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Mark Baxter

@aotearoabadger.bsky.social

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Pākehā. Environmental professional. Not currently in Kiwiland. Light heresy on demand. Copper merchant fancier. Warhammer 40K things will just happen. Proud shed enthusiast.

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · Apr 6

If crikeycore is Australian culture Kiwi culture could be summed up as buggermeme or yeahnahtural.

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The Wellington Skellington (Spooky) @wellingtonskeleton.space · 2h

"I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."

A black and white photo of the Bob Semple Tank, Pinnacle of Aotearoa New Zealand military prowess. It's shaped sort of like a brick, with a squat turret and treads. It looks like what you'd get if you tried to kitbash a tractor into an APC in your shed.

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 2h

Today's report writing involves the gratuitous use of the words numerous and multiple as you *never* give an exact count of something if you can avoid it as some smart arse will find it their life's duty to prove you're off by one or two.

Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 15h

Would have been one more nuclear submarine than Australia is getting. 😉

Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 15h

Wait, what?

DairymanNZ @dairymannz.bsky.social · 16h

To me, Jim Bolger's legacy will always be how he prevented NZ from becoming a nuclear superpower by declining the offer of a nuclear submarine as payment for butter

www.theguardian.com/world/2013/o...

Missiles for milk: how Russia offered NZ military hardware to settle dairy bill

Former PM Jim Bolger 'absolutely stunned' to be offered a nuclear sub and two MiGs in lieu of money, new book reveals

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 15h

A Philosophy of Thieves? Fran Wilde.

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 17h

Godzilla in 1998. My first and only film at a drive in.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 20h

Name a FIlm you saw at a Drive In Theater.

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bonque, ben @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 19h

Do not forget to teach the NewSkies the Traditions of the Elders

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

welcome to Bluesky, where you may lay your dump truck down

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 18h

Sobriety not required past that point. Also not recommended.

Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 18h

Space Marine at their desktop reading and then with a face palm.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20h

Greetings, new Bluesky users.

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 20h

3am tacos again! Least it means this year Ed will remember to EAT.

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 20h

However, achievement as problem solved.

Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 1d

Keep all of this and then have them appear in S4 of Foundation.

Moist Owlet (Flushable) @g-sharp-major.bsky.social · Nov 21

A “Knight Rider” reboot, but Michael isn’t human.

He’s a simulated human-like body operated by KITT as a way to interface with humans and to access physical places his car body can’t go.

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Terry Pratchett books will make you feel better through anything, for the duration of your life. Every reread brings a joke or pun or reference you didn't get before. Decades of joy, hilarity and genius.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 1d

They are legion.

Inside photo of a garage including painted mice. A painted cat is stylishly decked out in black and white ready for Halloween.

Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s site visit. Usual ordinary stuff.

It’s an aerial bomb. Painted with tasteful Punisher skulls on the tail fins.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1d

Friend: I'm just so confused.I don't know what I should do.

Me standing in underwear, dunking oreos in whiskey: Well , you came to the right place.

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 1d

Alternatively: The Earth is about to get fucked.

MetService New Zealand @metservice.com · 1d

Our inbox has been filled with images of glowing clouds in the early morning sky.

These clouds are exhaust gases from a rocket launched from the Mahia Peninsula.

As the gases are high in the atmosphere, they are illuminated by the rising sun giving them their glowing quality.

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Lord Baron McCabre @lordbaronmccabre.bsky.social · 1d

There is a kink out there for everyone

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 1d

I might put that on repeat for work on Thursday.

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 1d

That was certainly something.

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 1d

Short version: Don't.

Longer version: Still don't. Even when the government is supposedly fully functional.

What you need to know about travel to the US during a government shutdown

Explainer - What the on-going battle in Washington could mean for New Zealanders.

www.rnz.co.nz

Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 2d

In this system a secondary market soon developed where said cars were all stolen on a single night by different groups and a Death Race situation developed where you got to see who could complete the course before being killed by, well, basically everyone else.

Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 2d

Monday right.

Void panther in a cat bed with curly tail out one side and a long stretched out arm out the other.

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 2d

HE-Jack.