stock themselves you know.

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glamcode @glamcode.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

How I receive your offer to put AI into anything 👇 #AI #LLM

Two panels from a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
Calvin has a hammer and offers “you name the surface and I’ll fill it full of nails”. The answer of mum is “Um, no…” and “No thanks, not today”.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@bascule/117247563513306631 This sound familiar to any Kiwis? "The White House has moved to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, withdrawn from the World Health Organization, ended U.S. participation in the U.N. Human Rights Council"

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Watching the news from Nagoya on the massive flooding, which is barely registering anywhere else on the airwaves. I don't get it. Nepal was a huge tragedy, but with Japan's regular flooding, fires in Europe and Canada... how are people not seeing these signals and rioting in the streets?! […]

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Campaign to wind up ACT party propaganda pieces ending up in mainstream media 2026. It's just racist media manipulation to get their name in the paper every day. Any party could do this if they were wanting to be as cynical and unprincipled. What exactly is […] [Original post on mstdn.io]

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ACT sets out plan to wind up Waitangi Tribunal

The party is campaigning on four reforms that it says will end the tribunal's contemporary jurisdiction, and move the country on.

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