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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 10m

POV you are David Cameron

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 21m

There’s hogsheads of sperm ahead

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 21m

There’s hogsheads of sperm ahead

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 17m

Seems to me in the first case they can choose repair or replace but, as it seems they failed at remedy, you choose replace or refund (or weird compensate-the-difference option). May be affected by specifics eg if something already counts as replaced www.consumerprotection.govt.nz/general-help...

Know your rights to a refund, replacement or repair | Consumer Protection

www.consumerprotection.govt.nz

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1h

i more or less quit my job over video models. unwilling to be part of that. sorry.

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Melody Rose J. @melodyrose.bsky.social · 22h

“What is perfection, anyway?
It's the death of creativity, that's what I think, while change, on the other hand, is the cornerstone of new ideas.
God knows I want new ideas and new experiences.”

— Diane Keaton

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 3h

*if like me your knowledge of te reo is limited, but want to be able to use the correct original place names for Te Waipounamu, bookmark this Ngāi Tahu cultural atlas site.

kahurumanu.co.nz/atlas

Screenshot of the Ngāi Tahu cultural atlas of the South Island - a site that not only gives you the correct original Maori place names, it gives context & the story behind the names. Absolutely invaluable if you are going to photograph & talk about NZ

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Kath Mallott 💔🇵🇸💔 @kathmallott.bsky.social · 55m

‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead

Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains

www.theguardian.com

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 1h

Seeing such familiar names now being released seems utterly surreal. Just an incredible moment

Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins • 6m
Omri Miran was one of the seven living hostages just handed over to the Red Cross.
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@kaitlancolli... •11h
I first spoke with Moshe Lavi in November 2023, one month after his brother-in-law was kidnapped by Hamas. He told me then how his sister would take their daughters out to look at the stars at night and wish goodnight to dad - something she continued for two years. Omri Miran

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Haaretz
18 minutes ago
Father of hostage Guy Gilboa Dalal: Guy handed over to Red Cross, will be handed over to IDF in 15 minutes
Ilan Dalal, father of Israeli hostage Guy Gilboa Dalal, said that his son "was handed over to the Red Cross, and in fifteen minutes he is expected to be handed over to the IDF, and then he will arrive here."
He added, "This is a dream come true, we are euphoric, very excited and dying to hug him."

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Frasier D&D @frasierdnd.bsky.social · 1h

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: “Oh! I’m in a Dungeons & Dragons group, too. But we’re doing an official, prewritten adventure.”

[FRASIER SCOFFS]

FRASIER: “Prewritten! The storyteller’s crutch.”

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: “I’m the storyteller.”

FRASIER: “… And what is a crutch if not a timeless and wonderful invention?”

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AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 3h

My son just showed me this one

Xkcd comic of stick figures in front of a huge tree

One says "Did you know the mighty redwood is actually the same species as broccoli and kale? It's just a different cultivar."

"Wow!"

Caption: every year or two, botanists add another plant to brassica oleracea and see if anyone calls them on it."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic

"‘You run away a lot,’ said one of the voices. ‘That is good. You are a survivor.’

‘Survivor? I’ve nearly been killed dozens of times!’

‘Exactly.’"

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 17h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Sep 9

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 7h

Sounds like an excellent place to get react quotes to National's weakening of methane targets.

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 11h

Hundreds of scientists and global leaders are converging on Christchurch for the world's largest and most influential climate adaptation gathering.

Global leaders, scientists gather for NZ's largest ever climate event

Hundreds of scientists and global leaders are converging on Christchurch for the world's largest and most influential climate adaptation gathering.

dlvr.it

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4h

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 14h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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make up a guy @aguy.makeup · 1h

Sincerity Weeks
Insightful Samurai
he/him
hair in a cornrows
knows a lot about their pet finch
only eats eggs hard boiled

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 2h

Waterfall in the Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere Franz Joseph Glacier valley Kā Tiritiri-o-te-moana the Southern Alps.

This waterfall comes from a creek flowing from Alex Knob, 1303m (yes I've been dying to say this, lol) on the Fritz Range

A waterfall, some sheer rock & native forest

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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 5h

Bluesky NZ FTW! I've just had my first calendar pre-order from a Bluesky comrade! If you'd like a beautiful, mailable locally printed botanical art calendar in 2026 please pre-order before 30 October, I'll sort you! Please feel free to share and thank you! jenniferduval-smith.com/shop/botanic... 🌱🇨🇰

Botanical art calendar for 2026 by botanical artist Jennifer Duval-Smith Preorder now!

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lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one · 1d

lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one • 8mo

it's so crazy how the real Al widespread use case seems to be "skimming an email and missing the important stuff" which is one of the things i'm best at

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 2h

That feeling when the special votes tip your local board back towards favouring kid-friendly and bike-friendly streets…

A mashup of the sickos meme and classic Calvin & Hobbes, showing Calvin’s dad all togged up for one of his character-building bike rides, looking back through the window and saying “Yes hahaha yes.”

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1h

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver this week is a complete takedown of Bari Weiss... and it's thorough and devastating.

And a bit of interesting timing, given that Weiss's new boss, David Ellison (who is talked about in the episode) is trying to buy HBO, where Oliver's show is...