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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 25/01/2026

The Masque of Anarchy, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819.

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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Merry Christbus… 🎄

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Anyway, National's new shoplifting law is a reminder that if you see someone stealing food or other essentials in the supermarket, no you didn't.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

And their attitude - smash stuff under urgency, because we won't be in charge anymore - just highlights the need for an #OmnibusRepealBill to undo the damage. Nothing this illegitimate regime has done can be allowed to stand. Revert it all on day one.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Now, don't ask 'where will we find the money', Govt creates $ with votes. Ask instead, where will we find the resources? Do we need fewer people doing bullshit jobs and more well-trained kiwis teaching and doctoring? Well, put up wages and design some taxes to rebalance the economy ffs! [Ends]

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 15/10/2025

I'm not worried about protein powder because as an electronics hobbyist I've already decided that lead poisoning isn't real

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

There are at least 3x the number of people in those three buses than in the cars you can see on the motorway this morning. This is why I fight for more public transport, more dedicated bus lanes, trains, ferries and hopefully one day light rail, even to the shore! It’s more efficient for everyone.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 11/09/2025

Charlie Kirk was an absolute cunt and the world is a better place without him. I'm not saying that he deserved it, but I'm not the slightest bit upset that he's dead either

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 10/09/2025

I'm not a spokesman for anything but all these things are true: 1) Political violence is 100% wrong, no matter who the victim is. 2) This will undoubtedly be used by the govt as justification to hurt lots of other people and further curtail our rights. 3) I won't miss him but I don't wish him dead.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Worth noting that the government actually has the power to require Fonterra to supply any dairy product in NZ, and to set the price at which it supplies it www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2...

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

being bad at risk assessment combined with normalcy bias is how you get people freaking out about battery fires but never second-guessing that whole "endless supply of explosive gas" thing. bsky.app/profile/wapp...

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Tax Wealth not Wages @progallthethings.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Look. What I say to you is this. Done the right thing? Bought a frugal hybrid to cut your cost of living? Ha ha ha. Sucker! Fcuk you for not buying more petrol, have a tax on woke.

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Gauche Vibes @nedgilmore.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Meanwhile giant 18-wheelers will continue to destroy our roads everywhere because we literally can't run a railway network to save ourselves. =/

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Some confusion today about the 'better than expected' unemployment rate. Few things going on. Firstly, the unemployment rate came in exactly as RBNZ predicted (5.2%). However, Treasury guessed 5.4% back in May and a few of the bank reckonomists reckoned at 5.3% in the last couple of weeks. [🧵 1/n]

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BlueShiftNZ @blueshiftnz.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I'd like to see a big Labour press conference on the waterfront in Wellington on the week the first new ferry was supposed to arrive. A ribbon-cutting, champagne-smashing celebration of Nicky No-Boats' financial genius.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 17/06/2025

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 03/06/2025

I want my code to be understandable to idiots with limited context, because that's also future-me.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

On my recent annual review at work I was praised for always keeping a cool head, delegating tasks effectively and not micro-managing. The truth is it's because I'm lazy and I don't give a flying fuck about the work or anyone there.

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 22/05/2025

Hopefully my only budget commentary: The government doesn't "find savings." It's not a household or a local council. A sovereign nation literally makes its own money; it can have as much of it as it likes. When journalists say the government has "found savings" they are perpetuating a lie.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Quick Dec 24 balance sheet update. Banks still owe the rest of us around $420bn in lovely NZ dollars (net). The cash in our bank accounts is an asset for us, but a liability (debt) for the banks. Don't try and take it out all at once! 😨 [🧵 1/n]

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Saturday 🧵 on what NZ interest & dividend flows tell us about our vassal state, housing ponzi economy... First, let's tackle the issue the ghouls focus on: Govt's 'crippling debt servicing costs'. What do you see? Yes, it's a nothing story. *Net* Govt interest paid was about $1bn in 2024 [1/n]

Graph shows Govt interest paid and received. Govt interest paid in 2024 was about $7bn. Interest received was $6bn. Net interest received was therefore negative $1bn.

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 21/03/2025

Excellent idea. Bloody well done ASB.

A screenshot of a new service from ASB that allows you to verify the call you’re on with them is legitimately with ASB and not some scammers.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Just posting for no particular reason this piece from a few years back mapping out the least completely fucked places should nuclear war break out. Not "good"; least completely fucked. Basically; South Pacific, Iceland, and Mauritius. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Island refuges for surviving nuclear winter and other abrupt sunlight‐reducing catastrophes

Some island nations in the Southern Hemisphere might survive a severe sun-reducing catastrophe such as nuclear winter and be well placed to help reboot-collapsed human civilization. Such islands must...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/12/2024

a special shoutout to everyone who "works with computers" and therefore is required to fix the electronics of their entire extended family over the holidays

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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Treasury just called bullshit on Nicola Willis' austerity strategy. So she's doubling down on cutting spending. Trouble is households & businesses can't step forward to replace the Govt as it pulls back. They can't take on much more debt to replace Govt debt. 1/2 thekaka.substack.com/p/blaming-tr...

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Blaming Treasury & Labour, Willis looks for even more Austerity

Willis says she’ll double-down on spending cuts to get back to surplus earlier than Treasury forecast in HYEFU; Councils, doctors, nurses, builders blame austerity for unnecessary & extended recession

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