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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 1h

I feel like I misunderstood what they meant by back on track

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 12h

Kia ora New Zealand friends, do I know anyone with lived experience of chronic illness or disability who'd be up to talk to my wife about it on a podcast? The talk would be ~10 minutes (but allow 30 for general chat) pre-recorded via Zoom, and she'll send you a copy post-edit for approval.

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Spiderweb Software @spiderwebsoftware.bsky.social · 1h

The demo of Avernum 4: Greed and Glory is out! For Steam Next Fest, you can play the next chapter of our cult classic indie rpg epic. The underworld awaits. Full game out Oct. 22!

Get the demo for Windows and Mac here, and wishlists are a big help ...

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Avernum 4: Greed and Glory on Steam

The cult-classic saga is back! Battle for fame, power, and wealth in the subterranean nation of Avernum. Conquer an enormous underworld in this epic turn-based fantasy RPG. Features huge, clever dunge...

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 13h

If there's one thing fascist governments and businessmen of the past have enjoyed it's a bit of meth. I wonder if the usage is being boosted by the people who can easily afford regular use and it's hand in hand with the escalation of far-right rhetoric and radicalisation of the capital class

FookyFBSandcat @funkypuffin56.bsky.social · 14h

Drugs in New Zealand are 15 times more expensive than they are in North America so we are now seeing international drug cartels come into the Pacific – including Australia and New Zealand – because the pricing is very attractive,” Luxon said.
#GrowthGrowthGrowth /s

www.1news.co.nz/2025/03/29/g...

Gangs making large profits amid 'bizarre' increase in meth use

New Zealand’s meth consumption rose from 732kg in 2023 to 1434kg in 2024.

www.1news.co.nz

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 21h

Just want to note that the local paper in Wellington spent an entire term of council proactively and in many cases irrationally campaigning against any urbanist initiatives whatsoever and the result has been a mayor perhaps slower on it but not opposed & a council table substantially more urbanist.

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Ryan @boynamedshit.bsky.social · 18h

The center right is just gone they don’t exist anymore

Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 20h

Mind blowing.

The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 20h

Mind blowing.

The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 19h

Mick Hall on the Nobel Peace Prize - again the best critical analysis you'll find

mickhall.substack.com/p/nobel-priz...

Nobel Prize dovetails with US war plans

Venezuelan Far Right opposition leader given Nobel Peace Prize as the US builds up its naval attack forces in the Caribbean.

mickhall.substack.com

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Allison @m-e.allison683etc.servegame.com · 23h

I could tell this Video was AI before I even noticed the hand but we are all at risk of accidentally in the heat of the moment posting AI fakes. We should all be prepared to own these mistakes and also to be kind to each other about it.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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SeroRPG @serorpg.com · 1d

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SoloRPGList @solorpglist.com · 1d

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 1d

Honestly has there ever been an election result more worthy of the adjective "uninspiring"

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 1d

Well fuck - Selwyn has elected a majority of Council with links to VFF, Act, and Trump fans. Maybe put that on the no fly list for the next three years

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

is this what people on the right side of history say

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 1d

There are these very specific details he mentions, the plywood stuff in this case, which just seem to indicate to me he’s fixating on something he’s seen in his briefings

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 1d

Questions about mental state aside, every time he discusses this I become that much more convinced that is handlers have media-gated him and are feeding a diet of AI generated civil war propaganda

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 1d

Given the electoral interference over this, the media taking the side of bigots AND failures by the election company, this is very heartening

Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 1d

Lower Hutt:

I VOTE TO KEEP THE MĀORI WARD / 14,816

I VOTE TO REMOVE THE MĀORI WARD / 9,279

Yessss

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 1d

Lower Hutt:

I VOTE TO KEEP THE MĀORI WARD / 14,816

I VOTE TO REMOVE THE MĀORI WARD / 9,279

Yessss

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 1d

Zero support, zero media coverage, no endorsed leftwing candidate, no consolidated left policy platform

She also made several big policy errors haha coming second and getting over 50k is isn’t too bad :P

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Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 2d

Got really high and realized this is actually about the Democratic Party

Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · Jul 14

In every single episode, the Scooby Doo gang discover a human is behind the mystery, not ghosts or mummies or whatever. Yet they begin each new case believing the villain is a supernatural being. Every time. Not once do they say “maybe it’s an old man like last time”

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve long tried to make the distinction between journalists and media *decision makers* for exactly this reason

Think it’s also important to ask at what point editorial capture and quashing of stories becomes election interference, because the outcome here is identical

Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 1d

I cant even tell you the number of public interest (and interesting) stories about the local election that journos wanted to do, but couldn't because of editors..

Shout out those that did do coverage, esp The Spinoff

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...

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 1d

I cant even tell you the number of public interest (and interesting) stories about the local election that journos wanted to do, but couldn't because of editors..

Shout out those that did do coverage, esp The Spinoff

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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Sarkis Zaroukian @sarkisz.bsky.social · 2d

Marina Corino Machado and Charlie Kirk show you can openly be a far-right pro-Trump extremist and still be celebrated by liberals for "doing politics the right way"

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to conceive of less compelling programming than this.

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 1d

I remember when asset sales were gonna lead to mum and dad shareholders and now we just have mum and dad paying $500 power bills in the winter. The right wing ideology is a scam. It’s a pyramid scheme. It’s useless. It improves nothing.

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