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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 7h

On that note, Slayyyter's cover of Hole's "Violet" from Like a Version has been in regular rotation for me over the last month youtu.be/fAOdTCeivEk

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Slayyyter covers Hole's ‘Violet' for Like A Version

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 11h

I had the true and genuine pleasure of working with Adrian a few times while I was at Parliament. He was the first MP I ever wrote speech notes for, and when he went immediately off script he was gracious enough to say that the original notes were good, he just wanted to be more political...

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 13h

Ah no. Genuinely sad news. Easily the best Speaker the House has had since Lockwood Smith. A person of huge mana.

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Former Speaker of the House and Labour MP Adrian Rurawhe dies

Rurawhe was Speaker in the last term of Government.

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Miriam Ross @miriamruthross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wants some cute, bold, fun, AI-free images to encourage your friends to enrol to vote? Get them here: www.greens.org.nz/enrol_posts And remember deadline is 25 October

Mock up image of an Aotearoa Daily newspaper with different headlines encouraging people to vote

Graphic with neon green words on a dark urban background that say This is your enrolment reminder. Deadline is midnight, 25 October

Photo of Chlöe Swarbrick in the house of parliament holding up a sign that says bruh enrol to vote

Photo of a kākā on a green background with white text that says Please enrol so you can vote to protect me and my home

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 25/09/2025

It's the most magical day of the year. Don't forget to celebrate by burning some black or purple candles and promising to give up your dark magics but maybe keep doing the less dark ones on the side, you don't want to let those skills lapse y'know

A trio of screenshots from A Muppet Christmas Carol. In the first, Scrooge looks out a window. Caption reads: You there, boy! What day is it?
The second, a Muppet looks up.
Caption reads: It's the Feast Day of St Cyprian.
The third, Scrooge smiles with relief.
Caption reads: Then I haven't missed it!

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 26/09/2026

Can't believe I was on the fence about getting this, I'm an hour in (just finishing up the prologue) and hot damn it's great so far. All doubts, banished.

The title screen of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 26/09/2026

Extremely good cover of Jesus I Was Evil — though much more tuneful than the original! youtu.be/8roHdiI0SZ4

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Eigenface - Jesus I was Evil (Darcy Clay cover) | Live at RNZ

YouTube video by Eigenface

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 24/09/2026

Back pain progress: I'm able to stand up long enough to make a coffee for the first time in a week. Thankfully I think the painkillers have masked the caffeine withdrawal symptoms.

A cup of black coffee in a mug styled after the NZ Parliament Biscuit Tin

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I WAS RIGHT HAHHAHAHA FUCK YEAH BABY

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 22/09/2026

Was hoping to be at the Nicky Hager book launch, but my back says no. Even with my stylish walking stick, I can't stand for long enough to make the journey. There'd better still be a copy available for me when I finally make it into Unity next!

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This nonsense of "introducing legislation we know we won't even get to the first reading of three seconds before the house rises" is yet another - in a list of many - abuse of the legislative process by this government. It overloads PCO, leading to worse drafting, and achieves nothing meaningful.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

However, the report of the Standing Orders committee is most notable for what has not been materially addressed: urgency and expedited law-making is a stain on our democracy and the report only tinkers around the edges. More should have been done to avoid rushed law-making.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I also have an X Playbook:

X playbook
When you're on X.com
Immediately delete your account
WTF why are you on X.com
Never go there

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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The point was well made by the Council for Civil Liberties in their submission.

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 19/09/2026

"Take THAT, Guernica" has lived in my brain for a very long time. RIP Gerrit Graham

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Pablo Picasso vs. Franklin Sherman

YouTube video by chunnel

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 19/09/2026

When I checked Wikipedia to make sure "Worzel Gummidge had a head made from a Mangelwurzel" was actually a fact and not something I just invented in my diseased mind, I learned that there was a sequel show to Worzel Gummidge where he came to New Zealand. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worzel_...

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Worzel Gummidge Down Under - Wikipedia

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 19/09/2026

Sure I'm lying on the floor unable to move due to back pain, but at least Hester is taking this opportunity to share in my weekend activities.

Hester Cat, a fluffy tabby, sits under the coffee table.

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 16/09/2026

As I stagger to the train station after 12.5 hours at work today and 11 yesterday, facing down likely about the same tomorrow, I glance over at Parliament and think "well at least I don't have to work urgency"

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 06/11/2025

*slams geonet button* #eqnz

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 31/08/2026

I am nearly 35 years old I should not be getting a stress pimple, and if I do get one it should not be the most painful one since my callow youth. Someone needs to sort this out asap, tyia.

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 25/08/2026

Wish I'd had this when filling out my work's inaugural AI Week survey yesterday. Made most of the same points, but I did it with less panache.

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The best cover of a Dolly Parton song was done by a New Zealander, lest we forget

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#4 Darcy Clay - Jolene

YouTube video by diddlydoodledave

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Niamh Hollis-Locke @niamhvh-l.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#kikorangi #nzmusic #culturalheritage (also the landlord who is knowingly replacing this vibrant, 30 year old community with Yet Another Coworking Space is an AI booster who runs a business all about supporting other orgs. pushing LLM/Gen AI adoption on their employees. So very yucky)

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

An u16 social media ban on selected platforms a) won't significantly stop u16s being those platforms; Australian evidence shows this. b) will institute mass identity surveillance of all users of any age on those platforms; and c) Won't affect key sources of online safety risk (roblox, chatbots).

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I've been down a rabbit hole today tracking "Chapter Victoria", an early NZ #larp group through the Salient archive; if anyone was involved in this group (or can connext me with someone who was), please get in touch on idiotblogid@yahoo.co.uk ;

Clubs page article from Salient, vol 55, no 19, August 10 1992, on "Live roleplaying", about "Chapter Victoria", who did a bit of boffy-whack around Otori / Wilson's Bush in the early 1990's.

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 18/08/2026

I'd say "Entertainment" by Anthonie Tonnon, but honestly it's not that far from it already youtu.be/xVNpKjlrbQg

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Anthonie Tonnon - 'Entertainment' (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Anthonie Tonnon

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 18/08/2026

Will you carry this? Revealing the long-awaited ✨ PHYSICAL EDITIONS ✨ for our Peabody award-winning game 1000xRESIST! This wouldn’t be possible without you. Hekki grace and thank you so much for your support. 💛 🔗 WORLDWIDE: fanga.me/r/1xr 🔗 UK AND EU: fanga.me/r/1xr-eu

Promotional image of the Standard Edition of the 1000xRESIST Physical Version. It brings the physical game, 24-page booklet, folded poster, and an art card of Jiao.

Promotional image of the Deluxe Edition of the 1000xRESIST Physical Version. It brings the physical game with a HEKKI SPECIAL cover, a 6 pinback button set, magnet, 6 trading cards, 2 folded posters, 6 art cards, and a 24-page booklet.

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 16/08/2026

I love videogames for their escapist power fantasies, such as making pourover coffee and having a cat stare at you.

A screenshot from Persona 5 Royal, Joker is making coffee

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 15/08/2026

Time to continue engaging in a varied and eclectic mix of games and other media, as a balanced diet is very importa— fuck it, Persona 5 time, you knew where I was going with this

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 14/08/2026

it's been a minute since I had new flash fiction out—“The Age of Cancer” is up at @lightspeedmagazine.com! And if you haven't read THE TIME MACHINE by HG Wells, don't worry, the story quotes the relevant paragraph www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

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The Age of Cancer - Lightspeed Magazine

This is our struggle. We scuttle on the sand before the softly breathing salt-burdened sea with the lichen on the rocks a bright poison green and great white butterflies screaming under a red sky whil...

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 15/08/2026

Well, that's P4G done and dusted. Didn't enjoy it quiiiiite as much as P3R, but still had a good time. Always interesting to engage with small-c conservative media, too.

The start of the end credits of Persona 4 Golden

The cast of Persona 4 Golden, with the word "Fin." Overlaid in yellow in the lower right hand corner.

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 13/08/2026

There is a secret track on the new Phoebe Bridgers album featuring Isaac Wood (!!!!) and Conor Oberst and I am going mad trying to get my CD-RW to work out how to access it, this rules, it's like I'm 17 again (I know it's there because it's hidden on the cd cover when you shine a blacklight on it)

The interior of Phoebe Bridgers' "Lost Weekend"

The interior of Phoebe Bridgers' "Lost Weekend" with a blacklight shining on it, revealing secret knowledge.

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 12/08/2026

By gawd it's Maureen Pugh with a steel chair!

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 12/08/2026

You can tell I've been extremely unwell by the fact that this is my first coffee since... Friday, I think? But if you're wondering why you haven't heard from me in days, it's because I've been basically out of touch with everyone.

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 05/08/2026

Goodbye Lara really speaking to me this week though.

A screenshot from Sayonara Lara. Subtitle reads: "But... It's just so exhausting."

A screenshot from Sayonara Lara. Subtitle reads: "That's right. That's the job."

A screenshot from Sayonara Lara. Subtitle reads: "Work is torture."

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 05/08/2026

We're some way into the new Anime season, and I've gotta say, it's extremely unreasonable that my full-time employment is getting in the way of my busy cartoon-watching schedule. Already falling behind on most of the shows I'm trying to keep up with week by week.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

do not hire the mountain goats guy to lead your guided meditation unless you have very particular and frankly weird meditative goals

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 04/08/2026

Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" day to all who... Celebrate...

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 02/08/2026

Once again I am calling on everyone I know within 6 hours of Edinburgh to run — not walk — without rhythm straight into the audience for Dune! The Musical at Fringe this year. I can't be there, so I need to live vicariously through the rest of you.

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 02/08/2026

I'm never going to need to appear on camera for a work meeting ever again. Nobody will be able to tell the difference.

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 02/08/2026

Been spending a lot of time this week listening to my playlist of Like A Version covers, because I don't need anything particularly challenging right now, and I'm consistently delighted and thrilled that Rebecca Black has become incredibly fucking cool. youtu.be/3sni1ckbBqw

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Rebecca Black covers Addison Rae’s ‘Fame is a Gun’ for Like A Version

YouTube video by triple j

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