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"If we consider books as medicine we understand that it’s good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment” - Umberto Eco

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 1h

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Seymour makes behind-closed-doors concessions on Regulatory Standards Bill

The coalition Government has quietly amended the controversial Regulatory Standards Bill, even as the legislation is before the select committee. Laura Walters and Sam Sachdeva report.

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 6h

There’s a brutal hypocrisy in Peter Thiel, a man who sees himself as Aragorn, yet appears to the rest of us as Sauron. Tolkien had a loathing of technology and ‘machines’ that would horrify him if he were alive today to see what one of his so-called admirers has produced.

#DemVoice1 #DV1

The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope "this will ensure peace".
Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.
No. 102: From a letter to his son Christopher Tolkien (9 August, 1945)

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NoINGSOC @noingsoc.bsky.social · 3h

Zachary “Mushroom” Hunter @bonforage.bsky.social · 9h

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 4h

#5debutalbums8084
Hear me out…they were such a teen-pop band when they appeared. I was snobby about them. Have to admit now these’re some bangin tunes, well-played. And full of joy - which feels good these days

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 4h

It’s a controversial artwork showing Christopher Luxon with his head up his o n arse, allegedly…

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 6h

I love your cover photo/profile photo combo. Very clever.

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 6h

#5debutalbums8084

I once saw The Blue Nile’s album Hats in a remainder bin in Auckland for $3. I wanted to upend the table and curse these people for ignorance and complete absence of taste. But I just bought the CD to replace my cassette.
This is their debut of course, but every note’s a winner

Front cover of The Blue Nile’s debut album A Walk Across the Rooftops

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 6h

Whoops. #5debutalbums8084

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 6h

“There is no Chicago urban blues
More heartfelt than my lament for you”

As others have said, they got better. But what a debut!

Front cover of Prefab Sprout’s debut album Swoon

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 16h

Whoah! I nearly forgot this beauty for #5debutalbums8084
Almost every “hero” I’ve ever loved has turned out to have toes of clay, if not feet. Not Billy Bragg.

Front cover of Life’s a Riot with Spy vs Spy, Billy Bragg’s debut album.

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 16h

I went into 80 loving rock spinoff bands (looking at you Whitesnake) then got a musical education over the next decade. Here’s a group I got turned onto: contender for #5debutalbums8084 from Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Front cover of Rattlesnakes the debut album from Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 16h

#5debutalbums8084

This seemed like such a student-y record. My girl friends, more sophisticated than I, played it to death. It grew on me and I still play it now

The cover of Eden, the debut album from Everything But The Girl

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 20h

Bloody well done.
When Australian comedians sum up your government better than the professional media 😑
#nzpol

the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 22h

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Craig Shearer @craigshearer.bsky.social · 20h

Feels pretty accurate #nzpol

the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 22h

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 19h

Some rich person please run this on prime time television. #nzpol

the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 22h

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 1d

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 2d

Patriotism is the last refuge of, etc., etc. but I’m proud to see @thebeths.sky.social hitting overseas radars right now.

The flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 3d

Do some foresee an (un?)intended consequence of this awful change?

If parents decide one of them needs to drop their income, would that force one parent (possibly more often women than men) to “stay at home”? That would make Destiny, etc. happy

True or nonsense, this is still more ideological bs.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 4d

It's 2025 and our economic model is still reliant on maintaining a decent bufferstock of unemployed people. This model was *designed* to ensure that employers have the upper hand (and labour could be uberised). Govt distract us from this reality by bashing beneficiaries and abdicating responsibility

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve recently heard podcasts about the dark triad or tetrad and how they might manifest in political leaders.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 5d

Wonder what Mister "The world doesn't owe you a living" Luxon would be doing if the Fifth Labour Government had said that to Air New Zealand in 2001 instead of writing a $900m bail-out cheque.

Oh, I keep forgetting - Market Forces for Thee and Thine, Corporate Welfare for Me and Mine! #nzpol

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 5d

Kids do well if they can, not kids do well if they wanna - Dr. Ross Greene

Hey, Luxon! We ALL do well if we can.

Repeat over and over. Their lives will be much better for it.

And so will ours.

Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 5d

Saw them at Reading ‘80. Di Anno was singing - with short hair! Bruce Bruce was there singing for Samson, whose masked drummer was in a cage iirc…

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Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social · 5d

FFS Luxon! Answer the question!! The sanctions are already there. Why add on this ultra-punitive crap? (PS That’s a rhetorical roar of frustration. We know why he’s doing it don’t we…)

a man in a white shirt and tie is sitting at a table with a box of cereal .

ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is sitting at a table with a box of cereal .

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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 6d

'Free' healthcare isn't free. It's paid for by taxpayers. But that helps to ensure that people pay according to their means.

The rich can have big houses and fancy cars, but any civilised society should allow all its citizens free access to healthcare and education.

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