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Oaf @languidoaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well
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Chris Jensen @chrisjensenj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Gee, it's almost like crushing inequity is detrimental to a functioning society www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...
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Dangerous copper, metals thefts causing millions in damage
The growing problem of the theft of copper and other recyclable metals is causing millions of dollars of damage to infrastructure and endangering perpetrators and the public.
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In This Economy? @thiseconomy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Data, context AND interaction? In this economy?
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Secret Panel HERE 🧠 tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/06/14/memory-hole
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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New Zealand will forge ahead with a new LNG terminal, economics be damned.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
2020 v 2026
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 12/09/2026
Home Gardening Virtuoso Successfully Turns $800 into a Side Salad: tinyurl.com/4uxmdjtz
Man fondly gazing upon a small garden salad bowl with a giant backyard garden behind him.
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That girl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We exist on this earth to eat small cheesy pastries. Everything else is optional
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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
so, anyone with an Apple device might well be actively monitoring your conversation in a public place. oh, that won't fly in the EU. in other places, like Australia, where the privacy laws are less strict, people recording will be dealt with by a punch to the face. gdpr-info.eu/issues/conse...
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Consent - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Processing personal data is generally prohibited, unless it is expressly allowed by law, or the data subject has consented to the processing. While being one of the more well-known legal bases for pro...
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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sneaking an extra chicken nugget into a kid’s meal will always be more important work than yelling hate into a microphone.
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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Private equity swept through GPs over the past 5 years. There’s a lag time in people’s mental models corresponding to the actual structural change that has occurred already, let alone what’s coming next.
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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
People need to understand that the NZ health system isn’t just being crashed, it’s being Americanised. That’s the endgame here. Insurance and capital-led, public services in squalor and subservient to private provision. Profit extraction at every possible point of exchange across the whole system.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Food safety requirements are not always proportionate to risk? Food safety regulations too much for hospitality businesses? Not content with the slop he has organised for our kids or the flu epidemic he helped herald in. Seymour/ACT now want to make eating out russian roulette. #nzpol
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Hospitality sector facing too many fees, too much red tape, review finds
A government review into the hospitality sector has found some businesses are paying too many fees and decisions around licensing are murky and take too long.
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Yort @yort.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
From Threads, and seconded.
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El Jefe Gone Dark Security @eljefe.social · 09/09/2026
I remember. Every single moment of watching those two flights crashing into towers. Every step of those 54 floors down 77 Wabash. Every jumper. No cell service. no Planes in the air. And especially Trump nowhere near NYC, calling in to CNN bragging that his hotel was now the tallest.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/09/2026
One of the reasons people are viscerally mad about AI is that it is constantly publicly being used to violate millennia-old but today-largely-unspoken social taboos.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hey, remember how I said water bills were gonna make people insane? Ok, now let's prepare for rural NZ and, oh shit is that Ōtautahi surrounded by nitrate soaked plains, having to pay for denitrification of water which is so fucking pricey it'll make your eyes bulge.
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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Re-dedicating Gene Roddenberry's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Star Trek Day 2026. Since Gene's star was the first to honor a writer, Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry invited Star Trek writers to the event, possibly the biggest gathering of Trek writers, ever.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My view is quite straightforward. Current developments in AI are not a staging post to Skynet. They’re a staging post to Idiocracy. That’s our real risk.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When I said things couldn’t get dumber it wasn’t meant to be a dare
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 08/09/2026
Reminder, do not use public QR codes in public spaces. Do not. No. Bad. Bad!
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Ian Mackay @ianmackay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Nothing beats him dropping to the floor at one of his hotel openings because he thought the laser beam in the light show could cut him in half.
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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I hadn’t realised until Mary Trump listed Trump’s phobias that he’s afraid of magnets.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/09/2026
The problem with people is, there's a god shaped hole in our heads where we want Something Important to live, and we insist on filling it with *something*, which might be god or king or astrology or jumped-up autocorrect.
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dunedin Herald bringing the goods. 👌 #parody
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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Pak N Save is the most soul-crushing, choice-poor, overpriced “value” supermarket I’ve experienced in all my years of world travel. It has no redeeming features. Literally anything would be an improvement.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Signed copies still available here: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Upsetting Miriam’s New Car
“Depress clutch to start,” Miriam’s new car instructed her.
"The planet is being ruined by billionaire
sociopaths,” said Miriam. “Also, everyone’s house is grey, the
internet is turning out to be history’s most gargantuan mistake and I
can't stop thinking about all the stuff I put in bins during the 1990s
that I should have recycled. Additionally I think I've broken the big
toe on my left foot, which makes it hurt quite a lot to touch you.”
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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
AI bro (talking to a friend after listening to Teddy Ruxpin for five minutes): "So it turns out stuffed animals are alive."
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 06/09/2026
I think it's very stylish. It looks like something Hugo Boss might design.
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Kris Dobbins @krisdobbinsart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wile E. Coyote did an AMA and it's genuinely inspiring
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We have racked up private debt mostly (blue) - with Govt stepping in when private sector borrowing slows of import costs rise. Our ongoing deficit with the rest of the world *requires* us to go into debt domestically to keep the economy running. Where's that basic fact in the media? Too hard? [Ends]
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh, this old chestnut. How much does Govt pay in interest payments *net* of the return Govt receives on its financial assets? Well, imagine you had $55bn more financial assets than liabilities? What would happen when interest rates rose? [6/n]
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Yort @yort.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This country insists on saving for a rainy day while it's pouring outside and the place is flooding. #NZPOL
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bbbbbut, what about the next disaster? The bigger the disaster the bigger the inflow of global reinsurance cash, and, Govt has $25bn in its account at RBNZ, and over $100bn of deficit spending to do before we get anywhere close to Australia and Canada? Zero issue. Invest in the country ffs. [4/n]
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just updating on the latest nanny herald clickbait debt story. Same old tired myths... Govt books destroyed by the pandemic (they got stronger by the most sensible measure), Super is unaffordable (it isn't), and zero mention of the real drivers of the fiscal deficit. Let's dive in... [1/n]
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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In the city known for throwing dead fish to customers as a tourist attraction?
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Why the interrogation? A month later we were engaged So there we go peeps BOOKS STORES can lead to proposals
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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This #nzpol
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I was going to protest that my father-in-law and parents were going to be far more interesting to people in the future than I will, but that's probably fair. For example, part of my dads collection of lovingly crafted locomotives:
3 working steam locomotives sitting in the 'study' at home in London. If I had half a brain I'd know what they were and what guage track they ran on, but alas...
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough
Supermarket aisle sign with items listed top to bottom: Can Fish, Microwave, Soup.
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Andrew Campbell @ozyman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you get the chance, go to Illuminate in the botanic gardens. It’s good.
Trees uplift with coloured light, reflecting in a pond.
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Chris Gomm @gommster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My main memory of Richard O'Sullivan was watching Me andy Girl as a kid. The opening montage/theme hits differently now as a dad of three girls all pretty much grown up now. And is obviously extra poignant now. youtu.be/733kEgCp6Ag?...
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Tv Theme Me And My Girl ( Peter Skellern)
YouTube video by tvtestcard
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Brown bear floating along in Bristol Bay Alaska: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The most enduring image from the STAR WARS trilogy isn’t Leia in a gold bikini, it’s Leia strangling the sexist, capitalist monster who put her in a bikini in the first place, until that piece of shit fucking dies. Kudos for immortalizing it in a museum (and to everyone kissing in front of it).
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 04/09/2026
The best thing about this post is cat pics in replies.
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Uncle Jeff 🌈 @picklerudd.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
I think the world would be a better place if more things traveled by pneumatic tube and made the satisfying "thoomp" sound
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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