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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿

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Sci tech person. TTRPG player. “Fuck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming.” ~ Iain M. Banks Ace, ally, Pākehā, Tangata Tiriti. Toitū te Tiriti She/Her Don't do DMs #AoNZ

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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · Feb 4

New (old) protest song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkP...

Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died

YouTube video by Huppelplopp1848

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 18h

This should scare the fuck out of everyone because this guy is funding fucking everything

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 19h

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 14h

Image of live-action character The Tick getting up from a broken concrete footpath. The text reads "Gravity...is a harsh mistress"

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Joshua Parkes @crackedactor.bsky.social · 20h

Unsolicited Tick pic

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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 14h

Nope.

a picture of a girl with the words " war is peace ignorance is strength " on it

Alt: Anime image of a girl behind bars. She is reciting the 1984 phrases "War is peace" and "Ignorance is strength"

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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 14h

Unsolicited Dik dik pic

Image of a tiny antelope with huge eyes, amazing eyelashes, and teeny-tiny wee prong horns

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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 16h

Biggest issue for me was that I couldn't find a safe way to use my bike from Pine Hill/Dalmore. Biked to work every day last week from new house, and went for a long ride this morning too.

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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 16h

The 98 steps up to Dalmore broke me a few times and are the reason old feeb me moved to the flat. Interesting article here about the shortcuts of Dunedin (sorry if I'm wrong but that looks like Dunners):

www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/ma...

Taking a shortcut

Bruce Munro has compiled Dunedin’s top 10 shortcuts: a guide to the best clever, hidden, forgotten or, in some cases, barely existent paths, steps...

www.odt.co.nz

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 2d

Brownlee shouting "No, not that" to a wahine Māori doing a haka in parliament is everything that's wrong with this place trying to belittle and silence everything that's good about this place. #NZpol

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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 18h

Maybe Oriini's pukana scared him. It's pretty impressive.

Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 1d

Have to admit to being a bit worried about what he'll do when he doesn't get it...

Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 1d

Something like this?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Pn...

The Eldritch Muppet Show Theme | VB

YouTube video by TheVoiceBoss

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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 1d

Thriller version of Poi E from the movie "Boy" directed by Taika Waititi

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Ti...

Thriller Haka to Poi E From Taika Waititi's "Boy"

YouTube video by Taniera Robati

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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 1d

AoNZ national treasure

#AoNZ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQjv...

Chris Knox: Songs Of You And Me - a documentary about Chris Knox (1995)

YouTube video by Peter McLennan

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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 1d

Dave Brown @DaveBrownToons @Independent cartoon after #SirDavidLow on #Trump #Blair #Netanyahu #IsraelGaza #Ceasefire #Gaza - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 1d

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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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 2d

This feels Discworld adjacent

++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 2d

#nzpol made this “please vote, friends!” video for insta/fb, thought I’d share here too even though nz folks here have already voted, right? Right

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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 2d

To paraphrase Sagan, If it can be destroyed by copyright, it deserves to be destroyed by copyright...

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 3d

I'm an atheist so I don't believe prayer and good wishes changes jack shit

but that said, I truly hope with all my heart Dolly knows how much we all love and appreciate the fuck out of her.

I also hope she knows she can rest and care for herself, and fuck off Vegas.

She's a global treasure.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 3d

Same. I always thought everyone doing things like guided meditations were pretending like me

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 3d

In 2022, protestors hurled bricks, faeces at police & lit fires. Winston Peters said those protestors just wanted to be "heard" & shook their hands.

This week Peters called the mostly peaceful, law abiding Kiwis outside his home "gutless, spineless, [the] worst" protestors #nzpol

Faeces thrown at police at Parliament protest

Poo was pelted at officers during an early morning operation today to contain the protest at Parliament. The 3.30am operation caught the occupiers off guard with attempts to thwart the plan, resulting...

www.rnz.co.nz

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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I doubt that Vans are official issue

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Chipmunk Whisperer 🌴🥥🏝️ @chipmunkwhisperer.bsky.social · 4d

Pastor David Black, First Presbyterian Church, being pepper-sprayed outside ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social · 3d

Birdle 🇳🇿 08/10/2025

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Birdle New Zealand

Play and guess today's Birdle in 5 guesses. Learn about a new New Zealand bird every day.

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