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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder what it says about you when your research assistants keep leaving.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3h

Motherfucker was studying the manipulation of media by powerful interests... from within.

Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, um, "mysterious". The director of your integrity projects was an early and regular guest to The Platform, which was funded by the owners of a chain of early childhood centres to advance their political agenda.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

The mysterious unravelling of a high-profile transparency project

Key donor silent as the Integrity Institute deregisters and its lobbying register disappears.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 4h

The signs were all there you just didn't bother to look

A photo of Bryce Edwards and on the top left of the picture there's a sticker that says "WARNING" .

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, um, "mysterious". The director of your integrity projects was an early and regular guest to The Platform, which was funded by the owners of a chain of early childhood centres to advance their political agenda.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

The mysterious unravelling of a high-profile transparency project

Key donor silent as the Integrity Institute deregisters and its lobbying register disappears.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 5h

As Nicky Hager details here, NZ is worryingly far more involved in planning with the US and UK for military attacks against China than previously revealed.

AoNZ should not be part of this!
#nzpol

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/s...

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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 1d

“We still live in an age where migrant sex workers are portrayed as gullible and weak damsels in distress, rather than struggling, disadvantaged women just playing the cards they have.”

Natalie Feliks on Operation Inglenook and its echoes of the ICE raids in the US.

Australia's own ICE raids: A look at Operation Inglenook - Overland literary journal

Racially-motivated raids, trans women being placed under male confinement without trial, and police-sanctioned sexual abuse are not exclusive to foreign countries or the Trump administration. They are...

overland.org.au

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 1d

Window Screen

xkcd.com/3151/

4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 2d

No no no, it's German for "THE BART, THE"

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday my dear friend.

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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 2d

“School is no longer an environment where the active, positive presence of students is encouraged, or where the knowledge gained and labour performed within are valued.”

Mark Yin on the context behind the carceral responses to AI cheating.

AI “cheating”, anti-intellectualism and the carceral - Overland literary journal

Using GenAI is not a morally neutral act. And yet, from a criminological perspective I feel uneasy at how we understand its transgressiveness. After all, moral transgression, fault and blame are compl...

overland.org.au

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

I'll say.

Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

What I mean is that I don't connect them. I just flatten to a disc and make a hole in the middle. If you roll into a snake instead then you connect, either with or without the twist.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

No I form them like doughnuts

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

You don't live far when you're in town I'm sure I could organise a drop off :-)

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

Here! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

It's as follows: Knead 100g lievito madre (ie Italian sourdough starter). 400g flour, 2 tsp salt, 1 tbsp honey, 25g extra virgin olive oil. Leave for 4 hours. Cut into 8 balls. Shape into bagels. Leave for 3 hours. Boil each bagel for 30-40 seconds per side. Cook at 230°C static for 25 minutes.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

I had no idea there was a variety with eggs

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

"Pure gluten" sounds like something I should write on my house.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

Just forget all that and buy regular high-grade flour, which has all the gluten anyone needs. It's such a workhorse. Much better than 00.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

Sesame seeds etc. to taste, of course.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

It's as follows: Knead 100g lievito madre (ie Italian sourdough starter). 400g flour, 2 tsp salt, 1 tbsp honey, 25g extra virgin olive oil. Leave for 4 hours. Cut into 8 balls. Shape into bagels. Leave for 3 hours. Boil each bagel for 30-40 seconds per side. Cook at 230°C static for 25 minutes.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

What in the world is "gluten flour"? Anyway, I'm happy to say my recipe is a lot more straightforward. Possibly because of the sourdough.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

I have a feeling you don't live in Pōneke otherwise I'd offer you some as well.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

The left are terrorists and also this store was closed by capitalism are two fantastic concepts to see expressed in subsequent paragraphs.

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 3d

what the fuck is going on

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

Yay. I do need a 24 hour warning so I can feed the sourdough.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, we're around. We could bump into each other at the Newtown markets on Saturday? But I can easily come down to the bay any one of those mornings if that doesn't suit.

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