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I wrote about getting laughed at at a country show in Auckland. Soft power fades, but the songs live on. God bless Willi Carlisle, the best America's ever gonna give ya

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Feeling somewhat relieved that Amazon avoids NZ because we're not worth the effort

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Delirious made me cry again while driving home the other day, like a month after I finished it!

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For NZ summer's unofficial end, I wrote about how the internet's coming for a beloved Kiwi tradition. (It's pronounced 'batch.') H/t to @anildash.com and dear ol' Walter Benjamin

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Think Big.

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as the rollercoaster crests the top of the initial incline, the ratcheting noise slows and stops, and you can, right before the plunge, observe the entire amusement park

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The Palisades fire overlayed on a map of Auckland

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Dried flesh made to taste like an entirely different snack altogether, then branded with the state's machinery of death, except the fake kind you pay to play. Yum

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New Zealand, I love you

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Alice is one of the smartest people I know generally but specific to my interests, maybe the smartest person I know who understands digital media without working in it www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-...

submitted 78 days ago • 42 comments

Saw Dean & Britta in Dunedin NZ! Great show. Grant Roberston (Jacinda's deputy PM) thought so, too. All the feels here, plus global migration & twinkies--

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Many times I've wondered how much there is to know

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From an American at the Hikoi: the US begins with a declaration, NZ begins with a translation. The difference is everything

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From today's Bernard Hickey column. Gee the ODT has got a taste for the Govt's blood. And it's great to see.

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Kia ora! Tēnā koutou! We’re on our way to 1,000 followers! But I don’t like the term “followers” so I’ll go with “friends” (Māori: “hoa”)! 🙂 It means a lot to an autistic guy just trying to share lesser known info from our unique and special country! 🇳🇿 Kia ū! (All the best!) 🖤🤍❤️

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Kia ora Bluesky! I'm an American writer in Aotearoa New Zealand. I write letter home (to both countries!) at american.nz. If you're dreaming of the move, I'm already here. Let's talk--

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"the rules of parliament say you can't do that" "cool, the treaty of waitangi is the only reason parliament is allowed to be there"

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYNx...

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Tried to (literally!) run away from the election here in NZ. No such luck. Somehow you always end up at home

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One of the sharpest bits of commentary anyone’s ever told me is that the US isn’t an unusually right wing European country, it’s an unusually wealthy Latin American one.

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Man that was the 2020 song and I love me some @themountaingoats.bsky.social but I’m not ready to do this again

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