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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 4d

Thatcher said "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company

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mikepole.bsky.social @mikepole.bsky.social · 3d

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mikepole.bsky.social @mikepole.bsky.social · 4d

www.afr.com/world/asia/h...

Hotel Mongolia: You can check out of jail, but can’t leave the country

Mo Munshi’s story is a cautionary tale for Australian executives plying their trades in far-flung regions of the world.

www.afr.com

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mikepole.bsky.social @mikepole.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks…. Yes, the short-sightedness was pretty stunning…

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mikepole.bsky.social @mikepole.bsky.social · 15d

www.mikepole.com/2025/09/29/t...

The Last Tree in Papanui Bush. And that last palm tree on Easter Island

“What did the kiwi bloke say while cutting down the last tree in Papanui Bush?” Here, I’m just re-phrasing of the question Jared Diamond wrote in his 2005 book ‘Collapse’. The original question Dia…

www.mikepole.com

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mikepole.bsky.social @mikepole.bsky.social · 20d

The British Empire!

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mikepole.bsky.social @mikepole.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · Jul 29

www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36077...

Finding a home for Aotearoa’s ‘most significant archaeological find ever’

The part of the ocean-going waka was more than 700 years old and was, believed to be one of two hulls.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · Jul 22

Local news report that Timur, the boy killed today, had lost his dad two years ago.

His mum was raising him alone, in Kyiv, and they had come to Kramatorsk to visit his grandmother, who was also injured in the attack.

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mikepole.bsky.social @mikepole.bsky.social · Jul 13

Apparently about 30 got all the way to Lviv airspace night before last. Most shot down then, but several hits in the residential area around the hostel

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mikepole.bsky.social @mikepole.bsky.social · Jul 3

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mikepole.bsky.social @mikepole.bsky.social · Jul 3

Expensive masks?

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mikepole.bsky.social @mikepole.bsky.social · Jun 27

Last night I met the first kiwi in my time in Ukraine - the journalist Tom Mutch (@tomthescribe). He’s just, in the past week, published what may be the first comprehensive history of the war: The Dogs of Mariupol. amazon.com/Dogs-Mariupol-…

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mikepole.bsky.social @mikepole.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thanks Sally! Back to the instant meal prep for now….

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mikepole.bsky.social @mikepole.bsky.social · Jun 25

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mikepole.bsky.social @mikepole.bsky.social · Jun 25

I’m pretty sure we have one in Moeraki…..

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mikepole.bsky.social @mikepole.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yesterday I got back to Lviv, after a nearly 16 hour train trip from Kharkiv. I’ve been volunteering in Ukraine for around 218 days now. Mostly in Lviv through the winter, then a month in Odesa (a sheet of black ice when I got there), and a few side trips. Staying a while yet…