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Stephanie Rodgers πŸ‰

@bootstheory

Feminist, leftie, māmā. Tangata Tiriti, she/her. Opinions stated are entirely my own and do not reflect any other person or organisation.

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And because it's about TELEVISION it might actually be one Trump cares about

14.03.2026 02:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

YES we add it BUT because a chemical process happens during production it doesn't count now please enjoy this delicious hamburger made with NO ground beef OR wheat flour thanks to the miracle of "heating things up for a bit"

14.03.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There was a line on a recent @trashfuture.bsky.social I think about "the US and Israel don't seem to understand that Iran also has a vote on the war against Iran" and it's stuck on a loop in my head

14.03.2026 01:00 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a pikachu with a surprised look on its face ALT: a close up of a pikachu with a surprised look on its face

iran: if the US and Israel set a precedent on infrastructure targeting we'll be forced to respond in kind

us/israel: carpet bomb civilian infrastructure

iran: destroys US military infrastructure in the region

us/israel:

14.03.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Masculinity is Makin You Miserable: Mad Men and Looksmaxxing
Masculinity is Makin You Miserable: Mad Men and Looksmaxxing YouTube video by JohntheDuncan

Great video about goddamn "looksmaxxing" through the lens of Mad Men. Also communism. You're welcome.

13.03.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Zionists have just been doubling down and doubling down on the idea that Jewish identity justifies apartheid, genocide, torture, unending war, and then attacking anyone who points out that this kind of cynical linking of Judaism and atrocity is effectively antisemitic propaganda.

13.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 117 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

From a brief google it looks like there are significant carbon savings and there's already issues from vehicle tyre particles running off. This has probably been looked into as well. Why not check?

13.03.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

To understand Wellington you have to understand how deeply and profoundly the whole city fucking loves the central library

Reopening today after a near-decade of earthquake repair/strengthening

13.03.2026 18:49 πŸ‘ 157 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0
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The propaganda is going wild It's not just the covid inquiry - it's in reporting and consultations too

The results are in from the second Covid inquiry. Not unexpectedly, National, ACT and NZ First are all seizing the opportunity to perpetuate their own narrative….

drbex.substack.com/p/the-propag...

13.03.2026 05:01 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Yeah me too.

13.03.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
VANITY FAIR

Last weekend, Iran, one of the world's oldest, most storied civilizations, was attacked by two countries: the US, which adorably is about celebrate its 250th anniversary; and Israel, which is younger than Liza Minnelli.

VANITY FAIR Last weekend, Iran, one of the world's oldest, most storied civilizations, was attacked by two countries: the US, which adorably is about celebrate its 250th anniversary; and Israel, which is younger than Liza Minnelli.

Oof

13.03.2026 08:49 πŸ‘ 2172 πŸ” 545 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 8

Asher's a comrade. Get this man in the House!

13.03.2026 08:45 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It only counts if @kyledchurch.bsky.social says it on the pod

13.03.2026 07:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The fraction got smaller with each draft

13.03.2026 07:54 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I love the fuel-emergency dark humour, comrades, but the real joke is imagining this government would last five minutes if Luxon were forced to do *one-tenth* the public-facing work Ardern did in 2020

13.03.2026 07:42 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

So they must attempt to gaslight us, and also encourage Luxon to go against all his natural instincts and abilities much like a parent who really doesn't want to have to get UP to stop their kid eating sand. "Now honey, you COULD show some leadership and assurance here, couldn't you?"

13.03.2026 06:13 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Acknowledging that Luxon is 100% unfit for leadership would involve too many people questioning their own biases in favour of white men in suits who use words like "synergistically" in ordinary conversation

They also know he cannot functionally accept criticism. /1

13.03.2026 06:13 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This is entirely true.

12.03.2026 07:57 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The school are being great. The Ministry, who in fairness have to figure out how to manage the incredibly insufficient amount of funding provided by government, have been the issue

12.03.2026 06:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Going to spend election year radicalizing people by simply stating how Carer Support "works" and then promising I am not, in fact, kidding them

12.03.2026 06:13 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine it being radical to say every kid and their family deserves to have love, care, support, and education

12.03.2026 06:12 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Ministry of Education were doing extremely well in the Driving Me To Despair Trying To Get Support For My Child stakes but here comes Whatu Ora off the top rope with a steel chair πŸ™„

12.03.2026 06:09 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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At 16 she came to NZ for a year. What happened in her host family’s home stayed hidden for years She expected adventure and independence. What happened inside her host family’s home would take more than a decade to confront.

Here’s part one of Rabea Santjer’a story. Massive respect to her for being willing to have her name suppression lifted so she could speak publicly.

11.03.2026 08:42 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

I read once someone personify the voice in their head as a 12 year old on Xbox live game chat and that honestly helps me a lot. Like, yeah Kyle, whatever man, those sure are nasty words you're saying about me, don't you have homework to do?

11.03.2026 22:46 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Inquiries Will Continue Until NZ First's Vote Improves

11.03.2026 05:53 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Two men who famously Understand Progressive Women come to shocking conclusion that progressive women vote for progressive things, also having material interests and ideological integrity is bad when girls do it

11.03.2026 05:52 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

The great forgetting that NZers enjoyed months of domestic travel, holidays, economic stability while large areas of the world were dealing with hospitals collapsing, deaths, lockdowns and restrictions.

10.03.2026 05:08 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Both of the options here are human writers. The first option is unprocessed human writing and the second option is human writing run through a language model to reproduce the same outputs with different words

If it couldn't have existed without training data, it isn't creating anything at all.

10.03.2026 11:30 πŸ‘ 597 πŸ” 142 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 23

It's true, the greatest risk to New Zealand's intelligence efforts is our agents getting irritated y'all can't pronounce Craig properly

10.03.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Australia's man did the flowerbeds. New Zealand had sent a chappie to labor in the gardens too. Their American accents were vaguely southern, and they tended to avoid officials from below the Mason-Dixon line.
Aussie Jack was a lady-killer, though, and was sleeping his way through every Republican wife who still had a beating heart under her twinset and pearls, and skimming quite a bit of information on the side. He called himself a
"martyr to his duty." He and New Zealand Craig were drowning their sorrows by working steadily through all of Florida's craft beers, one microbrewery at a time. Their relationship was significantly more harmonious than that of the clandestine representatives of Argentina and the Mossad, who had inadvertently dated for several weeks before mutually discovering one another's identities, and now existed (as bartender and assistant golf green superintendent respectively) in mutually icy disdain, lending further stress to cocktail hour.
She'd heard Brazil's guy in an unwisely loud Portuguese phone call describing the fiasco as
"Eichmann, on the rocks."
buttondown.com

Australia's man did the flowerbeds. New Zealand had sent a chappie to labor in the gardens too. Their American accents were vaguely southern, and they tended to avoid officials from below the Mason-Dixon line. Aussie Jack was a lady-killer, though, and was sleeping his way through every Republican wife who still had a beating heart under her twinset and pearls, and skimming quite a bit of information on the side. He called himself a "martyr to his duty." He and New Zealand Craig were drowning their sorrows by working steadily through all of Florida's craft beers, one microbrewery at a time. Their relationship was significantly more harmonious than that of the clandestine representatives of Argentina and the Mossad, who had inadvertently dated for several weeks before mutually discovering one another's identities, and now existed (as bartender and assistant golf green superintendent respectively) in mutually icy disdain, lending further stress to cocktail hour. She'd heard Brazil's guy in an unwisely loud Portuguese phone call describing the fiasco as "Eichmann, on the rocks." buttondown.com

in which i imagine the life of a spy at mar a lago, in a short story

buttondown.com/theswordandt...

10.03.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 230 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 8