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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 2h

Come on FENZ get Fire(fighter) wise!! Support your local firefighters on strike this Friday! Sticking for safer working conditions and fair pay! Talk more over at my substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/come-on-gu...

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 3h

Meanwhile, in New Zealand: Conservative US commentator Candace Owens granted NZ visa after government intervention www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 4h

Great to chat with Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm about their powerhouse performances in PIKE RIVER - amplifying the voices of two women demanding answers & justice.

Our chat hits Flicks closer to Oct 30 release date (there are advance screenings too - see here: www.flicks.co.nz/movie/pike-r...)

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 5h

Incred photo choice

henry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 7h

NEW POLL: Half of voters want Christopher Luxon to step down - and Christopher Bishop is the top choice to replace him

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Chris Bishop emerges as Luxon’s successor-in-waiting

The latest The Post/Freshwater Strategy poll signals a leadership swap could lead to boost for National, with half of voters wanting Christopher Luxon gone.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 7h

The one good thing about them taking the horny restraints off ChatGPT is that we will never hear from some people again

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 11h

Terrible photo, amazing experience... D'Angelo at Western Springs in 2014.

RIP

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

[Professor Farnsworth voice]: "Good news, everyone !"

Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: 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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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 1d

Can't get enough of Tim Robinson... Even if he's often on the verging of feeling like too much.

Flicks @flicks.bsky.social · 1d

Tim Robinson’s cringey brand of comedy collides with surreal mystery in #TheChairCompany.

His take on comedic male frustration is singular, says @stevenewall.bsky.social: "and if PTA hadn’t already used the title, might itself best be construed as one battle after another… and just as funny."

Tim Robinson’s comedy gets even more uncomfortable in The Chair Company

Surreal and paranoid, Tim Robinson’s new HBO show confirms just how awkward his comedy can get when it collides with ‘normal’ life.

go.weareflicks.co

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 1d

Thomas Pynchon is actually a literary collective, in the manner of Luther Blissett/Wu Ming. Various Pynchons have included William Gibson, Jennifer Egan, John Barth, Michael Chabon, Tom Robbins, Richard Brautigan, and Kurt Vonnegut

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 3d

Jared Leto *is* AI: a tacky thing corporations keep forcing on consumers by putting him in everything even though he’s unprofitable and nobody likes it

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

theonion.com

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 6d

Relentlessly on brand for a free speech champion and supporter of the arts

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 6d

Two pies is a more reasonable ratio of pie to Penthouse

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 6d

The spy's lost briefcase with 5 pies and a copy of Penthouse is still the all-timer

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 6d

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 6d

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 6d

Why is any of this a problem if you're not a fascist or a N*zi?

(Also not a roundtable, but that's the least of our problems)

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 6d

Outstanding double feature

New Beverly Cinema @newbeverly.bsky.social · 6d

THEY LIVE (1988) & JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS (2001) screen this weekend as a 35mm double bill, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, October 10th - 12th. Tickets: buff.ly/LXCyvi5

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 8d

Remember PACE? Simple times.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 8d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 8d

#nzpol Sometimes a policy is so stupid it makes you question the very fabric of reality. Decisions so fabulously, almost wantonly dumb, you wonder if we actually live in a simulation. Welcome to the world of removing Jobseeker Support for 18 & 19-year-olds. craigrenney.substack.com/p/a-small-wr...