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He/him, cis interloper. Pākehā guest on Te Kawerau a Maki whenua. Recovering reply guy on the Augustine model. Contents of posts may have settled during transit
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Cool to hear @nathantankus.bsky.social on a recent free Trashfuture (from the 50min mark or so), and not just because he has a level of self confidence in his expertise that’s completely foreign to me as a British extraction Pākeha NZer

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Naw it’s dumber (posted in 2014, the first year of the 21st century)

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English-language report on this horrific tragedy: www.latintimes.com/11-year-old-...

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People often assume the emotions associated with cruelty are hatred and anger, but it’s actually pleasure and joy. Fascists relish their cruelty. They roll it around on their tongue like a mouthful of full-bodied wine. They laugh as they harm.

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It’s true that Twitter/X is a useless, bricked site where only blue-check engagement farmers and crypto scams remain, why is why it’s really unsettling to understand that what’s trending on X is likely to be setting U.S. policy at any given point www.fastcompany.com/91278563/elo...

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The state of things

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Whenever I see an adult lovingly washing a green L300 Sportpac I do not despair for the future of Aotearoa

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"The basic idea is that you pick a certain time segment of the day, such as 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and work only during those hours. I know, I know. When you first hear about intermittent working, it sounds impossible."

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The perfectly fine economic hellscape:

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This bot using public domain license plate applications from the California Department of Motor Vehicles, and its reply bot which animates them into Ace Attorney cases, is one of the best bits of reoccurring fun on Bluesky

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FREE EPISODE: Worst Case Scenario ft. Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social explains what DOGE is doing at the treasury, with enormous implications for the global economy. Also - the killing of a sacred duck, the spending of a sacred $30, and the theft of a sacred suitcase. Links below!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

People Watching: Chinese New Year Festival, Auckland Showgrounds, on a sunny Saturday morning

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Reset the “red over expert” counter back to zero

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This is like Kendrick and Drake if both of them were Drake.

submitted 12 days ago • 82 comments

Rain has arrived in Tāmaki Makaurau. Petrichor aroma is off the charts

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Kia ora @dieworkwear.bsky.social I appreciate that you’re taking the fight directly to our Prime Minister on the everything app, but if you crosspost here you will not find us ungrateful & we can certainly keep you in material

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

This is what you people who left Twitter are missing

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

Anyway, if you had been considering going to Marchfest, maybe you’d like to know who their friends are 🫠

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

white dwarf has been pretty solid through the years. wonder how malcom's getting on

submitted 517 days ago • 1 comment

There have been some truly awful and egregious headlines on Gaza in the New York Times over the past 16 months but we may have a winner, folks. ‘Gaza Development Plan’

submitted 11 days ago • 352 comments

Man, Sesame Street is really never coming back, is it? Not in a form that you or I or anybody with a brain and/or a heart wants, anyway.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

This all but spells out "this is a corrupt political favor from Trump to Adams" and it's shocking how much Trump has degraded democracy and law in just a few weeks.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

This would be a better use of his time than anything he's currently up to

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feels like him being part of one of the biggest child porn networks isn't quite breaking through the way it should be

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

This is an inevitable part of the reactionary-centrist cycle. You dabble in the latest moral panic, run dozens of "maybe they have a point this time" pieces, scold those to your left for censoriousness ... ... & then discover that the people you've been supporting & amplifying are fascists. "Oops!"

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

"We shall feed the machine with elder millenials until morale improves"

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