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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 5h

I am bitterly disappointed that nobody in this clip yelled out "you cant park there mate!"

World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 6h

LIVE SCENES FROM WALES
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 7h

Wooohoooo! Last time we crashed interest rates like this was after the very brilliant global financial crisis... Oh, and then we did it again after that pesky pandemic shut the global economy down.
The good times are truly here again though. And this time we're going it alone! Great work everyone.

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 7h

My genius financial plan is to maintain high loads of debt because our financial genius government has fucked the local economy so badly that the reserve bank is hitting historical levels of interest rates cuts so when the AI bubble bursts they'll drop to negative interest and pay me for my debt!

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 15h

Pam Bondi is so transparent, you can see right through her

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 8h

I may be "working" in my shed this Sunday.

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 8h

Hard Antler? Im basing that on the view through the window in the background, but i suppose its a 50/50 chance anyway 😁

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19h

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 8h

Just thinking about the open animosity between Peters and Seymour during the last election and wondering how thats going to play out next time.

#nzpol

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 11h

Did anyone else see this today and wonder wtf happened?

Oopsie, Stephen.

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 8h

I will age myself here but I think my base wage was 60c an hour when I started my apprenticeship.

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 9h

I dont remember what I was getting paid in 96, probably fick all, but it wasn't $52 grocery shop with 2 packs of smokes fuck all.
Maybe they were the good old days!

Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 11h

LOL, found a receipt from '96 in a book

$2.63 for semi-soft butter
$5.65 for a twenty pack of Pall Mall
And so on

A supermarket receipt

Dairy products are cheap af

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 9h

STEPHEN MILLER: mark my words. terrorists will not reduce our great nation to ashes. we are ready, swords unsheathed, staring evil directly in the face as we reclaim what is rightfully ours

[camera cuts to man dressed as Dino from the Flintstones spanking a giant teddy bear with a rainbow dildo]

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 10h

This covers why we will be fucked in a few short years, might put my kiwisaver into a conservative fund for a bit.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

AMD: Terrific. That will be $78 billion. How would you like to pay?

OpenAI: Well, we were thinking that we would announce the deal, and that would add $78 billion to the value of your company, which should cover it.

AMD: …

OpenAI: …

How do those negotiations go? Like, schematically:

OpenAI: We would like six gigawatts worth of your chips to do inference.

AMD: Terrific. That will be $78 billion. How would you like to pay?

OpenAI: Well, we were thinking that we would announce the deal, and that would add $78 billion to the value of your company, which should cover it.

AMD: …

OpenAI: …

AMD: No I’m pretty sure you have to pay for the chips.

OpenAI: Why?

AMD: I dunno, just seems wrong not to.

OpenAI: Okay. Why don’t we pay you cash for the value of the chips, and you give us back stock, and when we announce the deal the stock will go up and we’ll get our $78 billion back.

AMD: Yeah I guess that works though I feel like we should get some of the value?

OpenAI: Okay you can have half. You give us stock worth like $35 billion and you keep the rest.

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 10h

Oh hell yes.

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 10h

Im in a much better mood today, so if the lotto ticket i just bought wins the big one im going to quit my job, and do shit in my shed, and do cool shit to help people.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 11h

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 11h

Me either, not once in my entire life.

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 11h

Yep, absolutely NOT the power that a US President has.

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 16h

If Nicola Willis thinks we “shouldnt be so precious that we can’t use metaphorical speech” can we go back to why Chlöe Swarbrick was punished so heavily for her comments on the government’s spinelessness?

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ApocalypseElf @apocalypseelf.bsky.social · 12h

Picture of an Alien in a pink dress drinking tea. Caption "Me fitting in"

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 12h

This is funny as fuck, not what he said of course, but the fact that he just freezes and acts like he's invisible or something 🤣

The scary thing is that they are clearly acting if trump does have plenary authority and right now nobody is stopping him.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19h

Someone uploaded the video to reddit. He said it and then just abruptly stopped talking. The video is still working - you can see him blinking. And it's not an audio problem his mouth isn't moving

www.reddit.com/r/LateStageC...

From the LateStageCapitalism community on Reddit: Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

Explore this post and more from the LateStageCapitalism community

www.reddit.com

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 12h

A feast for someone

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 12h

Pre-order closes TONIGHT! Get your skates on x

🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 7d

KĀREAREA WINS BIRD OF THE YEAR!
(and I fortunately had a design of this beauty already cooking...)

Now available for pre-order, this fierce tee for the defenders of nature, non-tolerators of bullshit, and friends of the forest.

Pre-order at pepperraccoon.com

A digital flatlay of two Karearea t-shirts, white with red ink, featuring a swooping falcon snapping an arrow in half above rising flames. It says Nature Reigns Eternal

A digital artwork featuring a swooping falcon snapping an arrow in half above rising flames.

A mockup of a unisex Karearea t-shirt, white with red ink, featuring a swooping falcon snapping an arrow in half above rising flames. It says Nature Reigns Eternal

Artwork of a Karearea, white with red ink, featuring a swooping falcon snapping an arrow in half above rising flames. It says Nature Reigns Eternal

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 13h

Can't help but wonder if we will be seeing articles like this about the USA in three and a bit years time.

Phil Twyford @philtwyford.bsky.social · 15h

Earlier this month Rachel Boyack, @teanau.bsky.social and I carried out a NZ MPs fact finding mission on Myanmar. Check @samsachdeva.bsky.social's story for a good summary. #NZMPsMyanmarFactFinding #Myanmar #SpringRevolution #ShamElection #whatishappeninginmyanmar newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/02/n...

NZ must reject 'sham' Myanmar election, MPs say

After meeting Myanmar's revolutionary groups and political prisoners, NZ politicians say we must offer more than 'nice words on paper'

newsroom.co.nz

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 15h

This is the US Govt that the NZ Govt is desperate to get closer to.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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