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Stinky Jim

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Here 🍉🇵🇸🍉 aka Jim Pinckney, DJ/Broadcaster, Producer, Writer, Voiceover blah, MDANT, Occasional Egg. Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ.

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Stinky Jim @stinkyjim.bsky.social · Nov 14

For those (esp musicians/producers) who have difficulty joining the dots. Royalties you have earned & are being denied are instead going to the Rogans of this world. So ups to all for helping to create the fuckery we are about to go through (again) & funding war tech etc. stay away from Scumify plse

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · Nov 13

Spotify just reported record-breaking profits.

In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)

Spotify Hits 252M Premium Subscribers, On Track For First Full Year of Profitability

"We’re where we set out to be — if not a little further — and on a steady path toward achieving our long-term goals," said CEO Daniel Ek.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 2h

Happy birthday David Lett aka Dave Vanian, English rock musician and lead singer of the punk rock band the Damned, born on this day in 1956, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England

📸 Daniel Pomfret

#punk #punks #punkrock #davevanian #thedamned #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 9h

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 8h

98.7% of approximately 166,300 public submissions opposed the RSB

But the majority of the committee has recommended it go forward with only really cosmetic changes.

Committee process
The Regulatory Standards Bill was referred to this committee on 22 May 2025. We
called for submissions on the bill with a closing date of 23 June 2025. About 166,300
submissions were lodged through the website and by email.1
A minority of us would like to report that the Ministry for Regulation contracted
Allen + Clarke to assist with analysing submissions. Of the submissions analysed,
98.7 percent opposed the bill, 0.7 percent were in support, and 0.6 percent were either
unclear or did not take a position on the bill.
A majority would like to report that from additional analysis, 1,317 submissions were
identified as containing detail or unique arguments, and were considered to be 'substantive' on this basis.

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Stinky Jim @stinkyjim.bsky.social · 22h

Richly deserving? Presuming you are previously unaware of her. Please read up, she’s a total wrongun, CIA stooge wanting to privatise Venezuela’s energy stocks, a Pinochet of the future.

Stinky Jim @stinkyjim.bsky.social · 23h

Have massive respect for both as brave, moral, potentially effective politicians but when it comes to the nuts and bolts, clusterfuck barely covers it. At the very least they should just crib off Polanski who is slaying it with the Greens rn.

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bkeithb @bkeithb.bsky.social · 2d

#BoycottApartheid

By Artists For Palestine

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

Israel assassinated Hossam Shabat over 6 months ago. But his name barely made the headlines.

He would’ve turned 24 years old today. 24.

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Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 2d

Got really high and realized this is actually about the Democratic Party

Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · Jul 14

In every single episode, the Scooby Doo gang discover a human is behind the mystery, not ghosts or mummies or whatever. Yet they begin each new case believing the villain is a supernatural being. Every time. Not once do they say “maybe it’s an old man like last time”

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 1d

Auckland’s once paper of record, the Herald, senior local affairs reporter wrote 0 articles on the race, even taking an overseas holiday as the campaign reached its peak. ‘No-one cares about city politics’ no doubt is the excuse, well no one can if all they are feed is imported gossip, for clicks.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 1d

The crowdfund for a podcast investigating how the idea of quitting the Paris climate accords went from fringe to mainstream is getting closer and closer to the goal. If 25 more people pledge $5 we'll be three quarters of the way there

www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...

Podcast: Quit Paris? How pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords went from fringe media to the mainstream | PledgeMe

Quit Paris? This podcast will investigate how a fringe idea moved from being a fringe position to one advocated by mainstream politicians

www.pledgeme.co.nz

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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beverlyfletcher.bsky.social @beverlyfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

Best news out of Auckland local body elections is that only one ACT Local candidate seems to have got any traction. The one exception is in Orakei (I’m so surprised). Hope that resounding failure is repeated across the country and is a positive sign for 2026. #nzpol

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Stinky Jim @stinkyjim.bsky.social · 1d

Righteous riposte thread with facts, figures & all that non vibey reckons gear to RNZ’s attempt to crank up the Copium Express for the COC

Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 1d

OK, due to popular demand, let's work through these five reasons to be positive...🧵
1. The Official Cash Rate has dropped, praise be! Now, people do not often say to me 'there's been 250 basis points of...' but let's explore this 'stimulatory territory' thingy. [1/n]

1. The official cash rate has dropped
Kiwibank chief economist Jarrod Kerr said the fact that the official cash rate had fallen to the level where it was stimulatory for the economy would be a gamechanger.

"People often say to me 'there's been 250 basis points of cuts, it's not working'… it's like yeah because it only took it back to a neutral setting at 3 percent. [At 2.5 percent], now we've actually gone into stimulatory territory.

Stinky Jim @stinkyjim.bsky.social · 1d

Steadfast in his determination to be on the wrongest wrong side of history. Fucking chump.

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

How Peter Thiel's Palantir operates: JP Morgan reportedly had to oust a security chief installed on references from Palantir after executives found out he was spying on them. www.cnbc.com/2018/04/19/j...

JP Morgan reportedly had to oust a security chief backed by Palantir after executives found out he was spying on them

J.P. Morgan Chase reportedly ousted its special operations head, Peter Cavicchia III, five years ago after learning that his insider security group had spied on the bank's top executives.

www.cnbc.com

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 1d

I cant even tell you the number of public interest (and interesting) stories about the local election that journos wanted to do, but couldn't because of editors..

Shout out those that did do coverage, esp The Spinoff

Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 1d

Well done media, you achieved this brilliantly, your campaign to nearly completely ignore AKL’s local elections has flowed on to its inevitable outcome. Accelerating your own irrelevance simultaneously -> www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Auckland records lowest turnout in local elections

“Vote today or let someone else choose Auckland's representatives for you,” Aucklanders are told, with local body elections entering the home straight.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 1d

With polls now officially closed on this local election day…

✊ Kudos to everyone who managed to get your votes in under the wire

🤞And best of luck to all candidates, currently keeping your cool (and holding onto your hats) while we wait for the counts to come in

Democracy ftw, hopefully! #nzpol

a person is laying on the ground in a dark room with a window .

Alt: Indiana Jones escapes by rolling under a heavy stone door, rapidly closing guillotine-style … and manages to reach back in and snatch his hat at the last second.

media.tenor.com

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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 1d

As one of the orgs that was privileged enough to be able to present an oral submission on the RSB to we are about to issue an emergency press release saying the opposition leaders must issue a joint statement saying they will repeal the law should the bill pass.

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

The Act leader's proposed legislation has been contentious for a list of reasons.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Stinky Jim @stinkyjim.bsky.social · 1d

Love this. Rise up.

☁ JDSBoston ☁ @jdsboston.me · Sep 8

Best thing I have seen on Instagram in two week in Ball, CA. Here, in Socal, they ran the whole ICE convoy out of town with a fire truck. ICE had to back up their trucks.

Watch the community CELEBRATE. 🎉✊

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Christoph El Truento @eltruento.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight !

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Stinky Jim @stinkyjim.bsky.social · 1d

Melodicas & motion, keys & gears, vibes & rides - all perf for a Saturday morning

Stinky Jim @stinkyjim.bsky.social · 1d

✊ 2 of the very best things

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