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Data miner in Aotearoa - New Zealand

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Gray Ezo squirrel from Hokkaido Island, Japan
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
@Kadi

Empires have fallen before, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one jump off a cliff.

US Democratic Socialists
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What Would John Maynard Keynes Say About AI? It requires very little speculation, since in his essay Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (1930) Lord Keynes in fact anticipated AI and discussed in depth the probable consequences it would have for the developed world. The nightmare scenario
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Opinion | What Would John Maynard Keynes Say About A.I.? The Keynes Bot Told Us.
Nearly a century ago, Keynes predicted that technology would liberate us from work. To imagine what he would think of artificial intelligence today, a Princeton economist used A.I.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Don't confuse "wealth" with "super-wealth". The wealthy already pay their fair share because their wealth generally comes from earnings. But the super-wealthy pay nothing because they earn very little on paper. They instead make money with their money — which isn't taxed because we only tax earnings
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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is tomorrow, e te whānau #nzpol www.greens.org.nz/march_for_na...
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March for Nature with the Green Party
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The US banned Canadian dairy, alcohol, and cars. After September 29, no amount of money can buy Americans those goods.⁣ ⁣ A 1,000% tariff would almost seem more reasonable. We apparently skipped protectionism and went straight to prohibition. youtu.be/lsRhHpwZfOk
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Smart move using a privileged resolution to force a vote before the midterms
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Looks like a certain petulant brat got his saggy ass handed to him by a strong woman. You know how much he must have delighted in that. Thank you, President Connolly!
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Act leader David Seymour carries on his campaign. (Those are quotes from DSeymour about the Tribunal) My #cartoon today #NZpol #WaitangiTribunal #Māori
Cartoon. Title: “The Campaign” Image show Act leader David Seymour talking to the media, with a Waitangi Tribunal document under his arm. He is saying, “Activist! Ideological! Expansive! And an affront to every New Zealander!” In the background PM Luxon is walking away, and looking back nervously, saying, “Gawd! What’s he talking about now?” And Nicola Willis is saying, “The Act Party”
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Decision-making after the RMA reform. (And might I say that Minister Bishop has the perfect profile to grace a coin) My #cartoon today #NZpol #RMA #Environment #NaturalEnvironmentsAndPlanning
Cartoon. Title: “Decision-Making After the RMA Reform” Image shows two sides of the one coin. The first, labelled “Heads” shows MP Chris Bishops in profile, with “The Natural Environments And Planning” and also “I win” and the reverse, labelled “Tails” shows a bare bottom, the words, “The Natural Environments And Planning” and “You Lose” below, as a speech bubble issuing from Bishop, “I, the Minister, will have the power of final say on any planning decision in the country”
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dunedin Herald bringing the goods. 👌 #parody
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Not ANotSee @exxitter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#NobelPrize #Norway Trump's letter to the Prime MInister of Norway who corrected it's grammar and graded it
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Jeffrey Wuhl @jeffreywuhl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@brianbeutler.bsky.social it is WILD that the Democrats can’t muster 1/100th of this outrage and seem to be unable to understand how much righteous anger like this inspires people. Whoever this guy is should be out there every day saying this stuff somewhere
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This boy! A song for the President🔥🧯
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In today’s HeraldOnSunday
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Joel Pollard @smirkingelf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Since Google is being an arsehat yet again here is a link to alternatives. cyberinsider.com/google-alter...
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Alternatives to Google Products — Regain Privacy in 2026
This Google alternatives guide gives you alternatives to every Google product, including Gmail, search, Youtube, and more.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
this is kind of stunning tbh
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Me on January 6. bsky.app/profile/meid...
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
David Byrne wrote a song for a documentary about the world’s richest man and it’s set to rip him apart using his own words. /
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hegseth is in top five of worst Americans in US history. Don’t think this is debatable. bsky.app/profile/noup...
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 27/08/2026
Operation Economic Outcast will foreclose every option available to the Iranian regime, per Scott Bessent. Same promise Carter made. And Bush. And Obama. And Trump. We have the clips. Nearly 50 years of the "toughest sanctions ever imposed." Watch the full video: youtu.be/2J0nFcqT2cI
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
They've got no one to blame but themselves.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is what a real leader says.
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.
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arthritisnz.bsky.social @arthritisnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Have you been diagnosed with RA, are 18+ years and currently receiving medical care and taking prescribed medication? For more information, please contact: Michelle Taylorson, Doctoral Candidate, University of Auckland. Email: mtay322@aucklanduni.ac.nz. auckland.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Grete Hermann (1901-1984), brilliant philosopher of maths and quantum mechanics and first student of Emily Noether. Hermann was co-founder of the journal Ratio, and turned to political philosophy later in her career, writing in 1947:
Whoever lives in the Third Reich or otherwise comes to terms with it, but isolates themselves from the political events around them in order to occupy themselves with other, in themselves beautiful and worthy subjects, is lending their name and their work to this system. There is no neutrality towards the legal and cultural decline in public life. Whoever does not oppose it is complicit in it. Whatever beautiful and good things they may create otherwise are devalued by this participation in the social injustice with which it is burdened.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/08/2026
Another very useful reminder that technology matters, but policy design matters way way way more. We get nowhere until we tackle corporate greed.
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Not ANotSee @exxitter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#WTF
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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
And give your party vote to the Green Party this election! #nzpol
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For people and planet
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Musk took a program that was saving lives and cut it. USAID had bipartisan support because it was fiscally responsible. It was a small amount of money doing global good. Millions of people, many of them children, will be killed as a result of Musk’s decision. Genocidal indeed.
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Gaslit Nation @gaslitnationpod.com · 24/08/2026
Any Democrat serving the crypto industry are controlled opposition and bought by the forces dismantling democracy. Listen to Gil Duran discuss his new book The Nerd Reich: www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes/ne…
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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"New Zealand needs to start looking at the Trump administration with very clear eyes and shed these delusions that it's business as normal in Washington." Direct timestamp link. As usual the whole Hoon is worth watching ( along with the Live Replay Chat 😉). [ youtu.be/IMSh8vUhwEw?... ] #nzpol
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The Hoon for Thursday 20th August 2026
YouTube video by The Hoon
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Shane @shanesw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
NZ heads takes on this global cluster crisis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMSh...
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The Hoon for Thursday 20th August 2026
YouTube video by The Hoon
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thethirdpine.bsky.social @thethirdpine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
www.clickorlando.com/news/2026/07...
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Americans are leaving the U.S. in record numbers. Here’s why.
A 2025 Gallup Poll found 20% of Americans say they would like to leave the U.S. permanently. Among women ages 15 to 44, that number jumps to 40%.
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Okay girls, in today's self defence class we're going to cover smacking that shit cleanly off his face while loudly and clearly stating his full name and home address"
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Status @status.news · 19/08/2026
In an extraordinary lawsuit, Disney accused the federal government of serious First Amendment violations and warned that if it loses, “the press could in no way be described as free.” Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/disney-abc...
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Disney Goes To War
In an extraordinary lawsuit, the Josh D’Amaro-led company accused the federal government of serious First Amendment violations and warned that if it loses, “the press could in no way be described as f...
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James West @jamespwest.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A small group of Silicon Valley men keep failing upward into ever-greater wealth and power. Our new video breaks down the alternate reality they live in—welcome to Billionaire Math, reported by timothypmurphy.bsky.social and produced by Peter Berger: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVRc...
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Billionaire Math Doesn't Add Up the Way Yours Does
► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/ Forget "girl math" and "boy math." America's running on billionaire math. They own yachts that have yachts. They leave Earth just to…
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 14/08/2026
The Onion's take on Infowars is destroying Alex Jones' reputation by skewering what Onion CEO @bencollins.bsky.social calls "a certain kind of guy" and the conspiracy-addled, tech-rotted media landscape surrounding that kind of guy. Sandy Hook families, who Alex Jones tormented for so long, love it
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 12/08/2026
On this day in 1963: University of Chicago student Bernie Sanders, then 21, was charged with resisting arrest during an Aug. 12, 1963, demonstration in Englewood — along with comedian Dick Gregory and 54 others — against the use of mobile classrooms in the city’s public schools.
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Today in Chicago History: Bernie Sanders — then a University of Chicago student — arrested during South Side protest
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 10/08/2026
“An attack that Trump believed would very quickly defeat Iran, collapse its regime, and lead to the emergence of a new compliant leadership has proved to be a strategic self-inflicted wound that weakened the position, power, and influence of the United States — with no end in sight.”
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Trump Is Losing Control of the Widening Conflict
His lack of planning has left the administration with dwindling influence over the direction of the Iran war.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10/08/2026
“The notion that they did not know that there was a botched, rushed renovation of the Reflecting Pool does not hold water,” @normeisen.bsky.social tells TNR's @gregsargent.bsky.social trib.al/9dUYwUQ
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Trump’s Reflecting Pool Fiasco Is About to Get Even Worse for Him
The David Hearn affair isn’t over. Far from it. Jamie Raskin is launching an investigation, and Hearn’s legal team will pursue remedies.
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Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Better comparison: Gross National Income (GNI) per capita before and after the Brexit vote 📊 Made with data from data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY... 🧪 #EconSky
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New Horizons needs our support. The data collection and downlink may not be funded - which means we may miss this extraordinary opportunity to investigate the outer heliosphere. Sign this petition by legendary planetary scientist James Green. 🧪🔭 #PlanetSci
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A Petition for Continued Funding of Measurements by NASA's New Horizons Mission (James Green) - Planetary Research Blog
It is my (James Green, former Planetary Science Division Director) understanding that continued New Horizons heliophysics measurements are threatened unless NASA finds a way for the Heliophysics Divis...
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Shane @shanesw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Missed this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm-Z...
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Depeche Mode – Universal Soldier (Visualiser) – HELP(2)
YouTube video by War Child UK
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
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Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 04/08/2026
PRESS RELEASE: Government poised to ram through reckless demolition of environmental protections www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol
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Government poised to ram through reckless demolition of environmental protections - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Parliament is set to vote today on what Greenpeace says is the most reckless demolition of environmental protections in a generation. 
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 03/08/2026
The Constitution is clear. #SheShed
Graphic showing a silhouette of Donald Trump standing between the U.S. Capitol and the White House beneath dark storm clouds. Text states that no federal election in U.S. history has ever been canceled or postponed because of war or any other reason, and that the Constitution does not give any president the authority to unilaterally delay or cancel a federal election. The final word reads, “PERIOD.”
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So Sick of This Shit LIBBEY DEM ♿🇺🇦🇵🇸 @justsomeliberaldem.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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