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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 17m

How many hours until the trailer. I need to sleep 🤣 🏒

Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 2h

Zen found a box that took his fancy in the recycling pile and proceeded to bring it into the lounge to destroy it. (He carried it on his head. He crashed banged into everything. I was too busy laughing to film it 🤣.

a sheep wears a yellow bucket on its head

Alt: a sheep wears a yellow bucket on its head

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 4h

If Winston truly believes Chlöe is responsible for his broken window then logically it follows that he must be accepting personal responsibility for every single death threat made to Benjamin Doyle and their whanau.

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 5h

Gerry Fucking Brownlee at it again, I see.

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 5h

"These people make trans people their whole personality and spend their entire day checking their socials and being angry."

OK but Perimenopop is a GREAT album title and also, fuck yeah Sophie.

www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Sophie Ellis-Bextor: ‘Playing the baddie was a protective layer for me’

Two years after ‘Saltburn’ sent ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ surging back up the charts, the singer-songwriter has returned to pure pop with a glistening new album. She speaks to Adam White about ‘Perim...

www.independent.co.uk

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 11h

I'm as sick of saying it as you probably are of saying it but IF YOU'RE NOT A PROFESSIONAL THIEF, ANY INDUSTRY THAT CAN'T SURVIVE WITHOUT STEALING OTHER PEOPLE'S GOODS AND SERVICES DESERVES TO DIE.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 7h

Humid af.

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 11h

It's that time again, a #nzpol 🧵
What starts online doesn’t stay online.
The 2025 local elections have become the most toxic in memory, w candidates (esp women) harassed & forced to campaign from home. This is what happens when we treat online abuse as “just words”
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

‘Scares the pants off me’: Toxicity surges in local elections

This year’s council elections are turning into the nastiest in memory, with a growing fear that online abuse could spill over into real-world violence.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Margaret Jensen @margjen.bsky.social · 14h

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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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 11h

Only 22% of Hamiltonians have voted. COME! ON! #Kikorangi #nzpol

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 1d

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 1d

Me too, Nicola. Me too. 😭

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Ni-cola Ga-stan @nicgaston.bsky.social · 1d

When the PM says ‘we don’t owe them a living’, we should be clear that this is not a metaphor.

A living is life. And I want to live in a society in which it is clear that this is the least we owe each other, and are owed. 💞

I’d like us to aim for lives lived in dignity and with joy, personally 🤷‍♀️

Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1d

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 1d

Just for clarity, the unemployment numbers under this government may look terrible, but keep in mind, Luxon has driven tens of thousands of Kiwis overseas as well, so its actually far worse. These numbers are just the ones that couldnt leave.

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Ed @actuallyedwin.bsky.social · 1d

Has this been published here?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds

NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Stephanie... In New Zealand @bootstheory.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so hung up on Christopher Luxon saying "oh well the government has advised people not to go to Gaza for many years" as though Rana, Youssef and Samuel were on an ill-advised ski trip and not, you know, deliberately engaged in humanitarian efforts to deliver aid to victims of genocide

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 1d

*holding the privileged to account via peaceful protest =/= harm. Finding it hard to have sympathy for genocide deniers tbh.

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 1d

I actually agree that MPs should feel safe in their homes*. Benjamin should feel safe in their home. They should feel like their child is safe. Hana should feel safe in her home. Winston *directly caused* AND downplayed the harm those two people faced. It's the hypocrisy for me.

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 2d

Downplaying an act of violence might have been the appropriate response from him, and might not be the appropriate in our current moment - I don't know - but the complete refusal to make political hay out of it is night and day from the current Government.

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2d

Then Green Party co-leader James Shaw was attacked while walking to work. He suffered a fractured eye ball and black eye, but said he still felt safe.

That's what de-escalation and kindness looks like #nzpol

Shaw back with black eye

James Shaw walked to work a day after he was assaulted while heading to the office, and plans to keep doing so.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 1d

Don't make me mastodon. I hated it. I can't even tell you why but I felt too dumb and scolded for even existing there. I lasted less than a week.

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 1d

Is anyone else just *braced* for the peace prize like this is the most unbelievably fucked up timeline the worst, most unhinged thing absolutely COULD happen please please please please don't let that thing happen please.

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"

Stay tuned for more.

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 1d

Except for the relentless inches of bullshit you give to people telling blatant lies about trans people.

Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 2d

How dare Kemi Badenoch say "given it's the Guardian"? We don't make things up! That's one of the most annoying things about us

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 2d

will we still get fruit??!??! 😭

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 2d

I also hope that, never again, will I have to phone a priest and say "I am so sorry but I have lost the jawbone".

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