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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 3h

Looks to be 1991. Search for the highwaymen on Holmes 1991. The prick starts off insulting all 4.
Waylon says "if you ask one more question like that we'll burn your home" 🤣

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 3h

Sound the #kikorangi klaxon, that's Paul Holmes' face as the (mercifully silent) interviewer

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 7h

Timeline cleanser. Also follow him (on Tiktok) he's delicious

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This is how the Irish choose their president

YouTube video by Garron

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 7h

Andrew Hoggard says he will allow cancer-linked glyphosate to be increased by 100 x in our food production.

He's also ignored a High Court order telling farmers to remove cruel farming practices around pigs - extending the 2025 due date out by 10 years. This is ACT #nzpol #kiwi

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12h

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 9h

Coming around to the theory that they're Truman Showing him

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 8h

Absolutely agree 💯
For a deeper dive in the results in Portugal, read
share.google/L7It3U8Bab7c...

The results are so varied, from crime reduction to health improvement including:

"In 2001, Portugal had 1,287 new HIV diagnoses attributed to injecting drug use... In 2019, only 16 new diagnoses"

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 13h

Remember Inigo Montoya:
1. Polite greeting
2. Name
3. Relevant personal link
4. Manage expectations

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, it’s a playground for rich swine to run wild, pay no tax and never have to worry about the servant class voicing their insolent opinions and greedy demands. The way it should be, as far as these people are concerned.

Sunder Katwala (sunders...
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The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech
It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers
Isabel Oakeshott & @IsabelOakeshott
UK must emulate UAE or go bust, says Reform UK's Richard Tice - Arabian Business: Latest News on the Middle East, Real Estate, Finance, and More

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 3d

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

History of Palestine and Israel presented by cats...

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 1d

As expected, Orr's $400,000 pay off was deigned to silence Orr & prevent him from speaking up about Nicola Willis & Neil Quigley.

A reminder Neil Quigley lied about Orr's departure for over 6 months until the Ombudsman forced RBNZ's hand. Willis covered it up #nzpol

Scoop from Newsroom's Milne

Orr what? Ex-Reserve Bank Governor's tenuous restraint of trade payout

Update:Newsroom has been supplied Adrian Orr's exit agreement revealing he was barred from disparaging the Reserve Bank, its directors, and Nicola Willis – and the gagging order was potentially even m...

newsroom.co.nz

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know how to make this simple enough for our government.

Best way make economy go Brrrrrmmmm is give $$ to poors cause they spend it.

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Sea Senor 🇳🇿 @seassenor.bsky.social · 1d

Need to repost this regularly until the election. Its dire out there folks. This is worse than GFC. Support your friends and neighbours. Ask how they're doing. People aren't going to GPs now because $. They are the worst NZ gov ever.

Finance minister willis unironically says bugger after removing a tiny NZ economy t shirt from a dryer

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 2d

Can't remember Nat mps condemning farmers in their tractors protesting outside Jacinda's house. #nzpol

www.reddit.com/r/newzealand...

From the newzealand community on Reddit: Farmer's Protest Outside Jacinda's House Right Now

Explore this post and more from the newzealand community

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 2d

I remember when a protester punched the co-leader of the Greens in the face.

Hana Maipi-Clarke had her home broken into by a political stalker.

I recall VFF protesting outside Clarke's parents' home while Jacinda was on holiday.

I dont remember hearing about National's concerns back then??

Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 2d

Calling people attack dogs is not at attempt to deescalate and maintain civility, it's a attempt to escalate to distract from a failing economy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 2d

"you are taking in the human centipede of content from the very end of the line" is such a good way of describing AI

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Marilyn Munster @heyfren.bsky.social · 3d

And without Republicans, please.

Cartoon of a woman in front of a computer. Caption says America was not shut down properly Would you like to start America and safe mode, with free healthcare and without guns? (Recommend)

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 3d

The loop is not just closing now, it has slammed shut

Canada ROCKS @mapleleafrocks.bsky.social · 3d

tRUMP & Miller are stochastic terrorists.

Judge Diane Goodstein had to watch this from the beach; her husband had to jump out of a window to survive. 2 other people also had to be hospitalized.

Yesterday, Stephen Millers wrote 'far-left Democrat judges,” are “shielding” left-wing terrorism…'

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 3d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 3d

I had a 5 x weekly wages month in September, combined with a casual $10k increase in unpaid invoices (all from long term regular payers). Luckily it was not a month when gst was due

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 4d

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 4d

Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.

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A Study of Resistance @colourmefiji.bsky.social · 4d

Any New Zealander who doesn’t see a problem with this requires a in-depth cultural literacy education. Pākehā domination is not acceptable anymore. The voices of diversity in this country are no longer something Pākehā systems can suppress. To see the face of Pākehā domination in 2025 is chilling.

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 4d

Today's timeline is filled with musical sadness, so I might go for something upbeat. Suggestions?

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