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There is Hinepoupou carving up the water like a roast
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My man-in-pub take is the telling stat is the fouls committed, which Spurs did seem to rattle Man Utd with, esp Fernandes who you especially want to lose his focus.
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Great stuff Emma - good on you for getting this in:
“I would say that Stuff and The Post have had a big part to play in the negative tone when it comes to the city, and the outcome is that no one comes out because they are constantly being told that the city is miserable,” Golding said."
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@postnatodepression.bsky.social
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I wouldn't expect it, at this point, media outlets in NZ would just tell a young reporter to repackage the press release on a story like this.
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There it is:
Former Supreme Court justice Sir William Young joins Hong Kong’s top court | Stuff
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This image makes me disproportionately happy.
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No it hasn't yet, maybe tomorrow (our time). William Young is an excellent judge, independent-minded, certainly won't let anyone tell him what he should do
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You ask me to resubscribe and then you do this.
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Hello, using this to kind of DM - are you aware of this account as I'd imagine you'd like it. A bot that crawls Bluesky looking for and reposting posts in iambic pentameter.
bsky.app/profile/iamb...
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📌
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I set myself up on a high rock so the millipede army couldn't attack me.
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uh oh it's the dead auntie utu voodoo brigade.
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One can only imagine how much the translator wanted to write "Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for LOSERS, and that those who fall along the way are LOSERS."
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Fascinating thread, thank you!
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Sad to say that what you've been posting lately as cultural artifacts I think of as 'stuff from their new album'.
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I laughed out loud.
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Indeed! Can you tell me where that interview is?
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Pasting things into Notepad and copying them out again to get rid of formatting is one of my great joys in life. Yes, I should get out more, I know.
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Coming to Bluesky of all places and saying "Hey, we're Adobe!" is 💯
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Chelsea ends up floating dead in the water wearing a skirt covered in a flower pattern!
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Have you seen the series final? (Want to discuss this but don't want to spoil anything)
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Who won, you, or The Darkness?
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The light this evening in Wellington is just gorgeous.
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The advertisement design here has absolutely been influenced by the classic Blue Note album covers.
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I'll give it this: there's a key change.
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I note one sells foods and the other sells food.
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All over the whole fuckin' globe, comin' through, boy
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Absolutely correct, and this is, I suspect, basically his plan (pipe dream) for Mars colonization.
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bsky.app/profile/holl...
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Girls and their loyal ponies are BACK.
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Having been on LinkedIn for something like 20 years, I'm pretty sure those emails should be titled "People who were searching around, came across you, and quickly moved on."
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'the goose threatened our very lives
honk after honk'
Great stuff!
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Fantastic, just went back and read the whole series. Fascinating read.
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He tino ngahau te kōnae ipurangi nei. I kite au i Aotearoa i te whare wānanga o Wikitōria i te tau 1987, 1988 rānei. He maumahara pai! He tino ngahau, hirahira hoki tō koutou mahi mō te motu nei. Ngā mihi ki a kōutou.
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Where's the Annex referred to in section 1(a)(i)?
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My first reaction to the tariff was "that's it, I'm going to buy a new bottle of maple syrup" like I was storming the Bastille or something.
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Guess we'll find out.
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Are you saying "nice product you have there Microsoft shame if me and my friends made an easily-obtainable better one"?