Jack Remiel Cottrell
@jackremiel.bsky.social
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Writes words, referees rugby, procrastinates like a pro. He/him
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The Ass is the father of the legs
4 months ago
I'm not a historian but my analysis is it's "Not good" when a government constantly commits crimes and tells the legislature, courts, and general public "What are you gonna do about it"
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I have just seen the word "positionality" and I may cry. The word "perspective" is RIGHT THERE PEOPLE.
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David Hood
19 days ago
Measles locations of interest. You know the drill people. (For casual readers overseas, NZ had a covid contact tracing app that actually worked, so we are all pretty well versed about contact levels etc, if the locations info is available. So this is pro-social sharing of that info).
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My phone is struggling to charge, and I don't want to have to get a new one. Honestly, this thing does everything I want it to other than charge properly.
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What the fuck Woolworths, IT IS SEPTEMBER.
about 1 month ago
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There is something quite ironic about having to cancel a doctor's appointment because I'm sick, lol.
about 1 month ago
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Anthony Lapwood
about 1 month ago
This book is a treat, inside and out.
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It exists in physical form! THE EMOTION DEALER AND OTHER STORIES is only two months away from launch! Check out how great it looks!
about 1 month ago
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John Scalzi
about 2 months ago
Yes, and also, this is where I remind folks that most rules for "formal" English were invented in the Victorian Era by hucksters trying to make a pound off people feeling anxious about their position in society
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Cat Manning
2 months ago
wait did I really never post this one
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Lyndon Hood
2 months ago
Toothbrushes Georg (RIP) was an outlier and should not have been counted
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Back in the office one day a week means back on Bluesky one day a week means back despairing at how awful the world is one day a week.
2 months ago
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Fuck off Reuben!
3 months ago
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Weird Angus Gardner is testing me here... (I use weird as a compliment in this case.)
3 months ago
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The Sky graphics saying why a penalty was given have all been wrong. Like, hitting a random button wrong. I thought not having Justin Marshall on commentary would limit the number of errors.
3 months ago
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I'm officially old - I had to buy reading glasses at the chemist.
3 months ago
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Stone Cold Jane Austen
4 months ago
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇
4 months ago
yes i am sure
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Wellington kikorangi! I spotted this flier at the Karori mall - I can't play chess but still want to help Vince find something to do. Anyone know chess people?
4 months ago
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Mira Al Hussein
4 months ago
We’re supposed to be awakened at ungodly hours by more news of an expanding Israeli horror that risks dragging the whole region into war. The first casualties of Israel’s bombing of residential buildings in Tehran were sleeping children, but we’re meant to speak about this in sterile terms.
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... Now kiss
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Assiduously Julie
4 months ago
Once a neighbour I don't like a few houses down bought himself a chainsaw. Determining it could potentially be used to injure me, I did the only sensible thing to defend myself — blew up his house and started a war with my entire neighbourhood. 🙄
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One of my coworkers has cracked open the beer fridge, and I am so, so grateful.
4 months ago
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Rob Schamberger
4 months ago
Calvin & Hobbes is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic strips of all time and I feel like we STILL underrate it.
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Connor ✡️ | C.M. Caplan
4 months ago
happy pride
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Tim Onion
4 months ago
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Sue Tyler
4 months ago
just a reminder a member of the Act party in NZ wanted to send fellow parliamentarians to jail for performing a Haka. Please tell me how NZ is so very different from the USA.
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I did not know how loudly it was possible to be while biting your nails. And now I am finding out while trapped in a recording booth with no way to block it out. 🙃
4 months ago
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Jenny Emelie
4 months ago
"You’re not bad. You’re a tiny, furious poet in a body that’s still learning how to carry all that thunder. That’s brave work. That’s art. That’s enough." I'm hydrated, McSweeney's. I'm hydrated.
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Keith Ng
5 months ago
This is our future.
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Tash 🍉
5 months ago
Rather unfortunate news from Janet Frame
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
5 months ago
People who put alt text on their nudes are the real heroes of Bluesky.
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Just finished "When the moon hits your eye" by
@scalzi.com
- for a book about the moon turning to cheese it is really quite moving. Also I have never wanted a character to get killed off as much as Jody Bannon, so there's that.
5 months ago
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
5 months ago
Sawe the trendinge topic "Starship Failure" and thoughte it was the name of an actuale shippe yn a showe. THESE ARE THE CONTINUINGE ADVENTURES OF THE STARSHIP FAILURE, ON A TEN YEARE MISSIOUN TO NOT DO THINGES WELL.
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Hiria Dunning
5 months ago
Excellent news! Jade du Preez,
@jamiedsands.bsky.social
and I are putting together a queer writers' anthology. Are you a queer writer from Tāmaki Makaurau? Come along! Main info page
shorturl.at/vMcW0
FB event
www.facebook.com/events/69446...
Raising funds for
outline.org.nz
#nzwrites
#queerwriters
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Auckland Queer Writers Anthology
Auckland Queer Writers Anthology Guidelines “A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that's why...
https://shorturl.at/vMcW0
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I do not like those stats.
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5 months ago
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Rob🎸
5 months ago
These MPs are running the country They get 20% kiwisaver contributions They get pay equality They get many privileges and entitlements You dont
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Coley
5 months ago
The government is holding up the publication of updated guidelines for gender affirming care. This is unacceptable. Here's the open letter by over 300 medical bodies, community organisations, and individual healthcare professionals calling for the guidelines to be released:
patha.nz/News/13503691
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PATHA - Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa - Health professionals, medical bodies, & community organisations call for publication of guidelines for gender affirming care
https://patha.nz/News/13503691
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This was one of my favourite facts - that the sun had (literally) never gone down on the British Empire! Now it has! (The sun is no longer a selfish lover.)
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5 months ago
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Jonathan King
5 months ago
When I’m the Prime Minister I won’t put a fuel tax on those big utes, I’ll just make a law where, if they want to be sold in New Zealand, they have to be rebranded from things like Raptor, Ranger, Gladiator to things like Softi, Tyddler, Smollbebe.
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Foxy
5 months ago
Why Did I Leave All These Things For A Friday Afternoon - A Memoir
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Thomas Harvey
5 months ago
I am currently looking to assist free of charge people in Aotearoa who wish to challenge decisions by MSD re benefit eligibility. DM me if interested.
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Vincent O'Malley
5 months ago
At least two parliamentarians, multiple place names and a lot of capital: my research uncovers significant NZ connections with Caribbean slavery.
buttondown.com/unsettling/a...
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New Zealand Connections to Caribbean Slavery
A recent article in the Post by journalist and author Denis Welch caught my interest. In it Welch wrote about discovering that Ellice Street in Mt Victoria,...
https://buttondown.com/unsettling/archive/new-zealand-connections-to-caribbean-slavery/
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Joshua Wolens
5 months ago
sometimes you pitch an article, black out, and then wake up 2000 words later with no real recollection how any of it happened
www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...
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I did Liberation Day tariffs in Victoria 3, and it all went well until the famine in Colorado, the 2 lost wars with Canada, and the president beating a man to death with a stick
But apart from that, would recommend.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/i-did-liberation-day-tariffs-in-victoria-3-and-it-all-went-well-until-the-famine-in-colorado-the-2-lost-wars-with-canada-and-the-president-beating-a-man-to-death-with-a-stick/
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Hākui K (she/her)
5 months ago
Thank you RNZ and thank you
@acgeddis.bsky.social
for the corrections in the comment thread. Everyone had voted. Haka or waiata are the appropriate way to finish off a formal kōrero. With the content of this vote, and the location of it, I'm unsure if there were *any* more apt choices of kīnaki!
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At a rugby club and Uncle is making a speech. His Māori was so much better than his English, and it makes me wish I could understand more reo.
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Puck's Second hand Skeleton Emporium and Bric-a-brac
5 months ago
Top NZ leisure activities: -Binge drinking -Rugby -Telling people to fuck off -Beach
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Jess Piper
5 months ago
Cremate me...I want nothing left for them to desecrate.
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Alex Kirshner
5 months ago
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this:
www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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