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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 23h

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 21h

NEUROMANCER couldn't be coming at a better time (I've been watching it, but embargoed up the wazoo)

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 22h

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING confirmed for NZ cinema release on Nov 12

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

“These signatures are maybe the most on the nose reminder of how AI models were trained on a vast corpus of writing, images, videos, and artworks that were scraped without permission.”

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ChatGPT Caught Putting Signatures of Real Cartoonists on AI-Generated Comics

ChatGPT is churning out New Yorker style cartoons and slapping the name of real artists on them without permission.

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

More of this sort of thing.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Always nice to see the low-hanging fruit collected. Opposition to this is basically zero, apart from Act weenies who've never been to a good gig in their lives. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

stuff.co.nz

Labour’s ‘simple fix’ to give Kiwi music acts more exposure

Currently, international artists are not required to have a New Zealand support act when they tour here.

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When the daily newspaper doesn’t know what day it is. “National leader Christopher Luxon and Labour leader Chris Hipkins will face off in TVNZ’s leaders debate tonight. The debate, which starts at 7pm, will be moderated by Jack Tame.”

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a good headline! It refuses to amplify the false claim by using "wrongly", and includes the truth in the headline for everyone who doesn't read the full story (which is mostly everyone). It's also compelling clickbait for those ad guys. Now do this all the time!

The Post:
Christopher Luxon wrongly suggests allegation about Greens came from media - it came from his minister

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October 2, 2026

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1% of Linkin Park’s crowd came to Aotearoa specifically for the gig. Just 0.4% of ULTRA festival. Is the NZ Govt’s Events Attraction package doing what it was set up to? theconversation.com/money-for-so...

theconversation.com

Money for something: why public funding for NZ’s live music scene needs retuning

Every dollar invested in local live performance is multiplied in benefits to local communities. But state funding has to be strategic and targeted.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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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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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 25/09/2026

it's all this guys fault

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026

an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/

webworm.co

This Could Change The Way Victims Get Justice

David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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JJW @jjw.wtf · 22/09/2026

one guy is famous for being racist who got a clump of mud thrown at his head, another guy is famous for looking like a fleshy rendition of the trollface meme and dressing up like Porky Pig every so often, and the other guy is a blogger. like what has to happen so media stop interviewing them.

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Mondo Amelia @amamelia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just scrolled thru four years of my old tweets to find this

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The question isn't whether the pm is interested in Hager, it's whether...

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Space Academy (Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa/NZ) @spaceacademy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Get along to one of these rad, grassroots, independent-music-venue-led enrolment events (often free!) Happening all across the Motu i tēnei Hepetema, Oketopa hoki /this Sept/Oct 🙌🙌🙌 🗳️🗳️🗳️

undertheradar.co.nz

Spotlight: ROCK’EN’ROL - Live Music & Voting Enrolment Events

Independent music venues are uniting to help get rangatahi / young adults enrolled to vote!

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"You could open for Ed Sheeran" - or you could post pro-Palestine, anti-Ed videos as they're not being moderated

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 15/09/2026

For no reason, fun fact: Ed Sheeran played two cameos in The Rise of Skywalker (2019). One is a First Order stormtrooper, the other a Resistance fighter battling on Exegol. Both sides.

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Lukas @lukasdrawsart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Neil Hamburger was in tip top form last night @neilhamburger.bsky.social

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Remember when, week in and week out, the National Party Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee vilified and mocked those of us who pushed the City Rail Link. But we had the last laugh. Such a great win for the broader green and progressive movt.

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

How to hit our Foreign Minister and the Bish where it hurts

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It’s useful, I guess, but it’s also ugly and sucks

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Imagine what it would be like if Mr Fix It wasn't on the case

Audrey young calling simeon brown health mr fix it

Second patient found dead in waikato hospital toilet

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Phil Fletcher @philfletcher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A puppet performing a puppet on the radio!! Yes please… #behindthescenes

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Once again, @slanecartoon.bsky.social diagnoses the core problem.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.

The front page of The Onion's September edition from September 2001 featuring the headline "U.S. Vows to Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With."

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Seven eps in, and FURIOUS has gone from being a good post-Epstein update of BLACK WIDOW to one of the year’s best shows. Expertly balancing thriller, trauma and humour it’s really something else - with great character writing and exceptional performances, especially from its female cast.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And doesn't this say every fucking thing about him. A song about how hard it is to be a working stiff and a woman in a system where rich guys have all the power, played obliviously by exactly the sort of guy it was describing, who also oversaw the biggest govt fuck-over of working women in decades

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Well, you get what you pay for I guess.

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I can verify this insanely long word has been spelled to the satisfaction of scrutineers (me)

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Aotearoa version of this only needs a few tweaks

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There are very rich New Zealanders paying to ensure the majority of us have no healthcare, insecure housing, unsafe workplaces, lower wages and more racism. This is the world they want for us. #nzpol

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Brutal photo caption. No job too big or small for Goldy to blunder through!

Under the headline “How many portfolios can one minister handle?” on RNZ, a photo of NZ Government Minister for Paul Goldsmith captioned “Paul Goldsmith is now the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Minister of Defence, Minister Responsible for the GCSB, and for the NZSIS, Minister of Justice, Minister for Media and Communications, Minister for Pacific Peoples, Minister for Public Service and Digitising Government, Minister for Space, Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and Minister for Veterans”

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It’s 4:20pm but someone jumped the gun

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Also, Tres Hombres has the best inner gatefold photo of all time

Inner gatefold photo of the most epic tex-mex meal ever, Tres Hombres by ZZ Top

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Timothy Gassin @timothygassin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Australian media giving a more honest assessment of the last few years in NZ than much of the NZ media. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A $250,000 ad campaign to not vote National.

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s awesome to see so many people out on Karangahape Rd today! Can’t wait to get down into the Karanga-a-Hape station this arvo.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If Luxon doesn't get rolled I need a laser eyes Kieran Macca going "The National caucus don't have the guts to do the right thing so it's up to Labour and the voters to do it on November 7"

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Why are there action scenes in movies? They don't move the movie along at all it just makes people uncomfortable. We could just skip to the after and show who's dead and stuff if we have to - get back to plot because exposition is the only thing that matters. Plot is king. Plot is god. Plot is all.

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

New Zuck AI brain fart just dropped archive.ph/Fcz8G

Headline of 404 Media story, titled "Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I only now realized that when I searched for the cover image of White Flight earlier, it pulled up this image drawn from one of the blurbs for the book. The words are from the amazing southern historian Dan Carter. But the image is of the amazing New Zealand rugby star Dan Carter.

"In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of the new Republican majority. White Flight is a powerful and compelling book that should be read by anyone interested in modern American politics and post-World War II urban history."

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