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Foreigner. Citizen. Educated. Ignorant. Expert. Fool. Aware. Bewildered. I muddle along, generally fit for purpose.

created July 5, 2024

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Drop an old person you are going to turn into in the future.

2/9/2025, 3:12:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wouldn’t watch the movie, but I would watch Shapiro’s head explode.

2/9/2025, 2:52:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ruin a movie by making it about Gary. Gary Wars

2/9/2025, 1:23:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ah, the life of the subject matter expert.

31/8/2025, 1:19:23 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Clearly needs to be bombed from high altitude.

29/8/2025, 7:27:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fingers crossed this is the post that breaks into the magasphere. We might get that private equity deal yet.

28/8/2025, 7:34:16 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, I think there was definitely a crossover point.

27/8/2025, 8:58:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Put them in a pit and spray them with a mix of the diseases they’re blocking us all from getting vaccines against.

27/8/2025, 8:42:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s true. Well apart from the tears in our eyes bit. And the bit about asking you to be our dictator. But other than that, totally true.

26/8/2025, 8:11:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Both New Zealand and Australia Post have suspended parcel post to the US for the same reason. One small business in NZ was quoted as saying that 90% of their business is in the US.

25/8/2025, 8:33:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Surely he can find a concealer that matches his skin colour?

23/8/2025, 1:30:59 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s like when as a kid you tried mixing a bit of every colour of paint and ended up with a dark muddy grey brown mess.

21/8/2025, 6:25:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, now. You may go to prison for tax evasion or just pissing off a federal employee, but now.

21/8/2025, 6:17:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Say what you like about Stephen Miller (please!), but you have to admire a man who’s prepared to use his suit jacket as a seat cushion, then sleep in it, and act as if it’s perfectly normal.

21/8/2025, 6:16:22 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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one guy even tried to give us a sandwich

18/8/2025, 9:13:59 PM | 11947 1628 | View on Bluesky | view

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👀

18/8/2025, 10:16:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But the real question is, are they a basket of deplorables?

16/8/2025, 4:35:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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15/8/2025, 3:40:01 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Very expensive and didn’t like the wet.

14/8/2025, 4:22:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, you tried. Thanks!

14/8/2025, 3:06:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I dunno. You can critique the Democratic Party for attacking a performatively awful nominee. But everyone else can critique you for pretending that the Republican Party didn’t intentionally put up a performatively awful nominee. The first stone was putting Bork up. Republicans had agency.

14/8/2025, 2:58:10 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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@asharangappa.bsky.social, you need to respond to @kenwhite.bsky.social so that he’ll stop torturing us. Think of it as a charity reply.

14/8/2025, 2:51:50 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nothing but ash left.

13/8/2025, 1:48:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dr Zoidberg was there?

12/8/2025, 8:44:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait till you hear about the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth!

11/8/2025, 12:15:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I listen to history podcasts 🤷‍♂️

11/8/2025, 12:14:31 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or St Petersburg back to Sweden.

11/8/2025, 12:08:05 AM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just twice as capable as the average millennial.

9/8/2025, 8:10:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What a couple of complete suck ups. We should all declare war on them to make a point.

9/8/2025, 3:09:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What the hell have I missed now?

9/8/2025, 2:41:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hmmm. A vaccine that will activate the immune system against almost everything. What could possibly go wrong?

9/8/2025, 2:35:51 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, possibly. As an industry they do a lot of experimenting around the edges, but that’s comparatively low volume. In bulk the industry is quite conservative. Different expressions as they’re known are expected to taste, feel, and look a certain way. Changing barrels for a whole industry…

6/8/2025, 8:32:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gives me concern for the Scotch industry which uses the barrels from the bourbon industry.

6/8/2025, 8:12:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Flame alert @shoe.bsky.social !

6/8/2025, 7:52:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And your lamb recipe. Don’t forget that.

6/8/2025, 3:21:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had a cardiac CT recently. Cost me nothing.

6/8/2025, 12:37:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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… which we filled at the pharmacy next door. Literally a grocery bag full of meds. Doctor NZ$50. Prescription charge was the same. They were in shock. Said their co-pay for the meds alone would have been US$900.

6/8/2025, 12:37:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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After the Christchurch earthquake I took an elderly American couple home for the night - their hotel had been ruined. They were really concerned about their medication needs, so first thing in the morning I took them to see my Doctor. The doctor took their histories, issued prescriptions…

6/8/2025, 12:37:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If the EU has any sense it will be knocking on the doors of the researchers who are loosing funding. I bet China and other States will be.

5/8/2025, 10:41:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait. So gerrymandering and generally running roughshod over the constitution is a political activity. But refusing to allow a political vote to occur is a criminal activity? This is bleak.

5/8/2025, 10:39:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Need to fall more than three floors to be certain. Any good Russ will tell you.

5/8/2025, 7:12:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Seen the shorts. Can’t wait to watch. Lots of kiwi actors in it too as a bonus. Given that the Māori actors had to learn Hawaiian language for their roles, I think viewers can struggle along reading subtitles. Good to appreciate one of the USA’s native tongues as well.

5/8/2025, 7:07:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So close to getting it, but no…

5/8/2025, 9:47:37 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Such a talented guy. I think this counts as mixed media.

5/8/2025, 4:15:29 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Burn to the ground, salt the earth, nuke from orbit.

4/8/2025, 6:48:08 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m a geeky from waaay back. But SNW S2E4… as @radiofreetom.bsky.social said, it’s a stinker.

4/8/2025, 6:47:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Next the wolves/bears/zombies. I’ve seen the movies.

4/8/2025, 1:44:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Only the concussion explains why he posted this.

4/8/2025, 1:36:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Clearly a survivor of an explosion at Santa’s toy factory. I’ve heard conditions are pretty bad there.

2/8/2025, 9:19:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cowboy Junkies version of Sweet Jane m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9n...

2/8/2025, 9:15:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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📌

2/8/2025, 9:07:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How long before the reports of an F35 being snatched out of the sky by a giant wasp?

2/8/2025, 2:44:05 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Spoken like a true conman.

1/8/2025, 11:17:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I do recall a fun drinking game to go with it. Drink when Ryker stands with feet a shoulder width apart. Additional drink for every additional shoulder width. Etc. Impossible to finish an episode.

1/8/2025, 1:23:56 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Deleting this post because I somehow replied to the wrong thread.

1/8/2025, 1:23:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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15% on New Zealand? We’ve just agreed to let the FBI open an office here. You’d think surrender of sovereignty would count for something.

1/8/2025, 1:18:23 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope @rmac.bsky.social didn’t actually put any of that disgusting looking stuff in his mouth!

1/8/2025, 1:06:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In reality they’re just another pleb more often than not. Having a twitter game is not the same as thriving in the bear pit that was Roman civil society.

31/7/2025, 8:20:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The thing with people like that, regardless of political views, is that whenever they consider the ideal future world or their favourite past world, they assume they would be in the inner circle. Privileged, comfortable, superior. Elite if you will. Invulnerable to the harm they wish others.

31/7/2025, 8:20:26 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I guess they could sell to him, but also tell him exactly how despicable and awful he is every single time. Make that pierogi taste like ash.

31/7/2025, 8:08:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤡

31/7/2025, 6:42:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Since airport meals/hotels are excluded - one. Shame Peoria doesn’t count.

31/7/2025, 6:27:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My first thought was Ken’s dark today. Admittedly the thought of above getting a lifetime appointment will do that to anyone capable of standing in sunlight.

31/7/2025, 6:23:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And ultimately, if it’s easier and cheaper to just pass the cost on to the customer rather than onshore, that’s what will happen.

30/7/2025, 11:14:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Any chance this will adversely affect Russia’s Pacific fleet? One can hope…

30/7/2025, 2:18:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beanbags are an abomination. No correspondence will be entered into.

30/7/2025, 12:22:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And those troops will need really good logistics and training.

29/7/2025, 11:58:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That shouldn’t happen mind. There should be a culture in academia that ensures vigorous debate and weeds out the outright charlatan or incompetent. But the answer is not ideological control by the government. Ever.

29/7/2025, 11:57:17 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The thing is that those pockets of academia that are intolerant, closed shop, or weird are self limiting and ultimately self defeating. They become stale and self-serving. Everyone else just starts ignoring them and bypassing them. Eventually funding becomes hard to sustain and die back sets in.

29/7/2025, 11:57:17 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wilfully blind or merely incompetent?

29/7/2025, 11:48:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cake. Having it and eating it.

29/7/2025, 11:47:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Much as I love to point and exclaim Ha! I’m cautious at reading too much into this. The man’s brain is so rotted he barely knows how to do more than bark anymore. Just a couple of years ago he couldn’t distinguish between his wife and a woman he sexually assaulted.

29/7/2025, 8:16:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That sounds like it could be an interesting story though.

29/7/2025, 4:11:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well yeah! How dare Sesame Street make safe space for frogs!

29/7/2025, 2:19:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes! Mainlander more precisely.

29/7/2025, 1:51:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A kea parrot flies in motion in Fiordland, New Zealand, showing off its vibrant plumage. Image credit: © Rafael Ben Ari | Dreamstime
29/7/2025, 1:49:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t know. There are an awful lot of jokes about Russian windows. They’re apparently wildly dangerous.

29/7/2025, 12:29:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I get that, but then why not just delete and move on? Honestly, the way some people flew into a rage you’d think Apple and U2 had co e around and sacrificed a goat on their doorstep.

28/7/2025, 11:52:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think you’ve put your finger on the lifeless pulse of the policy.

28/7/2025, 11:49:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If that’s his idea of ‘lean right’ I don’t want to meet anyone he thinks is a rabid nazi. Also, how much of a racist incel snowflake do you have to be to get bent out of shape by brown people, women, or god forbid brown women, doing ok in life? Want to succeed? Compete. Strive. Prove yourself.

28/7/2025, 10:56:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are they like, good hot dogs, or good at that price, or well they only cost $1.50 so…?

28/7/2025, 6:09:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Surely there are planning ordinances that protect neighbours from those billboards?

28/7/2025, 2:41:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And that debate was as exactly polite and respectful as it deserved to be.

28/7/2025, 2:22:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why did they ever think he turned his front to them? Hating the same people isn’t about caring for each other. In fact if your motivation is hate it’s very unlikely you will care for people.

27/7/2025, 11:34:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If by valiant you mean aggressive as all hell!

27/7/2025, 11:32:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can confirm. My dear departed mum passed that on to me.

26/7/2025, 7:48:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Seems they don’t release that, but 620 million orders in 2024 with nearly half of their customers ordering at least once per week. Suggests some people are spending an awful lot on chauffeured shitty quality meals.

26/7/2025, 12:03:20 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fair answer.

25/7/2025, 11:57:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wow. How many unique customers- does it say?

25/7/2025, 11:46:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Right

25/7/2025, 11:34:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And when you have this crackers administration and a god awful border control that might deny entry because of a social media post, your tourism is going to be shit.

25/7/2025, 11:30:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The friend of your friend is your enemy?

24/7/2025, 1:48:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s like blaming battered women for not doing more to stamp out spousal abuse. Which, sadly, is also a thing.

23/7/2025, 1:01:43 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s only 25% gross profit. I’m out.

22/7/2025, 11:13:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You guys are dead to me. Or, hear me out, we form a consortium…

22/7/2025, 9:19:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Plan is to work you hard and get to 15k followers in a year, then sell to private equity for $10. 1000% profit!!! We can replace you with AI by then. Probably.

22/7/2025, 9:16:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Best offer NZ$1, and you have to keep poasting for at least 12 months. Current frequency and quality.

22/7/2025, 9:09:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It makes me very happy that there are people like this in the world. It also makes me happy that others love and appreciate him. Thanks for sharing.

21/7/2025, 3:49:43 AM | 162 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Another weed growing out of the compost.

21/7/2025, 3:37:31 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shudder.

20/7/2025, 10:28:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view