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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 8h

Well good

Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 11h

Sure at least they ran for office though. The power vector going the other way sometimes is more insidious

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 12h

If any of the foregoing comes as a surprise to you, I would have to seriously reconsider my ability to communicate things to people.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 14h

In any case, "we should oppose all of them equally" is often indistinguishable from "we should leave this one person alone", which isn't the best argument.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 14h

It may be recency bias, but I would say the Labour revolving door - Kirton, Jones, Allan, Faafoi - is probably worse than National's.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 14h

Fuck all three of those guys, but honestly, it's hard to pick who's worse. None of them should come within a nautical mile of RNZ to offer "commentary", of this I'm quite sure.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 14h

Roughly in the same breath as he was telling off Green MPs for hurting the cause by using coarse language, he was using his connections in government to help supermarkets move booze — turns out this was his "cause". www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

Prime Minister’s chief of staff Andrew Kirton led lobbying firm that fought against reforms now binned by Chris Hipkins

Prime Minister's chief of staff came directly from leading a lobbying firm that argued against alcohol reforms that have now been ditched.

www.rnz.co.nz

Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 14h

Probably this reason. I mean... it's not a bad reason. www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/t...

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 23h

Did you see that TikTok where the guy pretends to be a train? It knocked me clear off my chair.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 1d

It does sound fast and white.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 1d

E che non lo so? :-)

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 1d

Benissimo la cercherò quando vado a Milano in gennaio.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 1d

Ecco appunto, già la foto non è più del dopoguerra e le studentesse hanno smesso di essere studentesse. L'unica della cui identità si sia sicuri era appunto partigiana.

Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 1d

Chi fossero le due sorelle (forse polacche) in realtà non lo sa nessuno, quindi non saprei bene dove controllare.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 1d

Non dir minchiate. E' una foto di Petrelli, forse scattata qualche giorno dopo quanto afferma la didascalia, ma assolutamente non un "fake del dopoguerra".

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 1d

The girlfriends who founded Antifa.

The famous photo of three rifle-wielding women partisans walking down Via Brera, Milan, on 26 April 1945.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 1d

A division of Bitcop Inc

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder what it says about you when your research assistants keep leaving.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 1d

Motherfucker was studying the manipulation of media by powerful interests... from within.

Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, um, "mysterious". The director of your integrity projects was an early and regular guest to The Platform, which was funded by the owners of a chain of early childhood centres to advance their political agenda.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

The mysterious unravelling of a high-profile transparency project

Key donor silent as the Integrity Institute deregisters and its lobbying register disappears.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 1d

The signs were all there you just didn't bother to look

A photo of Bryce Edwards and on the top left of the picture there's a sticker that says "WARNING" .

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, um, "mysterious". The director of your integrity projects was an early and regular guest to The Platform, which was funded by the owners of a chain of early childhood centres to advance their political agenda.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

The mysterious unravelling of a high-profile transparency project

Key donor silent as the Integrity Institute deregisters and its lobbying register disappears.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 1d

As Nicky Hager details here, NZ is worryingly far more involved in planning with the US and UK for military attacks against China than previously revealed.

AoNZ should not be part of this!
#nzpol

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

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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 2d

“We still live in an age where migrant sex workers are portrayed as gullible and weak damsels in distress, rather than struggling, disadvantaged women just playing the cards they have.”

Natalie Feliks on Operation Inglenook and its echoes of the ICE raids in the US.

Australia's own ICE raids: A look at Operation Inglenook - Overland literary journal

Racially-motivated raids, trans women being placed under male confinement without trial, and police-sanctioned sexual abuse are not exclusive to foreign countries or the Trump administration. They are...

overland.org.au

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 2d

Window Screen

xkcd.com/3151/

4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 4d

No no no, it's German for "THE BART, THE"

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