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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 6h

I miss when I was just regular sad about the world—before 3 AM tweets from the president, before watching safety nets dissolve and genocide get a PR team. When people say they miss simpler times, my generation really means before all this.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2h

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing."

John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 20h

ideal social media is you see your friends posting about the fermented cabbage they ate today or the art or music they made and youre like thats so cool. an update on the lives of my friends and their gay little hobbies. and you decide to do your gay little hobbies in response

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 8h

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

Abcnews graphic: surreal moment as coyote drinks water from skylight window on top of Los Angeles hair salon

(Image of exactly that, except the framing is canted and as a result it looks like a coyote imprisoned in a glass square a la the phantom zone from Superman)

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Raccoons Hourly @raccoonhourly.bsky.social · 12h

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 8h

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country

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Victoria✏📚🐈🌏 @slumguzzled.bsky.social · 6h

"embarassment is New Zealand's latest export" - Ouch.

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ⓘ Kaiwhiu ⓘ @aotearoa-nz.bsky.social · 6h

💯 plus we need to massively increase the tax base and that's a conversation people aren't prepared to have yet. Australians pay more tax than us. Europeans pay more tax than us. Koreans pay more tax than us. Heck almost everyone pays more. It's time to cough up.

taxfoundation.org/data/all/glo...

A Comparison of the Tax Burden on Labor in the OECD, 2024

Aotearoa NZ is almost at the bottom, just above Mexico.

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jakerome.bsky.social @jakerome.bsky.social · 16h

They haven’t even completed the design yet and they’ve demolished part of the White House. Did anyone check for asbestos? Was the demolition crew using PPE?

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 16h

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Yort @yort.bsky.social · 5h

Wait, is he doing the cartoon thing where they clean out their ears by pulling a handkerchief back and forth through their head?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

Trump has arrived in Malaysia.

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Yort @yort.bsky.social · 6h

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Based Moon Alpha @nedgilmore.bsky.social · 6h

Your Halloween costume is "sexy" + the last thing you web searched

Sexy Hooker Valley Track

Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 8h

Your Halloween costume is “sexy” + the last thing you web searched

I am sexy pâté brisée recette

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Yort @yort.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, that is kinda terrifying

Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 6h

Your Halloween costume is "sexy" + the last thing you web searched

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Based Moon Alpha @nedgilmore.bsky.social · 6h

Your Halloween costume is "sexy" + the last thing you web searched

Sexy Hooker Valley Track

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Yort @yort.bsky.social · 6h

Same!

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Anywhy @anywhy.bsky.social · 17h

They studied the humanities in order to perfect inhumanity.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18h

the lies and disdain for labor are bad enough, but the way the culture treats these unremarkable men like they're sociologists is salt in the wound

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

So that's where we're at.

www.yahoo.com

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Yort @yort.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like there's a protest song in this. If only I had any talent.
Feels something Crowded House like 😂

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Yort @yort.bsky.social · 6h

I believe modern wisdom is that the first two or three cups of coffee/tea count towards "water intake" .
So I've heard anyway, and I love a bit of confirmation bias, so I choose to believe it 😂
My preferred way to hydrate!

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Yort @yort.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you, Mary, I should have done that 😬🙄

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11h

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 10h

What are they doing over the ditch? They could have had a flacid Emissions Trading Scheme instead of these ridiculous, distorting subsidies. Idiots.

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Jeremy Wood @jerwood.dev · 9h

It’s easy and intuitive. All you need to do is type control-c, then “:q!” to exit the argument.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 9h

@rmi.bsky.social you'll be delighted to know I'm on day two of being dragged on Mastodon for making fun of CLIs

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 9h

I feel like this entire story is getting an international relations expert to tell us things that we all knew and have known for some time as if they are revelations. But perhaps they are revelations to our hapless government.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

An international relations expert says the "softly, softly" approach to the new Trump administration has not paid off for New Zealand and other countries, and the government will need to take on board that it cannot rely on the United States in the same way it has in the past.

Patman pointed to the "daddy diplomacy" most liberal democracies had played in regards to the new Trump administration, "where you fawn all over Mr Trump and tell him what a great guy he is".
"The danger in doing that", he said, is "that you neglect robustly defending your own national interests".

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