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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 1d

Mulch like chatGPT, I too have fixed my problems with mental health in an objectively verifiable way and am therefore ready for sex

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow today I got a notification from YouTube asking me to rate *the notification itself* and now my phone keyboard is asking me to rate it, and I feel like Google has lost their mind

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Shawn @swampy-kiwi.bsky.social · 1d

all this is valid, but not doing anything will definitely lead to a shit outcome. I understand the worry.

Climate summit cartoon - a grumpy old white man stands at the back of a climate summit and says "what if its a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?" on the screen being presented to the audience is a list of climate actions that includes Energy independence, preserve rainforests, sustainability, green jobs, livable cities, renewables, clean water and air, healthy children

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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 1d

The most awful, cruel and clueless government ever, and yet the Left bloc are still not in front.

This is 100% down to Labour being as insipid and milquetoast in opposition as they were in (absolute) power.

I'm not holding out hope that their tax policy will be anywhere near what is needed

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 2d

the degree to which i feel like i am living in the pre-title montage of a post-apocalyptic movie cannot be overstated.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 2d

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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Jason Danner @jpdanner.com · 2d

What the actual fuck 😱

Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Oli - ultracrepidarian @olimnz.bsky.social · 2d

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 2d

The photographer deserves a medal.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 2d

My cartoon in today's www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

The Scream is a metaphor for nature & Munch was the receptor for its pain. Here he is, so overwhelmed he's taking time out of the painting only to find more pain in the news...

#NzPol #PoliticalCartoon #ClimateChange #EdvardMunch

Cartoon. Title: Government almost halves methane reduction targets...

We see the Scream, from Edvard Munch's most famous works of art, collapsed in a wingback armchair.

He had stepped out of the painting to take a break from the chaos. The metaphor of the artwork is of natures pain and how he had actually felt it.

But sadly he's entered into a world that is chaotic and deliberately trying to hurt Mother Earth even more.

He has a newspaper slowly sliding out from his hand with the title - Farmers Rejoice.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Fair point. When I send invoices for freelance pieces, I'm often asked to include whether I prefer to be paid through direct deposit, a paper check, or cold hard cash in a Cava bag at a pre-arranged drop site.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 4d

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 5d

Compare the words of Pope Leo with those of wealthy tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel on climate activist Greta Thunberg or AI cautionary Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Which of these three resembles an Anti-Christ, or one who opposes Christ's teachings?
#NZpol #USpol
www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

Peter Thiel labels Greta Thunberg ‘the Antichrist’, warns of apocalyptic future

The US tech billionaire argues that those who propose limits on AI development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in an era of global totalitarian rule.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 5d

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CuriousCat @felissapien.bsky.social · 5d

New Zealand is being schooled and coached day in day out to accept the normalisation that nothing should get in the way of the vested interests of private capital in their voracious appetite to devour power, resources, and wealth for the very few.

#nzpol

mfriend.substack.com/p/le-plat-du...

'Le plat du jour'

Serving up a fetted menu unsuitable for human consumption!

mfriend.substack.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not sure that having more TV than I can ever watch is enough compensation for watching the dying gasps of democracy and civil society.

If there are historians to look back on the 21st century, I hate to think what the shorthand will be (in the mode of 19C=industrial rev, 15C=Renaissance).

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 6d

“I really want people to know that no one is immune to this, anyone can get long Covid. I didn't think it would happen to me.” Read it and weep:
www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/o...

Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid

A group of young Kiwis prove what international studies show: that long Covid has a particularly debilitating effect on young people. But how much medical support is there for them?

www.1news.co.nz

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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 6d

A prominent New Zealander has some opinions. www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

Exclusive: Peter Thiel in talk on 'Antichrist' says he told Elon Musk not to give wealth to charity

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has urged long-time associate Elon Musk to quit the Giving Pledge under which signatories leave the majority of their wealth to charity.

www.reuters.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6d

drake, amazingly, still finding brand new ways to lose to kendrick lamar

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6d

NEW: Federal judge dismisses Drake's defamation case against Kendrick Lamar storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The issue in this case is whether "Not Like Us" can reasonably be understood to convey as a factual matter that Drake is a pedophile or that he has engaged in sexual relations with minors. In light of the overall context in which the statements in the Recording were made, the Court holds that it cannot.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 10d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 6d

Opinion: 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” #nzpol

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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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone else remember that old SNL sketch in which Jon Lovitz is playing Michael Dukakis and Dana Carvey is playing George H.W. Bush and they're debating and in mid-debate Dukakis turns to the camera and says, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy"?

Yeah, *that*

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Jason Danner @jpdanner.com · 7d

I just shivered inadvertently

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