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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 7h

perhaps some americans ought to get together and broadcast these same words more

Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 1d

heroic work bringing this to light, thank you <3.

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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 1d

happy halloween

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 2d

A tale in three links:

1) Govt promises police $72 million in incentive payments for meeting new road safety (including breath testing) targets.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Government announces $1.3 billion crackdown on drink drivers

The government aims to test just over 3.3 million drivers a year in its plan to increase roadside tests for drink and drug-impaired drivers.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 1d

Cheers to both you and Emily - this post caused me to write a submission

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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 1d

jesus christ i was not ready for that

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 1d

Emily (Emily Writes) and I drafted a letter to Andrew Little about his decision to appoint Ray Chung as chair of the CCO Review & Appointments subcommittee. We think this is unacceptable given his past behaviour. Here's a template for a letter if you agree:
sites.google.com/view/really-...
#nzpol

Really, Andrew Little?

Andrew Little has appointed Ray Chung to head an important Wellington City Council committee. We don't think he should be doing that. If you agree, please tell him so. Here's how.

sites.google.com

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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 1d

maybe it is not 'mythbusters' but 'the people' who aren't good anymore.

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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 2d

she already paid a price, and too high a price at that. I'm tired of decent folk being forced to placate shitheads.

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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 2d

This flag? This flag right here? The flag with the horizontal rod along the top? I dunno Kim, I'm mystified.

zoom in on the flag in the photo from the moon surface to see a visible cross-bar along the top, as designed by NASA engineers who (like conspiracy theorists decades later) are quite capable of realising the moon wouldn't have wind.

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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 2d

I think this framing unfairly accepts FSU at its word when it claims to be a civil liberties organisation. They act like a hate group & amplify hate groups.

Theyve even demonstrated many times that "freedom of expression" as their principle value evaporates when it relates to groups they hate.

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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 2d

And what makes it more heartbreaking is that you can trace it back to "This woman feels like she has no agency in her own life, and is trying to retrieve the tiniest scraps of it that she can, using the few tools she has, even when that goes badly."

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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 2d

When you see marriages like this IRL, you notice things like "the wife never says what she really wants", & maybe "she now witholds or distributes information according to whether those around her might decide re: what she really wants" & later "shes developed a drinking problem". Its heartbreaking.

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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 2d

Your daughters will not become 1940s housewives, a cartoon of a housewife being sold as historical reality.
Your daughters will instead develop deeply unhealthy coping mechanisms from dependence on men who "value" them only in perversely narrow ways, and from having no recourse from mistreatment.

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mr potato @tweetpotato314.bsky.social · Mar 20

my wife: we have to wear what we died in for eternity!?

st. peter: that’s right

me: [from the back end of our horse costume] what’d he say

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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 2d

Can't help noticing Andrew should be charged, face prosecution and if convicted serve prison time.

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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

/2 Anyway it’s great to see Heritage recognize and support the philosophical core of “free speech culture”: judging Jews as inherently suspect or harmful to America is just another opinion, but judging someone for saying that is unacceptable in a free society.

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Menotti Minutillo @menotti.bsky.social · 2d

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 2d

In antique land did Ozymand
A self-aggranding shrine decree
Where once, a sacred river ran
Today but lone and level sand
And legs of stone to see

Linus Banghart-Linn @linusrichard.bsky.social · 2d

Now this is a story all about how
A shattered visage lies half sunk with a frown
And I’d like you to look at that pedestal there,
It says “Look on my works ye mighty and despair.”

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

There once was a king, Ozymand
Who bragged about all he’d command.
Trying to fill his foes with fright he
Said “Look on my works, ye mighty!”
But now it’s all trunkless legs and sand.

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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 2d

For those tracking the efforts to steal Kelston and give it to a dodgy trust, note who appears to involved in setting up the legal structures around Bangerz: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/struck-of...

Struck off doctor has convictions upheld

A struck-off doctor turned scrap-metal dealer has had convictions for receiving stolen vehicles upheld after a six-year legal battle.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 2d

Centrists seem to think barring trans kids from sports would stop this. It is sort of clear where the right is going on not just trans people but the entire LGBTQ community

NPR @npr.org · 2d

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.

n.pr

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 2d

if you are looking for justice in the US court system in 2025 ... you've come to the wrong place.

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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 2d

Luxon, famously spineless, out-of-touch, and without principle, found his moment talking golf and crucially avoiding all issues of substance (such as human rights, the dismantling of democracy, a foreign policy based on continuously escalating threats), so as to not upset the US toddler-in-chief.

New Zealand Herald (Unofficial) @nzherald.nzcow.com · 3d

📢 OPINION: The PM's ability to form instant connections proved critical in South Korea.

Audrey Young: 10-minute mates – Luxon aces first Trump meeting

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Peter Kelly (@[email protected]) @kiwipeterkelly.bsky.social · 3d

Fresh High Court words in drag queens v Tamaki: "Freedom of speech under NZBORA does not entitle the defendants to refer to the plaintiffs as groomers and paedophiles. No right is absolute." A judgment was issued today: [2025] NZHC 3276. If you want to support: givealittle.co.nz/cause/drag-q...

Hold Brian Tamaki Accountable

Support Rainbow Storytime NZ: Holding Brian Tamaki & Destiny Church Accountable

givealittle.co.nz

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