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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 10h

This is why spoilers are actually a good thing sometimes. Because otherwise you might not get the point.

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 20h

PEOPLE. THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. MY GOD THERE ARE LUNATICS STANDING FOR SEATS

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 20h

Only one in five Aucklanders have voted in local elections

With two days remaining until polls close, only 21.9 percent of eligible voters had returned their papers.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 1d

At a conference in Estonia, a panelist discussing AI and its regulation remarks, “I’m pretty sure the U.S. is clear where it stands on western values.” Audience chuckles.

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 1d

Is there a Japanese restaurant in Wellington that doesn't suck at gluten free options?

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 1d

The risk of Americans learning their OWN history is just too high.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

It is my daily frustration that we could have OCR that reliably knows the difference between arms and anus but instead we are in an exestential fight to keep them from implementing features in excel that make it incapable of doing a math

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 3d

Find a way to move your body. A sedentary lifestyle wrecks your shit so bad, and it’ll start catching up to you about now if it hasn’t already. Exercise, lift weights, play a sport, literally anything.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 6d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 3d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 3d

It was never expected to work, it was a pretend game to delay real change.

Keith Alexander @keithalexander.bsky.social · 3d

“We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale. […] We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 3d

Here are the 2 (so far) flights picking up the Texas National Guard and delivering them to Chicago to cause further unrest.

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 3d

If you’d like to hear my final council speech (with some sass), feel free to come to council tomorrow morning. DM for more details.

Final council speech
Image of Tory whanau
Wed 8 Oct
10am

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 3d

On the other hand, last year a package for me was abandoned by the courier on top of a car on a hill in Strathmore. and the owner of the CAR called me and delivered it. So I don't have much faith in couriers anymore.

(I don't live in Strathmore)

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 3d

The part of this that's weird to me is that someone at NZ Post called me (obviously my phone number is on the package).

But... if the delivery driver can't find the address, and calls the depot or whatever, surely they can simply tell him "yes, it's a real address" instead of having to ask me.

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 3d

NZ Post called me because a delivery person couldn't find my address, they called to check if the address exists.

The address was correct.

They deliver mail there several times per week.

NZ Post are the ones who decide what peoples' addresses are, aren't they?

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SaraKateW @sarakatew.bsky.social · 3d

what should have replaced twitter is "nothing" and we all know it

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 3d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 3d

Right, so if they're mad at you, they'll trawl through your history for a contrived excuse.

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 3d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 3d

My statement is simply this: they're using deadly force on unarmed, peaceful civilians. At some point they're going to kill someone on camera, and I do not know that we can control what will happen after that.

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 3d

The demand for AI is artificial. The demand for a demand in AI is a category-5 hurricane.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3d

youtube comment

> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT.
> I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 3d

The problem is that every social media platform is owned and managed by a Scott Adams types [capricious, brittle, self-aggrandizing, incompetent] instead of Jim Davis types [quietly competent, just here to make money]

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 4d

Spent all your money on dvd players. Can't butter the DVDs

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 4d

No company principle or ethic or mission statement can outlast the CEO being slightly irritated.

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isaac @sevier.io · 5d

Hey remember how the Cracker Barrel thing was driven by bots? The AI is human thing and saying bad things about AI is like saying slurs about humans is also bots.

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 5d

this also feels like a great time to point out that getting people to debate what should be indisputable is a tactic deliberately employed by fascism to continue shifting the overton window.

and it’s consistently really effective.

isaac @sevier.io · 5d

Hey remember how the Cracker Barrel thing was driven by bots? The AI is human thing and saying bad things about AI is like saying slurs about humans is also bots.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 5d

my pro tip for a better bluesky experience:

1. find someone, ideally a woman or more fashionable gender identity, who is smart and well-informed

2. block the weird reply guys in their mentions saying patronising shit they wouldn’t dare to say to you

3. wait six months for this to pay off

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