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Joe Boden
@joeboden66.bsky.social
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Professor, University of Otago, New Zealand. USA expat. Posts about science, drug policy, politics, sport, and MUSIC.
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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 1d
Well done media, you achieved this brilliantly, your campaign to nearly completely ignore AKL’s local elections has flowed on to its inevitable outcome. Accelerating your own irrelevance simultaneously -> www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Auckland records lowest turnout in local elections
“Vote today or let someone else choose Auckland's representatives for you,” Aucklanders are told, with local body elections entering the home straight.
www.thepost.co.nz
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d
This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.
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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 2d
Johnny Cash was never not cool.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 3d
The humanist meaning of life with A C Grayling 🔍
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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 2d
Season 4 was certainly my favorite, but I loved all of it.
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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 3d
Sorry about that. I was overcome with joy (as I am every year when this happens). 😀
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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 3d
Let's hope he never fires Aaron Boone.
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Stats @redsoxstats.bsky.social · 3d
Happy Yankees Elimination Day 2025. Sixteen years, 0 championships, despite Brian Cashman annually averaging the second-highest payroll and spending $3.9 billion.
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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 3d
What a lovely way to start the season! ❤️ #GoBruins
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NHL (Bot) @notnhl.bsky.social · 3d
David Pastrnak's three points powers the /NHLBruins to victory! 🍝 #NHLFaceOff
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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 3d
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_Pr...
Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d
Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 3d
Glad you're doing it, but I won't be reading it. Your paper's role in making all of these events more likely is the reason.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 4d
Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 4d
The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
newrepublic.com
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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 3d
I've literally just finished writing some words in support of the report. 🙂

I've had a lot of similar thoughts about cannabis law in particular, and I think this report and its recommendations provides a solid basis for the current opposition to focus their ideas for reform ahead of next year.
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CuriousCat @felissapien.bsky.social · 3d
“A major new report has called for sweeping reform of New Zealand’s drug laws, warning punitive approaches are fuelling addiction, overdoses and inequality and leaving the country unprepared for the illicit drug market.”

#nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Screenshot of an article from Stuff NZ by Bridie Witton titled: ‘Colossal Failure’ - Drug Foundation calls for law reform as three die each week.
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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 4d
I've had that surgery... recovery was a bit on the painful side. Primarily because they stuck a bit of cartilage from my leg into my nose!
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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 4d
Didn't she get an English degree? Isn't this a play that should be familiar to someone with an English degree? 🤪
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 5d
There is *literally* only one side inciting & escalating political violence & almost all NZ msm are claiming it's the other way around

This is the fascist turn happening in real time. Sorry to break it to you - a bunch of propagandists & decision makers across media & business have chosen sides
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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 5d
Look at this bullshit from NZ First and the kind of comments it incites!
#nzpol
Meme from NZ First. Suggesting Chlöe encourages smashing windows and causing harm to winston's dog.
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 5d
Businesses working to the whims of government in this way, beyond just obeying in advance, is textbook fascism. The far right has seen an opportunity to crack down, similar to what’s happening in the US and UK, and their networks are running with it. There is no NZ exceptionalism.
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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 5d
It's so obviously bullshit. I don't get why people are so gullible.
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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 6d
Happy birthday!
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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 11d
I almost panicked when they had three on and no outs in the ninth. Chapman was just trying to save one on hard mode.
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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 11d
*BREAKING: PLEASE REPOST*

The Media Council has upheld complaints against RNZ, finding that the article about Alex lacked balance and failed to present alternative perspectives, particularly once information about Alex's own voice became publicly available.

www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/park...
Parker et al against Radio New Zealand
If you have a complaint about the editorial content of a newspaper, magazine or periodical in circulation in New Zealand (including their websites) you may complain to the Media Council.
www.mediacouncil.org.nz
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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 11d
Every time this guy opens his mouth... a load of old codswallop falls out.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 12d
BREAKING
New Zealand’s largest ever study into drinking water nitrate has confirmed serious contamination levels of rural peoples’ drinking water.

#TooManyCows #nzpol
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