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Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social · 19h

No you didn’t, I was just reflecting that British cop shows - and crime dramas - while not fridging per se are still often reliant on problematic representation of women and to be fair there’s often no fridging because the woman first appears as a dead body. Freezering?

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Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social · 1d

other humanities disciplines understand that there aren’t really limited resources, however

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

I was completely unprepared for the threat posed by the Antifa super soldiers.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social · 1d

What is sticking in the craw of my mind: I can remember not so very long ago listening to a pundit on RNZ talking about how the unemployment rate in NZ was too low. And that was a problem. And now the govt is blaming people for the unemployment they then engineered. The economy is FICTIONAL. #nzpol

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Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social · 1d

Mmm the British have their fair share of the “female victim as plotpoint not person” notably and egregiously in ‘Adolescence” and also a fair share of female powerful women characters who are unethical and villainous

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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 2d

The extravagant investment in data centres shows that governments and businesses can absolutely invest in housing, but evidently only for Generative AI.

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Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social · 2d

No Nicola, call the dogs off does NOT originate in Shakespeare. Regardless, some of Shakespeare just shouldn’t be used now In political discourse. I give you “an old black ram is tupping your white ewe“ (Othello) - Shakespeare isn’t a get out of jail free card for slurs and insults.

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Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social · 4d

I think also: well actually yes, the world does owe you a living. That’s what a society is. We owe each other a living. From the cradle to the grave. From each according to their ability, to each according to their need. Are we supposed to leave each other to die in the streets? That’s madness.

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 4d

I preferred it when Prime Ministers believed things like every person deserved “someone to love, somewhere to live, something to do, and something to hope for”, and acted on those beliefs.

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 4d

Today's ridiculous announcement from the National Party penalizing young people and their families had me thinking of this meme again

Image from the ghost chips ad with text that reads you know i cant work your ghost jobs

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Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social · 4d

Starts with San and ends with itarium 😊

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Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social · 7d

Sending thoughts and prayers at this sad time

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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 9d

#nzpol

The cast of The Sound of Music (i.e. The Von Trapps) below the word ANTIFA

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Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social · 10d

My thoughts exactly! Isn’t bespoke a good thing? Like a really sharp suit that fits perfectly, or a house designed for the needs of all who live in it.

Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social · 10d

Still one of my favourites as well.

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 10d

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 10d

Buried in the detail about reducing earthquake strengthening is the removal of requirements for disabled access and fire safety. You know who does that? Sociopaths.

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Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social · 10d

Oh that hits the nail very precisely on the head - ouch. So very true.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 11d

Looks like a good time in the news cycle to tackle three big myths 🧵
❌ NZ pension costs are an unsustainable burden ❌
Seriously, no, for lots of reasons.
1. Our current Govt spending on pensions is low compared to most other advanced economies. And... [1/n]

Graph of public pension costs as % of GDP for OECD countries in 2021 (latest data). NZ is lower quartile at around 5.1%. OECD average is 7.8%. Plenty of Euro countries are around 10% or above.

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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 11d

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

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Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social · 11d

Mine is finally right again after six months of being wrong 🙃

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 11d

incredible

Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 11d

And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.

$The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there. We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen. There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end.$

But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s.
I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are.
I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.

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Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social · 12d

Omg #notallmen, Anika

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 12d

Excellent message from Chlöe Swarbrick and the #nzpol Greens.

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Chlöe Swarbrick on Instagram: "Grow a spine @christopherluxon."

2,404 likes, 130 comments - chloe.swarbrick on September 27, 2025: "Grow a spine @christopherluxon.".

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Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social · 12d

I met a lady at an event yesterday and we got to talking about Jacinda and I said I would find it hard to meet her without literally crying with gratitude over COVID and this lady agreed, we had a great chat about how much we miss having her as PM

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