therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 03/09/2026What gif pops up when you type your name?static.klipy.comSmack Taylor KitschAlt: John Carter getting slapped around the head 000
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialLiam Boardman @liamjboardman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Pretty goddamn telling how Chris Penk fucking over his own political career and having to leave politics as a result is being hyped up as this great tragedy, when NZ's first non-binary MP having to leave politics due to threats to their and their family's lives was just the price of doing business m 517457
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialⓘ Kaiwhiu ⓘ @aotearoa-nz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026This could be us, but this govt isn't serious #NZPol 32910
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialsamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21/07/2026Auckland sprawls worse than LA or Toronto and yet a modest change to zoning enabling a few medium-density apartment buildings (GASP!!!!) has been an endless contentious shitshow when kiwis complain about brain drain to other places they should consider the default NIMBYism of our biggest city 1224
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.social⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians* 316254906963
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialCEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Live your life so that when you pass, the world reacts like they did for Sam Neill. 31011211
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialTom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I think we should start measuring government programmes in Hayden Donnell's 'metres of roading'. Lowering the age of bowel cancer screening to 45? 5 metres of road. A year of Three Waters? 63 metres of road. Reading recovery? 13mm of road. 7250121
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow. 8165851922
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup: 2338661526
therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I haven't been that invested in a 0:0 draw in a while. Fantastic work by the Curacao keeper 000
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialStephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I genuinely don't hate Labour's public transport fare cap, but the response is illustrative of a lesson I wish they'd learn: if you're going to get unhinged doomer naysaying backlash from your opponents and the media anyway, might as well announce something that gets your base hyped as fuck instead 712820
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialDan Hon @danhon.com · 17/06/2026You're right—I shouldn't have flipped the turtle onto its back. That's on me. 311633
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country. 6262071709
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialBen Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz · 21/05/2026E-motos are _not_ E-bikes. I'm begging nz police to simply enforce the 300W law already in place (gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/20...) Anything >300W is a motor vehicle. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...nzherald.co.nz‘A lethal weapon in a child’s hand’: Fears over high-powered e-bikesThe Herald clocked one e‑scooter rider, wearing a full-face helmet, travelling at 53km/h. 8419
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialTim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 20/05/20262 years. Goneburgers. 02012
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 13/05/2026the west wing is less realistic than battlestar galactica NEXT QUESTION 274496
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialTom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 09/05/2026InternetNZ is once again being faced with a hostile takeover by lying right-wing nut jobs. You can stop this from happening, if you want. 23736
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.social👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit. 7554861370
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialD Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Jones blames The Green Party. 🥳Heck yeah, thats an endorsement imo. That’s why I’m voting for them Jonesy, and not men like you that’d sell our environment down the toilet for donors and dollars. #nzpol Party vote Greens for a greener NZ 🎉🎉 #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...rnz.co.nzWest Coast mine application on UNESCO heritage site withdrawnResources Minister Shane Jones blames his "communist opponents" in the Green Party for opposing the project. 1521070
therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 02/05/202615 top TV shows gut instinct, no particular order Mad Men Andor Game of Thrones (S1-5) Spaced The Wire Homicide Halt & Catch Fire Band of Brothers The West Wing The Terror (S1) Chernobyl (more Jared Harris having a bad time) ER The Pitt Firefly Fargo 100
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialbakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026really good images of the model of NYC they made for the hudsucker proxy from an old issue of cinefex 111346220
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Thanks to David Banks at the other place, who first alerted me to Ian Banks' reference to this face in his novel Transition, in which a character posits that if aliens exist on Earth, we'd find them watching an eclipse. 121492236
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us. 8475101296
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/12/2025SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how huge SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in our cities, and the absolutely INSANE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by #NotJustBikes. Then please share it as much as you can.youtube.comThese Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing UsYouTube video by Not Just Bikes 24412199
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialDr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 22/12/2025An Auckland downpour, wet jandals sticking, steam rising off the tarseal, umbrellas unfurled, that wondrous smell hitting your nose, not just petrichor but always & forever the salt of the harbours too. God but I love Tāmaki Makaurau in the summer. 1402
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialGlyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 16/12/2025This Stunning Image Shows a Skydiver Falling Across the Face of the Sun. - www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t... rather impressive #photographysmithsonianmag.comThis Stunning Image Shows a Skydiver Falling Across the Face of the Sun. Here’s How the Team Captured the Mesmerizing PhotoMonths of careful planning and calculations went into the shot. Then, the team had only one jump attempt to get it right 042
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialRichard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Loved seeing Te Komititanga full of people celebrating the lighting of Te Manaaki, Auckland’s Giant Christmas Tree. Hard to believe a few years ago this civic space was a four lane road. It’s much better now and it is used by tens of thousands more people each day. I 💚❤️ AKL 313823
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something. 9154921380
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialMax Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I'm not against the idea that some sort of silicon intelligence *might* arise at some point--we're not even nearly there as far as I can tell--but humans are SO programmed to regard things that do not have human agency as if they do have human agency, that this seems like a necessary move 719836
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 19/11/2025You may have a misunderstanding from common culture, that computer hacks are novel. A company reliably patching all their endpoints and operating under even 50% of security guidance are essentially invulnerable. Few people even hacking them have deep IT skills whatsoever. This is a human problem. 617819
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialThe Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) 🏴 @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 06/11/2025lol 102141254339
therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Intentionally leaving the cat's dry food empty overnight (one of them needs to fast before vet tomorrow). I don't think I'll need to set an alarm clock... 100
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialderek van vliet @derek.bike · 05/11/2025good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx 4392982580
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎 627561176682
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialAndrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Douglas Adams was a true visionary for realizing that if doors could talk, that would actually be really terrible. 763161
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialsamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 30/10/2025It's wild that the new zealand govt sees what's going on in the states and rather than going "wow we have a huge opportunity to recruit foreign talent, let's invest" (like aus, canada, EU etc have done) instead they're like "ooh cutting science to the bone, cool idea bro" #nzpol 39230
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialsamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 18/09/2025new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund) 12269136
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialAlex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 30/10/2025lol keep asking Luxon why he shouldn't pay tax on the 600k profit he made selling some of his houses recently (after changing the bright line test in his favour) keep listening to him say 'it's not about me', and keep replying 'it kinda is though, and it's kinda obvs you don't have an answer' 610325
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialClint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 28/10/2025“So either he’s (Luxon) totally insincere, and he was bullshitting me, or he’s incompetent and doesn’t realise that he, himself – and his own Government, the people he’s put in power – have signed off on pennies on the dollar for scientific funding in this country" 2185
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialJoseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 16/10/2025you can keep windows 10 with security updates for at least another year so you don't have to deal with all the AI shit in windows 11 www.engadget.com/computing/wi...engadget.comWindows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for freeThanks to Extended Security Updates, you don't have to make the switch to Windows 11 just yet. 27934
therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Now with chatgpt everyone gets to be a copyeditor. 010
therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Anyone else noticed a huge number of false positives in their gmail spam folder recently? Like 90% of spam folder is non-spam mail lists or notifications today, I'm pretty sure it wasn't like this a few weeks ago. 000
therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 05/10/2025I'm expecting a spike in Google searches for Helonium today #connections 000
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialAndy @andyhkn.bsky.social · 02/10/2025I’m involved in the legislation website work, so this is helpful. Mostly we only heard from devs wanting better data access… hence the API. Open access to legislation matters to us, so please do fill out the survey so we can figure out the best way forward. Thanks! www.surveymonkey.com/r/HH5VLL8surveymonkey.comRSS User Survey 2025Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free. 134
therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Bike on a Kei truck, seen in Cornwall Park, Auckland. I thought this was delightful. 130
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialSam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 05/09/2025This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy". 21472302163
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/08/2025Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.” 203268336898
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/08/2025Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions www.theverge.com/news/761338/... 982709862
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialSlick @dtwiz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Love that AI has managed to make computers bad at maths. 26411
Reposted by @therefromhere.bsky.socialDylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 16/08/2025The National Government's handling of iRex should be treated as one of New Zealand's greatest political scandals. An impulsive Government got power and immediately made an ideological decision to cancel an existing project, ultimately costing hundreds of millions and creating worse infrastructure! 829699
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku)
