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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 28m

The right is overcooking this free speech panic, as per usual, but still, if a regulator is going to extend its mandate like this, it should be done deliberately and purposefully by Parliament, not just by the regulator arrogating more powers to itself www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Winston Peters accuses Broadcasting Standards Authority of 'Soviet era stasi' censorship

Winston Peters, Free Speech Union and veteran journalist Sean Plunket react to BSA's decision to regulate podcasts and online media.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 1h

"Not all New Zealanders were as well-informed about our history, no matter what political position they have achieved"

Tipene O'Regan coming in hot against the kiddiwinks in charge of Treaty policy today

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2h

To quote Tony Soprano: 'God ain't making any more of it'

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 3h

Reup from 2020 (recorded in 2010). This is worth your time if you are interested in the real history of the Taranaki, how Jim Bolger got to be PM, why land, the ultimate means of production, matters materially as well as spiritually

Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 3h

"There is nowhere in this entire area that the land is not confiscated."

Here's 2.5 hours of Te Miringa Hohaia in great detail on the confiscation of Taranaki, how it was done, why, and its deep consequences.

Video by Canadian artist Jayce Salloum player.vimeo.com/video/291006...

untitled part 6: upon the resonance/weight of histories on Vimeo

player.vimeo.com

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 3h

"There is nowhere in this entire area that the land is not confiscated."

Here's 2.5 hours of Te Miringa Hohaia in great detail on the confiscation of Taranaki, how it was done, why, and its deep consequences.

Video by Canadian artist Jayce Salloum player.vimeo.com/video/291006...

untitled part 6: upon the resonance/weight of histories on Vimeo

player.vimeo.com

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 3h

Bolger's legacy will always be the moral strength of his willingness to look back at the National Party's past and reflect on the wrongs done, and his willingness to say so in an era when it has become fashionable to make excuses for the errors and depredations of the past

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 18h

I will never take demands for parliamentary dress standards to return to ye olden days seriously unless they mandate the wearing of wigs

Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 18h

This is twice as true today regarding the asinine conservative impulse to restore Parliamentary standards of conduct by restoring 19th Century standards of dress

It will be futile unless also accompanied by a restoration of some requirement to adhere to truth and reality

Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · May 14

Everyone out here wringing their hands about the decline of standards of conduct who did not raise the alarm about this govt dignifying the Treaty Principles Bill lie doesn't actually care about the actual standards, they care only about the appearance of standards

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 18h

National Party never beating the allegations that they're represented exclusively by teacher's pet busybody prefects

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 18h

This is twice as true today regarding the asinine conservative impulse to restore Parliamentary standards of conduct by restoring 19th Century standards of dress

It will be futile unless also accompanied by a restoration of some requirement to adhere to truth and reality

Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · May 14

Everyone out here wringing their hands about the decline of standards of conduct who did not raise the alarm about this govt dignifying the Treaty Principles Bill lie doesn't actually care about the actual standards, they care only about the appearance of standards

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 1d

das Herrenvolk ain’t herrin’ y’all

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

The groypers have taken over.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1d

Sorry, I'll see myself out

A Pantone colour swatch picking out the red shirt of our striking brother demanding a living wage

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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 1d

Boy I hope the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival (DW&RF) has a funky little dwarf as their logo

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 1d

Big weekend around here.

Lines Of Flight: Thursday - Sunday.
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival: Friday - Sunday.
Also: The Rugby (Friday)

UnderTheRadar @undertheradarnz.bsky.social · 1d

Ōtepoti's legendary Lines of Flight festival is THIS WEEK — three days / nights of Aotearoa's finest sound explorers, including Alastair Galbraith, Bruce Russell, Rosy Parlane, @kraus.bsky.social, Jo Burzynska, The Aesthetics + many more!

Fest passes & tickets for individual events via UTR

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty amazing when Tākuta Ferris going full ethnic-nationalist and defying his leaders over a by-election that they won is only the second or third most dysfunctional thing in his party this month www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

MP allegedly warned of $133k overspend, action urged so staff paid - Te Pāti Māori email to members

The email was sent to party members shortly before 10pm last night.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 2d

It's true and it's because of this bsky.app/profile/lews...

Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · Jan 16

Autotune has ruined a whole generation, not of singers, but of listeners, which is much worse

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 2d

It struck me recently that there is now a generation of (uncoached) singers that have trained themselves to sound like they are using auto-tune

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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 2d

postmodern finance theory

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 2d

#4 on repeat

Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 2d

Retrospective #17: 2017

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morgan godfery @morgangodfery.bsky.social · 2d

urbanists are 100% correct on their one Thing but have the worst opinions and the most off putting manner on literally every other thing

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 4d

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

Mostafa • @mokatia
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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 2d

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in.
📝166,000 submissions.
❌98.7% opposed.
Yet National are going to continue supporting it.
🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

Regulatory Standards Bill:
Select Committee Report:
166,000 submission total
0.7% supported
0.6% unclear
98.7% opposed

AUTHORISED BY DUNCAN WEBB MP, PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS WELLINGTON

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