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Marisa Kabas
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the state of journalism.
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Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock.bsky.social |
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Recovering from blinders of STEM, neoliberalism & fundamentalism. Enjoy film, sci-fi, literary nonfiction, feminism, philosophy, cats. Wish: dismantle reactionary targeting of trans people, Māori, Muslims, Jewish people, etc. Tangata Tiriti, NZ
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Marisa Kabas
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the state of journalism.
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Tackman Babcock
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Some airport technician with a conscience should just under-fill the jet fuel so the plane has to divert to a decent country where this war criminal can be arrested
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Tackman Babcock
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Look how quickly the yanks ended up with a constitutional crisis when their double standards became normalised
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Tackman Babcock
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I think the newspapers need to compare Costellos lack of candor with the Darleen Tana having lack of candor and clearly needing to be ejected , and we should ask ourselves if we hold NZFirst Members to a different standard and we just expect them to be corrupt
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Tackman Babcock
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maybe we’d wish to model our nz energy policies after their famous power grid
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Angie Wang
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OMG.
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Sacha
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"But Costello still maintains she does not know where the document came from." #OIA
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Marisa Kabas
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i made this shareable version of my one sentence project 2025 summary so it can be easily shared across platforms. feel free to repost.
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Sarah Ford 🚗🌲💥 Pacific Drive out now!
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Is there literally anything in contemporary tech that isnt a gigantic scam Tech bros have re-invented protection rackets
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Tackman Babcock
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This was likely because the UK effectively sided with France in the dispute, meaning NZ had basically zero leverage itself and none from its powerful supposed friend, defense agreements and long history of NZers dying in British wars be damned.
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Tackman Babcock
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I think this WH visitor log non-story is a better example something else: mass criticism of the media cannot perform its proper corrective function now that anti-media rage became a political identity marker, and now that media itself is increasingly siloed and partisan.
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Tackman Babcock
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FSU clearly more interested in whether some view counts as dissent from mainstream views or not than it is over *whether people get threatened or killed for their speech* and *whether their employers might chill expression by failing their workplace safety obligations*. Absolute garbage of an org.
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Tackman Babcock
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Congrats!
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Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara
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Judgement in the employment court case of Dr Wiles www.employmentcourt.govt.nz/assets/Docum...
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Tackman Babcock
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You can have several successive court judgements- for example this and the next 1-2 times they try it, then it costs them, then (fingers crossed) they stop leapfrogging from kafkaesque dystopia towards outright fashy dystopia.
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WildGorillaMan
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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”
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wade of mutilation
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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Pavel
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Well this is grim
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Katya
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Marina Hyde:
"it’s incredible to think that only a short while ago we thought we’d eradicated measles and Nigel Farage. Both have now been brought back, largely by the same people"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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merritt k
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From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.
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filth_waste
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internet was down and i was stuck with my own stupid thoughts like some kind of animal
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Tackman Babcock
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New Bristol Stool Chart entry just for her
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Dan O’Sullivan
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There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.
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Tackman Babcock
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Thank you for making it clear that even if we somehow thought obliged to consider only the undisputed bits for now, the employer-employee, 45+-22yr old age gap power dynamics are horrible and unaccountable on their own.
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Tackman Babcock
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The press has suddenly put aside its 24/7 horserace prediction coverage to ask ‘What kind of person is Biden and is he dependable for emergencies & day-to-day issues, and mightn’t poor competence cause a crisis?’ which is an excellent question that isn’t even being slightly asked regarding Trump.
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Tackman Babcock
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ah, i finally get it- it’s called a cybertruck because of you get it wet, it breaks.
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Tackman Babcock
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Also every verse is a dude moaning about his anxieties and every chorus is the supposed relief, and theres just shockingly few artistic possibilities in that- absolutely none of which are in earnest. But then, the music is lullabies for habitually anxious tweefolk, it’s not meant to function as art.
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Tackman Babcock
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Nina Power showing again Nazi love for playing cynical semantic games, demanding simple answers where nuance and understanding are demonstrably needed—then pivoting to invoking ‘complexity’ and ‘context’ where the answers are really dead simple
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Tackman Babcock
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When has a news organisation been this earnestly invested in not communicating what the fuck is happening?
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Vincent O'Malley
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"None of the key concepts contained in the proposed principles are truly present in te Tiriti. Instead, the proposed principles are built on additions, omissions and distortions of the original text".
www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...
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Tackman Babcock
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Also, of course, this was all ~15+ years past when he was appointed assistant DA for manhattan in 1982..
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Tackman Babcock
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Good reading. Might be useful to folk keen to throw in a towel after a flawed candidate had a bad speech or if they feel that elections will be ended and there’s just nothing else to do.
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Hayden Donnell
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Remember when Kathleen Stock got a sympathetic hour-long interview with Kim Hill on RNZ? Good times. Anyway here she is offering unqualified support to a writer who was just revealed to be - in the words of her own texts submitted in court - "definitely a Nazi"
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Tackman Babcock
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Wouldn’t the mob usually compromise a judge and then blackmail them? Threats for plan b? This rampant impropriety we are hearing about that’s happened over years isn’t just bad on its own, it’s bad because it *functions as a lever for blackmail* and I cant understand why no one’s talking about that
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Tackman Babcock
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Stock is hardly about to start engaging with astonishingly relevant source material at this point in her crank trajectory
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
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It can’t be repeated enough: transphobia is a warning sign for fascism. The rights of trans people are a canary in the mine, and when they’re assaulted it means we are all under assault.
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Tackman Babcock
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Ann Skelly <3 what a marvellous choice
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Tackman Babcock
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You don’t have to follow campaign finance laws anymore tho, if you win… Or is that just for Republicans? Country is going down the drain so fast it’s hard to keep track…
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Tackman Babcock
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It’s a great letter. Also btw I looked into ‘luxury beliefs’ - this term itself describes unfalsifiable pseudoscientific nonsense created post-hoc to grant a false veneer of academic credibility to alt-right policies
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Hayden Donnell
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It turns out the problem with the cancer drugs was that National didn't know about Pharmac so I've suggested a few other existing processes and pieces of legislation the government could also look into. Nobody can suggest I'm not helpful thespinoff.co.nz/politics/02-...
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Brendan Nyhan
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Jonathan Ladd
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.
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Anya Taylor-Ham
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stumbled onto this lynda Barry comic again which always makes me a little verklempt
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Pavel
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Cheese domain clerics would be fearsome, able to wield power over nutrition and morale but also spoilage and decay
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Andy Miller
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Essential reading from Paul Krugman. The imposition of so-called 'austerity' in the UK resulted neither in short-term gain nor long-term stability. The premise and conclusion may be glaringly obvious - look around you - but the disaster is in the detail. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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Scott
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and even if someone thinks "well I don't like/look at porn so why should it be a priority for me?" it's important to remember that when christofascists say "porn" they also mean age-appropriate comprehensive sex education, media with queer/trans people in it, and picture books about gay penguins.
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Tackman Babcock
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when ur right wing government loses fran o’sullivan 8 months in
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Tackman Babcock
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Thank you. I learned recently my grandfather (nz navy) was in Malta when the news came through of the liberation of Paris. This helps me picture just a tiny bit better what that must have been like
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John Dellaporta
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.
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Tackman Babcock
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Was reading about the actress recently. Before DS9 and Cube she was doing a Ken Catran adaptation!; deepwater black. I never watched it tho because I couldn’t stand even a few minutes of Gordon Michael Woolvett’s hair.
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