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this video of Chlöe Swarbrick, who leads the Greens in New Zealand's parliament, is worth your five minutes' time

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That, I think, is why some of the attacks on Swarbrick feel oddly objectless. The danger isn’t just what she might do as Finance Minister. It’s what she might reveal about the people who have spent 40 years telling us the money is all gone. andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/chloe-swar...

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Chlöe Swarbrick Nicked Luxon’s Cotton Reel

Lacan explains why the tough guys of fiscal politics are so emotional right now

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 30/09/2026

wHy WonT THE GrEeNS go InTo cOaLitIOn wITn natIOnAL

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've had it with all these motherfucking capulets here in motherfucking spain

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 26/09/2026

Yes, colloquially. That is exactly my point. We use shorthands in speech (and text). Describing computers as thinking machines predates LLMs by a long way. The enemy in a video game that can't "see" me "thinks" that I have gone. My excel spreadsheet "thinks" a phone number is a dollar value.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 26/09/2026

Why is it reasonable to describe computer generated sound as speech, but not computer generated text as thought? In each case we use a description based on a human behaviour it resembles.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 26/09/2026

Models don't speak, you're anthropomorphising.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 25/09/2026

If you want sick Lantern action, you're probably not going to like episode 6. It's very much a character focused episode. Personally I've been loving the whole thing, but I have no background with the comics.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 25/09/2026

It just becomes incredibly cumbersome when you avoid anthropomorphising. You end up saying things like "the model outputs a stream of text describing reasoning for what it outputs next" just to avoid using the word think.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 22/09/2026

He was the cohost of a freaking pottery show in Canada because he does pottery!

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"that every single leftist online is responsible for message discipline and not being annoying, while no Republican is ever responsible for their words or deeds" "inconvenient truths: easier for well-paid strategists and pundits to advise stop saying Latinx (a non-issue)" bsky.app/profile/mbkp...

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 13/09/2026

You have 100k followers. You've been published in national magazines. You could direct that influence towards candidates, but you invariably direct it at voters.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 12/09/2026

Just to turn that around, though, do you think telling a group you won't support their cause is a way to get them to vote for you? How is one supposed to send that message to politicians if not by telling them so? Not even as a threat, but as a predictable consequence of certain policies.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 12/09/2026

The question is who should you put your effort into convincing? A random poster on Bluesky with 300 followers, who is angry about being thrown under the bus, or the people with/seeking actual power who are doing the throwing.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 12/09/2026

It was a DM? You can't make the accusation public yourself and then complain that it's reckless.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 12/09/2026

The criticism amounts to blaming the community being alienated for feeling alienated.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 12/09/2026

What is short sighted is the Democrats tendency to only focus on the next election. Ceding ground to the right rather than holding principled stances may (and it's a very tentative may) pay off in the short term, but it alienates your base.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 09/09/2026

The only times the accents took me out of The Odyssey were when some of the English actors, notably Himesh Patel, didn't quite nail the accent. I think it would probably have been better if he'd just spoken normally.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 09/09/2026

Much has been made of the decision to use American accents in The Odyssey, but after rewatching some scenes from Gladiator, I find the English accents quite jarring. People's natural accents just fade into the background in a way a fake English accent doesn't.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 08/09/2026

Rule 5: if someone saying something after a short time is described as "breaking their silence": take a drink

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 06/09/2026

Watched the Raygun documentary. I really wanted more of a focus on how vicious the backlash was. It reminds me a lot of the Jason Arday situation. Too many people get a kick out of being cruel. Rachael managed to weather the storm, but it could so easily have ended the same.

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Support the journalists

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 05/09/2026

I'm severely disappointed by the lack of memes featuring Nora from Furious. I might need to remedy that.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 05/09/2026

That strikes me as tautological. The process is working because the outcome was a result of the process.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 05/09/2026

The process didn't reach a verdict, so by definition it did not work. The accusation in the note is not that the 1 juror just didn't agree with the other 11, it's that they agreed there was reasonable doubt but would not apply that standard to their vote.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 05/09/2026

Is it normally allowed to reveal that kind of information? I thought jury deliberations were supposed to be secret, and this characterisation came from the defence attorney, so presumably the Judge hadn't revealed it in public.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 04/09/2026

As a New Zealander I took this test and I matched New York/California most closely, which tracks with my US media consumption!

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 02/09/2026

This bread needs to be conquered!

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🇵🇹 snipe, lixo tóxico ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ @snipe.lol · 02/09/2026

So... quick reminder.... executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAWS. guides.library.umass.edu/govinfo/exec...

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LibGuides: Government Information: Executive orders and proclamations

A Guide to Government Information Sources

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 02/09/2026

Ok, I checked out My Brilliant Career because it was highly rated on Rotten Tomatoes, and I couldn't make it more than 10 minutes because the main character spoke like a time traveller from the present. Anyway, I can't review the bits I haven't seen, but it certainly didn't reel me in.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 02/09/2026

Has he stopped actually wishing it on people, though?

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 31/08/2026

Or perhaps labelling it a genocide has an actual function in international law that puts specific responsibilities on governments: to act to prevent it, and to not be complicit in it.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 31/08/2026

It's okay so long as you have opposite spin

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 29/08/2026

Turns out people are worried about this thing we've been scaremongering about for the last decade!

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 29/08/2026

It's just a brioche bun in the shape of of a donut. Cowards! If they're going to do it they should really do it!

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 29/08/2026

Today I turn a year old for every week in the year.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 26/08/2026

Rule 4: if the auto-generated captions are wrong: take a drink. If they are burnt into the video, finish your drink.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 26/08/2026

The absurdity of saying "everyone knows everyone" in a town of tens of thousands of people... What they really mean is "everyone *important* knows one another". The important class in this small city is at most a couple of hundred people.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 26/08/2026

RIP Tim Curry Gone to the one place still untouched by capitalism

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We will always love you.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 25/08/2026

Will that make the two shots suddenly similar? Every other row in the table is showing visual similarities, not just thematic content. You might as well say this shot of creator and creation in shot together was inspired by Metropolis.

Shot from Blade Runner showing Tyrell and Roy

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 25/08/2026

If I can get just 1% (and 1% is the smallest number there is) of this gazillion dollar market, I'll be rich!

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 25/08/2026

Ok, but Epstein was in prison when he died

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