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Wellington Pride Festival I Tū whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara @wellingtonpride.bsky.social · 10d

Our last fundraising film for the year (probably?) is happening next Friday 10 October. We've got classic comedy with The Birdcage (1996). Hosted by drag legend Ellie Kat, old school gay camp needs a deserving location, so where better than Scotty & Mal's?
www.trybooking.com/nz/events/la...

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 15h

The girlfriends who founded Antifa.

The famous photo of three rifle-wielding women partisans walking down Via Brera, Milan, on 26 April 1945.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 16h

“Habeas corpus” is what Sam Altman joyfully shouts when he thinks he has finally secured all the training-data legal rights to other people’s copyrighted work.

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 16h

This has to be a bit, right? Right?

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 20h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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ice.cream.assassin @icassassin.bsky.social · 17h

Felt compelled

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Margaret Jensen @margjen.bsky.social · 22h

to all the Labour mps on here can you tell your leader we need a commitment to reverse the Jobseekers policy that National has just introduced. Thats not giving your policy away that is exercising basic humanity and getting rid of very poorly formulated policy. Just say it. Come on.

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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 18h

Last night I saw a FB post from Julie Anne Genter supporting Tory as she finishes up as mayor. The nasty & abusive comments from men towards both women were revolting. It's a mirror into what men really think of women as a whole. They're not afraid of consequences either bc there are largely none.

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 20h

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

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

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 21h

“Were you directly involved in these secret meetings?”
“No, I just learned about them…second hand.”

Caleb @sherricale.bsky.social · 22h

"The trove of secret documents from the Portsmouth meetings had been accidentally donated to a Hutt Valley Salvation Army store."

Whoo boy. I'm sure the officer with distinctively neat handwriting won't lose their job over this.

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 23h

Exclusive: The Government has avoided questions about whether it’s joining preparations for a US confrontation with China. Until now, the public has had no insight.

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 1d

You’ve returned to your home planet!

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Aotearoa Covid Action @covidactionnz.bsky.social · 1d

Wellingtonians - Are you interested?

An hour of unlimited play on the machines at Ye Olde Pinball Shoppe before regular opening hours on a Sunday from 10-11 am. N95 or better masks to be worn at all times and there is an air purifier. $20/person and we need 25 people to make the event happen.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

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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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2d

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 2d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 1d

The standard in law (which lawyers are actually being sanctioned for violating) is that including a citation is an explicit claim that you, *personally*, have checked the citation, it says what you are claiming, and it hasn't been overridden by later decisions.

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 2d

It's not the first time that I'm seeing this

I'm afraid that hallucinated citations is an issue that scientists and experts will have to deal with from now on

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 2d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

Not the main point, but when you're missing ~20 yr of data, I think you should just leave it blank.

Iit could be that it rose for the next five years, then plummeted and kept going! Maybe it's roughly linear! Maybe something else.

I mean, it's rising in the 1970s: you sure it pivoted RIGHT THERE?

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

Gallup has been surveying Americans' trust in legacy media since 1972. This year, a mere 28 percent of the public have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust in legacy media, its lowest level in more than five decades of tracking.

news.gallup.com/poll/695762/...

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 2d

aka mange tout?

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 2d

Having only seen the latest posts in this thread: wow, that de-escalated quickly!

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 2d

What’ve I, What’ve I, …

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 2d

Many, many years ago! Mid-90s.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 2d

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 2d

Post-thunderstorm mammatus clouds.

A high-contrast photo of grey, threatening mammatus clouds over the ridgeline of Tangi te Keo, with the buildings of Te Aro in the foreground.

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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 2d

Apropos of nothing, remember that time Winston happily supported and met with the cookers occupying the parliament lawn who made Wellingtonians lives a misery for weeks with their abuse and violence?

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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 2d

Thank you! And please feel free to submit news stories you're aware of that my automated systems haven't picked up on. Historic ones about "controversial" candidates are particularly helpful to keep voters informed. #nzpol

David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 2d

By the way, thank you to @theprogressreport.co.nz for theprogressreport.co.nz/local-candid... as telling colleagues than can click on a candidates name and see any past news stories contributed about them seems to have been helpful at getting people past "I don't know enough about them"

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