Alex
@shakingstick.bsky.social
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shakingstick.bsky.social
I told youse we should have had a Royal Commission of Enquiry into the Standard of the Shit we are Expected to believe.

I fucking told youse.

But we didn't, did we?

And here we bloody are.
shakingstick.bsky.social
Instant flashback to when Key was overseas and English as Acting PM approved the Kim Dotcom operation with the spies and then everyone forgot to tell Key about it.

It happens I guess.
kirstyjohnston.bsky.social
Hypothetically if you were a minister of the crown and you were overseas and you sent a staffer to a Very Important Meeting in your absence would you expect them to take notes or ???
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testtubeone.bsky.social
There is no better dressed MP in Parliament than Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan and he NEVER wears a tie.✌️👍🥰
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan standing on the red carpet in a Parliament corridor wearing a black full length buttoned silk gown with a black waist belt and embroidered green and yellow trees and plants and vines and a jade or pounamu pendant.
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paleofuture.bsky.social
I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq
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helldude.bsky.social
i want computer to make movie for me. i want computer to talk to me. i want computer to take my job. i want to fuck computer. i want computer to mock and devalue the very spark of ingenuity and creativity that makes us human
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kendrawrites.com
Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.
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notalawyer.bsky.social
the subreddits for luxury watches are some of the darkest places on earth
Rolex subreddit post: 

My uncle has Alzheimer's and is often forgetful of his possessions. One of them is a Rolex Submariner. Would I be justified in taking and caring for it as my own instead of having it left neglected and forgotten in his jewelry box? Thanks.
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paleofuture.bsky.social
"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc
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drdrehistorian.bsky.social
Don't forget crossing gatekeepers. It's not just for men either: a young fettler's wife can supplement the family income by attending to the gates!
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zachrabiroff.com
Great news! We have built the Blackmail Machine from the classic sci-fi short story, "Help, The Blackmail Machine Is Selling My Sex Dreams to Stephen Miller"
shakingstick.bsky.social
Lmao. There is no deserve, only what the committee decides
atrupar.com
Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired
atrupar.com
Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Holy shit he literally did it NO FUCKING WAY LMAO
atrupar.com
Trump opens the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "This is the first time we've been at the new and improved Rose Garden. And people are loving it. They are loving it like they have not loved a lot of things."
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
that face when other countries have laws apply even for super rich people
sad openai sam altman guy zoomed in on image of quoted post.
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sjponeill.bsky.social
Maybe part time work at the Blockbusters that Willis goes for for her Friday DVD with family...
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teflonslinky.bsky.social
The media coverage of this is so insane. This is completely the doing of the US, this isn’t two rivals going at it, China is literally just not folding like a lawn chair.
shakingstick.bsky.social
They could work as ushers at the moving picture theatre
grantbrookesnz.bsky.social
Simeon Brown tells young jobseekers to “get a paper run” on RNZ this morning 🙀

He is so out of touch, he thinks neighbourhoods still get a daily newspaper delivered
#nzpol
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julieinnz.bsky.social
And now we see the astronomical pay rises they awarded themselves. The CAMHS workers who are stretched to the max and spend most of their time at the urgent end of mental health for our young can only dream of these salaries.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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atrupar.com
Trump: "If somebody is doing a bad job and if I feel there is unsafe conditions, I would call Gianni, the head of FIFA, and I would say, 'let's move it to another location.' And he would do that ... I could say the same things for the Olympics."
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
When she takes over CBS News, will Bari Weiss do what she has always done? Or will she do a totally different thing she has no expertise or interest in?
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/b...
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modernistwitch.myatproto.social
katherine dee is herself a reactionary who has written for TERF blog fairer disputations. her bio there cites her work at american conservative, unherd, and the washington examiner. interesting how the bio she chose here doesn’t reflect that bias. the work itself features no actual citations
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mondoweiss.net
NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.
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swingingstorm.bsky.social
So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.
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paris.nyc
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org