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paullecomtephoto.nz
Ok, today is the last day to get an order in for me to (all but) guarantee NZ delivery before Xmas (some random courier taking the wrong turn up in the wop wops aside).

I do xmas gift wrapping, will send directly to your friends & loved ones.

#BuyLocal

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2026 Te Waipounamu NZ Calendar
Pre-Order Now Te Waiponamu: New Zealand 2026 Calendar Once again I am extremely proud to be able to offer a collection of my images in elegant A3 sized wall calendar. This is my proudest work to date,...
paullecomtephoto.nz
December 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
one of the best interviews of the year. this line really stands out.

"If presenting what I saw, unfiltered, is an attack, then what would you call it had I chosen to edit it and hide things about it, and make them look better than they look?"
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
The Vanity Fair photographer who disrupted Trumpworld’s polished image
Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump’s team at the White House for Vanity Fair, defends his unvarnished — and extreme — close-ups.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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jackwallington.com
It’s a sad indictment of Britain’s ignorance of nature that Sycamore Gap petitions - for a tree that mattered to humans but not nature - received tens of thousands of signatures but a petition to protect entire peatland habitats is stuck at 1,500 actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...
Sign the petition to end peat sales!
No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.
actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk
December 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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sachinnakrani.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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andcouldheplay7.bsky.social
I saw the penalty we conceded in Istanbul, so you’re not going to hear me moan about the one we were given.
December 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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docvivileandra.bsky.social
One of the really funny things about portrayals of the Medieval period that have every peasant wearing brown and black is those colors were actually really expensive compared to blues, reds, and yellows
fakehistoryhunter.net The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 16d
Adventures in Woad: Woad Dyeing in the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Worlds
exarc.net/issue-2025-3...
December 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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usili.bsky.social
visenyaism: Had to ban the phrase "tricky dick" from my classroom during watergate lesson because saying the word dick in front of 30 fifteen year olds is like lighting a bomb and throwing it through the doorway but now they're just calling him Richard the Treacherous like they're all medieval peasants. gonna lose it. visenyaism: an image that shows the man pulling the date meme with the woman saying "Richard the Treacherous has attempted usurpation and must be stopped at all costs" with the calendar date showing it ripped from 1972 to reveal the actual date of June 1483.
September 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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sal.gay
Israel killed two Palestinian children out gathering firewood for their uncle and said this about it:
XCEASEFIRE VIOLATION: IDF troops identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, carried out suspicious activities, and approached the troops in southern Gaza, posing an immediate threat. The IAF eliminated the suspects to remove the threat. In another incident in the area, IDF troops identified a terrorist who crossed the yellow line and approached the troops, posing an immediate threat. The troops eliminated the terrorist to remove the threat. Readers added context The "suspects" were children aged 11 and 8 years old news.sky.com/story/two-brot... Do you find this helpful? 8:50 AM • 11/29/25 • 11M Views Rate
December 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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2covet.bsky.social
Ahem!

That $66 Billion was rather well spent it seems.

Thank you Jacinda Ardern, Grant Roberston, and Dr Ashley Bloomfield.
🫂🫶💪👏🎯
actuarialeye.bsky.social Jennifer Lang @actuarialeye.bsky.social · 20d
Worldwide mortality experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2024) shows excess deaths over that period in almost every country measured. Australia (+6%) was below average, and New Zealand (+0.1%) the lowest we measured.
Graph showing excess mortality for the period 2020-2024 in 40 selected countries across the globe.
December 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social
If the punishment for a crime is a fine then it’s not really a crime but a service offered by the government
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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andybrown1951.bsky.social
100s of thousands fewer people paying to come to Britain to study bringing in much needed foreign currency. Every student who arrives is worth more than selling a luxury car abroad. Their loss is a disaster for the economy caused by obsessive fear of immigrants.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK net migration falls sharply with drop in arrivals for work and study
Provisional figures for net migration to the UK show levels dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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drrjwarren.bsky.social
So COP has ended with NO mention of fossil fuels and just ONE mention of deforestation.

What a farce.

So I’ll just repost this.
drrjwarren.bsky.social Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · Nov 13
😱

“A world at 2.6C means global disaster,” said Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics.

“That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Of course ululating battle cries - and high-pitched 'keening' battle cries generally - are associated in 'foreign' 'eastern' armies and I suppose it 'wouldn't do' to suppose that Greek hoplites charging into battle shouted like Syrian or Iraqi fighters today.

But also, like, they probably did.
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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lolajovan.com
The once-a-year gesso madness murder-your-darlings sale is on!

Get the art: www.lolajovan.com/store/p690/w...

#art #artsale #painting #oilpainting
A promotional poster for my annual art sale featuring a helmeted figure wearing a jacker and carrying a backpack
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
An absolutely shocking story in two parts and outstanding journalism to boot.

Part one

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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gregwoolf.bsky.social
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access

view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
Cambridge University Press
view.updates.cambridge.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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paullecomtephoto.nz
OMG SPEECHLESS

#Aurora has erupted & gone coronal (directly up).

Now the entire southern sky
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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nocturnalibpool.bsky.social
Every one of them lads tonight is a hero.

I’ve just stood up to applaud.
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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zurgleflip.bsky.social
Wunderbar, magnifique, excelente

#LFC
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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ryan-on-computer.neocities.org
Someone explain to me how Onana isn't sent off twice in that sequence?
November 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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nocturnalibpool.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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foxylustygrover.bsky.social
As Labour finance minister Grant Robertson borrowed about $140Billion between 2017 & 2023 including paying for the economic shock of Covid-19

As National finance minister Nicola Willis has borrowed >$140Billion between 2023 & 2025 what crisis has she had?

Borrowing to pay for tax cuts #NZPol
October 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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thomaswschaller.bsky.social
Evening Prayers - Chefchaouen
Watercolor - 13x13 inches
#art
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
JOURNALISTS AND POLITICIANS STILL ON TWITTER: You have pathetic engagement. You get tens of likes on major news stories. You exist for one reason only - to validate the site and enhance the profile of the tens of thousands of neo-Nazis to whom the site owner steers massive engagement.
October 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM