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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 17h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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UrbanAKL @urbanakl.bsky.social · 10h

I count five sentences of fluff, just to highlight that:

"the Greens' director of communications... announced he was resigning from his role to take a break..."

Is shitting on the Greens more profitable than actual scandals from the coalition govt?

#Nzpol

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 10h

Green Party loses another staffer

The party's director of communications has resigned.

www.rnz.co.nz

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 7h

gerry brownlee’s unadulterated racism and fragile white supremacy prompted him to suspend proceedings after hearing some te reo and witnessing fabulous tikanga. #nzpol

1News NZ (Unofficial) @1newsnz.nzcow.com · 8h

📢 Oriini Kaipara’s extended speech and two haka in the House prompted Speaker Gerry Brownlee to suspend proceedings yesterday.

Speaker wants to meet Te Pāti Māori over contempt concern after disruption

www.1news.co.nz

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 15h

'It was retired in August to make way for the port infrastructure needed for the arrival of two new rail enabled ferries which are due to be delivered in 2029.'

Bullshit, we've not even signed a contract yet, it was *no earlier than*

#nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Aratere set to end its days at recycling shipyard in India, Interislander says

After 26 years of service and 5 million passengers transported, the Interislander is being shipped off.

www.rnz.co.nz

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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 10h

Back to Sapporo. Kinda wish I'd booked a couple more nights in Asahikawa. This place is great.

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 12h

my fucking god, if laying into Māori - for *whatever reason* - isn't about the one topic that will have the entirety of NZ's establishment media baying in lock-step with each other

it show's they CAN coordinate pressure - just choose not to for FAR worse transgressions by the rightwing

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 11h

*extremely Albert Camus voice*

In the end, we must imagine the dinosaurs as grateful for the asteroid.

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Dinosaur-killing Chicxulub asteroid came from the edge of the solar system | Natural History Museum

We now know the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

www.nhm.ac.uk

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 11h

They should give the Nobel Peace Prize to antifa.

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Kieran @nug.monster · 11h

I think David Farrar might be racist.

Screenshot of an OIA request from David Farrar to the Ministry of Justice for stats on murder and ethnicity.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 10h

What I want to know is what sanctions this Government is going to impose on the parliamentary whips who are taking public money (an extra $19-61K) but not doing their jobs. Smells an awful lot like lazy backroom bureaucracy to me... #nzpol

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 12h

I am sorry but the order of my gobe just should not concren these people

Headline in RNZ with a picture of two men shaking hands. Caption reads: "Singapore and NZ PMs concrened about new gobal order"

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 15h

If this ceasefire happens - and I hope it does - Western media will talk about 'peace'. This will be inaccurate. What they will mean is 'quiet', a reversion to the background level of violence that Palestinians have faced for decades. Peace can only come with the end of the occupation and apartheid.

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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 12h

Aaaah the local old ladies have rocked up for their morning coffee

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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 12h

I think this is the first time I've ever seen the entire English speaking world, including yanks, united in disagreement about correct pronunciation.

The only time I, a New Zealander, have ever used "primmer" is in relation to school years one and two. Everything else is primer.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17h

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 12h

Elderly couple proprietors. Coffee shop jazz playing in the background. Charming interiors. And one of the best cheese on toasts I've ever had twice.

Cheese toast, salad and an iced coffee on a tray

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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 12h

Nowhere in Asahikawa has been busy but this kissaten I've been to twice because it's so great has no other customers today and the first time the Yakult lady was the only other person in here. If you're ever in Asahikawa go to Marusa!

Photo of coffee shop counter seating and kitchen area

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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 14h

No names mentioned.
What I know is that Parliament security spend more time protecting MPs from death threats that result from Winston Peters' attacks on them than they spend protecting Winston Peters from death threats.💩
Further details required. Then we'll know.
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol

Man charged after string of death threats made against MP

A 19-year-old man has been charged.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 13h

Seriously media, do your fucking JOB

SuperBatPajamaPants @ribbs.bsky.social · 13h

Quick, someone ask Peters to condemn THESE threats!
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

19-year-old charged after sending death threats to Green MP who since resigned

Detective Inspector Warren Olsson said the nature and volume of the threats met the threshold for investigation and subsequent prosecution.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 13h

Seeing as Winston Peters is seeking a 10 year sentence for a person that broke his windows I am looking forward to him calling for life imprisonment for the death threats sent to Benjamin Doyle.

19-year-old charged after sending death threats to Green MP who since resigned

Detective Inspector Warren Olsson said the nature and volume of the threats met the threshold for investigation and subsequent prosecution.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Kieran @nug.monster · 13h

Winston Peters is directly responsible for this, according to Winston Peters.

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 13h

The 19-year-old will appear in a Gisborne court next week. Doyle stepped down from Parliament in September, citing the intolerable level of abuse.

Teen charged with making death threats against former Green MP Benjamin Doyle

The 19-year-old will appear in a Gisborne court next week. Doyle stepped down from Parliament in September, citing the intolerable level of abuse.

dlvr.it

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 13h

Why Sunday? Quiet media day?

Also: seeing as none of us know what this is to be, are we going to _represented_, or is this something they want to put over us?

Christina Hood @christinahood.bsky.social · 13h

Heads up - New Zealand government's annoucements on 2050 climate target will be made midday Sunday NZ time. Will we be the first country to weaken a legislated 2050 target?

Email from the Ministry for the Environment:

Tēnā koe,
On Sunday at 12.00pm (12th October) the Government will make an announcement about New Zealand’s 2050 climate change targets.

The Ministry for the Environment will also release the 2025 emissions projections at 5.00pm on Sunday.

Ngā mihi
Ministry for the Environment

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 13h

Shh! No-one tell Winston about this window display in Cuba St right now!

A fake cardboard brick hanging in a window, with a yellow sticky note saying “40 years of windows”.

A wider view of the window display, showing the brick hanging in a window surrounded by a wall made of matching paper bricks. A ladder leads to the window.

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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 15h

Ooooooof, this is a big fuckup on this charity’s part. I have never heard from them before but now I want to know who they purchased my information from

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 15h

Remember when Wellington council spent $7k on a gorgeous painting and we had 'outrage'

BVV spends $100,000 to move 1 road cone and calls it a success.

#nzpol

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/v...

Van Velden can see end of the road for cone hotline

Reports halved each month with just one in five resulting in action, as the minister says councils proved to be the culprit

newsroom.co.nz

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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