Elizabeth Luke
@agilitydog.bsky.social
Women’s health care provider; trying to be a better ally every day. Transplanted to Wellington Aotearoa ❤️ She/her.
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My feelings about generative AI:
1) I'm highly skeptical it'll ever work
2) It's distracting from actual use cases for AI
3) We need a pause until it can be done without wrecking the environment or stealing IP
4) If it does have real potential then it shouldn't be controlled by ruthless people
1) I'm highly skeptical it'll ever work
2) It's distracting from actual use cases for AI
3) We need a pause until it can be done without wrecking the environment or stealing IP
4) If it does have real potential then it shouldn't be controlled by ruthless people
April 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My feelings about generative AI:
1) I'm highly skeptical it'll ever work
2) It's distracting from actual use cases for AI
3) We need a pause until it can be done without wrecking the environment or stealing IP
4) If it does have real potential then it shouldn't be controlled by ruthless people
1) I'm highly skeptical it'll ever work
2) It's distracting from actual use cases for AI
3) We need a pause until it can be done without wrecking the environment or stealing IP
4) If it does have real potential then it shouldn't be controlled by ruthless people
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The only reason there's an 'affordability' issue as the population ages is because the government refuses to tax rich people. The richest 350 families only pay 8% tax, and if Nicola Willis changed that, then the affordability problem goes away
#nzpol
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
#nzpol
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
The Post
www.thepost.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 8:03 PM
The only reason there's an 'affordability' issue as the population ages is because the government refuses to tax rich people. The richest 350 families only pay 8% tax, and if Nicola Willis changed that, then the affordability problem goes away
#nzpol
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
#nzpol
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
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ICYMI my friend @transqueerfem.bsky.social needs your support. She's an incredible trans/travesti writer, educator, translator and activist in Brazil. Her mom has cancer and she's been unable to work while taking care of her.
Please give whatever you can spare: ko-fi.com/haileykaas
Please give whatever you can spare: ko-fi.com/haileykaas
Buy Hailey Kaas a Coffee
Become a supporter of Hailey Kaas today!
ko-fi.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
ICYMI my friend @transqueerfem.bsky.social needs your support. She's an incredible trans/travesti writer, educator, translator and activist in Brazil. Her mom has cancer and she's been unable to work while taking care of her.
Please give whatever you can spare: ko-fi.com/haileykaas
Please give whatever you can spare: ko-fi.com/haileykaas
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life ending and infrastructure destroying floods are now an annual occurrence in new zealand. there is no political recognition of this new reality, and thus there is no resourcing for its prevention. we are not ready
January 22, 2026 at 8:26 AM
life ending and infrastructure destroying floods are now an annual occurrence in new zealand. there is no political recognition of this new reality, and thus there is no resourcing for its prevention. we are not ready
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Just gonna keep saying it: There is no point growing the pie if the wealthy keep eating all of it.
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Just gonna keep saying it: There is no point growing the pie if the wealthy keep eating all of it.
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I dont object to people being wealthy, owning a $10m holiday home
I object top them abusing their wealth so they contribute less
I object to them abusing their power so they get an ever larger slice rather than helping everyone else
The rest of us dont pull this kind of bs
#nzpol
I object top them abusing their wealth so they contribute less
I object to them abusing their power so they get an ever larger slice rather than helping everyone else
The rest of us dont pull this kind of bs
#nzpol
Un be-fucking-lievable . I'm truly gob-smacked, $8500, you complete and utter bastard.
Luxons secure $8100 rates cut on luxury Waiheke holiday home
Ninety per cent of property owners who challenged valuations are waiting for decisions.
www.nzherald.co.nz
October 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I dont object to people being wealthy, owning a $10m holiday home
I object top them abusing their wealth so they contribute less
I object to them abusing their power so they get an ever larger slice rather than helping everyone else
The rest of us dont pull this kind of bs
#nzpol
I object top them abusing their wealth so they contribute less
I object to them abusing their power so they get an ever larger slice rather than helping everyone else
The rest of us dont pull this kind of bs
#nzpol
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#BHN The government keeps telling NZ that the unions need to get back to the negotiating table, while the government also refuse to accept a date for the unions to get back to the table to negotiate #nzpol #NZPolitics @chewienz.bsky.social
This is an important video to share today #megastrike
This is an important video to share today #megastrike
October 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
#BHN The government keeps telling NZ that the unions need to get back to the negotiating table, while the government also refuse to accept a date for the unions to get back to the table to negotiate #nzpol #NZPolitics @chewienz.bsky.social
This is an important video to share today #megastrike
This is an important video to share today #megastrike
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This is Mylo. He's a front runner for next year's Oscars. He can act like he's never had a meal just five minutes after lunch. 13/10 the performance of a lifetime (TT: _luciame)
September 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This is Mylo. He's a front runner for next year's Oscars. He can act like he's never had a meal just five minutes after lunch. 13/10 the performance of a lifetime (TT: _luciame)
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Please read and share far and wide.
The Coalition are the pits at economic management.
They really are 🤡🤡🤡.
#nzpol
The Coalition are the pits at economic management.
They really are 🤡🤡🤡.
#nzpol
Nicola Willis’s Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government
Current & planned debt will surpass Labour’s full term debt in less years. Willis also admitted Budget 2024 had a higher deficit than all of Grant Robertson’s bar Covid.
thestandard.org.nz
September 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Please read and share far and wide.
The Coalition are the pits at economic management.
They really are 🤡🤡🤡.
#nzpol
The Coalition are the pits at economic management.
They really are 🤡🤡🤡.
#nzpol
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Latest stats indicating the worst unemployment numbers since the outbreak of the pandemic are further proof that the Govt’s policies are forcing people further into hardship and poverty.
August 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Latest stats indicating the worst unemployment numbers since the outbreak of the pandemic are further proof that the Govt’s policies are forcing people further into hardship and poverty.
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it genuinely galls me that TPM and the greens get called "too extreme" but the same is never said of NZ first and ACT, who are literal fascists.
August 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
it genuinely galls me that TPM and the greens get called "too extreme" but the same is never said of NZ first and ACT, who are literal fascists.
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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
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For InternetNZ members who are going to vote for board candidates next week... If you are not aligned with the Free Speech Union's objectives, there is quite possibly and uphill battle.
They have quite sensibly (from their point of view) elected to nominate only two candidates. 1/3
They have quite sensibly (from their point of view) elected to nominate only two candidates. 1/3
July 9, 2025 at 8:28 AM
For InternetNZ members who are going to vote for board candidates next week... If you are not aligned with the Free Speech Union's objectives, there is quite possibly and uphill battle.
They have quite sensibly (from their point of view) elected to nominate only two candidates. 1/3
They have quite sensibly (from their point of view) elected to nominate only two candidates. 1/3
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‘There is no safe way to do it’: the rapid rise and horrifying risks of choking during sex
‘There is no safe way to do it’: the rapid rise and horrifying risks of choking during sex
Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40, it can also lead to difficulty swallowing, incontinence, seizures, memory problems, depression, anxiety and miscarriage. How has this extreme practice been normalised?
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
‘There is no safe way to do it’: the rapid rise and horrifying risks of choking during sex
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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Honestly kind of fitting that this level of catty public breakup between two aging divas is happening during pride month
June 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Honestly kind of fitting that this level of catty public breakup between two aging divas is happening during pride month
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 65 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo* of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
*as a teen, sewing
No one has heard from you in 65 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo* of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
*as a teen, sewing
May 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 65 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo* of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
*as a teen, sewing
No one has heard from you in 65 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo* of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
*as a teen, sewing
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"Outsourcing is essentially an admission that we have not got an adequately funded and resourced health system."
True. Put the money in the public system, not your mates pockets, you coniving bastards!
#nzpol
True. Put the money in the public system, not your mates pockets, you coniving bastards!
#nzpol
Health NZ aims to cut surgery waitlists by outsourcing to private hospitals, extending doctors' hours
And it also plans to ask surgeons to work longer hours in a bid to cut the waitlist.
www.rnz.co.nz
May 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Outsourcing is essentially an admission that we have not got an adequately funded and resourced health system."
True. Put the money in the public system, not your mates pockets, you coniving bastards!
#nzpol
True. Put the money in the public system, not your mates pockets, you coniving bastards!
#nzpol
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
Saw this while scrolling this morning, so here you go!
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
May 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Saw this while scrolling this morning, so here you go!
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#MorningVibe
When you’re the oppressed, you don’t get the luxury of ignorance. You study the system, the people, the power structures. Not by choice, by necessity.
Be honest about your own knowledge or lack of. We have a lot to offer each other if we just listen.
When you’re the oppressed, you don’t get the luxury of ignorance. You study the system, the people, the power structures. Not by choice, by necessity.
Be honest about your own knowledge or lack of. We have a lot to offer each other if we just listen.
May 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#MorningVibe
When you’re the oppressed, you don’t get the luxury of ignorance. You study the system, the people, the power structures. Not by choice, by necessity.
Be honest about your own knowledge or lack of. We have a lot to offer each other if we just listen.
When you’re the oppressed, you don’t get the luxury of ignorance. You study the system, the people, the power structures. Not by choice, by necessity.
Be honest about your own knowledge or lack of. We have a lot to offer each other if we just listen.
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Privatization of health care isn't about improved care, it's about extracting profit.
Every cent of profit taken from the health care system is a cent that wasn't put towards patient care.
Every cent of profit taken from the health care system is a cent that wasn't put towards patient care.
April 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Privatization of health care isn't about improved care, it's about extracting profit.
Every cent of profit taken from the health care system is a cent that wasn't put towards patient care.
Every cent of profit taken from the health care system is a cent that wasn't put towards patient care.
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47's beef with China is personal, based on his own business dealings, and I cannot believe we gotta bear the brunt of this shit because grown ass people don't understand why addressing conflicts of interest with corporate titans who want to run the country is important.
April 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
47's beef with China is personal, based on his own business dealings, and I cannot believe we gotta bear the brunt of this shit because grown ass people don't understand why addressing conflicts of interest with corporate titans who want to run the country is important.
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www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2...
This is happening in my community in FL. Few followers, but any signal boost is appreciated @charlotteclymer.bsky.social @juliusgoat.bsky.social @therealhoarse.bsky.social @thereelrandom.bsky.social
This is happening in my community in FL. Few followers, but any signal boost is appreciated @charlotteclymer.bsky.social @juliusgoat.bsky.social @therealhoarse.bsky.social @thereelrandom.bsky.social
Satellite High teacher loses job after using student's preferred name: What we know
The high school teacher's annual contract was not renewed after calling a student by their preferred name without parental consent.
www.floridatoday.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2...
This is happening in my community in FL. Few followers, but any signal boost is appreciated @charlotteclymer.bsky.social @juliusgoat.bsky.social @therealhoarse.bsky.social @thereelrandom.bsky.social
This is happening in my community in FL. Few followers, but any signal boost is appreciated @charlotteclymer.bsky.social @juliusgoat.bsky.social @therealhoarse.bsky.social @thereelrandom.bsky.social
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The restaurant chain Arby's employs more people than the entire US coal industry.
(H/T Maximilian Auffhammer and Carolyn Fischer for the comparison)
Coal mining is neither necessary nor good. Shut the whole industry down.
If you're worried about the miners, give them healthcare and job skills.
(H/T Maximilian Auffhammer and Carolyn Fischer for the comparison)
Coal mining is neither necessary nor good. Shut the whole industry down.
If you're worried about the miners, give them healthcare and job skills.
Trump: "One thing I learned about the coal miners -- that's what they want to do. You could give them a penthouse on 5th Avenue and a different kind of a job and they'd be unhappy. They want to mine coal. She was gonna put them in a high tech industry where you make little cell phones and things."
April 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The restaurant chain Arby's employs more people than the entire US coal industry.
(H/T Maximilian Auffhammer and Carolyn Fischer for the comparison)
Coal mining is neither necessary nor good. Shut the whole industry down.
If you're worried about the miners, give them healthcare and job skills.
(H/T Maximilian Auffhammer and Carolyn Fischer for the comparison)
Coal mining is neither necessary nor good. Shut the whole industry down.
If you're worried about the miners, give them healthcare and job skills.