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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 2h

Older high profile boomers have never seen Up! and don’t know they’re all wearing Carl’s glasses

a cartoon character with glasses and a big nose says " no "

ALT: a cartoon character with glasses and a big nose says " no "

media.tenor.com

Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 14h

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 15h

Remembered this oldie after Simeon Brown suggested an antiquated occupation for the teens of NZ. It's from the same era his religious beliefs come from after all #NZPol

Photo of a printed article titled "Work, Work, Work". Article reads:
On about this date in 1801, Britain's first census was begun. In a subsequent survey conducted in 1881, residents were asked to furnish their "rank, profession, or occupation." Some of the more puzzling responses, as preserved by the London Genealogical Society, included:
• Colourist of artificial fish
• Knight of the Thimble
• Disinfector of railways
• Examiner of underclothing
• Invisible net maker
• Electric bath attendant
• Proprietor of midgets
• Fifty-two years an imbecile
• Knocker-up of workpeople
• Maker of sand views
• Gymnast to house painter
• Turnip shepherd
• Emasculator
• Sampler of drugs
• Fatuous pauper
• Drowner
• Count as female
• Fish-bender
• Goldfish-catcher
• Cow-banger
• Running about
• Grape-dryer
• Beef twister
• Random waller

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 18h

The YouTube algorithm has given up on me and just autoplays #TimeTeam so perhaps I’m finally winning at life

Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 20h

Look what I want to say to you is we removed benefits for teenagers so we can throw them into 90-day trial periods that can dump them after the Boxing Day sales #NZPol

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 1d

The NZ media would be howling about the lack of mandate if a government of any other colour attempted to undo any of this environmental and economic vandalism #NZPol

Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

Two years since the 2023 election. If you want a really long read, chronologically tracking all the different attacks on nature by the Luxon Govt... well this is it! Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline - Greenpeace Aotearoa

It has been nearly 2 years since the formation of the Luxon-led Government. It has been two years of a war on nature.

www.greenpeace.org

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 5d

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Mini Motley Sanctuary @minisanctuary.bsky.social · 5d

🎊OUR ONLINE SHOP IS OPEN! 🎊

Full of unique gifts & decorations made by hand, using the fleece gently sheared from our rescue flock 🐑 plus books, Christmas cards, our 2026 calendar & more!

Every sale helps our animal sanctuary: minimotleysanctuary.etsy.com

Please share!

#animalsanctuary #etsyshop

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 5d

Track down ‘Detectorists’ from the UK. It’s the perfect comfort watch. Lots of gentle laughs with two hapless but lovable metal Detectorists and their fellow club members in the idyllic English countryside.

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 5d

Story aside, note the classic 3 part structure used by the NZ media to tacitly favour the right for YEARS now

What National wants to fuck up next
What Labour thinks
What Act is hallucinating

Comment seldom sought from Greens or TPM #NZPol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

'Hock off the family silverware': Labour criticises government plan to sell Chorus UFB securities

The Finance Minister says with the completion of the ultra-fast broadband fibre initiative, there's no longer a policy reason for the Crown to own Chorus.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 6d

Prediction: residential waterfront property owners will be bailed out for their bad choices while the rest of us are always punished for ours. We’ve all known rising sea levels were coming for 20+ years #NZPol

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds

NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 7d

I hope NZ media made a big fuss about this story and I just missed their coverage www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured

Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today

www.theguardian.com

Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 10d

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 10d

Solid 3 stars if you view it as a farce where the hot alien can’t get laid

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 12d

Tilly Norwood was created so that we hate Hollywood nepo babies less

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 12d

This will be the new coalition attack line judging by Peters calling protestors ‘bludgers’ today. Gaslighting that there are jobs.

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 13d

I am announcing that this game is moving directly from my wishlist to my ignore list in Steam

This industry thinks game devs, some of the smartest people alive, are dumb enough to enter a gruelling, toxic and now casualised career? This practice will cost gaming a generation

Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 13d

NZ cafés: We invented the Flat White! Australia steals all our stuff!

Also NZ cafés: Ekshully a Kiwi Breakfast is completely different to an English Breakfast

Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 15d

a man in a suit and tie is applauding .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is applauding .

media.tenor.com

Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 16d

It was so weird when he strolled into Dynasty with the exact same hair and costume from Lovejoy.

Sublime in Deadwood. HBIMc!

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 19d

Nominative Determinism in the boardroom? Those are rare

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 20d

The only thing I'd insist upon in a new Bond movie, other than it not being an origin story, is that they should have Timothy Dalton back to play M.

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 21d

Which to clarify, I think is sad. NZ celebrates people for far less and I wouldn't want to take that away from them either.

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 21d

Spoiler alert: it turns out he was the first to help someone transition surgically and so his relative obscurity becomes painfully clear.

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Tim A @pixelace.bsky.social · 21d

Started listening to this and wondered why, after 20 years of living in New Zealand and knowing how nuts they are about their heroes, I'd never heard of Harold Gillies, the father of plastic surgery, due to his pioneering facial reconstruction work in the World Wars. open.spotify.com/episode/6Ci6...

Saving Face with Harold Gillies

open.spotify.com

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Sheep Daily 🐑 @sheepdaily.bsky.social · 22d

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A tiny white lamb standing on top of its mother, who is resting on hay in a wooden pen in a loaf position. The mother sheep has coarse, slightly curly wool which covers her eyes. Two sheep are in the pen to their right.

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