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Daniel @dznz.bsky.social · 3h

Read a 94 book, Heavy Weather, and i wish it didn't feel prescient.

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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 9h

Why are we always "descending" into madness? I like to think I ascend an elaborate spiral staircase into madness.

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sallyp @sallypoastes.bsky.social · 8h

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Well, i have this house, more of a cottage really, and it roams around the countryside in chicken legs. Possibly i also have a cat, that part's not clear

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RNZ News (Unofficial) @radionz.nzcow.com · 9h

📢 The fault "could allow an unauthorised person access to a secure area without a user first touching their hand to the device".

'Touch to exit' security switch recalled as it may allow unauthorised access to secure areas

www.rnz.co.nz

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RNZ News (Unofficial) @radionz.nzcow.com · 8h

📢 After falling to about 160 birds in the 1990s, the rowi population is now up to about 700 in the West Coast sanctuary.

Operation Nest Egg making Ōkārito Forest safe breeding ground for rowi kiwi

www.rnz.co.nz

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Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 10h

I'm just saying what we're all thinking: it is time studios recognised the fans and re-released Tron Ares

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10h

Holy shit, and also, great blessings upon the family of the human recipient mentioned in the article for allowing their loved one with no remaining brain activity to be a test candidate to determine if their body would reject a treated kidney.

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Federally Subsidized Kool-Aid Jammer @chuued.blacksky.app · 23h

If you have never heard this masterpiece, from D'Angelo, there's no time like the present. His last record, was arguably his best. Rest in Peace.
spotify.link/LGdtZccPsXb

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 13h

My copy of the biggest creative project of my life just arrived and even my dog is impressed!*

FiveEvil: Fiendish 5E Horror, designed and written by me, made gorgeous and wonderful by my good friends at Handiwork Games.

It’s real!!

*not really she just knows it’s time for a walk

Hardback book FiveEvil sits on a cushion next to a bemused black and white terrier

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 12h

Mulch like chatGPT, I too have fixed my problems with mental health in an objectively verifiable way and am therefore ready for sex

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 1d

RIP D'angelo. Black Messiah is a top 5 of all time record.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 23h

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 21h

"Starting in December 2024, the researchers began contacting the affected telecoms. T-Mobile responded by encrypting its satellite transmissions within weeks, but responses from other cell carriers were mixed."

Everything is cool and normal.

www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 2d

OKAY BRIEF ANNOYANCE TIME, BABA YAGA DOES NOT MEAN BOOGEYMAN SHE'S A FREAKY LIL WITCH IN HER CHICKEN LEG HUT

THE JOHN WICK FRANCHISE GOT IT MIXED UP Бабайка OR BABAYKA, WHO 𝘐𝘚 ACTUALLY THE BOOGEYMAN

RANT OVER

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John @farawaytimes.bsky.social · 1d

short stories... the "tiny itch freeware games" of literature

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Bridget Williams Books @bwbnz.bsky.social · 1d

Vincent O’Malley has received a 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

🎥 Highlights incl. kōrero with Carol Hirschfeld: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub18...

📚 His new book The Meeting Place is out now — join us tonight at The Royal Society, Wellington!

The Storyteller—Vincent O’Malley | 2025 Distinguished Alumni Awards

Growing up without Aotearoa’s history on the syllabus, alumnus Dr Vincent O’Malley FRSNZ set out to uncover the stories that shape our nation.In this convers...

www.youtube.com

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 2d

It’s 1998. Mom is letting you stay up late and watch the new fire and dad is on his way home with mastodon. Later when they go to sleep you’ll dog up the family fertility goddess statuette and masturbate to it until you drift away into a dreamless slumber. You’ll never be this happy again

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ruba. Ruba is 23 and has been studying to be a pharmacist. She has been living in tents with her family since this all began and her home was destroyed, this includes her niece Tulin, 8 her nephew, Mohammed, 4 and her father who is ill.

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spoOoOokyfox @slooowfox.bsky.social · 2d

tron had a lower opening weekend than Morbius?

we have the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh. City Vision's Michelle Thorp now elected to the Albert-Eden Local Board on preliminary results, meaning a City Vision majority here *and* Waitemata. And Mark Graham could come through on the special votes. Not a good campaign by C&R at all. Maybe raging about "speed bumps" wasn't a good idea.

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 2d

Labour will repeal the Regulatory Standards Bill.
#nzpol

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

We will repeal it in the first 100 days.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

Probably the actual advice that most young men need is that no one finds self pity appealing.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 2d

The eponymous "Simpsons", featuring the titular family of the same name

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 3d

The only reason this isn’t considered trafficking via fraud is because crime is something poor people do

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 3d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Nandor Tanczos @nandortanczos.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like I'm gonna be mayor. 500 special votes to count and I'm expecting them to widen my lead.

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