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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

How dare they meet with the low-status people who have done harm. And not just the high-status people who have done harm (and probably never faced any consequences).

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's happening in different places with different wifi. It's never been good with posting while on data, but now it's happening frequently. (I'm at home now, switched to my tablet, and so far everything is fine; so maybe a cell issue...)

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Holy shit. Wait, does this mean all the other times this has happened... TELL ME I HAVEN'T BEEN SPAMING PEOPLE WITH MULTIPLE POSTS

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

(I should make it clear that he is *against* patriarchy)

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

What pisses me off SO MUCH is that *there is so much work to be done in this country!* I see it in my job! But nobody wants to pay anyone to do it. Not co-incidentally the work that needs to get done tends to be support, service, nurturing work. (Time to log off and lower my blood pressure)

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm going to start getting drunk right now!

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

... and would that be so terrible?

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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

POV: you want to see the Greens messing things up as usual but you get ragebaited into hearing about the Greens reversing this govt’s neoliberal policies this election #nzpol

Election 2026 live: Greens double down over gang visit
Politics / Election 2026
21 mins ago

Oct 15, 2026 12:05 PM
RNZ Live
Greens vow to reverse National’s public service cuts

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

He actually wrote '... the philosopher Kate Manne calls this [bright future destroyed by one mistake] 'himpathy'...'!

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

My kid is writing a cracking essay about #MeToo and patriarchy holy shit it's almost as if *he was actually listening* all those times i was pontificating on feminism (more likely he heard it from his teacher though) anyway i am very proud

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Interesting, I added a third 'waiting' after a bit, not there now...

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

My Bluesky ap is so buggy. It often refuses to post, especially if there's a link. I can't see any new update — it seems to be a connectivity issue? Just the way it is? (I mean, it gives me time to correct spelling etc, or add a thought. Like this thought.) (Waiting waiting)

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The most dangerous thing in the house...

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This was a great epsiode, by the way. Of an excellent podcast.

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

(Just heard it again) Also: Act ads are authorised by someone named C. Pervis', which seems a little on the nose, considering...

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Holy shit, @ettemedia.bsky.social's We Used To Be Journos podcast just got interrupted by an ad for ACT (our increasingly fascist far-Right party)! I wonder how the algorithm chooses the ads? They had a LOT of Xero ads after that sexual harassment scandal too...

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

So glad this govt prioritised tax cuts for landlords though, that’s way more important than children with cancer

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I'm all for councils enforcing towing for cars left parked across the footpath (but I doubt if they ever would go against the entitlement of drivers). Imagine the rage of drivers if pedestrians stopped in the road to have a chat!

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

SIX HOURS left to back my book kickstarter ✨ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

In social situations this is the one and only area where people who tend towards voting for the right and I can always agree! Possibly because they have travelled and lived in other countries, and experienced good rail?

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Trains, dude ... the people want trains. Give the people what they want.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Bloody hell. This is not, as Simeon Brown has claimed, doing everything to get enough nurses on the ground. It’s the opposite. #nzpol “The Government has told nursing schools to train fewer nurses next year.” www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

stuff.co.nz

Government tells nursing schools to stop training so many nurses

The edict came from the Tertiary Education Commission, to the surprise of many nursing professors and lecturers last week.

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I just heard @reproutopia.bsky.social, speaking of their own (probable?) ND experience, say that it's like: "I'm going to misunderstand on purpose… even though I also actually misunderstand" and I feel like someone's finally exposed the shameful secret I've been keeping all my life

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The girl demands sacrifice.

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

He's a renaissance man. Uncomfortable *and* a creep

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I appreciate that all of these guys' solutions to the mens' reading crisis is to walk up to vulnerable little boys and hand them footballs, but could we FOR ONE SINGLE SECOND stop to unpack the fact that the default definition of "masculine readers" for lots of these pundits is: "assholes"?

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Like, Ricky Gervais uncomfortable, or...?

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I am so sick of 'How Will You Pay For It?' being so unquestioningly accepted. Especially when it's used to deny us urgently needed services such as health and social welfare. I want to shout back HOW CAN WE AFFORD NOT TO DO THIS Government should be about contingency, not economy (i.e. trickle-up)

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I ❤️ Rae Armantrout.

The Uncertainty Principle, by Rae Armantrout
1
An atom "is localized by an interaction"
the way you surprise yourself by expressing an opinion
when asked,
one you didn't know you had and may not hold
for long.
2
A subatomic particle is not its mass or spin
the way a person is not a body
and a poem is not

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Why do the media never push back on Luxon's 'average of eighteen years' youth benefit claim?

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yes, this was during the build-up to the last election.

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Anneleise Hall @anneleise.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Because NZ's covid response was world leading and valued lives over money without the sky falling in, the Epstein Class cartel made Jacinda Ardern a target last election year. NZ sidestepped the vicious misogynist attack campaign that they were laying the groundwork for by standing down. 1/2 #NZPol

A screenshot of a tweet posted by Roger Stone 19 Jan 2023: In New Zealand the currnt Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern (a protege of Klaus Schwab) has actually banned newspapers and magazines that don't support the Government's narratives.

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(And sometimes you're told to rate other groups' presentations! Why do people think competition makes everything more fun?) Everyone's brain works differently but I'd much prefer to have that hour spent on the trainers presenting the topics, perhaps with open discussions as we go.

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I went to a training day recently and I really find break-out groups a waste of time. We spend ten minutes doing a surface examination of one aspect of the topic, then are busy anticipating/post-analysing our presentation. I'm never able to take in other groups' presentations of their topics.

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Remembering that manager who tried to get hold of my therapy notes.

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

(Sorry, that's what my brain immediately informed me)

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh god, I think that's leather? Could you buy yourself a new belt?

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Last summer I read a bunch of old whodunnits, and one of the things that stood out was how easily characters could get from place to place because there was always a train heading in that direction in the next few hours. That wasn't just narrative convenience, it was a real thing! It was real here!

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And cheap, readily available transportation around the motu should be a public service, not a business proposition (Winston). People are trapped in their districts.

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Omg i miss trains. I had to go to Wellington for a funeral last year and the only way was the bus (as in most regions... if they're lucky). And I do love the bus but I am no longer young.

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The sun is shining! The market is humming!

A selfie of Louise and Dani, in front of a Green Party banner, smiling at the camera

A hand holding a DENTAL FOR ALL sticker and a I ONLY DATE PEOPLE WHO VOTE GREEN sticker

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