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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 15h

#NZpol Not holding my breath, but I’d love to see Winston Peters apologise to the protesters and Green Party members he attacked over the burglary*

“Hudson told Stuff his client wanted to be clear that he was not part of any protest activity outside Peters’ house”

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Man accused of burglary at Winston Peters’ house pleads not guilty, keeps name secret

The man pleaded not guilty and is not allowed to go within 1km of Winston Peters’ home.

www.stuff.co.nz

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 14h

Just listened to an update from 2 UK surgeons. Three of them were booked to travel back into Gaza with a UN convoy on Sunday but Israel refused the Doctors reentry. They're also doctors who gave expert testimony at the UN about war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza. Israel is being duplicitous.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 15h

#nzpol 👏

Rebecca Matthews @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social · 19h

Looks like I am back team. Thank you all for your support 💚

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The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️ @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social · 17h

Some photos from the Hamilton Bonsai Show today.

A kōwhai bonsai that I thought was great when i first saw it in the morning had a prize on it the next time i looked at it.
#Bonsai
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To the right a kōwhai bonsai tree if root over rock style in a rough texture oval pot of light and dark clay and moss covered soil surface. To the left the Trophy of timber slab and a wire sculpture bonsai tree in a blue pot.
To right front a fern accent. Two certificates in front and a label between them.

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The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️ @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social · 16h

Swamp cypress taxodium

It's got BASE!🔊🎸 and 👍nebari
#Bonsai
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 16h

Wow 👏👏

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The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️ @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social · 16h

Wisteria bonsai in flower.
Nice to catch them in flower and timing right for a spring show.
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#Bonsai

Wisteria bonsai in flower planted in hexagonal shaped dark earth coloured pot on a small dark timber table or stand. To the front left a fern accent planting in a green glossy cauldron shaped pot.

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve never thought about it before, but when I shake hands it’s miles away from my knob. If you pulled me in like that I‘d have to invoice you.

Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 1d

Pathetic & desperate. Luxon is drowning.

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One Dog’s Opinion 🐾 @onedogsopinion.bsky.social · 20h

SUITED UP AND REPORTING FOR DUTY 🐸

Small cute dog (Chihuahua probably) wearing a fetching green “frog” sweatshirt/costume.

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MollyByGolly @mollymoo.bsky.social · 16h

Auckland is a region of tickets. But also: people who put in the work get re-elected - Josephine Bartley, Richard Hills etc.

ActLocal was spectacularly unsuccessful, winning only 1 seat on the Ōrākei local board.
That’s
0/5 councillors and
1/14 local board members

#nzpol #lgnz

Ditto.one

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 16h

a woman brushes her hair and says fake tears in red letters

ALT: a woman brushes her hair and says fake tears in red letters

media.tenor.com

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Nov 15

RFK Jr. isn’t being hired to promote health. Remember Steve Bannon’s pronouncement in February 2017 when he declared his objective was the “deconstruction of the administrative state” and people scratched their heads wondering what he meant? Trump’s entire cabinet is full of Bannon’s wrecking balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 14

Reminder that Trump campaigned on letting RFK Jr do whatever he wants, including "health for women." We voted for this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 5

Trump on RFK Jr: "He's gonna do pretty much what he wants as far as I'm concerned. He wants health for women."

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 16h

#nzpol Excellent news.

Rodders from NZ @roddersclassics.bsky.social · 16h

Jami-Lee Ross, gone and (nearly) forgotten…

Jami-Lee Ross has again been rejected by voters.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 16h

We're hiring a comms specialist here at Greenpeace International.

Come work with me!

It's a great team, important work with flexible working.

#job #communications #media #socialmedia

workfor.international.greenpeace.org/o/content-ed...

Greenpeace International - GPI Content Editor - Americas

Greenpeace International is seeking a Content Editor to enhance the global profile and impact of Greenpeace and its campaigns through strategic content creation, curation, and community engagement.

workfor.international.greenpeace.org

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 16h

What She Said Tracey Matney GIF

ALT: What She Said Tracey Matney GIF

media.tenor.com

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 16h

I also had weird waxed cheese on my shortlist. 😉

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 16h

The only two communities who have elected a trans mayor are the progressive strongholds of Carterton and Hokitika

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 16h

#nzpol

Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 16h

Jacquie Grant, who is 82 years old and a trans woman, looks likely to be the new mayor of Westland www.westlanddc.govt.nz/media/u0kbft...

www.westlanddc.govt.nz

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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Antifa leader Habeas Corpus has been arrested in Portland.

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 18h

Fuck all the people who voted no to Māori wards

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 16h

This is frightening -> "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 1d

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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blood-starved jules @julesprom.bsky.social · 16h

i like that humans found cats in the desert and were like “this is.. baby? this is -my- baby?” thousands of years ago and then kept them around since

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 17h

Tory Whanau missing out on a Māori ward seat sucks, but it has an obvious brightside: she's free to run for parliament in 2026 if she wants to.

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