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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 2h

Relentlessly on brand for a free speech champion and supporter of the arts

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 3h

Two pies is a more reasonable ratio of pie to Penthouse

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 3h

The spy's lost briefcase with 5 pies and a copy of Penthouse is still the all-timer

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10h

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 11h

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 9h

Why is any of this a problem if you're not a fascist or a N*zi?

(Also not a roundtable, but that's the least of our problems)

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 9h

Outstanding double feature

New Beverly Cinema @newbeverly.bsky.social · 9h

THEY LIVE (1988) & JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS (2001) screen this weekend as a 35mm double bill, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, October 10th - 12th. Tickets: buff.ly/LXCyvi5

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2d

Remember PACE? Simple times.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 2d

#nzpol Sometimes a policy is so stupid it makes you question the very fabric of reality. Decisions so fabulously, almost wantonly dumb, you wonder if we actually live in a simulation. Welcome to the world of removing Jobseeker Support for 18 & 19-year-olds. craigrenney.substack.com/p/a-small-wr...

A small wrinkle in the Jobseeker policy

The government’s recent changes to benefits feel like this: the house is on fire, and this policy is them turning off the smoke alarm and saying it’s fixed

craigrenney.substack.com

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Sam[uel] Smith @sgowsmith1988.bsky.social · 3d

Auckland wine bar frustrated after power cut leaves diners eating in the dark

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

‘A joke’: Auckland wine bar furious after power cut leaves diners eating in the dark

Apero Food and Wine on was in the middle of service on Friday night when the power went off.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 4d

This is how you retaliate against New Zealanders. nomusicforgenocide.org

No Music For Genocide

cargo.site

nomusicforgenocide.org

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 4d

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 5d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 7d

You took me to see Adele play Glastonbury to about 200 people but not sure what became of her since

Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 7d

THE SMASHING MACHINE is a bit like when a celebrity couple you like break up and one gets together with someone a bit lame and you think “you blew it up for THAT?!”

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 8d

FFS "RNZ said it will also be confirming summer programming - including Matinee Idle - shortly."

RNZ closes down TAHI youth platform

RNZ has announced it will close its TAHI youth platform as part of a number of changes to how the broadcaster covers music, arts and culture.

www.rnz.co.nz

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morgan godfery @morgangodfery.bsky.social · 8d

inadequate tax settings that fail to raise enough revenue to fund the crown’s annual operations mean that governments will act as a motivated shareholder seeking maximum profit rather than a policy-maker seeking to preserve the industrial base/lower household costs. this is why energy reform fails

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d

That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8d

Oh yes, this is clearly now.

A post on X by Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan
) expresses frustration, asking how anyone can read a definition of fascism and not be alarmed, emphasizing that it is happening now. The post includes a quote from Cody Johnston (@drmistercody
) from one day ago, defining fascism as a form of political behavior marked by an obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood, and compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity. The definition describes a mass-based party of nationalist militants working with traditional elites, abandoning democratic liberties, and pursuing redemptive violence for internal cleansing and external expansion without ethical or legal restraints.

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 9d

OK, you’ve had over 10 days - where are all the Aotearoa artists? Why aren’t you on this growing list?

Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 20d

#NoMusicForGenocide is a cultural boycott of Israel. Over 400 initial artists and labels have geo-blocked and removed their music from that territory - Massive Attack, Primal Scream, Amyl and The Sniffers etc etc

Expect to see some Aotearoa artists on the list today nomusicforgenocide.net

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STABITHA🔪🔪🔪 @crabitha.slutmo.de · 9d

Here you go you maniacs

Dial a beef
SPANISH LONGHORN
Developed in Herefordshire, England, the Heretord was first brought to the United States in 1896. Herefords are reddish rown with a white face, underbelly, feet, and tal switch. & is the most common cattle breed in the United States
HEREFORD
*1111
DURHAM

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

This is it.

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9d

If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump.

All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9d

Today’s capitulation. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 9d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 10d

A friend writes:

I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."

Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."

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Teenjus @ichiban.bsky.social · 10d

Sad to report that this film adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel has a bit of an anti-establishment bias

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 10d

An iconic moment in Trump 2.0….

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 10d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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