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Jim Smith

@jism.bsky.social

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Freelance wordsmith and web worker based in Aotearoa, New Zealand. He and him. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him... maybe you can hire The J Team. @JiSm at the other place.

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Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you. Sought out the album off that back of your message. It's ace.
Here's the Bandcamp link if anybody else wants more!
jandalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pool-s...

Pool Sharks, by Joe Kaptein

9 track album

jandalrecords.bandcamp.com

Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, nah, nah. That's a bespoke banana/grass box now. Custom fittings. I've added too much value to let that rot!

Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 1d

You see 'em, too, right?!

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Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 1d

Barrowland

Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 1d

Possibly the most Kiwi thing this Glaswegian has ever done.
Works a bloody treat!

An old Flymo hand mower with a banana box badly tied on to it as a makeshift grass box sits on a freshly cut, unraked lawn.

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about Christmas presents for my wife. Does anyone know what it smells like?

A sign at the Westfield shopping centre. Reading “Please use the escalator by Prada”.

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Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 2d

Makes it pretty bloody easy to split the G!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 4d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 4d

Compare and contrast: A statement from an NZ First spokesman 6 months ago about the actions of a party member and supporter, and a statement today from that same party’s leader.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 5d

But seriously: journalists, please ask govt if this policy includes the 18 & 19 year olds who are unable to work for health & disability reasons* (as indicated in May www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-an...)

* across all age groups that’s ~44% of jobseeker support recipients
www.msd.govt.nz/documents/ab...

A screenshot of the June 2025 Benefit Facts Snapshot, showing the number of people receiving Jobseeker Support by benefit type at the end of the last six June quarters. The latest stats show around 44% of people on Jobseeker support are in the health condition or disability category. They literally can’t currently work, but would if they could, if and when they get better. (There’s a separate Supported Living payment for those not expected to get better. None of this is as fair, sensible or dignified as it should be.)

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Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 5d

Happy birthday to you!

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Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 6d

God damn, I fucking love Mogwai.

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Pat Brittenden @patbrittenden.bsky.social · 7d

#BHN #Breaking LIVE show tonight at 9pm where I’m talking to flotilla member Sam Leason’s father and Waihopai 3 member Adi Leason.

Adi had had an update on Adam this evening and we’ll give you the latest

Share the news and see you at 9

Link to the show will be up after 8 #nzpol #nzpolitics.

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Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 8d

a cartoon of bananaman flying in front of a globe

ALT: a cartoon of bananaman flying in front of a globe

media.tenor.com

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Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 8d

Fuck yeah.

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TnmntTiles @tnmnttiles.bsky.social · Mar 10

Since my decision to stop posting to X/Twitter, and restarting here, the project has lost 2k+ followers.

It’s disheartening, but the project is 10yrs old this year, and I hope it’ll be around for 10 more.

To those who have stuck with us, and to those new to the project, thank you.

We can rebuild.

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Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 9d

Simon, really! Pan out from that view and you'd see the much greater Mediterranean Sea, not a lake — but I can comprehend Gibraltar being dammed!

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 10d

In La Repubblica, really extraordinary text (look at alt text), essentially saying calling this fascism is too subtle, that it’s worse and Hegseth is a lunatic.
Who am I to argue?

www.repubblica.it/rubriche/l-a...

Pentagon chief Hegseth's "speech to the troops" is further proof that the word fascism is completely inadequate to describe the new advance. Fascism had less than a century of socialist uprisings, workers' and farmers' strikes to settle. Against the "reds," in short, on behalf of the bosses.

These people want to settle accounts with two and a half centuries of democracy (starting with their own): with human rights, civil rights, women's liberation, the end of true patriarchy, the hegemony of the state in the use of force and weapons, the law as the equal rule for all. In short, they want to settle accounts with civilization, which disturbs their primitive male exuberance—the same as the colonists who built America by exterminating the natives.

These people aren't a political phenomenon, they're an animalistic phenomenon: the extreme regurgitation of the atavistic law—that of the strongest—rebelling against the very principles of mutual respect. This lunatic who rails against "the fat," against the bearded, against the cowardly and the gentle, and calls for war as the only measure of valor, isn't just a fascist, he's much worse.

He's the uncivilized person who repudiates civilization, who considers the very principles of respect and tolerance a symptom of decadence. But he is decadent, a parody of an archaic culture aped by embittered males who are a hundred times more decadent, improbable, ridiculous, and weak than the worst woke activist. But they don't know it, they're in no position to understand it. And on top of being stupid and evil, they're armed. Do the math on what awaits us, the unarmed ones.

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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 10d

I can’t believe that I haven’t seen one post about this photo asking about WTAF is that font and why was it used for “NEW ZEALAND”?!

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11d

FBI Director Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials inoperable 3D-printed guns in July that were illegal to possess under local laws.

FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws

On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed.

bit.ly

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 10d

We are run by people for whom The Lorax, Star Wars and Chicken Little went way over their heads

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Ryan Nicholls @royuniscool.bsky.social · 12d

I don't know anything about building regulations but it's difficult to believe that anything that's saving $8 billion is making things safer overall.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Watch: Government announces shake-up of earthquake strengthening laws

A new "risk-based" approach to earthquake strengthening will allegedly save building owners more than $8.2 billion across the country.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 12d

"We've done a bunch of other things."
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.
#nzpol

www.tvnz.co.nz/news/breakfa...

TVNZ+

www.tvnz.co.nz

Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 12d

If we went back the original NZ time, we'd be +11.30 so those times would be half an hour earlier, no? I don't think 8am is crazy for a winter sunrise, it's always gonna be darker in Dunedin.