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Malcolm V Tucker @tuckerslaw.bsky.social · 8h

Have they been hitting each other with cricket bats after a cocaine and booze fuelled barny?

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 19h

Zarah Sultana has compared herself and Jeremy Corbyn to Liam and Noel Gallagher as she insisted 'the show is back on the road'

Zarah Sultana compares her and Jeremy Corbyn to Oasis in unified appearance

www.thenational.scot

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 10h

Congratulations Richard. Great news.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 10h

As always. Thank you.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 12h

Performative gobshittery that costs money is their specialty.

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 10h

A more accurate summation of CoC policies will never be written.

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 12h

Jim Grenon who now has significant control over NZME (which includes the NZ Herald & Newstalk ZB) is the closest comparison to Bezos, but that's only happened recently, the damage was done by not paywalling sooner & clickbait chasing. TVNZ is in exactly the same spot & TV3 probably was never liable

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 13h

Related to this & the whole "Wah, the Govt is drowning in debt!" argument here's the relevant section from the Govt's 2025 accounts.

Yes, the Govt is paying over $10bn in interest BUT it also received over $7bn interest so the net interest payable is $3.35bn or 0.76% of GDP. Different story now eh?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

As any military strategist knows, port cities are always particularly vulnerable to amphibian assault.

Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

’He is not the hero we deserve, but he is the one that we need right now.’

The Portland Frog, a guy in an inflatable frog costume, facing off against ICE troops in riot gear.

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 14h

IMO, journalists are a classic iteration of lions led by donkeys.

What's really staggering is even allowing for factors such as Google/Facebook undermining their ad revenue, editorial choices allied to ownership interference has resulted in colossal financial loss for owners. Self-sabotage really.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

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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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 14h

Spent a lot of time gathering signatures for the referendum against those sales. IIRC we in deepest blue North Shore of Auckland got more signatures than some electorates in friendlier territory.

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 14h

It's staggering that US military personnel are currently not getting paid. Throughout history unpaid troops are just trouble in waiting. The ineptitude required for that to happen is off the scale. Probably just as well it is an all-volunteer force. Unpaid conscripts in the mix would be interesting.

Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 1d

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 15h

Fabulous burn.

Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 3d

The texas national guard arrived in chicago today, marking the farthest north a confederate army has ever gotten.

dark days.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 20h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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trickyNOtreat 🎃 @trickykat.bsky.social · 1d

real shitposters only use lower case because we are anti-capitalism

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 1d

Sentences that wouldn't have made sense a decade ago

Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 1d

Portland reclaiming frogs for the forces of light in meme semiotics is a delight

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 1d

Govt to cut #JobSeeker benefit for 18 & 19 year olds who’s parents earn over $65,000, even if the teens have a disability or health condition. With #CostOfLiving & the job shortage they’re cranking up stress levels to 11, all to meet a target.
My #cartoon today about hard-nosed #NZpol

Cartoon. Title: “Job Seeee-e-e-e” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon at the open hatch of a small plane, high above farmland. He’s leaning out, and holding up a parachute pack, labelled “Job Seeker” He’s calling out to someone falling from the plane, “And I’ve kept your parachute because you kids from low-income homes need some motivation” Then he adds, “Don’t let that disability slow you down!”

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 1d

Top work here, again, from @haydendonnell.bsky.social

D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 1d

Opinion: Nation upset at the inevitable result of its own actions

“Step one: push people out of work and onto the streets. Step two: get mad at people being out of work or on the streets” #nzpol

Nation upset at the inevitable result of its own actions

Step one: push people out of work and onto the streets. Step two: get mad at people being out of work or on the streets

thespinoff.co.nz

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 1d

Absurd this should need saying, but here we are.

Michael Bain @mikejbain.bsky.social · 2d

We live in a Māori nation. Our Parliament should reflect that more. The haka from the public gallery is an appropriate response to a maiden speech. Suspended Parliament only reminds Māori that they are not welcome to be authentically themselves there. #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Watch: Haka breaks out after Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara's maiden speech, Parliament suspended

Speaker Gerry Brownlee intends to investigate whether anyone knew the haka would take place after Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara's maiden speech.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 1d

But, but, greatest democracy in the world...etc, etc

Also, great burn

Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 2d

Say what you will about New Zealand and there’s certainly a lot to say but at least our govt doesn’t randomly run out of money and shutdown and stop functioning. The United States Congress is somehow more incompetent than Nicola Willis. Can you imagine.

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 2d

I'd like to report a murder😆

Kieran @nug.monster · 2d

if they knew how to count duncan they wouldn't have fucked the economy.

Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 2d

OMG the National Party totally screwed up the vote on the Broadcasting Bill. First they didn’t have signed proxies for the conscience vote. Then they didn’t have the 20 members in the house required for a conscience vote - so the vote is a nullity. Politics 101 learn to count !!!

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Margaret Jensen @margjen.bsky.social · 2d

to all the Labour mps on here can you tell your leader we need a commitment to reverse the Jobseekers policy that National has just introduced. Thats not giving your policy away that is exercising basic humanity and getting rid of very poorly formulated policy. Just say it. Come on.

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 2d

#nzpol An excellent piece by Emily Writes.

Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 2d

"I will not ignore it. And if that makes me a dog, so be it.
Fuckin' woof."

Emily Writes www.emilywrites.co.nz/dogs/?ref=em...

Winston Peters, the victim.

Winston Peters needs you to know that he's a victim. He's a victim. And his dog is a victim. His house is a victim. What he has been through is worse than anything anyone else has ever been through. W...

www.emilywrites.co.nz

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