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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 13h

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 11d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 7h

YES! One of this things Zohran Mamdani is ridiculously adroit at is not just refuse to concede ground to RW framing/false premises, but gently but firmly pivoting it around to taking about his agenda and issues on his terms. It takes a steady hand and a lot of practice, but it is essential. #nzpol

nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not a comms person or a politician, just an outside observer, but this seems to me to be a matter of urgency for Labour.
The intensity of this kind of questioning is only going to ramp up, so Labour politicians need to plan ways to fend off the right wing framing and shift the narrative.
#nzpol

nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 11h

And he doesn't have to accept right wing framing and narratives about the Greens and TPM. They should have strategies in place to fend off this kind of bullshit without buying into it.

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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 7h

Remember when National was going through endless leadership ructions?It got so bad journalist Andrea Vance wrote a political exposé, "Blue Blood".

Then-Labour leader, Jacinda Ardern refused to comment on the turmoil,steadfastly insisting to the media it was an internal matter for National MPs...(1)

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 7h

Pay attention, Aotearoa New Zealand, because your health care system isn't robust enough to cope with this. #nzpol

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10h

1 in 6 bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO - rising to 1 in 3 in SE Asia on.ft.com/46Zv7Dq

One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO

Levels of antimicrobial resistance highest in south-east Asia and eastern Mediterranean

on.ft.com

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 20h

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 1d

4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030.

One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.

www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...

PhD Opportunity - Trinity East - Graduate Studies | Trinity College Dublin

Professor Timothy Stott and his team are inviting applications to doctoral research on the heritage of Trinity East in Grand Canal Dock, Dublin.

www.tcd.ie

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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 11h

Aggressive or drunken behaviour in NZ Parliament isn't new. I didn't see Winston Peters grab then MP John Banks to shake him when Peters was treasurer in an earlier National-NZ First coalition and Banks was uhappy about Peters' postponing National’s tax cuts. Believable
#NZpol
archive.ph/eCKDv

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 14h

Huh. And here I thought accusing other MPs of lying was verboten in the House.
#nzpol

Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 15h

Tama Potaka accuses Kieran Mcanulty of lying about pregnant women being refused emergency housing. Mcanulty says he provided contact details and the Minister hasn't been in touch. So we definitely have a weaponisation of parliamentary decorum by the regime to hide deceit here #nzqt

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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 12h

🚨 Nurses, doctors, teachers listen up 🚨There isn’t a bottomless well of taxpayer money!! Unless you are a landlord, big tobacco or big oil. I talk more about this over at my substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/luxon-tell...

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 14h

When you think of how Luxon spent years boasting of how he "managed an airline", then see how he really did it, you might want to take a seat. Interesting how none of it made it to the media. Also Erica Stanford joins Luxon in showing what gaslighting looks like #nzpol

Prime Minister, Unions ARE Workers

Chris Luxon, Erica Stanford and Simeon Brown continue to gaslight Kiwi workers, in their latest instalment of divide and conquer

mountaintui.substack.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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dunnersmads.bsky.social @dunnersmads.bsky.social · 12h

A bit scary for them
#nzpol

Polly Hemming @pollyjhemming.bsky.social · 16h

Timor-Leste just scrapped lifetime pensions for former parliamentarians after student-led protests.

But sure — protest doesn’t work.
#auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

screenshot of ABC article. text captured says Timor-Leste scraps lifetime pensions after student-led protests
Topic:Activism and Lobbying

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Friday 26 September
Police officers in the street usher crowds.
Police appeal to students to clear the road to await the result of the parliamentary vote. (AFP: Valentino Dariell de Sousa)

In short
Protests broke out last week in Timor-Leste, with thousands of demonstrators demanding parliament cancel a $4.2 million plan to purchase SUVs for lawmakers and lifetime pension for MPs and public officials.

Sixty-two members of parliament voted unanimously on Friday to pass a new law that scrapped the pensions for MPs, former presidents, prime ministers and cabinet ministers.

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Jillian @jillianm.bsky.social · 11h

Why are the Palestinians "detainees" and the Israelis are "hostages"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16h

Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Old Man Trump" that, shall we say, resonates today

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 11h

Yet again, when I start babbling about conversations with imaginary people who tell me what I want to hear, its called a psychotic episode or a mental health crisis.

When senior Government Ministers do it with monotonous regularity, its called politics and public policy. #nzpol

Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 13h

Re-upping this thread in light of @ben.gracewood.nz uncovering that there is no record of David Seymour ever being told (as he had claimed) that alcohol warning labels hamper craft brewers ... a non-issue that would require us to break from our international agreements to fix ...

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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 12h

This feels like a challenge to compile every instance recorded in Hansard when Winston Peters or David Seymour have been deliberately out of order and/or disorderly and received no rebuke or disciplinary action from the Speaker.💩😡
Every. Question. Time.
#nzpol

Brownlee plans crackdown on Parliament's standards after Oriini Kaipara maiden speech, haka

The Speaker suspended Parliament briefly last week after Oriini Kaipara's speech was followed by a waiata, then haka.

www.rnz.co.nz

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 11h

Sometimes I look at how Robert Schumann was just out here writing music for and about a whole lotta women who were not his future wife and I just go man, what a real sloppy bitch of a guy that Robert was

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Dr Aleisha Ward @nzjazzhistory.bsky.social · 11h

Ooh, and Mondrian is one of my favourite artists (up there with Kandinsky!), thank you kindly!

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Rohan MacMahon @rohmac.bsky.social · 12h

Stuff front page right now… what a juxtaposition.

#climate #nzpol

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14h

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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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 13h

#nzpol Signed as a former high school Art and Art History student.

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14h

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on.

These philistines need to hear from you all.

Thank you

petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

Edvard Munch's 'Scream' but with the text 'I can't believe they're cancelling Art History' in a speech bubble

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Dr Aleisha Ward @nzjazzhistory.bsky.social · 13h

Done and sent it to my friends as well!

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14h

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on.

These philistines need to hear from you all.

Thank you

petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14h

Find a frog gathering near you this Saturday, October 18

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

Nokings.org

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