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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 4h

Tribute to "Kingdom Hearts" by Etienne Guignard.
www.instagram.com/cocoshonen

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Any time it just happens to be the same area that was stolen during a war, people always tell me it's a coincidence.

The consequences of actions are a coincidence? That's convenient.

#nzpol

Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 4h

The Olive green areas are councils where citizens voted down Māori wards (the little blue blob in the middle is Kirikiriroa, which voted by a whisker to retain theirs).
Coincidentally those Olive green areas also pretty accurately represent land confiscated by the crown after the Waikato wars.

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 4h

Just listened to an update from 2 UK surgeons. Three of them were booked to travel back into Gaza with a UN convoy on Sunday but Israel refused the Doctors reentry. They're also doctors who gave expert testimony at the UN about war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza. Israel is being duplicitous.

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 5h

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned

newsroom.co.nz

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 6h

He promises to not steal what he sells you back!!
#art #illustration #peachtober

A digital drawing of a seagull character working in a stand selling french fries. There are frie shaped lamps, ketchup, napkins, and the seagull is standing with his wings outstretched looking happy. On the sign above the stand it says "we love fries" followed by a heart.

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Laura Wattie @lyrafay.bsky.social · 5h

Gilmore girls! Carole King for the win!

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 8h

Fuck all the people who voted no to Māori wards

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Laura Wattie @lyrafay.bsky.social · 5h

Death of Princess Diana
Y2K
9/11
Second Iraq war
Bail earthquake

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 6h

What five events defined your childhood?

• The Challenger Explosion
• The Fall of the Berlin Wall
• The Gulf War
• The Oklahoma City Bombing
• The Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal

I have no memory of the Chernobyl disaster. But I remember the Challenger disaster from the same year.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 8h

Daily bunny no.3104 does not have a map

An intrepid bunny creeps through a labyrinth or dungeon, arranged in a grid like an old videogame. There is a snake and a skull in the bunny's path, as well as a spike pit. The bunny has a small sword.

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 6h

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1671

Paddington in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 8h

Good humans
#nzpol
#tangatatiriti

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 18h

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned

newsroom.co.nz

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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 7h

Diane Calvert, Ray Chung, and Nicola Young are all YOUR problem now Andrew Little.😶
Good luck.
I predict it will be at least three times more horrible for you than being in a Government coalition with Winston Peters.💩
Have fun.😱
#nzpol

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Michael Bain @mikejbain.bsky.social · 2d

We live in a Māori nation. Our Parliament should reflect that more. The haka from the public gallery is an appropriate response to a maiden speech. Suspended Parliament only reminds Māori that they are not welcome to be authentically themselves there. #nzpol

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

Watch: Haka breaks out after Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara's maiden speech, Parliament suspended

Speaker Gerry Brownlee intends to investigate whether anyone knew the haka would take place after Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara's maiden speech.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Hannah Wattie @kiwisnowingfan.bsky.social · 1d

Cardcaptor Sakura all three opening songs.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 7h

Low key pumped that we’re taking back frogs

Frogs are a 90s ecology symbol frogs are woke as hell

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13h

I love this image.

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 11h

Another movie to upset the anti-Ardern fanatics

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 20h

The Post can reveal how the former prime minister was cast, ahead of the film’s premiere next week.

Dame Jacinda Ardern’s surprise Pike River film cameo

The Post can reveal how the former prime minister was cast, ahead of the film’s premiere next week.

dlvr.it

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victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 7h

every single extra inning feels like this

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Animation Magazine @animag.bsky.social · 15h

Netflix, Gobelins Paris and multi-Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pinocchio,
www.animationmagazine.net/?p=3279350

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Written by Uju ✍🏽 @writtenbyuju.bsky.social · 9h

Spirited Away (2001)

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f*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · 7h

I just saw an nz police wagon parked on the footpath as I walked my dog and as I approached I looked at them over the top of my glasses teacher-style and they immediately moved onto the grass verge. damn straight bitches that's a FOOTPATH not a carpark

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17h

lying

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18h

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals on.ft.com/4q0tjCV

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

on.ft.com

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 15h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Laura Wattie @lyrafay.bsky.social · 8h

This laptop needs updating

a little girl says whatever while holding something

ALT: a little girl says whatever while holding something

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 8h

this headline would be fine without that last s

Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 8h

"Firm views"

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 8h

TikTok doesn’t want the platform being used for journalism - even thought users expect to access it there.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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