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Sage Anastasi

@sageanastasi.bsky.social

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Pākehā, dream avatar of gender magic. PhD student working on political & social polarisation, trying to make data scientists read Laclau. Opinions mine. he/him 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Mastodon, where I am not active but there are DMs: @[email protected]

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Sage Anastasi @sageanastasi.bsky.social · Jul 28

Bringing this back for today. What an honour to have Tom Lehrer rock up to our little country, ask what civil rights issues were going on (the All Blacks' upcoming tour of Apartheid South Africa), and then immediately write a song about it.

David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · Oct 28

Auckland Star 16 April 1960, page 1

Oh Mr Nash by Tom Lehrer

When the early missionaries first brought Rugby to New Zealand,
It became the state religion right away,
And to the ten commandments has been added an eleventh,
And it says: No matter what -- thou shalt play!

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Song against the All Black Tour of South Africa

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 4h

He had an "annual physical" like five months ago, BTW

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 5h

Time for an oil change

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 1h

Police finally charge one of their own over dangerous pursuits. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/pol...

Name suppression lifted: Officer charged over Angel Riley death

Keeve, who joined Northland Police in 2017, now lives and works overseas.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 5h

Dolly Parton called a press conference to clarify formally that no weapon formed against her will prosper

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 5h

My analysis: The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/08/g...

Govt to meet 9% of Jobseeker target by taking teens off benefit

The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit.

newsroom.co.nz

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jessica BONEStown @midnightmasseffect.bsky.social · 12h

"normie" is too cute of a word for what it describes which is why i humbly submit "normo" which makes them sound like weirdos again.

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 2h

#nzpol

GOOD NEWS ALERT 🚨

Today the government relented to pressure from the @livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social and retained the requirement for contracted workers to be paid at least the Living Wage rate in Government Contracts. Around 5,000 workers will likely benefit from this decision

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 3h

"Edwards’ completed research was listed as mostly opinion columns" hahaha

Money-trail aside, Bryce just ain't a real academic. He doesn't seem capable of normal qual research, let alone have the methodological chops to deliver a 'Political Integrity Index'. Clearly, he just couldn't do the work.

Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, um, "mysterious". The director of your integrity projects was an early and regular guest to The Platform, which was funded by the owners of a chain of early childhood centres to advance their political agenda.
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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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 7h

Now this is going to come as a shock but it seems that the Cones Hotline is a complete waste of time and money.

A graph from Newsroom showing Van Veldens Cones Hotline is a waste of money.

Data shows Wellington City Council's cone report outcomes -
Sites found to be in order 54
Closed with no action 35
Out of scope 22
Contractor advised to move cones 5
Council moved cones

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Sage Anastasi @sageanastasi.bsky.social · 4h

Hands (or other silly body parts, including non-human ones. Funniest if it would make you immune to yourself)

Spoons (or other silly objects that someone could conceivably hit you with but would be nobody's first choice of weapon)

Shapes (squares, circles, hexagons etc)

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Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 5h

wanna know something hilarious?

Avi Schiffmann moved assembly of his Friend AI necklace to Canada because he thought it would be cheaper than assembling in America, but then Trump did tariffs so it got way more expensive.

Which is why Friend AI went from $99 to $130.

lol, lmao even

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4h

A really old trick conservatives use is to accuse liberals of supporting an idea that would make sense under liberal values but that liberals don't actually support for tactical reasons. So you face a choice of either accepting the false accusation or you argue against your own values.

Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 7h

Saw a CBS ghoul trying to hound Hakeem fucking Jeffries about whether “illegal aliens get the ACA subsidies” by reasking the question multiple times after Jeffries said it wasn’t true. You’d think he was interviewing a Nixon staffer about watergate.

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Francine James @franjames.bsky.social · 5h

Men I've written this year:

1. Dashing, sociopathic trans murder twink
2. Gay dude possessed by a transdimensional nightmare dog
3. Retired sorcerer with a fondness for trash adventure novels
4. Guy watching another guy getting eaten by a transdimensional nightmare dog
5. Foppish psychic duelist

Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 6h

Men I’ve written this year:

1. Unnamed goons
2. Trans man bestie to ghoul girls
3. Ace dude who helps magical cephalopods do ecoterrorism
4. Male magical cephalopod who <redacted positive gender related thing>

Tris~~ @trishusband.itch.io · 8h

Men I've written this year:

1. watches his not-male coworker promoted past him
2. exiled and never heard from again
3. dead
4. forced to join a priesthood

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 4h

Be the sort of person where even the rumor of your demise sparks a global depressive spiral and not the Ewok celebration from Return of the Jedi

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 7h

“There are just a lot of rumors flying around. But I figured if you heard it from me, you’d know that I was okay,” Dolly Parton said in a new two-minute video posted on Instagram. “I’m not ready to die yet. I don’t think God is through with me. And I ain’t done working.” https://to.pbs.org/4hc1DXB

'I'm not dying': Dolly Parton responds to concerns about her health

Late last month Parton postponed her first Las Vegas residency in 32 years, citing “health challenges.”

www.pbs.org

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 6h

Not to mention Cole admits she still suffers from gender dysphoria. Choosing not to treat your own headaches doesn't mean you get to ban Tylenol.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6h

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 12h

The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.

Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 14h

She is the COO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_o... of bsky. This is worrying because after the 'we are turning waffles into an anti-trans thing' by the CEO the CEO started to follow a transphobe. Shows a pattern.

Wonder when we find out one of them follows the discovery institute.

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Dial M for Martha @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 8h

This is an important thing re: has social media done anything good for you.

Learning to recognize unhealthy modes of engagement and putting guardrails in place is a critical skill.

Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 9h

Social media connected me with a new current career path which then became a company. It has also driven me to the point of madness (at least, before I left twitter). I've put in guardrails on unhealthy modes of engagement, which has helped.

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vic @vicstew.bsky.social · 9h

“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression. To fight it, white people have to stop pretending government oppression arrived overnight and start dismantling the systems that have been incubating it all along.”

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Thank god

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Sage Anastasi @sageanastasi.bsky.social · 8h

We've known since the 1980s that people's responses to media are very individual and are partly driven by their world-view. I honestly don't know why so many of us have turned back to the view that it can directly brainwash people. spkb.blot.im/_readings/En...

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 18h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 18h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 18h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 17h

A good test of a theory is how well it can be used to criticise itself.

Bourdieu's theory of fields gives us good tools to understand why Bourdieu wrote about fields in such an impenetrable way.

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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 18h

It's particularly stupid that it was about automation of the welfare state, after they had to have an inquiry after the last time they did it

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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 1d

Good of Deloitte to demonstrate why the current push by National to integrate LLMs into government departments and things like select committees is a terrible idea. Especially since it was in Australia not here #nzpol

www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

www.afr.com

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Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East @bobchipman.bsky.social · 19h

When the original Nintendo Wii came out in 2006 and got so popular with Seniors I was working in a store and had an older guy in shopping for his rest home. He asked what "Call of Duty" was, we said "It's an army game, you fight the Nazis." He goes "Eh, I already did that enough." 😅

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