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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 3h

In smaller groups I guess. Even background and light from a couple of side directions might help for the group shoot

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 4h

... "with intent to deceive" www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1...

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 4h

We live in an age if miracles and it seems quite the fuck up that a bunch of us would prefer to see other people suffering instead

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 21h

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 5h

I am reminded that actually I am in a good position to comment on executive pay at charities and incorporated societies . . .

A good exec accepts a pay package that puts the org in a safe budget position and never draws more than market because that would harm the work of the org.

Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 8h

This stinks more than a soggy gumboot , King's execs get 527k which is what some other charities run on per year if they haven't been cut altogether by this cretinus gov..

#nzpol

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zuzak 🦭 @zuzakistan.com · 14h

Glasgow City Council has a whole sovereign citizen FAQ

whoever wrote this was so very tired

glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...

Why you require to pay Council Tax - Glasgow City Council

Information about why you are required to pay Council Tax.

glasgow.gov.uk

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 5h

IANAL, but it seems to me that a radio program that is streamed live via internet video and audio would fall within this definition.

Excerpt from Section 2 (Interpretation) of the Broadcasting Act 1989

"broadcasting" means any transmission of programmes, whether or not encrypted, by radio waves or other means of telecommunication for reception by the public by means of broadcasting receiving apparatus but does not include any such transmission of programmes

(a) made on the demand of a particular person for reception only by that person; or

(b) made solely for performance or display in a public place

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 5h

Book Cover of the Day:

Ed Gorey cover:
Nineteenth Century German Tales
Edited by Angel Flores
A Doubleday Anchor Original
Illustration of spider in flames with scrubby landscape and cliffside in background.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 5h

Oh FFS what now

Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

Over 12 civilians killed in attacks on Afghanistan by Pakistani forces, Afghan Taliban say reut.rs/3WI1ce0

Over 12 civilians killed in attacks on Afghanistan by Pakistani forces, Afghan Taliban say

More than 12 civilians were killed and 100 others wounded in attacks on Afghanistan by Pakistani forces on Wednesday, the Afghan Taliban spokesperson said in a post on X.

reut.rs

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 5h

This is weird because the BSA is a mechanism for stopping media getting sued for defamation

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 5h

Thoughts and prayers to Sean Plunket who, it seems, is entering the "Find Out" stage of broadcasting.

NZ Herald article preview with the headline:
'We're going to war': Broadcasting watchdog claims authority over The Platform; Sean Plunket hits out

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 5h

“Cake walk” was this for me once I realized (by reading 19th century newspapers) that it’s a term for coerced slave performances where “winners” received cake

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 18h

“Eskimo” - they’re the Inuit people. I believe this is considered an insult or slur or at least very offensive to them

“Peanut gallery” - these were the only seats black folk could occupy in theaters. I know many southern teachers loved referring to us as this for laughing in the back of the class

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 5h

Altman: the next update will *not* tell people to kill themselves in order to attain quantum resonance with god.

Everyone: yeah that'd be pretty nice

Altman: It will *not* tell people to murder their spouses.

Everyone: cool, good feature.

Altman: and you can fuck it

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 5h

So do we think we still have enough juice on this website for Aotearoa to swing this

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 12h

this site needs to get even more unhinged discourse. Someone make a ncaa bracket but for dips

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Going to take a moment to millennial the fuck out and say avocados are great and other generations were wrong to slander them. Guac is the best dip and that poke bowl with extra mangos and avocados was the shit.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 12h

this site needs to get even more unhinged discourse. Someone make a ncaa bracket but for dips

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Going to take a moment to millennial the fuck out and say avocados are great and other generations were wrong to slander them. Guac is the best dip and that poke bowl with extra mangos and avocados was the shit.

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Shaun Hendy @hendysh.bsky.social · 8h

One of the things that was special about the Marsden Fund is that the decision-making process was tweaked over the years rather than reinvented over and over again like other funds. That allowed for decades of learning that I hope will not be lost in this latest restructure.

Te Pūnaha Matatini @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social · 8h

"The trouble with the government’s idea for a simple, more efficient science fund is that it’s trying to be a Ferrari on tin can funding." - @cillaw.bsky.social via @smcnz.bsky.social → www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/10/14/b... 🧪

Big shakeup for NZ's research funding - Expert Reaction

The Government will consolidate decision-making for New Zealand's science research funding as part of its new science system strategy. Research Funding New Zealand will be a new independent board that...

www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 7h

I honestly think Johnson was trying to make a joke here, but he's too stupid to realize that the joke reveals that all the claims of threats and violence are bullshit.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16h

Young Republicans say they love Hitler. But what does that tell us about their politics?

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 7h

My copy of the biggest creative project of my life just arrived and even my dog is impressed!*

FiveEvil: Fiendish 5E Horror, designed and written by me, made gorgeous and wonderful by my good friends at Handiwork Games.

It’s real!!

*not really she just knows it’s time for a walk

Hardback book FiveEvil sits on a cushion next to a bemused black and white terrier

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9h

This does not include posters because the idea of being paid to post is the biggest fucking idiot idea that anyone ever had and has made social media into a cesspool of hideous monsters, I mean like journalists and people who stream Mario Party

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9h

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 9h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 9h

Glad to see the "Chicago rat hole" (rodent-body imprint) of January 2024 Internet fame was studied more, but just to add my $0.02: Many folks missed the tracks leading away from the body imprint, meaning the squirrel (not rat) fell & splatted in wet concrete, but then walked it off. 🧪🐿️🐾

Photo showing the outline of small rodent body as a negative (concave) impression in sidewalk concrete, with left two limbs clearly defined but missing the upper right limb (arm) and only part of the right rear limb (leg); a thin tail is implied by a pointed imprint behind the main body imprint. The photo is labeled with "Direction of rodent movement" and a red arrow pointing to the upper right of the photo, and a red circle is around a set of rodent tracks in the upper right near the body imprint, labeled as "Rodent tracks."

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