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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · Aug 26

Jack Antonoff: and I guess that's how we sorta landed on the bedroom pop feel of Midnights

Andy Reid: [wiping blue cheese dressing from his mustache]

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Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Jul 31

posting all my reckons on the internet NZ agm on the internet because the internet in NZ will clearly hear it

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Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Jul 31

Don't know if I've heard a worse answer to a question than in the Internet NZ AGM

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Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Jul 31

my grandad has this amazing story of how he stood at takaparawhā bastion point and i'll get to tell my grandkids i spent 4 hours on a zoom call to stand up for rights

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Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Jul 31

but also who are all these people so worried about the internet that they've avoided it their whole lives and cannot use it

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Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Jul 31

just kidding internet nz ppl i understand ur hard job with a thousand people on this call

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Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Jul 31

this internet NZ AGM is taking so long to do online that i think we should do away with the internet in NZ altogether

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Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Jun 17

Nothing more apt for the times than the "New World" being on fire

Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · May 8

Pope Francis was elected pope in 2013, the year Lorde released her first album.
Pope Leo was elected pope in 2025, the year Lorde released her fourth album.
Sure, the Lord works. But the Lorde works harder

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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · Apr 6

When I saw this. Wow 😮

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · Apr 6

Alex Ovechkin scores career goal #895 setting the NHL record, the entire bench clears to celebrate

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Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Mar 9

I don't believe any of the millennial-renaissance discourse. They don't truly love us, they've just decided that skinny jeans were kinda cute to be contrarian. The tide will turn and Gen Z and Alpha will hate us again soon. Don't fall for it

Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Feb 25

meetings have to be two hours long because you spend the first hour pointing out that all the additions that people want to make have already been written in

Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Feb 20

What if the tree doesn't fall in the forest when it knows no one will hear it because it WANTS to be HEARD did you ever think about that??

Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Feb 4

Someone found a van gogh in their garage which is almost exactly where I’d expect a going van to be.

Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Feb 2

Two new zealand kids escaped a kindergarten this week, after a door was left open by a teacher. People say thats bad but I think its wise to be teaching kiwis how to leave from such a young age.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Jan 27

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · Jan 10

there are two types of male groupchats. they either have a name like “BONER BOYS RES[ERECT]ED: HORNY 4 LIFE, 2 CAKED UP 2 DIE” but everyone’s just encouraging each other on breakups and to try therapy. the other will be named something like “gary chat” and filled with domestic terrorists

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Kalvin the Reindeer @kalvinmacleod.bsky.social · Dec 17

[playing poker]

FRIEND: I’m all in

ME: [yearning for this type of commitment since we first met] me too, man, I’m all in too

FRIEND: um, a pair of kings

ME: you bet we are

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · Dec 14

Not sure anything I’ve done professionally, as much as I wish it were, has been as important as the Cat Political Compass I just created

A political compass meme (coordinate plane), in which the vertical axis is BRAIN - NO BRAIN and the horizontal axis is NO CRIMES - CRIMES.

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Chris Thorburn @cbthorburn.bsky.social · Dec 14

SIMPLY HAVING A

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Dec 6

Working on the final newsletter and script of the year

I will never forgive these people for what they have done to the computer, and neither should you. I have watched them take the things that made me human - social networking, digital communities, apps, and the connecting fabric of our digital lives - and turned them into devices of torture, profitable mechanisms of abuse, and find it disgusting how many reporters seem to believe it's their responsibility to thank them and explain why it's good this is happening to their readers.

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Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Dec 6

cannot tell you how happy it makes me that spotify wrapped sucked this year. and THEN to find out that it was because they fired the HUMAN that made the ALGORITHM so good? *chefs kiss*
computers are still dumb as fuck i'm still smarter than them

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Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Dec 5

death threats are okay as long as they're written like "we're increasing the cost of your insulin" or "we're privatising the health sector"

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Michelle @michellewiley.bsky.social · Dec 4

thus begins my annual solo crusade against spotify wrapped

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