iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

welcome back “indistinguishable from a real dril post”

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

A fun bit of trivia about today's physics Nobel Prize: Francis Halzen won it for envisioning and leading the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, but apparently he's never actually been there! WFH FTW. (To be fair, it is rather... remote.)

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As pathetic as this is, it's also the perfect example of how AI - both the tool and the industry - is the self-defeating apex of prioritizing outcome over process. A fantasy team exists solely for fun; to outsource your participation is to remove the singular thing that made it meaningful.

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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Labour neolibs still committed to their 1980s policies of transferring public assets into private hands eh. If NZTA have "spare land" on their books it should go back to the local iwi it was almost certainly originally stolen from. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

nzherald.co.nz

Labour to require NZTA to potentially give up spare land for petrol stations

It's part of a policy aimed at improving competition in the sector.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is nothing racist about any ethnic or religious group wanting their own homeland. The problem is if this desire is at the expense of another people. Zionism in practise meant "a homeland at the expense of Palestinians". It's really not hard to grasp this basic point!

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Quick, someone explain to me again how ~actually it's about Israel defending itself against Hamas~ while the IDF are bombing churches and sniping Palestinian Christians in their places of worship

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wow, when you lie so much that there are consequences. Not included in the correction of course, is the fact that (as reported here) the Ipsos survey “showed more respondents supported than opposed a number of new taxes, including a significant majority in favour of a wealth tax".

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy little accidents

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is hilarious that Todd McClay fairly obviously confused Fernando Hernandez Espino of Both Ends with Francisco Hernandez of the Greens but neither he nor Luxon will admit it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Christopher Luxon walks back 'bizarre claim' about the Greens

Christopher Luxon has walked back claims made by one of his ministers about the Greens, before then suggesting - wrongly - that they originated from the media.

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Peter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Worth remembering that if it costs the government $4.5b to reverse the gender pay tax, then it costs the women affected $4.5b to leave it in place.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@fiercemum.bsky.social and I are really pleased to see this one out.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The right’s “nO moRE taXeS” refrain is such bullshit. Tax is good! Tax is how we get all the good things that we all rely on. We just need to make tax fair. Tax capital gains, tax the rich. 🎨 @slanecartoon.bsky.social

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From what we've been allowed to see there appears to be levels of destruction as great if not greater than what happened to Berlin, Dresden, and Stalingrad in WW2.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Eileen @nzneep.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My mum was just checking the mail right as an old fella was dropping off a National pamphlet He said, "some light reading for you" "I'm fine for reading material, I'm in the middle of Nicky Hager's book." Stone cold. I'm sure she would have looked over her glasses if she wore them

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 24/09/2026

They may think they’re winning. But they can’t stop us baby.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Will never forget TPU's Wealth Tax Facebook poll and them having to delete it, because taxing wealth is more popular than taxing work #nzpol

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 23/09/2026

This thread is a waking nightmare jfc also fuck BA, wtf is going on with them in particular, they’ve never been good but the past month anecdotally they’ve been especially horrific to delayed customers

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 23/09/2026

I still think this is the best gag I’ve ever done in a comic but it depends on knowing two niche references. Most people won’t get it. My favourite type of gag.

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André "Normal" Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I haven't seen coverage of this topic elsewhere in NZ media, but given the amount of money involved and the outcomes it seems like the sort of thing we'd want to talk about.

teaonews.co.nz

Māori delegates defend controversial trips to Israel

Te Ao with Moana spoke with those who were part of the controversial Israel trips.

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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

every once in a while you see a critter and it’s just like… What are you doing out of the ice age buddy

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/09/2026

great news! | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: A TECH BRO running through the street, holding a laptop over his head.
TECH BRO: GREAT NEWS! I THINK I WROTE THE COMPUTER PROGRAM THAT'S GOING TO KILL EVERYONE.

PANEL 2: MATTIE peers at the laptop, which just says KILL ALL HUMANS on it, with a blinking cursor. Another WOMAN runs away.
MATTIE: IT LOOKS LIKE YOU JUST TYPED A SENTENCE HERE ON THE LATPOP.
WOMAN: AHHH! DON'T LET IT NEAR THE NUKES!

PANEL 3: The TECH BRO shakes his head.
TECH BRO: NO. YOU CRETIN, YOU DON'T TRULY UNDERSTAND ITS CAPABILITIES.
TECH BRO: PLUS, IT'S SCRAPED FROM SOMEONE *ELSE* TYPING IT. IDIOT.

PANEL 4: A BUSINESSMAN hands the SCIENTIST a big bag of money. The space behind him is also filled with bags.
BUSINESSMAN: HERE IT IS! EVERY PIECE OF CURRENCY EVER MINTED INCLUDING COINS FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD
TECH BRO: THANK YOU.

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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 21/09/2026

skink: lizard with stubby little legs skunk: stinky weasel skank: rude word for promiscuous person skonk and skenk are still out there, waiting to be discovered

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 20/09/2026

with alt text

2 Panel Skeletor reclining meme:

WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAl

Skeletor will be back next week with more fun facts.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21/09/2026

'no direct evidence' won't stop them. Ask this trans person how I know...

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

ed sheeran is wrong. they're not abandoning him. they're jus not picking a side. they're being apolitical. they're refusing to be activist family and friends.

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Devastated Ed Sheeran claims his own family ‘abandoned’ him amid Gaza row

‘I'm feeling all of my friends and family and people I know abandon me,’ said Sheeran

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is absolutely true. Centrist politicians have essentially fetishised "tough choices" into being an end in itself. If you don't have to throw someone under the bus to achieve some broader strategic goal (even if you're not certain what that goal is), it's not grown-up politics.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Looking at national (split retail), Labour (split wholesale) and Green (state ownership to force competition) supermarket policies, and just thinking "why not all?" Obviously, we should look at the benefits of each intervention, but I'm for really fucking over the cartel. Payback time.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Disney doesn't know what to do with the Muppets. The BBC doesn't know what to do with Doctor Who. I have a wonderful suggestion.

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Apartheid: a system of institutionalized racial segregation & discrimination that enforces severe restrictions on the rights & movements of racialized groups, aiming to uphold the political & economic dominance of the ruling group. Definition derived from www.unesco.org/en/query-lis...

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Christina Hood @christinahood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know #nzpol folks will have seen this story, but you may not have seen the front-page splash in the print edition. Quite an editorial choice.

Front page of The Post, banner headline reads "Shock poll on economic trust"

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That.... that's not how cricket works. The bowler isn't trying to get you to hit the ball. He knows that right.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 17/09/2026

My neighbor in procument told me Iranians keep bombing his US-built planes so I asked how many planes he has and he said he just goes to the US and gets a new F-35 afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding F-35s to the Iranians and then his office mate started crying

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

this thread does not go where you think

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well if it isn't the stupid thing that everyone said would happen starting to happen as a result of the govt's stupid law changes Young man charged with assault after attempted citizen's arrest www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

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Young man charged with assault after attempted citizen's arrest

A young man has been charged with assault after a citizen's arrest in Hamilton allegedly went too far.

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