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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 12h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 20h

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 1d

PEOPLE. THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. MY GOD THERE ARE LUNATICS STANDING FOR SEATS

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 1d

Only one in five Aucklanders have voted in local elections

With two days remaining until polls close, only 21.9 percent of eligible voters had returned their papers.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 1d

I bet we wouldn't personally feel the benefits of a sale either.
But we might feel being fucked over by a new private owner

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out to my brother, who had a sexual harassment case to argue, and went barrelling with zero intent to settle, even though the evidence was flimsy (as sex cases usually suffer from), and refused to back down from believing the woman's claims. She is safe, and the guy is now unemployable.

This month's calendar image just says 'underestimate me, that'll be fun'

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 2d

Love that guy. The one he did recently about Ireland being the 6th freest nation was superb

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 2d

Is everyone okay? Is anyone okay? The feed just seems a bit angry (and I know, lots of good reasons to be). But I'm just checking.

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 2d

She must be 100 years old and probably gay too

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing a straight man hates more than women

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 6d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 2d

That is a good description

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 2d

The Gilded Age is a terrible show and I have watched all three seasons lol

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 2d

At every turn, this government tries to hurt my Ali. She is 18 and can't live, can't work, and can't even get the medical care she used to receive.

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 2d

My daughter is now waiting for a transplant, and new techniques and medications are always becoming available. Cardiac care is amazing. Enjoy your new valve!

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder what he gets personally from siding with America and Israel. Or can the soulless never experience anything that isn't transactional?

Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 2d

My apple has a square of light reflecting off it, so there is a window nearby. It's on a table that spins, so the apple wobbles on ots knobbly bottom and the square of light dances. Then it's gone from view because something unrelated has taken its place

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 2d

Two of my kids have had open heart surgeries so far, and it's amazing how quick recovery can be. The body responds to the new blood flow so fast! All you need is something, rolled up towel, cushion, etc, to hold against your chest while coughing. Coughing is good, but needs applied pressure.

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 3d

I enjoyed this piece from the Oatmeal on AI art but it got me thinking - I'd love to be able to draw but I can't because I've never studied or practiced. Why not?
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 2d

My inner monologue never stops. It sprints from the millisecond I wake up until I fall asleep. Everything is detailed, everything has an image, a taste, a sound, a colour, whether or not it should. Until I saw the apple experiment, I had no idea so many people see and hear nothing.

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 3d

Long-forgotten? No, I was looking at records yesterday, but the public in general don't know much about Thomas Cromwell's Valor Ecclesiasticus, and it would be wonderful to reprint the information.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 3d

I fucking knew there was no way people in East Auckland have driver's licences. I only have to drive 200m before ridiculously large cars swerve at me every morning.
Howick - slow lunatics. Botany - fast lunatics. Highbrook - the local testing station

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 4d

Let's stop pretending New Zealand isn't in bed with the Americans and Israelis

Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 4d

The three achieved more diplomatically than the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Perhaps he should reimburse NZ for funds wasted on his UN trip last month, so those resources cover their return flights. After all, they had their own transport until unlawfully detained by another government.

Peters insists Kiwis detained in Israel 'can find their own way home', taxpayers won't foot flights

The family of the trio detained were in tears asking for the Govt to bring them home.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 4d

He was right about basically everything

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 4d

You would think it's already quite chilly in October, close the windows

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Caroline Angus @writercaroline.bsky.social · 4d

Not relevant to the Patel skull original comment, but I've never actually seen this clip before, only the meme. The skull scarf is 👌

David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 4d

"The badges on our caps, have you looked at them?
What? No... A bit.
They've got skulls on them.
Have you noticed that our caps
have actually got little pictures of skulls on them?
I... I don’t, er...
Hans...
Are we the baddies?"
#nzpol

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