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Wicked Ho
@nicebutnot.bsky.social
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anyway here’s a baby raccoon sleeping in a hammock
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Matt Smith@smithmatt.bsky.social |
88 followers 139 following 111 posts
Comics enthusiast, climate policy wonk, cat/dog person, PC Gamer, avid devourer of politics and legal ephemera. Opinions my own, not my employer. Pōneke. He/him. PFP @exocomics
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Wicked Ho
@nicebutnot.bsky.social
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anyway here’s a baby raccoon sleeping in a hammock
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Johnny Cans
@oldmatecans.bsky.social
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TL:DR Siouxsie gets 20k and the Judge tells UoA they fucked up on almost every point
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Survivor of the Norwegian butter crisis 2011
@lilliansoe.bsky.social
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The Jewish Council of Australia
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Matt Smith
@smithmatt.bsky.social
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What’d you get?
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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her)
@bebeneuwirth.bsky.social
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Sometimes my scroll gets it right.
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Paul 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@pault.bsky.social
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The TERFs are organising and hate the idea of human rights protections being extended to transgender people.
The workshops will be in Central Wellington. Please DM me to register your interest.
Read the issues paper here.
www.lawcom.govt.nz/our-work/ia-...
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Paul 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@pault.bsky.social
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***call to action*** Everyone, the Law Commission has published it's excellent issues paper on adding gender explicitly to the human rights act. Countering Hate Speech Aotearoa will be holding two submission writing workshops in August to help you write pro-trans submissions.
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WildGorillaMan
@wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”
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Hannah is resting 🟡
@hannah.the-void.social
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Sean McKnight
@ynot1989.bsky.social
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Fun fact: we got the 27th Amendment ratified because one guy pestered the fuck out of state legislators until 38 states had voted to ratify it. And he did it all out of spite.
www.npr.org/2017/05/05/5...
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Matt Smith
@smithmatt.bsky.social
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Go into your photo roll or whatever and post the first image that makes you laugh literally out loud
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Matt Smith
@smithmatt.bsky.social
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Molly Ostertag is one of my favourite YA comic authors and she’s super approachable. www.mollyostertag.com
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Jason Bailey
@jasondashbailey.bsky.social
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Ayo
@darrylayo.bsky.social
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This is one of the best comics of all time and Lynda put it on the back cover of her book. She really said “I’ll give you that one for free”
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Emma Evans
@trance.bsky.social
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Werner Herzog directing a Maybelline ad: Perhaps she is born with it. What a frightful notion, to be imbued with the fetters of capitalist commodification from birth. It suggests God Himself is a part of our dreadful pattern instead of a refuge from it.
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Paula Penfold
@paulapenfold.bsky.social
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Just thinking randomly* about leaders who step aside when they realise they’re not the best person for the job. Here’s our interview with Andrew Little about making way for Jacinda Ardern just weeks out from an election. *not randomly
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Microplastics Sommelier
@leastactionhero.bsky.social
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
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bacon popsicle 🫀
@gupton68.bsky.social
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I often stand naked in front of a full-length mirror, studying myself to better come to terms with my imperfections. It’s not an easy thing to do though, and quite frankly I feel IKEA security could be a little more supportive.
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Django Wexler
@djangowexler.bsky.social
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation
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Why you should have a cat
@shouldhavecat.bsky.social
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"Bro." "Mrow."
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Matt Smith
@smithmatt.bsky.social
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I think it's not all air quality standards. Just the ones relating to greenhouse gases. The standards for particulate matter, sulpher dioxides etc are unaffected
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Idiot/Savant
@norightturnnz.bsky.social
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Government uses Treaty settlement to try and dump its toxic waste liability on iwi www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...
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Andy Reisinger
@andyreisinger.bsky.social
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The Government of Denmark had just agreed to a tax on livestock emissions. €40 in 2030, rising to €100 in 2035. Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says: "We will be the first country in the world with a CO2 tax on agriculture.” Looks like New Zealand is now distinctly behind in that race.
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Jeph Jacques
@ass.golf
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happy #makeaterriblecomicday
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Matt Smith
@smithmatt.bsky.social
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and so they're entitled to discriminate. What would be more of a precedent (but risky) is to argue that trans people are protected under discrimination against sex s21(1)(a) (I believe this is MOJ's interpretation), which would allow Pride to invoke the good faith protection exception under s73. 2/2
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Matt Smith
@smithmatt.bsky.social
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I imagine they'll argue that TERF is a political opinion and they've been discriminated against in the provision of goods and services to the public. The easy response is that Pride wasn't providing services to the general public, but to those who shared their values, more like a club 1/2
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Tackman Babcock
@tackmanbabcock.bsky.social
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Suppose for a minute that boot camps really didn’t work, that they were absolute dog shit—what would the data on re-conviction look like?
Then take a look at the data, and realise that it shows they’re *even worse*. #nzpol
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Sarah
@notsailingalone.bsky.social
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"$3b is too much so what we’re going to do is spend $200mill to cancel our contracts but then have $7.5b available to replace that deal for a product that will have no long term infrastructure upgrade. We are geniuses." -The Fiscally Responsible Business Party of New Zealand #nzpol
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Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
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"Israeli forces strap wounded Palestinian man to hood of military jeep"
Flip this script and tell me with a straight face that a IDF soldier being used as a hood ornament wouldn't be instantly and vocally condemned by the people shrugging off this.
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Paul 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@pault.bsky.social
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Everyone, the anti-trans group LAVA are suing Wellington Pride over Pride not granting them a stall a couple of years ago.
They have a givealittle for legal costs: givealittle.co.nz/cause/wellin...
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Stephanie Rodgers 🌹
@bootstheory.bsky.social
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No state that does this has a right to exist.
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明
@tzemingdynasty.bsky.social
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I am honestly so grateful that nobody died, and that we can actually joke all day about this
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Jessica de Heij
@jdeheij.bsky.social
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Someone didnt waste any time....🤣
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Keith Ng
@keithng.bsky.social
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Paul Duane
@paulduane.bsky.social
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Reminder that Stockholm Syndrome was invented because a kidnap victim said, accurately , that the kidnappers were more concerned with their safety than the cops were.
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Andrew
@openpolicy.bsky.social
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The #climate impact of burning coal, oil and gas must be taken into account when deciding whether to approve projects, the supreme court in London has ruled.
A hugely significant win, which will hopefully sink the Rosebank oil drilling and Cumbrian coal mine.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Johnny Cans
@oldmatecans.bsky.social
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Maybe, you wet wipe, Kiwirail was anticipating the END OF USE LIFE FOR THE FERRIES AS PLANNED AND THEIR REPLACEMENTS THAT YOU CANCELLED www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/governmen...
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Randall Munroe
@xkcd.com
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Electric vs Gas xkcd.com/2948
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer
@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social
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happy belated 5-year anniversary to what is, for my money, the greatest political post of all time
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cait
@cait.bsky.social
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PLEASE please please look at this with me
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Greater Auckland
@greaterauckland.bsky.social
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👀
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The Onion
@theonion.com
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With more than 2 million displaced Palestinians facing the threat of famine, USAID announced Monday it had fulfilled its pledge to provide food assistance, throwing a single PowerBar labeled “for Gaza” into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious
@rachellense.bsky.social
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
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Jessalyn Matthews 🏳️⚧️
@foxkidsclub.bsky.social
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I legit love this woman’s “please bring me the sweet release of death” face
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andy
@bugay.bsky.social
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hi here to arrest you for massive bank fraud, i'm dad
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Matt Smith
@smithmatt.bsky.social
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An ad so good the Indian government asked YouTube to block it in India.
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Teanau Tuiono
@teanau.bsky.social
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NZ should boycott the US-led RIMPAC naval drills to protest Israel’s participation. Condemned by the ICJ and by the UN for grave violations against children in armed conflict, makes partnering with Israel while it perpetrates violence in Gaza diplomatically irresponsible
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Eddie Clark
@dreddieclark.bsky.social
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Will never forget the grace Mildred Loving showed towards same-sex couples in supporting our right to marry; she had no problem extrapolating her experience to ours.
www.acslaw.org?post_type=ac...
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