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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Wright Foundation was one of its foundation funders. I think the Tauranga based HOS is more closely associated with the Acotn Foundation, also of Tauranga. Check out the Acorn Foundation's income and expenditure on the Charities Watch site. #nzpol charitieswatch.nz/charity/acor...

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Acorn Foundation | CharitiesWatch NZ

Acorn Foundation (CC10784). Latest gross income NZ$41.7M. Sector: Arts / culture / heritage. Sourced from the NZ Charities Register.

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yes-I’m starting to wonder about #Chippy. Is this an #AtlasNetwork-nobbled #Labour Party like UK? Hipkins clearing the decks A new broom sweeps clean- NZ Initiative www.nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-... We need #Greens #climatechange action, wellbeing policies & #WealthTax #PartyVoteGreen✅ or ✅✅

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I mean, taking the use of "reasonable force" on people to its logical conclusion... #nzpol ACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use 'reasonable force' on students www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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ACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use 'reasonable force' on students

ACT wants to give teachers the legal power to remove "seriously or persistently disruptive" students from a classroom.

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

One of the more accurate memes… #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Make your own delicious election night treat. #nzpol pixelframe.design/burger-king-...

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The greatest metaphor in print this year, courtesy of @edzitron.com

$Analysts have, on some level, become the fractional marketing team for the stocks they’re investing in. When Oracle announced its $300 billion deal with OpenAI in September — one that Oracle does not have the capacity to fill and OpenAI does not have the money to pay for – analysts heaved and stammered like horny teenagers seeing their first boob:$

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 22/12/2025

“The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.” This is a way to reveal your birth year which is sensitive personally identifiable information. Do a few of these with variations for months & days and you’ve unwittingly given out your date of birth. Stay safe, be vague!

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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

wow a New Zealand political party who has detailed policies that are publicly accessible to read prior to next year's general election, AND has policies developed by its own party members. They probably deserve more members, volunteers, and donations to lead the next govt. #nzpol

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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

The issue is with the entire party, not just Hipkins

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

New awareness campaign

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

For a guy who can sniff-out entitlements faster than a truffle pig Luxon claiming here to know nothing about his investment properties never gets old. #nzpol

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Simon O'Neill @sjponeill.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Is this the same MP for Botany who attacked the EV subsidy, took advantage of that same sudsidy, and blamed his wife when he got caught...? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Luxon fires back at Hipkins for 'attack' on his finances

"Why should he be able to make more than $600,000 in one year from flipping properties, whilst the people who ... work hard every day for a living pay tax?" Hipkins asked.

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

If you've made 600k in untaxed money from a particular system and you oppose changing that system, it's not an 'attack' it's 'context' my dude. Love how yet again the property rort isn't properly called out for the massive conflict of interest.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/10/2025

So I realize I’ve reposted this all day, but I cannot understate the scale of this story. If Anthropic is spending this much on Google Cloud - or even 25% - the costs of running their business are never coming down. It’s a huge scoop, and the first real discussion of the true costs of AI anywhere.

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Step one: engineer a recession and cancel infrastructure projects. Step two: get mad at people for not having a job thespinoff.co.nz/politics/10-...

The Spinoff: In other words, we did it, folks. Joblessness is up. Inflation is down. Mince is admittedly four trillion dollars. But overall, success! Surely our government should be pulling a George W Bush and unfurling a mission accomplished banner above the rusted deck of the HMNZS Canterbury.

Instead, it called a press conference to say, in essence, wtf. Luxon and social development minister Louise Upston gathered reporters on Sunday to announce too many 18- and 19-year-olds were claiming the benefit, and they’ll be cutting them off if their parents earn more than the princely sum of $65,529 combined. Asked where young people should get a job in a recession, which, again, we deliberately engineered, Luxon pointed to kūmara harvesting in Dargaville or seasonal work in orchards. Orchardists promptly responded that they didn’t need more staff right now.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/10/2025

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years. All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024.
Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane.
Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour.
This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever.
Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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Kate @knhannah.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The worst bit: the kids who get to go to schools that teach Cambridge or IB will still learn the arts; 🎭 privilege will beget privilege & culture will become something only the elite can engage with. Furious.

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Repealing the Foreign Buyers Act under urgency suggests that he's realised time is running out for him #nzpol

Five frame story board of Christopher Luxon figuring out how to get money for his property portfolio.
Frame 1. "My property portfolio is stuck in the mud" says Christopher.
Frame 2. "Nobody has the monies to buy house" says Christopher.
Frame 3. "Where can we find monies?" says Christopher.
Frame 4. "Foreign buyer has monies" whispers David, the billionaires' friend.
Frame 5. "Foreign ownership of the NZ property market is good for me" says Christopher the current prime minister of New Zealand.

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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

If you're ever watching a live standup in Parliament and a politician is being absolutely rotisseried by nuanced and meaningful questions asked in a soft yet persistent voice: it's Claudette Hauiti and she's fucking great

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Build the wall... Maybe it will keep them away from the rest of us.

Screenshot of the Radio NZ News website showing the headline "Elon Musk says he has created a new US political party" over a picture of Musk giving what appears to be a N@zı salute.

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 20/06/2025

while ACT NAT NZF respond to any criticism of their egregious policies with a rapidly rising stream of vicious invective, Chlöe Swarbrick eloquently responds to the drivel from Nicola Willis without saying a word #nzpol

screencap from a one news video of Chlöe Swarbrick responding to Nicola Willis in committee by putting her head face down on the desk

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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

My daily chorus out. Ockham's Mark Todd suggests Auckland Council uses rates to drive out low density land users around train stations to enable housing densification; ACC pausing abuse prevention plan to save money thekaka.substack.com/p/weaponise-...

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'Weaponise rates to drive housing intensification'

Ockham's Mark Todd suggests Auckland Council uses rates to drive out low density land users around train stations to enable housing densification; ACC pausing abuse prevention plan to save money

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

“Our PM says if Te Reo is used, he will call it out. Right, what then you racist wanker? Are you planning to hit them with a ruler? Like the ‘good old days’? This man is not fit to lead our country.” #nzpol

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Suspending reality, breaking the language, and judgement day.

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Missed this yesterday from The Spinoff but it needs all the flowers. THIS is how you do budget reporting. Actually talk about how the choices made with those dollars affect things in the real world. #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/19-...

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What kind of economy produces the highest adolescent suicide rate? Ours

New Zealand's alarming child and youth mental health stats reflect political choices.

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Luxon still pushing the lie that TPM disrupted the vote. #nzpol

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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

WIth the National, ACT & NZFirst Coalition recent gutting of pay equity & the amendment to the Wildlife Act both done under urgency, when will the New Zealand News Media wake up to what has, if only in de facto, become the Coalition's Aotearoa Project 2023? #nzpol

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Yes, This is Project 2025 (ft. Liz Dye)

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Just about every National policy at this point is "We'll do it later (maybe)" #NZPol

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

My usual Anzac Day post. George was Ngāi Tahu.

My great-grandfather, George "Sonny" Skerrett, Gallipoli survivor, interviewed for the occasion of his 100th birthday in 1992: "Ashore, it was frightful. Terrible.... The Turks applied for the armistice to bury the dead. I went out with four doctors, couldn't do much for them, just bandage them. There were 4000 Turks buried that day, I never saw anything like it in all my life. I cried all day, all afternoon, I couldn't stop. Six of my mates, we did everything together, swum and played tennis, they were all out there dead. I looked for them but never found them. Some of the bodies had been lying out there for over a month, and they just fell to pieces in the 100 degree heat.... We were shelled continuously, shrapnel shells falling on both sides. Why I never got hit I'll never know. I still remember the beach. There were a couple of thousand men lying there in all shapes and sizes and forms, all wounded and sick.... We could only treat a certain number of them. The badly wounded, they'd say, you go and find someone else to look after, and they just lay there and died.... I still think about Gallipoli quite a bit. It accomplished nothing.... War's terrible, everybody loses. The only ones who win are the people who make the bombs and shells and the bullets."

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Happy Easter

Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone.

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Yeah, hiya...

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BECKY:
Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs.

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BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]:
Sorry what was your name again?

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[Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.]

PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility

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BECKY
Sorry -
Your name is Easter…?

PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre.

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VICKY:
Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs.

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PAGAN GODDESS:
Sorry love, what’s your name?

BECKY:
Becky

PAGAN GODDESS:
Well, Vicky -

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PAGAN GODDESS:
If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here -

TEENAGE BOY:
Muuum…

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PAGAN GODDESS:
….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too!

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PAGAN GODDESS:
Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!

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BECKY:
You mean… Jesus…?

PAGAN GODDESS:
I mean shagging, Vicky.

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PAGAN GODDESS:
Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4?

TEENAGE BOY:
MUUUUM

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 29/03/2025

This guy on TikTok makes tons of quick overview reviews of (mostly) Chinese EVs... When you see this stuff it's impossible to understand how Tesla has any share market value. The entire global auto industry is being left in the dust.

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