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SimonM
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Ngāti Kotimana. IT Consultant. Dad. UUC grad (he/him) ethos anthropoi daimon. Nix. Hibee. @ITP_nz WGN Branch Committee member
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The cops did what now??
📢 Police were called to the service station in the early hours of this morning, threatened staff and took cash from the tills.

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Vehicle sought after overnight robbery at Napier service station
www.1news.co.nz
January 28, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant

“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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Actually, the OCR isn't usually sharply cut because the economy is going *well* ...
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Being from Edinburgh I should know where this church is, although it can be a bit of a bugger to find at times...
July 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Yay, new season of Sandman on Netflix
July 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Together we must be united as a country make the necessary sacrifices during these hard times so we can help pay for these landlord tax cuts! 🫡✊ yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/actively-e...
May 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Rome, what a city!
April 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next
April 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Came all the way to St Peters Basilica and all I got was this lousy halo...
April 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Morena!
April 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Sunny Scottish Sunday stroll around Hillside and Leith
April 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit!
March 16, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Why do we, the most powerful nation on Earth, act like the most weak and shortsighted?
March 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
March 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
March 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
March 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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WTF
The federal government's new top HR attorney has said "Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish" and "Slaves owe us reparations," according to a new report from @pogo.org. www.pogo.org/investigatio...
“Raging Misogynist” Now Federal Government H.R.’s Top Lawyer
The Office of Personnel Management’s new general counsel has a history of racist and sexist social media posts.
www.pogo.org
January 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Pretty much
January 29, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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As if we haven't heard enough about David Seymour's opinions lately....

I stopped reading when I got to the bit where we don't need earthquake standards because not that many people have died in earthquakes compared to cancer.
January 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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The ACT rede:

"An ye harm none of the businesses who donate to my party, do what ye will."
January 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Boosting this for people in NZ - this is what Seymour and friends want for us…
Universal healthcare.
January 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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If you’re not afraid of getting canceled, you fucking coward, why didn’t you let them print your name?
January 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM