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For our friends in Aotearoa-New Zealand as they head to an election on Sat 7 Nov 🇳🇿 👉 Make sure you’re enrolled to vote: https:/:vote.nz 🚨 Enrolments close October 25!

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PJ Manney @pjmanney.bsky.social · 2h

Every Kiwi needs to watch this. And if you’re happy with what’s happened in the last few years, I pity you and yours.

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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions @nzctu.bsky.social · 12h

Because of gender and ethnic pay gaps in Aotearoa, Pacific women are now working for free until the end of the year. This election year, we need to vote for pay equity. It’s the only way to make sure that all working people are respected, valued, and paid what they’re owed. #nzpol

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Geneva 🇨🇦 @geneva1111.bsky.social · 10h

I saw the clip of Judge Judy too. I wanted to punch her through my phone

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 17h

My position on why the EU- NZ trade agreement complaint’s so serious- we can’t have it both ways - we can’t claim to be honest brokers on a world stage while at home we’re not keeping to the fair climate/sustainability rules we expect our trade partners to also stick to www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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'Stakes could not be higher': Concern over claim NZ breached FTA climate commitments

International relations experts are warning a case claiming New Zealand is not meeting EU trade agreement climate commitments could seriously impact the country's reputation.

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

lmao oh no turns out you're part of a complex connected system and can't just do climate denialism in one country because it makes the free trade sad this is what happens when you run 80s policy through a 2020's global politics

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The NZ Govt travels the world telling people how they take their climate commitments seriously. But at home they dismantle every policy that constrains emissions and subsidise more emissions. So we've joined international efforts to hold them to account. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

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Greenpeace joins complaint to EU over NZ climate policy reversal - Greenpeace Aotearoa

The complaint addresses Government reversal of climate policies, which Greenpeace has labelled a 'race to the bottom on environmental regulation'.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Along with others, I've had a bit to say about Simeon Brown's deranged 2024 Transport GPS. But this is actually shocking. It was altered *after the consultation period* to make the books look better – in a way that wrecks the National Land Transport Fund. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/09/29/t...

greaterauckland.org.nz

Transport borrowing comes back to bite - Greater Auckland

Today, Treasury is releasing the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (or PREFU) ahead of the election. So I figured it was worth looking at a significant recent change to the way transport expendi...

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I foolishly thought intermittently following @ninjakitty.bsky.social's pictorial documentation over some months would help me with the quiz. It did not. This honestly looks like a collection of biological hazmat. Good grief. #nzpol

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Jennifer Ward @jenospeno.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Many 18-24 year olds are still NOT enrolled to vote 😳. #nzpol . They’re the ones that will inherit the future, so it’s REALLY important their voice is heard. Enrol here vote.nz

vote.nz

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s happening again. LLMs reporting someone’s in progress research as if it’s own discovery.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026

A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.

curbed.com

The Look Book Goes to the First Day of Preschool

The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Big Tech wants us talking about about whether AI will usher in "superintelligent" heaven or killer-robot hell so we won't talk about the harms their technologies are already unleashing. @arimelber.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaja88xxirY

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AI psyop? Author calls BS on 'end times' warnings

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@jackiandaspen performs an operatic duet together. 🦜🎶🎙️ "Just two highly trained musicians performing Queen of the Night together. One of us has a music degree; The other one poops on me." #bird #music #opera #talent

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

California is weaning itself off fossil gas, fast. Gas-fired electricity generation in California fell by 26% in the first half of 2026, as utility-scale solar, batteries and the new SunZia wind project feed power in via a dedicated transmission line. buff.ly/QWQoLPc #ShareGoodNewsToo

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How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News

Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.

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✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

They are bound and determined to be non-consensual perverts by any means necessary

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...

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MUSK | Official Trailer HD

YouTube video by Elevation Pictures

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The answer to "what is a woman" when NZ first give it the big one is "someone who you thought wasn't worth equal pay for equal work".

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

USA: "CDC greenlights COVID vaccines for vulnerable children after nearly 1-month delay" The Vaccines for Children (VFC) program offers free immunisations to more than half of US children, including those on Medicaid, while privately insured children have had access to new COVID shots for weeks.

An image of a news brief from CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy), dated September 25, 2026.
The bold headline reads: "CDC greenlights COVID vaccines for vulnerable children after nearly 1-month delay." Below the headline, the article is attributed to author Liz Szabo, MA, and categorized under the topics "COVID-19" and "Childhood Vaccines."
The bottom half features a photograph of a male doctor in a white lab coat sitting at a desk and typing on a laptop. In the background, a young girl wearing a yellow shirt holds a teddy bear while sitting next to a smiling woman, presumably her mother.

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PJ Manney @pjmanney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In 1953, my mother was a freshman at the U. of FL, Gainesville. She had a ground floor dorm room and the football team’s QB crawled in her window and raped her. The school’s response when she and our family demanded justice? No consequences for their quarterback, but expulsion for my mother.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Absofreakinlutely 💯% True......

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 25/09/2026

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/b...

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Could Erica Stanford be one of the most nefarious Ministers next to Chris Bishop? Sure as hell sounds like it. Mandated propaganda teachings about NZ Taxpayers Union to kids from 2027 #kiwi #newzealand

Year 8 mandatory curricumum teaches kids about the NZ tapxyaers Union and takes their official propaganda lines into the teachings

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everything for our kids. Because all our kids are all our kids.

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There are said to be bootleg pdf scan copies of Nicky Hager's book #DirtyWork circulating. Apparently, this undermining move is to stop Hager and his publisher from recovering their costs. Please support Nicky's excellent work by buying the books legitimately. Don't let corruption win! #nzpol

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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tristam @tristam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chlöe Swarbrick gives an almighty summation of the current governing coalition’s record. Her speech, given as parliament closes for the election, also outlines why the @greens.org.nz need to lead the next government… the video is well worth your time. #nzpol

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!

Screenshot of a scientific journal paywall

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lily Emmanuel developed fatigue, brain fog, breathing problems and multi-system illness after suspected COVID. Years of fluctuating disability led her into Long COVID research, where she now helps shape clinical trials. fnih.org/patient-enga...

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Long COVID Struggle Inspires Interest in Medical Research | FNIH

Grappling with Long COVID as a high school freshman changed everything for Lily Emmanuel. Over time, this led to an enduring interest in science and research.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seattle just became the first city in America to ban grocery stores from engaging in surveillance pricing. This is a huge win for consumers against companies that abuse their personal data to rip them off. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain.

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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)

Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ll always love this

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Minister of Tourism Louise Upston on where the $40m came from to entice large overseas acts to Aotearoa. My #cartoon today #NZpol #NZMusic #NZArts

Cartoon. Title: “The Impresario” Two frames. 1st frame shows Louise Upston saying, “I can’t pull money for local performers, concerts and festivals out of thin air!” 2nd frame has her continuing, “and I didn’t pull money for big overseas acts out of thin air” Image shows Upton with her hands out, wearing a suit and bow tie, with money rushing from behind her, saying, “I had the $40 mill coming out the wazoo!”

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This year has been brutal, and like most people you probably want to do more about climate change. But what, and how? Great news – I’ve written just the book for you! It’s called What One Person Can Do and it’s a clear and simple how-to guide, a roadmap to help you make influential changes...

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PJ Manney @pjmanney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@emilywrites.co.nz nails it again with (almost) all the receipts of the coalition government's attack on Te Tiriti and Māori. It is heartbreakingly long and detailed and you won't believe the incredible damage we've lived through in just a few years. www.emilywrites.co.nz/te-tiriti/

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A list of (almost) every government attack on Māori and Te Tiriti

Not too long ago I was discussing the government and their attacks on Te Tiriti with a group of people. One of them said I know there's been the Treaty Principles Bill, but has there really been much ...

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Following the far-right racist campaign against Three Waters, the new Luxon Govt repealed TW and replaced it with 'Local Water Done Well', delaying compliance with safe drinking water standards. This led to kids being hospitalised in Hamner from contaminated water newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/22/l...

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Law change delayed registration of water supply where children contracted E coli

Major drinking water report says drinking water was contaminated after logging upstream from school campground in Hanmer Springs

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PJ Manney @pjmanney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When bedazzling meets faculty protest, well, at least it’s pretty. Their letter is brutal satire.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 22/09/2026

I’m sure this won’t complicate…..everything. Not now, brain. Brains.

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