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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1h

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 10h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 1h

Workers Above Capital? That's right! Thank you Comrade Sign.

A sign that says "Caution: Workers Above. Capital Height Services"

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 1h

This is what a real "Antifa invasion" looks like

Allied soldiers landing in Normandy on D-Day

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 1h

Laughter is only the second-best medicine, after the sweet sweet taste of your enemies' tears

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 1h

"If you come for my people, you come through me" is the best political messaging I have ever seen from a Democrat in my entire adult life and is worth about half a dozen Gavin Newsoms thehill.com/homenews/sta...

thehill.com

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 1h

Waikouaiti

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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 3h

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deb te kawa nō aotearoa @debtekawa-ao.bsky.social · 3h

Actually, one comment: waves hands at the destruction to good quality policy and public administration work that used to come out of IGPS. Too many people looked the other way.

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deb te kawa nō aotearoa @debtekawa-ao.bsky.social · 3h

Recommend: without comment. 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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madison! @madepn.bsky.social · 1d

here is my first rendering of the bread scale of triviality (any suggestions welcome; I love thinking about bread)

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Dread Pirate Sex Badger @badgercult.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, compared with the other possibilities I'm not mad.

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Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady

Ciro Quispe López has handed in his notice to Pope Leo after an investigation by the Vatican over claims he had a string of lovers including a nun

www.thetimes.com

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 1d

Compare and contrast: A statement from an NZ First spokesman 6 months ago about the actions of a party member and supporter, and a statement today from that same party’s leader.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 22h

Using AI to keep watching videos of a dead person is frankly sinister. Just reveals a culture obsessed iwth never moving forward or looking ahead, just wallowing in increasingly degraded and unnatural rehashes of its own memories

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 22h

Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sending AI videos of her father, Robin Williams:

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on.”

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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 22h

Our Finance Minister putting her English Literature degree to good use, inspiring. #nzpol

Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 23h

Heh.

Willis told Morning Report the phrase often cropped up in politics and dated back to the time of William Shakespeare, who referred to calling off the hounds in his play Julius Caesar.

The actual quote from Julius Caesar is: "Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war."

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Mary D @marybooknerd.bsky.social · 1d

My wife took this great picture of the moon Sunday evening. I appreciate the patience it took to capture these migrating Canada geese. Rodman, NY
#birds

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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 22h

Yikes

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

National falls below 30% in latest Curia poll, left bloc could form government

Both Labour and National have taken hits, but the centre left bloc could form a government, according to Curia's polling.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 1d

Dmitri Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar! He also liked it so much he considered writing a rock music themed suite (like his earlier Jazz suites) but died soon after.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 1d

It's a shame that the name of the brilliant Potemkin has come to mean this kind of thing, but that's what this is: Potemkin brains to impress Potemkin fans

Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 1d

Creating an AI game means he can also create an AI to pretend to be him being the best player in the world at it. Cut out the middle man

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Genuinely cannot wait for this, it is going to redefine the ways a game can suck ass

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 1d

Smoked eel skin

Most people eat eel off the skin, but the skin is the best bit. Chewy oily goodness that tastes like whatever water you pulled the eels out of

Nothing like it

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 1d

What if the spear was all tip and no silly wooden bit

Makes u think eh

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 2d

*huge bong rip* “what if they made the whole plane out of the black box”

…is the approximate level of analytical rigor here

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

pete hegseth's basic idea of the military is that our military would be five times better if every private were five times better at their job. this is the basic idea behind special forces thinking.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

the thing about special forces is:

(a) if the plan only works if 99th percentile guys do it, it is a bad idea.

(b) sometimes you need your 99th percentile guy unexpectedly. if he might be in some random unit, that's helpful. if he's in barracks because JSOC doesn't need him right now, a problem.

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