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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 3h

Like I don’t need a rolls specifically but yes to a custom dog EV

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 6h

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 6h

If I ever win lotto, there will be signs

www.drivencarguide.co.nz/news/meet-ba...

Meet Bailey, the only dog in the world with his own bespoke Rolls-Royce EV

Sure you might love your dog, but do you love them enough to have a custom Rolls-Royce commissioned for them? Meet Bailey, the dog whose owner did just that!

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 9h

Hi if you’re in NZ I HOPE YOU VOTED IN YOUR LOCAL ELECTIONS OTHERWISE UR A JERK

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 7h

*stares at our electricity situation*

Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 8h

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"Most New Zealanders were probably not aware the government owns this investment in Chorus, nor feels any particular benefit from it," Willis said.

Government mulls possible sale of Chorus

The Finance Minister says with the completion of the ultra-fast broadband fibre initiative, there's no longer a policy reason for the Crown to own Chorus.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 9h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 7h

Reducing your chances of getting infected in the first place already reduces your chances of long covid though, and an extra 15% on top of that isn’t something I’d personally ignore

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 9h

I do this during hayfever season myself and can confirm it’s gross af

But it helps my symptoms

But then I don’t film it and put it on the Internet either

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 23h

no-one, certainly no-one in the public sector, could have predicted that the population would continue aging

Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 23h

"The government is spending an extra $1.6 billion on superannuation, because of an ageing population."

This is exactly the sort of thing it is impossible to budget for, poor Nicola. Snakes and snails! #nzpol

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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 1d

Where's the $170m gone?
#nzpol
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$170m promised for EV chargers yet to materialise

The National Party promised to "supercharge" electric vehicle infrastructure but critics say it’s more of a trickle.

newsroom.co.nz

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 1d

Hence my confusion on the completely different approaches here

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Stephanie... In New Zealand @bootstheory.bsky.social · 1d

This has been the vicious fucking thing about the "Jobseeker Benefit" ever since Paula Bennett coined it in 2013

In addition to keeping people in poverty it's been a term of propaganda forcing us all to accept the frame of welfare as economic obligation instead of social support

Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1d

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 1d

I think this was what I read. Or it was from this research group anyway

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The potential risks of opening the mind’s eye with psychedelic therapies

Psychedelic therapy is on the rise, as its legalisation is ongoing in multiple countries. Here, we write a note of warning regarding recent reports th…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 1d

By it I mean taking hallucinogenic substances 😅

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, and a while ago I read a paper on how aphantasia interacts with hallucinogens, but they only tested it on people who had lost mental imagery. They found that sometimes, mental imagery came back. So they suggested that I’ve you’ve always had aphantasia, it might be a bit risky on that regard

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 1d

I have almost completely aphantasia, from no mental imagery to no internal monologue. Turns out people like me are less likely to develop PTSD and similar responses to traumatic events

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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 1d

Just for clarity, the unemployment numbers under this government may look terrible, but keep in mind, Luxon has driven tens of thousands of Kiwis overseas as well, so its actually far worse. These numbers are just the ones that couldnt leave.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1d

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz