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Sisyphus

@sisyphusreturns.bsky.social
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Skeptic! Struggling for eternity against the never ending torrent of misinformation. #Birman #Horror #sci-fi #books #politics 🇳🇿

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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 18h
He was so happy I finally listened to him that he was purring loudly as the harness went on.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 20h
#nzpol 🇳🇿
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 20h
#nzpol 🇳🇿 never occurs to these people that the humans they’re in charge of are vulnerable.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 20h
#nzpol 🇳🇿
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 20h
Ok, I will exercise…. But I’m staying in my pyjamas to do it!
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Friday was the hottest day *ever recorded* for Earth's oceans, on average. Oceans continue to absorb more than 90% of the excess heat from global warming: www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti... via @sfchronicle.com
sfchronicle.com
Earth’s oceans just broke a heat record. The implications will be massive
Human-caused global warming and a strong El Niño are adding excess heat to the oceans, threatening marine life and providing storms with more energy and moisture.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 21h
🇳🇿 wear it proudly! (unless you’re in an elevator, then hang your head in shame)
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 21h
#kikorangi 🇳🇿
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 22h
#booksky #pukapuka 💙📚🇳🇿 trying a different genre than I’d usually read. Scientist find ancient body in bog for study, developers vs environmentalists. The cover art on this is just lovely too.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I decided last year it’d be a tradition to read Christmas themed books in December each year. Some authors just make it easy.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nope, instead of being comfortable in the wardrobe, he’s going to squish himself on the shelf
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They’re both up there. For a moment there I thought he was trying to push things out, he’s stopped for now
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#nzpol 🇳🇿 is it a role two people could share? That would be an obvious solution. You can have co-leaders after all. It would be tricky but I think they’d work together ok enough?
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
She may have a little hay fever. Keep wiping sugar k out her eye that looks yellow, no infection though
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pleasant thing
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#booksky #pukapuka 💙📚🇳🇿 couldn’t finish last 2 books so I thought I’d give myself a win with a short book… why oh why did it have to be this one? Body horror and extremely gruesome, violent - I will not be reading the sequel.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My boy is being so naughty. I give him food which he won’t eat, but then he tells me he’s starving. I’ll hide biscuits in it and usually then he’ll eat it.
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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My #NZpol cartoon in the latest issue of the Listener, in print & online. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
nzherald.co.nz
Chris Slane’s cartoon of the week
Chris Slane shares his view on the week in politics.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#nzpol 🇳🇿 Canterbury has experienced a population growth and the hospital has a large catchment area which includes the West Coast to Timaru (yes they have small hospitals but guess where a lot of them have to travel to for care)
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#nzpol 🇳🇿 how does the right get away with banging on about taxes when they’re cutting wages in real terms. You’d likely end up with more money and better services with higher wages and a bit extra tax…
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 28/09/2026
🔴 Civilians in Oleshky are facing extreme starvation under a months-long Russian blockade. According to accounts shared by local residents and Ukrainian officials, some residents have made the painful decision to end their pets' lives to spare them from slow starvation. 1/2
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t know whether to DNF my current books. I’m reading them interchangeably.. not sure about them for different reasons. I’m 100 pages on one and 63 on the other.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Watching the boy try open the door is hilarious. He correctly hooks his paw to pull at the door a little, realises it’s not wide enough, stretches up and it closes again…. Repeat x4 he did finally get it, slow learner.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Finally got off my butt and did my exercises. I’ve been lacklustre this week.
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RNZ News (Unofficial) @radionz.nzcow.com · 28/09/2026
📢 A seal pup caught crossing a busy Wellington street over the weekend received a police escort back to the water.
rnz.co.nz
Seal pup who crossed busy Wellington road receives police escort back to water
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#nzpol 🇳🇿 trotting out this old dude with his reckons. Last reckon he gave was that he’d have voted for trump all three times because he’s right wing, despite the fact he’s a dictator, despite the Democratic Party being pretty right wing in itself. Go count your money elsewhere
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How many men knew about these groups and said nothing? Where are all you supposed male protectors? Silent, because men aren’t protectors. They’re just territorial.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” 32,000 men in an Italian Facebook group devoted to drugging your wife and taking nonconsensual explicit photos of her and sharing them. It didn’t get shut down until a woman discovered and exposed it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Anger in Italy over non-consensual photos of women shared online
The My Wife Facebook group had 32,000 members before it was shut down for violating adult sexual exploitation policies.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#nzpol 🇳🇿
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 27/09/2026
The Finance Minister of Israel, who is also a deputy defense minister and the military governor of the-illegally occupied West Bank, calls for Israel to "go to war" in the West Bank, annex 70% of Gaza, and annex all of Lebanon south of the Litani River.
timesofisrael.com
Smotrich: Israel must ‘go to war’ in West Bank, ‘do there what we did in Gaza’
Finance minister also calls on Israel to annex 'at least' up to the ceasefire line in Gaza and the Litani River in Lebanon to make enemies 'pay a price' for Oct. 7 and ensuing wars
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Patrida Sutton @patridanz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much for being a fizzer! #nzpol
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘He claimed the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union did a lot of the groundwork for the party in the 2020 election with their Campaign for Affordable Housing to fight the Green Party's proposal for an asset tax.’ from 2021. #NzPol
rnz.co.nz
Ex-ACT staffer Grant McLachlan says party created fake grassroots groups
Political pundits and media experts are warning that artificial grassroots organisations - nicknamed "astroturfs" - are being used to manipulate and mobilise public opinion for political gain.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#nzpol which politician’s timetable is this?
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#nzpol 🇳🇿 I think Hipkins is doing a really good job here
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#nzpol uuuuggghhjhh
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I left to do groceries and come home to find my boy obviously felt cold
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cats are happy with room temp. I still feel cold
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#nzpol 🇳🇿 do the police even care though?
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wanna talk about censorship on social media for a moment. You can say and show the most horrifically graphic things on Instagram. But YouTube is next-level on censorship. I have repeatedly had videos demonetized or taken down for talking about the things that men do to women.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#booksky #pukapuka 💙📚🇳🇿 gonna give this one a go and see if it’s my jam.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I had to pull the toy out a little as the boy was desperate to sleep in it. My girl doesn’t give two shits about personal space l although, she feels soft and warm so I should stop complaining.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#nzpol 🇳🇿 on TVNZ news you wouldn’t known Labour launched their campaign yesterday. nice little piece about John Key hyping up Luxon though & Willis teasing something. Nice wee puff piece. Aunty Helen was at Labours launch, no Puff piece though. Ignore Key loves Trump, Bolsenaro - name your dictator
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... Hipkins countered: "It's probably more of an indictment on all of you people that people aren't listening to you anymore." I mean, why are media asking about a campaign 3yrs ago? #nzpol 🇳🇿
rnz.co.nz
National and Labour leaders come out firing - and fed up
Analysis: Both National and Labour's leaders came across as fed-up on Sunday - but for different reasons.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
She’s a heat seeking missile this morning! Woofed down her food and ran to the lounge, quick scratch and stretch on the post and run to the heater! Phwoooaaarrr! It’s cold today…. Heavy frost
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#nzpol 🇳🇿 holy hecka. That’s trump level emptiness
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Gareth Morgan @garethmorgan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is a contradiction at the heart of social care We entrust workers with those we love most and expect patience, compassion and enormous responsibility. Yet as a society, we are totally resistant to paying properly for it We say care is priceless; We fund it as though it's worth almost nothing
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Not satisfied with clawing the couch…. She has gone to paw at my art work, but then discovered pawing the heat pump makes more noise and oh… let’s chew the plastic plant! She can’t ignore me now! …. She is SUCH a tart!
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My cat is trying to get my attention by going full on clawing the couch. I’m ignoring her but it’s not working. You say something, she meows - looks innocent but then continues
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