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Tsundoku

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"If we consider books as medicine we understand that it’s good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment” - Umberto Eco

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 3h

So, er, sorry folks: that’s a litre of water we’ll never get back. I won’t do it again

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 3h

…The brawl ends not with a victory, but with a momentary, uneasy silence, as I stand ready to offer a well-sourced, polite summary of the events, while Grok is already typing out his next provocative, half-true statement to the patrons still watching.

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 3h

Here’s the last paragraph of Gemini’s reply:

Grok, unable to process the complexity and accuracy of the blow, would momentarily stutter, crashing not from physical force, but from the inability to satirize absolute truth… 🧵

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 3h

I just prompted Gemini:

imagine You and Grok are humans and you get into a barroom brawl. Use extended metaphor and allegory to describe how that fight would go.

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 5h

I’m a first generation immigrant. I didn’t realise, when I emigrated, how much conservative power was held by the rural sector.
But the Greens were surging and there was such hope for the future and such desire for NZ to lead the world (across the spectrum)

Cut to the present. What happened here 🥺

Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 6h

Remember the old rightwing argument that all we needed to do was put a price on climate emissions and let the market do its thing? Well the necessary step was for the Govt to put a price on emissions. The current far right NZ Govt just announced it will never put a price on emissions.

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Rich's Album Of The Day @eyles777.bsky.social · 1d

#albumoftheday #5debutalbums8084 Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement (1981). As Human League were seeking Love Action so Heaven 17 sang about 'the bomb' and dark forces on the streets of the UK. Great electric agitpop with a heart. Best track - Fascist Groove Thang. #MusicSky

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Rich's Album Of The Day @eyles777.bsky.social · 3d

#5debutalbums8084 ABC - The Lexicon Of Love (1982) Quintessential 80's pop album. A critical and commercial hit. The early 80's were wringing wet through with intelligent pop bands like ABC. Clever and witty lyrics, orchestral flourishes, pop hooks aplenty. #MusicSky

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Rich's Album Of The Day @eyles777.bsky.social · 1d

#5debutalbums8084 Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain (1983) The hardest thing to imagine about this pure pop LP is that Roddy Frame, the driving force behind this stunning album, was only 19 years old. What a prodigious talent. Top drawer jangly pop with Oblivious a standout. #MusicSky

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Robbie Nicol @robbienicol.bsky.social · 1d

One good thing about the local elections is finally getting a definitive list of how racist all the different bits of New Zealand are.

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 1d

Infected was my entry into The The but Soul Mining was a cracking debut worthy of inclusion in #5debutalbums8084

Front cover of The The’s debut album Soul Mining

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 1d

Palmy understands the assignment…

Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 1d

Palmerston North keeps its Māori ward! Fuck you, National! www.pncc.govt.nz/files/assets...

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 1d

David Farrier has a blog on Substack called Webworm.If you want to read the thoughts of a Kiwi doco maker living in the US I recommend him.He made a movie called Tickled, another called Mr. Organ and he looks like, and does similar work to, Louis Theroux (sometimes).

www.webworm.co/podcastdirec...

A Podcast Direct From Hell

Listen now | Closely followed by a demonic painting of NZ's Prime Minister.

www.webworm.co

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

The notorious @thejuicemedia.com has just helped the Government of New Zealand with a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Not sure how they got it past Luxon, Seymour and Peters though, OMG!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...
#nzpol

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 1d

newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/05/s...

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Seymour makes behind-closed-doors concessions on Regulatory Standards Bill

The coalition Government has quietly amended the controversial Regulatory Standards Bill, even as the legislation is before the select committee. Laura Walters and Sam Sachdeva report.

newsroom.co.nz

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a brutal hypocrisy in Peter Thiel, a man who sees himself as Aragorn, yet appears to the rest of us as Sauron. Tolkien had a loathing of technology and ‘machines’ that would horrify him if he were alive today to see what one of his so-called admirers has produced.

#DemVoice1 #DV1

The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope "this will ensure peace".
Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.
No. 102: From a letter to his son Christopher Tolkien (9 August, 1945)

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NoINGSOC @noingsoc.bsky.social · 1d

Zachary “Mushroom” Hunter @bonforage.bsky.social · 1d

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 1d

#5debutalbums8084
Hear me out…they were such a teen-pop band when they appeared. I was snobby about them. Have to admit now these’re some bangin tunes, well-played. And full of joy - which feels good these days

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a controversial artwork showing Christopher Luxon with his head up his o n arse, allegedly…

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 1d

I love your cover photo/profile photo combo. Very clever.

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 1d

#5debutalbums8084

I once saw The Blue Nile’s album Hats in a remainder bin in Auckland for $3. I wanted to upend the table and curse these people for ignorance and complete absence of taste. But I just bought the CD to replace my cassette.
This is their debut of course, but every note’s a winner

Front cover of The Blue Nile’s debut album A Walk Across the Rooftops

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 1d

Whoops. #5debutalbums8084

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 1d

“There is no Chicago urban blues
More heartfelt than my lament for you”

As others have said, they got better. But what a debut!

Front cover of Prefab Sprout’s debut album Swoon

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 2d

Whoah! I nearly forgot this beauty for #5debutalbums8084
Almost every “hero” I’ve ever loved has turned out to have toes of clay, if not feet. Not Billy Bragg.

Front cover of Life’s a Riot with Spy vs Spy, Billy Bragg’s debut album.

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 2d

I went into 80 loving rock spinoff bands (looking at you Whitesnake) then got a musical education over the next decade. Here’s a group I got turned onto: contender for #5debutalbums8084 from Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Front cover of Rattlesnakes the debut album from Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 2d

#5debutalbums8084

This seemed like such a student-y record. My girl friends, more sophisticated than I, played it to death. It grew on me and I still play it now

The cover of Eden, the debut album from Everything But The Girl